Mr. and Mrs. Smith

FHE- Gingerbread houses

2012-01-05T21:36:00.000-08:00

Can I just say that I love the people in Edmonton! They really make living here worth it. Cam and I have been so lucky to make such good friends up here- we really have so much fun. In December we got together with some friends and made some gingerbread houses!

Just getting started

Kenzie & Braden

McKenzie & Ben

Our Gingerbread "Club"house- Cam Decided to make a putting green beside our house, so we turned it into a clubhouse, complete with a tee box

and a patio in the back!

Chocolate making

2012-01-05T21:24:00.001-08:00

This year me and my sister in law Suzanne went over to my Grandma Bennions to learn how to make chocolates!

We both learnt a lot and had tons of fun with Grandma!

We got lots of chocolates too :)

Dance Party

2011-11-20T15:24:00.000-08:00

This Saturday I got to have a play date with my two super cute nephews! We went to this indoor play ground thing, and video arcade! (we had to choose something indoors, as it was FREEZING that day) After playing all morning- I decided it was time for lunch, when I asked my nephew what he wanted to eat- he responded with "Candy".... I told him we were going to have some "Candy Fries" and "Candy Nuggets" and some yummy "Candy Pop" for lunch... he thought that was a good idea! When we were at Wendy's eating our Candy for lunch, the boys and I had a little dance party!

Before & After

2011-10-26T21:37:00.000-07:00

Cam has been quite busy around the apartment. Our recent (meaning September....) project was adding a back splash to our kitchen! here are the pictures.

Before

During

After

As you can see from these photo's we haven't finished putting the molding on top and below the cabinets. It is almost finished now! It feels like these last reno projects are taking the longest!

The bathroom is almost 100% finished, Cam just needs to build me a medicine cabinet and then some touch up painting!

Welcome to the world of employment

2011-10-08T10:29:00.000-07:00

I got a real job!!!!

I started today! I got a position as a sales coordinater at a marketing/branding company. So basically all those mugs/pens/t-shirts/calculaters with companies logos that they hand out? I sell that. Basically anything you can think of, they can put a logo on!!

I am pretty excited about it all, I really like all the people I'll be working with it. It's a bit of a smaller company so it's important that I get along with my co-workers.

It was a really hard decision to make as I had always envisioned myself in the financial industry, so going into marketing and sales was unexpected. However i'm ready to join the world of employment!

Get a haircut, and get a real job

2011-10-04T13:16:00.000-07:00

Those are the wise words that my older sister spoke to me on the phone today while I was telling her my frustrations about trying to find a job.

Just to clarify i'm not having any difficulties finding a 'job' those $12-$15/hr jobs seem to find me just fine, i've had plenty of those opportunities.... but a girl has gotta have some standards right?

As a recent university grad yeah maybe I did have a slightly skewed vision of what it would be like trying to find a job after I graduated. but honestly is it to much to ask for a full time job, that requires a little thought.... I mean, i'm not looking for a job that a high school drop out could do. I want one that challenges me, that I can use my skills and develop new ones.

Anyway this week has been a little depressing as my temp job for September ended and I thought i'd have a permanent position lined up by now.

On the plus side I do have a couple interviews lined up this week that I am really looking forward to... hopefully by next week I will re-enter the work force and once again be a contributing member of society!!!

So Grateful!

2011-09-23T15:47:00.001-07:00

I just have to say how grateful I am for my husband, and for my mom. I honestly don't know what I would've done without them this week.

Earlier this week i've been having troubles sleeping... on Wednesday I woke up in the middle of the night with stomach pain.... Cam took care of me all morning while I was throwing up. I thought I just had the stomach flu and sent him to school... a few hours later I thought I was going to die.. I had the worst pains in my lower abdomen.. i've honestly never felt anything like it, I couldn't breath through it I was just crying from pain. Since Cam is at school I call my Mom, she looks up my symptoms and sets me up with Health Link. They suggest that I go into the hospital immediately as my symptoms look like I may have an ectopic pregnancy. I text Cameron and tell him he needs to leave class now and take me to the hospital....

the whole drive over to the hospital I was just praying that this pain would stop, and that it wasn't an ectopic pregnancy. We get to the ER and while the Nurse was assessing me I started throwing up again (I gave her some warning so she got me the garbage can just in time) My pain was in my lower abdomen on the left side which also made the triage nurse think it was a ectopic pregnancy.

While I was waiting in the ER to get admitted I was in so much pain... I kept going up to the nurses and asking them how long it would be. They were probably so annoyed with me. When I finally got admitted then stuck in an IV and gave me some Morphine..... that was the best thing to ever happen to me.

They loaded me up with fluids and then took me to get an ultra sound.... I was so worried and kept thinking about the worst that it could be. During the ultra sound the technician wasn't allowed to say anything.. so I had to wait for the doctor to come in... as soon as he came in I asked him to tell me what was wrong with me... turns out it was my appendix!! I was so relieved.. so most peoples appendix is on the right side of their body... mine was in my pelvis on the lower left side... apparently they can move around a bit because they are only attached on one side, but mine was in a pretty odd spot.

