Welcome to the World Little Cameron!

Cameron's Album

Well, a little unexpectedly and about 10 days early, Cameron Jones was born on January 7th, 2008!!! Here is a short album of some of the pictures we have taken so far! Much more to come later!

Happy 2008!

Okay, so this has been pretty ridiculous. It has been like three months since we have posted anything. Apparently we were still stuck on Halloween. But actually quite a bit has happened in the past couple months, including a last minute BYU win over Utah for the second straight year, and a final second BYU win over UCLA in the Vegas Bowl on a blocked kick. (I guess you kind of get the hint as to what we have been so busy with) ha ha.

Things have been fantastic though the past month or so. We spent Thanksgiving in Idaho with my family...they decided to combine Thanksgiving and Christmas. It was great seeing everyone, and the cousin gift exchange was way fun. Also, my cousin Megan got engaged to her long-time boyfriend Jordan, so that was exciting. Sami is still pregnant, and getting huge!!! Well, okay, so everyone that sees her thinks that she isn't due for another six months because she is pretty tiny. But believe it or not, little baby Cameron could come now at any moment. Technically she is due January 17th, but our bags are packed, the crib is up and ready and the Hospital is practically on alert. We are really excited, but admittedly very nervous as well. It should be quite the crazy experience coming soon. We will post pictures as soon as we can!

Other than that, school got really busy finishing out the semester. But I survived finals and ended up doing great. I haven't got my grades back yet, but I am hoping for another semester of straight A's. Sami has been trying to finish up 8 weeks of class lesson plans for her long term sixth grade sub. She gets six weeks off after she has the baby, but is planning for 8 weeks just to be safe. I have one more semester left at BYU, and then it is on to medical school somewhere. We haven't heard from any other med schools yet, so as of now we are planning on going to Texas A&M. We are very excited for that as well. (Basically 2008 is going to be full of crazy changes in all of our lives)

So now that the new year has started, we have decided to begin anew and post much more often. (We know that there are sooooo many of you that read this anyway) ha ha.
Hopefully 2008 will be as great as 2007 has been!

P.S. Christmas was awesome! I got a new ski helmet to go along with my Birthday present (a Sundance ski pass), and the Rollins gave us a new video camera. So hopefully I can figure out how to post some videos soon.

Halloween!

Ok...so our pumpkins aren't as cool as Tyson and Sami's but we did our best. I think we spent more time throwing pumkin guts at each other than actually carving them. It was the funnest Halloween activity we did!!! I never finished carving mine. :( bummer.

Preference

My friends and I asked some guys from our ward to the He Haw preference dance with T-shirts. We wrote random names on the back with washable markers and our names in permanent markers. The guys had to wash the shirts to see who asked them. This is a picture of how we asked and another picture of how they answered. They got 3,000 pieces of white paper and taped them together to form a "Yes" on the mountain next to the BYU "Y". It was the coolest thing ever and we were in the BYU and Provo newspaper.

Halloween Pumpkins

This year's Halloween Pumpkin Carving Contest proved to be competitively creative and equally as challenging. While we all know that (our) BYU Cougar should win this year's competition, the votes have still yet to be tallied. Last year, our Bat pumpkin easily won the contest, and our hopes for a repeat victory were initially quite high. But after seeing the competition, we aren't so hopeful anymore. ha ha Anyway, here's some pictures of how they all turned out. Enjoy and happy Halloween!!!

1st Acceptance: Texas A&M Medical School!!!

So, sorry it has been awhile since we have posted anything. I guess we have just been caught up with school and work and everything. But we got some great news this past week...I found out that I got accepted to Texas A&M Medical School!!! They sent me an email on Oct. 15th and then I got the official letter in the mail on Friday. So that is a big relief, even though it is not necessarily my top choice. At least I know I am in somewhere. In the past month I have also interviewed with St. Louis University, the University of Iowa and UT Houston. The trip to St. Louis was pretty crazy. After my interview, I rented a car and began driving to Iowa for my next interview. Along the way, I got a rock chip in the rental car window (with no renter's insurance) and then got pulled over by a stupid highway patrol-man. he showed me the radar gun and had me clocked going 69 in a 65mph zone. Then on top of that, he decided the roads were a little wet, so I deserved to be written a ticket for 75 in a 65. It was extremely lame! So that was $200 bucks I wasn't planning on throwing out the window. Overall though, it was a lot of fun and I got to stop by Nauvoo and walk around for a few minutes. School has been extra crazy because I have had to miss so many days for all of these interviews...so I get to spend all my free time trying catch up. But it has been fun too, and has made me so excited for medical school. Hopefully I will continue to hear back from schools I am waiting on. Sami has been getting bigger and bigger, and the little baby (Cameron) is kicking like crazy all the time. Anyway, things are great and before we know it we'll have a little one running around here (well maybe just crying). Hopefully we can keep up better with posting and keep everyone up to speed. Later!

Hobble Creek Canyon

Hobble Creek Canyon and the beautiful fall leaves. We were coming around a corner at just the right time. With the looming clouds and fresh rain fall, the mountain was glowing. I guess this is proof that fall is really here!

More Hobble Creek

Here's some more pictures.

Graduation

I graduated finally!!!!

Ford Family Reunion

A great time was had by at this year's Ford Family Reunion. Held at an obscure cabin 20 minutes up a nearby canyon in Paragunah, UT, the reunion included four-wheeling, shotgun shooting, food, basketball, volleyball, fishing, crafts, and fun. We had a great time and didn't want to come home...although I learned that I am a horrible shot with a shotgun (although I'm sure those clay pigeons were pretty scared). We can't wait until the next one two years from now.