Friday, May 27, 2011

It's Friday Friday! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun!

It's Friday! Friday! Gotta get down on Friday!! :) :)..............
Whitney Boam, this is for you!!
Who else loves to mock this song?



I think it's so great. Don't get me wrong, the song is pretty bad but it's probably one of the best songs to make fun of, even though it gets stuck in your head. My friend Whitney and I work together and we constantly will break out into song with this when something reminds us of it. :) It is so funny we'll just look at each other and start laughing. oh good times in the bakery. (especially on Friday, friday.)

Yesterday was thursday, Today it is friday, We so excited! We so excited! We gonna have a ball today! Tomorrow is saturday, and sunday comes afterwards............(incase you didn't know the next 3 days go as follows: Monday, tuesday, wednesday, and then you're back to thursday and then it's friday! friday!)

I would love to write some stupid story about where this song came from, but I'm not sure I could dumb myself down quite that much. So we'll just leave it with....

Partyin Partyin yeah! Partyin Partyin yeah! Fun Fun Fun Fun! LOOKIN FORWARD TO THE WEEKEND!!!!

Thursday, May 26, 2011

The Joy of Service....

"As we look heavenward, we inevitably learn of our responsibility to reach outward. To find real happiness, we must seek for it in a focus outside ourselves. No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy. We do not live alone in our city, our nation, or our world. There is no dividing line between our prosperity and our neighbor's wretchedness. 'Love thy neighbor' is more than a divine truth. It is a pattern for perfection."
I don't know about you, but I LOVE the feeling I get after performing an act of service. I do not always enjoy what the service is, but it always seems to be worth it in the end. :) This evening, was yet another one of those great moments.
My ward went to the Hyrum Cemetery for our activity, where we cleaned headstones in preparation for Memorial day. I have participated in an activity like this a few times before, and it is always so great.
I personally am blessed by activities like this. My brother is burried in the Hyrum Cemetery and, Whenever I go do an activity there, I make sure I get over to my brothers grave and take a little while to tend his headstone. It provides a great opportunty to make sure it gets done.
It also makes me remember how absolutely blessed I am in my life. I am blessed with many wonderful people that I love and care about. and I am blessed with the knowledge of life after death. I know that God has a plan, and that death is a part of that. But I know that death is not the end, and that families can be together forever.
It always makes me so sad to see headstones of little babies and young children. Children who still had SO MUCH living to do. To think of their families left behind to griev(well, it's that way with every headstone) But there are so many who lived only a day, or a week, or a few years. In all of our cleaing, my friends Lexi, Kendra, Mariana and I found a little cluster of 4 headstones that all looked alike, and had the same last name. They were all babies. The one that lived the longest lived 11 months. How hard would that be?!?
And then, you have the headstones of the men and women who lived to be 80 years old or so!! I found one headstone, where both the wife and the husband were burried in the same spot and their information was on the same headstone. They were only seperated by death for 4 months!! I think it would be so hard for the family left behind, but can you imagine how wonderful it would be to be reunited so quickly?! What a blessing!

Like I said, I always make my way over to my brothers grave to clean it when I get up there with something like that. He's kinda out in the outskirts of the cemetery, so its a bit of a walk to get there from where we parked today. I convinced 3 of my friends to come over with me and we spent our time cleaning the headstones in the farther out area of the Cemetery whee most people don't get to.
We had the wonderful opportunity while we were there, to meet a few people that had come to visit their loved ones. We cleaned the headstones for them, and it was so great to see the instant gratification!!!!!
I am so grateful for all of the knowledge and comfort the Gospel brings into our lives, and the blessings that come from Serving others!

My hands still smell like vinegar, my arms are sore, and the knees of my pants are all dirty, But we had some good laughs, ate yummy food, and were blessed by serving others! :)

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

This is me. This is who I am.....


Sometimes I lose track of who I am. My name is Cami. I am almost 20 years old. I will be starting school at USU in August, and I don't know what I want to do with my life. That scares me. A lot! I greatly dislike talking on the phone, and I hate hearing my voice in recordings. I love writing and receiving letters. I use the word "thingy" when I can't remember what something is called(which happens quite often.) I will burst out laughing, about something that happened yesterday. I am a major fan of those "had to be there moments." Sometimes I have a hard time trusting others, I talk to God. I listen to song lyrics and often think of how they apply to my life. I'll dance along to anything. I talk to myself, and randomly burst into song. I love tights, and scarfs, and funky socks. I love Disney, and play-dough, and swinging on swings. I love coloring :) I prefer to eat my Oreo's with Peanut-butter(ok, I may be a bit of a Peanut-butter addict....) I push doors that say pull, I stop the microwave before it beeps, I use my fingers to count because math is NOT my strong point. I forget things easy, yet I remember random facts about people(which makes me seem like a creeper sometimes, but I don't do it on purpose), i find myself talking in accents without realizing it, and I speak German to inanimate objects. I enjoy reading my horoscope- but I don't really believe them, I LOVE PHOTOGRAPHY!, I still watch the silly tween Disney TV shows sometimes, I love Harry Potter, reading is great and I wish I had more time for it. I'm not very athletic-- and I seem to hurt myself when I try to be. I feel like I'm pretty easy to get along with. I love choir. I think cooking and baking are fun- but i'm not that great at them. I believe in Love, and I know that someday, I WILL find it. I like Ice Cream.... a lot(even though it makes me sick!) I talk when I get nervous, or else I don't talk very much. I HATE scary movies. I have been lucky enough to have spent four months in the beautiful country of Germany, where I grew and learned lessons that have helped make me who I am today. A piece of my heart is and always will remain in Germany. my.friends.are....awesome!!! ♥ my nieces and nephews are my life ♥, I'm the youngest of 7 and My brothers and sisters mean so much to me. my mom is one of my best friend., I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and I am thankful for the blessings it brings me in my life. I am thankful for the life I have, as messed up and psycho as it is. My Life has taught me to live, laugh, and love. It has taught me to try and forgive and forget, that sometimes things don't go as planned, people will betray you, and you WILL get hurt, but if you put your trust in the Lord, everything will work out in the end, and if it doesn't work out-- it's not the end!
A lot of things have made me the person that I am. I wouldn't be where I am at today if I had not lived the life that I have, and had all of my many experiences. I am Cami, and I am perfectly okay with that.