24 hr. make-over

Last Wednesday, Cameron traveled to San Diego to visit his family, attend his brother Chase's farewell and his nephew Trey's baby blessing. Cameron is there till Tuesday so that leaves me here alone. I invited my newly engaged friend Kate over to stay with me in the meantime (Her fiance is out of town too!). So Kate and I have had some great girls time.

Now if Cameron is reading this, don't. Unless you don't want a surprise on Tuesday.

So while Cameron has been gone,

(Cameron don't look at the blog even though you probably won't check it)

I decided to play room make-over while he's gone!

Since living here, Cameron has adored having an office. Cameron likes to have close to silence while he studies and the office is a perfect place he can close himself into. We thought about painting it a while ago but never got around to it. He said he wanted very "happy" colors so that's what I did.

So yesterday I hit downtown, bought my supplies and did a room makeover.

Okay so here is the room before: (I realized as I started taping that I should do before and after shots) Ya it was really unorganized before as well.ya... gross.

So I got some ideas and BAM!

Here's the after:
Happy enough?

Pat on the back for me. :)

the bedroom's tomorrow!

The Call!

So my brother Jeff got his mission call!!
He is serving in Cuernavaca, Mexico!!
It's a little south of Mexico City. He'll be speaking Spanish (obviously) and serving the people there for two years. I'm so proud and excited for him!

He leaves January 21st but in the mean time he's saving up for the mission by selling his CD's!

Please check out his stuff and tell your friends, buy a cd for yourself or as Christmas gift to someone you think may like it.
His CD is now sold online and he has a blog!

Please listen to it and check it out!

click on:

Jeff's website and where you can purchase his CD online

Jeff's Blog

Fall official starts in a week...

I love fall!
Fall has a fresh feeling to it.

School starts! Even though we didn't get new outfits for our first day of school (which I look forward to so much), Cameron and I (I'm online) have both started the semester. New courses, teachers, and classmates. You're motivated to do better and you've got new school supplies to do it.

Fall in Hawaii isn't the same for a couple reasons. The weather is has little to no change. I love when the air gets a little cooler and crisper, the leaves begin to fall and it's boots and sweater weather.
Because there's no weather change, we can't wear fall clothes! Well, I guess I could but then I would be sweating the whole day through. I love the fall fashions and I miss them.
But I'm living in wonderful Hawaii so I can't complain.

Also with fall comes Halloween!! I love Halloween!! It's probably next to Christmas for me. I love the costumes, candy, and parties! I can't wait to throw a Halloween party! I asked Cameron the other day what we should be for Halloween and these were his suggestions: Abraham Lincoln and his wife.... Bill and Hillary Clinton... Palin and Obama (he suggested we could yell at each other all night)...haha... and the strange political suggestions went on. Haha... he was cracking me up.
And then after Halloween follows all the other wonderful holidays.

There's just something extremely charming about Fall.

Hip Hop Dance Class!

My dear friend Natalie (who is an amazing dancer and teaches at 24/7 Dance Studio in Kaneohe) is teaching a
Hip Hop class on Friday!

This Friday, the 12th, at 8 p.m. in the old gym dance room on campus.
The school has finally given her permission to do this and so she needs lots of people to come and support her so she can have a permanent class! So please please please come! Let me know if you have any questions!

The Proposal 9/8/07

I was thinking today while getting the grandparents on their way back to San Diego, working with Jeanne, and cleaning up our house... wow... it's been one year since Cameron and I got engaged. Time really really flies! On 9/8/07, Cameron Rondo set up the most wonderful and personal proposal. Now I'm writing this not too bore you but for my own records as well.

About five years ago, Cameron and I were set up by a mutual friend (Hayley Crickmore) on a blind group date after I had just turned 16. We met at Rollerskateland (which is no longer there) and the rest was history.
Four Years later...
So the day that Cameron proposed, I was just coming back from doing some wedding dress shopping with my mom (obviously Cameron and I had discussed it previous to the proposal) and Cameron had asked me to save from 2 p.m. to 10p.m. for him. I honestly didn't know he was setting it up because we only went ring shopping three days before and I was leaving for school the next day! He had already bought a plane ticket to see me the first week of October at BYU-I so I thought for sure that would be when he proposes. But just in case... I got a new outfit and got dolled up for this nice date that he was planning.
Cameron arrived at my house in a nice shirt (there's a clue) and his mom's nice car (there's another clue!) but he was soooo calm. I thought for sure that Cameron would be reallllly nervous if he were proposing to me that night. He didn't tell me where we were going and then we headed off.
The first stop was a rollerskate rink (like where we met). There was hardly anyone there so we had a blast rollerskating for an hour or so and being our goofy selves. It was our first date over again.
The second stop was George's at the Cove, a wonderful restaurant in La Jolla that overlooks the cove. It was still sunny outside and we dinned out on the balcony. Cameron had the halibut and I had I think shrimp. We had a wonderful time talking and STILL Cameron showed no signs of being nervous. I then just thought this was a really really nice date he was taking me on before I went back up to Idaho. Over dinner, I told Cameron that I was really bummed that I didn't get to go to the beach on my last day in California. He then suggested that we went over to WindnSea Beach (my all-time favorite beach) and hang around there for a bit. Little did I know... I only helped the plan. Cameron didn't order dessert after dinner which I thought was a little fishy and unsual for Cameron.
So we headed to WindnSea Beach. The sun was almost setting and Cameron suggested that we went to look at the tide pools. I agreed and off we went. As we were walking, there were coves that were only open to the ocean and so we were kind of glancing in each one when I came across one that was so romantically decorated! It had a blanket down, candles everywhere, chilled milk in an ice bucket, a low table with my favorite desserts from Extraordinary Desserts, Roses, the whole thing. It was beautiful. I was in awe and now I was pretty sure of what came next. We sat down and starting eating the desserts when Cameron said that he wanted to wait for a second and read something to me. He reached under the low table and pulled out his journal. He began to read me snipits of journal entrees that he had from the time we first met, dating, and then he ended with right before his mission. The last one he read me was how much he loved me and cherished me before his mission. He closed the journal (of course I'm balling at this point) and told me that he felt that same way now and more. He took out the ring from underneath the table, got down on his knee, said some wonderful words and asked me to marry him. Of course I said yes! And Allan (Cameron's dad) came down and took some pictures for us. We sat there together so happy and watched the sun go down.

