Family Pictures

My mom was in town so we decided to go to Bridal Veil Falls and take some family shots to send to Maria on her mission. Sad that Dad and Palmer weren't there!

Another Girl!

Today amidst our friends and family we found out that our baby is a girl! We had the ultrasound yesterday but we had them put the revealing picture in an envelope and waited to peak until my mom arrived and could be here with us. We are so happy and feel so blessed! We can hardly wait to invite another sweet baby girl into our home!

Celebration

Jarem recently posted about his interview experience in LA, but he also had a second round interview with Bain & Co. this week on campus. Bain is a consulting firm with an office in Dallas, Texas and his dream job. Jarem would say that even applying for this job is a long shot, but i never doubted that he would land it...and he DID! I am so proud of him because he has been working so hard lately in preparation for these interviews. He has barely slept for weeks now so it was such a relief to find out that he got his goal! We decided to celebrate at the Tree Room at Sundance. It was a the perfect place to go to relax and talk about the future and breath a huge collective sigh of relief. And eat amazingly yummy food! I've never dined on a couch before but it was wonderful. I am so proud of Jarem and all of the hard work he does for our family. I am thoroughly convinced he is perfect.

Camilla Mae

So this is a "Jarem Post" on why I think I am so lucky to be with Camilla. It's 9:15 p.m. and Camilla is at the gym right now, for the second time today. She's already watched Sofie and babysat another 8 month old kid for 7 hours today. She taught her aerobics class, took me to and from school, and made my lunch. This girl is amazing---

So the story is this...for the past couple of months I have been really working really hard to prepare for some job interviews and it has been really stressful. I get all worked up about things and probably drive Camilla nuts every night when I can't just come home and relax.

Yesterday I had a final interview for one of the firms that I really want to work for. I basically didn't sleep the night before and I was really tense and nervous on the plane ride out to the firm's location. I could not relax not matter what I tried. I finally realized that if I didn't chill out I would probably die of a heart attack before the plane landed, and that would definitely lower my chances of getting the job.

I ended up messing around on my Ipod and looking for a playlist. I came across the "Wedding Mix" which has all the best songs that Camilla and I loved to 'listen' to on our dates. I started looking at a few of our family pictures as well. I eventually made it to an album of pictures from some of our first dates, engagement pics (the first date and engagement weren't too far apart :) ), vacations, and our latest family pictures with Sofie. During all this I had one of those moments, you know, when everything just seems so right and perfect and fine. I just felt like the luckiest guy around.

Before I knew it the plane had started its final decent and I was on the ground ready to go. I felt great about the interviews, but I was more excited to come home and be with my family. I got a couple of great girls on my hands and the two of them make me forever happy.

Thanks Nena for being more confident in me than I am in myself. Thanks for calming me down and helping me relax even when I was a couple hundred miles away. Thanks for making each day the time of my life.

A very chilly 5k

Last Saturday we went to run a 5k to support Wasatch Mental Health with Spencer and Aly. Little did we know we would encounter such harsh conditions. I ended up waiting in the car with Sofie becase it was just too cold for her. Jarem finished in record time but still couldn't feel great about his performance as he was beaten by 2 girls. Spencer and Aly were champs to brave the cold with us. We love you guys!

Visitors

My parents and Jarem's dad came in town to visit last week. We had so much fun and can't wait to see them all again soon!

Baby Hallows

We feel so blessed to be welcoming Baby Hallows #2 to our family in March 2009. Even though he/she is only 2 inches long we couldn't love him/her more!