showered with joy

Saturday afternoon I was showered with love, food, and gifts by my family members. I feel so blessed to have so much support from the people around me. I was given amazing gifts that will be SO helpful. The only problem is, our stuff is piling up but we don't move into our apartment until September 20th. So everything is just stuffed in extra bedrooms in my house and so NOT organized, its KILLING me!

Sunday Josh ended up having to work. So after church I went to his sisters house anyway so we could watch the season finale of the Real Housewives of New Jersey. Sylvia got me HOOKED on that show! I am a total addict! It was defintely an entertaining season, and I must say I am very excited for the reunion episode. Jacquline is probably my favorite of the housewives, I feel as if I have the most connection with her. Caroline comes to a close second. She is such a good mom, aunt, sister, and wife. She always puts family first, just the way it should be:)

Today I had the day off. I enjoyed a relaxing morning with Josh and my dogs. Sadly, Josh had to leave for school, so we packed him a lunch, I gave him a kiss, and sent him on his way. I then met up with my good friend Rose to trade massages. She is moving to Guam on Septempber 10th. I am very happy for her and the exciting change in store for her and her sweet little family. I am going to miss her dearly but I am definitely trying so soak up all of her positive energy before she goes. She is such an amazing person and massage therapist, Guam is sure lucky to have her!

Thankful Thursday

Today started out just like any other. Josh came over, I made him breakfast, he did his homework. The usual routine I guess you say. We needed to go to Mr Mac to purchase Josh's suit for our wedding. I looked up the info on my phone and I could have SWORN the hours of operation said 9am-9pm. When we pulled up to an empty parking lot I realized I was mistaken. They do not open until 10am. So we find ourselves in quite the situation when we realized that Josh is either at work or at school during their hours of operation. However, he MUST get the suit before we get our Bridals/Groomals taken on September 4th. How do I react to this? panic! stress! anger! (towards myself, not Josh.)
Now I know what your thinking, "this isn't a very THANKFUL post." Well I am about to tell you how my day turned around, and what made it turn around.
1. Four letters, J-O-S-H. He has an amazing ability to cheer me up when I am down, he relieves me of my stress, and gives me hope to make me realize that everthing will work out ok. Josh will make time Saturday morning to go and get his suit fitted and the alterations should be done by next Saturday when we will be gettting our pictures taken.
2. I spent the rest of the day with my sweet big sister Nicole, and cute cute nephew Ryan. They can always cheer me up in times of stress. Nicole is a total crack up and Ryan is the cutest little guy ever. He repeats everything you say. (Good thing Nicole has cleaned up her potty language) he tip toes around the house babbling like a little angel, I LOVE it! I don't know what I would do without being close to my family. Its hard enough having Matt and Beca living an hour away, we are lucky they like road trips:) Nicole and I always have such interesting conversation, and Ryan always interupts it with such grace, poise, and....for lack of a better word cuteness!!
3. And lastly, but not leastly (Yes I know that is not a word, sometimes I like to rhyme. Using fake words. Sue me. No don't sue me because that isn't the point.) we got our engagement photos back today! They turned out really nice I think! I can't wait to get them printed and put in frames and decorate my basement apartment with them:)

the ABC's of true happiness

This came to me as I was laying in my bed last night pondering the meaning of life, the blessings I have been given, and what I am supposed to become. Just a random babble of my thoughts organized into a simple saying.

A- a good attitude
B- believing in yourself
C- coming unto Christ

Attitude is everything. With a bad attitude, nothing will go your way. We must believe in ourselves. If we do not believe in ourselves how are we to believe in Christ? And lastly, come unto Christ. A step further than believing in him. Coming unto Christ will never make you feel like you have been cheated out of something. The odds between us and Christ are in our favor. He does so much. And asks so little. Love him, appreciate him, get to know him.

Saturday Smaturday

Saturday was a busy day for us! We went out house hunting for the ten-trillionth time, and finally found the perfect place. A cute little basement apartment in Washington Terrace. Its a spacious 1 bedroom apartment with a lot of potential:) Plus we are getting an AWESOME deal which is always nice! So we signed the lease and we will move our stuff in around September 20th. Josh will live there alone until we get married, and then I will move in.

Later that night we drove out to Saltair to get our engagement pictures taken. It was a lot of fun to pose with Josh and get some nice pictures to put on our invitations. I have never been out there before but it is absolutely beautiful. We lost light earlier than I was hoping but I think we will still be happy with the results. Our photographer was very professional and like I said, we had a lot of fun. We didn't end up getting home until after 10pm tho which was exhausting. We decided to make it an early night sense we had church in the morning.

One more thing to check off of our wedding to do list:)

count your blessings name them one by one

ring ring~ring ring
Caller ID: Mindful Women Day Spa


Britany: "This is Britany"
 
Caller: "Hi Britany this is Cammie, from Mindful Women Day Spa"


Britany: "Hi Cammie how are you?"


