He aced it!!!

So I need to brag about my husband just a little bit. He took his block 4 test yesterday and he got 100%. So far on all of the tests that Camarron has taken he has gotten 90% or higher. Some of you might not think that is such a big deal, but let me explain Tech. School a little bit to you. Each of Cam's "blocks" can be compared to a college course. The stuff that he has to learn in one week or less is often something that would take close to a semester of college to learn normally. However, here they go to class from around 7am in the morning and finish anywhere from 4:30 to 6pm in the evening. They do get a lunch break in there as well. Their schooling is extremely intense and when you take a block test you have to get above 70% or you can't move on. If you fail more than 2 you can get washed back and re classed into something different. Pretty much what that means is you start Tech School all over and learn something different that is easier. There are a lot of people that we have met that have failed a test or two and are struggling with how much information they have to learn in such a short period of time. Cam studies so hard and amazes me with how quickly he picks up and understands all that he is learning. So yesterday's test was a pretty exciting accomplishment. There aren't many people who pull that off while here in Tech School. So I just thought I would do a post on how amazing I think my husband is and brag that he just aced his last test!

More of the Dallas Temple

Last time I posted I couldn't get these pictures to load right, so here they are.

I have to tell you about this picture. There was a dad with his two little girls playing by the fountains. When they saw Cam they stopped and watched him, so Cam walked over towards them and waved. He had no idea I was taking the picture, he was just admiring the little girls. He was so cute, my heart just melted. He is going to be the best dad in the world when we have kids.

Mr. GQ!

Finally...Heaven!

The Dallas Temple

This past Saturday a group of us took a temple trip down to Dallas and went to the Dallas temple. It was AMAZING! I can't tell you how nice it was to be in the temple with my husband. It has been a while.

From left to right: Lydia Golden, Me, Camarron (He is only phase 2, that is why he still has to wear his "Blues". The others are all phase 3 and can wear their civilian clothes off base.), Bro. Chavez (He is also a 1st or 2nd Lieutenant.), Sis. Capener (Bro Capener was the one taking pictures.), Bro. Coombs, Richard Farnsworth, 2 more great guys that I feel terrible I don't remember their names :.), and Matt (who is a Staff Sargent and been in the Air Force for almost 6 years.) We had a blast!

Super Nova!

This is kind of what it was like! :.)

Yesterday was the first day that Cam was able to leave the base. He had to be wearing his "Blues" while off base, but we were able to go hang out together off base. We went exploring around Wichita Falls and found...well...nothing. There isn't much around here, really. However, since we were out away from everything and all of the lights of the city, (Which is very small so there weren't many lights to get away from in the first place.) we decided to go star-gazing. So we pulled off to the side of the road and layed on the front of the car and looked at all of the stars. It was so fun! The one car that drove passed us the whole hour we were star-gazing probably thought we were crazy, but we thought it was awesome! Moments like that make all of this worth it.

I tried taking a picture of us in the dark looking at the stars. The flash was rediculously bright and we couldn't see anything after I took the picture. I was having a hard time getting both of us in the picture (as you can see) so we had to keep trying. Cam told me that he was going to be blind for the rest of his life, but I insisted on taking more pictures until we got a good one. He finally took the camera after the third blinding and unsucessful try and he took a good one of us. We were laughing so hard that it was hard to even take a picture! I had to post all of the bad ones as well so you could get an idea of how funny we thought the whole thing was. :.)

Our Many Adventures

This was actually a pretty big turn out for FHE. And of course, Cam loved the treats at the end!

Last night Cam and I went to FHE. It was great! Cam has moved up to Phase 2 now here at Tech School and can now where civilian clothes again after duty hours and he can ride in the car with me. So here are some pictures of us at FHE. Also, afterwards we were reminiscing about some of our crazy adventures together and Camarron asked me if I would put a couple of these videos on our blog so everyone can see them. This clip is of us at Layton park feeding the ducks at Christmas time 2007. Cam had come home with me to meet the family. There is a clip of Cam last summer in Alaska chasing a bear, and then it chased him back, but I can't find it right now. I think it is on the SD card James stole from me this Christmas. That's right James, I want it back. However, I did come across a clip that I loved! It is from when Cam and I, my parents, and my younger brother and sister went on a halibut fishing trip last summer. We saw a bunch of whales and caught tons of fish! I landed the biggest one...thank you very much! It was around 210lbs.

I hope you all notice who has the bigger fish! I won't let Cam ever live this one down. :.)

Occupying my time...

My first year of college I had to do part of a very large research paper/book. My portion was on JFK. I was pretty excited about my assignment because I got to learn about his well beloved President who apparently was so important to this country they decided to put his face on the fifty cent peice! Well, the more I learned about him, the more I really disliked him. Ever since then I have had this strange fascination with the man and his family. I am trying really hard to figure out why he was looked at as being so amazing. My opinion of him after my research project was not very good at all. However, I decided I needed to know a little more about the man to really have a strong opinion of him. So I picked up this book at the library here at Sheppard AFB and have been doing a lot of reading. The more I read, the more I see that my first opinion (which wasn't a very good one) still stands. I still have hope though that as I continue learning about JFK's life that he will show some true character that will change my mind about him and I will see that there really was a good reason for putting his face on a coin.

If any of you out there have opinions on JFK I would love to hear them. I have however gained a lot of compassion for the poor guy. He had major health problem his entire life that couldn't really be explained at the time because of their lack of medical knowledge and he spent a lot of time in the hospital just suffering.

Coming back home!

Camarron finally got his orders for his first duty station. We joked a lot about how funny it would be if we got stationed at Hill AFB, Utah. Especially because I just moved from exactly there! We knew it was a possibility because Cam will be working on F-16 fighter jets and Hill AFB has F-16's. However, we never in a million years thought we would go there.

It is sure funny though how the Lord makes things happen in our lives. We will be leaving on May 1st (as of right now, things always change here) to head back to, you guessed it, Hill AFB. Apparently there is some reason Heavenly Father wants us to go back there, because NEVER (well, almost never now) do people get sent back to their hometown to work unless you are in the National Guard.

I won't lie, I was very disappointed when I heard the news. At first we both just laughed. Then we would pause a moment, look at each other, and laugh some more because really, when you think about it, it is pretty hillarious. And of course, things like this only happen to us. But I was disappointed. I wanted to go travel to some place new and exciting! I wanted to get away from Utah. For once in my life I was actually looking forward to this new and really big change. That is probably why we are going back to Utah, because that is exactly not what I was expecting. :.)

However, we are making the best of it. Hill AFB is actually a really nice base and many people try for a long time to get stationed there. Cam is more excited than I am, but I'm getting there. We decided that once we are moved back in and settled, we are getting that puppy that I have wanted for some time now. That makes me excited!