Shontel & Kamron

New Year, New Blog

2012-01-02T16:44:00.000-08:00

Don't you worry I have not completely given up on my blog. It is actually one of my New Year's resolutions to be better at updating my blog. Well LOTS has happened since I posted last in April.

May

I graduated from the University of Utah with my bachelors in Elementary Education.

Kamron completed the St. George Triathlon.

I got a job teaching first grade in Jordan School District.

Kamron and I celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary.

June

I went to Youth Conference down in Moab.

Kamron had a birthday and turned 26.

Kamron started his summer school classes.

July

We took a trip with my family to San Francisco. It was so fun!

We went camping for the Jones Family Reunion.

Had a weekend wave running up at Jordanelle with the Barrs.

Found out I am pregnant.

I started teaching school.

August

Went to Bear Lake for Raspberry Days.

Kamron had about 2 weeks off school, then started his last Fall semester.

Started the Utah Football season.

September

Went to Swiss Days with my cousins and aunts.

Celebrated my birthday, I turned 25.

Our good friends Tessa and Brennan got married.

October

Found out we are having a little boy on 3/18/2012.

Kamron and some of the guys in my family took a trip to Pittsburgh to watch the Utes play.

November

Celebrated Thanksgiving with the Barrs.

Went shopping on Black Friday and got an awesome new Christmas tree.

Decorated for Christmas.

Started registering for the baby.

December

Went to a bunch of Christmas parties.

Spent lots of time with family.

Celebrated my Dad's 50 birthday.

Kamron's brother visited from Germany where he is stationed for the Army.

So yes, we have been very busy. I honestly just forget to update my blog. I never have a moment to just sit and type. And using my iphone would take forever. My pregnancy has been so easy! I have had just a few minor problems but nothing serious. I did not have any morning sickness, just some nausea.
We had a great New Year's. We went up to Midway and hung out with some friends. There was three pregnant women there. So the party almost ended at 10:00. :)
Right now we are getting the babies room ready for his arrival. I will post pictures when we have it completed. I promise to be better at posting. I will try to post something at least every week.

Goodbye school

2011-04-23T11:54:00.001-07:00

I don't know if I should be sad or jump for joy.. I just finished my last school assignment ever!! It's a bitter sweet feeling. I graduate in 13 days. I can not wait. I found the perfect outfit that makes me look all grown up. I hope that graduation day is sunny and warm. Kamron just finished school last week too. He has one more year and then graduates. He is contemplating on whether he should do a Master's degree. I say whatever makes you happy honey. (Cause I have no desire right now to do any more college work).

Last week Kamron received a scholarship at Weber State. They had a dinner and program to recognized all the students who received a scholarship. The dean of his college conducted the program and said that the students who were receiving scholarships were in the top 4% of the college. Kamron does well in school and loves his program. He is totally graduate school material.

iPhone

2011-04-11T20:03:00.000-07:00

Life as a "stay-at-home-wife" has its good days and boring days. I really haven't done a whole lot over the last week. I was able to substitute for two days and that was really fun. I have spent lots of time with my mom. Her work has been slow so she has had a few days to hang out with me. I started cleaning out hall drawers and closets. I need to do our bedroom and office now. Graduation is in less than a week. I sent the orange dress back and am now on a search for the new "perfect dress". Long story on the dress but I would just never recommend any of my friend or family to buy one of their dresses. So if anyone has any places they love to shop let me know. The most exciting thing that has happened lately is Kamron got me an early graduation gift... an iPhone. We have been discussing what kind of phone I should get cause I was due for an upgrade and I told him I really didn't care. So on Thursday when I got home from Bonko with my mother in law Kamron was home watching TV. I sat down on the love seat and he asked me to get him a pillow out of the ottoman. I quickly opened it and tossed him the pillow and didn't think anything of it. About 10 minutes later Kamron was like oh never mind I don't want the pillow will you put it back? So I took it from him but didn't put it back, I just held onto it and continued to watch TV. So about 10 more minutes later Kamron was like lets just go to bed and I was like good idea. So I get up and put the pillow away. As I was putting it down my hand hit the bag to the cell phone. I was like what the?? And Kamron was like oh my took you long enough. He was so cute and excited for me to get it. Now I can't put it down. The phone is so addicting!!

All done

2011-04-04T20:25:00.000-07:00

I am officially done with student teaching. Best/worse feeling ever. I hate having nothing to do all day. Today I practically did my whole to do list. DMV, vet, post office, laundry, interview. Now all I need to do is de-junk my WHOLE house and donate it to the D.I. Right now I really am trying to find a teaching job. I am on the substitute list so I hope to get some calls soon. It would be nice be making some moola soon. I have been un-employed for 4 months now. I can not believe that in a month I will be graduating. I got my cap and gown on Friday. It was the craziest feeling ever. Not only is it a huge rip off ($44.00) but I feel like high school graduation was a few years ago (only 6). I feel old. Kamron and I have started talking about what is the next stage for us? He has decided to apply for a masters program in structural engineering. He has my total support. He is such a hard worker I know he can do it. So for all my friends who are home during the day.. CALL ME!!! I would love to run errands, start a sewing/crafting club, or come to any play date. P.S. I got the orange dress for graduation :)

St.George

2011-03-09T16:39:00.000-08:00

This last weekend Kamron and I were so lucky to go down to St. George with our friends Ashley and A.J. I worked with both of them at the dental office. They weren't dating when I worked there. Ashley was dating a boy for 4 years and A.J. was just living the "bachelor life". But when Ashley broke up with her boyfriend A.J. scooped her right up. Well after dating for a few months they are engaged!! Crazy! I just was dying. Kamron and I are so excited for them. A.J. just got accepted to dental school so they are going to getting married in June. It was nice to have a relaxing weekend. Here are a few pictures from the weekend.

Not goodbye just see ya soon

2011-03-04T13:00:00.000-08:00

Tomorrow my best friend will be moving to New York City to live with her love Casey. I am going to miss her so much! It doesn't even seem real. I am so excited for her. Good luck Heather. Kamron and I love you so much!

Oh what to wear

2011-03-03T14:50:00.000-08:00

Like I said graduation is coming up and I have been looking for a graduation dress. I need some advice and opinions. Here are some I have been eyeing.

Our addition

2011-03-02T18:32:00.001-08:00

We have had an addition to our family. Her name is Bella and she is a 4 month old Calico kitten. She has been so fun to have around. She does the craziest things and makes Kamron and I laugh all the time. She is the best cat. She plays fetch. She will bring us a toy, drop it by our feet, and wait til we throw it then she will run and get it. Then bring it right back to us!

Other things that we have been up to is... you guessed it SCHOOL. That is our life right now school. I hardly ever see Kamron during the week. So during the weekend we try to doing something fun. I only have a month left of student teaching, then the job searching begins. Talk about stressful. I have so much to do in the next few weeks. Graduation is May 6th. I am so excited. Not to sound incredibly boring but that is our life right now. Bella brings a lot of excitement and fun into our lives. We are so happy we got her.

One morning I found Bella clawing/climbing up the clothes in Kamron's closet. She got in a lot of trouble. She loves to cuddle at night. She will just come up and curl right up next to us. We did not dress her up. This boa is one of her toy. It has bells in it and she love it! Bella is obsessed with the bathroom. She loves to sit in the tub, the sink, behind the toilet, and on top of the the counter. We will turn the water on just a little and she will sit and drink it. See she is a crazy kitty.

Again... Major Update

2011-01-10T19:13:00.000-08:00

To the 3 people who read my blog I apologize for being absolutely terrible at blogging. Life just keeps me busy and I forget to update. Well Kamron and I have started school again. I am in my last semester at the U. I am full time student teaching (I do not get paid to do it) and no longer have a job. It is nice to be a student and not have to worry about anything else. Kamron is insane with school and is taking 18 credits. We just want to be done with school. Not only is he working his butt off for our family (me and him) but is going to school full time. We have made a pact to make EVERY Friday our day. Well I mean at least night.

This year we had a huge Ugly Sweater Party at our house with my friends from High School. It was so much fun. Everyone was there even Lara from California. We are all so lucky to still be friends.

Our Christmas was absolutely crazy. Kamron got a freak sickness on Christmas Eve and spent the night in my parents bed. We still don't know what was wrong but he had a terrible stomach. We went home early and went straight to bed. In the morning we opened gifts. We had decided to only do stockings for each other but I totally surprised Kamron with a..... X BOX!!! It was the best surprise so far the I have done for him. He had no idea. We then went to his parents, open gifts and had breakfast. Then went to my parents and opened gifts and relaxed. Went to my Grandparents, opened gifts, and had lunch. Then went to his Grandma's, had dinner, and opened gifts. It was a long day but we both feel so so blessed to have such wonderful families.

Then for New Years I had to work so we just spent the night with some of Kamron's friends. It was so hard for me to stay up til midnight. I did make it but I was asleep by 12:15. Most of the wives were so the boys stayed up playing a board game. We had fun and we are so excited for a New Year. Here are some of our goals:

1. Go to the temple every month

2. Get into some good shape

3. Get Shontel through school

4. Have date nights every Friday

5. Kamron does a triathlon

6. Have an addition to our family (dog, cat, baby, frog, I am good with anything)

7. Read the Book of Mormon

8. Read The Hunger Games together

9. Shontel get a teaching job for the Fall

10. Get rid of the Coug (my car)

We hope you all had a wonderful Holiday season and I promise to be better at blogging.

10.

Major Updating

2010-11-21T20:52:00.000-08:00

It's been a while since I have updated our blog. A few things have happened since our last post so here is an update.

RAGNAR-

The middle of October we went to Las Vegas to run the RAGNAR. It was one of the funniest things we have ever done. It was a lot of work and very hard. But we had a blast and can't wait to do our next race. We did pretty good considering... It took us a little over 30 hours and our team ran a total of 193 miles. We were so tired after the race. We saw some really pretty parts of Las Vegas we never came close to the strip which was nice because I personally think the strip is a very dirty place. Here are some pictures from the race.

-HALLOWEEN-

This year we had a fun and relaxing Halloween. Kamron ran the Provo half marathon on Saturday. Everyone running the race dressed up. He had a lot of fun but was hurting a little since he just did the RAGNAR the week before. I dressed up like the Statue of Liberty. It was fun to be in the elementary for the Halloween party. Made me wish a I was little again. On Halloween we had dinner with our dinner group. It was a lot of fun and most everyone dressed up. Natalie and Brandon did such a great job with a Halloween themed dinner.

This is me with the other student teachers.

-KAMRON-

Kamron got a new calling in the ward. He was released from teaching the 13 year old Sunday School and called as the Elders Quorum Secretary. The kids in his class loved Kamron! They were so sad that he got released they came and heart attacked our house and left Kamron cookies. They are so cute. We left the hearts up for a day and our neighbors asked me if it was our anniversary. I was like no... we are not that lame.

Every is going great in school. We are almost done with the semester. Which I am so very happy for. We have been so busy this semester and have not had much time for ourselves. Hopefully we will be able to relax during the holiday season.

Am I Crazy?