Anyway they scheduled me for an emergency appendectomy, and I went into surgery at about 10:30 (a little less than 12 hours after I was admitted) they told me that if they had waited any longer my appendix would've burst.... so I'm grateful I didn't have to feel that pain!

When I got out of surgery at midnight my Mom had driven up from calgary to be with me.. I was a little loopy from the anesthetic so my mom and Cam came back thursday morning. Cam has class all day on thursday (from 8-3) so my mom stayed with me all day. The hospital was at full capacity so I wasn't even in a room, I was in the broom closet (no joke, I'll get the pics from my mom) Cam hung up a sheet on the wall so I had a little privacy.

Anyway I had to stay in the hospital for 24 hours, but they don't really discharge in the middle of the night so I had to stay till morning. but i'm back home now and I have the 2 best helpers a girl could ever ask for!

I am so grateful to have a mom who will just drop everything when I call to drive up to Edmonton to take care of me. I am also so lucky to have a husband who will stay by my bedside all night.

Sorry if this post was a little too much information. I'm going to start blogging more so that I can remember these times of my life. Especially since this was my very first hospital visit!

The results

2011-08-12T10:06:00.001-07:00

So I know it's kind of hard to tell in this picture because I still refuse to take a full room shot till it's all perfect and the way I want it. But you can see that white cover on the left side of the picture where the light use to be, and where the fan is now! In the complete center of the room! it works fantastic!

annnd here is my new space.

I think it looks much better!

DIY Projects

2011-08-10T13:14:00.001-07:00

Now that Cameron and I have returned backed to the city of champions, I have been busy applying for jobs. However in the mean time I have had time to think up a few little projects i'd like to do around the house and so has Cam.

My Project: The Office Space (aka the corner of our bedroom where the computer is)

Currently looks like this

I'm hoping to add some color, and some wall organizers.

Cam's Project: Install bedroom fan

Our bedroom ceiling currently, We live in an older building so the lights were all awkwardly placed throughout the unit. Our bedroom light is right over the entrance to the closet, so Cam is going to center it to the middle of the room, and add a fan!

(more pictures to come once I clean the bedroom so you can see how awkward it really is)

Farewell Shuswap

2011-07-26T17:29:00.000-07:00

So my family has a cabin on the Shuswap Lake, I've been going out there every summer for my entire life. My mom and my Grandpa built this cabin when she was teenager, so it's a special place. As our my family has grown the cabin has not, and my parents decided it was time to move on from the Shuswap, so they purchased a new cabin on Lake Wasa in BC. I am so excited for this new cabin for so many reasons! Our cabin on Shuswap is boat access only, and built on the side of a mountain, so every time we get there we have to unload all our stuff including groceries up all these stairs. I also won't miss having to be putting the boat out in pouring rain because a storm suddenly blew in. However there are still a lot of things I will miss.

The Cabin

(I really like Cam's face in the above photo...)

(My Mom's last night at the cabin)

(My two super cute nephews)

(My nieces going on an awesome tube ride)

(Me doing a chick fall)

Good bye cabin, i'll sure miss this view!

I did it!

2011-06-26T21:46:00.001-07:00

On Thursday Cam and I took a quick trip up to Edmonton from Magrath to attend my Convocation. Although it was a lot of driving (5 and half hours each way) it was definitely worth it. It was so nice that my parents were able to come up for it as well. My mom was awesome and took tons of photo's for me! The ceremony wasn't too long which was nice, and after we enjoyed a nice reception and then headed out for a celebratory dinner at Ruth's Chris (such a good meal). My sister Amanda and her husband were able to join us for dinner and it was a good time! Here are some pic's of the day!

I like graphs

2011-06-13T19:11:00.001-07:00

I am planning on doing a Best of Europe Post, but all the pictures are on Cam's computer... and it's alll the way upstairs and I don't feel like getting it right now.

As of lately i've liked to make graphs with random data I collect about my life. (side note- when we were in europe at the end of every day we wrote down everything we spent money on, I really enjoyed having all this financial data to make graphs with)

This summer has been an adventure with Cam and I all over the place... literally. Below is a chart of where I am spending/spent my time this summer.

pretty awesome summer I'd say! Cam's graph looks a little different than mine... he doesn't get to play at the cabin as much as I do, but he does get to go to scout camp for a few days!

For the time spent in Magrath, Cameron is working in Raymond building a house, and I'm working in Raymond at the farm safety centre, just some casual jobs that allowed us to take off all of may and 3 weeks off in june/july to spend at cabins. Come mid-August we'll be moving up to Edmonton and I will be looking for a real-job now that i've graduated university and Cam will be going back to school, one more year for him!

so far in Europe

2011-05-10T12:11:00.001-07:00

We made it!!!

We left Calgary in snowy weather and arrived in Amsterdam. We spent our first 2 days in Amsterdam, where they were celebrating their national holiday, Queens Day. It was insane, people we drinking at 9am in the morning, and there were people everywhere. It reminded me of the red mile back when the flames went on their stanley cup run, but not just on one street...on all the streets of Amsterdam.

