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I knew that I have had this test that I needed to complete online for one of my classes. The due date is tomorrow which just happens to be my birthday, so I wanted to finish the test today so that I didn't have to worry about it tomorrow. Andy was SOOO sweet and said he would watch the kids for me while I studied and took the test this morning. It sounded like the kids were having a good time, so I wasn't too concerned that I didn't hear Andy at all. I finished my test and my tax return that is also due tomorrow, and went to find Andy and the girls. Here is what I found:

Looks like Cambrie had a lot of funny playing with her daddy. :)

Calina, 7 months

It has been a big month for my sweet bubbie. She is just constantly moving! A few weeks ago, she stood up without support from one of us. You can see her standing here holding herself up on Cambrie's Elmo table:

Then about a week later she started pulling herself up to stand. Then just last week, she started crawling!! It is so cute! Cambrie never was very interested in crawling, so this is a new experience for me. Here are a couple of pictures of her crawling:

We got this movie of her crawling. It is soooo cute, but at the end, Cambrie isn't being too nice to her. I think Cambrie for one was excited that Calina was crawling, but more than that i think she likes being in the spotlight.

So now, Calina is working on cruising and walking while we hold her hands. It still amazes me fast they grow up!

Lake Powell for Labor Day

For Labor Day weekend, we went to Bullfrog Marina at Lake Powell. We stayed in the DWR Residence about a mile away from the ramp. It was a ton of fun. On Saturday we spent the whole day out on the lake and at a little beach we found. It was a little bit windy (our camp on the beach got blown over while we were away on the boats), but we had a great time despite. I'm just glad we didn't have to camp overnight in the elements. On Sunday it was pretty stormy, so we only got to spend a little time out on the boat. It rained pretty hard when we were out, but Cambrie got to swim a little bit in the lake, so it was fun anyway. The only really hard part about the day was that my nephew Alex got sunscreen in his eyes, so he was pretty upset most of the time we were out. I felt so bad for the little guy. He's usually so happy, so to have him crying like that only meant he was in pain...really sad.

Here is a picture of me on Saturday skiing.

Here is Andy waiting to go wake boarding
Poor Alex after we got back on Sunday taking a bath
We stopped at Capital Reef on our way back and looked at these petroglyphs. It was a nice little place to stop and take a break. The kids enjoyed being out of the car!

School

So, I don't have any pictures or anything (shock)! But I thought I'd post an entry about how I have just started school, again. It's kind of exciting, and makes me feel young, but I seriously am so nervous about it. I don't know how I'm going to juggle two kids, a full time job, a small side business, a rental, taking care of a house, keeping dinner on the table, doing my homework, and now taking care of a puppy... Life will be busy the next couple of years.

I am going to SUU and studying to get my Masters of Accountancy. Right now I am taking two classes (6 credit hours). I am taking Advanced Cost Accounting and Corporate Income Tax. Both of these courses are pretty demanding, so I'm pretty much doing homework every night. I'm looking at a possible graduation date of Spring 2010. That's if I can take two courses each semester, including summer semester. We'll see how it goes. Eventually I'm hoping to sit for my CPA. It will be a long road between there and here, I hope I'm up for it. :)

Zoe

So I guess it's true. We've officially gone insane. This last week, we added a new family member. Her name is Zoe and she is 3/4 boxer 1/4 dalmation puppy. Cambrie just absoloutly loves her! She carries her around like a little baby rag doll, poor dog!

Here is a picture of Zoe resting on her little bed in our kitchen. Zoe is not allowed to be anywhere else in the house. Her usual spot is her dog run which is currently in our garage.

Cambrie holding Zoe in the "usual" position.
Zoe just loves to follow Cambrie everywhere she goes. Right here, Zoe followed Cambrie up onto the play equipment at the park.
Calina just loves Zoe, too! She gets soooo excited and tries to pull the poor dog's ears off, or scratch her eyes out. For the sake of both baby and dog, we try to keep them separated.

Pictures at SUU

A couple of weeks ago, Andy, Cambrie, Calina, and I met my sister and her family and my mom on the SUU Campus to take pictures. It was pretty frustrating trying to get three kids (one three, one 17 mo., and one 6 mo.) to sit and smile and look at us all at the same time... We never really got a great one of the three of them together, but we did get a few cute pictures. These are just a few that were taken with my camera, but my sister got some cute ones and so did my mom. I just haven't downloaded them from my email, yet.

