Yeah yeah

Okay:

1. leaving for okla tomorrow, yippee!!!

2. unlike my usual self, i still have to pack

3. i got 2 new rugs today at target for $3.99 each (for the kitchen)

one of the old rugs in the kitchen was in cameron's entry way

in his college garage apt.... eww

4. i love giving stuff to people, and i have a few presents for my peeps in okla

5. it's mid 50's here, got the doors and windows open!

6. at target i brought my own paper and re-usable whole foods bags

and unlike whole foods & king soopers, they do not re-imburse you for

bringing in your own bags.... deuches

hello, i could have saved about $1

AND saved the earth. suckers.

I saw this on someone's blog from Lo's blog that I blog stalked once and thought it was cute

In honor of me not seeing cameron for 2.5 days & missing him:

Things about Cameron:

1. i love it when he says something and makes himself laugh

(it's the cutest laugh that you ever did hear)

2. he hates cilantro b/c it tastes like soap

3. he is so funny when he gets on a kick about something and WILL NOT stop talking about it

ie: mountain bike parts, his palm pilot, this program where you can type/ download a paper

onto it and it speaks it for you, nutritional things, garlic, cayenne pepper pills, moutain

biking, snow shoeing, shorts, hating snow.......... and the list goes on and on

4. he uses about 50,000 post its a day

5. he uses about 5-10 glasses a day

6. he is a really good cook (bananas fosters is a specialty)

7. he loves coffee but cant drink it past about noonish, b/c he can't sleep

8. he love japanese animation cartoons...

9. he does not know where i hid his oscar meyer weiner pj pants... muhahahaha

10. he says schnooze is his #1 bff

11. he will have his bachelors, masters, and doctorite all before he turns 30... geesh

12. he loves to make up phrases and one ended up in the urban dictionary added by andy

Knowledge Bomb and it was also in an article

13. his nickname is Slamcake & his accomplice is the eXtreme, and together with their

forces they are: Team Cobra (look about 3 pics up from bottom)

14. he loves raquetball

15. he was the r-ball vice pres in college

16. he is irish

17. he loves salt & vinegar lays kettle chips

18. he loves getting beat up moutain biking so he can show off his cool wounds

19. he will be a graduate of the masters program in 2.5 months

20. he chose me :)

Glasses Suckas

I FINALLY got my new glasses!

here they are:

you can't really see my glasses here, but this is my

$8 shirt from target

here they are, nice and purple and hip

side view (not trying to show off the brand, that's just how they are)

blurry shot sorry, but aren't they cute?

the little black and white dogs in the background

are salt and pepper shakers :)

schnooze needed some reading glasses

So, today is my one day off in between 7 days of work, blah.

so dr. cameron and I went for lunch at a thai place,

then i am running errands while he does some work at school,

then we are relaxing at stella's coffee shop

hope all is well.

i will see some of you lovely people in 7 days!!!!

especially: ben

susanne

sus

mom, david, dad, maggie, gram, g-pa, maybe the froeses

and anyone else that wants to see me :)


PS: a new 8mm video camera came 2 days ago in the mail, so now

i can transfer old home vids of me and sus onto DVDs :)

University of Denver

The University of Denver

CAMERON GOT A PHONE CALL YESTERDAY

(keep in mind that his interview was friday)

AND HE GOT IN!!!!!!!!

it's the PhD program for Counseling Psychology

it's 4-5 years long

it's in quarters not semesters

he starts After Labor Day

it should almost completely be funded (paid for)

He loves this school

it has raquetball courts and an awesome gym with a pool

they have a hockey team, bball team, and other teams that i dont know

if we move closer there, it's still only 5 miles away from our house now

it's a fancy schmancy private school

he interviewed with 25 (that was narrowed down from 100)

and they picked 6 :)

he's smart!!!!

that's all i know so far.

today i got my glasses (pics to come soon)

and it was my 1st out of 7 days in a row :(

Interview

Can't talk long, after today, I work the next 7 out of 8 days. Bummer.