After Amsterdam we went to Brussels, got on a wrong train, got kicked off a train, but finally made it there. We we were fortunate enough to be able to stay with some friends of Cam's sister. They were very hospitable and we had a great time with them and in Brussels!

After Brussels we set off to Paris, we only spent 3 days in Paris and it was very rushed, my feet were killing me every night and I got the biggest blisters in the world. for one of our days in Paris we went out to Versailles, that place is Amazing! it was so fun to see and to walk around the Gardens to go to the Grand Trianon, and Mary's Antoinette hamlet, unfortunately our camera got stolen somewhere inbetween the gates leaving Versailles to the train station. Luckily I had uploaded my pictures the night before so we still had them! so we still had our pictures in front of the Eiffel Tower!

After Paris we took the night train to Rome! we shared our compartment thing with the French man who snored so loud, I did not get any sleep that night! Cam on the other hand slept surprisingly well.

Rome was very historical it was really interesting to see the buildings they built over 2000 years ago still intact.

When we entered into the Colosseum there was another couple beside us, speaking English we overheard the one girl say that 'This isn't that impressive' and continued to say how she didn't see the big deal about the Colosseum. Cam and I just laughed as we were in awe.

We hit all the big sites in Rome, and then headed down to Sorrento, where we currently are. It's been a nice break from the big tourist attractions down here. Tomorrow we're headed up to Florence!

What to pack???

2011-04-28T10:02:00.001-07:00

Well.... Cam and I have to be at the airport in about 2 hours, and we just finished packing...

Wanna know what I brought.... for 4 weeks of being in Europe?

-4 Shirts
- 2 pairs of shorts
- 3 pairs of underwear (we're planning on doing laundry frequently)
- 2 pairs of socks
- swim suit
- dress
- cardigan
- sandals
- Rain Jacket (it's suppose to rain the first few days we're there... )

and on the plane i'm wearing runners, pants, and a hoody.

Cam is bringing

- 4 Shirts
- 3 Shorts
- Sandals
- Swim Suit
- jacket
- 3 pair of underwear
- 3 pairs of socks

And then of course all of our toiletries and stuff to do on the plane...

Even though it felt like we were packing light and hardly bringing anything, we still managed to almost fill our 2 backpacks

annnd I did have some pictures but for some reason blogger won't let me upload them!

I've promised my mom that I would upload pictures as we went so she could know what we were up too, so feel free to creep on them!

Feels like Spring

2011-04-11T16:03:00.000-07:00

This past week in Edmonton has been so nice (for edmonton that is). I don't think I've worn a jacket once, even though I probably should've a couple of times. Spring is always a fun time, as it marks the end of the school semester. Today I sat in my last class of my undergraduate career. It felt good. I can't believe that in 2 short weeks i'll be graduated!!! just 3 more exams, and one more essay..... this last essay is going to be the death of me, I feel like i've already checked out of writing essay mode.

What i'm most excited for though is right after exams when Cam and I go to Europe!! Just over 2 weeks until were in Amsterdam, and in exactly 3 weeks today, I'll have my picture taken in front of this:

I'm starting to get ready and pack, but I'm really uncertain as to what to bring. We'll be as far north as Amsterdam at the end of april, and Italy in mid may... so i'm not sure how warm of the clothes I need to bring as were going pretty far distances in a tricky season. Oh well, maybe i'll just have to buy some new clothes while i'm over there if I bring the wrong stuff.... that doesn't sound too bad!

Anyway, I really need to get back to studying, this was a nice little break, and hopefully while were gone I can update this thing more often to give my family an idea of what we're up too!

Cam has a Birthday

2011-02-23T12:33:00.001-08:00

To celebrate Cam's Birthday we went out for a very classy dinner at IKEA for 99 cent meatballs! It was delicious

After IKEA we went and got our Curl on, Cam's sisters brought their kids, I think they really liked watching

After curling we went back to Diane's and had birthday cake. It was a good day. His actual birthday wasn't quite as eventful as we just went to church, and had dinner, but he finally got to open his presents!

Cam is now 25, which is getting pretty old for us here in Canada, but luckily for us he is still considered a youth in Europe! and we can get discounts for when we travel there this spring! That's right Cam and I are going to backpack Europe for 3 weeks this spring, so if anyone has any "Must See" places we're open for suggestions!

First Christmas Together

2011-01-10T20:34:00.001-08:00

So this Christmas was mine and Cameron's first one together as a married couple! and it was a good one! We got to spend the first week (from the 22-27) in Magrath with Cam's family.

Cam and I on Christmas Eve

opening our Christmas Eve jammies

in our jammie's in front of the tree

Everyone who slept at Cam's Parents on Christmas eve in our jammies!

Then we travelled up to Calgary and spent the week there with my family. It was lots of fun! Cam and I enjoyed relaxing, reading our books, and going cross country skiing! I didn't get very many pictures of us in calgary. Maybe that should be my new years resolution to take more pictures... i'm still not sure if I believe in new years resolutions though...

