I'm a lost Cause

I'm excited to get married.

I'm excited to spend forever with him:

I'm excited to start a new chapter in my life

I'm so excited that I couldn't wait. . . .

I made a new blog. . . for the both of us.

Um. . . Camille. . . .usually you do that sort of stuff AFTER you get married.

I know, I know. . . . pathetic that I just couldn't wait

http://jonathan-camilleclark.blogspot.com/

Little-Big

Mama Clark has been sending me pictures of my favorite thing in the whole world!

Before the mission v

I think this is my favorite picture. . . . long hair. . . oh my

Can you say chubby, hairy baby!! Hahaha. . . .

So It Shall Be. . .

I was doing Scott's hair for church. All of the sudden he goes "you need to practice being a mom. Cause I'm going to be an uncle in three years". Well if the five year old said it then it must come true.

Mom & Dad,
Mama & Papa Clark
I'm just telling you now.

I Don't Do Awkward

I couldn't find a picture of awkward so this will have to do.

I hate awkward situations. I hate feeling awkward.
All because of my ugly stage . . .being insecure and bad self-esteem.
I was AWKWARD.

So to this day . . . I do not do awkward things.
Example.


(I'm not having good picture luck today)

I was carrying one of these around for work.
Not a baby but a BYU bag

I was walking across campus when all of the sudden I heard a voice.
"What did you buy at the bookstore?"
I was thinking about other things. . . . (Like the amazing guy i get to marry in 2 months 3 weeks and 3 days)

Then I heard a guy speed up his pace so that he was walking by me.
"What did you buy at the bookstore?" he asked while he tried to peer into my bag.

I'm going to be honest here. . . . I was disturbed.
Instinctively I pulled the bag closer to me. "I didn't buy anything. I'm just returning some movies to the library".

He looked at me for a second. I looked at the ground and kept walking. . . . so did he.
I was hoping that he would leave. He didn't. I was feeling extremely awkward. I had no idea what to say to this kid now.

". . . . DVD. . . . should. . . . . packaging. . . .blah, blah, blah"
Amazingly enough he started to talk again. Except he was talking really quiet. I only caught a few words that he said.
I smiled at him, laughed, and nodded my head. (I don't like to ask people to repeat themselves)
This seemed to be the right thing to do because he started to smile and started to talk again.
"Yeah. . . . . video games. . . . . packaging. . . . downloads. . . "

I think I was just staring at him. I had no IDEA what he was talking about.
I just wanted him to go away. I wanted to say "look I don't know what you are saying . . . but I'm engaged. Please stop talking to me NOW!"

Then he said, "so what movies are they?"
I opened my bag to look down at them. He decided he should look as well.
"They are just movies" I told him.

I kept looking towards the building I needed to get to. It was not getting any closer.

FINALLY I was there. I was feeling so extremely awkward that I didn't know how to leave him. (Jonathan will laugh and agree. . . when I feel awkward it is like my brain just shuts down and I have to flee as fast as I can)

Do I tell him "It was nice chatting with you"
No! It wasn't

So I just figured that I would start walking away.
I turn and start to go left. Boy realized that I am going a different way then he is. He turns "blah. . . blah. . . .blah"

AH! Kid I don't know what you are SAYING!

He takes a few steps forward. He looks like he is coming into the building with me.
STOP! Oh please stop kid!

"Blah. . . . blah. . . DVD. . . . packaging. . . ." he laughs and then walks away.
I just stood there. . . . I could not understand why a guy would just walk up to a girl and demand to see what was in her bag. (Well I felt like he was demanding)
Is that how he starts conversations?
Strange

I don't know what he said but I felt awkward.
I also know that he is somehow obsessed with packaging.

Our Engagement made BYU news!

Congratulations to the Writers’ Block production of “Coffin Maker”, Tom Morrill, Sam Wallace, and Becky Baker, which won a regional Emmy from the Rocky Mountain Southwest Region, sponsored by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. For more information, go to http://www.rockymountainemmy.org/. “Coffin Maker” won in the Student Production category (category 91, the last category listed on the downloadable “Recipient List.”)