1. interview went extremely well. We should find out hopefully by friday!!! they pick 6-7 out of
25 people interviewed!
2. i get to go home to see family for 2.5 days feb 29- march 2.... so if you want to see my, ask
soon!!!
3. stitches are out and head is doing well. head broke
4. sus had her first day of Head Start, and I got a text 1/2 way thru her day and it was
going well so far
5. sus has some super cute stuff on sale for a craft show this weekend, look her up on facebook
to see the pics: (sus jones kramer)
6. new fellowship groups are starting next week, so hopefully we can get ours down to a
managable # (under 15 from 25???)
7. mom paid for my plane ticket!!!
8. i worked a bonus shift saturday (time and 1/2 PLUS a $250 bonus suckkkkkaaaaaas)!
that's all, later!

DU mixer + Interview

1. Tonight is cameron's "get to know you" thing at the bar

it's for the interviewees (is that a word?) for the interview tomorrow

also current phd students will be there

2. cameron's for the reals (shout out to susanne for that phrase) interview

is tomorrow, we don't really know what it will be like

but he might find out tonight, but i will already

be asleep when he gets home

3. i ironed his suit. did i mention the weird crotch triangle in his pants?

well the tailor kind of made it go away, but not 100%

so i tried to iron it out.... it got a little better

let's just hope no one is staring at his crotch.

or maybe that's a good thing, and it will be some dorky lady professor that

lets him in b/c she is crushing on him???

4. i might get to come to okla feb29-march2

i have 8 days off in a row and that is balltastic.

hopefully someone will buy me a ticket

5. last night at old navy they were having a sale only at my store 9the one by

my house anyways) that everything (x new stuff) was 90% off

i got 8 shirts (button up and polo) for cam, 2 sweater cardigans for me, and

3 baby sweatshirts FOR...................

$27!!!!!!!!!!!!

i saved over $160!!!!!

i am awesome!

6. what am i doing up this late, i have to work tomorrow.

good night

"my friend liz has head surgery" and other various things

!!!!!!!!!CAUTION!!!!!!!!!

if you are grossed out easily, skip the bloody pics (first 5 pics)

this was the first pic i came to that would suffice as a CAUTION pic, preceeding the gross

pics below... but it is in south carolina, when cam and i went in 2006,

it is called the Angel Tree, and it is very large!

"my friend liz had head surgery"

that is me.

I had a cyst removed from my head today. i didn't feel anything except the "bee sting" of the lidocaine and one sharp pain as she was cutting it out. But i did tell people i was getting my head sliced open. odette & sara were my moral support, seeing as cameron was in school and everone else was at work. Anyways it wasn't so bad, just really really bloody!!!!

there was a point in time i thought ody and i could go to starbucks after this. boy was i wrong. really wrong. so wrong the dr asked if i was gonna wear a hat. anyways, it looked like i was in a car wreck. so i came home and rinsed my hair before i went to work for some ethics and compliance crap. anyways.... long story... see the pics.

they didn't have to shave my hair off. it's held back with a bobby pin.

there are 3 sutures. but you can't really see anything. this was before the shower.

see my bloody hair??? not highlighted.

you can see the sutures better here.


after the shower. you can really see that i cannot shower well, but also you can distinctively see the sutures... they are the 3 black hair like things sticking up, tied in a knot.
i know i look bald in that spot, but she didn't pull but 3-4 hairs out.
and yes i know, i really didn't shower well.




more pics

oh yeah, and i forgot, i talked so much about how mad i was that i forgot my camera, that eventually, the doc asked if i wanted to take the cyst home. OF COURSE I DID!!!! i know it's soooo gross, but it's sitting on our counter in the kitchen (even more gross i know). it's the size of a large pea (or 2 small ones)... kinda oblong.




the camera case and kleenex box are a
reference of how small the
container is.

close up of cyst... see that tail.. i think that is what was holding

it into place in my head. gross huh?

with lid off. it's in a formaldehyde soln... so it won't deteriorate.

i can keep it forever.... nah probably not.

and to show how much of a nurse i am....

pics below of what i made for dinner.