Cam and I on New Years

All and all it was an awesome holiday, and Cam and I are both sad to be starting school again and back to our responsibilities here in edmonton.

Reno"s...

2010-09-30T15:52:00.000-07:00

So anyone who asks Cam and I what we've been up to, we always respond with Reno's. So I figured i'd put up some pictures of proof of what we've been doing together!

I didn't really think about taking 'before' pictures until after we were done the demolition stage, luckily the apartment right across the hall had the exact same layout (well mirrored) and same floors and cabinets and everything, so here are the pictures of that apartment:

The Bathroom:

The living room/ kitchen

The Bedroom:

Here are some of the "During Pictures" I really wish I had taken more, but these are when we've already finished ripping everything up and drywall, and paint...

I sure did learn a lot, when we started these projects I didn't even know how to change the drill bit on the drills... or that an exact-o knife was called a utility knife.... I didn't know anything about mudding and sanding... Now I can change electrical outlets all by myself, lay laminate, oh and I don't want to brag, but I am pretty fast at putting together Ikea Cabinets...

Here are the After Pictures!!!

The Bathroom:

The Bedroom:

The Kitchen:

The Living Room

So it is done, and on the market... I even think it's conditionally sold right now... So that's exciting!

Cam and I are now working on our apartment... it has ben quite interesting living in reno's, we ripped out or kitchen about 2 weeks ago, and have been without countertops or a sink for the past 2 weeks... which is brutal. But the end is near! We get countertops tomorrow, I am so sick of doing dishes in my bathroom sink.

once our apartment is completely done i'll post more pictures, once again I didn't take any before pictures, just reference these ones, they were all the same!

Back to School...

2010-09-13T19:15:00.000-07:00

Cam and I are back to school!!!

The traditional first day of school pic

Jasper

2010-09-08T18:00:00.000-07:00

Cameron and I were lucky enough to go to Jasper for the long weekend.

It was nice we got there Thursday night and spent all of Friday and Saturday in and around Jasper. We didn't go on a big hike like we wanted (it started raining, and I reallly didn't feel like hiking in the rain) so we just did nature valley walks and went and saw all of the "Must Sees" in Jasper, Here a few pics...

Cameron setting up the tent:

Me getting some firewood so we can make yummy tinfoil dinners:

Sitting by the fire:

Nature Valley walks:

Down by the Athabasca river there was this spot with literally like 200 little nook shucks things (how do you spell that anyway?)

The Life Of Jenna Jean Smith

2010-08-16T16:46:00.003-07:00

Wow it has been forever since i've updated this.... well first off I got married!!

and I had all my nieces in the cutest dresses I've ever seen!

and my bridal party looked pretty sharp too!

I am still waiting for my official pictures from our photographer... so when I get those i'll put them asap! I am actually just so excited for them!

I don't know what else to say about my wedding, other than it was absolutely perfect for me!

After the weekend was over Cameron and I went out to invermere for a whole week just the 2 of us! We went to all the various natural hot springs, our favorite was this little natural one we found down by a river, I liked it so much better then being in like a giant hot tub with 100 other people.

We also enjoyed the various hiking trails around the area:

There is so much more that has happened since then, but I'll post about those later!!!

4 more sleeps

2010-06-21T17:46:00.000-07:00

till i'm Mrs. Smith....... weird

most neglected blog

2010-06-01T14:18:00.000-07:00

It’s JUNE!!!!

Wow, I can’t believe it’s June already!
Ok so first off can I start off by saying how much I love Cameron, and how I do know that I want to marry him.

But it’s still perfectly normal to freak out once in a while right??
When we first got engaged I was fine 0 freaks outs… I mean it was just some date in the far off future… and now when I look at my calendar I have something everyday up till my wedding day.

Every time I open my day planner I just freak out and get so overwhelmed and it really doesn’t help that I’m taking spring semester and my final is on the Wednesday June 23rd, and then I get married on Friday.… I’m just a little girl, I can’t be getting married!!!!

And tons of small things keep coming up that add to me freaking out, mostly my dreams.. I’ve never been one to ever really remember my dreams, and I’ve never had nightmares (except once when I took Nyquil) anyway this week I had a straight up nightmare, the kind where you wake up and you’ve been crying and you’re all sweaty and you can’t get back to sleep…..

Anyway it just seems so real now that it’s so close, which I’m super excited about, but also nervous…. Is this normal??

This morning I woke up to a text from Cameron saying “Happy June, Have a gross chocolate and let the count down begin” and on the floor by my bed was those Christmas chocolate advent calendars… in fact it’s the one I got him at Christmas time…

When we were first started dating I told him that I always wanted to get married in the like middle of the year, basically just not to close to Christmas, just so we could have an excuse in the future to splurge on some big item for the summer time. So when we were seriously talking about getting married and looking at dates, I was happy that it was in the summer, and how awesome is it that is’ exactly 6 months away from Christmas?

Haha ok so maybe nobody else will ever think that my anniversary is sweet for that reason, but I do… and that’s all the counts.

anyway... sorry this post is kind of random... but i'm kind of random...

