Halloween festivities

Happy REAL Halloween!!!

First things first: Late Friday night Chris and I checked LSAC.org (website that will have his LSAT score), no score was posted. We were super disappointed because now we'd have to wait the whole weekend for it to come. We got up at 6:30 yesterday for the half marathon and Chris decided to check the website once more, just in case. "IT'S HERE, CAMI!" I could tell that he was happy. I run over to him...163...SO GOOD! I'm so proud of him! He is in the 88th percentile of people who have taken the LSAT, he is AMAZING! He immediately gets onto the law school predictor website (it tells you how likely you are to get into each law school based on your GPA and LSAT), he has a very high chance of getting into Oregon WITH a scholarship!

Yesterday was the half marathon. Mom finished first in the family, then Cole, then Ty, then me. No surprises there! I was just happy to finish! Let me just tell you how SORE I am today...I can barely walk, that is NOT an exaggeration. The Halloween Half is 5 miles downhill so it works really different muscles that I'm used to. Happy it's over with!!!

For Halloween, we made cake bites, they were good (yes, I enjoyed a day off the diet yesterday, I figured running 13 miles earned me some candy, chocolate, and bread).

• Make a cake as the instructions say
• Crumble the cake into a big bowl
• Mix in a thing of frosting (with your hands)
• Make little balls and put them on tin foil
• Put them in the freezer for like 20 minutes
• Dip them in chocolate candy coating

Then we dressed up as Axl Rose from Guns N Roses and his groupie. Chris got the idea when we went to the Hard Rock Cafe in California, he saw an Axl Rose coat made from a flag, he loved it. We went to a party at a Mortuary, Allyssa and Noah live there. It was fun! Beth and Johnny made an amazing Family Feud game, I was impressed! It was fun to see everyone!

And like everyone else, I'm loving the new Taylor Swift CD! One last thing, now that Halloween is over, I'm ready for CHRISTMAS! We will be watching Elf after church today. I sure hope I can walk. Thanks for reading. XO.

Day 5

Today was day 5 of my diet. Not gonna lie, I'm dominating it. I have been drinking so much water that I literally have to use the bathroom at least once an hour. And THREE TIMES during the night. Holy waste of sleeping time! I'm already feeling really good even though it's only been 5 days. This time around I'm not craving carbs, it's that dang SUGAR that I want so badly.

• On Monday, my ma got Chris a bundt for his birthday. Chris was sweet and let me smell his piece of cake several times. Smelling things always satisfies a bit of my craving. Bethanie used to say, "Smelling is the first sin, Cami."

• Last night, Chris ate ice cream and I was jealous.

• Happy Halloween, there is candy all over my house. STOP WITH THE TEMPTATIONS!!!

• Tonight, Chris and I made cake bites, they are super messy to make and I didn't even lick the chocolate off of my fingers.

I was craving CHICKEN while I was at work today (??? what???). Chicken is my main source of food right now, hence my lunch was AMAZING. Cottage cheese and chicken, are you jealous or what?

ANYWAY, enough diet talk for now. I wish January 25th would be here already. 3 months and 2 days, please just be here already!!!

We bought our Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows opening night tickets. 27 days from now I will be in the theatre with all of my fellow Harry lovers. AH!

Today at work I talked to a grandma that sounded exactly like a goat, funniest thing of my life.

Lately, Chris and I have had the best talks. He is so smart and tells me the most interesting things about politics, church, school, etc. We just sit and talk for hours, I never get bored of it! I can't explain to you how perfect Chris is for me. I am SO lucky to have him. I love him with all of my heart, I never thought I would feel this way.

P98X

Yesterday I started my extended version of P90X. I have stretched it to 98 days since that's how long we have until the wedding! Hardest diet EVER but I'm sticking to it. My ONLY days off will be Thanksgiving, my birthday dinner, and Christmas (and maybe Christmas Eve). DON'T TEMPT ME WITH CHOCOLATE, CAKE, ICECREAM, COOKIES, OR BREAD! Or maybe do, it kind of motivates me in a weird way. I even bought the iPod app for it, it helps me track my food and water intake (type in "eatright" in the app store, it's called "Eat Right 90" if you want to join me).

So we went to California, it was nice. I loved going to Disneyland with my sweetheart. He is SO amazing, he waited in the hour long line so that I could go on my favorite ride...Peter Pan. 1 hour wait, 2.5 minute ride. He is perfect, I'm so lucky to have him. The only other way long line was for Toy Story in California Adventure, TOTALLY WORTH IT!

