Weekend of Fun to Weekend of Puke

This year we decided to take turns planning our anniversary. This year it was mine. I had such glorious plans. Here was the itinerary.

Dinner at Tucano's
Harry Potter
Head up to cabin in Midway
7 Peaks
Picnic Lunch
Sonic Happy Hour
Dinner at Tarahumara's in Midway
Hiking
Movie
River Rafting
Picnic at cabin
Shopping at Park City Outlets
Ropes Course
Dinner
Home
Relax

But our weekend went a little something like this.

-Dinner at Tucano's (disgusting, luckily it was free)
-Harry Potter (boring, and then we got called by our friend letting us know Livy was sick)
-Midway (didn't happen, we had to go home to take care of Livy)
-Our River Rafting trip got changed to Friday instead of Saturday, but since Livy was sick we missed it.
-7 Peaks (success!)
-Picnic Lunch (nope we forgot to pack tennis shoes for our ropes course and hiking so we had to go all the way back home)
-Sonic (success!)
-Stopped in Midway to see if we could river raft on Saturday. They said that since it was our anniversary they would take us out on a kayak trip.
-Dinner (success)
-Movie (success)
-12am rolled around and Cameron spent the rest of the night puking.
-5am I wake up and realize he isn't there.
-6:30am when we were supposed to wake up for our river rafting trip
-7am I drive to Midway Adventure Company to tell them we aren't going to make it. If looks could kill I'd be dead. They were pretty upset we canceled since they were making a special trip for us.
-7:15am I'm buying pepto for Cam and bawling my eyes out.
-11am Cam finally starts to feel better. But I think it was just because all that was left to puke out was his internal organs.
-12am arrive at Park City and find absolutely nothing to buy
-2pm arrive at Plato's closet and find some great stuff
-5:45pm the time we were supposed to be at our ropes course but Cam still didn't feel well enough. Good thing we drove all the way home and missed our picnic lunch to get those shoes.
-6pm return home, watch a movie and Cam is out.

Then to top it all off he has to speak in church so we don't even get to sit by each other with our kids gone. And then he has to do tithing after church so here I am at home blogging waiting for him to come home so we can get our kids.

Am I complaining, heck yes. I couldn't wait for this weekend, and I'm really disappointed it turned out the way it did. But with that being said I couldn't be more blessed to be married to the man that I am. Here's to eternity babe, even if you are puking.

Here we are on "Bunker Hill." That's what I call it anyways. Every time we come to Midway Cam says, "what do you think that hill is with the flag on the top?" (And he never remembers that he says this). This year we found out that it's actually called Memorial Hill. It lists all the names of the men and women who fought in every war from Wasatch County.

And here I am being a snot because I had no desire to come up to this hill, so I'm trying to look astonished and jubilant. I don't think it worked. :)

4th Of July Weekend

What a great weekend full of friends, family, bbq's, fireworks, and the mountains.

The kids getting ready for "diving for candy" at the Riverton Town Days. They got hooked up!

It was so hot so we needed some shade.

I love this picture of Alina. It captures how much she enjoys life. She couldn't wait to go on this ride all by herself.

Awww....what a cute couple.

We conquered the zipper, but I almost barfed.

The next day we headed up to Silver Lake with the whole family. The kids had to eat on this rock. As you can see Greta is storing her food for winter.

Shane and Amy. They are getting married in September, yay!

The kids and I hiked up the ginormous rock.

And yes believe it or not there was still snow in July, so we went sledding.

And had a snowball fight, Greta won.

I love this picture of Cam in shorts in snow and just how cute he is with Livy.

And here's the cutest picture of all, my parents. Thanks to them I get to enjoy life with my sweet family.

P90X and Olivia

Whenever I do P90X the kids love to do it with me. Olivia loves it when I do push-ups because she tries to sit on my back, which gives me a better workout. Today she decided to do it with me again, but she had to have my tennis shoes on.
She cracks me up.

Look at those guns, I'm scared, are you?!

That is the face of a serious competitor.

Work Party

My mom's work knows how to throw a party! We all got matching shirts, had all we could eat stake and chicken with all the fixings. A ginormous bounce house and life sized bouncy balls of terror you sit inside and roll down the hill in. It was an awesomely fun time!

We also had a very competitive game of volleyball and my team of Shannon, Shane, and Austin won! Cameron, Amy, Greta, and some random guy were pretty upset about losing. They now owe us $100 bucks and have yet to pay up.

