Chase and Cammi Bevans

Here is a taste of the Pregnancy pictures I had taken. My friend Ashley Law is a photographer and took these for me. I was 29-30 weeks pregnant at this time. Now I am 33 weeks and only 7 to go!!!! Isn't that crazy? I can't believe this is almost over. I am sooooo not ready and I feel soooo unprepared! I freak myself out on a daily basis. My doctor appointments have been good and I feel fine, just really tired these days. I can't wait to be done working! I get exhausted fast these days. My feet are swollen, its pretty gross. :) Anyways, just a little update. Enjoy the pictures!

I am sorry there have been no pictures in my last couple posts. I do not have internet at my new house yet so I write posts on friends computers and do not have my pictures on there. When I do have internet again I will post belly pictures and this weekend Chase and I are taking pregnancy pictures with my friend Ashley so I will try to get those up. 29 weeks along! Can't believe it.

Friday October 29, 2010 I left for my lunch break at 1:00pm. I picked up my lunch and was on my way to my friends house to eat it when I got a phone call from my Dad. He asked me if anyone had got ahold of me to tell me anything yet,(which I do NOT like the sounds of already) I said no. He then told me that one of our dogs had got hit on the highway. 'Are you serious?' I asked first. He was. 'Which one?' Was my next question. His answer, 'The brown one.' That's Molly. I, of course, cried. I told him I was going to drive home right away and just tell work I was going to be late getting back. Dad told me he had moved her from the road onto our lawn for me and she would be there when I got there.

For those of you who remember from my past posts about our dogs and puppies, Molly is Chase's dog that he had picked out before we were married, she is a purebred chocolate lab that he got for free from a cousin, and he loved her. She was well mannered, VERY energetic, and had to be in charge. There was no way Mojo could walk a step in front of her when we went on walks, or get the ball before her when they played fetch; that was not allowed. Chase was at work and did not know what happened yet. I called his phone hoping that maybe he was in the break trailer at lunch but he did not answer my frantic calls.

I got to my house and saw a police car next to my house waiting for me. That was the last thing on my mind though. I pulled in to the driveway and saw Molly laying on the grass, where she usually does, only this time she did not move when she heard the car on the gravel. The police officer got called by the people who hit Molly. He said there was nothing I had to do, but because he got a call he just had to come get my information and he would open and close the file today. He said the people were tourists heading to our from Waterton.

How did she get off her chain? I have no idea. She is Houdini I think. I kneeled next to her expecting her chain collar to be broken or maybe it had slid off her neck and that's how she got off. Nope. It was still on, in tact, and in fact still tight around her neck. So I walked over to her tie up chain. The clasp was on the ground, not broken, not open, not anything. I have no idea how she did it. How I wish we would have had our dog runs in place. We have a dog run ready for us and everything, we were just waiting for Chase and his brother to have the same night off to go pick it up so Molly and Mojo have been on chains outside while I'm at work.

Mojo is not the same dog now. The day it happened I sat inside with him while I ate my lunch. He was on his dog bed, I was on the couch arms length away from him, and he whined the whole time. He didn't care if I pet him or talked to him, he was just sad. Then of course, I was sad. He was inside all day Sunday while our friends and their kids were there and he didn't care if people walked in and out of the house, if the kids laid on him, if the baby pulled his hair, nothing. He just laid there. Which is good because we have a baby coming, but sad that his behavior changed because of what happened to Molly. Chase called me back after I was back at work around 3:30 and he just knew. I told him Dad had called me on my lunch break and he immediately asked if one of the dogs had been hit. Then he asked which one, and I told him it was his. He left work early so he could be home when it was still light outside to bury her. We took her up to his parents house and buried her along the fence line where Chase's family dog is buried. I was very sad the whole day. We had plans to breed Molly again this spring with another purebred lab. Oh how I would have loved to have puppies again.

