Waffle Irons and M & M's for Prizes

Bob-B-Q Recap

For those of you who weren't allowed into the Bob-B-Q because you don't know Uncle Bob we are providing a quick re-cap of the evenings events. For those of you who do know Uncle Bob and didn't come there is no excuse so you're not allowed to read the rest of this post.

Doubles Tennis:

First Place: Justin and Tyler
Second Place: Tanner and Hannah
Third Place: Gary and Leslie
Last Place: Todd and Aubree

Highlights and Prizes: Justin and Tyler pretty much dominated the entire event and nobody else even stood a chance against them. The grand prize was a bag of delicious smelling potpourri, which went to Tyler. The losers got complimentary blue and white M & M's that read "Katie and Justin January 4, 2006." For those of you who came to our wedding you probably know what we're talking about.

Boxing:

First Place: Kevin*
Second Place: Drew
Third Place: Tyler
Fourth Place: Kristin
Fifth Place: Uncle Bob
Sixth Place: Hannah
Seventh Place: Todd
Last Place: Tanner

*via proxy

Highlights and Prizes: Kevin took Uncle Bob out in Round 1. After handing the K.O. to Uncle Bob, Kevin was too pooped to continue so he had to chose Proxy Boxers to fight for him in rounds 2 and 3. Justin boxed for Kevin in round 2 and Tanner was chosen to be the Proxy in round 3. This means that Tanner (acting as a proxy for Kevin) beat Drew for first place - but if you look closely you will see that Tanner got knocked out in Round 1 and he actually got last place. This here is boxing history folks, Tanner somehow managed to get first and last place at the same time. Kevin's prize for winning the event was a brand spankin' new waffle iron. The losers of boxing also got complimentary "Katie and Justin January 4, 2006" M & M's.

Other Prizes

1. Our friend Joe is the ultimate champion of Super Mario Bros. He knows where every single secret box is and he can beat the entire game. We even watched him jump over the flag pole. Just so everyone knows he got a waffle iron for a prize for being the champion of Super Mario Bros.

2. We are going to choose a random commentor on this week's post to give a dang awesome prize - and we're all out of waffle irons so it won't be one of those.

Be There Or Be Bob.

First of all for those of you who may have forgotten, this weekend - December 7th - is the long awaited Bob-B-Q. We just wanted to give everyone a small taste of what they can expect to find at the event.

1. Shish-ka-Bobs
2. Bob Saget
3. Bobbing for Apples
4. Bob-wire (1996, Starring Pamela Anderson)
5. Bob-Sledding (Seriously, bring your snow clothes - we made a course in our backyard just for the event)
6. Bob Barker
7. Rhu-Bob Pie
8. Bob Marley
9. What about Bob? (1991, Starring Bill Murray)
10. Bob Cahoon

Dress Attire:
All of the girls are required to wear Bobbie pins. Boys should wear a t-shirt featuring their favorite Bob (Bob Dylan, etc.).

Second, we are proud to annouce the arrival of our new tree. Chris P (or Krispy). The Chris is for Christmas and the P is for Pokey. He's a great tree and anyone who comes over to see him will get a dang nice prize.

Third, we made a sweet bob-sledding track in our backyard with all of the fresh snow that fell yesterday. Anyone who goes down it (we will provide the sled) will get a cool prize.

PS. If you guys dont start leaving more comments on our blog we're going to stop giving out prizes. Only five people left comments on our last post - we've seen blogs that are way stupider than ours get more comments than that - so step it up if you want us to keep giving out awesome prizes. If we get 20 comments before the Bob-B-Q (from different people) we will post a video of Katie sledding down the Bob-sled track in our backyard on the internet for everyone to enjoy.

The First Annual Bob-B-Q

First of all, here are this week's prizes:

1. We have a prize for anyone who can tell us what the heck a zamboni does and how it works.

2. We also have a prize for anyone who can tell us why anyone in their right mind would wait in line for over two and a half hours to eat at at the cheesecake factory.

3. Finally, the grand prize goes to anyone who will come pick it up. We have offered prizes for the past 3 blog entries and nobody has come to pick them up. Our house is quickly filling up with unclaimed prizes and we won't have space for any more prizes until people start picking up their stuff. Besides, our house is cool and we do awesome stuff all the time so you should come visit us anyway.

Second of all, the much anticipated Bob-B-Q will be held at our house on Friday, December 7, 2007. The Bob-B-Q is for Uncle Bob (Cahoon). If you don't know Bob you aren't allowed to come so just stop reading this blog post. If you do know Bob, you are required to come to our house on the 7th and have some dang good BBQ. We will probably play Guitar Hero and do lots of other cool stuff too. As a side note, Uncle Bob has not RSVP'd for the Bob-B-Q so if any of you see or talk to him tell him he better be there - if he can't make it for some reason, the event will be re-scheduled.

The PT Deer Killer

Due to the large number of miles that we have been (and will be) traveling we have decided to rent a car. Circumstances beyond our control lead the car rental company (who shall not remain nameless - enterprise rent-a-car), provided us with the stupidest car ever invented - a Chrysler PT Cruiser. Because we will be traveling through Wyoming where the wildlife run rampant and because our chances of encountering a deer while traveling are pretty darn good, we have nicknamed the car "The PT Deer Killer."

