Business in the Front, Pary in the Back!

I have always had a love for mullets (AKA Mud Flap, Shlong, Kentucky Waterfall) There is just something so fascinating about long flowing hair in the back with a short clean look in the front. At Joel and Jill's wedding a couple of months ago I saw one of the greatest mullets I have seen in a while.



In this picture you have my handsome husband, his dad, and the mullet man! The mullet man is a little hard to see (I had to be so discreet when I took the picture) but if you look closely you will see that the long back of the hair is permed! Classic!!!

BYU vs. Utah

I come from a family full of BYU fans and one brother-in-law that was born and raised a Ute. To get ready for the big game a few people in my family decided that we were going to decorate the Eggett's house the night before kickoff and share some of our Cougar spirit with them. Around midnight several of us snuck around the corner and started what I am now certain will be an ongoing war!These pictures are not great, but you can get the idea of how great the Eggett's house looked on Friday night! I must say, we did a fabulous job.

Now I am sure you can assume what happened next...

Here is a picutre of the Clark's house after the Coug's sad loss to the U. We totally had that one coming. The Eggetts managed to get our house, my parent's house and my sister Lisa's house.

Next year will be our time for revenge!!!

RSL!

We finally did it! We went to the RSL Western Conference final game on Saturday night and it was an absolute BLAST!!! For all you RSL bench sitters out there, jump on the bandwagon and go to some games next season. You will not regret it!

Welcome Home Elder and Sister Durfey!

After serving a year in the Spokane, Washington mission my folks made the trip back home. It is so great to have them back. Having my parents gone for an entire year was tough but I am so proud of them and all the good that they did in Potlatch, Idaho, Deary Idaho and Republic, Washington. The people in those 3 towns were very lucky to have Elder and Sister Durfey for the few months they had them.

As you can see from the photo above my mom and dad were greeted by nearly all of the children and grandchildren when they pulled into the driveway. Only 6 of their grandkids were missing in the picture above. All of the kids were lining the sidewalk in front of the house when my mom and dad drove up the street. Many tears of JOY were shed as all the adults watched the kids swarm my mom and dads car to hug them before they were even able to get their seatbelts off. What a great reunion it was!

Welcome home mom and dad!!!

Seattle

I am a little behind on the blogging thing for the month of September (where has it gone anyways!!!). I had to do a post on the fabulous trip JP and I had to Seattle a few weeks ago.

JP's primary reason for the trip: BYU vs. Washington
Cathy's primary reason for the trip: a weekend in Seattle

Here are a few of the highlights from our trip.

The octopus at the Seattle Aquarium. Yes, that is a real octopus!A sunset Sailboat ride with the Bryan and Jane Durfey's.Pike's Market Place

Safeco field tour--Coach Clark especially loved this!
The BYU game and the win over Washington!!!
Snoqualmie Falls--268ft of waterfall!

Really...?

Is this supposed to come as a surprise to anyone?

Go Mighty Cougars!!!

THE Football Season has BEGUN

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BYU wins their first game

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Heading to Seattle in 5 days

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A very happy Cathy and JP (especially JP for the win, Cathy is more excited to go to Seattle:)

Can I really be a Bruin?!?!?

I am sure that most of you already know that JP is the new head baseball coach at Mountain View High School. He landed the job about a month ago. I could not be more happy for him and this new endeavor! JP's true calling in life is to coach and teach high school and now he will be doing exactly that. I am so proud of JP and look forward to many very successful seasons of Mountain View Baseball.

Wednesday night the school hosted a "Meet the Coach" BBQ where all of the boys interested in playing baseball and their parents could come and meet the coach. At this little BBQ I had a few harsh realizations come to me.

1st--I am now a coaches wife. I do not know all that this entails but I am sure I will find out soon enough. Many people have asked me "Do you have any idea what you are getting yourself into?" My response to that would be yes! I am getting into having a husband that LOVES his profession! I consider myself extremly lucky for this one.

2nd--My future is going to consist of high school boys. I am sure that many night and weekends will also revolve around high school boys. I have not decided if this is a good thing or a bad thing yet and I am sure I will find out soon enough! The good thing is that the boys seem to be really good kids. If they are good kids how can it be all that bad...right?

3rd--Can I really be a BRUIN??? This is think will be the toughest for me to overcome. My life history consists of generation after generation of Caveman! I have known the words to the American Fork Caveman's school song for as long as I can remember and my family still sings it from time to time. I have never known life outside of being a Caveman. Am I ever going to be able to let go of all the Caveman history and become a Bruin? JP has done an amazing job at letting go of the Orem Tiger in him and transforming to a Bruin, I can only hope that I learn from him and eventually do the same thing. I will alway support JP and cheer for his team (unless they are playing American Fork), but only time will tell if I will ever be able to truly call myself a Bruin.

Wish me luck!