You can look back on my older posts to see pictures of Molly. Still can't believe she won't be running to greet me everyday when I pull in. She will be missed. Our Molly Brown. :(

My belly is growing and growing, which is in return putting more and more strain on my back. I am on a work computer right now or I would post a picture of my belly. Another time i guess. Monday was a holiday and I was allowed to sleep in and everything, but nope. 7:00am came around and my back was aching no matter how I slept. I was shoving pillows between my legs, behind my back, under my belly, etc. Anything to try to relieve the pain until finally I just got up out of bed and was awake for the rest of the day.
Well it happened again this morning. But this time I had to work the next day and my back woke me up at 4:00am!!! I have been awake ever since. Needless to say, today at work I am trying to get them to pass a new rule that we are allowed a designated nap time in the office. Or let's all close for an hour in the afternoon so I can go snooze. Nap time in Kindergarten is looking more and more like the best idea I have ever heard.
I have been to the chiropractor about 3 times in the last 2 weeks and I go again tomorrow. He says my alignment is improving and with the alignment problems I had is not suprised at all that the pain is moving up my back and making it difficult for me to sleep. I think when I go into Lethbridge for my Doctor's appt on Friday I will be booking a massage. All I want is someone to just rub my back all day long and never stop. Chase has rubbed my back for me when he was home, but he leaves for work and isn't around to do it often.
Please oh please back, let me sleep all night long.... Thank you.... love Cammi.

Tuesday September 7, 2010 we went in for our ultrasound and here are some things that we saw........

We started putting headphones on my belly so baby could listen to music. :) What's the first thing we let our baby listen to?! Well my friends, it was Alicia Keys! :) haha..
We wanted to let the baby listen to Classical music but we didn't have any on the computer. I knew that Alicia Keys played the beginning of the Moonlight Sonata and some others in some of her songs so that was the closest thing we had!
Well after about 6 or 7 Alicia Keys songs Chase decided he wanted our baby to have the Classical stuff so he started downloading a whole bunch of songs for me.

Its been a long time since I have posted a blog. I don't even know what I have been up to. So here is an update on us. Chase is still working building and tearing down scaffolds at a gas plant out near Pincher Creek and Waterton. He usually works 9 or 10 days in a row with 4 days off, but right now he is working a 15 day stretch and then will have the Labor Day weekend off. I hate long stretches of work when he is gone.

I am now 18 weeks pregnant. I wish I could say I was further along, I feel like I've been pregnant forever. A couple weeks after my last post I felt less queasy all the time and only threw up because I would gag on things. I gag after I brush my teeth and I gag on my own mucous, (totally gross, I try to get my loogies out all day long). I still gag on those things to this day but I have not thrown up in weeks, almost 3 now.

I cry at lots of commercials, random tv shows, pretty much whenever I see someone else crying on tv or in real life, I cry. :) Chase always leans forward when we are watching a movie to see if I am tearing if the movie is at a sad part. I've gained weight, I have a belly bump. I have not had any weird cravings, I just like to eat in general and sometimes I forget to eat lunch and then I feel sooooo sick by dinnertime. I don't know why I forget, but I have a couple times and hunger pains when you are pregnant are intensified by like 20. Super uncomfortable.

In 2 weeks I will be halfway through the pregnancy! WHOOP WHOOP! On Sept 7th we have our ultrasound to find out what we are having (if baby lets us). Chase is convinced its a boy, lots of other people are convinced its a girl. I have had no feeling either way as to what baby is. Some weeks I am telling a story and call the baby a 'she' and the next week its a 'he'. So who knows.

I have not felt baby move yet. I am waiting for that to happen but am not really excited to feel it. Let me explain. I get uneasy between doctors visits. I don't like that I can't feel baby move because I want to know that baby is ok, and when I don't feel the baby I feel nervous that something is wrong. I LOVED hearing the heartbeat, that was such a relief. But I have never been a big fan of pregnancy and think its totally weird when babies move around inside peoples bellies. Gross. I will feel relieved when I finally feel it, but I hope it doesn't gross me out too much. I've tried to tell people for years, I wasn't meant to have kids, nothing about being pregnant appeals to me, I'll be happy when baby is finally here, even if I do lose sleep. Lots of ladies tell me to cherish this time and that they LOVED when they felt their babies move. I hope I love it, right now the thought of it grosses me right out. haha... We'll see if that changes.

That is all I can think of for now. I am going to take some baby belly pics this week so I have some documentation of when I was pregnant. And when we find out what baby is I will let you know!

Until next time........

Well today I am 9 weeks and 2 days pregnant and I threw up for the first time so far this pregnancy.