Good news!!!

2010-04-23T10:34:00.000-07:00

Ok So I GOT MY RING!!!

On Wednesday Cam and I went into Ben Moss and spoke with the manager...
I gave her my sad story of not having my ring for 8 WEEKS and how I had to take my engagement photo's without it..
and how it's caused me so much stress...
I started tearing up..
I wish I could say I was faking it, but I really was that emotional over it.

She was really nice to me and asked me what I wanted her to do. I told her we were thinking about buying our wedding bands there as well, but we felt like we deserved a Discount. So we picked out our wedding bands and she offered us $100 dollars off, and no taxes... and I told her that I still didn't feel like that was good enough, as we have already been through so much. So she took off $150 off my engagement ring as well, I really do feel much better about everything now!

So on Thursday I wrote my Last exam, and got my engagement ring finally!!!! Such a good day!

I need some advice...

2010-04-16T10:36:00.000-07:00

Ok So Cam and I got engaged at the beginning of March, He ordered my engagement ring a week before then, When he ordered they told him 2-4 weeks... he was debating waiting for the ring till he proposed... (SO glad he didn't) Anyway I was so excited/Anxious for my ring that at week 3 I made him call and see if it was here yet. They (being some random lady at Ben Moss) told us that it wasn't in yet, but we should try again in a week...

So we try again the next week, and Same thing it wasn't here it yet (it had now been the 4 weeks)... this time the lady got our information, went to go look it up informed us that it was coming.. and was expected to come in on April 10th... another 2 week away... I was a little upset, but 2 weeks wasn't that BIG of a deal.

April 10th came, and Cam and I called the store... and apparently it missed getting on that shipment, but they were getting another on on thursday and it'd FOR SURE be on that one (literally their words....) So then Yesterday Cam and I call Ben Moss again, (I was so excited to finally have my ring) and the lady informed us that it wasn't on that shipment so we asked her if she knew where it was.... and apparently they don't even know the shipping company... and every other sales lady who we talked to just lied to us... Anyway the point of the story being... they have no idea where it is... according to the last lady we talked to, custom orders always take 6-8 weeks, and has no idea why they told us 2-4 and kept saying it'd come in on the next shipment....

I'm honestly just so turned off from Ben Moss right now, I'm debating if I even want this ring anymore...

I just feel like every sales lady we talked to before now just told us that it was coming the next week just so they could get off the phone with us.

Mostly i'm just frustrated because it's been 7 weeks now.... 7 weeks of people asking to show them my ring (which I wouldn't mind if I actually had it)..... 7 weeks of me going "I don't have it, it's coming on (whatever day they told me at the time)"

So, anyway... i'm seriously considering just trying to find another ring... the problem is... I really did fall in LOVE with this one...

so here is a picture of it for everyone who asks what it looks like... sorry it's not on my finger, and we'll see if this is even the ring I end up with... (Ben Moss better give me a good deal for having to wait so long)

should I find a new ring, since i'm seriously angry with Ben Moss.... or be a pushover and still buy this one?

Feeling Kind of Stressed

2010-03-29T14:26:00.001-07:00

Ok,

So all of my classes require a lot of group projects.. which means I'm in a lot of groups. Whenever anyone from school finds out i'm getting married, they always ask how long we've been together... and when were getting married... when I tell them June, they all think June 2011... and tell me how this next year is going to be so fun planning.... Then I tell them THIS June.... And they all freak out, and tell me i'm crazy. (which maybe I am)

So between a full course load, and planning a wedding I am pretty busy... but then Cam and I decided on top of that, we were going to renovate 2 apartments for my parents, a fun project to do while your engaged we thought.

Anyway right now we just finished demolishing.... which was actually kind of fun.... I felt hardcore ripping up carpets and tearing down walls.. we even went on a fun trip to the dump.. I'm actually so upset I didn't have a camera to take a before picture.... So i'll just paint a mental picture of what the apartment looked like before.

Walk in, first thing you notice is the sick orange shag carpet.... Next thing you notice is the hanging ball light fixtures straight out of the 70's. The kitchen cabinets weren't too bad, they were still a pretty sick old brown color. The wall in between the bedroom and the living room is this sick old panelling... Seriously, i'm so sad I didn't get a picture.

Anyway so Reno's are taking up a bunch of my time... Planning the wedding is fun... still a little stressful trying to co-ordinate everything over the phone with my mom... (ps my mom is actually the greatest and helping me do everything it's so wonderful to have a mom who cares!!!) and not to mention it's the end of the semester and I have like 3 big group projects/ Presentations next week.. followed by finals...

needless to say i'm starting to feel a bit overwhelmed and stressed.....

PS- I asked for a camera for my birthday so I'm really excited about that!

Engaged to be Married

2010-03-15T14:08:00.000-07:00

Yup, I am Engaged!

sorry this post is way overdue, I was waiting for pictures, but then my camera broke so no pictures... :(

The Date has been set for June 25th.

