Welcome Penelope...

Well, we've been super busy lately with the Holidays and everything. A few weeks ago Jared and I celebrated our 1 yr wedding anniversary. We had a really fun weekend in Salt Lake, we stayed at Hotel Monaco.. Loved it, can't wait to go back. A lot has happened in our one year of marriage, we bought a house being the biggest. Everything is great. We pulled out our frozen wedding cake. That piece right there is the one we cut at our wedding, we each ate some of it and then put it back, ha ha.

One year old wedding cake is not so good.....

We also got a new member of the family. She's a cute little pug named Penelope. We adopted her from an old lady that couldn't take care of her. She's super cute, but super crazy.....

This is her right after she got back from the vet with her little bandaid on her leg. After we'd had her a day or two she threw up on the floor and.... surprise... she had worms! Luckily, I was at work and didn't see them but Jared was sweet enough to take photos of the worms in the throw-up and then out of the throw-up to show me.... oh and he saved the worm for me on the counter so I could see it up close.... so thoughtful!

Poor little Montey had to be tested for worms too.... here's him with his bandaid.....

They didn't like each other at first. Then, Montey figured out that he Really REALLY like Penny, we couldn't get him to stop humping her, he got over that in a week or so and now everything's great.

We had a great Christmas with our families and we're looking forward to a great New Year. That's all for now. Lata!

Shoppin..

Last time I send Jared grocery shopping alone....

3 packages 'lil smokies
2 foot long summer sausage
2 cans of tomatoes
5 boxes of cereal
(too bad he didn't get any milk)

Love ya babe! :)

We're super Excited for Christmas!

The Remodel

As recently promised, here are some updated pictures of what has gone on with the house. There's still a lot of odds and ends we're working on and we haven't even touched the basement! But here are some photos of what we have done so far. I didn't include our bedroom or the guest bedroom. Jared has recently become the new scout master in our ward and the guest bedroom has become scout headquarters. It was full of flags and manuals and such.. Just not ready for a photo op. As for our bedroom.... eh, none of the photos I took turned out so good, so I decided not to include them. It's actually quite hard to take photos of bedrooms. I have a new respect for real estate photos.

The Kitchen, we haven't been able to afford knobs on the cabinets yet since

we're paying for the remodel as we go, but they'll be coming soon

This is the dining area, eventually I'll refinish our little

table but haven't been up to it yet....

This is the front room.

The little bathroom....

This is my special room with my piano and

my sewing stuff, not quite organized yet, but I'm not planning

on it being a real tidy area.....

and this is a shot of how refinishing the hardwood

floors turned out. Montey wanted to be in the photo so bad.

I couldn't get him to move.

We recently had a BBQ to celebrate moving in with all our family

so the rest is photos of everybody hanging out.

Little Abby, who is now a blooming Xcountry star! She ran varsity

in a race today with 3 different schools and took first! As a

Sophomore! Good job Abby!!

Our niece Brooklyn

(hanging like someone..the Thornley family knows who we're talking about)

Our nephew Gage, smiling for the camera..

And little Montey, begging everybody for food, the little turd. The End

The House

A little update on what's been going on lately. A ton! I feel like I've been working in a psych hospital instead of a nursing home. Things have been pretty crazy lately, but I guess it keeps life interesting. It worries me a little that nothing shocks me anymore. It's scary the things I'm used to. I've just been working a ton between the hospital and nursing home. Jared just started school again and has been working a lot on the house. We're finally moved in! We're still living in a bit of a construction zone but it's nice to be out on our own.

There are a few things we miss about living with Jared's mom's. Food, Disney channel, internet, washer and dryer, couches, dishwasher... just to name a few. But, I'm enjoying myself tonight. Jared is the new scoutmaster, so while he's away on a campout, I'm spending the night at Terry's, using the internet, and watching Disney. Hopefully everything will settle down soon and we'll start to be less crazy. I've finally posted some pictures of the house. These were taken during construction so these are the before pictures I'll post the after pictures once we're all unpacked. Lata

This is the side, all the front on pictures made it look so grandma house....