The day I found out I was pregnant I was just a couple days 'late'. Chase knew I was going to be taking a pregnancy test and he leaves for work at 5:30am. He nudged me asking me to go take it so he could see before he went to work, and I said, 'NO WAY! ITS FIVE AM!' :) (nice wife eh?) I took it when I got up for work. Chase texted me and asked if I was pregnant, I then sent him a picture of the positive pregnancy test. He texted me back and says 'I can't read that, I dunno what that means.' So I then had to explain to him that it was a positive pregnancy test (like I would send it to him if it was negative). haha but he was really happy after that and said it was the BEST day at work. He even told some of the guys he worked with right away cuz he knew he couldn't hold it in.

Right around my 6 week mark the sickness started. I never threw up but for a week and a half I felt queasy all day long. Its been a lot of toast with jam, soda crackers, ginger ale. I couldn't drink water for the longest time and that was hell because water is the ONLY thing that quenches my thirst. I don't drink pop, I am only a juice person in the morning if we have it in the fridge. But since I've been pregnant its been all about the juice, mr freezie popsicles (or Otter Pops for you Americans) and toast. I do NOT crave meat, the thought of a burger makes me want to throw up. Maybe thats why I started my vegetarian thing, baby wants this stuff I guess. I like salad, fruit, and breads. I have eaten meat in moderation but not a lot thats for sure.

Well the sickness stopped and I could drink water again! YAY! I only started feeling sick in the mornings again just a few days ago but by he afternoon it was gone and I was fine. Today was weird. I seem to wake up in the middle of the night at like 4 or 5 for about an hour or two, really quite annoying and I do not appreciate it. But my sister Sue suggested eating something when I wake up because baby could be waking me up because my stomachs empty and it needs something. So I get up, have toast or cereal and then try to sleep again. Well today I woke up around 6:30ish, got some cereal and a banana and tried to go back to sleep. Well lunch time rolled around and Chase was picking up lunch for me so I was waiting for it, but my stomach started hurting so I decided to have a banana to tie me over. Apparently that was a bad idea. Banana and juice on an empty stomach = the first throw up of my pregnancy. Chase was standing in the kitchen and our back door was part way open. He said the dogs were looking in wondering what was going on. I walked out of the bathroom and Chase goes, 'The dogs thought there was an Exorcism going on in there!!!!' I laughed so hard. I really am a loud barfer and I can't help it. But the look on Chase's face and the sound of his voice was priceless!!

So far I can't complain too much if have only thrown up once. It still hasn't hit me that there's a baby in there. Mostly the queasiness was just annoying. :) Chase just got done massaging my feet for me though, not because they are swollen or anything, but just cuz I asked and he did. He's the best.
Stay tuned for the next chapter.........

Today is Day 1 of me seeing what its like to not eat meat.

I decided I wanted to try it out because my body has been craving fruits, and salad a lot lately. So I figured I should take that as a sign and just see what its like. I asked Leslie and my friend Micah for any recipes they knew of or web sites to get new vegetarian recipes. Today is the perfect day to start because Chase leaves for 10 days at a time and I won't have to cook 2 meals everyday. I can just make my meal and not be tempted with what I am cooking him for dinner. We went grocery shopping to stock up on food for Chase to take to his hotel and we bought a lot of stuff for me to try too!! I went to this store called Nutter's Natural Foods and bought tofu, vegetaran burgers, spinach salad, fruit, refried beans, eggs, and I found these prepackaged lunches (kind of like lean cuisine meals) that are teriyaki veggies and tofu over rice. I make stirfrys fairly often and decided I would try to add a little tofu to mine instead of chicken and see how I like it. If I don't like tofu I can just make my stirfrys without tofu and just the veggies!

I am not going to cut out eggs and milk and cheese or anything like that. And I don't think I would be able to go vegetarian forever, but I am excited to try it out! I also decided that I wanted to cut down on my snacking, so today when I cut out meat I am also cutting out chips. I know I am going to want to snack so I bought rice cakes and rice works chips so I could have a substitute.

So wish me luck and if anyone has any recipes that they have tried send them my way!

Day One here I come!!!!

Well Chase has started working again. He finished up his crusher job in December, put out resumes and made phone calls for the last couple months trying to land something in a new field. Plumbing. He wants to get on and apprentice with someone so he can learn and work at the same time. I didn't mind him taking months off, after his last job he deserved it. And plus he was gone ALL the time with his last job so I loved having him home.

