David and Caitlyn Cottrell...

A lot of Catch up

2011-10-25T20:20:00.000-07:00

It has been a while since I have posted. Like almost 5 months ago so I decided to do some catch up on what has happened over the past 5 months.

To begin I will start out in June at the annual Bingham campout.

We started out with a hike with all of the kids.

Of course it wouldn't be camping without some fishing at like 5 in the morning. David loves fishing and so does my dad.

This is my Papa and he is what I like to call a skilled fisher.

We then went on some more hikes. Lets just say this campout was filled with a lot of hiking.

We definitely had fun though!

This is the one time of year when I get to spend some quality time with my neices and nephews.

They are the little lights in my life that keep me smiling.

Jessica is also one of the lights in my life. Can't you just see why?

Then in July my cute sister in law decided to marry an amazing man!

His family is chinese so before the reception they had a traditional tea ceremony. It was really cool to watch.

These are the hansome men in me and my sisters lifes.

This is David with his 92 year old Grandma who I love dearly

This is all the girls right before we said goodbye to Jocey. We then sent her off to become a real women. ;)

Then in August we celebrated me and David's 2 wedding anniversary. David suprised me by taking me to the Cafe where we had our reception .

We never got a chance to taste the food at the reception, which was a really big bummer to me because I am a big foody. That is why it was so great to try some of the food.

It was amazing!!! Can you tell by the food crazed look on my face?

We then finished it off with two of my favorites Rasberries and Creme Brulee.

I am very grateful for David. He is the one man that can put up with me. That tells me I am beautiful when I am literally at my worst and when I want to give up pushes me forward and helps me to keep going. I love you Babe. Thanks for rocking my world and I hope it is still rocking 60 years from now!

Cait's 11 Points of Grief

2011-08-06T22:42:00.000-07:00

Here's Cait studying.

So, I decided to do a post cuz its been about a year and a 1/2 lol. And because Cait is finishing up her finals tonight. (only 20 min. left until her last paper is due). Anyways, I don't have any awesome photos to portray the study scene that is our apartment. BUT, I just wanted to say how proud of her I am. She has been putting all of her time and effort into this week. At the beginning of the week she made a list of 11 homework assignments to do by Saturday night at midnight. Among them were 4 papers, a web portfolio, 3 tests, and some readings. She had Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday off from work and she spent ALL day (until past midnight every day even Tuesday) working to get done.

Here's the list... which is backwards in my webcam... sorry guys lol.

I just want to say I love you babe and I'm proud of you. After tonight, my wife will be a college grad :) !

Random

2011-07-11T21:08:00.000-07:00

We haven't posted for a while so here is some catch up!

So in May I kind of graduated so yay!

And after all of that stress we decided to take a trip.

First we went to Vegas.

David got bored driving and decided to eat around the core of his carrot.

When ever we go to Vegas we always seem to find crazy pictures. This one was at a restaurant. I know that it is the horses tail but come on it kind of does look like its farting.

We also found this bubble blowing machine on the strip and it is exactly what you think it is.

We of course had to go to Serendipities and have a 5000 calorie sunday! It was delicious!!!

We went to the m&m factory and got some m&m's I asked David to get me a couple peanut butter ones and he filled the bag. He put the bag back after I told him that it was 12 dollars a pound lol.

We always love to try new things and a chocolate covered potato chip was definitely a new thing for me. Saddly it was not very good.

One of the high lights of Vegas was running into sexy saxaphone man. If you do not know him youtube it. We got interviewed for a 20-20 special on him it was awesome!!!

We then traveled down to the happiest place on earth.

Disneyland!!!

I think the pictures speak for themselves.

One of our favorite parts of the park is the cute animals!!!

After Disney we headed down to Valencia CA to visit my big sis Bekah. On the way down we took a little trip to Santa Monica Beach.

We caught little crabbies in a jar!

We went swimming and jumped in the waves!

We didn't take any pictures at Bekah's but it was really fun!!

Definitely a great adventure!!!