Let the Games Begin!

To get into the Olympic spirit JP and I decided that we were going to host an Olympic kick off party. Friday night, before the opening ceremony, we had our 1st Durfey Family Olympics! The party started off with a delicious assortment of Chinese food (thanks to Mark and his Hong Kong roots in bringing some of the "real" Chinese food:). Dinner was followed with Soccer, relay races, distance race, discus throw, and a few other events. During the events dreams were achieved, records were made, and no injuries occurred! After the events we had the medal ceremony. JP and made a platform for the medalists to stand on and the Star Spangled Banner was playing in the background as we placed the medals around the necks of the winners.

Our 1st Durfey Olympics is an evening that will be remember by many for years to come! Some of the gracious winners!

Most of the cheering section!

Back From Denver and Michigan!!!

Over the past week my sister Diane and her family has finally decided to make the move from Denver back to Utah and my nephew Trever came home from his mission!!! Trever got home on Wednesday and the best part of that for me was JP finally was able to meet him! Diane and her family came on Thursday. Diane and her family moved back here in a hurry after they sold their house in Denver so that their 3 girls could get started in School.

On Thursday we had a Welcome Home/Birthday party for all of them. It was Sydnee's 7th birthday on Thursday and we could not miss celebrating that!

The Birthday cake. It was the cutest cake that I have ever made. I was very impressed with myself!

The littler girls in the family.

The Ladies. We may not always act that way but we still like to call ourselves ladies.


The boys. It sure was nice to have Trever back in the mix. He was greatly missed for the past 2 years!

Welcome back Trever and the Storms family!!!

Scofield

Last weekend was spent in the beautiful land of Scofield, Utah. Lots of fish were caught and eaten, fun times were had with the Clark family, staying in a cabin is fabulous for a warm shower to wash off the yucky fishing residue, a few days with no cell phones is always a welcome thing!

Here are a few highlights from our little time away from home:

Catching what I say is the biggest fish of the trip. JP learned that I will touch the fish I just won't stick my finger up its gill to hold on to it. Those fish are slippery!A little 4-wheeling with the Clark brothers and Jill. Skyline drive was beautiful and a perfect way to spend a Sunday afternoon in the mountains!

I still think JP is the best looking guy in the world even if he is covered in fish gut and dirt!

Zoe is a trooper on the boat! She always managed to find a peaceful place to sleep.

Lake Time!

I really have nothing clever to say in this post, I just simply had to post this picture. This is one of my all time favorite photos! JP and I decided to take a last minute trip to Utah lake and only had a few hours. My nephew Stockton is the only person we could get to join us. Stockton loved it! We stopped the boat and just played in the water for an hour or so and Stockton just kept jumping into the lake off the side of the boat. On one of his jumps I was able to get this picture. As you can see from his face, he absolutely loved it!

Croquet... Athletes only?

Last night Joel and Jill joined JP and I in a friendly game of Croquet. Who would have thought that Croquet could be so much fun! None of us were certain what the rules were so I have done a little research. Next time we play--it will be the right way. Joel and Jill, pay attention! Here are a few things we missed.

-When playing Poison Croquet the you win the game by completing the course and then poisoning all other players (last night we started poisoning a little to early).
-Once a player is poisoned they are eliminated from the game. The final ball remaining in the game is the winner.
-While going through the course you have to pass through "wickets". Each wicket you pass through earns the player a bonus stroke.
-Players can also earn bonus strokes by hitting other balls. This is called "roqueting". If a player hits another players ball they earn 2 bonus strokes.
-Each ball can only be roqueted once per turn.

Now for the thing I would really like to know. Is a person who plays Croquet considered an athlete? I have never considered myself an athletic type but I do think that I could become quite the Croquet player. So if Croquet players are athletes I guess I am also an athlete! What a dream come true!

We Made It!!!

When JP and I were engaged many, many people told me that the first year of marriage is the hardest. Well, I am happy to say that we made it! Not only did we make it, but I can proudly say that the past year has been the best year of my life.

We spent our Anniversary in Midway, UT. Instead of having your typical romantic dinner out we decided to rent a couple of cruiser bikes for the two days. We rode our bike for several hours over the two days in Midway. We both felt like kids again. There is nothing to take you back to your childhood like riding a cruiser bike. We loved the bikes and we will definetley be investing in a couple of them for ourselves before the summer is over!
Here's looking forward to many more wonderful years!

Riding in Style

Spring is here (I do not consider it warm enough for summer yet) and that means it is time to break out the ATVs! JP's Dad has a couple of 4-wheelers and lets us take them out from time to time. The picture above was taken a couple of weeks ago at 5 mile pass. It was my firsts time out this year and the first time that I used one of my favorite gifts. JP gave me the fabulous pink helmet, goggles and gloves (gloves not shown) for Christmas. It was love at first site! I could not have imagined a better get-up than the one he gave me!