Well, none of the plumbing jobs bit. He got a job back out at the Waterton Shell Plant working as a Scaffolder. Which is a drive everyday but he has lots of friends who go out and even 2 of his brothers work out that way so he car pools and it works out. A job where my husband can be home every night again? YAY!!!

Well 2 days in, the 'YAY' stopped quickly. Chase does NOT get to come home every night as originally thought by both of us. They told him that he had to stay at a hotel in Pincher Creek (nearest town) and get shuttled into work with all the other guys. He would be MAYBE allowed to go home about 3 times in his 10 day shift. He works 10 days on, 4 days off. He was not happy about this news and knew I wouldn't be either. :( Glad he's working, sad I won't see him every night. He is still talking with one plumbing company and if they tell him they will hire him he would take it in a second. It would be a decrease in pay compared to the job he has just started. But really he hasn't been working for 3-4 months so any pay will be more then what we've been getting! Plus, I like having him home. I kinda like him.... ;)

Thats the scoop. Yay for work, Boo for being gone again. Just me and the dogs at home again. Oh and p.s..................................... Molly is in heat again......................... last time I was watching the dogs alone while Chase was gone to work, Molly got knocked up. I have been VERY set on keeping them separated, even if they bark at me and get mad. We do NOT need mutt puppies again!! Mojo's ummmm.. 'stuff' will be snipped as soon as our taxes come in. Hopefully next week!!!! Pray for no puppies please.... I appreciate it.. :)

Chase and I try to go on a date night once a week if we have the money too and if we don't have any other prior engagements. We usually go out on fridays and at least go to dinner, maybe a movie, or else we go to dinner, go rent or buy some movies and come home and watch them together. Well last Friday Chase was running some errands and I was getting ready to go out on our date. When he walked in the door he had White roses for me! :) Chase is the first guy to give me flowers since I was in High School and I've had relationships pretty much every year since then, but no flowers or surprises; so when he gets me flowers I LOVE IT and I'm SO surprised because it has not happened often for me in the past. These flowers mark the third or fourth bouquet I have gotten from him since we have been together. :) I loved them, and I love him..........................

No more puppies. All gone. 5 sold and 3 we took to a No Kill Shelter that I did some research on. Everytime I took them to their new families or their new families came to pick them up, I didn't cry at all. I have been talking to these people for 2 months. They came by to see them in my home or sent me picks of their family and kids so I would know who they were going to and it was actually exciting! But when we took the 3 to a shelter, I lost it on the way out. It was just tears at first and we had one puppy with us in the truck because she was going to her family the next day. But as we kept driving the tears came more and more. I hate not knowing where they are going, or how long it will be until they go. But there were no puppies in the shelter and Chase assured me it was because puppies go first and they go fast. They are cute and people snatch them right up. So I hope they go somewhere good and fast. :(
I then told Chase that maybe we shouldn't breed Molly again, because if they don't sell, thats a tough thing to do. If we did breed her again we would breed her with a pure bred Chocolate lab like she is not with MoJo.
We will see.... but as for now, no more puppies.......

Well I am a little behind on this post because I have been at my new job since February 16th.
In January I replied to an ad in the paper for an Inventory Clerk for Varsteel Ltd. I was desperate, I needed a job! Well I never heard back so I asked my friend Shannon(who works at Boston Pizza) if they had any openings. They did and I got hired on that week and started hostessing and serving for Boston Pizza. Well my FIRST serving shift, I have this message on my phone from Varsteel telling me that the Inventory Clerk position got filled internally but that there was an Office Administrator position open that they thought I would be perfect for.
WHY DOES THAT ALWAYS HAPPEN!?!? Don't get me wrong I am so appreciative of the phone call because serving is not my dream profession, but bad timing on their part. I had just started a new job, JUST started! Well I couldn't pass up the opportunity so I went in for an interview and met with them. They were so cool and the interview was very chill and I just chatted with them about my duties in past jobs and they didn't ask any hard questions or anything. They told me they had a couple more people to interview and then they would let all the candidates know by the next day.