Art Access/VSA Utah (230 South 500 West #125 Salt Lake City, Utah) is showing Vance Mellen’s (husband of Kym Mellen) Mixed Media paintings, Illuminated Paintings or “Adult Nightlights,” in Access II Gallery, October 15 through November 19th. There will be an Artists’ Reception Friday, October 15 from 6-9 PM. Vance Mellen is thrilled to be showing his illuminated "Adult Nightlight" paintings, two years in the making. Each painting will be accompanied by a short story (online at www.mellenheadprods.com -- click on "PAINTINGS"). For more information visit www.accessart.org.

We have several BYU faculty, students, and alums performing in The Scarlet Pimpernel at the Hale Center Theater in Orem! Cast members from BYU include Neal Johnson (Percy), Lauren Noll and Rachel Woodward (Marguerite St. Just), Matt Bellows (Chauvelin), Shawnda Moss (ensemble), Brock Kannan, Eric Gourley, Kristen Metzger. David Morgan directs, and Korianne Johnson is the music director. Matthew Carlin is the fight choreographer, and Emily Burnworth is the dialect coach. Shawnda mentioned she is so glad to be back on stage singing and dancing! Many of our BYU contingency perform in the Tuesday/ Thursday/ Saturday cast. If you want to come and see a great show based on a wonderful story, please come!! Shawnda has a couple complimentary ticket vouchers available through the end of October - if you're interested let her know. Tickets for the production are selling quickly, so get your date night planned now! The HCT Orem website is: http://www.haletheater.org/

Student Employee News
• Two of our student employees were engaged over Conference Weekend! Will McKay is engaged to Hannah Brown, and they will wed on Dec. 22. Camille Rasmussen (our video runner) is engaged to Jonathan Clark and will marry on January 8.
• Megan Ward, former front desk lead secretary, will be speaking in church before leaving on her mission on the 31...yes, on Halloween! She'd love to see you there. Sacrament meeting starts at 12:50 p.m. The address for the chapel is 9894 South 2700 West South Jordan, UT. It's super easy to find, she promises. Hope to see you there. Megan will be serving in the Washington D.C. area.

Introducing Two New Condo Owners

The weekend Jonathan proposed (Mama + Papa Clark, Philip + Lianna, Mom, and Dad) all came to Boise to meet. We went house hunting (Yes, we knew for sure we were getting married)

The first couple of houses we went to were SCARY. I did not want to live in a place that had holes in the door, writing on the wall, and a horribly dead yard. The second to last place I just fell in love with! It was such a good deal too!

It had only been on the market for a couple of days. So we wanted to hurry and snatch it up before anybody else. We prayed about it and we all felt like it would be a good place. So we made an offer and waited.

Soon we found out that another buyer had also made an offer. AH! NO!!

We raised our offering price.

Just today we found out WE GOT IT!!!! :)

Jonathan tried to explain it to me. . . but all I remember hearing is the other person offered a lot more.

We feel so blessed to get this condo!

Now I just can't wait to start painting, decorating, and living in it with my love!!

He Knelt to the Ground and Pulled Out a Ring and Said

Saturday night Jonathan asked if we could go on an early morning picnic. He said that he wanted to spend more time with me before I left with my parents that next day. I said sure. He said he would pick me up at 7:30.

Well I set my alarm and it didn't go off :(

I got ready in like 10 min. and then we were off.

We were supposed to eat our food and watch the sunrise but . . . I was slow so we didn't.

Jonathan pulled into this park.

(We had our first date in a gorgeous park in Provo. We had a picnic and then went for a walk.) We go to parks all the time so I wasn't really expecting anything. Well we had our breakfast and then we decided to go on the slides.

We both went down headfirst but before we went down Jonathan said

"I wanted to tell you something"

We were in a closed slide so he had to do some tricky maneuvering to get "the ring" out of his pocket. He looked at me and said "I want to marry you. . . Will you marry me?"

Of course I said yes!