This is the studio out-back.. Jared's grandpa said we should rent it out.. Living in Ogden, I don't think that should be too hard.

This is the back view of the house...

Another view of the side..

This is the original fridge from the 40's or 50's still being used. this picture is not sideways.. the fridge was built in like a cupboard and opened into these three compartments...

This is what was underneath the carpet in the hall... brick patterned linoleum...Definitely loved it,wanted to keep it but Jared refused...whatever, you just can't find quality like this anymore...

This is what the original hardwood floors looked like once we got all the linoleum peeled off...

And, last of all, the kitchen! TaDa!

Renovation pictures coming soon....

wedding..job...house..car...

So, It's been a long time since I blogged, a lot has been going on in my life, but I've purposefully been putting off telling anybody about it. So, first things first, Katie is getting married! Yay! I'm way excited for her, they're getting married the end of July. I posted the invite for her bridal shower below. I tried to send out invites to everyone, but it's so hard to find everybody's address. So, if you're a friend or family member, and haven't yet received this, consider yourself invited, and please accept my apology for not getting one to you.


Okay so, second news, Because I had three jobs, I thought it would be a great idea to get another... so I did. I am happy to anounce I received to social work position for Manor Care. It's a nursing home here in South Ogden. It's such a great opportunity and I feel so lucky that I received it. I'm totally loving it. The residents are so cute and funny. Unfortunately, I'm officially retired from Olive Garden and Farmington Bay... Well Farmington Bay "terminated" me, whatever that means :) because I wouldn't ever work for anybody. I don't think Juvenile Justice was for me. So, it's now down to two jobs, McKay Dee and Manor Care. Both are great and I'm loving what I do.

Okay, last news, I've purposefully not told anybody about this... So Jared and I bought a house...We're way excited but we don't close until next Thursday, so I don't want to talk about it until after then just in case everything doesn't go through.. Once it does, I'll post pictures and talk all about it.. Same goes for the car...

So, when I blog stalk, I don't really like to read everything people write, so for those of you like me, this post sucks so far. So, to end it off I posted some of my bridal pictures. I haven't yet posted any wedding pictures so this is a start. For those of you that do read this stuff, let me tell you about it. My mom was so sweet to offer to make my dress for me so it was unique and special. Unfortunately, just like me, she's a procrastinator, so we did not have any time to have professional pictures done. These pictures were taken by my very talented aunt, just a few days before the wedding. I'm pinned into the dress standing on a hill by my parent's house. It was pretty dark outside, so my parents drove their cars up the hill and shined headlights on me for lighting. So exciting! That's all for now!

ZzZzZzZz...

I'm EXHAUSTED more than I've ever been beore. My mind is so tired I can hardly form sentences. My vocabulary has decreased drastically. I've lost my ability to spell (something that has always been a real pet peeve of mine). My limbs droop so much I'm shrinking. So tired, it took me twenty minutes to write this paragraph. I worked twelve hours yesterday. Slept for four, followed by another eight hour shift.

What's going on? I'm happy. My career choice has finally been reaffirmed to me. I was in the emergency room until two AM on my first solo trauma call. I was overwhelmed with adrenaline. I was lost and for the first half hour I stood by the desk trying to stop my shaking hands as my stabbing victim was stableized (don't remember how to spell that right now)... You're wondering, what kind of person am I to be so excited someone got stabbed. I'm not. I'm excited because I did my job and I did it well. I obtained information, I took reports, I spoke with families, I filled out hours worth of paperwork. But, I helped somebody. This is what I am supposed to do. I am exhausted but i am fulfilled. Now, it's off to bed so I can get up early to go to work....

I've been tagged! OKAY, not really, I just saw these tags on other people's blogs and wanted to feel included, so I tagged myself :) This is the 4th photo in my 4th folder. I tag everybody, and will someone please tag me for real?! Then I won't be such a loser.

Hope everyone had a Happy Easter! We got so much candy from the easter bunny! Yum! Later.