Well, that night I'm eating dinner not long after 5 o'clock and my phone rings. It was Varsteel! She told me that I had a very successful interview and they would like to offer me the position!! OH MAN!!! Well I took it! Its salary and its Mon-Fri, 8:ooam - 5:00pm and I will be doing things in this office that apply to what I went to school for. So I finished out my shifts at Boston Pizza and I started there as soon as I could!

I have been here about 3 weeks now and its been going great! There has been a lot of catching up before I got to learn my actual duties because the girl in my position before me was Very far behind. So I filed everything away, made new files and got everything in place. Now I have learned the invoice posting and will soon be learning more receivables and all about their check runs! Its a wonderful thing!!

So now a days my routine is something like this everyday:

- Wake up at 7:15am to get ready for work and be there by 8:00am
- 2:00pm I take all the bank deposits out for the branch and then go on a late lunch(which I LOVE!)
- get back to work about 3:30 and work until 5:00pm
- Go home and go running with Chase around Nicolas Sheron Park (unless its wednesday, then i get ready for Volleyball night)
- Make Dinner and watch my shows until I shower and go to bed about 10:00pm ish depending on how late my show goes or how tired I am.
I dont even have to feed the dogs or clean up their poop anymore!! Chase does it all now that I am working!! I mean I still have to clean the rest of the house, but I'm okay with that!!

New Job, New Routine = Lovin' it!

Well today was the last day of the Olympics. And personally, I am going to miss them. Summer or Winter, I could sit there and watch the Olympics all day. I wish that we didn't have to go back to NHL or different teams and just compete as countries. I love that everyone gets behind their athletes and they all unite. No Flames fan vs. Edmonton fans, or Rangers vs. The Red Wings. Everyone cheering for their own country and its awesome! Today in the final event of the Olympics the Canadian mens Hockey team took on the mens team from the USA. These 2 teams met on US soil in Salt Lake City in 2002 and they had already met once in these Olympics and Canada had fallen on their own soil to the US. In Salt Lake City Canada women's and mens hockey teams beat the US in the Gold Medal Games. I remember watching with my family, I was in 10th grade and we cheered so loud my throat hurt the next day. Earlier in the games when the US took on Canada we went back to the same place we had watched before at my parents house with the family and again, we screamed and cheered and yelled so much and so loud my throat was sore. But the Canadian team fell to the US 5-3. Canada had to win every single game they played from their on out to even have a shot at the Gold Medal Game on their home soil. Germany first - win....... Russia next - win........... Then Slovakia - win...............
All of these leading up to the Gold Medal Game.
Stats in these Olympics said that in 26 out of 29 games the team that scored first ended up winning. The whole first period was scoreless. And in the second period Toews from the Canadian team got a rebounded shot and put it back in to score the first goal of the game against the almost always unstoppable US goalie Ryan Miller.

IT REALLY WAS SUCH A GOOD GAME!!!!!


I wish I was there...

Positive, enjoyable, hilarious, gorgeous, relaxed, awesome!

Those are just some words that describe this unique creature you see in the pictures below. Check them out...........

I think I lucked out in the sister department. Joni is the closest to me in age, and we didnt always agree on things (and still dont sometimes) but it would be boring if we always did. As you can see from the pictures Joni doesn't do things as conventionally as everyone else. She always adds her own spin, her own flavor, and in the end makes it more fun! She can make me laugh by just saying or doing something random. She listens when I talk to her about serious stuff and knows how to be silly with me when the time is right. Plus, she has awesome dance moves. ;) She doesn't care what anyone thinks about what she's doing, she just does it! She does what is right for her and I admire that about her.



This is just some fun times that Joni and I have shared. What more does a girl need? She's the best! Love Ya Bones!

Love Cammi.

Here is a collage of some people I LOVE more than anything. I do not live near them and only get to see them once or twice a year, if that. I miss them all the time and sometimes I ache I miss them so bad. I used to live around some of them when I was younger, but then I only had about 5 or 6, and I got to watch them grow, watch them go to their first days of school and play with them. Now, I have 11, and I do not get to see them as often as I would like. Now a days I communicate with them through Skype, pictures, reading stories, and talking to them on the phone. I hope they all know how much I love and miss them. They are the greatest 11 kids I know!




