Day 14


Day 14: A Picture of you and Your Family

The above picture has to be my favorite picture of the little family that is ours. It is only really missing the kitties and they do not like the camera like the dogs do. It is our little slice of heaven right here. We love our little family and hope to someday make more little additions.


The above picture is my family, Campbell's. We are a small tight nit little family. My mom (in the white shirt) is the most amazing woman I have ever met and hope that I can be at least half the mother and woman that she is. My dad, in the dark blue shirt, is the funniest most loving man I have ever met. He loves my mom so much and is easy going. My mom and dad met while they were in college, got married, and waited about ten years before deciding to have my sister (the skinny one in the black tank top). Four years later I came along. Danny, my sister's husband (the one hugging on her), met my sister when they were in elementary school together and then found each other years later only to rekindle the love connection from younger years. Bryan, (red shirted guy I am hugging one) is my loving husband who I love spending time with. He is my monkey and I love him so much.



The above photo is Bryan and I with Darcy and Danny before going on the grueling overnight Narrows hike in Zions park. My sister and I are the best of sisters. I love my sister and how amazing of a woman she is. I have always loved hanging out with her. Danny and her are hoping to start another little family of their own soon and are trying to get pregnant. Exciting for all because my parents want grandchildren, I want to be an aunt (Rock On!), and my sister is ready to be a mommy.



The above picture is Bryan and I with his family, the Austins. There is Don, Bryan's dad (the man in the back), Jolee his mother (the woman sitting in pink), and Amber his sister (the one wearing a teal shirt with the black over wrap). We get to go do all sorts of things with the Austins and they are fun to hang out with. Jolee and Don were high school sweethearts who after getting married, tried and tried and got blessed Bryan and a short year after were blessed with Amber as well. They are good people and we enjoy getting to be a part of the family.

Bryan and I have been so lucky to be able to be a part of such great families and receive the amazing love that we do receive every day. We are so blessed to have such loving and caring people that surround us and people we can count on through thick and thin.

Day 13

Day 13: A letter to Someone Who Has Hurt You Recently

Dear KC Bolen,
I really must admit that the other night really hurt my feelings with what you said to me and how you treated our invite to come and hang out. We did not want to make a big deal and have some fun food, see the kids, and I really wanted to chat with Francie since I am concerned for her right now. I am afraid you are not treating her right and that is not okay. She is such a wonderful woman and great friend. I love her so much and have known her for so long. She cares so much for those around her that she puts others in front of her own happiness. I could hear it in her voice the other day on the phone that she is in distress mode and she is not her usual happy glowing self. I am afraid you are taking advantage of her and you definitely took advantage of us the other night. Bringing someone else over to our house that we did not know and did not know you were bringing really made us feel awkward. Also, then expecting us to feed this person too made me really uncomfortable. I did not really care so much that you brought someone, in fact he was rather nice and we did not have a problem with the person themself, it was the fact you did not tell us or call us before. And totally blind siding Francie with that as well, no cool in my book.
What you said to me hurt the most. As we sat there, just relaxing and hanging out, after all that we put up with you that night, you insult us with what Bryan and I feel is the right way to go about starting a family and telling me that I am wrong not to want to be a stay at home mom. I do not have a problem with stay at home moms at all. I feel that if you want to stay home with your children you should do what you want in what you feel is best. I myself do not feel this way. I was raised in a home that both my parents worked and my sister and I never once felt distant or neglected by our parents. We realize this was no easy task for them to do and realize that it takes a lot of work but this something that both of us feel very passionate about. I do not have the necessary personality to be a stay at home mom either. I am too stir crazy to stay at home and I want to be a veterinarian. My mother was able to do it and do it well, so what makes you think that you have the right to say that moms that do not stay at home are not good mothers. I do not think it is wise for Bryan and I to have children right now when our financial situation is not very stable and not only that once you have children, things change dramatically. We want to be a couple more before starting our family. We want children and we both want them now but do not feel it would be a responsible choice right now for us. We want to be able to provide for our children in everyway and we are not going to be pressured into children either. Why no one seems to respect that fact and just pushes for us to jump into children, I will never understand. Yeah, it is a sensitive subject for me because we really want children like right now but we are trying to be responsible in deciding when to have children.

Brittney

Day 12

Day 12 : How you found out about blogs and why you made one

I found out about blogs a while ago when they were first starting to start up. I have been really terrible about making sure to even post or even do it well. I wanted to make one though because there is so much that can be shared in a blog that maybe you do not want everyone to know but those who actually care about me and my husband as people and not just another number on their facebook or myspace page. I love that I can actually tell the stories and fun stuff that is going on in our lives that are too good to just give two lines on a profile status. I know I do not have a whole lot of people that even read the blog if any, but it is still fun to put my thoughts and stories somewhere.

Day 10 and Day 11

Double post. Sorry forgot to post yesterday.

