Easter 08

I know Easter is very much over but I just got this picture and I love it! I mean honestly, how cute are these girls! For those of you that noticed they are twins, Makenna is the one on the left and Madison is the one on the right. They look much more alike in person then they do in this picture. I have a couple of different ways of keeping them apart. I believe they're just over two years old.
These two girls are in my nursery class and I look forward to seeing them every week. They call me "Sister Dimond" but the way they say 'Dimond' makes me smile every time. Their Mom told me a story that I have to share. One night they were singing 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' and when they got to the part that says, 'like a diamond in the sky', Makenna said, 'Dimond not in the sky, Dimond's at home.' I love it! They love me, what can I say. :)
Well their Mom invited us over for dinner on Easter Sunday and we had so much fun with them, them being the whole family. These two girls also have an older sister and a younger brother (he is also in my nursery class). So they have a very young family that is incredibly entertaining. We played with puzzles, sang some songs, played house, played with balls, ate dinner, and a ton of Easter candy! About every two minutes one of the twins would come up to where I was sitting and would say, 'open this Dimond' as they would hand me yet another Easter egg full of sugar! So cute. They make my dinner every Sunday, I love my calling as nursery leader!

Happy Birthday to me!

You know it seems to be that as you get older that you don't really care much about it being your birthday. But this year when I woke up I practically popped out of bed and ran into the room Travis was in and said, 'it's my birthday'. I was so excited that it was my birthday for some reason. Totally crazy but the good attitude made the day even better. I went to work and my kids sang Happy Birthday to me numerous times and Shawn kept telling me, 'Happy Birthday Camille'. It was like whenever he remembered it was my birthday, he told me. He also me Happy Birthday a lot the next day too. I tried to explain but I think it went over his head, maybe next year.
As you can see in these pictures Travis surprised me with a huge tub of popcorn!
Not just popcorn but the tub, you know, the red and white ones that you would get at the circus or something. There was popcorn candy and movies in there too! My husband loves me.

A couple days before my birthday our PO Box was overflowing with packages and cards from my family and friends from Utah! It was so much great to think that just cuz I'm two thousand miles away from home that my cute family still manages to send me great stuff! I got cute cards from my kids in the nursery class and from family all around. I got 29 new emails-I love having the internet. Thank you so much for all of your love and for not forgetting about me-it made my day!
Travis and I went to DQ yesterday for ice cream and we'll be going to a new resturant this weekend that we've been anxious to try but have been waiting for an event so we could have an excuse to go!
Well that's all for now, there will be more to come next week--pictures from Travis' birthday (which is on Tuesday so everyone call or email).

No Good

I feel no good. My head feels like it's about to explode and my stomach just doesn't seem to feel right. This morning I couldn't decide to call off from work or not-I didn't. Anyone have any suggestions to make me feel better? Well I hope no one feels this way cuz it's stinks! Hopefully I'll write something more uplifting tomorrow cuz I'll feel better. :)

The Easter Bunny didn't forget about us

It was a big time bummer to be two thousand miles away from home when Easter came around. There was no Easter hunt, no coloring eggs, no family games, and no baskets of candy. But the 'easter bunny' didn't forget about us. We got love packages in the mail that made my week! My Mom sent us easter treats that made Easter....Easter! And my oldest sister, Rebecca, sent me a little package for spring-for when that gets here. Can you believe that we're still getting snow? I can't wait until it stops. Some day it will stop. And when it does, I will be one really happy girl.



Thank you Mom! Thank you Rebecca! For not forgetting about me. We love you all and we miss you guys, we miss home. Some day we'll be back. Until then we send our love from small town Loretto in Pennsylvania.

Information Overload-

10 years ago:

I was a Sophomore at Highland High and I was transitioning between groups of friends-for the most part it was awkward. It was an emotional rollercoaster and I guess you could say that it was the year of my high school career that I was "finding myself". It was great though, Megan Daly and I would throw our rollerblades in the back of my Dad's truck every morning while he gave us a lift to school and we'd rollerblade home in less than five minutes. We'd "exercise" by rollerblading around the neighborhood and we'd also try to see how far we could get. We watched music videos on The Box and screamed our lungs out when we made a request and saw our number come up on the screen. We would played Double Solitare while we had cookies baking in the oven that we had dyed funky colors. I worked at KFC having my first "real" job. I came home smelling like chicken every night and yes, I still eat there and still love chicken.

5 years ago:

I had graduated from Snow College in little town Ephraim, UT with my associates but had to stay an extra month to make up a class-Biology. Two months later I packed my bags and moved to Maple Grove, Minnesota where I lived in the basement of the Gambrel family and became "the Nanny". It was the best experience of my life. The family, my friends, Minnesota, was all so wonderful. It is a time in my life that I will never forget and will stories of for as long as others will listen to them.

5 things that were on my 'to do' list for this week:

1-work on scrapbook

2-clean apartment

3-get the car washed

4-order pictures

5-go to the library

I enjoy:

Eating sugar

Talking with family and friends

Spending time with Travis-every minute counts these days so that includes the ten minutes in front of the mirror brushing our teeth and such at the end of the day.

Flowers

Going for walks

Taking pictures

The sunshine

Sleeping in the dark

Long socks

Fires

The beach

Tall glasses of kool-aid

Scrapbooking

Shopping-for anything but scrapbook and office supplies are two favorites

Rollerblading

Bike riding, hiking, camping, and all the outside sorts

Laughing and probably more so making other people laugh

And...oh yes, vacations!

What would I do if I suddenly became a MILLIONAIRE?:

Pay off our car and our not-quite-finished and still building student loans. Buy Travis the TV of his dreams. A house for us to live in for the rest of our lives and then I would hire Danielle' to decorate it for me. Travel. Finally get that dog that we've been wanting since we got married. And probably share a bunch with my cute family that I miss.

5 jobs that I have had:

1-Cashier

2-Waitress

3-Dishwasher

4-Breakfast cook

5-Tutor

5 things most people don't know about me:

1-I'm scared to death of newborns. I wish I could have a baby and keep him at the hospital or with someone else for at least three months because I often have nightmares that my babies head falls off! After I have my baby and the doctor puts my newborn in my arms and as I try to move him around his head fall off (I always dream that he's a boy). It's a reoccuring dream and feeling that I just can't shake.

2-If I had it my way and could afford to so I'd have fresh flowers in my house every day

3-What I really want to do is have a baby and get started with that chapter of my life

4-I wish that the term "listening ears" actually came with a switch on all of my kids in my class that I could flip on and when it was turned on they would actually listen!

5-I was born on an Easter morning at 3:48 on the snowiest day of the year. I was 7 lbs. 2 oz. and 20 1/2 inches long. I had long black hair, bright blue eyes, fat cheeks, a round nose, pointed chin, ten long skiny fingers, and ten toes....or so my mother tells me. :) Oh, and my middle name is Viola, after my Grandmother.

If I could tag anyone it would be Travis but since he's too busy I tag everybody else.