2010-10-02T15:30:00.001-07:00

Just last week a girl on Kamron's RAGNAR team died tragically in a car accident. The race is in a month in Las Vegas and they were looking for a few runners quick. They were having no luck. I mean come on who really find JOY in running 14-18 miles and having 2 hours of sleep. Well I got this feeling like I could do it. This was obviously not me talking it was my inner crazy self. So I volunteered to run. Ya.. I know... Trust me many people have already told me what they think of my decision. But I hiked Mount Olympus this summer and that was the hardest thing I have ever done. 7 hours of pure pain. If this is as hard as that I know I can do. And really what is the worst thing that can happen.... I walk? So I started my training with Kamron. He have gone running for a few days now (I even woke up at 6 this morning.. a SATURDAY!!). Also, we are still looking for one more person to run with us. So if you want to or if you know anyone who would want to please let me know. Wish me luck!

Quick update

2010-09-26T21:42:00.001-07:00

Don't hate me. I warned you that I would suck at blogging once school started. On a average week I have like almost 100 pages to read in text books. Also lots of planning to do for different lessons and what not. I guess that is part of being a student teacher. I started a new part time job working at a Credit Union Service Center. I am a bank teller. I only work like 15 hrs a week, but the extra money helps. Everything is going great with Kamron. He is still loving his new job in Lindon. I am not sure if I posted about it or not. He is working as a Project Manager Assistant for S & L Co. They are re-doing a water treatment plant. He is really enjoying that and going to school at night. So we really look forward to the weekends. We have been going out to breakfast a lot which is so fun. I turned 24 last Sunday, and had a fabulous birthday with the "Dinner Group". Kamron spoiled me rotten. I was also lucky enough to take Kamron's dad's season ticket to the Utes game this weekend. Only the guys in the family have season tickets so I felt honored (HAHA) to be able to go to the game. I wish I could say something cool and exciting is happening to us right now but we are just "living the dream." Going to school and working. It will all pay off right? Here are some pics from the past few weeks.

All good things come to an end

2010-08-25T19:55:00.000-07:00

Summer 2010 is over for Kamron and I. It is very depressing. We had a wonderful summer it was very memorable. We did so many things on our "Summer to do List". The top #1 thing I wanted to do this summer was to go to Lagoon. I don't know why, but I think that it reminds me of summer as a child. Anyways, we went to a few weeks ago with our friends Ali & Traci. It was so much fun. We were there from practically open to close. Kamron really wanted to do all the games that had to do with sports. Like the basketball shoot and throwing the baseball as hard as you can. He won some great prizes like a blow a baseball bat, a baseball helmet, and a Boston Celtics flag. Also I'm an idiot and accidentally deleted the 2 pictures of Kamron and I on the sky ride thing. So the other pics I have of the day is of the boys getting ready to shoot and Traci and I waiting for them.

The other day was my Grandma's birthday. We had a big party for her at a park, practically the whole family was there. My favorite little cousins were here visiting from Japan, and my Aunt and Uncle were here from Virginia. My FAVORITE uncle Clair shares the same birthday with my Grandma so we also sang to him.

On Saturday the 21st Kamron and I hiked to the very top of Mount Olympus. This was also on our list. We planned on getting to the base of the Mountain at 7 am, but Kamron's alarm didn't go off so we decided to take our time and we got to the base about 9. We had NO idea what we were getting ourselves into. I was thinking it would be comparable to Doughnut Falls and we'd be home by noon or 1 at the latest. Kamron said that the website said the hike took 6 hours. But I honestly thought was like worst case scenario. No not the case. I say this with all honesty in the entire world, not being dramatic at all. This hike was the hardest physical thing I have ever done. My hips have never hurt so bad, and also my calves killed. The incline of this mountain was so steep it made it even worse. Well after FOUR hours we made it to the top. It was the best feeling in the world. The view is so amazing. I was so happy I didn't stop and turn around like I wanted to most of the time. After resting at the top of the mountain for a while I could not wait to get down the mountain and go home. Everyone thinks that going down the mountain is easier, no it's so not easier. My toes hurt so bad from being smashed into my shoes and my thighs hurt from trying to slow my self down. I fell down problem 6 times, which made me so frustrated. Then Kamron got us a little bit off the trail. We ran out of water and were in the blaring 97 degree direct sunlight. I couldn't take it anyone.... I just started bawling. I was so done being on the mountain. There were seriously times I thought I was not going to be able to take another step. I wanted to die (not literally). I didn't not think the end was ever going to come. We saw some search and rescue guys hiking up the mountain, they said a 55 year old man was stuck and ran out of water. Then like 2 minutes later life flight came cruising over. All I thought was that man was so lucky!!! Well of course I made it down alive, but I was so dehydrated. We stopped at the gas station, bought a gallon of water, and drank the whole thing together. I know that sound like a whole lot of complaining, but to be honest I learned so much on the hike. I am so happy I did it and finished it.

After resting from our hike we went to Cafe Rio and to the Bees game with the wonderful Falk's. They brought their cute niece Addie. She was a doll. There were fireworks that night. It was seriously the best ending to a wonderful summer.
Happy back to school. Student teaching update will come soon.

Natalie and Brandon's Wedding

2010-08-09T20:35:00.000-07:00

Saturday night Natalie & Brandon got married at The Barn up in Park City. It was one of the most beautiful weddings ever! The food was amazing. Everything was perfect!

Yellowstone

2010-08-09T20:04:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago my parents, my Uncle Clair, my brother Jacob, and Kam & I went to Yellowstone. It was so fun. Some may think Yellowstone is the last place on earth that could be fun. But going with my family it is a riot. I love to camp, yes in a tent. My mother in law spent a long time in Jerusalem and camped the whole time. So she has done her time. But every time we go camping she asks... in a tent. LOL she cracks me up. But anyways back to Yellowstone. We saw some amazing things. Geysers, waterfalls, buffalo, a bald eagle!!, deer, a momma bear with her cubs, and many other things. We went to see Old Faithful one day and Kamron was soooo disappointed. First we waited for about a hour to see it, and then when it went off it wasn't that great. "He was like really that's it?" and I was like "what were you expecting the Billagio Fountains?" haha he was like umm.. kind of. But it was just amazing what is below the surface of earth. Here are some highlight photos from our trip.

The guys cutting the firewood. So the little visitor center sells firewood for $7 for a package. Ok really??!! There is wood all around you why would you pay $7 for like 4 logs? So the guys drove like down the road found a tree that had fallen and cut it up for FREE!! The poor people next to us were from France and they bought the wood. Silly French people. I was surprised by how many people were there from around the world. Seriously people save to come to Yellowstone. That is how amazing it is.

No make up for 3 days. It was wonderful.

Yep that's Old Faithful in the background.

Bald Eagle

Buffalo. There were signs ALLLL over the park saying not to approach the Buffalo. We went to a little presentation one night in the amphitheater and they said to stay like 150 feet or something like that. Anyway it was just funny that people are that stupid to approach a wild animal that is 10000 times their size.

I strive to be

2010-07-16T17:14:00.000-07:00

The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender

There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind.

There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined.

We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need women of FAITH.

We have enough greed; we need more goodness.

We have enough vanity; we need more virtue.

We have enough popularity; we need more purity.”
-Margaret D. Nadauld

I read this on a blog and loved it. I strive to be a woman of faith every day of my life.

4th of July

2010-07-07T17:42:00.001-07:00

For Kamron and I the Fourth of July is kind of a special day. It was the day of our first date. I know it is kind of nerdy, but we always try to do something fun and special that day. Well this year since the 4th was on a Sunday it kind of threw us off. So we decided just to make the best of the weekend that we could. Friday we went up to Tawnya and Gavin's and hung out with them. The guys went on a long bike ride and Tawnya, Jill (her mother in law) and I made dinner. Saturday morning we woke up and went out to Willard Bay and spent the day boating. It was so fun but got a little too much sun. On Saturday night. we were suppose to work at the ballpark selling nuts. But the high school game that was being played there did not sell very many tickets, so we got the night off. It was really unexpected so we decided to just make it a night alone. After going to dinner we went up to Wasatch Blvd. Which has a perfect view of the whole valley. We saw like 6 firework shows. It was a wonderful weekend, but went by way too fast.

His face cracks me up in this.

Our traditional sparkler picture.

June update

2010-07-07T17:20:00.000-07:00

So I thought that I would be a better blogger during the summer since I would be out of school. Well not so much. June has come and gone. I am really sad because in a month I go back to school. I still have so much things on my "Summer to do List". Well here are a few things that we have been doing. First, our softball team The Seagulls have been doing awesome. We are in 2nd place and Kamron is the 2nd place for the best hitter on the league. He is very proud of that. LOL. Next Kamron turned 25. Ya I know sorry I didn't have a dedicated blog to his birthday, but we were having too much fun celebrating. We had a BBQ with all our friends on Friday, Monday we went out to dinner and Kamron opened some gifts. He got a lot of fun things to help him become a better biker, a helmet, bike rack for the car, distance tracker, things like that. Tuesday on his real birthday he worked with Sheldon at the Bees game.

Also, Kamron just got a new job. The one thing he really wanted for his birthday. He is working as a project manager's assistant. Which works perfect since he is going into project management. The project is a 3 year project and should be a great learning experience.

A few weekends ago my friends Whitney and Lara threw Natalie a bridal shower. It was the most beautiful shower I have ever been to. It was a tea pary themed shower. It was so fun to see all my friends I don't get to see very often.

2nd Anniversary

2010-06-02T12:03:00.000-07:00

This past weekend Kamron and I ran away to sunny Las Vegas. The main reason we got away was so celebrate our 2nd anniversary. It was a way needed vacation. Also it is so hard to believe that we have been married for 2 years. The best two years of my life!! I love Kamron with all my heart. He is everything I could ask for. Well he planned this wonderful trip to Vegas for us and it was so so fun. We spent Friday night with Kamron's uncle and aunt in Mesquite. It was so fun to spend time with them. Saturday we took off to Vegas, the first stop we made was to the Ethel's M chocolate factory. As a kid my family would always go there and so I thought it would be fun to go there with Kam. Ya.. no... there was no one working in the factory and that is the best part of the whole thing. Kamron was like seriously.... hahaha what a great way to start the trip.

We had a wonderful time walking down the strip. Kamron loves to look at all the casinos and hotels and think of how they were made. (He is a construction management major) I like watching all the freaks walking around. I won't get on my soap box about it, but what about Vegas makes people loose it? haha I don't know but it was entertaining. For our anniversary dinner we went to a wonderful restaurant in the new city center.

It was a such a great anniversary. We both have grown in our marriage so much. Kamron loves New York City so of course we had to take his picture in front of New York New York.

It was so warm while we were there. We spent alot of our time laying out by the pool and swimming. Kamron it like a fish, he loves to swim and be in the water.

This dessert we got one night was so yummy and cute. It was a strawberry and banana kabob and the drizzled with chocolate. Mine was gone in seconds. I love this picture, Kamron just wouldn't stop looking at the buildings.We did not want to come home. Our last stop was at the welcome to Vegas sign.