The following is a list of the top 5 experiences we have had with the vehicle thus far:

1. While traveling on I-90 westbound somewhere between Billings and Butte Montana, we gracefully plowed over a huge deer. Just kidding. We actually hit a wild hubcap lost by some poor soul traveling on I-90 eastbound. So, the car will now be called "The PT Hubcap Demolisher."
2. We smashed a Keystone Light beer can somewhere in Idaho Falls and it didn't even hurt the car.
3. After riding in the car for upwards of 18 hours, it was discovered that the hump between the two rear seats is actually the softest seat in the entire car.
4. We found a 100 oz. beverage holder available for 799 cents at the Maverick store. We bought the mug and there is a cup holder in the PT Deer Killer that is actually big enough to hold the mug. Just kidding again (about the cup holder in the Deer Killer, not about the 100 oz beverage holder).
5. We attempted to sneak out of the regional center parking lot after stake conference without being seen in the Deer Killer, only to come face to face with our friend Cody who was directing traffic. He definitely doesn't think we are as cool as we were when we sat next to him during the meeting. We managed to save ourselves by sending a text message to his wife with an explanation. Needless to say, now Cody and Linzy think we are the coolest people ever.

Finally, we will name our 5 favorite features of the PT Deer Killer.

1. The blasted window roller-uppers and -downers are nowhere near the windows.
2. It is scientifically proven to be the loudest car that money can buy.
3. In this day of advanced technology, somehow Chrysler managed to forget to put cruise control in the PT Deer Killer.
4. When riding in the PT Deer Killer, you are guaranteed to feel like you are going through a midlife crisis.
5. It's stupid.

Blog bonus question: If anyone can tell us what the PT stands for in "PT Cruiser" we will give you a special prize.

Happy Halloweeeeen

Hi again everyone. Let's cut to the chase - not everyone who has been reading our blog has been leaving comments. For those of you (bless your hearts) who have been leaving comments, we have a special prize for you that you can pick up at our house. For those of you who have not been leaving comments, we encourage you to repent and start commenting so you too can pick up your special prize. So if you read this and don't leave a comment we might call the internet police on you. Also, Kate's older brother Jacob is a lawyer and he knows how to sue - so you better start posting comments.


We had our Halloween party here on Friday. As promised last week, we dressed up as the best suggestion from the comments you posted. The winner was Kristin - she recommended that Justin be Pamela Anderson and that Katie be Kid Rock.



The picture is a bit frightening, but you get the idea. You can't see it well, but Justin is wearing a super-short miniskirt and some leggings - needless to say, it was pretty hot!?! At the party we watched the Wizard of Oz while listening to Dark Side of the Moon, had a donuts on a string contest, bobbed for apples, and ate some good pizza. The house was decked out in black plastic, spider webs, black lights, and a smoke machine but it was too dark to take pictures so you'll have to imagine how cool it looked.

Finally, we would like to comment on the results of last week's poll. When we asked 'which is cooler' there was a two-way tie between mechanical pencils and jet planes. The tie goes to whichever is more portable - so mechanical pencils are the winner. Don't forget to participate in this week's poll.

Our Loudest Post Yet

Today is our brother (and brother-in-law) Jacob's birthday. Katie's brother Jake, not Justin's. So Happy Birthday!

We decided that we have now left you in enough suspense in the week since our last (and first) post. We just got home from our weekly religious meeting and we were noticing how extremely, unbelievably, ridiculously loud it was. Just imagine a jet engine, a speeding locomotive, a cruise ship horn, and the 1997 Blink 182 concert at 'Bricks' in Salt Lake City all jammed together in a room the size of a coat closet. That's only 1/100th of how loud it was in our sacrament meeting today - and it was only slightly quieter in the other two meetings. We don't think the other people in the meeting (the owners of the noise makers) realize how loud their children really are. There was a kid today crying at the top of his lungs in a high, window-shattering scream that didn't get taken out. They just let him cry while the rest of us tried to read the lips of the person speaking. Luckily the speaker was familiar with ASL so we just watched as he signed the rest of his sermon. We might just have to have a kid so we can pay attention to something besides everybody else's screaming babies.

We just finished a busy but fun week. It included going to Brettney's house where we had some delightful pizza and the best dessert this side of the Mississippi - pizookies! If you don't know what a pizookie is you should ask Whittney because she is really good at making them. While we were there we also watched Planet Earth (the BBC version) which is definitely worth your while if you have never seen it. The next night we were lucky enough to go to dinner with Kristin and Tanner. The best part of the night was watching them box each other on the Wii - we almost had to carry Tanner out on a stretcher.

The "Blog-tivity" (required for all readers of this blog) is to tell Justin and Katie what their costumes should be at the Halloween party that is this Friday at our house. We will both dress up as the best idea. Anybody that wants to attend is welcome - it will be all of Justin's friends and their wives and kids, so if that sounds fun we would love to have you. There will be food, decorations, and scary music to set the mood for the holiday.

First Things First

The purpose of the first post in our blog is two-fold.

First, we would like to let everyone know how to say our last name. It sounds like goff -not go (as in Van Gogh) or gew or gouge, or any other crazy combination of consonants and vowels.

Second, we are requiring everyone to read this before they read any additional posts in our blog. We are doing this as a public service because it is estimated that up to 99.8% of 'bloggers' out there don't even know what the heck the term blog stands for, where blogs came from, or how they got started. With that in mind, click here to find a definition of and a brief (not as in underwear) history of blogging. You'll be tested afterwards and only people who pass the test can read our blog -- if you don't pass the test and you try to read our blog, we'll call the internet police on you.

The questions are:

1. The term 'blog' is short for what?
2. In what year did 'blogging' start and why?
3. When did 'blogging' become popular?
4. True or False: Justin and Katie are AWESOME.