pls don't barf.

sus gave me this recipe for chicken alfredo pizza... all homemade, even the crust!!!

with tomatoes, spinich, and chicken

a funny pic of schnooze

looking out the window

a before pic of cam (before his interview at DU)

after pic (still before the interview... it's friday)

(before the suit was altered)

handsom huh?????

you;d accept him into the phd program right?



fellowship group last night was bring food that is: white, pink, or red

laura beth and steve made these amazing treats (2 trays worth)

look at all the goodies, esp the cupcakes in the back

there was also this dip for apples that was:

cream cheese, brown sugar, and vanilla

it was delish!

left to right:

Heather, Katie (she is not weird looking usually, just in this pic), Whitney, and Laura Beth

compost

compost

vacuum

schnauzer

this was my attempt to try and do a hyper link thingy...

i did it in a very complicated way... so if you have an

easier way, let me know.

vacuums.

today we went to pick up our vacuum from the vac-fixer-sleezeball-man

very long story, but this is the part i wanted to share with you.

he was trying to get us to buy many things, including a vac with a bag (instead of the awesome bagless kind) (which he was pretty ghetto about selling) and a $2000 vacuum.

This was his tactic:

with calculator in hand:

okay so you have

24 months in a year

mult that by

20 years

at say: $60 a pop ("and that's low-balling it")

and you get

$3500

(first off i just did the math, and it does not come out to $3500)

but did you notice that there AREN'T 24 months in a year.

I was laughing so hard inside.....

Anyways that comes to like $28,800 for one stinking vacuum bucko...

he did NOT know what he was doing. Needless to say,

we went to walmart and got a $150 vac. Even though i wanted a Dyson.

More posts below

Okay, as said below, check out the 3 posts after this, they are all new!

I am on a roll!!!!

This is from march 2006, but it was a cute one :)

We were in Charleston, SC at Kim and Derek's beach house
Random, almost 4 years ago
A nursing school awards thingy

the blueberry pancakes i made yesterday morning
and yes i know, they look like choc chip cookies

as said in the post a couple below this one...

this is slightly melted dip 'n dot snow

Saturday cam was mountain biking in Pueblo, CO

These are his pics

you don't have to go far away to see stonehenge ;)

John: "bombing down the mountain"

scary

cameron "endo'd" onto his face and cut his little eye

he was hoping to get a black eye, but he didn't

and the red mark on his nose, now looks like a zit

blood on the rock. at first i didn't see the sunglasses next to it,

so i thought it was this crazy amount of blood

it was not, just 1-2 drops

john "climbing"

crazy bridge, but yet, they did not use it,

they went down the rocks

Now it is 4:30pm and we are getting crazy snow.

someplace in the mountains got 31" in 2 days. AHH!

Also, Cameron got a suit yesterday for his DU interview feb 15th.

It is charcoal gray, and super sweet. He also got a blue shirt to go underneath

and a blue and silver diag. striped tie. he looks hot.

If he doesn't get in, I will call those guys losers.

pray for me, i am taking a test to be on the

Neuro-Trauma Team tomorrow at 10:00am.

that is all.

Hey, I have been good about posting

Hey people, I have been so good about posting, don't forget to look below at some other posts.


Just when I think my sister has had no influence on me, and I am a hippy on my own, I realize I am crazy. I was looking around on itunes (i got 2 gift cards, thanks to the Froeses and the Cannons). Anyways, I decided to listen to a couple Sigur Ros songs.... I mean there's no harm in listening right? But i really liked him (them?). Even though you can't understand him at all, it's just nice and soothing. So being the hypocrit I am (claiming not to be a hippy, when I know there is no doubt in my mind I am a granola head 100%), i purchased 4 songs! I like them.

got tagged by katie- see next blog also

Just when I thought I had run out of things to blog about, I got tagged. I'll cut the rules short and I'll do two items listed:Share 5 random and/or weird facts about yourself on your blog or Share the 5 top places on your “want to see or want to see again” list.