Before we left I did a little surprise for Kamron. We did not decide to get gifts for each other because we were going on a trip. But I couldn't resist. For the longest time Kamron has wanted a road bike. He found one on line that he really liked. So secretly I bought the bike for him, sent it to my parents and had them bring it up to our house while we were gone. I kept saying I couldn't wait to go home and Kamron was like WHY? we are on vacation. But I just couldn't wait to see his face! Well when we finally got home he went in first and turned to me and said whose bike is that? I was like what bike? He was like seriously whose bike is that? And I was like it is yours. He just freaked. It was so perfect.

PFC Barr

2010-05-26T20:35:00.000-07:00

Last weekend Kamron's brother Brandon came home on leave from the Army. He will only be there for a few weeks and then will go back to Germany. From Germany he will go to Afghanistan. Brandon joined the like the day after he graduated high school. It was kind of a shock to me but Kamron said that it was something he has always wanted to do. When Brandon came home he was talking to some people on his flight and after a while he realizes a girl in his ward, Katie Fatheringham, married their son. It is such a SMALL world. Well they have a lay over in New York, and Brandon is running late for the flight like literally almost misses his flight. But they help him get to the front the line. They were such life savers.

It has been good to spend some time with Brandon before he leaves for war. He is so grown up. It is so crazy how much he has experienced in a year. To me he is still just my baby brother in law. But I am so proud of what he is doing.

Spring Cleaning

2010-05-18T19:29:00.001-07:00

When Kamron and I were getting ready to get married we went and registered like all couples do. For some reason I seemed to be obsessed with kitchen stuff. I registered for every kitchen gadget and utensil, I thought I needed everything that could go in a kitchen. I even had a "kitchen shower" and received many great things for our kitchen. Well we have now been married for almost 2 years and our kitchen has become the a major problem. Too many things and not enough room in the drawers. Well last Thursday my boss called in sick and a dental office can function without a dentist, so I got a free day off. I had no idea what I was going to do with all my time. That's when I remembered Kamron the night before trying to shut a drawer full of kitchen "stuff". So I decided to go through the kitchen and tackle the first room of spring cleaning. This is what was in the first drawer

Yep, that is 6 wooden spoons, 7 ice cream scoops, 11 spatulas, 2 pizza cutters, 5 pancake flippers, 3 whisks. Ok seriously.... I was shocked by much was stuffed into a little drawer. Well then I open the next drawers and find all this

3 spaghetti spoons, 3 spoons, 2 potatoes mashers, 3 MORE pancake flippers and 2 sets of measuring cups. There was other things in these drawers this is just the ridiculous amounts of doubles I have. So I took one of each and put them all in one drawer, then I put the rest in a bottom large drawer. I couldn't give any of it away, most of it has never been used or only used once. But it didn't stop with the kitchen gadgets, the cook books were starting to take over the bottom shelf.
I think I have used 3 of those cook books while we have been married. So I pick out like 6 or 8 of my favorite books and gave the rest to the D.I. Our kitchen feels so much better. 100 % less clutter. So that is one room down 3 to go. I love spring cleaning.

Go seagulls

2010-05-08T21:08:00.000-07:00

This spring Kamron and I joined a co-ed slow pitch softball team. It is so fun! Our team name is Flock of Seagulls. And on our shirt our little seagulls. I know random team name but I think it is hilarious because it is so random. Well our first 3 games were rained out because of the wonderful weather. I am so glad last Wednesday was good weather because Kamron was getting anxious to play. He got new cleats a few weeks ago and has been wearing them around the house. He is so funny. Well we won our first game 14-0, Kamron hit a home run over the fence. I was so proud, lol. Anyway, we had a lot of fun. I will post pictures of our next game because our team is so funny. Kamron wants to have walk out music when he is up to bat. Him and our friend Jeremy were listening to songs that would be good. Oh man they crack me up.
Also, we finished our school semester this last week. I finished on Wednesday with the hardest test of my life. I literally started to cry during the test because I was so incredible frustrated with my annoying teacher! I am so glad I passed that stupid class. Kamron finished on Thursday with a almost 3 hour long, 90 question test. We are so happy to be done with school. Now summer can finally begin. We have a long list of things that we want to do this summer.
(Dedicated to Steph)

Scholarship

2010-04-29T19:55:00.000-07:00

So today I found out where I am going student teach next year. I love my cohort. It is going to be a great year. I was placed in Millcreek Elementary, which is like right down the street from my house. It is going to be so nice that it is so close. Also, a couple of weeks ago Kamron was awarded a scholarship from Weber State's construction program. They had like a banquet dinner that we attended. My sisters husband Gavin also got a scholarship and their majors fall under the same college so they were there. It was a lot of fun. I am so proud of Kamron. He works so hard to have good grades and be the best he can.

This is one of Kamron's really good friends at school.

I can not wait for school to end this semester. One more week to go!!! I can't wait. We are going to have a great summer, the sun better start to shine.

Kamron, Babies, Easter

2010-03-31T20:10:00.000-07:00

A couple of weeks ago Kamron successfully completed the Fudruckers 3 lb food challenge. 1lb hamburger, 1lb cheese/bacon fries, and 1lb ice cream dessert. I was so nervous for him. I didn't want him to get sick and we made a rule that if he felt like he was going to loose all the food he would stop eating. Well when I saw the food come I knew that he could do it. His cousin Anna's husband Eric did it with him. I'm not joking these two are so competitive with each other. I am so proud of him. LOL If you want to see his picture go to the Fudruckers in Sandy.

This picture makes him look like he is way sick but he is just scratching his head. So most Springs we know a lot of people tat are getting married, but not this year. We know so many couples who are having babies. We have already had four friends have their babies. And we have about 8 friends who are still pregnant. It is so fun, we get our baby fix every now and then, and then go home and enjoy our life all alone. My AMAZING cousin taught me how to make these darling hooded towels. So for all my friends babies I have made them these towels.

You can't really see it cause the towel kind of just mixes all together. This is a boy towel, I think it looks like a dinosaur, Kamron thinks I am crazy. I am excited for Easter this weekend. We haven't gotten much into the commercial Easter stuff. This year I am really trying to stay focused on Christ. I am also really excited that conference is this weekend. Tonight for Family Home Evening we talked about Christ, his resurrection, and crucifixion. We watched this Mormon message by Elder Holland. It made us truly think about all he did for us.

Mrs. Barr?

2010-03-10T18:47:00.000-08:00

Today I got the news I have been waiting for what seems like forever!
I was accepted to the teaching program at the University of Utah.
I start student teaching in the Fall and then will graduate in the Spring.
I am so excited. They only take about 80 applicants a year so I feel so luck.
Having to hear Mrs. Barr everyday is going to be so strange. I am so happy.

Dumb cord

2010-02-28T20:10:00.000-08:00

I am not being a slacker.
My stupid camera cord is broken and won't connect to the computer.
I ordered a new one and it's on the way.
Then I can post the pictures of Kamron and the Fudruckers 1lb challenge.

My vow to better at posting

2010-02-18T19:12:00.000-08:00

I feel so guilty when I go to write a new post. I really wanted to be better at posting this year but I really find something else to be do when time I could post. Our Stake President gave our stake a challenge to keep a personal record and write in it regularly. I feel that blogging is a great way to keep a personal record. He said that if we were to do this it would bless our lives and marriage. I want nothing more than for my marriage to the best it can be. So I will blog a lot better and make sure I write in my personal journal more often.

Since my last post not much has happened. Of course we are busy with school work and working daily jobs. I don't have as many credits as Kamron this semester which is opposite of last semester. I still am enjoying my time as the Laurel's advisor. I just love my young women and am impressed by the strong testimonies they have. We just had New Beginnings a couple weeks ago, and went over the new Personal Progress program. I decided to do the new program. I have already received my medallion when I was a Laurel but I really want to do this new program. The new program is absolutely inspired, it is amazing.

Kamron and I got to go see some Olympic qualifying events earlier this year. We went up to Deer Valley with my sister and Gavin, and our friends Alex and Jeremy and saw the men and women's ariel competition. It was so fun, just something different to do on for a week. Then next weekend we went to Park City Mountain Resort and saw the half pipe competition. We got there like 2 hours early to get a good spot (we learned from the weekend before) It was totally worth going so early because we had the best spot ever. We got to see Sean White which was amazing to see him ride in person. My little brother Jacob came with us which was fun, he loves Kamron and it's nice to spend time with him.

I went and saw Dear John with my sister and cousin Kristin. So I read the book before I saw it and LOVED LOVED the book, I was so excited to see the movie because the book was amazing. Ok the movie was horrible. I hated it. I know that seems harsh, but seriously the book is so much better and the movie is just weird. Everyone in the theater was crying and I was just sitting there thinking this is terrible. It was kind of funny, my sister Shyanne also read the book and we both were just like boo this is horrible. So if you loved the movie you will LOVE the book.

Valentine's Day this year was so much fun. I told Kamron I would plan it since he is just so busy with school. So I planned a whole day for Kamron and all his favorite things. Saturday morning we woke up and I made him cinnamon rolls and told him to get ready we had to be somewhere at 10:45. I had planned for us to get a couples massage and he had no idea until we were walking in the doors of the place. It was the best thing that I have ever done. It was so needed with all the stress we have in our lives. After our massages Kamron went to help his parents do some remodeling at their house. I was having some stomach issues so I took a nap when he got home I cooked his favorite dinner and we ate by candle light. It was so romantic. lol. He got me the cutest dress ever from Down East (my favorite store) and a cute shirt from there as well. I got him a journal so he can keep his personal record, a movie, and a book. We then watched the Olympics, his new movie (Forever Strong) and that was it. To me it was so perfect. Quality time. So that is pretty much what has been happening with us. I did turn in my teaching application on Tuesday, which for me was a lot of work. Pray that I get accepted into the program.

Oh, just a little shout out to President Obama for adding the education credit to the federal taxes this year. He saved our butt in not having to owe Federal taxes. I knew it would be good for something. :)

A wonderful Christmas season

2010-01-11T10:26:00.000-08:00

It has been forever since I have posted anything on our blog. The holiday season just took over our life and I never had a second to sit down and blog. Now that we are back in school I thought if I didn't blog today it will never happen. It is embarrassing how far behind I am on blogging. I will try to be better at staying current with blogging. First I'll start with Thanksgiving. This year Kamron and I had Thanksgiving at our house. His parents, grandma, and uncle came over. My family was in Las Vegas for my little brothers water polo team. It was so fun to have Kamron's family over for Thanksgiving. I made the turkey and everyone brought the rest. I was really scared cooking the turkey because if that went wrong then Thanksgiving would be ruined. The turkey turned out great!