Olivia was crazy on the bounce house slide. She would jump from the top and land close to the bottom. Everyone there couldn't believe how little and daring she was. One guy said she should take up parkour. I think she already has, she's always been our kid who jumps from coffee table to chair and back again.

I went down the hill and it was awesome. I need one of my own.

Even Olivia loved to go in the giant ball of terror. I can't believe how brave she is.

Fathers Day

I'm so grateful for the men in my life. My dad has always been an example of what a dad and priesthood holder should be. He's also the perfect grandpa, I've never met someone who is better. I'm so glad that I have Cameron. He's so patient, sweet, and thoughtful towards me. He's a wonderful father to our children. The kids always want to be with their dad, and for good reason.

For Father's day this year the kids and I made Cameron breakfast that of course had to include bacon. For the past 2 years the kids have given Cameron coupons to use for back rubs, tickles, and feet and head rubs, but every time he tries to use one they tell him no. I told the kids they couldn't give him another useless coupon book this year. But they all got together and gave him a group massage for Fathers Day. Some complained, and wouldn't do it so they had to go 5 minutes without talking or complaining or the time would start over again. Let's just say that Cameron had a really long massage.

Alina's Ballet Recital

Alina has been taking ballet since February and she has gotten so good at it. I love watching her dance, she's always had a natural ability for it.

On June 18th she had her first recital. Her ballet academy did Sleeping Beauty. It was 2 hours long, but so cute. Our little ballerina did awesome and she looked beautiful. I think we'll keep her in.

Big Changes, and Big Blessings.

We have had another crazy year of unexpected stress and blessings. Cameron was working for Invictus Law where he worked long hard hours cleaning up their books and creating massive spreadsheets for not only Invictus but some other companies they owned. In January he hit his 90 day review and went in asking for a big raise. We were currently making $22K a year less than we were used to. They gave him a $22K a year raise. We were so excited and felt very blessed. We spent a whole Saturday making a new budget with plans to have our van paid off this year and our house in 10. We couldn't wait. Three weeks later they let him go. We never even had a full month pay at his raise.

I was very upset, very confused, and very angry. I couldn't believe this was happening again to us. At the same time I felt calm and peaceful and knew everything would work out, but I just simply did not want to go through it again and have our financial goals put on hold. We had planned to use our tax return to pay off our van. Now we had to live off of it, but I was grateful to have it.

Right away Cameron got interviews, which was better than the last time around. There seemed to be better jobs, but we both just felt like we had to be patient, that it wasn't going to happen when we wanted.

Cameron had a really promising interview with a company called Natures Sunshine. He made it to three interviews. We waited and waited for a phone call and they kept telling us they hadn't decided. During this wait time he received another phone call for an interview with a company called Young Living. He had three interviews with them as well. The waiting almost killed us. Nature Sunshine still hadn't made a decision after 5 agonizing weeks. Young Living told us they would get back to us on a certain day and didn't. It was so frustrating, especially because he felt very strongly that he had the job with Young Living. But Cameron had applied to this job the day after he was let go and it took 2 months for them to even call for a first interview so all we could do was wait.

On Monday May 23rd we thought for sure we would hear something. We waited, we prayed, and 5:00 came and went and we heard nothing. We stopped checking email at that time. It was 6:30 and we were eating dinner, but Cam was upstairs for some reason, probably praying and he came downstairs with a weird look on his face. He grabbed me and said come here. I was worried something was wrong. And he told me that Young Living emailed him an offer letter. I was so shocked, relieved, happy, and grateful. We knelt in pray and offered up our hearts full of gratitude. The money compensation was more than we've ever made. It's located at Thanksgiving Point which is only a 30 minute drive for Cam. He doesn't even have to get on the freeway.

Because we had the job offer it worked out for us to go to California. They didn't want him to start until the 13th so Cam just asked if the 15th would be ok for a start date since we would be on vacation. They were fine with it. He started yesterday and came home so excited. Young Living sells essential oils and other healthy items. He came home with tons of free stuff and told me all about the awesome benefits he has. They have a gym he can workout out for free, he gets free golfing at Thanksgiving Point. They have a matching 401K plan, tons of vacation, free products, a chance to earn bonuses, and an opportunity to work with a bunch of great people and be a part of a wonderful team. Cameron will be in charge of the Mexico office and will get to travel there occasionally. He will also be in charge of budgeting for the whole company which he will be very good at.

It's weird to not have him home with me since in the last year he was unemployed for 10 months, but I'm so grateful we found this job. I know it's because of faith, prayers, and a loving Heavenly Father that we have this miracle and I'm very grateful for all I learned through this trial.