  Cammie (formally known as Caller): "I am good, I was just calling because I would like for you to come and work for us. Susan and I have been impressed with you from the very beginning and we would love for you to become a member of our team."


Freaking excited Britany (formally known as "Britany"): "Wow thank you so much! I have been waiting for your call all week long, you wont be sorry for your decision. What is the next step?"


  Cammie: "We would like for you to come in on Wednesday for training at 3."


Super-dee-duper excited Britany (formally known as "freaking excited Britany"): "Great! I will see you then, Thanks again!!"


end of call


Britany and Joshua engage in a high five, as Britany says, "Slap hands!"


Moral of the story. God is great. He has blessed me in countless ways. And I am so grateful to be his daughter.

ripe old age of 21

The day celebrating the anniversary of my birth has come and gone. It was definitely a good day. It started out with my sweet mother making me breakfast, she even made Josh breakfast when he came to pick me up for church. We spent three spiritual hours at church and I was wished a happy birthday many times. Josh and I are still pretty new to the ward so I was pleasantly surprised when so many people knew it was my birthday. My parents had us over for a nice dinner and then we headed up to my grandmas house where we got to see all of my aunts, uncles, cousins, and cute cute nephews. Thank you to everyone who thought of me on my birthday, I really appreciate all of the love.

Slight change of subject....

Mindful Women Day Spa
Today was my second interview at Mindful Women Day Spa and I gave the manager a massage. I was very excited to be invited back to the establishment for a second interview so the weekend seemed to drag on a bit and I could hardly wait for Monday at 1pm. I felt very good about the massage I gave her but I was still nervous to see what she thought. I wanted very badly for her to like my massage! She came out of the room looking very relaxed. She said I did a fantastic job and that it was just what she needed. She also gave me some awesome compliments on my massage. She has been in this profession for over 10 years and she said my massage was one of the most relaxing ones she has ever gotten. She also mentioned that she has never had someone work certain muscles the way I did. Coming from a professional massage therapist that was the greatest compliment! She told me she thinks I will fit it very well at the spa and she will definitely be in touch with me. Again, I feel truly blessed to have been given such an amazing opportunity.

Life is good.

Thankful Thursday

I have decided to dedicate one post a week to acknowledging our blessings and to show our gratitude for them. Throughout my life I have found that it is impossible to count every single blessing that you are given, however it is still important to acknowledge and give thanks for the little things in life. They may seem minor or unimportant to the rest of the world but as long as they mean something to you, they are worth mentioning.

1. I have not had a single regret with my decision to leave my previous job and dedicate my time, focus, and energy on my career as a Massage Therapist. Yesterday I went to an interview at Mindful Women Day Spa, a very beautiful and classy Spa in the area. This is a place that I have been longing to work at from the time I was in High School. I would love to have experience working at a Spa in addition to the experience I currently gain working at Me Salon and Fashion. I feel truely blessed to have had the chance to meet the Spa director and the manager over the massage therapists at Mindful Women. I feel honored to have been asked to come in and discuss the possibility of me working there in addition to working at the Salon. I feel very good about the interview and the conversation I had with those two inspiring women. I was told that I will be contacted later this week to schedule a second interview. Tho I do not know what the Lord has in store for me in the future with Mindful Women I am truely grateful that he provides me with such great opportunities. Of course I hope that they decide to pick me and let me join their team, but I am prepared for either outcome. If they do not hire me I will remain happy that I was given a chance to meet with them and be considered for the position. If they do hire me I will take full advantage of the priveldge I am given to work there and I will do my absolute very best. They will also allow me to continue to pursue my own business in addition to building up theirs.

2. Josh and I have been able to spend more time together than usually now that I am no longer working for Hydro Air. He comes over in the morning and I make him breakfast, we read scriptures, play with our dogs, and sometimes just bum around. But who wouldn't want to spend time with their best friend every chance they get? If I don't have appointments to do around dinner time I am able to go visit him at work and bring him dinner, or if I am feeling lazy we just go out to eat somewhere near his work:) I try not to take advantage of the time we get to spend together because I know that I am truely blessed to have someone like him in my life. We make each other so happy, and we drive each other crazy, but we are insanely in love so it all works out.

3. The wedding plans are still coming along smoothly. I am so happy to have such wonderful people in my life helping me along with all of this stress. So many friends and family memebers have offered their help and I truely appreciate them wanting to help and keeping me in mind. We have 9 weeks 1 hour 14 minutes and 16 seconds until we will become husband and wife. I love and appreciate every moment I have until then but at the same time I am doing my best to prepare for the future.

Welp, I have to admit that this post ended up being longer than I expected but I am happy with what I have written. I feel as if I am being somewhat repetitive in this post but there is nothing wrong with sincere gratitude and sharing my sincere gratitude. If you don't like it, don't read my posts on Thankful Thursdays.