The day after Thanksgiving Kamron had to work, so I went shopping with my friend Alex. It was the kick off to Christmas shopping. The sucky thing about it wa the w were still in school until December 15 so it was hard to be studying for finals and getting ready for Christmas. But we did it even though it was so hard. Christmas this year was a little different. Kamron's brother has joined the army and so he was home from basic training during Christmas. We tried to spend as much time with him as we could, after he is done with basic training he is going to be stationed in Germany. Christmas Eve we spent with Kamron's family. We celebrated Christmas with them on Christmas Eve because Kamron's other brother Jordan had to work on Christmas day. (He is an EMT)

Underneath all of that paper is Buddy (the dog). He goes crazy when it comes to presents. He thinks that there is a present inside for him so he tries to rip all the paper to find the present inside. It makes me laugh so hard. Kamron's parents gave us some really great gifts. We got a card table, Kamron got a watch, I got a purse, camping chairs, and life jackets because they bought wave runners! We can not wait for the summer it is going to be alot of fun. We went home later that night and opened one gift we bought for each other. I opened a darling shirt Kamron got me and he opened a Jazz hat that he really wanted. It was so funny because we could not sleep that night. We woke up at 6 a.m. you would think that we were like 5 years old. We spoild each other so bad this year. Kamron had bought some new golf clubs back in October so I got him the bag that matches the clubs, he got clothes, 2 hats,.... wow I can't rememeber what else. Kamron got me clothes, lots of sewing stuff, movies, makeup, a snuggie (which I LOVE), the perfect brownie pan, an ice scraper, a new lamp for our bedroom it is so dang cute. We had a perfect Christmas morning, after we opened our gifts I went back to bed and Kamron played his new soccer Wii game. At 10:00 we went down to my parents house and had breakfast with them and opened more gifts. Santa brougth a Xbox 360 to my parents house along with Rockband so we played that all day. My parents got us more camping chairs, I got more sewing stuff, Kamron got movies and boy stuff that I can't remember. Later that day we went my grandparents and then went to Kamron's grandma's. We got home at about 9 p.m. and we were pooped.

We had a great Christmas. I was horrible at taking pictures this year. We also did a lot of fun things leading up to Christmas. Family Christmas parties, went to the Nutcracker, friend parites, lots of shopping, hanging lights, decorating the house and tress, sending out Christmas cards, lots of good food, I just can't believe that it is all over.

This is our house all lite of with lights. I know that it is a terrible picuture and you really can't see anything. But it looked so great in person.

Heather threw a fabulous friend party at her house. It was so fun to get together and catch up with friends. Cruz and Heather also made some wonderful chili for dinner.

And of course we made a great gingerbread house this year. We had some friends come over for dinner and to make houses. It is one of our Christmas traditions.

Holiday Show

2009-11-26T08:45:00.000-08:00

You all are invited to this wonderful holiday show. I have made some aprons to sell at it, but there will also be some really cute things there too.

Passed

2009-11-09T18:20:00.000-08:00

I passes the Praxis test. I got my scores in the mail on Saturday. It was a good day. Now I can turn my application in for the teaching program.

What happened to Thanksgiving??!!!!

2009-11-04T21:26:00.001-08:00

I am very frustrated with the American consumer or society or whoever the fault falls on. Here is why...

So today I wanted to go to the store and buy some Thanksgiving things for our house. Well I went to Robert's (it's is close to my house and their stuff is always on sale). I walk in and it's like Merry Christmas everywhere you turn. So I'm like ok.... There has to be something for Thanksgiving around here. I can't find anything. ANYTHING!! So I ask the lady where all the Thanksgiving stuff is. She says oh ya it's gone, we start selling that before we sell Halloween stuff. I'm like ok.. wondering if this lady has ever looked at a calendar? First it's Halloween, then like 24ish days later it's Thanksgiving, then about 30 days later it's Christmas. Well I didn't say this to her I am just thinking it in my mind. So I found like 3 things that could potentially be "Thanksgiving decor"(65% off that was the only good thing). But seriously what happened to the celebration of Thanksgiving, the most important holiday of them all. It's like Halloween straight to Christmas. Anyways just releasing my frustration.

Family Pictures

2009-10-15T17:26:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Kamron and I went and had "family pictures". Wedding pictures have become very boring to me. I had seen this photographer on some of my friends blog. She was awesome! So fun and very easy to take pictures with. Here are some of the sneak peaks she gave us.

Fall Break

2009-10-13T16:14:00.001-07:00

Fall break! What a beautiful thing. There is so much for me to do.

1-Study for the Praxis (the test teachers take to enter their program)
2-Take the Praxis
3-Date night with Kamron
4-Girls night
5-Clean house
6-Finish sewing project
7-Get family pictures of Kam & I
8-Try to relax :)
9-Do homework
10-Sleep in!!

Happy fall break!

It's October already!!

2009-09-30T20:30:00.000-07:00

So I just realized that it has been a month since my last post.... wow that is sad. There is a good reason for that though, I am working full time, going to school and taking 15 credits, young womens and all that iin tells, and spending quality time with Kamron. Since my last post the most exciting thing that has happened is that I had a birthday. I am getting so old, I turned 23. I was such a wonderful birthday, Kamron spoils me like crazy. He bought me a new lap top, and a bunch of other things that I wanted. Like clothes, weights, candle things. That night we went out to dinner with a bunch of our good friends, after that we went back to our house and had cake and ice cream. It was so fun to see everyone and have them all over at our house. Here is some pictures from my birthday.

It was a really great day. I will try to be better about posting more often. Fall break is in two weeks. Hopefully everything will slow down. :)

This is for you Whitney :)

2009-08-29T22:32:00.000-07:00

I think I say this every time I post something new, but time does really go by so fast. A lot has happened in mine and Kamron's lives lately and we have been busy!! First friend Laurin got married in San Diego a couple of weeks ago. So myself and a bunch of my friends flew down to celebrate with her. We stayed in the Hyatt Hotel, it was the nicest hotel I have ever stayed in before. The wedding was beautiful!! Laurin and Jost were married in the San Diego Temple and I was lucky enough to go in and watch.

It was a lot of fun to have a girls trip. I miss these girls, we have so much fun together. Laurin and Josh had a fun reception that night at a beautiful home in San Diego. I didn't take very many pictures because I hate carrying my purse everywhere! 5 days after I got home Kamron's car was stolen again out of our drive way. Talk about emotions we never wanted to revisit all came back. Three days before school was to start we were carless. Talk about stress, stress, stress!! We decided whether they find the car or not we needed to just buy a new one. Well we researched cars and set out last Saturday in search for a new car. Well we found one we LOVED!! We felt like we needed to sit on our decision before diving head first into this car. So we went home and had lunch. On our way back to the car dealership the police called and said that they found the car. Less than a mile from our house!!! I wanted to scream!! People are just so rude to do something like this. Well we went and got Kamron's car and drove it straight to the dealership and used it as a trade in. Talk about a long, stressful, emotional day. So we bought a '08 Hyundai Sonata. We love it. It is an awesome car in all ways. Trust us we did our research. :)

So Monday I started school and Wednesday Kamron started school. Even though we will be so busy with school and work we hope our life and done with any added stress. I will try and be better at posting blogs.

Another update!

2009-07-27T18:03:00.000-07:00

I have tried my dang hardest to stay current on mine and Kamron's blog because once school starts i will for sure have a lot less time. So anyways here's what has been happening. First Kamron and I had a great 4th of July. We had our friends Alex and Jeremy over for a BBQ, Kamron loves to invite people over. After that we met my sister and Gavin at Sugarhouse Park and watched some fabulous fireworks. The 4th of July is special to us because it was mine and Kamron's first official date, and we always take our traditional picture.
About two or so weeks ago I get a call from my sister Shyanne early in the morning and she is just freaking out. I can hardly understand what she is saying because she is crying so dang hard. Well a very long story short my dad had left toast in the toaster and left for work. Well the toast for some reason never popped up and the toaster completely caught on fire. It caught the wall on fire which produce an enormous amount of smoke. Everything thing in the house was smoked damaged and smelt horrible. The pictures don't do justice, but we are so thankful that no one was hurt and that more damage wasn't done.

Summer Update

2009-07-02T21:03:00.000-07:00

So much has happened since my last post. I have not had one second to update our blog. Now that things have calmed I have second to write some do some updating. Within the last three weeks Kamron did another triathlon, my sister went through the temple and got married, I went to girls camp, and Kamron had a birthday.

-TRIATHLON-

Kamron, Jacob (my little brother), Gavin (my brother in law) did another triathlon on June 20. They ran the Olympic relay team race up at the Cache Valley triathlon. They did awesome, out of all the relay teams the took first!! I was so proud of them, they worked so hard and trained really hard too.
This is the only picture we have together that day because he gets so sweaty I can not get close to him. I swear only boys can sweat that bad.

My incredibly buff husband. So the 23 is his age and OR mean Olympic relay. It helps the people in charge make sure no one cheats.

Winners podium

So instead of getting a medal for placing in the race, they gave cow bells and engraved it said what they won. It was so funny since Cache Valley is known for their farms.

-GIRLS CAMP-

Where do I even begin to talk about Rough Out Camp. It was an absolute blast. Since I am the Laurel advisor it was fun to see the girls in a different setting. Everyone kind of let loose and had so much fun! We went up to the Uintah's and of course it rained. We did have some good weather but one night it rained so bad that a tent collapsed at 4:00 am. It was a long night the girls stuff was soaking so we put them all in a car to sleep the rest of the night. Kamron came up on Friday morning and stayed til we went home the next day. He was the priesthood leader for that time. It was so fun to have him come up. I missed him so much, it was so nice because the other leaders told me to stay the night in his tent that night as the best sleep I got the whole time. I was warm and cuddled by my loving husband.

First day, before everything got wet.

The survivors and the collapsed tent

Kathleen and I were the camp advisors. Neither one of us knew much about camping because either our husbands or dads did most of the scary work like lighting camping lanterns. We were so proud when we lit the lantern for the first time. We took a picture of it to prove to our husbands that we could do it.

This was my most favorite part of camp.. :)

Last day of camp. Greasy, tired, and so ready to go home!

-KAMRON'S BIRTHDAY-

Kamron turned 24 for this year. Since his birthday was on a Monday we really didn't get to do anything super exciting. Since his birthday was the day before Tawnya's wedding we had a wedding dinner to go to that night. I gave him some gifts in the morning before I left for work, (he took the day off). After the wedding dinner we went and got Cheesecake and opened more gifts.

I decided Kamron is so spoiled, he practically had a second Christmas.

My brother spent a couple days with us because there was too many guests staying at my parent's house. They gave his bed to someone else to sleep on. It was fun having stay with us.

-WEDDING-

My sister's wedding day was beautiful. The weather was great, considering we have had a lot of rain lately. Her and Gavin were so happy. The day just was perfect.

My Family

All the bridesmaids

My best friend Heather and her boyfriend Alex cam the to the reception. It was so fun to see them since it has been a while.

As you can see we have been so busy this summer. We are having a blast though. Kamron is also going to summer school, playing on a softball team and basketball team. He is the greatest husband in the world. We hope everyone is also having a great summer!

Projects, projects, projects

2009-06-15T18:27:00.000-07:00

I thought when school ended I would have tons more time to post to our blog. Not so much. I have been so busy. I have had a lot of projects that I have been working on. I have been planning girls camp for next. I never realized how much planning it took for girls camp. But it really has taken a lot of my time. Another thing is my sisters wedding. Every weekend for the past couple of weekend she has had a shower and I have gone to all of them. I made her a really cute apron (but didn't get a picture of it.) and also this darling blanket

It is the perfect picnic/lap blanket. I hope she like it. At her reception she is having ten little girls serve and clear tables. I am the lucky one who gets to make ten little aprons. I have five done. Half way there!

