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Surprise!

        I thought I knew all along that we were having a girl so imagine my surprise when a boy showed up on the monitor! His father was beaming and I started to wonder how likely it was that this machine was wrong. In the end it is has been quite exciting. We are expecting our little boy to arrive in late October. All is well, he is far ahead of schedule in developmental areas...all that fish I ate... and looks amazing. Being pregnant is wonderful. There is nothing that I've experienced yet that even compares to the joy and mystery behind it. I am feeling spectacular compared to the first few months.

         Everyone has to tell me what accessories there are for little boys because I can't put little bracelets or bows on him! We have some names picked out but I feel so nervous about picking a name that they'll go by for along time! He kicks me when there's music on and he doesn't like to sleep at night. He craves pickles and loves his cold cereal. He also has expensive taste...seafood being number one!

Life is going well and we hope that everyone can share in our excitement, but you can leave the nervousness to us. Oh, a note about the picture. I've been trying to convince myself that maybe he'll just show up looking like that baby! That would be great!

So for all of you that didn't know...I'm Pregnant!!! Travis and I are going to have a baby this year! We are excited and I am sick beyong all means! I'll update more later but now you all know from ME!!! Love you!

This week has been great! I'm happy to say that it is over.

I set a new goal...have dinner ready for my husband every day! Now, that may not seem amazing to you, but let me mention that Travis and I don't see each other all day! I finally thought that he would love not fending for himself after a long day...

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So, I cook the food while I'm home for a quick break at 4:30. Then I leave it on the stove. I drop the car off at work for him and then I head off to work at 6:30. Then I go to work from 7-9:30 and most of the time I have a study group afterward! So, I make it home at about 10:30 or 11ish. Such is life! Anyway, he has really enjoyed having dinner already for him. It makes us both happy. This is a picture from a Sunday dinner, you can tell because that's when we eat with nice plates! Anyway, a simple thing, but making dinner for him fulfills both of our needs.  

So, I know I've said that our snow here is crazy but look at these pictures! This is back at the beginning of February, and Travis is at Arthur and Sarah's house playing in their back yard with the kids.

In the second picture the kids are covering Travis with snow and then he jumped up and scared them! It was ll fun for about ten minutes and then little Tanis was so cold he had to come inside. Sarah has told me that her kids are not snow kids, which is said for Travis because he loves the snow. The whole time he keeps saying, "If Chad were here we would..." He really wishes he could play hard core in the snow.

The bottom pictures are of the swing set. Remember that Ezri is standing on compacted snow. The swings are normally like a two feet off the ground! This is nothing though, because after this it snowed another 2-3 feet. Yeah it is never ending here.

Then the best part about the snow is that last night, so 2/21/08 it snoed again!!! Ok, it wasn't that bad, it was only about an inch or two. They did break out the snow blower though! LOL.

I hope that you all get your fill of snow after seeing these pictures. If you want some I'll pray that it comes your way.

One last interesting thing I learned. For the last 15 years or so this snake river valley area has been in a drought and I'm sure that people have fasted and prayed for the snow before but it is amazing to think that the year they deicate the temple here in Rexburg is the year for prayers to be anwsered! What a blessing. Travis and I have been to do inititory and it sure was wonderful. I think that while Aunt Cyndee is here we will do an session. How lovely! Anyway hello and goodbye, miss you all! Love, ME

So, when Travis and I were engaged we talked about our family and what we were expecting children wise. He wants a lot of them and I'm okay with that so long as he takes care of the vomit. That was our deal. You see I have a sensitive gag reflex and so the smell...yeah it is nasty. So, he was ok with that... I'll manage the diapers as long as he handles any and all barf.

Bad news though, we don't have any kids and we never made a plan for when he throws up!!! I thought it just wasn't supposed to happen. Needless to say that at 2 in the morning I woke up to the sound of splatter all over the bathroom floor. Why did I wake up?> It wasn't even that loud!!! But since it's in all women, I got out of bed and cleaned the entire mess up without puking myself! The Lord makes all things possible, just another tender mercy, because m poor husband was apologizing between ppukes, and then wiping awya the tears from the pain.

