Hikes, reenlistments, and birthdays!

Last weekend was quite special for us! At 6 am on Friday I joined Taylor's company in a 6 mile hike at Garden of the Gods. We took Ella along and enjoyed the perfect weather, the sunrise, and the scenery. After the hike was Taylors reenlistment ceremony. Here's to four more years in Germany!

Monday was Taylor's 27th birthday! We did a fun little hike up Helen Hunt falls and enjoyed the day together. I made birthday ribs for dinner and then we celebrated with birthday cake and birthday champagne with our neighbors, Emma and Frank.

Doggy Business

Let me tell you all a quick story:

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

And God said 'let there be light'

and in the light, he beheld a gentle leader.

We have been using the Gentle Leader for a week and our walks have actually become ENJOYABLE! I wish we would have known about it sooner. It is very comfortable so she does not mind. The collar fits up high by her ears and around her neck, with a loop that goes around her nose. It's not a muzzle so she is still able to open her mouth, eat, bark, and drink water. Soon, she will be joining us on our 5k tuesday evening runs!

Unfortunately, Duke can no longer join us on our daily walks. As most of you know, Duke Wizowski has bone cancer in his right back leg. His limping limits how far he can go so for now he will just enjoy the front porch with us. 

Back at it...

I took a mini-break from the world of blogging but I am ready to get back at it and update you all on our exciting life! Basically, I am going to overwhelm you with pictures...

January

• Utah was good to us as always, as we brought in the new year downtown in SLC 
• We have had some dog park adventures with Duke and Ella:

• I tried to replicate one of Taylor's favorite meals... Cajun Chicken Alfredo. SUCCESS:

February

• Unfortunately football season came to an end. We were all sad about this:

• The big exciting news...TAYLOR GOT PROMOTED! Hello, Sgt. Caldwell:

March

• My job at the church came to an end. Still job searching at the moment
• I took a short and sweet trip to Utah to visit my favorite friends
• We hosted Easter dinner at our house. Great food and great company!

April

• We went to Denver to watch one of our favorite bands play, The Cold War Kids! 
• We have taken a few drives:

• And last weekend we went to the Denver Aquarium:

Military Ball Fun

Last Thursday Taylor and I attended the 2012 Winter Ball at the Hilton Antlers Inn Downtown. We had a great time! Here are a few pictures from the event:

A Caldwell Thanksgiving - Colorado Style!

Last Wednesday Taylor and I started our Thanksgiving preparation. Why didn't anyone tell us last year to start a day earlier?!

We stayed up late making cinnamon rolls, side dishes, and eventually got our turkey in the brine. The next morning we ate the cinnamon rolls, made more side dishes, and put the turkey in the oven!

We had a couple good friends come over for the feast and had a ton of fun stuffing our faces. Good food, great company!

Notice the AMAZING rolls!

On Friday we made our way to Boulder to catch some UTAH football. Utah beat Colorado 34-27.

Go Utes!

The rest of the weekend we RELAXED and enjoyed the 70 degree weather on Saturday. That night our wonderful neighbors invited us over for some Hot Toddies, a campfire, and board game fun.

We hope everyone had an amazing Thanksgiving and we are excited to head to Arizona and Utah in less than a month! 

Keepin' busy!

How is it already the middle of November?! 

With Taylor playing Army for the last month in California, I have been trying to keep myself busy...

A few weeks ago I flew to Florida and spent time with my dad, family, and grandparents. The weather was perfect! I was able to wear flip-flops, shorts, and sweat the entire time. 

The five days went by way to quickly but not before we got some beach time, football time, world series time, ocean time, eating fish time, boat time, laughing time, hugging time, picture time, and some lovin' all packed into the week.

Last weekend I took a mini-vacation to Boulder and saw Utah play! It ended in a 1-1 draw but the weather was beautiful and it was so much fun to see (though I don't know many people on the team anymore) everyone play.

Last week I voted.

And of course I have been hard at work.

It has been the longest and fastest month. Taylor gets home tomorrow and then it's already Thanksgiving. We wish we were spending it with friends and family but we are thinking about everyone and will see you all over Christmas (unless you are Canadian these days)!

Happy Anniversary, Happy Denver Broncos!

For our anniversary I got Taylor Denver Broncos tickets. Thanks to our friend and former Ute, our seats were so close I may be Wife-of-the-Year.

We drove down to Denver early Sunday morning, beating all traffic and checked into our hotel. We started wandering around downtown with all the other Broncos fans (and Raiders) eating some lunch and a drinking a few beers. Taylor and I reached game mode and headed to the stadium on a shuttle provided by our hotel.

The atmosphere at the game kept us smiling and laughing the entire time with the crazy (committed) fans, the view from ours seats, Taylor's yodeling competition with the guy behind us, and of course a Broncos win!

After the game we walked downtown and enjoyed the win at a few local joints.

Happy one year to us and I can't wait for all the years to come!