excited!

my life as we know it will return to normal tomorrow when this handsome man returns home to spend the summer with me.

i miss my lover-bum.
 i'm not much good at being alone.

Camp Big Springs

Dustyn works up at Camp Big Springs during part of the summer. Here are some pictures of him and some other staff members in action.

33? Could it really be?

Look who had a birthday today!

I love you my Englebert.

Thank you for being my most favorite person. Ever.

Happy Birthday to my cute friend Arianne! And my mom too! Did I mention it was Uncle Matt's birthday yesterday? :)

My Mountain Man

He is growing his beard out for Camp. :)

Camp Big Springs

Last Wednesday I decided to drive up to Provo and visit Dustyn at Camp Big Springs. The drive up was so beautiful. I took a few pictures through my windshield. (i know, how great could they be, huh?)

It was good to see Dustyn. I forgot how lonely and boring it gets at home alone. But I survived!

This is Camp Big Springs:

It is so pretty and green up there! I love it.

This is the kitchen tent/dining tent.

Here is a student coming down the zip line.

Here is Dustyn and Bill catching on the zip line.

I really should have got pictures of the skits and camp fire. Dustyn does a couple of skits that are hilarious. One of these years, I so need to get them on video. Such a silly husband I have.

He really enjoys going to camp. I miss him terribly when he is gone, but luckily they don't mind if I visit! So that is nice!

On Friday we drove back home. We got packed and ready and headed off to Fishlake. It was a fun weekend. Of course I gave Dustyn his Birthday present earlier, since he would be gone on his birthday. So here he is checkin' it out.

We spent all day (seriously all day) fishing in the boat. It was a blast. Love it. We trolled and trolled and trolled and caught . . . nothing.

Dustyn did however catch a couple of fish while we were anchored and fishing with spinners for a moment. Here is one . . .

Whoops. I mean here is one that he caught. (and caught again!)

By brother Jace is always entertaining. Such a goof ball, but we love him. He LOVES posing for my camera. And believe me, I have some awesome pictures of him. ;) Someday, someday I will share. Bwahaha. But seriously he is cool.

And of course, we can't forget my cool dad.

He likes to drive fast, but couldn't with all our fat butts in the boat. :P

We had so much fun camping and spending time with my family for Father's Day and Dustyn and my mom's birthday. My mom stayed at camp and read her book and cooked lots of good food. Chet was there too. He came fishing with us in the afternoon, but I didn't get a picture of him. I totally slacked off with taking pictures this weekend.

My grandparents even came up on Sunday and attended church at the Fishlake Branch and had dinner with us. I was sad to come home. But I know there will be more time for camping this summer! Yay! It was a beautiful WARM weekend! (Right now I am wishing I was up at Fishlake in the COOL air instead of sweating in my warm house.)

I'm pooped.

I just got back in town after a long week of camping (well since Wednesday).  More pictures and stories to come.  Stay Tuned.

But for now. . . 

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

Thank you Dustyn for being the best possible husband for me.  You are the coolest person I know!  And I am very thankful to know you!  

Summer Jobs!

And another reason that we are wanting to get in shape  . . . Dustyn got a summer job!  Yay!  He is going to be a teacher at a 5th grade summer camp, Camp Big Springs!  He was a teacher 2 years ago and loved it.  But he has to go on a major hike once a week.  (The camp is for the month of June)  And several smaller hikes through out the week.  (Not to mention the hike to the stinkin' tent!  That one about killed me everytime!!) So it would be great if he were in shape BEFORE camp starts so he doesn't die the first week!  :)

Now, I just need to go get a summer job!  I will still be baby-sitting twice a week, but I need to find something else.  I would love to go be up at camp with Dustyn and work as Kitchen staff, but it is so hard to make major decisions when you are adopting!  One reason I decided to be a substitute teacher is because it is flexible and I can take time off whenever I want or need to.  That would work really well if anything ever came up.  But if we were both at camp for the entire month, we'd have to put our adoption on hold until after and that isn't something I want to do.  (Once we make the commitment, we can't back out or come home early.)  But I don't want to put my life on hold until we adopt either.  I mean it could be years.  It could be months.  It could be days.  You never really know.  

That is the dilemma we are always trying to figure out.  Dustyn was really nervous to commit to camp - but we figured it would all work out.  The worst scenario is that he only gets to see the baby on the weekends for a month (or on placement day if it were ever to happen in June).  Something we'd just have to deal with.  I know, I know.  I am worrying too much!  It's just so hard to make decisions when you have no idea what your life will be like in the next month.  :)  But that isn't necessary a bad thing either!  :)