It was amazing, I love him even more. He seemed so vulnerable and I just knew that he needed to be loved. It's the same thing with me. When I would throw up, even though I knew it was gross I wanted my om to be right there with me, comforting me and making sure that I knew she was there just in case. All day today I took care of Travis. He is feeling alittle bit bettter now, but still vomitting.

So, enough about the yucky stuff...my whole thought behind this is I got a litttle glimpse of how the Savior feels about him. No matter what Travis did or didn't do or say I was there loving him and tending him, seeing all the good that I could in him. I was thinking how wonderful it would be for me to see everyone that way. Sometimes I am like a firecracker, I'm not one to be toiled with. My motto has always been that if you want respect you'd better give it first. So, as soon as someone is rude or disrespectful to me, I feel like they've opened the door for me to do the same in retrun. So, my new motto is the serenity prayer and to see people as vulnerable and in a state of wanting help. Then I think that I will be kinder and more understanding regardless of their actions towards me.

So, life is yucky, but I am learning oddles. My husband loves me and I love him in an entirely new way. Well I hope all is well your way. Miss you all, Love...Cambri

I have figured it out. If I can invent one thing it will be the brain hook up. At night when you get in bed you just hook up your brain to a computer and let it download for the day. Then I won't have to lay there forever thinking over and over what I did and didn't do through out my day! At night I lay in bed and think...oh I should have emailed Allison. then I think of the entire email in my head. Silly I know, but still I am laying there thinking it up. After that I think about all the other people I could have talked too or emailed/wrote too. Then I think of the things that I could have done for people in my ward or for my husband. So, my theory is that if I could just hook my brain up to a computer and then let my subconscious do the thinking all night I could get so much more! I think that would be amazing, I know it sounds a little to si-fi-ish, but really, it is awesome! So To all of you I love you and think about you when I lay in bed at night!

So, we went on our cruise and these are some of the pictures. It was amazing and the perfect time to go.

Sometime it feels like there is something we could be doing better. Actually I take that back, I feel like everything I do I could be doing better. Life can be super overwhelming; I don't know how everyone keeps it together. Please let me say that I cannot wait until we are out of the school phase of our lives. Maybe I just feel that way because I am taking way above the average number of credits and trying to work and do all of the other fun things life has to offer. Well, I am keeping it together the best I know how and trying to improve all areas of my life!

Recently Travis and I started swimming. It is way fun. We do have to wear the BYU-Idaho issue swim wear, but of course it overly modest, so its nothing to embarrassing. We go swimming with his niece and nephews. They are what makes it so fun. His nephew Tanis just decided to brave the diving board, and now there is no restraining him. Sometimes kids are ready for the leap before we are, they sure are amazing.

Today we suffered through an all day blizzard! I am not joking, it was way cool. I am trying to take some pictures but my camera is on the fritz. The blizzard was so bad that they let some of the public schools out early and they've already announced the school closure for tomorrow. Teaching was pretty sad, we only taught for 18 minutes and pretty sure that we had their attention for a grand total of 2 minutes. They were too distracted, but what can you do?

Anyway, so this isn't much but it feels great to write something down. Miss you all...

So I discovered why I am here at BYU-Idaho. Now you may all think that its because I need to get my degree, but that's not quite it. I learned that life is the time to become like God, well I guess I've always known that. But the reason I'm at BYU-Idaho is to gain a testimony through earning my degree. This helped sustain me through the last few weeks. My teachers started piling on the homework and the tests, I just couldn't stay a float. Then I realized that this too shall pass and I should strive to expand my testimony through mathematics. Now this may sound corny but it really helped me realize why the things I am learning are so valuable. Christ is truly the one person that can sustain us through anything, finals, the birthing process. Nothing is out of his league. I love math and even thought I love it, that doesn't mean that it will always be easy.

So, I added some you tube Videos that I really feel for. I think that Life sometimes can pass us by and so we need to be enjoying all that we can. I also believe that the word has distorted our vie of what real beauty is. We need to teach each other to enjoy the natural beauty of life. Heavenly Father has blessed us with so many wonderful things, we need to enjoy them.