Aren't they so dang cute? You can't really see it. But the pattern on the flounce is so cute! I love being so crafty. It is one of my most favorite ways to spend my time. My friend Alex and I made some really cute 4th of July decorations the other week.

I want to start like a craft group or something. I just think that it is such a stress relief to sit and chat with friends and make something cute. Kamron has started up with school now too. That is what he has been doing lately. Along with training for up coming triathlons and his basketball team and many softball games. He is a busy boy. He is coming up to girls camp for a day. It was really funny because in the beginning he didn't want to come. He thought that the girls were going to make him dress up or do a dance or sing or something. I was like no you are so funny, you just will sit there and wait to rescue girls who need help. I thought it as so funny he was so worried about that.

Time flies when you're having fun

2009-06-01T19:42:00.000-07:00

On Friday Kamron & I celebrated our 1st anniversary. I can't believe how fast this last year has gone. We have had so much fun being married. On Friday we both took the day off of work. We went to the temple in the morning and then had lunch at the Lion House. It was fun to be down at the temple and see how many couples were getting married. Luckily the weather was a lot nicer than a year ago when we got married. Since we weren't able to get to go on our cruise we decided to get each other gifts. I got Kamron a grill. He really wanted one and I really wanted one too. LOL. He was so excited when he saw it in the garage.

He looks so out of it because he had just woken up. I had no idea what Kamron was going to give me. He was dropping hints like do you want a new camera? Just things like that but.... HE WENT TO JARED. haha Just kidding. but he got me the open heart necklace, earring, and bracelet by Jane Seymour. (I think that's how you spell it) I love hem all so so much!!

After the temple we went up to Park City and enjoyed some shopping and cool weather. After we spent time up in Park City we went to the Bees game. We have season tickets to the Bees so we decided to go to the game since they were shoot off fireworks. It was such a fun day. We did just what we wanted to do.

I love Kamron with all my heart and I can not wait to live the rest of our lives together. He is so patient with me and gives me all his love. He works so hard for us and I am so thankful for that. He is the best husband in the world!! I love you baby.

And just a side note today I noticed that my hanging basket of flowers has died and my pot of flowers has also died. I am have serious major anxiety about it and Kamron just is laughing at me. He said if they die all the way I can go get new ones. I need to work on my green thumb. Too much water, not enough...I can't get it right.

Bummed Out

2009-05-10T09:09:00.000-07:00

This face explain exactly how Kamron felt when we got an e-mail the other day from our cruise line letting us know our cruise has been cancelled because of H1N1 (swine flu). Lame! We weren't even suppose to leave til the end of May and things seem to be dying down. So we have credit with them and we have til December 2010 to reschedule. We are way bummed out, but I guess it's nice they are being so proactive about it.

Thoughts of the day

2009-04-30T17:31:00.000-07:00

Tonight I am enoying a perfect night sitting on my porch trying to write a final paper for my music class. I spent almost 5 hours in my yard yesterday mowing, trimming rose bushes, pulling weeds, you know all that fun spring yard care. So I love that it's a nice evening for me to sit on my porch and enjoy the hard work from yesterday.

Yesterday was mine and Kamron's 11 month anniversary. Crazy! I can't believe this time last year I was having bridal showers, stuffing invites, writing thank you, and getting ready for the temple. Now my beautiful sister is enjoying the exact same thing a year later. I'm jealous of her, I loved my wedding. I would totally do it again with the exact same boy of course.

Also my friend Laurin is getting married in August in San Diego. All my high school friends are planning a girls trip to go out and celebrate with her. Planning a trip with these girls makes me think of our super fun Senior Trip to Cancun, Mexico in 2005. I love all those girls and can not wait for the crazy adventure to San Diego with them. (Swimming with dolphins)

Thinking about my Senior Trip to Mexico and all the wedding being planned makes me think of mine and Kamron's up coming trip to Mexico. I am getting kind of nervous we won't be able to go because of the wonderful Swine Flu sweeping the globe. I really don't want to have to change the days we go. But I also want to live to see my second wedding anniversary. :) We still have a month to go let's hope they get it under control before then.

He's the best

2009-04-20T20:34:00.000-07:00

So Kamron surprised me and told me that he booked a cruise for our 1st anniversary! Can you believe that? He was so cute about it too. He would have kept it a secret for longer but we have to get our passports. I am so excited I have never been on a cruise. All I dream about now is going on the cruise. So we tossed out all the junk food in our house. We want to look good for this vacation!!

Updates

2009-04-19T09:58:00.000-07:00

Life seems to never slow down. I have been waiting to write this post for a time when I had nothing to do. It never really came so I am doing it now before I get ready for church. Yesterday Kamron & I ran the 5k in the Salt Lake Marathon with our really good friends Heather & Alex. It was so fun. Kamron ran it in 26 minutes, and I ran it in 33 minutes. I had eaten breakfast right before so I was getting the worst side ache, I had to walk even though I didn't want to. But it was still a lot of fun, we want to run in more marathons now. Maybe we could work up to the whole thing. After the marathon we went my triplet cousin's birthday party. (they are actually my second cousins) They live in North Carolina while their dad is doing dental stuff. They are so cute. I had never seen them before but tons of pictures and I can't believe how big they are. It was so cute to watch them eat their cake.

Also, we finally have our house back in together. We still need to hang things on the wall but we are going to be really careful not to put a million holes in the walls. Here are some pictures of the finish product.

I was so excited to get my craft table set back up. I still have one apron to finish. This summer Kamron is going to be taking summer classes at night so I hope to take a quilting class or sewing class of some kind. Here is a picture of my first apron I finish a while ago. I just barely got a picture with me wear it.
I think it's pretty good for my first apron. I have started having this recent obsession with sewing. For my sister's wedding I am going to make my brides maid dress. I am really excited. I only have two and a half weeks left of school. I can't wait for all the free time. Even though I know it won't last long.

Tagged...

2009-04-08T19:25:00.000-07:00

I was tagged by my cousin Kristin to post the fourth picture in my fourth file on my computer. This is a picture of Kamron in the batting cages at Boondocks. It was right after we got married and started having married date nights with each other. He is so competitive and would get so mad when he missed the ball.
I tag Kristy, Shalise, and Danielle.

P.S.
Pictures of the newly painted house are soon to come!

Lost & Found

2009-04-06T19:53:00.000-07:00

It has been found!!
The West Valley Police Department
found it at noon today. Nothing
was wrong with it, nothing
was stolen out of it. Can you
believe that? This is proof prayers
are answered.

It's gone

2009-04-05T20:05:00.000-07:00

Kamron's car was stolen last night.
Right out of our driveway.
Worst day ever.

March Madness

2009-03-24T20:04:00.001-07:00

This month has gone by so fast. So much has happened but it doesn't feel like we have accomplished that much. For example we had Spring Break and we had the goal of painting our house like I had said in my post before. Well we started working two weeks ago taking things off the walls and getting them washed. We started seeing huge cracks in our walls. Our walls aren't normal dry wall walls, they are plaster walls, which sucks... bad. So my uncle Clair (who I love so much and is the greatest guy in the world) came over to look at the cracks. He works construction and knows a lot about these kinds of things. Well he said that we need to dig out and bread the cracks up, he had us take exact-o knives and just cut our halls. So here the walls looked like after we did this.

Do you see those holes?

See the mess it makes?? That was everywhere!

So after we dug out all those cracks we had to paint pink glue into the holes. It was way harder than it looks. We could not get the glue on any part of the walls besides the cracks or it would show through. So we had to wait a couple of days for this to dry. On Friday night Clair, my dad, and Jacob my brother all came over to help plaster the walls. They had the scaffolding up and everything. They had to let that dry over night and then Clair came back the next morning to put another layer on. He said we had to wait til Monday (yesterday) and we could sand and prime it. Well by this time our Spring Break was over. Look how much better they look all patched up.

We went out to dinner on Saturday night with some of my friend from high school. (Cami & Chandler, Heather & Alex, and Laurin & Josh) it was really fun. Sunday night I was woken up to Kamron moaning and groaning in pain. He was complaining that he was going to throw up and that he was cold. I felt his head and he was on fire! I didn't have a thermometer and I didn't know what to do. Well I tried calling 7-11 to see if they had thermometers and no one spoke English. I was so frustrated. It was so scary I didn't know what to do, finally at 6:00 am Dan's opened and I rushed down there. I had called my mom on the way there and she told me to get soup and Gatorade and of course a thermometer. I got home and took his temperature and it was 101 degrees. Well we medicine in him and finally got back to sleep. I called into work and they said to come in after work. Kamron stayed home from work and school, and stayed in bed all day. So no work was done in our house. I am starting to have anxiety about how disorganized our house is.

All our furniture is pushed to the middle. Our couches are covered and there is white dust everywhere. Look at how white our floors are and the vacuum is gray!

Well we are hoping that by this Friday we will be able to start painting.. Keep your fingers crossed. Oh and before I forget, Kamron and I thought that it would be fun to do a basket ball bracket against each other. So who ever wins they get to make the other person do what ever they want. I am thinking laundry for a month or couples dance lesson.(I've been watching Dancing with the Stars lol)

Last time Kamron told me we were tied... That probably means I am winning. :)

New Projects

2009-03-11T18:00:00.000-07:00

Spring break is next week for me and Kamron and we can not wait. I remember before we were married spring break was something that you looked forward to because it was a week of total relaxation. Well, not anymore we have major projects to accomplish. We are painting our house. I am so excited. We thought we were going to have possible help from our families but we were wrong. They are either going out of town, or going to swim meet. (or that's what they are saying). Kamron makes me laugh so hard cause now that we are doing it by ourselves he doesn't think it sounds fun. If you have ever seen inside our house we have alot of wall space. So this weekend we start washing the walls and buying all the paint. Since we are just renting the home from Kamron's Grandma she is supplying us with the paint, and all the needed brushes and tape. She is a huge sweetheart. We love her to death and we are so thankful for her.
Also a couple weeks ago I got called to me assistant camp advisor.. lol. On top of my Laurel advisor calling I am now assistant camp advisor. We have our first meeting tonight. I am really excited. It is the week before Tawnya (my sister) get married so it is going to make June very busy.
Another project I have been working on is finishing my second apron. I got two patterns to make aprons for Christmas. They are so dang cute. It is just hard to find time to sew on top of everything else. I will post pictures of my aprons once I get the last one done! Since it is getting warmer I have thought of million projects for Kamron...let see if I can get him to do them all. :)

Jazz game

2009-02-22T19:14:00.000-08:00

Last night Kamron and I were able to go to the Jazz game with our good friends Heather and Alex. I was really happy we were able to go, we always have super fun time with them. It was a sad game though because it was the first game that Larry Miller wasn't at. His seat was very obvious because it was the only seat on the front row that was empty. But it was really fun to have a night out with Heather and Alex. Thanks again for the tickets Heather!!

Kamron's horrible night

2009-02-20T14:10:00.001-08:00

How could these five men ruin Kamron's night?

