A Year Between Blogs.

Wow......I am terrible at keeping up with this. I have started SO many different posts and then gotten bored or busy and just never finished them. So I have a year worth of catching up to do. So, here goes........

Cameron got approval to walk on July 2nd right in time to go to Blanding for the Palmer Family reunion. We spent the summer getting him up and good to go for work. He was work released in August and got hired at Chrysalis. It was a blessing that he was able to find something so quickly.

Since we got married in 2006, Cameron has tried so hard to get me to let him go to massage therapy school. Every time the subject would come up I would QUICKLY dismiss it and tell him no. For one, I really didn't want him touching other women, I know that seems a little jealous and such, but I just couldn't feel comfortable about it. I also thought it was an easy way out. You know, you see all the commercials on TV "get your degree on line and get paid 5 million dollars, and we'll give you a free lap top." blah blah blah blah. Well, at the beginning of August Cameron asked one more time. I told him, "tell you what. I will check and see when their sessions start, if there is one starting in the next two weeks, I will say yes no questions asked. If not, then we will seriously discuss it before the next session started.

I got on the computer the next morning, and....the next session started that day and there wasn't another starting for 10 weeks. I felt relieved. I told Cameron that he should go and get some information from Utah College of Massage Therapy and we would talk about it that night. Well, any of you who know me well, know that God tends to have to slap me up side the head before I get the message. So Cameron went to the school and he called me an hour later called me and said, "they have a night class that starts at 7 tonight, so I enrolled and got approved for the student loan, I will finish in and year and this way I can work during the day." WHACK!!! Smack upside the head.

Honestly it was the best decision ever. He loves it, and he is SO good at it. He just recently interviewed to do his clinicals on Friday which is apparently a really difficult thing to get. He is happier than I have ever seen him. So....if anyone wants a massage, let me know.

Anyway, life was pretty normal for the rest of 2009. We thought for sure that 2010 just has to be better than 2009. I mean it had to be, right? In 2009 (in chronilogical order) we hit a deer, Cameron lost his job, Mom had her thyroid removed, the same day Cam slips on ice and breaks his leg badly enough that he has to have surgery. Then they find cancer in my mom's thyroid, and has to have radiation treatment. We find out that I will probably never be able to have a baby, just to name a few of the wonderful trials and tribulations we had. 2010 had to be better, right? Wrong.

On January 10 at 10 p.m. I got a call from my boss "Katie, we haven't been totally honest with you about Kiddie Kandids. We are negotiating with the lenders, but we will not be opening tomorrow. We'll have you back in the studio by Friday at the latest, and I will keep you posted." at 11:55 I got a text for my boss "Kiddie Kandids just filed chapter 7 bankruptcy, I am sorry. Go get your stuff from the studio in the morning and call your staff."

BOOM.....We started 2010 off with a bang. We felt the world fall back down. Since January, I have worked for PictureMe Portraits in Walmart, and Brent Brown Toyota (that's right, I sold cars) and I am currently getting ready to start a whole new adventure with a brand new portrait studio in the same location I was working in and several members of my old staff. Cameron quit at Chrysalis in March and took a sells job so that he could gain a little more experience with sells before he starts his own practice. He finished that job in April and started working for Cinemark at the dollar theater tonight.

I feel really blessed that with the economy the way it is right now that we have both been able to find new jobs as quickly as we have. It has been a fantastic demonstration of the tender mercies of the Lord. We have had an AMAZING support system. Honestly, we have the BEST families in the entire world!

So here we are, 45 classes away from Cameron's graduation, 10 days away from me starting my new job. The past year has been a stuggle, but we are getting by the best we can, and we are happy. I should do this more than once a year.......