The Cabining Continues [#40][#34][#4][#10][#45]

As usual, our week in review:

Monday I got to go out to dinner with my sister-in-law, Siri. She is home for a visit for the summer. Her and [Zach’s brother] Sean live in Philidelphia while Sean finishes his medical residency there. I don’t see her that often, so it was great to spend time with her and laugh. Thanks Siri!

Remember when I said I had a million lists? Like things I need to finish around my house? Well this has been on the list for almost two years. I have been collecting prints and photographs to hang in our front room since we moved in. I finally got them all in frames and laid out the way I wanted them. I passed off a much overdue item, #40 – Complete one of my many projects around the house.

Truthfully I hope I can pass off another project, but my goal was one…so I feel ok about it. Don’t set your goals TOO high, right?

We had a dance party at my neighbor’s house on Tuesday. Club Warner was the place to be. We played her Kinect dance game and laughed pretty hard at each other. Luckily, Sydney brought her lucky spandex top for me to wear. It made me feel fearless, to be honest. I did let her wear it when it was her turn to battle.

It turns out some of the girls were actually dancers in high school – so it wasn’t a fair match.

Zach and I scheduled a weekend up at his parents’ cabin, just the two of us.  We had been looking forward to it all week.  No cell service, cooler temperatures, and time alone together.  It made the fourth spot on our summer list, #4 – Henderson Cabin trip.  So on our way up, we decided to take a different route up to the cabin and drive through Ogden Canyon and eat dinner at the Oaks.  This was #34 – Drive up Ogden Canyon and eat outside at the Oaks.

It was so beautiful and the weather was perfect.  The food is nothing to write home about [Zach and other Ogden residents might beg to differ], but it’s all about the experience!  Zach even got some Farr ice cream…him eating ice cream is a pretty rare occurrence, so I had to document it.  And he got TWO scoops.  I couldn’t believe it.  Wild man!

After dinner [and Zach’s ice cream to go] we made the rest of the trek up to Causey.

I was craving something else, however.  S’mores are my favorite summer treats.  Fires are not allowed up in the area because of the season – so we improvised and used gas.  They were just as amazing.  So there went another item off the list, #10 – Make s’mores.

Zach couldn’t even finish one.  Such a lightweight.

We ended the night with a movie – Crazy Stupid Love, one of our favorites.

The next morning we lounged, made breakfast, and while Zach watched some strange golf show – I made a craft.  A DIY Anthropologie necklace.

We had planned to spend most of our time outside, but with the rain storm we were grateful to have things to entertain us inside.

When the rain subsided for a bit, we ventured outside.  Call me crazy, but I’ve always wanted to shoot a bow.  Besides, Katniss made it seem super hard core, and that only enticed me more.  So, Zach set up a temporary target and he taught me how to shoot a bow and arrow…without injuring myself too much.  We completed #45 – Take an archery lesson.

Zach didn’t trust me with the adult-size bow, so he made me use the kiddie one.   It was probably for the best, to be honest.  The kiddie one was hard enough to manage!

 Zach’s a really good shot…even in skinny jeans.

Then we made dinner.  Zach’s favorite dinner of all time:  tri-tip, grilled corn, and sweet potato fries.

Yes, I mangled that red meat with my bare hands.  And yes, the sweet potato fries were dusted with parmesan cheese.  It might just be my favorite meal, too.  I definitely prefer grilled corn to boiled corn, that’s for sure!

We drove home Saturday night to be home for our meetings Sunday morning.

After church we went to my Aunt and Uncle’s house for dinner.  It was delicious, and my mom made my favorite treat: orange rolls.  We even had special visitors, my mom’s cousins from Jersey.  They drove here.  From New Jersey.  It was great to spend time with them and visit.

This week was packed full – and next week is looking to be a good one too!  I am looking most forward to getting into some sort of body of water – I have been forbidden because of my incision on my back:  no swimming, no submerging my incision at ALL.  Do you know how hard it is to stay out of the water in the middle of the summer?  Especially when your family is begging you to get on a boat?!  So to celebrate, we are going to do SOME activity with water.  Anything…that involves a swimming suit!  Anything.

Hope you all had a great week/weekend!

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