1. to every persons in the world astonishment, caffeine does NOT affect me

2. i took calculus in highschool for fun as an elective, along with AP stats (elective also)

(also in college i took these for electives: personal fitness, raquetball, and guitar)

3. when i am stressed i clean

4. i am more excited about SOMEDAY being pregnant than actually having a baby

5. if i could have one whole entire room to myself, i would fill it to the brim with crafting supplies

1. Ireland (want to see)

2. Patagonia (want to see)

3. Alaska (want to see)

4. Italy (want to see again... 1998 summer)

5. Maine (want to see)(almost went in Sept for a wedding but didn't)

tagged: Sus Kramer- http://www.xanga.com/werebetteroff,

Sus Rabus- http://mikeandsusanne.blogspot.com/,

Laura- http://www.okfroeses.blogspot.com/,

Leslie- http://smallwoodenflute.blogspot.com/,

Odette- http://www.ellises.blogspot.com/,

Julie- http://expedition5280.blogspot.com/

snow flavored dip 'n dots!

last night it snowed

it started out flurry like, then blizzard like, then...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundersnow

this is what happened last night while we were at the

coffee shop, Stella's.

we were playing games with: bethany, stephen, julie, and steve.

balderdash is the funnest game ever!

anyways, i saw a flash of light and immediately asked...

"was that a camera flash or lightning?"

but of course people laughed at me and said "i don't see a camera"

I guess people thought i was crazy until.....

we heard thunder.

I swear, why do people always think i am nuts-o?

Anyways, it started thundering and lightning...

then while it was snowing, the snow became like hail, but snow-hail "shail" (cam made that up)

So, last night it shailed duing a thundersnow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graupel

and the best part (cam went to get some shail from outside)

and it was the consistancy of dip 'n dots.

i didn't have the camera, sorry, what was i thinking.

but it was so cool.

so, i say to you, all you NASA readers :),

You're not so great after all "inventing" dip n dots.

we all know your secret, losers.

Anyway, on another note, cameron went mountain biking with his boyfriend, John in Pueblo

http://www.singletracks.com/trails/photos.php?id=1315&photo=3010

he will be gone for awhile.

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Update on westopher gent-bomb (our friend wes):

Doing well, had to have an NGT to LIWS (okay okay, naso-gastric tube to low inermittant wall suction) b/c (heard this thru dave thru cam, "his stomach wasnt working") so he probably had an ileus which is a twist of the bowels. The ngt decompressed his stomach, and the ileus just resolves on it's own after awhile, and for wes this was 1 day. Thank the Lord! He had an epidural and that was helping a lot! He said his ileostomy (poop bag for 6 weeks) was making farting noises, nice wes. And i think he can start to eat real food now! We were going to bring him a bag of hot dogs. he has eaten fat free, gluten free, dairy free, no fruits, veggies, meat, caffiene, alcohol, of taste free food for about 1.5 years (gotten worse over the last 6months). anyways, i think anything will be amazing, like an apple! So, cont to pray for him. he is hopefully ready for visitors today after a week in the hospital with only family. PS: his mom and dad bought him a Wii for recovery purposes only :). ROCK ON GUITAR HERO!!!!!

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i will be doing cool stuff with schnooze today, i just dont know what yet :)

new exciting things

Hello my blogging friends. Sorry no pics, but as a shout out to Lo, I will make a list!