Day 10: Songs you Listen to When you are Happy, Sad, Bored, Hyped, Mad

This one is a little hard considering the fact that I love so many different types of music. When I am happy I definitely listen to different up beat songs such as country songs Country Girl (Shake it for me) and Honey Bee right now. I do love the new songs that come out all the time but some classics are great too like Devil Went Down to Georgia and pretty much anything by Shania Twain. Been a fan of Shania Twain since I was little. When I am sad, more the slower, more depressing songs in a way which would seem to be the opposite of what someone who is sad would want to see but I kind of listen to music based on mood. I like different modern songs such as What do you Want and When Summer Comes Around or When it Rains or If I Die Young . When I am bored, I really listen to all music and no specific songs in particular and I love all sorts of music. Hyped there are only a few songs I listen to. Michael Jackson's Thriller is a big one for me and I love to dance around while listening to it and really get moving. When I am mad, music is not something I listen to. When I get mad, I am mad and I only think of what is making me mad usually.

Day 11: Another Picture of You and Your Friends

Well, I still have not been able to find any photos that I have of us with our friends. I am having issues finding them on my computer because I cannot remember what I saved them under. I will post them though as soon as I find them.

Day 9

Day 9: Something you are proud of in the past few days

This one is pretty easy. Bryan would have to be something/someone I am proud of from the past few days. He has been so helpful lately it has been great. Daisy was sick on Friday thru the weekend. She kept having terrible accidents in her kennel and needing cleaning of some not so nice messes. Bryan was always helpful and ready to take on the mess. Also Bryan has done everything that he needs to do as well to go to school. Bryan will be going to school in the fall to pursue a dream of a police officer. I know that he did the electrician thing for a while and he did really like it but it does not seem to fit Bryan. In talking with Bryan's mom and grandmother Bryan has always wanted to be either a firefighter or police officer and I can just see him being either. He is so personable and easy to talk to and gets along with strangers so well. He has always been considerate of my stresses as well and this last weekend he really tried hard to calm my stress with a surprise of coming with me to Logan for a job interview that I had on Friday instead of leaving early to go with his dad camping. He then made sure that we had a date at our special place in Ogden, B'Occia D'Italia a great little hole in the way restaurant that Bryan, my parents, and I found by accident over a year ago when going to the Ogden Rodeo. It has the best house salad dressing and great service with good pastas and pizzas. He made sure that we went and saw Apes:The Rise of Planet of the Apes this weekend as well. It was so much fun and it was a movie that I think I more wanted to see than him, but he made sure we saw it. I am a Planet of the Apes fan, more the first original and the remake with Mark Wahlberg a while ago. I am so proud of my hubby and how hard he works for us. He works overtime to help with finances, he works hard around the house with chores and things that need to be fixed, and he always treats me so well. He has taken on so much with trying to go to school this fall and I am so proud of him. He has done it all on his own and has shown a lot of drive to go to school and better himself. Go BRYAN!

Day 8

Day 8: Short Term Goal for this Month and Why

Short term goal for this month is to get ready and be ready to start school in the fall. Including mentally ready. I start school at Utah State University in Logan for schooling for Pre-Vet program. I think this is going to be the hardest thing I have ever had to do. I love being at home with my husband and puppies and kitties. I am not going to be able to do this nearly as much as before. I cannot stay in Salt Lake for schooling any more and I need to go to there during the week and come home on weekends. I still need a lot of things for school it seems like but a lot of them I cannot even get until the first week of class. Books that are going to cost me still another $300 and I have already gotten three of them that I need and those tipped the wallet at $254, about $150 cheaper than it should have been. Thank you Rich, my cousin, who told me that Amazon.com sells college books because it saved some good money for sure.

Day 7


Day 7: A Picture of Someone/Something That has the Biggest Impact on You

Of course it is going to be my hubby that has such a huge impact on my life. He is such a good person and I love him so much. He has helped me to become a stronger person filled with love and dedication. He has taught me patience through the constant testing of my patience but to better understand and look at both sides of any situation. He has taught me to laugh more. I know that sounds impossible but he makes me smile and laugh more than anyone I have ever met. He has taught me more compassion. He will not admit it but he is so sweet still opening my door for me, doing what I ask with little kick back, always asking what I need, always saying I love you, doing sweet things for me for no reason other than he loves me, trying to surprise me with time together, and taking great care of me when I am sick. I try to make sure to keep up with his sweetness but it is no easy task. He is always looking for things for us to do together and something that only him and I can do and make something our thing. There are a couple food places that only we go to and do not go there with other people. We have walks late at night just so we can talk and get out of the house and spend time together. We started that every weekend when Bryan gets home from work at 11:30 pm we will go for a 2-3 hour walk through the streets of Magna. We have even got into walking really long distances. We walked all the way from our home on 8000 West to the Maverick Center one day for the rodeo. We love camping together, do house and yard work together, we love doing everything together. We have so much fun together and I cannot wait to spend the rest of my life with the most wonderful man in the world.