It's really of no great importance but I was just super excited. My sister and I used to listen to this song all the time years ago. The cd we had it on mysteriously disappeared, or perhaps got ruined. I don't remember which. I searched for it on youtube and itunes long ago and never found it. But they had it on playlist.com!!! Yay!!! I missed you 'Hey Ho.'
I love this song. I could listen to it all day. The first song is my favorite. I signed the second song in high school for my ASL class.
Anniversary! (playing catch up)
Our second anniversary was July 13. Which fell on a Monday. So that weekend we stayed at Park City. After checking into our hotel we walked down to one of the lifts and took a ride. It was a gorgeous view. On the way up I was nervous just because I don't like heights. But I refrained from any freaking out besides holding the bar with one hand. What was funny was that Matt started talking a lot. Then he admitted that he was nervous too. So we sat there the whole ride up imagining different ways of dying from falling off the lift. Once we reached the end we jumped off and walked around for a bit. The way back down was gorgeous. You could see the whole valley. After the lift we walked around and got some food.
When it came to Monday we both had some problems trying to surprise each other and I ended up ruining Matt's surprise :D. I wasn't working that day due to hurting my back at work. I had already been off a week and the doctor told me to take another week off. Who was I to argue? My sister Christy and her kids were in town from Wyoming and they were planning on going to Raging Waters with a bunch of our family. So I planned on going with them while Matt was at work. My niece Morgan didn't have her swimming suit so I drove up to Kaysville to grab it for her. Aren't I just the sweetest aunt? On the way back I devised a plan in which I could surprise Matt while he was on his route. I called up dispatch at work and asked where would be the best place for a surprise. They gave me and address and a time for a dropbox that he would be picking up. So I hurried to Raging Waters and dropped off Morgan's swimming suit and told my family what I was doing. I went home and cutified for Matt. I figured he'd like that better than me in my basketball shorts. I grabbed the card that I had bought a week before that then ran and bought some balloons. Deseret Book was right next to Zurchers so I ran in and looked for something that he might like but couldn't find what I wanted. So after grabbing the balloons I wanted I jumped in line. To my dismay I managed to get behind one of the slowest people ever who wear blinders on the sides of their eyes and fail to see there are other people in the world. I stood there for about twenty minutes. I was supposed to be at the dropbox at 6-6:30 and I wanted to get there before 6 just in case he was there early. I only had about ten minutes to get there by this time. Once I finally got my balloons filled I ran to my TRUCK...I didn't think about this...I had HUGE balloons and a tiny Ford Ranger truck cab to fit them in. I sat there for a couple minutes trying to get the balloons to behave and stay down...but what kind of balloons to that when they have helium in them. So I did the only thing I could do and drove to the dropbox with one hand holding the balloons while trying to shift and steer. A dangerous game that luckily I won. I reached the address of the dropbox but wasn't sure exactly where it was located. The dropboxes could be anywhere within the building, in front, behind, etc. So I drove around the block looking for parking. When I pulled up on the road behind the building I saw a FedEx truck and squealed with glee. Literally. I parked behind it threw on my hazards, grabbed the balloons and ran up to the truck. The bulk head door was open so that meant someone was in the back. "Hellllloooooo," I said in exuberant glee. Then of course Clay popped his head out. Crap! I asked Clay where Matt's dropbox was and if he knew if he already picked it up. He pointed me in the right direction but I still didn't have a parking spot. I stuffed the balloons back in the truck and drove about a hundred feet down the road and there was a parking garage I pulled up but it said that I needed to pay first. I told the man in the booth that I was trying to surprise my husband and if I could pay after. He said that was fine so I hurried and parked and started running to where Clay had told me to go. Probably not a good thing when you have a hurt back. I reached the dropbox and no one was around. I threw the card in the dropbox and tied the balloons to the handle. I ran behind some trees and watched impatiently. One of the balloons popped from the heat. I screamed a little and ran to the balloons and brought them into the trees to hide with me. It had been about ten minutes when he hadn't come. I began to think he wasn't coming. I called dispatch and they said they had already been there. That meant that he had picked up the packages and left when I was talking to Clay. They said they would send him a pickup for the same dropbox saying there was an angry customer there. So I grabbed the card out of the dropbox and waited. About five minutes later I saw Matt drive right by the dropbox and around the corner. I started running after him to see where he was going. I called him up and asked him nonchalant what he was doing. He told me how he was almost back to the station and dispatch sent him to pick up a package from an angry customer who wasn't even there. I finally had to tell him that I was trying to surprise him and told him where I was. Turns out he went a bit dislexic in his rush and went to the wrong dropbox. When he pulled up I gave him the balloons and card. I told him sorry for making him upset. He then told me the only reason why he was upset was because he was trying to get off early for a surprise reservation at The Roof he had setup. He tried to change the time later but they were all full. It was really funny that we both tried so hard to surprise each other but they both didn't work out so well. So instead of The Roof we went to The Outback Steakhouse and had a fun night together.
