Cameron's 1st B-Day!

Cameron getting clean after making a mess

Cameron getting into eating his cake

Cameron was tenative at first and wouldn't even touch

the cake. Jake just shoved his hand into it. Then

Cameron got into it!

The Fire Truck Cake
Cameron playing with Aunt Steph
He loved opening his presents!!
Cameron got a book!

So Cameron has turned ONE YEAR OLD! I don't know where the time has gone. Since we are living with Jake's parents, we decided to just do a family party. Cameron's Great-Grandpa's birthday is on the 3rd of November so they had a combined party. Cameron's is on the 4th of November. Cameron got way too many presents :) He actually seemed to enjoy opening them. He also got a fire engine truck cake which i spent too much time making. It turned out pretty good though. All in all he seemed to have a great birthday. He also had his year check-up at the doctor and is still huge. He is 33 inches and 25 lbs. He is off the charts!!! He is walking everywhere now and getting hair. He is starting to look like a little boy. He is no longer my little baby :( He amazes me more and more everyday with his development and personality. He is the sweetest boy.

He loved shoving the cars off the bench and watching Steph get them. I tried to capture his laugh. It was very fake!

Happy Halloween

Jake was a CEREAL KILLER....a little play on words

Cameron had a great first halloween! It would have been his second one if he would have been born on his due date. Anyway, for his costume, he was a pumpkin and was adorable. Jake's work had a party and we all went. Cameron won the prize for funniest costume and got a lollipop. We didn't go trick-or-treating, but we knew Cameron really wouldn't appreciate it. He would just want the candy. We gave him some and he loved it!!

Cameron can Dance & Walk!!

Cameron has finally started walking!!! He has been walking holding onto things for a while, but he wouldn't really take more than a few steps by himself. He finally started doing it and he laughs so hard every time he does. Very cute.

He also loves turning on the radio and then start dancing. Basically anytime music comes on he stops what he is doing and dances. Even if it is a commercial. It is so funny!

Cameron is Cool!

For those of you who can't get enough pictures of Cameron, you are in luck. Here are a whole bunch from the past few months. Some of Cameron's favorite things to do are pull DVD's out of their spot, push buttons on the T.V. and anything really, push the stroller around, pick flowers, and pull silver ware out of the dishwasher. He also is really into helping me with laundry. It is so cute. He gets so focused and will put all the clothes into the basket for me. He recently had his first head bump :( He was walking around the coffee table and fell. He cut his sweet forehead. He wore a band-aid on his head for a few days. He was very tough!

New Car

So we recently purchased a car! It is so nice to have a car because I am not working right now so I can get out of the house and run errands and stuff like that. We did our research and we found a keeper and got a great deal on it. We got a 2007 Hyundai Sonata....it is awesome! It runs so nice and gets great gas mileage. It also has A.C. that works :) I feel so spoiled. Every day I look at it and think to myself, "Nice car - oh wait, that's mine!" I love it!

Party

Grandma Rust & Cameron
Dan and Amy (we miss you)
Jake opening his graduation presents Grandpa Rust and Cameron (Cam really loves playing with him)

Just the two of us

Cameron was having fun holding this purse. He is man enough!

So we had a party in August to celebrate a few things. For one, Jake graduated from BYU with his degree in Business Finance. He has now joined the full time work force :) It is so nice for him to be done with school. Also, Dan and Amy were moving to Arizona so we wanted to see as much of them as we could before they left.

General Conference (Oct '09)

General Conference! What a great weekend of inspirational talks. I always want to be and do so much better after this wonderful weekend. It was also our first conference with Cameron however :) He certainly makes it a lot harder to pay attention. We pulled out all the stops though to keep him quiet and entertained. He took good naps through out as well. What a sweet boy! There seemed to me to be a theme of service and love. Of course that is always the message, but I was really touched this conference. Maybe it is because I need to work on improving my service and love. I always feel like some talks are written just for me. It shows me how inspired these men and women are. Elder Bednar's talk (MORE DILIGENT AND CONCERNED AT HOME) really made me want to make sure I focus my love and service in my own home. I need to say "I love you" more to my sweet husband especially.

Elder Clayton's talk (THAT YOUR BURDENS MAY BE LIGHT) touched me so much I wanted to paste a segment from his talk on our blog:

No matter the burdens we face in life as a consequence of natural conditions, the misconduct of others, or our own mistakes and shortcomings, we are all children of a loving Heavenly Father, who sent us to earth as part of His eternal plan for our growth and progress. Our unique individual experiences can help us prepare to return to Him. The adversity and afflictions that are ours, however difficult to bear, last, from heaven’s perspective, for “but a small moment; and then, if [we] endure it well, God shall exalt [us] on high.” We must do everything we can to bear our burdens “well” for however long our “small moment” carrying them lasts.

Burdens provide opportunities to practice virtues that contribute to eventual perfection. They invite us to yield “to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and [put] off the natural man and [become] a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and [become] as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon [us], even as a child doth submit to his father.” Thus burdens become blessings, though often such blessings are well disguised and may require time, effort, and faith to accept and understand.

I want to end this post with a quote from President Uchtdorf's talk entitled THE LOVE OF GOD:

Let us be known as a people who love God with all our heart, soul, and mind and who love our neighbor as ourselves. When we understand and practice these two great commandments in our families, in our wards and branches, in our nations, and in our daily lives, we will begin to understand what it means to be a true disciple of Jesus the Christ.