This was mine and Jared's conversation this morning:

Cami: What are you whistling.

Jared: I'm a Child of God

Cami: No you're not, don't lie to me, what are you whistling?

Jared: I'm a Barbie Girl

Cami: That's what I thought.

Who's Montey?

So, Everybody has been asking me, Who is Montey in "Jared, Cami, and Montey too....?"

K, so nobody has asked me who Montey is... I just don't really have anything to blog about and I really like Montey, so I just wanted to talk about him. He's my dog :)

The Story of Montey: This Summer we went on a cruise and when we got home, I had all this money left over that I thought I would spend... So I wondered what to do with it? And I thought, why not get a dog? So I began frequenting the Ogden City Animal Shelter looking for the perfect dog for me. After going to lunch with some friends one day, I said, hey could we stop at the shelter really fast so I can look at the dogs. I think they thought it was a little strange to stop at the shelter since we were just getting together for lunch, but guess who I found? Montey :) His full name is Little Montey, named after C. Montgomery Burns. The lady at the shelter said, he seemed like a good dog, but they had washed him and they just couldn't figure out why he still smelled so bad. But he's okay now :) I posted pictures of him so you can all see how cute he is!!

This is Montey and my family in Park Valley riding in the back of a pick-up. He had just gotten his haircut.

This is after he got fixed and had to wear a cone on his head for a few weeks so he wouldn't eat the stitches. It was really funny to watch him try to eat out of his bowl..

This is me and Montey at my Birthday party. I grew his hair out for the winter, I think he kind of looks like a teddy bear.

Here's Montey just hanging out...

And, this is Jared and Montey plowing snow.

Update

So, what's new with us? Well, a few things. I'm happy to announce I finally got a social work job.... it's either feast or famine... I actually got two new jobs... and kept my job at the Olive Garden. The first one is at Farmington Bay Youth Center, It's a state owned Juvenile Detention Center. So far all I have done is a lot of training, most of it in self-defense. For our final test, we had to pin down this 250+ lb Polynesian guy.... It was pretty crazy and I got an elbow to the face, but I'm happy to announce I passed! Yeah! When I got home, I told Jared and he thought he would try out his moves on me. He got ahold of my arm and thought I wouldn't be able to get loose...and I couldn't.. so I hit him in the nose... He let go of me so fast and there were tears in his eyes.... He wasn't very happy with me..

And, for the big news, I got a social work position at McKay Dee Hospital. Yay! I'm way excited. This is the job I wanted most of all. I am gonig to work there as much as possible and then just work on-call at Farmington Bay and one night a week at the Olive Garden.

Me and Jared have been having lots of fun lately, I posted pictures below of our recent trip to St. George. I think that's everything for now. Later...

St. George

For Jared's Spring Break we went to St. George and hung out in the warmth.

It was way fun to get away.

( PS..I don't really like to write a lot of stuff and we all just want to look at pictures anyways....)

We spent a day in Zions National Park, Neither of us had ever been there before. It was really neat. My favorite part was the huge tunnel we drove through. Jared tried to hold his breath through the whole thing, but it was over a mile long... so he didn't really make it.

This was the waterfall at the end of one of the hikes we went on.

It was a fun trip we did a lot, and also found about three hours a day

to play the wii. Definitely my kind of vacation.

Introducing our Family....

So, Jared's been at work all night... and I've had nothing to do... so I just thought I would see what our kids are going to look like... I mean Kid..... :) So, here's a little sneak peak at the possibilities.

This is what our little girl might look like. I think she's super cute...the only problem being catepillar eyebrows.. but those could definitely be waxed (Not that I'm going to wax my children's eyebrows... well, at least not till they're teenagers. I remember my mom pinning me down and tweezing mine).....

This is our little Boy, he looks a little girly, but I think he's cute...

Oh, and this is just in case.... just on the off chance, we have an African baby. Umm.. I think he.. or maybe she, not really sure, is pretty darn cute so I'd be okay with this too.



Oh, and this is mine and David Beckham's child. No hard feelings Jare....