Cameron and I will be getting married in Cardston,in the LDS Temple... I am SO EXCITED!

I feel terrible since I haven't even written our story in my journal yet, so this is going to be my journal for now!

Our Story.... the really really short version

Cameron and I met just over a year ago when he played in an EQ basketball tournament and his roommates made a sign saying "Cam makes super babies" naturally I was intrigued and that semester I started seeing him around school.(Note apparently we met once before the basketball tournament when I went to "What's In the Van Man" with his roommates, we had to drop one of their roommates (Cam) at school before we could go, and I was mad because we were going to be late... haha)

Anyway After the basketball tournament we started talking in the hallways and I thought "hey this kid is kind of cool, he'd be sweet to have as a friend" over the next 3 months Cam and I did indeed become friends, and I was getting a little nervous because I started to have a crush on him, and did not want too. We started going on dates but both decided that it wouldn't be a good idea to start dating as he was moving to kewlona for the summer and I would be in calgary. So we just kept going on dates till the summer. Finally in May we decided that we would like to see where things went, even if we did date long distance for the summer.

The summer was so much fun, we got to see eachother almost every other weekend, and talked on the phone everynight. We spent quite a bit of time with eachothers family and really got to know eachother. We were also able to go on alot of fun adventures together that summer.

Finally september came where we would be living in the same city- not going to lie I was little nervous, I knew I loved spending my weekends with him, but I wasn't sure how our relationship would handle seeing eachother everyday- but it was great!

At christmas time we were able to spend more time with eachothers family, and I left for Jamaica for 12 whole days without Cam. Those were hard.

Cameron proposed to me on March 5th 2010, at a park that overlooked the rivervalley. He got down on one knee and said some things... and I honestly don't remember anything he said, as soon as he got down on one knee all i could think was "oh my gosh... I'm so excited... I can't believe this is happening" However I do remember him asking me to marry him, I think I said yes before he even finished!!!

Over the past year Cam has really become my best friend, we really have so much fun together.

I'm so excited to be married to him and start a new adventure together!

(I am also excited to have super babies......)

I'm a LUCKY GIRL!

2010-03-03T11:15:00.000-08:00

I am SUCH a LUCKY GIRL!!!

SO one of my best friends from high-School Melissa, plays basketball in the states, I've been so lucky over the past 4 years to fly out east to watch her play! this past weekend was her Seniors night (her last home games of her University Career) so naturally I wanted to attend to show my support for her! First I'm so lucky to have such wonderful parents who would give me the Airmiles so that I could get there!!! Second- I'm so lucky I got there! I heard on the news the day before I flew out that a huge snow storm was expected to hit Newyork (where I was flying into) and that most flights were being delayed or cancelled. Everyone told me that I should make alternative plans... i'm not really sure how you do that when you've already booked your flights. Anyway I decided that I wouldn't stress out about it, and I would just go. So thursday night I took the red eye from edmonton to Toronto. When I got to Toronto it was pretty hectic, there were about 30+ at my gate trying to fly standby. Apparently the flight right before mine from Toronto to Laguardia was cancelled, and everyone was very upset that they were letting my flight leave before that one. so I sat waiting to board my flight listening to very angry people yell. but Luckily my plane was still able to leave. I guess it was the first one allowed to leave toronto that morning, and all other flights had been delayed or cancelled. I had about a half hour delay on the runway because we had to get the wings of the plane defrosted but other than that it was smooth sailing. When we were about to land in Laguardia the Captain told us that there were 3 other flights circling the airport waiting to land and we've probably be delayed (which would mean i'd miss my bus to new haven, and miss Mel's game) then not even 5 minutes later we were preparing for our final descent. When I go to Laguardia everyone there said that they had only 1 other flight land before mine, and they were canceling the rest. I have no idea how I got to be so lucky! but I am so grateful, because I had such a fun Weekend!!!!

Here are some pics of the beautiful campus of Yale, and Mel's Basketball game!

It was such a fun trip, and I'm so sad Mel is graduating in the spring and I won't be making another one out there!

I scream, You scream, we all Scream for...

2010-02-04T12:22:00.000-08:00

ICE CREAM!!!!

For christmas, I got an Ice Cream Maker, and I've been using it almost every week!

This past weekend, we got a little crazy and tried to make S'more Icecream, My friend Erin is currently obsessed with anything S'more so we thought we'd try it out... turns out I don't like it. But it was kind of neat, we melted marshmellows and added them into the creamy part main part of the ice cream, and then when it was almost finished added some chocolate and crushed graham crackers... not bad

We also made sushi that night... it was really fun! we found tempura batter, and deep fried everything we could find... Shrimp, Crab, Asparagus, peppers, zucchini, such a delicious meal.

It's been a really good couple of weeks!

Now i just need to buckle down, write 3 midterms this week... then I have a whole week off for reading week! SO excited!!

What I've Been Up Too!

2010-01-30T16:33:00.000-08:00

Well January has been a crazy month!

(Ps this post is very long, catching up whoever cares about my month!)