We also went to Huntington Beach, it was freezing. Chris broke his neck in the ocean a couple of years ago. The ocean is on my top 5 list of biggest fears. So we just napped on the beach, neither of us cared much to get in the water.

Chris and I decided that we NEVER want to live in California. It is WAY too dirty there. The air makes me want to throw up and become a tree-hugging hippie. I read an article in Time Magazine about what smog does to your developing fetus when you're pregnant. Your body has to compensate in other areas to get what it's lacking (clean air), so it affects your growing baby in several ways. It develops (in your poor unborn child) learning disabilities, asthma, and other things that we can avoid by living somewhere with clean air. Oregon is looking more promising every day. 

Mmm mmm hello SMOG!

We went to the Hard Rock Cafe in Hollywood for Chris's birthday. We were there for about 3 hours. The wait was over an hour, our food took at least 45 minutes to come out, then our checks took about 30 minutes, then getting our cards back took another 20. It was madness, but I didn't mind too much because I was there with my boy. My dad told me that we should not have given the chick a tip, "Tips aren't something that are automatic, Cami. Do you know what 'TIPS' stands for? To Insure Prompt Service." OH! Well we definitely should not have left a tip then. Oh well! For his 25th birthday, I gave Chris an electric shaver, a book, and some new socks. His parents gave him a ClearPlay, which I'm stoked about! It's a DVD player that will take anything out that you want. On the main menu, you just select that you don't want F-words or nudity and WALLA it's all edited out. PERFECT! My parents gave him a shirt and a hoodie, which he needed because TWO of Chris's hoodies (and a pair of True Religions) magically disappeared from his closet recently. Who steals?

Chris and I will be participating in the St. George Turkey Triathlon on November 13th, we're super excited! That is also our 1 year anniversary, we think it's a great way to celebrate! We will also be having Thanksgiving with the Higley family in Mesquite while we are down there. Harry Potter will be coming out the week after that!!! It's getting to be that time of year when time starts to FLY! Which I'm VERY happy about.

Anyway, I have to go run 23432 miles now, I'm NOT looking forward to this half marathon. Thanks for reading, if you actually even made it this far. XO

Vacation all I ever wanted

Hey, I'm going to try to make this quick!

Chris is FINISHED with the LSAT and he feels like he did really well! I'm so proud of my boy!!! Now we just have to wait 2 and a half more weeks for his score.

This week we looked at the University of Oregon. I like it. Especially since wikipedia states that there are a lot of Mormons in the town. Plus it's gorgeous there. And it's a little closer than the east coast. BUT I'll go/be happy where ever my sweetheart takes me.

Pictures went perfect! Minus the fact that they "made a mistake" and scheduled a dog-lovers auction at La Caille during our photoshoot, not a big deal though.

We got rear-ended by the dog-lovers auction vet as we were leaving La Caille. OOPS! The poor vet "got new breaks recently and they aren't working properly"...nice try dude but Chris could clearly see in the rear-view mirror that you were distracted by your phone. DON'T TEXT AND DRIVE, KIDS!

We went to Bed, Bath, and Beyond and started registering today! I loved it! I want EVERYTHING there haha! I saw the cutest mini cupcake maker, Chris said, "Uhh no." He keeps me in line, what would I do without him? But, of course, we registered for the pink KitchenAid (and the red one, too). DREAM BIG!



We're going to California tomorrow! I'm so excited to have a nice break away from work! Disneyland, beach, just what I need. This will be the furthest I have ever traveled by car. Vegas is currently my longest drive of my (almost) 22 years of life. WEAK, I know.



So, the half marathon is creeping up on me very quickly. I'm nervous because I haven't been able to train as much as I would have liked. With the plantar fasciitis and the non-stop busy schedule, it's been tough.

One more thing. We had a facebook movie weekend. We went and saw Catfish on Friday. It's a documentary, nothing was staged or acted or anything. Chris and Ty liked it. I didn't love it, didn't hate it. Then on Saturday we saw The Social Network. We really liked it but thought that it could have been a lot less scandalous,  it would have been just as good. It made Chris happy that he won't be going to a school like Harvard because everyone is intimidatingly smart there. "Winklevii" funniest part of the movie, I recommend seeing it.

Anyway, thanks for reading. XO

The big day EVE!

Tomorrow is the big day for Chris. Please cross your fingers and pray for my boy. He's taking the LSAT, which is going to determine where we live for 3 years and maybe the rest of our lives! No pressure though! He's so smart and has been studying for 6 months, so he'll do fine! I will be so proud of him no matter what.