Spring Break

2011-03-30T16:08:00.001-07:00

We had a really greaT spring break. David and I both had the week off from WeFa. We were able to get a new car, try and new restraunt, see our friends, get messages, and got to a new Temple.

This is the African restraunt with our BFF's Lexer and Jose. The restraunt was cool because it was like the restraunt on the movie Along Came Polly where you eat with your hands. Defintitly a new experience and good!

We were planning on taking our bikes down and going ridding but the weather was bad so instead we went to the St. George temple. It was beautiful!

This is our new car Spike! He is an blue elantra. This was our first time filling him up, David wasn't sure what I was doing when I took the pic but I thought it should be comemorated.

The biggest reason we went down was to go to my big bro (friend) Addy's wedding

This is Joshy and Addy at the reception

I was also lucky enough to hang out with my BFF's Katie and Lauren who are awesome and I miss them dearly!

Me and Brazil at the wedding

I just have to be cheesy for a minute and say that it was really fun being with my friends that I have been through so much with and to watch our friends grow as each one gets married. I love my friend because they helped to make me the person I am today.

These Are a Few of My Favorite Things

2011-03-30T15:54:00.001-07:00

So lately I have been able to have a lot of my favorite things here are just a few.

First and formost, my husband David. We had spring break last week and we both had a whole week to just relax together which was wonderful and he is wonderful.

I also like crafty inspirations. We recently got a kitchen table and while we were getting it from the ladies house I saw something similar to this on her wall. B Amazing, such a simple statement but it made me realize it is a choice to be amazing. You are not simple born that way you have to work for it and I really liked that.

FOOD!!! I know everybody loves food but I really like to try new food. During spring break we had the oppotunity to go to an African restraunt with our BFF's. It was so good!!!

Not many people know this, mostly because it is my theory more than a fact, but what your mom eats when you are in her tummy will most likely be one of your favorite things to eat in life. My mom could not get enough mangos, which, I feel, is why I love, love, LoVe them.

I also have another love and that is my rain boots. They go with every outfit, or more likely I wear them with every outfit. I love them because I can stomp in puddles, tromp through snow and sometimes they make me feel like superman. I love the boots!

Valentines

2011-03-06T11:36:00.001-08:00

It was Valentines a month ago but I haven't blog about it so here it is.

I love Valentines because I know that David is going to suprize me!

That means that I have to be blind folded when being taken to the different testinations.

Our first stop was one of my very favorite restraunts PF Changs!!!

I love how well my husband knows me

He let me take a picture of his excited face before we went for desert and he made me put the blind fold tie back on.

We went to desert at yogurt stop which is soooooo good!

Then we went to a movie where he wouldn't even let me see the ticket before the show started.

The movie ended up being the delema which was very funny!

I love you David thank you for being an amazing husband and knowing me better than I know myself sometimes. My life is better because I have you!!! xoxo

The Holidays!

2011-01-18T21:08:00.001-08:00

Christmas began and ended the same way...with Settlers of Catan. Don't all families play Settlers until 4am on Christmas?

That was okay though because that ment that David was snug in his bed when Santa came early that morning

It was so fun to see the neice and nephew run into the living room and see brand new bikes waiting for them from Santa. They stayed up long enough the night before to hear Ricky I mean Santa on the roof of the house.

Both me and Jessica wrote our Christmas list together which ment we both got our Miche bags!

We then went over to Matt and Mandy's for a Christmas brunch with the whole family

Including the Petersen's who we skyped all morning long. I missed them a lot!

Everybody thought it would be cool to dress up like their favorite person on Christmas!

Brynlee got really excited about it and decided to grow a mustache

We were so happy that Ricky and Corinne were able to come to spend Christmas with us. I love baby Athen he has grown so much but luckily he hasn't grown out of sucking on his binky sideways, which I love!

After all of the excitement it tired my two favorite men right out.

We were also able to spend time at the Cottrells where forgot to take any pictures in all of the excitement but I did get this special one of my princess Berkley

We then went back over to my parents where Abby got a new snow suit that made her look like a puffy pink eskimo

And then it all ended where it began with Settlers of Catan!