I started off the new year in Jamaica with my family... unfortunately I had lost my camera charger and don't have any pictures of my own of that trip.

Coming back to edmonton was something that I was very excited for, however on my journey to the city of champions I went into the ditch. Nothing happened aka I didn't hit anything, and I'm totally fine, just a little shook up, luckily within 2 minutes of me going into the ditch a nice RCMP officer was there to call a tow truck for me, and calm me down. He drove me the nearest town (didsbury) where I was suppose to wait 20 mins till the tow truck came.... an hour later i received a call from the Tow truck company informing me that there was now a "Tow ban" on, and they were not going to be able to get my car out of the ditch till the took it off. Long story short I ended up staying the night in Didsbury.

Anyway since i've been back in edmonton i've been having a lot of fun! I'm on a Inner Tube Water Polo Team:

and, started crafting... This one is just a canvas I painted, and added some string and beads, I use it as a bulletin board, and just have pictures and schedules and stuff under the beads...i've only finished one craft so far, but i've got like 345678 other ideas:

I also started baking a lot this month, and my friend Erin and I got these idea's off a blog called bakerella, check it out it's amazing!

Cam and I also have been doing winter things... like ice skating and snow shoeing!

anyway I have a few more pics from other fun things i've been up to that i'll post next!

ps. If you read this, can you comment? I haven't really told anyone that i started a blog, mostly because i never write, and just wondering who sees it. Also is there a way to see if your blog was viewed? I feel like their must be, because I always creep this one craft blog, and she wrote a post about how she had 106 visitors in one day, and no comments... so I want to know how she figured that out. If you know, please tell me!

Thanks!!!

PICTURES!!!!!

2009-12-16T16:56:00.001-08:00

Sarah's Wedding!!!!

To study... or to Blog... that is the question...

2009-12-14T13:59:00.000-08:00

ok....

So I am absolutely BRUTAL at studying... I can't find the will to do until usually the day before, and usually by then it's to late to cover all the material. I always find it harder to study in the winter semester... all I want to do is fun Christmas stuff... Last night was my roommate Christmas... (I lost the battery to my camera, but i'll get the photo's from lisa and put them on here later) SO we started off by going to see SANTA!!!! and got a roommate Pic with a british Santa.. then we picked up our chinese food and had a candle lit dinner just the 4 of us! It was honestly such a good night, just what I needed!

After Dinner we went around and talked about our high's and Lows of the year annnd we all agreed the Bed Bug Fiasco was a HUGE low. Then we made our predictions for 2010. Which i think was more just an opportunity for us to talk about what's going on in our lives, because we (well at least I) haven't had much time to fill them in on anything.

Then the Present Exchange!!! It was so Fun! I had Lisa, and I got here some zebra slippers to match her snuggie, so leopard tights, as well as some driving gloves (note- we realize we love animal print, and that we are becoming the cougars of YSA since we're all getting so old) Lisa had Betsey, and got her a Leopard print Snuggie (see note above) Betsey had Katie, and made her this awesome journal, and got her an emo touque. annnd that means Katie had me, and got me MITTENS ON A STRING!!!! I was so happy, i've seriously wanted mittens on a string for SO long!

After Gift exchange we cleaned up, changed into our pj's and played Love Cards. (Love cards on it's own deserves a post so I won't go into it) BUT it was a pretty fun time!

Basically I really do love my roommates, and I really do consider them like sisters to me.

Anyway I really do want to Post lots of pictures soon!! I just need a Charger..... and i'll go and steal pics from Lisa and Cam!

.... Roommate Christmas... Success

FRUSTRATED!

2009-10-30T14:13:00.000-07:00

AHHHH

Ok so I don't know what it but EVERYTHING has been bothering me lately. Maybe it's from the stress of school, or me not really knowing what i'm doing in my life. But I find myself in situations where other people just really ANNOY me.

so warning this is just me venting at the very moment because something small just happened that isn't the biggest deal in the world. But when that small thing keeps happening over and over and over again, and then person doing it to you is completely oblivious to it... or even worse, thinks their actions are totally justifiable. It just get irritating.

I'm taking a conflict resolution class right now, that i find very interesting by the way. AND it talks a lot about we find things irritating and say it's the person, when in fact it's not the person, it's their behavior, and behaviors are learnt and can be changed depending on the environment and circumstances.

But seriously in this case it's definitely the PERSON, and if it's not the person, then it's every behavior about them that irritates me.

so I'll admit that I do need to calm down a bit (this is why i'm writing this post so that when i see that person I don't freak out at them) but the only thing i want to do it call them out on everything they've done.

I'm trying to make this super general because it is a public blog. buuut I don't think i can really take anymore of this. I know that you have to extra patient with people especially when you live in a house with 4 other girls. There are ALWAYS people coming over, which is great, keeps life fun right? But I just can't handle when people don't respect things that are mine. Sure come over and hang out with my roommates, But know when you go over to other peoples houses you are guest there!!! don't act like you own the place, DON"T think everything is there for your benefit, it seriously drives me crazy when people feel entitled to things that aren't theirs. ESPECIALLY when it's mine!!!!