Four Wheeling
I'm a little behind in my blogging. Cause I generally don't think about it until two weeks later. But anyway we went four wheeling on the fourth of July. It was quite fun. I found this jump that we got some good air off on the way back to the campsite. I fell in love with it and went off of it over and over again, giggling like a school girl. Seriously...it was geeky.
This is Matt. Unfortunately my fav video of him I cut off before the best part...so this will suffice.
This is Camilla (me). Don't mind the dorky giggling. It's a disease. I think this was the best one I did that we got on camera.
The End.
Deacon Boy
Today wasn't the happiest of days for Matt and I. This is Deacon. Matt's dog of 9 years. Matt got him for Christmas when he was 17. When Deacon was only a couple years old he got hit by a car. He survived but had a metal replacement hip. It never slowed him down though. He had a lot of problems in the time I knew him. He had had a couple of tumors that weren't cancerous that he had removed to name a few. After getting home from Grandma's this morning I received a call from my brother-in-law Kenny. He asked me to have Matt call Greg, Matt's stepdad. He said it was important. I didn't think anything of it. Figured it was something silly. A couple minutes later Matt got off the phone and said that they were putting Deacon down because he had lung cancer. It took me a while to really believe what was happening. Matt and I had been out at his parents house not to long ago and Deacon seemed perfectly fine. I tried to find out if there was anything I could do to no avail. Matt and I headed out to the vet where Deacon and Matt's parents were. When we got there Matt's parents told us he hadn't been eating very well and he started breathing funny so they brought him in. When I first saw him I just burst out crying, I couldn't believe it. He looked like he had lost a lot of weight. He had extra skin hanging from his stomach, but other than that he seemed normal to me. He wagged his tail when we walked in and did his Deacon grin. He was just walking around loving everyone in the room. We spent about five minutes with him before they took him in a room. I couldn't go in there and watch him die. So I went outside and walked around. Matt and Greg went in with him. I couldn't believe how quick it was. Matt and Greg walked outside with only two minutes having passed. Matt was having a hard time when he walked out. It was hard for him to watch his dog die. It would be for anyone. Matt took that picture right before they put him down. Matt and I had been looking forward to the day where we could have a large enough place for Deacon to live with us. The lung cancer came on really fast. Within a couple of weeks. When they took the X-Rays they said they could barely see his lungs there was so much cancer. His lungs would have soon collapsed. July doesn't seem to ever be a good month for Matthew and his family. Just a couple weeks before this Jacque had to be put down too. Greg's border collie. He was a great dog too. Matt and I were able to say goodbye to him luckily. He had developed a huge tumor underneath his tongue. He couldn't even drink any water. We will miss you Deacon and Jacque. You were such amazing and loving dogs with the cutest personalities. We love you.
The Meeting of a Boy and a Girl from the Girls point of view...
I moved back up to SLC to go to school. I wanted a part time job that also had tuition reimbursement. So I started working for UPS as a part time handler. While I was going through my training my trainer took the group of us around to all the different 'belts' we were going to be working on. I was going to be working on the Pink belt and my belt was the first one we stopped at. She went and grabbed the supervisor in charge of the Pink belt to meet me. Guess who it was. It was Matthew. When she introduced me to him he just sat there and stared at me with his dirty face. I felt really awkward and didn't know what to do. I was going to shake his hand but he just sat there...so we continued on our way. Once I was through with my training I started loading my own truck with a trainer hanging out making sure I could stack boxes. Really hard, right? I remember my first interaction with Matt. I don't think I even remembered his name at the time. It was my first night loading my truck. It was a California truck. He walked up and was talking to my trainer. I guess he thought I couldn't hear him or see that he was holding a box. He told my trainer he was going to 'SALT' me with a NY box. Salting was pretty much the management making sure the loaders were reading what they were scanning into their trailers. Obviously since I was in a California trailer, NY didn't belong. I smiled to myself and watched as the box slowly made it's way to me. When I took it out of the truck both Matt and my trainer told me good job. I looked at Matt and raised my eyebrows and told him I heard him tell Muhrdad that he was throwing a NY box in my trailer. Next time he should talk quieter. From then on Matt would visit my trailer every night pretty much, and talk to me for a while. On an average I would say twenty minutes a night altogether. I enjoyed talking to him, and was at ease from the very beginning with him. After being there a couple of months I set him up with a friend and we went on a double date. The whole time I knew we would end up dating, but I was letting it take it's proper course. He had mentioned on the double date that his parents had horses. I kept bugging him about riding them. So one weekend we were going to go ride them. What I didn't know is that his parents didn't have their horses anymore and hadn't had them for months. Matt acted like it was a surprise to him but it was a setup. So instead we went to the Boondocks. Soon enough we were hanging out all the time. Then decided to 'officially' date. A month later we had our first kiss. Then five months later we were engaged. Then married three months after that. In total we knew each other for just shy of a year before getting married. We were married July 13, 2007. It was a Friday. :)
Formal Apology
Here is my formal apology. I thought about it long and hard at work.
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Sorry Stacy.