I hope all of your Holidays where as great as mine!

It's Finals!!!

2010-12-11T22:26:00.000-08:00

It is that wonderful time of year where you spend all of your time with the things that you love
like your school books and emails between class mates trying to console each other
about the end of the semester deadlines and tests.

This is our make shift work area. David has set up the card table on one couch that has all of his work on it and that chair you see in front of the other couch that is where my laptop goes if it is not on my lap. You can just make out the stacks of papers and books that sit right next to me on the left of the couch.

Of course this is not our first rodeo, but can I tell you how much easier it is when your doing it with your bff right next to you. Like last night when I would say to David " I don't think I can go anymore" and he would reply back "yes you can!!!"

Try to guess my major with the books that seem to feel like they are devouring me.

This is Davids own beast to conquer of papers good thing I bought him a beast slaying sword for Hanukkah.

You just have to remember that next weekend it will be over even though it feels like it might never get there.

Disneyland!!!!

2010-11-05T19:48:00.001-07:00

We went to Disneyland in October and it was soooooo fun!!!

We saw the new show called World of Color which was incredible it made the Balgio show look kind of terdy. Addy was really tired but she wanted to see it so bad.

I finally got to go to tune town and it was exaclty what everybody said it was kind of lame except for that 10 second roller coaster really amazing! We did get to meet Mickey though.

Addy is so stinking cute and little and fit right into one of the Disneyland bags.

Of course I had to make a wish at my well (snow whites well) and my wish came true, we had an absolute blast at disney!

Disney wouldn't be Disney without the fun hidden Mickeys on all the rides. Here is one special to october because it is on the nightmare before christmas ride at the haunted manchine.

David loved his tiger trimmed Mickey ears he wouldn't go anywhere without them.

Addy and David were pirates for the Mickey Trick or Treat which was the best night ever!!

I love my cute sisters who got right on into the spirit of Halloween and dressed up with me!

Josey did have an instance where a scare crow litterally scared the crap out of Josey, well not the crap part but the scare part.

Me and Dabid in our incredibles shirts. Everybody that day would say hey look the incredibles.

They have the most amazing carved pumkins you wouldn't even believe it. It was amazing!

They also had baby goats you could go and pet. Both me and David thought that this was one of our favorite parts of Disney!

David and I had a date night and splurged and went to the Blue Bayou. It was so good and we even found a hidden Mickey in our Creme brule, which was incredible.

My sister Bekah was able to come up for a day and go to Disney with us. I was so happy I miss her and her family very very much!

Cole and Hailey both got some good sweet treats that ended up on hands and faces!

My favorite was the last ride we went on the tower of terror. Bekah's face says it all!

Old People gotta love em!!

2010-09-23T10:51:00.000-07:00

I know this seems like an odd post but I work at a bank and the area we are located at is more of a retired area but I love it because I will tell you one thing right now old people say what they want when they want and it is hilarious.
I just thought I would post some of my favorite elderly people quotes I have heard at the bank.

" I can get down I just can't get back up"

"My get up and go just got up and left"

" My a** is grass and your the lawn mower"

Costo with David

2010-08-27T09:22:00.000-07:00

Costco has always been a chore for David but he learned that the shopping had to be done and that I really appreciated it when he came with me, so he tries to entertain himself along the way.

If I am walking and don't hear David follow behind I know that he is just trying to entertain himself in someway.
Like pretending to go to the bathroom in the middle of the store.

Or....Wearing a fur cape

I turned around just in time to see David like a nephite with a bear skin cape. This of course it just a typical visit to costco with David. I was just glad that I had my camera in my purse to capture it this time.
I got to admit David sure does make like fun!
I love him, I love him, I love him!

2 WEEKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-08-23T21:23:00.000-07:00

Two weeks is all we had between semesters. Both me and David took summer school and had only two weeks before fall semester started and we were not going to waste it!