Love Aunt Cammi :)

I have had many new faces of my blog page lately trying to figure out how to work some of the templates and put my own spin on it. Thanks to Leslie I made my new collage with Picasa! I love it!! There will probably be lots of collages to come. :) I need to get used to Picasa though and all of the things you can do because there are so many!! Any suggestions would help a lot, sometimes I get so frustrated with blogging and I call Leslie a lot! So thanks Leslie for helping me and I think I will stick with this page for a while now!!

the end.. :)

Today marks the first day of Weight Loss Challenge 2010 between a group of us up here!!

Here's the scoop, we weighed in and took our measurements yesterday and gave them to the one girl who is keeping track of everyones for us. Now we have 2 months, 2 months to work our little butts off, get motivated, and eat better and then we will weigh in again April 1, 2010 and see what the difference is!!! There is also a $30.00 buy in for each girl and then on April 1st whoever has lost the most pounds and inches wins the pot! And if one person loses the most pounds and if a different person loses the most inches, then they will split the pot. I figure if I am working out anyways, why not buy in for a chance to win the whole pot!!!! Every 2 weeks we have given everyone little mini challenges as well to keep them motivated. The first challenge from today to the 14th is to try and drink 10 glasses of water a day. The next 2 weeks will probably be to do X amount of sit ups everyday. We will do something like that every two weeks and we have a group page on facebook that we can all chat on and talk about our progress or set backs and ask questions! I'm really excited with the group of people that have gotten involved. Maybe try to do the same thing with a group from your area and if you don't want to do a buy in then just have a starting weigh in and then pick a date for your final weigh in and all of you get together to share your progress and have a little celebratory party, whatever gets people motivated!!
Now I need information. What are some other good mini challenges we could do? What are you favorite work outs? I have been working out everyday but its the diet that I have the problem sticking with, what do you eat when you are dieting? What has worked for you in the past!? Any advice or feedback you have would be awesome!
SEND THOUGHTS MY WAY OF WEIGHT LOSS!!!! YAY!!!

Look at these little faces...
Don't they just break your heart?!?!?!?!!
















These are the last 4 puppies that we have left for sale. 2 males and 2 females. A bigger one and a little one of each gender. The one on the very right is the biggest, he's a male and he looks just like our male(their dad). Black, male, big, and white patch on chest. The next one over is a male as well, he is the runt, all black and SO CUTE!! The second one from the left is the Big female, all black and so fun to play with! The one on the very left is the little female and she is also our favorite one. You can hold her and pick her up all the time and play with her and she NEVER whines!! They are all dang cute.


This is mini MoJo(our male). He's a tank!












We still have all the other puppies of course because they are not old enough to go to their new homes yet but there 4 are the ones that we have not received deposits on. Believe me if I could I would keep them all!!







Don't you just want one?! ;)




Their faces break my heart.......

I don't have a job right now, I DESPERATELY need one. Until one of the places I took my resume bites this is my routine........

- Wake up around 10:00am
- Have breakfast, check my email, facebook, blog, bank account, Kijiji Ad for puppies, and my Youtube video.
- Let MoJo out of his kennel, feed him and Molly, and let them play outside.
- Go downstairs and clean up Molly's potty pads from the night before and play with puppies.
- Chat with Joni on facebook and play games.
- When Noon comes around Ellen is on, so I work out on my eliptical while I watch her. I also use arm weights and do sit ups.
- 1:00pm I am finishing up my work out and reruns of Desperate Housewives is on tv, so I watch that.
- When thats over I have lunch.
- When lunch is over I do dishes, sweep my kitchen, and straighten up my house.
- At 3:00pm I always check to see what Oprah is about, if its interesting I watch it, if not I shower.(if its the day I shower... its only every other day... :)....)
- Then Chase and I just bum, watch tv and play with the pups.
- After we bum I make dinner and unless a friend has called us to go over and play cards, we just spend the nights at home watching tv shows and playing games on the internet.

Hard life eh!? Now, as much as I LOVE that my routine has working out in it and I have been sticking to it, I do NOT love wasting half the day playing games, and watcing tv. I need a job! I've emailed resumes, handed them out, and even went to places that were not even advertising to give them my resume just in case!!! I was actually trying to break my routine so hard today I work out again by doing a work out video. I'm glad I did, but am going to go crazy soon.... HELP!

This is a continuation of my previous blog. If you are wondering why I am putting all these pics up just go read the log before this. Enjoy!