Here is the good news of the week:

• I got a raise
• I got the highest score in the class on my anthropology test
• Chris's neck is finally improving
• I am dominating math 1050
• Chris and I will be in Disneyland this time next week
• We do our groomals tomorrow
• Yankees are up 2-0 in the series
• Chris will be 25 in 8 days (QUARTER OF A CENTURY!)
• We are 109 days away from being married for time and eternity

Life is good!

I did this quiz and got destroyed, you should all try it out and tell me how you do. I got a 13. I struggled on the purple/pink sections. It measures how well your eyes can see color hues.

http://xritephoto.com/ph_toolframe.aspx?action=coloriq

Oh and speaking of eyes....I'M GETTING LASIK IN DECEMBER! I officially won't be blind as a bat (literally, the doctors deemed me "legally blind" a couple weeks ago) anymore! Everyone tells me that it's a life changing procedure. I have worn glasses since 1st grade and contacts since 3rd, I do not remember what it's like to actually SEE! It will be a miracle.

OH MY GOSH, HOW HAVE I GONE 2 AND A HALF POSTS WITHOUT MENTIONING ANYTHING ABOUT THIS. . . . .

HARRY POTTER 7 COMES OUT IN 42 DAYS!!!

It's going to be so amazing! Chris and I have had our opening-night shirts since the beginning of summer, we're SO ready for it to come out! Speaking of Harry Potter, neither of us care to listen to music constantly, so Chris and I both listen to a lot of audiobooks. He gets to use his iPod all day at work, so he gets through a book or two each week! I never listen to music, if I'm listening to anything it's an audiobook, whether I'm running, driving, etc. I believe that it's been SO beneficial for both of us. Chris feels that he has improved on the Reading Comprehension section of the LSAT. And I feel that my vocabulary has improved and my road rage has lessened.

Tonight we are going to go see the movie Catfish. Court J. told me about it last week, so I watched the trailer and it looks way good! You should watch the trailer, chances are you haven't seen it/heard of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFKe75Q6eVw&hd=1

Well that's all for today! Have a good one! XO

Saturday

Hey, it's Cami! Ok let's be serious, probably about 99% of postings are going to be me, Chris says he'll get on and write stuff buuuut.... I'll believe it when I see it muchacho!

Thursday was my day off, so Mama and I went to La Caille to kind of get an idea of what I want the groomals to look like. I am obsessed with the place. The colors are just to DIE for. But my favorite part was probably the duck with wishful thinking....he wanted to be a flamingo so bad.

So anyway, that's just a sample (with my amateur photography skills) of what's to come.

There aren't a lot of things that scare me too badly, but Thursday I experienced one of my fears. I was just showering, minding my own business, and BOOM! suddenly it's pitch black. What in the heck are you supposed to do in that situation? I poked my head out of the shower curtain wondering, "Is there a killer in my room that knows I'm terrified of showering in the dark... Or did the power just go out?" I kept poking my head out of the curtain every 4 seconds (just to be safe, of course). But don't worry, I'm still here, clearly we just lost power for a minute. After this traumatic situation, I got out, dried off, and walked to my closet to pick an outfit. Absentmindedly, I flip my closet light switch to the ON position because I couldn't see anything, nothing happened obviously. I felt silly. Moral of this story: I am very grateful for electricity, I take advantage of how easily we can access it at (almost) all times.

So I have this thing against motorcycles (no offense to any of you die-hard Harley Davidson fans). Friday I was getting ready for work at 6:30 am, when suddenly I hear this stupid motorcycle driving around my neighborhood, back and forth for at least 15 minutes. It was SOOOO loud that it probably woke every person up. It was fine for me because I was already up-and-at-em, but I thought it was so inconsiderate to everyone else who doesn't have to save grandmas before the sun comes up. So, just for future reference, don't show up to my house on your hog, I probably won't talk to you.

Speaking of saving grandmas, I want to share with you a couple of my favorite Rescue Alert subscriber's names, they're all for real. Bless their hearts.

1. 
   
   Mr. Buttkis
2. 
   
   Iwana Bone
3. 
   
   Mrs. Nicewanger
4. 
   
   Mrs. Slutsky (my favorite)

Yesterday, Chris and I spent about 4 and a half hours in the car...no, we didn't go to St. George, we were just STUCK IN THE WORST TRAFFIC UTAH HAS EVER SEEN. I was close to having a break down, but Chris (being the perfect person that he is) distracted me by asking what I would want to do if we won the $260 million lottery. That made me a little more cheery inside.

One last thing! Tonight I'm having a girls night with Court J., Shawna, and Court's friends from her ward. I'm excited, we're going to Chili's for dinner. Thanks boys for being so righteous and attending Priesthood :)

XO