My Brother in law Matt invited me and David to go to Lagoon with him and his family since my sister Mandy just had her 5th baby.

It was a sacrifice to go spend a day at Lagoon but you got to do what you can for family. We were so excited we could barely sleep the night before.

This is one of my favorite shots of David and the boys. Our favorite ride with them was definately the lady bug because Nathan would gritt his teeth every time the lady bug dropped it was hilarious.

The girls were right there along for anything and everything. Eliza was tall enough to go on the rides but sometimes they would say she needed a buster seat which was even better because then we got in the buster seat line which we were usually the first in line. Loved It!
It was an awesome day I love my fam!

That next morning we left to go to a couples retreat down in St. George with all of my girlfriends and their husbands from high school. It was a blast!!!!

Not to mention it was David and I's 1 year anniversary. I love him very much.

We went go carting and went and saw Tarzan at Tuacan. I just want to mention that David took first in go carts and I would have taken second but Harve cut me off. I won't get into it but it was ugly.

Of course the girls stayed up the last night and played I have never. Lets just say I learned a thing or two about my friends.

That next weekend we did the annual Cottrell Bear Lake trip. It was a lot of fun! This is my cute neice Berkley playing in the sand.

David and I decided to spend an extra night and we decided to invite Jocey because she is awsome and I was so happy when she said yes! We went and saw a movie on a huge outdoor screne and cuddled up in our sleeping bags.

We were able to get an awesome tip on a beautiful camping spot just a few miles away from Bear Lake. I am so greatful I married a man that can handle a tent and look good going it.

The beach was a lot of fun and not to mention the shakes that we get at the end courtasy of Papa Cottrell.

One of the customers at my work mentioned that he had a friend coming in town who just happened to be Dave Matthews and got us some tickets to his concert.

It was incredible. I have never scene him live but it was amazing!

He had these huge screens all over the stage. I saw a man play two sacksaphones at the same time.

We wenting shooting with Papa Cottrell and he let us test out the Judge the look on Davids face is all the explanation needed.

It was really fun watching them shoot off together. I love that I have a great father in law that lets his daugter in laws to the fun stuff too. Guns are the fun stuff fyi.

We ended the weekend on Sunday with a pasta dish that had my fresh herbs in it from my small but powerful herb garden.

can you say mmmm...........

I know life seems pretty hard for the Cottrell home. Well atleast for David he has me as a wife. Jk

Now these are just the moments with photo's we also had great bbq's with our friends like the Plehns and Tweeder (you know who you are). It was a great two weeks but it was only great do to our friends and family I love you all!!!

Soccer Time!!!!

2010-08-17T08:35:00.000-07:00

David is an awesome banker and won us tickets to the Real game. I love soccer so I was super excited to go!

We went with our good friends Jose and Lexi who also won tickets at work. They were able to get us all jerseys so we could be ready for the game. It was a blast!

I believe this is right after Real scored their third goal which means we got free breakfast coupons. As you can see we get really into the games. This picture is sheer energy.

July Catch up

2010-08-10T17:53:00.000-07:00

We were able to spend the 4th with our good friends, basically family, the Arbizus.

Happy 4th of July!!! We spend the first part of the day working sadly, but then we went to first works out in Sandy with the Cottrell family.

Me and Lexer were able to go and explore the tank they had on display. Surprisingly roomy

We went to San Fran and were able to go down some cardboard slides. When I went to San Fran before we spent hours looking for these slides that you slide on with cardboard. I found them though and they are crazy fun!

We also went to the boardwalk and played all day. The boys went skim boarding. We also tried a deep fried twinkie and oreo which felt so wrong but tasted so good.

My hubby getting out of the cold water after skimming with a board.

We went to this really cool fort called Fort Point that is right under the Golden Gate Bridge. It has been there since the civil war and was used during both the civil and ww2.

This one is for Ben "That is what she said"

I love food, who doesn't right? So when we went to San Fran We wanted to try everything we could. This was one of our many fun ice creams. I had this one that tasted like horchata and had snickerdoodles in it. It was so good and my bro Ricky had burnt caramel.

