5 Bucks if You Leave a Comment

First of all, thanks to everyone for paying up after reading our last post - we raked in a total of 220 smackers. Unfortunately only 3 people made comments - BORING. For the three of you who left comments we have prizes for you - and they're dang good - so come over and pick them up at your leisure.

Ok - now we are required by Katie to write about something cool that has happened in our life. So here it is - we went to the car show this week and we purchased "the world's most absorbent chamois." These babies are sweet - they can hold up to 3 gallons of liquid and they are guaranteed for life.*

Since our last post we also purchased an additional dance pad for Dance Dance Revolution and we have dance-offs (more commonly known as "Dance Offs Pants Offs") every Wednesday night at our house.**

Now for the good stuff - we've decided to start paying people to leave comments on our blog. So, with that in mind we are going to pay everyone who leaves a comment on this post $5. No catches, no gimmicks, no kidding - we'll pay you $5 if you leave a comment.***

Finally, if you leave a comment that is really cool we will bring you back a souvenir from our cruise that we're going on in a few weeks.****

So there you have it - comment about whatever you'd like - but make it good. God speed.

* Does not actually hold 3 gallons of anything and is not guaranteed for life.
** Actual dates and times for Dance Offs Pants Offs may change without notice.
*** Your comment has to be good or it doesn't count.
**** We reserve the right to not bring you back anything at all if we don't feel like it.

blogging for extra cash

Thanks to both of our families for the great Christmas this year. We had an awesome time having sleepovers, taking family pictures, eating, going to concerts, and just spending time together. It was a lot of fun and we are already excited for next year! We got an very nice freezer (which we've since filled with frozen goods from Costco), an amazing Blendtec (which really does blend anything - in fact, we even blended our old blender), and a dang cool firepit for our out of doors BBQs.

We also just celebrated our second anniversary-time flies when you're having fun like we are!

Now, down to business - basically we didn't make any money off our blog last year so we're going to start charging people to read this. If you've read this much you owe us five bucks. If you continue to read this and get to the end you will owe us even more dough. So you decide what you want to do - but you better be ready to fork it over.

Here's a list of what we gave each other for Christmas:

1. A 10 night Asian cruise (Kate gave to Justin)
2. A new 2008 Range Rover (Justin gave to Kate)
3. 40 acres of land near Brian Head for our new cabin (Justin gave to Kate)
4. A new parking slip in Nassau for our boat (Kate gave to Justin)
5. New wakeboards (we gave to each other)
6. New skis (we gave to each other)
7. New snowboards (we gave to each other)
8. New drums (Kate gave to Justin)
9. A new piano (Justin gave to Kate)
10. New slippers (Justin gave to Kate)

If you read that list you owe us fifteen bucks.

Now, we're going to spotlight someone in our blog. This is a new year's revolution for us and we are going to spotlight someone new in each blog entry. If we spotlight you, you owe us fifty bucks.

This week's spotlight is: Mom and Dad (Crockett and Gough). Pay up.

Finally, we will be having a DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) praty (that's right - praty, not party) at our house. Everyone is invited - except for some of you - and you know who you are. If you come to the DDR praty you better be prepared to dance against Kate in the final round because she is dang good. She can dance on expert on every single song and get A's. And if you read that you owe us ten more bucks.

For those of you who are still reading, you each owe us a total of thirty dollars -- unless you are Mom and Dad - then you owe us eighty bucks (each). That new Range Rover didn't pay for itself, so cough it up.

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.