SO please when you come over to my house respect my things, don't take things without asking... and then I don't have to be the crazy roommates that locks everything up for fear that people will take it.

Ok i think i'm almost calmed down... although this did also get me a lil more riled up.... oh boy.... Good thing my Parents are coming into town this weekend and I plan on spending little to no time with anyone else!!!

Where did September go???

2009-10-06T14:54:00.000-07:00

Ok this month went by WAY to fast! it seems like those midterms and assignments that I thought were forever away are actually here!!

Oh September 2009, what great memories you gave me, Starting with the move up to edmonton which went very smoothly and all the fun welcome back activities. it always sucks buying textbooks and I thought I could get away with not getting them this semester... turns out I was wrong, and have bought them all... but for sure the most memorable experience from September 2009 was..... bed bugs...

So I share a room up in edmonton with another girl (who I absolutely love by the way) and for the first week she slept on the couch in the main room because our room was still so hot, but then it started cooling down and she still wouldn't sleep in her bed, she then started talking about how itchy she was all the time... and long story short, the bed a mere 10 feet away from mine had bed bugs.... how they got there we're still unsure, she had recently (not that recent though) travelled to south america where she stayed in some sketchy hostels that had bed bugs and we think they may have come back that way.... but either way we had to deal with calling of the exterminators... I've never had to deal with bed bugs before and didn't know that it was such an extensive procedure to get rid of them. So we had to take our entire house apart to get ready for the exterminators. The worst part of it all was that we had to take all of our clothes and put them into garbage bags and then wash them all. I live in a house with 5 girls, we have ALOT of clothes... and the worst part of it all was that we had to get exterminated twice, so after taking our house apart, washing all our clothes, putting our house back together, waiting two weeks and then doing it all again!!! needless to say there were definitely tears.

BUT it's all over, we are now bed bug free and looking forward to October! I'm going to try and be better at this blogging thing that month!

The City of Champions

2009-09-11T17:53:00.000-07:00

Can I just say that I love living in Edmonton.. (which all growing up in Calgary I called Deadmonton...) anyway it really is just the place for me to be in my life right now. I don't think i'd want to live in edmonton for my entire life, but for now this is where i want to be.

I just moved back here at the beginning of September and everything has been so great. A BIG thank-you to my mom for taking the time out of her busy schedule to come up and help me get everything ready for school, she really is the best!

The first weekend I was here was filled with Welcome Week Activities and Birthday Parties.. annd then off to school I went.

Of course as for tradition I went to DQ after my first day of school (Cam and Kristin came with me) annd I think i'm really going to like this semester, I've finally learned not to schedule Any classes before 10 am because I just won't make it (it only took me 3 years to realize that) but now my schedule is just the way I like it, I'm in all the classes I want!

Since i've been back in E-town there have been a couple of eventful things to happen, but those deserve their own post at a later date!

The Lion King

2009-08-20T12:13:00.000-07:00

This Tuesday my mom, Kristin and I all went to the Lion King together! it was such a good time! before the show we went out to eat and ran a couple quick errands and then drove down to the theatre to watch the show.. seriuosly the costumes were just stunning! So much attention to detail!! I absolutely LOVE broadway shows and am so glad that my mom does too! and that she loves me enough to take me with her to them!!!!! soo Thanks mommy!!!

August Long

2009-08-04T17:53:00.000-07:00

The August Long Weekend....

quite an eventful weekend for me. When I was in elementary school I remember the older kids always getting to go on sweet sweet field trips, I remember 2 in particular, the 1st one was when they got to go to head smashed in buffalo jump, and then the big one, when you were in grade 6 you got to have a sleep over at the Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller. Anyway I always looked forward to those 2 trips, and I'm not sure what happened but when I was finally old enough to go on these sweet sweet field trips they stopped doing them! So this weekend I finally did them myself! (well with Cam too)

unfortunately Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump didn't make it into our weekend, but we did manage to go to Brooks, where we got to see the Aqueducts!

This is a picture of us before we started our sweet Road Trip

and here is the aqueduct in Brooks..... very interesting!!

Then we were off to Drumheller!!! our first stop was the GIANT dinosaur in downtown, and we even got to climb up 106 stairs inside and go to the very top!!!

Then off to the Famous Royal Tyrell Museum

and maybe my highlight of the trip was our visit to the very small church.... yup it only holds 7 people at a time... it was very tiny.

and the fun did not stop there, we then took a scenic drive up to Horse Shoe Canyon

And then we went to this sweet sweet suspension Bridge, but I didn't take any pictures so maybe when i get the pictures off of Cam's camera i'll put some up! but we ended the night with a quick visit to the HooDoos

a very successful weekend.

My First Post

2009-08-04T11:43:00.000-07:00

ok, so I always thought that blogs were just for people to showcase their children, but I am now starting to see the usefulness of them, as an online Journal! and since i'm on the computer alot, hopefully I can keep an accurate account of my life! i'm going to call my sister Megan tonight to have her show me how to use this thing, but we'll see if I pick up on it.