We took a little excursion to Alcatraz where we got put in prison. Jk. It was really fun!

This is my favorite picture of the trip! My nephew is so stinking cute but just look at his cute parents and you aren't suprised. I love love love my nephew and miss him a lot.

Bingham Family Campout 2010

2010-07-15T19:55:00.000-07:00

Every year the Binghams go on a camping trip, it was fun that Ricky and Coreene could come and also that Jeffica was here for it this year too!

Cute Ricky and Drewby

It was fun to have both of my big brothers with me camping!

I got a new camel back and am sporting it in this picture, I love it!

My Dad is teaching David how to flay fish. It was both of our first times fly fishing pretty exciting.

Me with my cute neice Eliza during one of our many nature hikes where we looked for dinasaur bones. Shocker we didn't find any but we did find some chip munk bones.

I love my neices and nephews but I also love that my mom got all of them hats to decorate so we could always find them. My mom is a girls camp junky so their was many fun crafts for the kids. I love her!

We ended with a canooing trip that even little Abby got in on the fun. It is times like these that reminds me how blessed I am to have the family that I do. Shout out to my fam I love you!

Seagull BBQ

2010-06-10T10:45:00.000-07:00

So last Sunday me and David decided we would BBQ for dinner. We were waiting for the charcoals in the grill to heat up so that David could put his hamburger on and I could put my chicken on. To pass the time I challenged David to a race to the swings on the playground in our court, which of course I won. No sooner did we sit down to swing when we saw a seagull on the table where our meat was sitting pigging out on Davids hamburger. We raced over screaming at the seagull but the damage was done and Davids hamburger was gone. It was at that moment that David wished he had had a gun.

This is exactly why nobody likes seagulls.

Good News Bad News

2010-06-02T19:36:00.000-07:00

So I know I haven't blogged in a while but here is a little update about a couple good news and bad news moments.

So I thought I would try and be funny one night and put Dwight on the back of the couch and have him looking down at David while David was watching TV but David wouldn't turn around so I tried to get him too but I did a very bad job instead he got up to come talk to me and when he did Dwight fell off of the back of the couch and got decapitated. That was my bad news.
So Here is my good news!!! I know this does not look like much but this is my little herb garden that I am trying to grow in our apt. For a while I didn't think anything would grow but then I started seeing green things peep out of the soil!! I am not sure what herbs they are because my dad gave me random seeds but I will love them all the same.
PS this is my other good news David. Good news I got to marry an amazing husband, best friend and my EC David. Love him!!!!

Spring Break Kick-off

2010-03-21T09:47:00.000-07:00

So we decided to head south for Spring Break this year and try out our new camping gear we got from our wedding shower. We decided to go to Snow Canyon to see some Lava Tubes and also visit the Red Cliffs to go on an awesome hike we found on the internet. All of these places are about 20 miles North of St. George.

Just as we were embarking on our trip, our hopes and dreams were smashed. The light turned green, we pulled out into the intersection to make a left turn. We waited for an oncoming car to pass us for it to be clear enough to turn when a Ford Escape came bulting through the red light, T-boning the car we were waiting for to pass us, pushing both cars into the front of us...

I'd explain it more but I'll let you see for yourself:

There are several things that made this crash a miracle.

First of all, about 2 weeks ago we drove to Vegas and didn't have our insurance card with us. We didn't want to make a long drive again without it and Cait was inspired to stick it in the glove box just before we left our house.

Second, Both of the other cars were totalled!

Third, No one involved was hurt.

We had 3 witnesses stay and fill out police reports and for which we were very grateful.

This was an awakening experience for us to realize how much our Heavenly Father loves us and we know he is watching out for us. And I am so grateful for a wife that is in tune with the spirit enough to listen and know to follow it. I love you Caitlyn!

My muscle man!