We then went down the slide. (Big mistake)

It was curvy so we hit heads and other body parts and fell out onto the ground laughing and sore

Then we hugged and he said other really cute things to me.

I was so excited to tell people we left the park and headed back to my aunt's house.

My ring. . . Jonathan made it. I love it!

Woe is Me

Set alarm for 6:15

alarm didn't go off until 7:15

my bus comes at 7:30

I needed to shower

I got ready

(I looked pretty nasty)

caught the 7:45 bus

I was walking to my seat when the bus driver

decided to floor it and whip away from the curb

I lost my balance

I fell onto a guy's lap

I apologized and got off of guys lap

my seat was right by guy's seat

Most awkward, long bus ride of my life

guy got off of bus and decided to glare at me

Woe is me

Bleh!

Bleh = State of mind usually caused by boredom or an annoying situation that doesn't really cause any heavy emotional reactions

work = bleh

I seriously have nothing to do at work today. I still have four hours left.
I feel like hitting my head against the desk.

In biology we talked about Mad Cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. How your brain basically just turns to mush. I feel like my brain is turning into mush.

In my family finance class we talked about debt.
debt = bondage
I was really tired. I was listening to the professor and watching the girl in front of me pick out/buy a crib online.

After the lecture I heard a girl say "debt. . . I just don't get what the big deal is".

Surprise!

Jonathan surprised me by coming down Wednesday night!! :)

Thursday we went to World of Dance put on by BYU. It was so good!

Friday (after I got done with work and school)

we went up to my parents house to swim and relax.

Saturday we decided to go on a little road trip.

We were off to Manti!

We went to the Manti temple (my favorite temple)

to do baptisms.

When we got out of the car Jonathan realized he had left his recommend back in Provo. Haha.

Thanks to the new computer system they were able to look up his name to see if he did have a current one. He did!

Then we went to Wal-mart and bought some popcorn chicken, fruit, and chips. We went to a local park to enjoy. It was so peaceful there! We had to be responsible college students so I helped Jonathan study.

That night we went and saw Toy Story 3 at the Basin drive-in in Mt. Pleasant.

It was Jonathan's first time going to one (I think he enjoyed the whole thing . . except the movie. . .hehe)

Such a wonderful road trip and weekend with him.

Now for the not so fun part. . . . saying goodbye later tonight. :(

Manners?

Ever since school started I have been blown away by one thing.

Girls talking on the phone AND going to the bathroom at the same time.

SERIOUSLY!!?? Just tell the person you will call them back in a minute.

p.s. dont forget to wash your hands. . . .(shudder)

Clint

Clint (my older brother) just had his 22nd birthday.

We picked him up and headed to the Pie Pizzeria.

The Pie is the best place ever! If you are in SLC you must go visit this place.

(mom, dad, me

after we took this my dad said "it looks like we are in a shady place)

(Clint, Mom)

(Amanda, Scott)

Miriam telling us her latest adventure at college

Clint!

He is a stud. He has a house, car, a dog, and he is graduating this spring.

(Basically the perfect child)

My New Addiction

I wouldn't say that I am a picky eater. That would be my little sister Amber.

I am very picky when it comes to my fruit (which I love!)

I usually do not like apples. I always seem to get the really mushy ones. (icky!)

Apples should be crisp and a little tart

my favorite supervisor at work just stole my heart.

She has an 'overachiever' apple tree

She brings me a heavenly, green, tart apple every morning! :)

Which reminded me of a quote I just saw . . . .

“I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you’d be like ‘Huh? What the hell is this?’, but if it’s in a fruit basket you’re like ‘This is nice!.’”

haha so true!

What a Trooper

Jonathan came down to visit me for the Labor day weekend! :)

This also meant that he had to come to my family reunion.

He survived ;)

tired of me taking pictures of him

my dad brought his headlamp into the cave. . . hehe

His favorite Rasmussen girls

Miriam had to stick up for her school. So she dawned her red

It looks fake. . . . but it isn't

ready to hike to timp. cave

Jonathan and my sister Miriam. . . they love each other so much!