Amazing right? It couldn't have been more perfect or more personal. I couldn't have asked for anything more.

The joys of visitors!

I love having grandma and grandpa here! They're such a treat and are so helpful and fun to be around. Don't get me wrong I love Hawaii but I can't wait for the day when we move back to where all of our family is. It's so nice having family around. My grandparents are so hip and cute.
Tonight I think we're taking them to the wonderful Haliewa Eats for some delicious Thai food and then Aloha Stadium in the morning.

Work has been work. Jeanne continues to entertain me. Right now I can hear her chanting in the other room Lets go Mets! Lets go Mets! as loud as she possibly can (and that's loud). She has dark sheets right now and together we shook them out because her bed skin was all over them. I closed my lips tight praying that the bed skin would not stick to my chapstick. Sick. She also called me a prude today for not wanting to watch an R movie with her. Never would I have thought I would be called a prude by a 75 yr-old woman!!! It should be the other way right? haha...

Cameron has been busy with school and the surf is slowly coming back on our side of the island. His ankle is great! We've been blessed with an extremely quick recovery! Last week it hurt to surf and now he's fine! :) Cameron has such great self-discipline to do his homework. I really admire him for that and for many other great qualities.

Monday I start a few online classes... fun fun fun.

What a boring pictureless post. I can't stand not posting pictures. I apoligize to all those who read this.

a quick game of catch-up

I can't sleep right now at all!

Grandpa Norris and Grandma Cordy are coming tomorrow!It's their 47th Anniversary and they wanted to come out here and see us!
gosh they're a dang good lookin' couple.
:)
Here's one of our two guest rooms I cleaned up for them to stay in...
Since I haven't posted for the last week or so here's what's happening... (if you care)

My dear friend Jessi came out to Hawaii and I loved every minute of it. I'm trying to persuade her to return and stay here but we'll see. One night we went on a date to Haliewa Eats...Jessi is my dear dear dear friend. She is so down to earth and such a good friend to have a good laugh with.

Last Sunday we had Yuzo, Mino, and Michelle over for dinner. They cooked some Japanese food and we did our favorite family dish. Michelle and Mino are my visiting teachers. Mino doesn't speak English so Michelle translates. I always get teary-eyed during our lessons because I think it is so amazing that the gospel is so exact in every land and language. They are both wonderful girls.

Last Thursday, Jeanne decided that we would drive around the whole island for fun! Haha... I haven't been to the west side much so she wanted to show me around. We started off with breakfast at Turtle Bay, Palm Terrace and then headed off on our journey. It was long but we had some great convos and we stopped at Roy's at the Marriott for some afternoon appetizers and drinks. Then we got Starbucks ( the usual) and headed home. She's such a hoot and always up for a good adventure of getting lost.

Friday, Cameron had the great idea of going on a date to Glow Put and dinner! This is miniature golf glow-in-the-dark style! We decided that winner got a long massage and Cameron beat me fair and square. After, we grabbed some dinner at Ruby Tuesdays and headed back home. We remembered that all of our single friends were going to school dance so we went! It was so much fun! We love to dance and we haven't really had the chance to since our reception.
My cute hubby. The proud winner of glow put.

Then today, Labor Day, Cameron and I had some peeps over for a bbq. It was great and was fun to see Jeanne there. Thanks all who came! It was great seeing the Willardson sisters. They're on vacation and i haven't seen them since our reception! The oldest was married to her sweetheart one year ago and then lost him six months ago. His diabetes suddenly went bad and he passed away. She is such a strong woman and I can't imagine what she has gone through. It was so good to see her and see that she is doing well. She is truly an amazing example to me. She advised me to never get upset but just to serve your spouse because you'll never know when they need to go. Her husband was an awesome guy and I'm sure is needed elsewhere for the time being.

It was great being surrounded by friends on our day off!

With all that out, goodnight!