Snow Storm of 2010

Here are some Pictures of Flagstaff's snow storm this past week...

This was Thursday

Kam is making a funny face because the snow blows and it is wet and reallly cold.

Me in the snow, it came to my waist! Crazy! This is on Saturday Morning.

Kameron in the snow

The view to our front door

We decided to dig an igloo under that big pile by our door. It was pretty cool.

So besides having to dig ourselves out all the time and getting water everywhere in the house it wasn't too bad. Oh and the driving home from work on Friday at noon (I wasn't staying any later!) yeah driving in a blizzard and not even knowing if you're on your side of the road was one of The scariest driving experiences! Kameron had the day off on Friday thank goodness. He would have just been driving around in a blizzard!

One of the bad things was all the flat roofs in Flagstaff! There were several buildings that collapsed. Joann's, bookman's, little Cesar's! And some more and other were sagging. I think the snow has finished for now until Tuesday, probably just get some flurries...hopefully!

First Post of Twenty-Ten!

I have been meaning to blog for a while, but just kept putting it off and now I can't remember everything that's been going on! I do know that I didn't take any pictures over the holiday really...bummer. oh well maybe next year? Christmas was good, went to Cottonwood and Mesa. So good to be with family! Than for new years we went to Thatcher and stayed there for the weekend. We havn't been there since July! Too long. But the drive is horendous. And I'm not even sure that's how you spell it but it was worth putting in there! I wish it was only 3 hours even. Poor little Thatcher, down in the middle of nowhere. But it's fun to go and just get out the normal routine. So for Christmas Janel, my awesomely creative and good at whatever she tries sister, made us all these adorable aprons! And they're reversible! So cute!

School has started back up! Boo! The sooner it stars the sooner it's over I guess. My medical coding class starts in the next two weeks. It's been a while since I've sat in a classroom. A little nervous....But it should be good. Kameron is taking electrical systems, masonry, physics 2, and construction architectural...something like that. Besides that and work it's really what we are up to these days. We are in the big decision making process of The Door Shop. It's a very big adult decision and is being turned upside down inside out and everywhere in between. I think we've come up with, try to do it and if everything is falling apart and just seems impossible we won't do it. But we have to move forward somehow so we'll try to do it and if it doesn't work out it wasn't meant to be. It is defiantly a life changing decision though.

So other than life altering career choices we've just been surviving the cold, which we both decided we arn't big fans of. But it's not forever. Kameron is enjoying teaching is 13 year old sunday school class. He understands their behavior because he says he knows he was just like that too. Haha. Any who this post is getting long. If anyone has any business advice we are all ears. But we do know that when it comes down to it we have to make the choice on our own. I'll keep you updated....

December Days

Our Christmas tree

So we are into December already...We're all ready for Christmas. Just have to get through one more day of work! Kameron had his hunt, sadly he didn't get anything. His dad did end up getting a nice bull. So it was a success! Kameron got strait A's this semester! What a smartie! We got our first big snow storm last week or so. Got stuck a couple of times, but nothing too serious.

My medical coding class starts in January and Kam is all signed up for spring semester at NAU. School and work...We are excited for the break for the holidays. Should be fun being with family and all that good stuff.

Kameron and the other guys went out hunting. I didn't do any camping, but did come out for dinner one night.

I forgot to post this video from Thanksgiving. We went to this frisbee golf course and there were these giant trees so of course the boys decided to see if they can jump over them...So here's Kameron.....

Happy Birthday!

So it was Kameron's birthday on the 12th! We had pizza and wings and Kam got a couple of fun things. I made him a dolphins blanket and he got a FM transmitter that is synced with his phone and plays his music over his radio in the car. Pretty cool.

Dolphins Blanket

FM transmitter

Okay so I got a new calling...primary piano player! So here is me practicing my skills before we head off to church. It's a fun calling, and harder than I thought. But it should be good.

We are looking forward to Thanksgiving this weekend and for Kam's hunt. It'll be nice to get a little break from work. It's getting pretty chilly here in Flagstaff, but no snow just yet. Which is okay with me! Life is good!

Buildings and Halloween

Hello! So this Halloween had some fun things going on. Kam is taking some construction class and he had to pick a dream home, write up the blue prints and than make a model of it! How fun! Lots of work too! So on Saturday we started working on this house at 7:30 am and stopped at 7:45 that night! And I think we took one break to go to Michael's to get supplies. But here are the stages....

Stage one: Cutting cardboard

Stage Two: Putting the cardboard together to make a two story house

Stage Three: Painting and Porches

Final Stage: Roof, Landscape and trying not to be distracted by the world series going on in the background (actually had to turn it off :)

The Back

The Front

It was a lot of fun actually and took until monday night at 10pm to finnish. Hopefully Kameron gets a good grade for how much hard work it took!

So I wanted to post some halloween things, my little ghost is think is cute. I got the ghost from Kam's mom and I had some spray paint and wood laying around.

And I just wanted to take a picture of this little pumpkin I got. I thought it was so cute! Just fits in the palm of your hand. So Cute!

We had a craft day for reliefe society and I got to make a sign with our last name and firsts names on it with the est. june 22,2007 on it. I really like how it turned out! Vinyl is so much fun!

Oh and these are my cupcakes. Why is that things seen on the internet or in books always look better there than when you actually try to make it yourself? Atleast that is the way it is for me sometimes. Lets just say these were A Lot harder than I thought they were going to be. Egor back there, the green wasn't bright enough but it was too late, and the little devils were a random idea. Haha but it was fun. And I think it is important to have the right tools to do cake decorating. And of course they were good to eat!