2010-02-18T15:18:00.000-08:00

So another funny story about my man. So we have been trying to get into shape for the new year so at nights we will do the biggest loser work out video. So one morning I was getting dressed and I know David was unaware but you can see the bathroom mirror from our bedroom door way. I had just finished getting dressed when I look just in time to see David giving his bet muscle man flex in the mirror. I just started laughing and he turned a little red because he was embarrassed, what a cute man I got is all I could think.

Funniest moment of the year!

2009-12-20T21:25:00.000-08:00

Oh my cute hubby, here is a photo just to remind you of who he is. Anyways, so today, sunday, we were getting ready for church and David had just gotten out of the shower when he realized that he had no clean garments. Luckily he had done a load the night before but they were down in the laundry room three floors down at the bottom of our stair well. Being the good wife that I am I offered to go but then again being my mothers daughter I got distracted and forgot. He was still naked when I said why don't you just go get them so he jokingly walked out of our apt buck naked as a joke. (church had already started so most of all of our neighbors were at church) So I thought that would be a perfect chance to shut the door and hold it closed while he was outside naked. A few seconds later I looked out the peep hole and he wasn't there anymore. He actually walked down three flights of stairs and into the laundry room buck naked in his birthday suit!!!! Moments later I heard a tap on the door and David had come back still naked and with his arms empty. He told me about his fun journey and how he heard the door open in the laundry room just after he entered and some random lady was walking in and so he slipped into the space behind the door as it was opening. The lady saw him out of the corner of her eye. David then rushed out the door and back up the stairs laughing! Omg got to love him!!!

Las Vegas Baby!!!

2009-12-07T10:12:00.000-08:00

The Story Of Vegas!!!

We started out late at night and headed down to Mesquite for lodging

On Friday we went golfing, it was my first time playing for real well almost (we bent some rules so that we didn't hold the game up)

David always had a tee in his mouth so that he could look like a cool golfer, love him!

Unfortunately we miss calculated a curb and popped a hole in the tire of out corolla Kevin. It could have ruined the trip but we decided it was all part of the adventure and nothing was going to stop us from Vegas!!

My wonderful husband whipped out his mechanic skills and plumbers crack to fix the tire

We saw the beautiful flower displays in the Balagio

The Eiffel tower at the Paris also where we ate ourselves sick on our buffet. Go crab legs!!!

We saw this sign and thought it embodied what Las Vegas was about considering that we couldn't look up or look down because of the nakedness

We did however find the biggest slot machine ever!!!

It felt very Oceans Eleven as we watched the musical fountain at the Bellagio

Heaven knows it wouldn't be Vegas without a storm trooper encounter, he was actually very nice. Sadly he had no light saber so Aniken still wins.

We tried a crazy amount of sodas at the coke factory the worst for David was the mint soda from India his favorite was the Watermelon one from China.

My Favorite was probably fanta kolita from costa rica and I hated the Beverly from Italy.

And it all ended where it began at the Bellagio

Just Getting Started!!!

2009-11-29T18:54:00.000-08:00

The list of adventures we've had thus far....

Love shack building with the Cottrells

4th of July competitions

Family pedicures

Golf practices at the driving range

Hiking to waterfalls up Diamond Fork Canyon

Shooting at Utah Lake

Racing games at the arcade

Snowmobiling in the mountains

and most important and most difficult of all was going down Splash Mountain at Disneyland with the Cottrells

...and we're just getting started...

Can I have your number

2009-11-17T21:36:00.000-08:00

Cait showed me this clip she found on youtube its pretty funny

The Story of Us!

2009-09-29T07:25:00.000-07:00

We met on Dec. 6, 2008 on a blind date set up by our wonderful friends Jose and Lexy (thanks a million guys). We continued dating through out the month and then for New Years David invited me to a party with his family and at 12 midnight we had our first kiss!

We continued to date and four months later on April 5, 2009 David popped the big question and I said yes!

And now we are married living in our humble abode at the University of Utah married student housing.

We are gonna be bloggers now

2009-09-18T23:24:00.000-07:00

This is our first post but hopefully we can get some more pictures of our wedding and other life altering events on here for you to see!