"He who receiveth all things with thankfulness," the Lord has promised, "shall be made glorious; and the things of this earth shall be added unto him, even an hundred fold, yea, more" (D&C 78:19)

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

2 Blog or not 2 Blog


Due to Delicate demand, I'm toying with the idea of starting another blog or blogs specifically for my Cake and Photography services. They would likely be named "Cakes by Cami Jo" and "Petty Photography" respectively. Now, then, should they be combined into ONE blog so that people can see that I do both and then take a gander at ALL of my grandeur, or should I create two separate sites so as to hit the searchers target?

Please comment!


(Petty Photography Sample)





( Cakes by Cami Jo Sample)











Monday, April 13, 2009

Favorite things about last week.


Last week we had a four to five hour visit to Riverton....this resulted in many of my most interesting things about last week, but not all of them.

*At one point we turned on the regular old radio and Nathan said he wanted to hear Shake It (by Metro Station) not TEN SECONDS later, Shake It started playing, Nathan started dancing.


*While at Wal-Mart I met a real live fan of the Cami Jo Show. She was the sweetest girl ever, she hugged me, I blushed and her family with her looked on in awe while saying that I still had plenty of fans out there. Apparently, I'm still cool in some people's worlds. Wow.

*I picked up my paint for the bathroom!

*Shane cracks me up by using his 4-wheeler to take the full garbage can down to the street.

*I was clipping Nathans toe nails and told him to hold on for a minute because I needed to get a needle to clean some dirt out of his nails. He said to me "No! NOT noodles, that's too messy."

*Nathan took his first trip to the Barber with Grandpa and did a great job.

*Last week Lori and I cooked/baked for HOURS. Millions of sugar cookies, divinity eggs dipped in chocolate and rolled in nuts, carrot cake, english toffee and an hour of sun bathing. A great day.
*The 50th Photo shoot and resulting pics.

*While at Svilars for Lori's 50th birhtday party there was the great Steak Race between Dave and Nick. Both finished thier t-bone. I'm not sure if they ever delcared a winner.



*Also while NQ was having some Ice cream, he got his first ice cream headache. This resulted in some tear, head rubbing and a caution about big bites of ice cream.


*Shane purchasing his chin-up bar, only to discover the house nor Autoplex have a narrow enough door frame to use it.

*And, of course, the beautiful day that was Easter day. Hunting for Eggs, Nathan falling alseep at Church, all the boys playing themselves exhausted, and Shimmer's new baby filly.




GREAT WEEK last week!

(Shane torturing Sam, a get-together tradition.)

Nathan's Easter Jump Attack!

Here's a slide by slide of NQ and his jump attack on Grandpa on Easter Day!


1: The run at full force towards Grandpa


2. The Leaping into mid-air over Grandpa's Body
3. Being Caught Safetly by Grandpa before smashing into the ground.




4. The sweet snuggles after the attack is resumed over and over again.






Thursday, April 9, 2009

H.I. Part 2! GROUT WHITE


The OTHER thing I have been doing is grouting all of the places where there was no grout (around ALL of the edges of the kitchen) AND I have been Whiting the grout with "Tile Perfect" GROUT WHITE. Basically a paint you put over the dirty unsealed grout to make it white again!
See HERE:
The Dirty Grout, except for the one nice square




The newly WHITENED grout, awaiting it's sealing!

GROUT WHITE can be purchased ONLY at Ace Hardware in our County. When they are out it takes a week to reorder more. You should be aware of this because it can casue a kink in your whitening to sealing timeline. It can also be purchased on-line at Acehardware.com, but only in orders of six at a time. This would be a LOT of GROUT WHITE.

Up Next in my Home Improvement Schedule: Painting the Bathroom!





Home Improvement!



When we purchased our house some two and a half years ago, we purchased it with 'finishing' work that needed to be done.


It never got done.


Until now!

We had some tile that needed to be glued down and sealant that needed (and still needs) to be done. (Due to manufacturer's instructions, the grout needs to set for a few days before we seal. But here's what's been going on:


Shane, the mighty "Old grout and Adhesive Remover MAN!"



Working hard to remove the old gunk.





AHHH the nice, NEW adhesive, STICKING tile to the floor. Just as it should be.







TA DA! THE FIXED TILE PIECES!

Friday, April 3, 2009

The AUTOPLEX jingle!

This is the Jingle that my brother Dave (Francis) created for the Autoplex. It's currently running on the radio here in town. He's made a nice slide show to go with it...enjoy the show!





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ_HyEel6dE