1. filed my tax return today, and since we're poor now, we'll be rich(er) in February, and very very very much closer to getting out of cc debt!!!!
2. i started watching the 3rd season of Lost (i watched 1&2 religiously), my friend Julie pretty much forced me to :)
3. That very same friend Julie is prego!!!! She found out on Friday night, after she called me to see if I started my period (off birth control for the ole blood pressure). we stopped at the same time, but hers was for a baby. Anyways, she was worried, so i told her to take a test, and we both just KNEW she wasnt gonna be pregnant. But the next morning when we were having breakfast.... what do ya know.... SHE'S PREGGS! I think it musta taken her one time, b/c seriously, off bc for like 1 day.
4. my friend odette has to get a root canal wed (odette, julie, and i have a candy loving problem... kinda like my lovely friend laura)(but unlike laura we all paid our dues with 8 millions cavities).
5. My friend wes had surgery today (pray for him)... taking his whole colon out :(.
6. my sister & bro in law might come here in may!!!!!
7. cameron's sick, and he got me sick (but mine isn't as bad)... but he hasn't really slept in 4 days. he sounds like he smoked 30 packs per day for 30 years. gross.
8. i went to target to get some onsies (sp?) and so much baby stuff was on clearance... and i stocked up for babies coming soon. You should make a run to target... some outfits and blankets were $1-3, and there was complete bedding sets for $17 (normally $79). WOW!
9. today is my fourth day off out of 5... then i go back for three in a row.
10. i am really excited about that tax return.
11. we looked at houses (long story about us thinking we could buy a repo'd house for $150 b/c of some stupid info-mercial... then looked into it and thought it could still be way cheap at like $150,000)(then our dreams were crushed when friend/old real estate chick told us that wasn't really the real price) and houses in denver are soooooooo freaking $$$$$$$$$$$$$. A 2bd 1bath that isn't really soooo amazing was $375,000, with a monthly morg of $2600. Cameron and I almost crapped out pants. Soooooo, our new plan is to rent a house off craig's list this summer. so he can bike to DU (hopefully!!!) and i can still be under 3 miles away from work. Anyways, there are great houses for rent on craigs list and still in our price range (not $2600/month).
12. i got new glasses (i don't know if i wrote that in a previous post) but i should get them tomorrow and i cant wait!!!!! (purple and rectangular)(picture coming soon).
13. i am hanging out with my friend Erin tomorrow. She actually went on the same backpacking trip to CO as i did when i was a soph in HS with Dwight Mission. She's from Sallisaw. But anyways we have mutual friends here, and recognized each other but couldnt place it... and what do ya know... soooo weird!!!!!!!!!!
14. Sus is doing a craft show thingy, and hopefully she will post all of her amazing creations!!!!
15. sus needs to give me some of those creations.
16. i think i will do crafts tonight and tomorrow, since i am done with taxes... SUCKKKKKKKKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS :)
17. hasta luego for awhile.

new years - a bit late i know

A couple of things first:

If you haven't, view Leslie in sanfran's blog on the right:

http://smallwoodenflute.blogspot.com/

She is so crafty!!!!

Second: cam got his first interview at University of Denver (set in mid feb)

It's a private fancy schmancy school in Denver, 5 minles away from our house,

the closest school he's applied to. This will be for his psyD, not phD, same thing though, but with more research based, i think.

Third: i like to organize.

This is new year's eve at our house, the second annual Cannon Ball?!?!?! that sounds cool right?

Julie, Liz, Odette, Sara
Liz and O

The boys doing car bombs
Andy, Tim, Cam, Steve

We had lots of food, but this pic is of lonely Buddy the Beagle...

I don't know what he was doing there, but it was funny :)

Liz and Bethany ( i stole her scarf)

Not drunk, just silly....

The bearded Trio

Cam, Andy, Steve

mean faces

So I like to organize as you can see below. i failed to take before pics, but it doesn't matter, but picture the closet in 27 Dresses (with katherine Heigl) or the classic overstuffed closet on tv. the after pictures are all that matter.

this is the "outdoors closet"

there is now space on the floor, since we hung the bike in the office, see below.

we've got: poles, 3 backpacks, camping stove, propane, raquetball stuff, tennis stuff, snowshoes, 2 tents, 2 sleeping bags, 2 sleeping pads, a sled, a shovel, and who knows what else.

Handy place for the shovel eh?

those hooks by the way were in the dollar bins at target

( i think 4 were $2.50 though), but so handy!

our snowshoes, and the hummingbird feeder mom and david got us :)

the $14 shelf thingy that i got at target, it's so awesome and holds 250lbs

yes in that red container there is gasoline, and there is a bottle of lighter fluid behind it, and 3 bottles of propane under it, dangerous i know, but where are we supposed to keep it?

the tents, sleeping bags, fuel, and stove

where we hung the road bike

in october we got this stand for the mountain bikes,

they were originally in our bedroom, so romantic i know.

seriously they were there since july 2006

They always say not to have a tv in your bedroom, and we didn't

we just had 2 mountain bikes?!?!?!?!