Happy Birthday Grandma

Cameron asking for some food.... story of his life :)
Cameron waving to the camera!
Grandma's reaction to her hilarious birthday card
This video is from Grandma Schultz's Birthday Celebration. It is not really of anything, but Cameron is in it for those who can't get enough of him. We sure love you Grandma!

Long time no Posting!

So I haven't updated our blog for a long long time. Some exciting things have actually happened in our lives. For starters, Jake and I had our 2 year Anniversary! I can't believe how much our lives have changed and how fast it has gone. We have sure been through a lot and we have grown from it. I love my sweet husband Jake. He is the best husband ever!

We also went to yellowstone for our family reunion this summer and it was amazing. My dad used to be a tour guide in the summer during his college years, so he gave us the grand tour. It was fun to hear all his little stories and insight he had about the park. We got to see lots of animals... no bears though. Cameron loved it and was such a trooper. He didn't get the best naps on the go, but was so sweet. Him and Bradley (my sister's boy) were so cute together. They are about the same size, but Cameron is quite a bit younger. Those two are going to be heartbreakers. There are too many pictures to post, so i did a slide show (located to the right) of ALL the pictures from our travels. It was sure fun to see my family and have a break from work. We don't get to see them much at all so it was amazing. I have to best family in the world! After Yellowstone, Jake was a sweetheart and came home to run the storage units so Cameron and I could go to Nevada for the Farr family reunion. All in all...August was amazing!

Another wonderful update is that I am no longer working at the storage units!!!!! It is the most amazing thing ever. It was a great place for us to save money and get through school, but I was ready to get out! We have been there for about two years. I won't list all the reasons I was ready to leave, but take my word for it.... there are a lot. I am so happy to just be able to spend time with Cameron. Cameron is enough work, I don't need another job to do at the same time :) Cameron is loving it to. We have been going on many walks in the stroller every day. It is starting to get colder, so they have slowed down. I have been loving the walks as well. It is so nice to just get out of the house and be outside!! Basically, if you couldn't already tell, I have been loving no being at the storage units. We are living with Jake's parents for the moment until we can figure out our next move. They are amazing for letting us stay with them and we love them tons. We have been house hunting as I posted a while ago, but we are having a hard time with the loan because they are strict with commission jobs (which is what Jake's is). We will be renting for a while most likely.

Ward Split

So our ward split last Sunday! Our ward was getting really big. When I was in the nursery we had over 20 kids almost every sunday. The primary was A LOT bigger. We love our ward and have enjoyed getting to know everyone, even though it is hard to keep up with such a fast growing ward. We were in the Lindon 16th ward and are now in the Lindon 23rd ward. We still have the same bishop though, which is cool. We might not be in this ward very much longer either though if our house hunting is successful. I feel like whenever we start getting to know people in our ward and make friends we move. Oh well, that's life. We have been so happy to be in our ward as long as we have been!

CAMERON CRAWLS!

So Cameron has been rolling around and doing the army crawl for quite a while. On July 5th however, he started to crawl. We were at church, but luckily we brought the camera and I was able to capture a little of it. Don't worry, the meeting hadn't started yet. He is just crawling around like crazy now and lifting himself up all over the place. I really have to watch him close. It is so fun to see him move around so fast and have fun getting into things. He keeps our house pretty messy!

This is the video of his 1st crawl!!!! The second one is later on in the week.

Fourth of July!

We spent the Fourth of July with my cousin Loren and his wife Jessica. We went to their new house they just bought, which is very cute! Cameron had a blast discovering a new place. Jessica's sister Megan and her husband also came. Loren grilled all sorts of meat on his new grill and it was amazing. I helped Jess pick out paint for their house as well as some other household needs. While we did this, the boys played the Wii. It was fun to get out and not have to work. We didn't get to see the fireworks because Cameron was ready for bed. We saw them in the car on our way home. I am so grateful for our country and the freedoms we enjoy. What a fun day!

Cameron loved this swing....he didn't want to get out


Hanging out in the yard!

Cameron loved the sparklers!!!

One Year Older...And Wiser!

Pictures of a birthday celebration for Jake!

SOME PICTURES OF MY BOYS!!!! How fast they grow up :)


So I just wanted to create a post about my sweet husband Jake. He works so hard for our family and is the sweetest husband and father. Cameron loves his dad so much! Whenever Jake gets home Cameron kicks and waves his arms while squealing with delight. Jake's birthday was on June 12th and he is now 25! I can't believe it. He got a blackberry for his birthday which he has been wanting for a long time. It will be great to use for work and it is just awesome. I don't tell him enough how much i appreciate him, but he is wonderful. I love you!!

KELLY CLARKSON!

                     It rained for a while during the concert and then this beautiful rainbow appeared!
      After the awesome concert!


           You go Kelly
                                                                       So excited! 
                    We were stunned....that is how good it was :)

So I was a big Kelly Clarkson fan back in the day and still like her music a lot.  Her most recent CD came out recently and she is on tour.  For my birthday Jake surprised me and got me tickets to one of her concerts here in Utah.  I was so surprised :)  He was a good sport and came with me.  Jake's mom watched Cameron and we had a blast!!!  The concert was outside at the Utah Valley University.  SHE IS AMAZING LIVE!!!  Jake got us VIP seats so we were front row and center.  We also had a dinner, got her CD and a t-shirt.  Jake is always so thoughtful and sweet with his gifts.

HERE ARE SOME VIDEOS WE TOOK ON OUR DIGITAL CAMERA!!  SHE SOUNDED MUCH BETTER IN PERSON!