My Mom

With Mother's Day just around the corner I have been doing a lot of thinking about my mom. This will be the first year (that I can recall) in my life that I will not be spending Mother's Day with my mom. As much as I have missed her over the past 6 months I know that the people in the Spokane, Washington mission are very lucky to have her.

My mom has always been one of my best friends. Even when I was a little girl my Mom was the 1 person that I knew I could always count on for ANYTHING! She has always been there for me when I need a shoulder to cry on, someone to cheer me up, or just someone to keep me company. I have always known how very blessed I am to have such a great relationship with my mom and these past 6 months that her and my Dad have been serving a mission have made me realize that more deeply.

Mom, thank you for being so wonderful! I can only hope that one day I will be half as great of a mom as you have been to me. Thank you for loving me always, for your great example of how to live and enjoy life, for being my friend, and more than anything else thank you for being my Mom! I love you!

Cathy

My wife beats me.

So, I have a confession to make. I enjoy perusing the pages of the classifieds at KSL.com and maybe a little over a month ago, I made a great investment. An investment gone bad. I purchased a Sportcraft foosball table from a guy up in Sandy who said that his grandkids watch too much television and don't care to play games so his nice, barely used foosball table needed to be gone. It was taking up too much space.
We thought that it would be more for our visitors and 'take up space' in the basement that we inhabit, but it has quickly become our favorite (or least favorite, for me) pastime at home. We nearly play once a day at least and often play twice, many times in an intense 3 game series, winner being the first to score 10 goals.
Well, this is the confession part. MY WIFE BEATS ME. Literally beats the tar out of me. I am thinking of taking lessons because it irks me that she is consistently beating me. I think that I have only won once out of the last 20 or so contests. Embarassing. The only solace that I take is that I know she wouldn't beat me in 1-on-1 basketball. I know she couldn't strike me out if she tried, and I am quite confident that I would beat her at racquetball! I seriously need to take foosball lessons. Do any of you know of any trainers?
My cussing problem becomes more and more apparent during our nightly matches and I am tired of the "red guys". I am ready to admit that my disdain for all things red is likely what creates the bad karma that leads to loss after loss after loss! For now on, I get the "blue guys". I need to stop cussing.

Something in the Wall

This week I thought that we had a huge mouse in the wall of one of the bedrooms in our basement. The mouse (or what I thought was the mouse) would scratch loudly on the wall and it drove my dog Zoe CRAZY! Zoe was on constant alert for the wall. As soon as she would hear the faintest sound come from the wall she would bark, growl and scratch at the wall. This went on for nearly 2 days. It was easy to tell that whatever it was in that wall was stuck and it wanted to get out! At times the noise coming from the wall was very loud. I had even made comments that maybe it was a rat or a raccoon. JP thought it could be a dog that was dwarfed into a mouse. It was making more noise than just your average house mice would make.

Last night after work JP and I were having a friendly game of Foosball when Zoe came running frantically into the room and she was chasing a BIRD! Yes, that is correct, there was a bird flying in our basement! Now this was not a little sparrow or parakeet but a large black bird(it was at least 8 inches tall which seems huge in a room with a 7 foot ceiling). I never thought that I was afraid of birds, but I found out last night that I do have a slight fear of them when they are flying at my head in an enclosed area. As soon as I saw the bird I hit the floor and hid under the Foosball table and began yelling at JP to get the bird out! Being the brave man that he is, JP did manage to get the bird to fly safely out the window.

The bird ended up being what we thought was the mouse. Somehow this bird crawled into the eves of the house and found its way to the basement bedroom. The poor thing was traumatized and I was extremely happy to see it fly out of the window. It looks like JP and I have a little project for the weekend...find out how the bird got into the house.

The happiest place on earth!

A few weeks ago JP and I were lucky enough to take a vacation with my sister Jennifer, her husband and their 3 kids; Whitney, Stockton and Tyson. Friday afternoon the 7 of us piled into the Eggetts mini-van and headed off to sunny California where we spent 6 unforgettable days at Disneyland and a few wonderful hours at the beach!

Things I LOVED about our trip (with a few pictures):

-Spending a week away with some of my favorite people on earth!

-The beach! Nothing beats a sunny day of building sand castles, flying kites, making mermaids/mermans and just plain ol' relaxing in the sun!

-Tyson’s new found fondness of JP. The two of them really bonded on the trip, it was very cuteJ

-Personalized Mickey ears. The photos say it all!

-Sreamin’ California. What a great rollercoaster!
-Fastpass
-Sleeping in. No need to get to Disneyland early when you have the 5 day hopper!
-Warm weather with no snow
-Short line/no lines at Disneyland and California Adventure
-Frozen lemonade & Churos

Thank you Eggetts for joining us on our last minute adventure. It would not have been the same with out you!