Last picture is of last week. It got super cold on wednesday and actually ended up snowing! yay. I just wasn't prepared to have to scrape my car off after work, but you do what you have to right? Just a prep for later this year I guess. But it has warmed back up so all the snow is gone and I'm going to enjoy that last few warm, snow-free days.

So things are going good. Kameron is ready for the semester to be over and itching for his elk hunt which is coming up on Thanksgiving. He and Cade are out scouting any chance they get. I'm getting nervous for my medical coding class coming up in January. My facts job (an afterschool program for flagstaff schools) is going good. A little frustrating sometimes, but it's good. Kameron is doing great in school! He has gotten the top test grade a couple of times in his one class! We are still trying to hold off turning on our heater, so we get all bundled up at home and than when we go somewhere we get all hot cause it's really not That cold. Yet....

Is it already fall?

Hello! So we've been doing some fun things these past couple of months with family. I'm trying to keep things in order but I forget so I'll do my best. We went up to Utah for Kameron's cousin, Randy's wedding. Jason, Ava and Mom came up to Flagstaff and we went to Snowbowl, the ski lift in the winter. We had the Johnson reunion with Kameron's family during Labor Day. We had a going away party for Nick (moving to Hawaii for school) and Emily (going to BYU Provo) And the most recent, Kam and I went to provo for a Florida State vs BYU game in Provo and we got to see Emily. Lots of driving these past months, but we've been having a lot of fun!!
Coming up, we just have our visit to the temple and looking forward to the upcoming holidays and cold weather....

Here is the Family Picture taken at the Cabin. It's like 20 minutes outside of Heber called Forest Lakes.

I'm not sure what this is but we took at this visitors center. Lots of Trees!


Oh...We were just goofing around at Kameron's grandparents house when we went to the Wedding.

Here are some snowbowl Pictures. I wasn't a big fan of the heights and Ava was being so funny. She wants Jason to carry her up these hills and it was just so funny!

I didn't really want to take this picture...Too High!!

Here is all the gals at Janel's house where we had the party. It was fun just being together...I don't know why everyone has to move so far, but one of these days we'll get everyone together.

Here is Kameron and I at the game. I was So fun being at the game and feeling the energy at the game!!! We were the minority so that was interesting. Every single seat was sold out! So the statum was packed!

Kameron sport'n his FSU spirit!

The final score..FSU won! Yay! Sure made the eight hour drive extra worth it.

Emily, Kameron and I went out to dinner and took a stroll around the block. It's so pretty in Provo. Lots of cars and people but it's a really pretty place.

Me and Kameron

We are still just working and Kameron is going to school. He has some fun classes this semester. He got to pick a dream house, copy the blue prints and they are going to make a mini model of the house. How cool is that! I am looking into a medical coding class that will start up in January and try to fit in an online anatomy class to prep my brain that has taken a break from school. Yikes. We are teaching the 13 year old class in church. Guess we graduated from Nursury whoohoo! We like our new ward, we are going to be speaking in church this Sunday actually. Oh and I've also got another piano student and I am starting an afternoon job at an elementary school. Just kind of something to do while Kameron is at school. Life is keeping us busy!!

Minnesota!!

It's been a while since the Blog has been updated. We've got all settled into our new place and took the long awaited trip to Minnesota! We flew out early Saturday morning and landed around noon. We stayed at a hotel Saturday and Sunday and drove to our cabin on Monday. While we were in Minneapolis we went to the temple, went to Mall of America and went to a really cool museum. Oh and we ate at Applebee's twice! So here are some of the pictures....

St.Paul/Minneapolis Temple. Mom, Kameron and I did an afternoon session. There were only like 10 people in session, much smaller than a Saturday afternoon at the Mesa temple. But it we had a good time and I'm glad we got to go.

Mall of America!!

So fun! There were some crazy rides and I don't know if it's because I'm a year older or what but I could only ride half of what I used to be able to do! But it was so much fun shopping too!!! I loved shopping there. Had to have a lot of self control, but it was amazing!

The Museum

Here is Kameron and I with a moose head.

And Kameron in the fish section.

Us with the Bear

Ava and "Hedwig"

There was a snake you could touch and an albino squirrel and goat, dinosaur bones, tons of birds and wildlife and wolves! We had a really fun time there.

So after our fun filled day on Sunday we went to Mall of America one more time cause we didn't really go on Saturday, but than we drove like 2 hours to our cabin on Sandy Lake in the little town of Moose Lake it was outside of Klokay and about an hour from Duluth. Janel got there on Tuesday. We pretty much just fished and swam in the lake in the backyard! And we went to Digger's house for some BBQ's and music. We also got to go drive in monster trucks in the mud! It was really loud but it was fun to be with family and just have a good time!

The Family!!

Monster Trucks!

Jason, Kameron and Mark

Sisters!

Fishing!!

Here are some fish we caught. There were paddle boats and we had a fishing boat we could go out on. And the paddle boats actually worked really good, just all the paddling...But we mostly caught northern pike, small mouth bass and a couple rock bass, crappie and I caught a small perch. We also went fishing on the river. Kameron caught some feisty bass but other than that we just got the experience of fishing on the river.

The northers have really sharp teeth and they are really slimy! So you have to be careful. Early Saturday morning we took a trip out with Dad's cousin and caught a boat full of pike. There is a monster pike out there because it took me under the boat, Mom and Dad all on different outings, but it just cut the line and we could never see it or catch it!! We need to go back to catch it!

On Saturday we had a mini family reunion because the majority of us left on Sunday.

Here are the kiddos..who are growing up so fast it's crazy!!

And here is a picture of everyone there on Saturday.

It was so much fun being with family and Minnesota is just beautiful!! I wish we could live by the water like that and all the green!! I just don't know about the winters...yikes. I can't wait to go back again (hopefully sooner this time)!!