Here is a cute one of the whole family:

A cute one I got of Calina:
One of Andy and I.
One that I thought was cute of Cambrie.
We had to bribe Cambrie with ice cream to sit for this one and smile.

Park Discovery

I took Cambrie and Calina out to get the mail. It was the first time that I dared to put Calina in our double jogging stroller/bike trailer. She did really well in it. Here are a couple of pictures of them after we got back home:

Cambrie for some reason was using Calina's head as an arm rest in this picture...Oh, well, Calina doesn't seem to mind too much.

Cutie Calina!
We took the girls to Park Discovery here in Cedar. Here are some pictures:

Andy holding Calina just after Calina went down her first slide (on Andy's lap, of course).
Cambrie sitting in one of the little buildings they have in the park.
Yikes! Allergies!! Poor Calina had some pretty bad allergies while we were there. You can see her eyes all swollen and red, her nose was running like crazy, and she kept sneezing. We finally just had to call it a day because she seemed like she was just getting worse. The crazy thing is that she was still so happy! I sometimes don't understand this child. She is one of the best babies I have ever seen! Still willing to give smiles when she must be feeling so yucky!

Pioneer Day

The week of July 24th, Andy ended up having to go down to Las Vegas for an auditing training. He was gone Monday through Friday. So during the week, I got to experience a little taste of what being a single mother might be like. Let me tell you, it wasn't impossible, but it sure made me ever so grateful for my amazing husband!!

So although Andy wasn't there to celebrate with us, we ended up having a really fun Pioneer Day. My parents spent most of the day with us, and we had a lot of fun. We started the day off at the Pioneer Day parade on Main Street in Cedar City. We then went to the park to play at the carnival that was set up for the holiday. We got some lunch at Wendy's, then set off for Pine Valley Reservoir where we spent a few hours, then we went into St. George for dinner. Here are some pictures of our fun day:

Cambrie and Grandma Vicki at the parade.

My sweet little Calina (Callie or Muffin) at the parade in her carrier.
Papa holding Alex and standing by Cambrie.
I had to get a picture of the State Bank float (Andy's employer).
This is the float of my parent's ward. The cowboy on the right is Alex's uncle Ethan (Nichole's brother-in-law, Chris' little brother)
Cambrie going down the slide in the bounce house at the carnival at Main Street Park after the parade.
Okay, I took this picture because I thought it was kind of funny. Cambrie (you can't see her), INSISTED that she go on THIS slide. She is the one in the front of the line holding up all the kids as she is climbing the stairs. After a while, the boy that is right in back of her got tired of waiting and carried her up the stairs.
When she got to the top (and all the bigger kids past her to go down the slide), she froze. She wouldn't move a muscle. I had to go up there and help her go down the slide on my lap. Then she told me she wanted to go down again, but when I told her she would have to do it by herself, she decided she was done.

Papa and Cambrie at Pine Valley
Cambrie, Calina and I at Pine Valley
Cambrie and I on a bridge at Pine Valley. You'll notice that Cambrie has no pants. She ended up getting them all soaked (including the panties) in the reservoir. I ended up having to put one of Calina's swim diapers on her because I forgot an extra pair...
Cambrie on some rocks by the stream that goes into the reservoir.
This is a cute movie of Calina wading in Pine Valley. She had just started babbling this week, and was showing off her skills. She just loved the water and the sand. It wasn't easy keeping her out of the water.

Seashell Hunting

My last entry about our trip to California. A couple of the days we were on our vacation, we went to the beach at low tide and went "seashell hunting." It was really fun to find some cool seashells and other treasures. We found tons of shoes, a little green army guy, snorkle gear, diving stuff, and a lot of other stuff that was just really strange. There were a lot of little sand crabs, tons of cool looking sea weed, and some other creatures I didn't even know what they were called! Andy found a beautiful shell that still had a little sea snail living inside it. It was really stinky after he brought it back to the apartment. Here are a few pictures of the last day of seashell hunting:

Here is Cambrie playing in the Ocean while we were hunting.

Cambrie and her cousin, Jaylee, had a blast playing with Grandpa Gary in the waves.
A look of a bunch of us hunting for seashells and other treasures.
A look at some of the seaweed we got to walk through to get to this spot...kind of creepy!
Danny, Andy holding Calina with Calina's hat on his head, Josh, and Sunny.