The words Boston Celtics are like scared words in our house. Kamron is practically their ultimate fan. He loved them way before they won the Championship last year. Well last night they play the Jazz in Utah, and it was a big night (for Kam). He skipped both classes he had that night because there is no way he was going to miss the game. Well we watched it with a couple of Kamron's friends who are all huge Jazz fans. So pretty much it was an even more intense game for Kamron. Kevin Garnet ended up getting injured during the game and was out for the whole second half. Kamron loves him, he refers to him as K.G. it's really funny. Anyways, the Jazz won. It was a really good game, but I can't believe the Jazz won. Kamron actually took it really well, if any team was to beat the Celtics he was happy it was the Jazz. We didn't get home til midnight, and Kamron had to be to work at 5 a.m.! Now that he is home from work he is dead asleep in bed.

"K.G" right before his sad injury that lead the Jazz to a win

Love Day

2009-02-16T08:40:00.000-08:00

This year we had a blast on Valentines Day. The only we really wanted was to be with each other all day. I woke up early to make Kam breakfast. I made pink heart shaped pancakes. They were so cute. We then exchanged gifts. I gave Kamron a new tie, a movie, and some of his favorite hair gel. He gave me a necklace, a gift card, and some more scents for this candlebreeze thing we have. After we cleaned up the house we went to Costco to get a few things and we walked out with a new TV. It was so random but we we really wanted a TV for our bedroom. So we went home and enjoyed our new TV. For dinner we went to Cafe Rio, and went to see Confessions of a Shopaholic. It was such a fun day. We just had super fun day together. I love Kamron so much everyday. We have been married for 9 months and it has been the best 9 months of my life.

These are pictures from a trip we took to California last year to visit my sister. She lives in Ventura, California and plays softball for a college out there. Well her boyfriend Gavin went to visit her over Valentines and they go engaged!! We are so excited for them. In these pictures we had just gotten engaged. And now a year later Tawnya is getting married. They are getting married on June 30, 2009. So one year, one month, and one day after us.

On Friday I went out to dinner with some of my friends from High School. It was so fun to get together with them. I haven't seen most of them for a long time but I sure do miss them. But it was like we had just seen each other. We have all been friends since 7th grade, and all 12 of us live different lives but we are still great friends.
This is some of us at a football game in high school, so long ago but things have not even changed. Well I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentines Day, Kamron and I love you all!!

A much needed weekend

2009-01-18T10:31:00.001-08:00

We made it! We survived the first week of school. I can already tell this semester is going to be tough because we both are taking more than 15 credit hours. Since Kamron is taking so many hours and works all day his classes are at night. He doesn't get home til close to 10:00 each night. But the second he gets home he has to go to bed because he has to wake up the next morning at 4:30. So this week was not fun because I think we saw each other for a total of 8 hours. By the time Friday came I was ready for time with my husband. So we had a super fun weekend. Friday we went to Cafe Rio for dinner then we went down to Gateway and got hot chocolate and saw Bride Wars. I really wanted to see that movie, Kam was such a trooper and sat through it with me. I promised he could go to Fanzz after and buy something. But it was closed... :) Then Saturday we cleaned our house and went grocery shopping. I love grocery shopping with Kamron, he makes it so much more fun. Later that night we went to dinner with some of Kamron's friends, then we went ice skating. It was so much fun. I thought it was going to be so easy, I hadn't been since I was like 12 and I remember it being so much easier. Well I finally go use to it and by that time I was ready to go home. I was so nice to have quality time with just me and Kamron. It's crazy how much we are still learning about each other even though we have been married for 7 months, but we have known each other for almost 2 years. Anyways, I love him so much now its back to another long week of school.

100% Slacker

2009-01-08T17:59:00.000-08:00

I hate that I haven't been very faithful with posting on mine and Kamron's blog. We have been doing a lot of fun things over the break. I can't believe that school starts on Monday, but I am happy that we still have our grant and don't have to drop a dime from school. First, while my sister was in town from California on Winter Break she worked for UPS. If anyone knows my sisters you would never think someone like her would deliver a Christmas package to your door. I picked her up from her first day of work and I had to take a picture, she is so funny.This picture is priceless. hahaha

For Christmas I gave Kamron tickets to a Grizzlies game. It was a lot of fun. My whole family was there and some close family friends. We ate at Texas Roadhouse before, it was weird cause every hour the waitresses would do a choreographed dance together. I was embarrassed for them, I would never want to do that. It was a great night with my family, and I think that our team won... I can't remember.

About a year and a half ago I nannied two little girls. Alyssa and Mariah. I was their nanny for almost two years, and practically spent all my time with them. I loved nannying them but it became too much of a demand and way too much time was being required. So I quit and started working for the dentist I work for now. Shortly after I quit nannying the girls moved to Hawaii. They were in town for Christmas so I took them out to lunch. I love these girls so much and I realized that I miss them tons! They have grown up so much. It was so cute because they know the Hawaiian alphabet and Hawaiian songs. They were so excited to share them with me. Yes they are sisters, they are total opposite. But they are so sweet. I miss them tons.

Kamron and I had a fun New Years. We had some friends come over and we just hung out and had dinner and snacks. We played the Wii practically the whole night. It was really fun. I was so happy to spend New Years with two of my really close friends from high school. I love that all the boys get along so well.

I love these girls so much. Don't worry we just had sparkling cider. Kamron and I had leftover fireworks from July so we lit those off. It was a lot of fun. They were just sparklers though. Still fun.

We hope everyone had a great New year. I can't wait to see what 2009 will bring. We are so thankful for all our family and friends.

P.S. Does anyone notice something wrong with this picture? Kamron looks like it could be June or July outside. My husbands body temperature is like 100 degrees higher than mine... at all times. I beg him not to wear shorts everyday. I think it has turned more into a joke than anything.

Our first Christmas

2008-12-26T11:05:00.000-08:00

This year was mine and Kamron's first Christmas together. It was the best Christmas ever. On Christmas Eve we went over to Kamron's parent's house for dinner and read Christmas stories together. After that we went over to my parents and walked Christmas street and then open presents. Our parents live a mile away from each other so it makes it easy to go to both families. Usually on Christmas Eve we always get pajamas from my parents but this year we got slippers. Kamron has wanted Boston Celtic slippers for a while so I was excited to suprise him with them.

(Don't mind my scrounge sister. hahah she looks scary.)

Anysways.. The next morning at 3:00 I helped Santa unload all of Kamron's present. Then we woke up at 7:00 in the morning we woke up to open our presents. It was the best to wake up with Kamron and start our own traditions. I got Kamron two Wii games, clothes, workout stuff, and lots of random things in his stocking. He got me a craft table for my sewing machine, 4 pairs of shoes, gift cards :) he was too scared to buy me clothes.

This is us right after we woke up. I wish more of the presents showed and the tree showed.

Me by my presents.

Kamron with his gifts and our Christmas mess.

After we had our morning together we went to my parents house and opened more gift there and had breakfast. They gave me aprons to sew, cute rooster stuff for my kitchen, flannel sheets. Kamron got a darling Celtics blanket my mom made. He also got more clothes and tools. It was fun to be at my parents house and do things I did while I grew up. When we were done at my parents house we went to Kamron's parent's house. We watched some of Batman and opened gifts there. They gave us a ton of food storage. Usually I would never be excited for a ton of random food. But now being married I want to be prepared for our family. Then we went to my grandma & grandpa's house. We spent a couple hours there then went to Kamron's grandma's. We had dinner then and opened gifts it was a lot of fun to spend time with them. It started snowing like crazy we had to go home in order to make it up the big hill by our house.

So it was a wonderful crazy busy day. But I wouldn't have changed it for anything.

I hope every had a very Merry Christmas!!

It's finally over!!!

2008-12-17T09:48:00.000-08:00

I just took my last final this morning. I can't explain how happy I am about this. Now I can finally get some shopping done.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

2008-12-07T19:26:00.000-08:00

Within all the madness of final I have found some time to do some Christmas decorating and shopping. Even though I have only gotten 1/8 of my shopping done. It still feels good to have started. I also have decorated our house (a little). Cute Christmas decorations can be expensive, and they add up quick. So we decided to just keep adding up each year. So this year we bought our first tree. It is so cute and little, and the best part is that it is so easy to put up!

It is so exciting to be celebrating our first Christmas together. I'm excited to start our own family traditions. I love Kamron so much and can't imagine a better way to spend Christmas. I am excited for Santa to come to our house. We have a chimney so I want to set out cookies and everything. It will be a nice snack when I set out all Kamron's gifts. I love our stockings they have S and K on them. They are so cute! We still have left over gift cards from our wedding so I used some of to buy them. Last night Kamron brought home the biggest pointsetta. It is so beautiful. I saw them at Costco and wanted one so bad. I set it on our fireplace cause that is the only place that it will fit.
Also last night we had friends come over and make gingerbread houses. It was so much fun. Shalise and Jake came over earlier that night and had dinner with me and Kamron. Then my brother came over with a blind date, and Ginger and Adam. It was such a fun way to celebrate with some friends and it was fun to see everyones ideas.

We had tons of candy to decorate the houses with. It so fun to see all the different ideas everyone had. Mine and Kamron's is the closest one to the front.

Where does time go?

2008-11-30T11:20:00.000-08:00

Seriously where has the time gone? Kamron and I have been so busy lately I can't believe it. School has officially taken over our lives. The semester is almost over and it is crunch time. We have tons of papers due and tests to take in the next little 2 weeks. I can't wait until its over!

Thanksgiving this year was great. We ate with both families which made for a crazy busy day. It's hard to keep both families happy. Kamron and I are going to write an official schedule for our families so it is even for everyone. Yesterday Kamron and I celebrated our 6 month anniversary of being married. We didn't do anything huge because but it was still way fun. We went and saw Body Worlds downtown.

It was so interesting! We couldn't take any pictures of anything. I wish we could have because it was so interesting. There pieces of every part of the body on exhibit. Literally every part of the body. It was so fun. We didn't give presents or anything, to me our relationship isn't about giving gifts and stuff like that. I could never buy something for Kamron that shows him how much I love him. Well that's whats been going on in our lives. When finals is over I will post lots more!

*Oh and I am thinking about making my blog private. Because people have found my blog that I don't want reading it. I made created my blog for my family and close friends. So e-mail me your e-mail address so I can add you, and once I have everyones I will make it private.

Parker's Home coming

2008-11-15T18:30:00.001-08:00

Last Sunday was Parker's homecoming. He did such a good job with his talk. He is so grown up and speaks Spanish so well. After the sacrament meeting we had an open house with family and close friends. Even still my parents house was packed. We are just loving having Parker home. Me and my brothers and sisters

All of us together (Kamron is the greatest addition to the family)

Hopefully Gavin will be the next addition

All my cousins except 8 of them (Mark, Laura, Jonathan, Ryan, Terra, Brandon, Kristin, and Caleb) I have the greatest family!! I love all my cousins soo much we always have so much fun when we get together.

Since Kristin is gone these are my buddies that I hang out with. Kamron runs off with all the boys or else I could hang out with him at family events.

DIE HARD UTE FANS!!!