I also organized the cabinet under the sink and our bedroom closet.

I am giving away a lot of clothing and shoes.

I am proud of myself... i am like a crazy woman!!!

check out susanne's blog

CHECK IT OUT: http://mikeandsusanne.blogspot.com/

plano

Sorry no pics.... we forgot to take them :(.

We went to Plano from the 3-7 to visit the Cannons.

We arrived thursday night at about 11pm. And cameron stayed up to play video games with alec and blake, but i went to bed, i was pooped.

Friday we grabbed some quick breakfast and headed to the place (forgot full name) where they make paper money (they only make it in Fort Worth, TX and Wash DC. That was cool... very strict, no cell phones or electronics, no water/food, you pretty much get frisked going in and go through these crazy fancy metal detectors.

Then we ate lunch at a great mexican place, we have terrible mexican places here, so it was a treat!!!

Then we headed home, and the boys hung out at home, and Lea Ann and I went shopping at the mall! We got some great stuff!!!!

After we got home, the boys and I went to eat a quick dinner at Chili's... we came home and went to bed.

Saturday we woke up and ate a late breakfast at Poor Richard's. It was so tasty!! Then we headed over to Burt and Joany's house (cameron's mom's parents) and visited for awhile, good times! Then we played cards and cranium at the cannon house.

After games, david and LeaAnn cooked us some awesome Italian food sent to them from Aunt Becky!!! It was so good and we were stuffed! We then played more games and ate icecream :).

Sunday we ate donuts and hung out for a bit, then went to the dog park with Scout and Briana. They had so much fun!!! Then we ate a late lunch at a fish place called Rock Fish and it was soooo soooo good!! I ate my very first piece of Key Lime Pie and now i am in love with it!!! After that we played Phase 10 and just kinda hung out....

Monday we woke up 15 min after we were supposed to LEAVE for the airport AHHHHHHHH! but we made it okay, thank goodness, b/c the security lines were sooo sooo long. And while we were in line, we were just getting to the point where we take our shoes off, and some old man in the other line passed out. I ran up to him and we layed him down (someone caught him and lowered him to a sitting position).... for all those nursing people out there (mainly susanne)... i felt like the ACLS video where the weird guy yells "sir sir are you okay... you call 911, you get the cart".... b/c i was doing the sternal rub yelling sir sir... what's your name.... I seriously did that sternal rub so hard.... thank goodness a police dude was there, and he called the emsa people. who by the way took like more than 5 min to get there. but the old man finally kinda woke up/ opened his eyes... and i asked him his name again, and he mumbled, and i am sitting there thinking... oh great he's having a stroke, so make him hold his hands out in front of him, but he didn't have a drift..... so then he tells me his name, and i ask about BP probs and meds, and he doesn't have any.... and he seems okay, so we move him out of the way (well the police crazy man drags him in a sitting position.... weird)... and thankfully i don't lose my place in line... that seriously what i was thinking the whole time.. how rude am i??? and as i go through the line, EMSA comes and takes care of him. We go off to get breakfast and sit down to eat it, and we see 2 police peeps escorting old man pass out to his gate, he looked in shock, but was okay and walking. Then someone in our terminal thanked me for helping, and that was nice ;). We ended up getting home alright and cam had to rush off to go to his internship. And I ran errands the rest of the day and did laundry and wifey type stuff.

Tuesday: took schnooze FINALLY to get her hair cut!!!! She's cute! and went to Doc.

Update on Bloodpressure: she took me off the bp meds, but my PTH was high (really rare... so they are drawing it again) (look up parathyroid hormone if you are curious... regulate Calcium levels....)and also getting a kidney ultrasound to make sure there's nothing wrong with them. Sus Kramer said she would give me her kidney if i needed it... what a good sis. But i don't think I will need it though :).

We're glad to be back!!!!

schnooze on christmas day

this is schnooze hating her boots. she's awesome.

Lot's o Things

This was 12/21 and it was snowing (well i think it was the 21st, coulda been the 20th??)!!!!

snow
So, then on the 19th i had a really bad headache, super bad, but then it got a little better, so i went to work on the 20th. and the HA came back, and my nurse friends asked me to take my blood pressure... so i did and it was 164/115 which is really really bad. anyway, they prompted me to go to the ER. So i did, but they didnt do anything. So i went to work the next day and got a Dr.'s appt and they let me leave work at 11:00. Then she put me on BP meds til she could figure out what was wrong with me. She is amazing. So I missed work friday to get some blood work done. then she did an EKG (heart test) and that was okay, my pee was okay, and my neuro exam was okay. So i had an appt the 28th. So i went to get my meds filled and had to get a BP cuff to monitor my BP. I went to the Dr yesterday afternoon and so far so good, but she is gonna take me off my Birth Control meds to see if that is the culprit. Then if that doesnt help, kidney ultrasound, then i don't know what else. but my blood work came back great and my cholesterol is awesome. so we'll see.

Then i was off about 7.5 days (b/c i was sick 1.5 of them) around christmas which was great!

Christmas eve after church we went to Brian and Odette's house for a
little intimate party! I made pesto/cream cheese dip!!! yummo!!!

yum!

this was without the shrimp and bacon wrapped scallops...

brian and cam always look like a couple when

one of them holds sara and they are talking....

liz and o

this IS NOT our baby, but she's cute enough to be :)

uno attack, cam kept trying to cheat, what's new

brian getting "attacked"
the face thing was posed though :)

long giraffe neck liz

broken wrist odie getting "attacked"

dan

tim, cam, brian, and dan playing some video game

CHRISTMAS DAY

tim and dan (his bro) came over for breakfast and we stayed in our pj's all day it was awesome.

I looked outside at 7:30 and it was pouring snow!!!!

snow

presents with tim and dan's stockings

schnooze in her snow gear (she hates those boots) and her vest says naughty

after we opened presents, we made breakfast and started making the turkey.

this is cameron with the "throat" SICKOUT

hand in turkey

tim making something, cam carving turkey

Buddy (tims dog), yes he looks high

cam carving turkey

place setting

place setting, check in the napkin ring, i am so martha

we had wine and cider

scary turkey leg cam

look how much snow now!

making the darned apple pie i cored my wrist, doesnt it look like a bird?

weird.


So we went sledding after we ate and hung out and played guitar hero (which i love and am addicted to). we had a lot of fun and then cam tied a rope behind the jeep and we sleddig (knee boarded) behind the jeep, it was fun. i slipped on an icy part and bruised and bloodied up my knee. boo. it was a lot of fun but tiring.

gifts we got that we loved the most:

Cameron: frame and fork for his bike from his parents/bro

bash ring for his bike from me

money and giftcards from many peeps

Liz: aveda spa and salon gift card from David and LeaAnn and Alec

Cookbook by Jessica Seinfeld from Susanne

Real Simple subscription from Laura and Andy

giftcards and money from many peeps

actually i loved everything i got and so did cameron, but there are too many things to list

thanks friends and family!

Then we woke up at 6:15am to go skiing at Keystone

Liz, Tim, and Dan at the Lodge waiting for cam.

I was the only one skiing, and it was cam's first time snowboarding.

tim and dan

liz and cam

look how pretty the background is. i love colorado.

We were so tired. And tim had to take dan to the airport (flying home to alaska) right after we skiied. but after he took him all the way to the a/p and was heading back, dan's flight was canceled, and tim had to go pick him up. anyways, it was a long day and we (me and cam) hurt so bad. cam fell a lot and felt like he fractured his rib, and i felt like my knees were 80 years old.

Needless to say, this was one of the best christmas's we have ever had. even though we were away from our family, we had a home away from home with tim and dan and brian and odette!

Merry christmas everyone!!!!