2008-11-09T15:38:00.000-08:00

So this is kamron and this is my first time writing on this so if it sounds weird thats why:) Anyway, on friday november 7th my friend and i decided that we were going to go stand line and get tickets to the byu-utah game. We arrived at the stadium and 3:00pm and there were already 100+ tents infront of us!! the people that were first in line got there right after the TCU game the night before us! it was a lot of fun, but we were kinda nervous that we werent going to get tickets because we kept hearing different numbers on how many tickets they were going to sell. my friend and i saved our spot until shontel and parker came with all the stuff. we stayed under a canopy and we had a propane heater to keep us warm, it was pretty cold that night. the whole night was a giant party the entire time. all the people around us were way drunk, they stayed up all night and they kept coming into our tent to get warm. shontel created a couple rules for the tent: you couldnt swear, you couldnt drink and you couldnt smoke in our tent. they got three strikes and then they were off limits from out tent for the rest of the night. the football team came around and gave us free pizza from the pie. Parker, my two friends and i stayed up the entire night!! parker and i drank 4 redbulls each! the next morning the box office opened at 8am and they said that they were going to be giving out 2000 tickets. we were kind of nervous that we werent going to get good tickets because we figured out that anywhere from 600-900 tickets were going to be purchased before ours. the entire night we had made a plan of what we were going to do when the line started to form so we could get good tickets. the line started to form way early, around 6:30am!! it was nuts, everyone was trying to jump the line to get better tickets. we ended up jumping a little bit too, but only because the people that stayed up all night drinking didnt wake up in time. we waited in line for so long and it was way cold too, but we ended up getting tickets for the game!! it was a way fun way to get tickets to the byu-utah game and i cant wait to go, but the most important lesson we learned thru all of that was: BUY SEASON TICKETS NEXT YEAR!!!

HE IS HOME!!!

2008-11-06T19:29:00.000-08:00

Yesterday my brother Parker came home from his mission. It was like the greatest day ever. It was snowing like crazy all day. I went over to my parents house at like ten and made posters and a banner with Shyanne & Jacob (my younger siblings). The day seemed to just draaaaag on and on. Finally it was time to leave for the airport, we left like a hour early. But when we got to the airport it said his plane had already landed to we ran like crazy to the portal he was in. Well there was no need to rush because he didn't come for like 15 minutes. Five other Elders came home that day with him so all the familes were surrounding the escelator. The second we saw them we all started cheering. I instantly started crying when I saw Parker, it was so weird to see him. I couldn't believe that the day had come already.

We made these fun posters during the day. You can't really see the R in Parker. We messed up on the spacing of the letters. Can you believe we were the only family that brought balloons. I love balloons, they make every celebration so much better!

You can barely see him but he is there! My mom wanted to run up the center steps and look for him cause they were taking forever. People kept coming down saying they are up there, they are coming.

Of course my mom got the first hug. She missed Parker so bad. If anyone knows my mom she can get out of control and at the airport she was being boarder line crazy. I was getting annoyed, not going to lie.

Next was my dad. It's a Jones thing to cry and cry. You can't see my dad's face but it was crying it was so cute. I got a hug next. There was no picture of this event because I was the only one taking pictures.

It was so funny when Jacob gave Parker a hug. Parker started freaking out cause Jacob has gotten so dang tall! Jacob for some reason got really sick at the airport. Which later lost his lunch on the way to dinner in the car. I thought I got a picture of Shyanne hugging him but I guess not. Sorry Shy. So everyone was so excited to hug Parker

we all left our signs on the floor or with Kamron.

So in the background of all the excitment

is cute Kamron holding all the signs.

First brother in law hug.

All of us at the airport.

When I asked Parker who he was the most excited to see, guess who he said.... LUCY. Our families dog. Can you believe that? He said he always had dreams about her. (Lucy the dog)

This is me saying sorry to Tawnya that I didn't bring the computer over to web cam with Parker. I am so so sorry. Please forgive me... Me and Marli love you!

One week

2008-10-29T12:51:00.000-07:00

In just one week from today my brother Parker is coming home from his mission. He has been serving in Raleigh, North Carolina. We are so excited for him to come home. He has never met Kamron before, and they are excited to meet. So next week at 3:20ish (I think) Parker will be walking off the plane!!

Up in Park City a couple of weeks before Parker left.

In San Fransico

Viva Las Vegas

2008-10-19T21:07:00.001-07:00

Over the weekend Kamron and I went on a little road trip to Las Vegas. My cousin Travis was getting married so we decided to make a vacation of it. We left Thursday night after Kamron's class. We drove all night and got into Vegas at like midnight. . We stayed in a time share resort place so the rooms were like little condo. It was called the Cancun, and it looked and felt like we were really in Cancun. The pool was so much fun, there were full on water slides. I wish I would have taken a picture of it but I was too busy riding the slide.

That's what we did Friday morning and early afternoon. After we were all chlorined out we got ready and went shopping. I got ditched by Kamron, him and Jacob (my little brother) are like two peas and a pod. So they ran off together. I stayed with my cousin Kim. That night we ate Buffalo Wild Wings. It was so yummy. After dinner my mom wanted to take us down to Fremont Street in old down town Vegas. It is so cool cause they have a huge screen down the street that they play shows on.This is the best pic I could get of the screen. It was so cool!

The next day we went shopping again and went to the wedding. Travis has been together with Rochelle for 10 years!! They live together in Vegas. So since they've been together forever to them their wedding day was just like another day. The wedding was really small and the reception/dinner was just at their house.

The Newlyweds!! She borrowed by veil, it matched perfectly

My dad videotaping

It was so cute instead of having a wedding cake they had a ton of cupcakes. They were so yummy!

Tawnya & Gavin Me & Kamron

The wedding didn't last very long, so we decided to go play on the strip. Kamron and Gavin wanted to ride the New York roller coaster. I just wanted a picture in front of the Bellagio fountains. It was fun walking the strip, I just couldn't believe how crazy it all was.

This is Kamron waiting for the fountains to start. We waited like 25 minutes for the fountains to go and we finally asked someone when it was going to start. Well the fountain turns off at midnight, and it was like 12:35. I was so sad, all I wanted was a cute picture with the fountains.
We left the next morning to go home. We had tons of fun, and it was so nice just to relax. We took trail mix with us to snack on while driving, Kamron doesn't like almonds and left them all in the bag or threw them out the window. He is seriously so funny. As you can tell most of the nuts in there are almonds!!

Disappointment at the Barr's

2008-10-12T20:23:00.001-07:00

A couple weeks ago Kamron and his friends decided that they wanted to drive to Wyoming and watch the Utes play. I thought it would be fun to go and have an adventure with Kamron and his friends. But when my mom found out she quickly talked me out of it. She said to let him go and have a boys day. I thought that would probably be best cause then I could spend some time with my mom. So Friday night his friends came and slept over. The guys going were Gavin (Tawnya's boyfriend), a mission friend, and a work friend. They got up at 5:30 and I made them french toast, and left by six. I went back to bed and when I got up Kamron told me they were on the way home. I was so confused. He sounded way bummed out. He said that they made it halfway there, and the snow was so bad they had to turn around. They couldn't see five feet in front of them. I felt so bad. They came back and I went and got them pizza. They were so bummed. Kamron spent about $60 for two ticket (including stupid internet processing fees) They worst thing was when they watched the game it was sunny there. It was windy, but no snow. I love Kamron So much, he hates when he has an idea and it doesn't work out. But the Utes won so that's all that matters.

Kamron said there were so many slide offs. I am so glad that they made it home safely.

Busy busy lives

2008-10-11T13:06:00.000-07:00

We haven't posted anything forever!! We have been super busy with school, work, church stuff, football games, and everything else that seems to be taking up all our time. Not a wholel lot is happening besides all that stuff. Which to me doesn't seem like alot. Last week my sister Tawnya came into town for conference. Her boyfriend Gaving went to Priesthood with Kamron and then after we all hung out at my paretns house. We slept over at my parents house on Saturday night, because Tawnya was leaving early Sunday morning and my mom wanted us all there for breakfast. My parents had me and Kamron sleep in there bed, which was so weird. But we enjoyed spending time with my family. We spent the morning at my parents house and then went over to Kamron's parents for the afternoon and evening. We had so much family that weekend. I had such a hard week at school. I had a tough test in my Teachers and the Law class. It was so super hard. I am so excited because next week is fall break, and we are going to Las Vegas for my cousins wedding. He live in Vegas so it's not a ghetto wedding. I am super excited for him, he has been dating his fiance for like 10 years.. (not joke.)

Well I don't have any pictures to post, because we have been so lame and haven't done any thing to take pictures of. But a couple weeks ago we help my brother Jacob do his Eagle project. He painted the U.S.A map on the blacktop of his elementary. It took forever. We were there from 7:30 til almost 2. There were so many different steps. I don't even want to start to explain it cause it took forever!! But it was fun.

Happy Birthday to... ME!!!

2008-09-20T16:33:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was my 22nd birthday. Can you believe that 22? I do not feel like I could be 22. But I had a great day. I had to work and go to school, which was lame. But I got off at 3, which was really nice. I got home and Kamron had cleaned up the house (put the dishes away, made the bed) you know all those things you don't want to do on your birthday. He then sat me down in the middle of the room and gave me all my surprises...
Ok so you can't really see what this is but it's a book light. Kamron bought this for because he has to go to bed really early because he has to work early. And sometimes I want to stay up and read, but the big light keeps him up. So he bought me this light so I can still read and he can sleep. :)

Next, I got a shoe rack. I have too many shoes to fit in my closet, and they are spread all of the bottom of my closet so it takes like 100 years to find patches. I am so happy I got this. It is going to be so wonderful to have!

Last but not least these BEAUTIFUL red roses. They are the most perfect flowers.

After we opened presents we got ready and went to dinner at Italian Village. It is the best place ever! Their pizza benders are so amazingly good!! Even though our waitress was a little slow, the food made up for it. While we were waiting to be seated Kamron got a call on his cell. It was his brother Jordan!! He had just gotten home from India. He surprised everyone yesterday, no one knew that he was coming home. We are so happy his is home. I know he came home for my birthday. haha jk

After we went and visited Jordan we went bowling with our best friends Shalise & Jake. It was so fun. There were some very interesting people there... huh Shalise?? haha I totally suck at bowling but i tried so hard.

The girls... so cute and innocent.

The boys... so tough

This is what we call whats up bud....hahah

I had a wonderful birthday. All I really wanted to do was spend time with Kamron. I am happy that the Buhlers were able to come bowling. They are the greatest friends. I love the cute shirt they gave me. I love Kamron so much and I so happy I get spend the rest of my birthdays with him.

Two men and a lad

2008-09-13T18:09:00.001-07:00

Today Kamron, Jacob, and Gavin (my sister Tawnya's boyfriend) did the Ogden Valley triathlon. And they did awesome. They did a relay, so Jacob swam 1000 meters, Gavin biked 15 miles, and Kamron ran 4.2 miles. It was so fun. We slept over at Gavin's parents house who live in North Ogden. We got up and the boys left early to go get body markings. It was Pineview reservoir, and it was the most perfect day. We aren't sure what their exact time was because we didn't want to wait around for it. We are going to check it on the Internet, so when we find out we will let you all know.

This is their team number, they had that number written all over their bodies. Kamron had to wear this on the front of his shirt while he ran.

All the boys in their gear before the race began. Their team name was two men and a lad. I thought that was such a cute name.

Me and Karmron before the race. I was so nervous for them. I don't know why, but I just was nervous all morning.

This is the timing chip that they wore to kept track of their time. They wore them on their ankles, and would transfer it after each event.

Jacob's wet suit was so tight it was choking him. This is when we was suppose to be getting ready for his race. His wasn't in the water when is heat left, so he was like a minute behind his group. I was so worried for him, but he still passed lots of people.

This is how all the swimmers took off. Go Jacob!!

The water looked freezing, and there was so many people in the water. There were lots of boats around the course in case any one needed anything. There was a point in the water were it was so shallow that the swimmers were running in the water because it was harder to swim.

This is Jacob running up the ramp to the transition place to meet Gavin. You can see that he is passing people in red caps, that was his groups color. He said that running up the ramp was so hard, and it killed his feet. Go Jake!! So I wasn't fast enough to make it to the transition area to see him pass the timing chip to Gavin. I was so sad because I didn't get any pictures of Gavin taking off.

He was so tired!

This is the transition area. Kamron was stretching extra good. He had trained for 3.1 mile run, but we found out when we got there that is was 4.2 miles. That made me even more nervous.

Aren't they studs??

While Gavin was biking his knees started hurting. So it took him a little longer than we had thought it would. He had done the Lotoja, a 206 mile bike race from Logan to Jackson Hole. And that's when the pain started. So Kamron and Jake were waiting for him to pass the time chip. Yay Gavin got there ok. He did awesome even through all the pain. Kamron is taking off the time chip.

Kamron leaving for his part. I was so worried for him, just because I didn't want his asthma to act up. But I knew that he would do awesome, he is so determined and competitive.

After about 40 minutes Kamron came running to the finish line. 2 miles of the run was pavement, and the other 2 was a trail run.

It was so cool when the athletes came running to the finish line. Everyone was cheering so loud.

When Kamron went through the finish line they announced the boys' team and all their names.

They are all so tough. Especially Kam.. :)

He was so sweaty after his run. I am so proud of him. I love him so much, and I am so lucky to have such a wonderful husband. He worked so hard for the triathlon. That is the kind of person he is. He works hard for everything he wants and has. I love you Kamron.

Ok so we just found out the results of race. They came in 184th place, they were 30 minutes behind the winner, and placed 16th out of the 38 relay teams.

Go UTAH!!!

2008-09-10T11:01:00.000-07:00

This last weekend we went to the first Utah game of the season. We were so so excited. We are huge Utah fans. Unfortunately we weren't able to get season tickets with my family this year, we were paying for a wedding when they were buying their tickets. So we get to sit in the wonderful student section... which means like row 55 and in the direct sunlight. It was still fun to go. We went with our friends Tessa and Brennan. Before the game my dad, brother, Uncle Clair, Grandpa, and Kamron's dad all came over for pizza and then we went to the game. I love football season, it's hard to explain. But it's so fun being at the game in the crowd and seeing all the red. After the game they shot off fireworks to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the stadium. I can not believe is has been ten years since they built the new stadium. I remember going to the stadium open house and my dad won a free air plane tickets. It's crazy how fast time flies.

See all the people behind us. It was packed. We are as high up as the mountain behind us.

I love Tessa. She is such a good friend. Standing next to her I realize how white I really am.

This is the sacred Utah flag we have hanging off our house. Kamron almost really hurt himself hanging it. See the railing, well there is a bush in front of it. That could have been really bad. hahahahah I still laugh when I think about it.

We've been just so busy

2008-08-31T20:35:00.001-07:00

I have been a total slacker about keeping our blog up to date. A lot has been happening in our lives. First, we started school last week. I was so excited to start school again, but I forgot how miserable school really is. I have so much reading to do, and the worst part is I never see Kamron anymore. I feel so bad for him, he has to wake up at 4:30 to make it to work by 5:30 am. Then he has to go to school after that, he usually doesn't get home til like 8 or 9. We were so lucky that we were approved to receive grants to pay for all our schooling this year. It took so much stress out of our lives. Kamron finally got his computer. He entered a drawing at work and the Grand prize was an $800 gift card to Dell computers, so he got a really nice computer that is all his own.

He loves his new computer, I am way jealous because it is so nice. We received callings in our ward. Kamron was called to be a youth Sunday School teacher, and I was called to be a young women advisor. We were so happy to have gotten callings because he finally feel part of the ward. Hopefully it will keep me busy while Kamron is gone at school. We decided to get a Wii, we had been saving our money and we really wanted one. We played it one night at Ryan & Kristy's house, it was so fun. We love playing it, I think that Kamron like playing it a little more than me. He never lets me win the games, so we decided it was probably better if we played on the same team instead of against each other.

We went mini golfing with Shalise and Jake the other weekend. They are our bestest friends. We love hanging out with them, they are so fun. We were chosen by their dog Maylee to be her god parents, she loves us so much. Kamron and Jake are playing in a basketball league together, Shalise and I are going to be the cutest wife cheerleaders.

Look we even wear couples colors.. haha just kidding

I thought that this was the cutest pose, but Kamron thought that I was a huge nerd. I was laughing really hard in this picture.

Hole in one!! He is so handsome..

This is Kamron after his first week of school. He was so tired from working and going to school.

Kamron brought me these beautiful flowers after a long week of not seeing each other! I love him so much he is the greatest husband ever. We does so much for us, I am so lucky.

We love doughnuts

2008-08-15T10:28:00.000-07:00

We have been so busy lately I haven't done a post forever! Kamron bought a Spanish program for the computer because he is taking Spanish this semester and really wants to do good. So he has been on my computer a lot lately. Hopefully his will be coming soon in the mail. Kamron has also been training for a triathlon that him, Jacob, and Gavin is going to be running. They are going to do the Ogden triathlon. He is way excited. I know that he is going to do awesome. We hiked up to doughnut falls last night. It was so nice. It was about 10 degrees cooler up the canyon. And the hike was so easy. We want to hike Mount Olympus. So we are trying to get use to hiking. Kamron starts school next Wednesday. We both got enough money from grants to go to school this year. I was so happy because there was no way we had saved enough money for both of us to go to school. Also we finally got health insurance!! Well in 30 days we will. Kamron got a title change at work and became a full time employee so that means we have insurance. I am so happy!! Now we don't have to live in fear of getting hurt or sick.

You can sort of see the fall in the back ground. I am a baby and didn't want to hike all the way up there cause I didn't want to get hurt.. :)What a handsome boy!! I love him.So cheesy...

Family Reunion

2008-07-30T15:40:00.000-07:00

Every year the Jones family has a huge family reunion. This year we were only able to go up for one night. It was still tons of fun. Everyone loves Kamron, all the little kids do. I wish we could have stayed the night but we had to work in the morning. It is crazy how much everyone's families change in a year. I got freezing cold at like 7:00, so I put a sweatshirt on but the second that I got back home it was way too hot to wear a sweatshirt. This is us up in the canyon, Kamron is getting sick of all the pictures so in this picture he is totally forcing a smile. haha

July 24th Post Finally

2008-07-30T15:17:00.001-07:00

I have wanted to post these pictures for a long time. On the 24th we went to the bees game with our friends Jake & Shalise. There was so many people there. I was shocked. It was like standing room only pretty much. We thought we would get there early enough to get a good spot on the grass but we were wrong. The grass was packed full. We tried sitting in seats but that didn't last long until we were kicked out... We finally found a spot on the grass. We had tons of fun with them. The fireworks were amazing! We got to sit on the grass and the dust from the fireworks kept falling on us.

My Hair

2008-07-20T10:25:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I cut my hair. I have been wanting to do it for a while, and I finally did it. Kamron was so supportive of me doing it. I probably would have backed out of it. But he was really excited for me to do it.Here are so pictures of me before and after. In the first my hair looks like it is a mullet but it had been in a ponytail all day, so there is a huge crease in it. And the after picture looks horrible cause I just woke up and my hair is not even done.

Date Night & Goodbyes

2008-07-13T21:25:00.000-07:00

Ever since we got married our social life is like zero. We still try to hang out with our friends, but they either don't want to hang out or already have plans. So me and Kamron have been able to spend a lot of one on one time together. (which I personally love) This weekend we had a little date weekend. Friday night we went to the temple. I was so happy that we went, I haven't been through a session since I received my endowment. One day we drove down to Timpanogas and it was closed... I was so sad. Then Saturday we went swimming (of course) and then went to dinner. After dinner we went down to Boondocks. It was so fun. We did the batting cages and I realized our rusty on my batting I was. We finished with that quick so we decided to mini golf. I only lost by 7 strokes. We wanted our picture taken and the only people around were little 8 year old boys (who loved Kamron, they kept telling him good shot, or we like your hat. it was really funny) So the quality of the picture explains itself, the little boy got like half the black sky. haha

Tonight we went to a goodbye party for my cousin Ryan & his wife Kristy. They leave on Wednesday for dental school. We are going to miss them so much. They live no more than 3 minutes away from us. So we have spent a lot of time with them lately. We hope to be able to go visit them soon. But they will be home for Christmas, so it won't be too long.

Summer of swimming

2008-07-08T17:06:00.000-07:00

At Kamron's Grandma's condo there is a swimming pool. So whenever we get a chance we go swim there. It is so nice because there is never anyone there. The old people never go swim so we usually have the whole pool to ourselves. We bought some diving toys and goggles because the pool goes to 8 1/2 feet deep. Yesterday I got off work early and Kamron didn't work so we spent the whole afternoon there. We both got FRIED! We take turns now rubbing Aloe Vera on each others backs.

Kamron in his goggles

Kamron bought me pink goggles with cute little hearts on the side

4th of July

2008-07-05T18:22:00.000-07:00

For those of you who don't know mine and Kamron's first date was on the 4th of July last year. It is so crazy how fast a year can go, and how much has happened. I never thought a year ago that I would be married. This year we went to my Aunt Karla's house for a BBQ and then meant up with his family at Murray Park for fireworks. It was a fun day. We got shakes before fireworks and played Uno while we waited. It were like 200 yards from where they were shooting off fireworks. After we had to run to our car because Kamron had to wake up early and needed to get to bed, we only hit minor traffic. We did sparklers on our first date at Sugarhouse Park and took a way cute picture. So this year we did the same thing. It's funny to see how diferent we look from last year. (Personally I think that I look 50 heavier last year)

This is us 2007

This is us 2008

Us with our shakes.

These are my new cousins. They had never done sparklers! Can you believe that, leave it to me to break them in. :)

Our first posting

2008-07-03T14:41:00.000-07:00

We finally got the internet in our house. It's weird how out of the world you feel when you don't have the internet. I let Kamron add cable to the package that we got. He promised not to watch too much sports. We love being married, it's nice to be together all the time & not have to leave at night. We go to bed alot earlier too. But Kamron also has to wake up earlier so thats the main reason. We are enjoying our house and our new ward. We get to speak in our new ward either the 20 or the 27 of July. I am nervous, Kamron is alot smarter than me so he will do great!