Home Sweet Home

We finally did it! The Camus have bought their very first home!!! It's been in the works for a while now and we are so happy that we finally have a place to call our own.

Our friends graciously came out on an early Saturday morning to help us move. Goodbye Bailey Lane!


Shelby is with child so she was in charge of making sure Penny didn't go play in some traffic.

Talkin' bout gettin' the job done.
...actually gettin' the job done.




Bobby and Miranda trying to steal our tv. Good thing for us Ryan has a "special" bond with his baby and can detect any funny business up to 10 miles away.

Finally done. Unfortunately I think Jeremy is still in the truck..

Rock classification with Shelby Wills.




And we're done! The day went by so fast due to everyone busting their asses. Thank you all so much for coming out so early on a precious Saturday and helping us move!





We love you all!!!

New Job!!

I have a new job!!! Finally the applying, emailing, and waiting is OVER!!!!

With the added pressure of our first mortgage payment looming, I went out in search of a job. It only took me 5 months to actually find something. haha. Ok, not that long. But the idea of finding work has been in my brain for months and months.

Who is this gracious employer that dared to trust me with the inner workings of their business you ask?? Well none other than the coolest vet clinic in all of Eugene, The City Center Cat & Bird Clinic!

I have been having a blast learning everything there is about the clinic and the front office. The full time work is a great help to our finances and I absolutely love the people I work with. ...and getting to play with every cute kitty in Eugene isn't so bad either.

I havent worked since I left my job to become a stay at home mom. (Almost 3 years now!) The time off has been amazing and being at home to see the bug grow and learn has been the most precious and rewarding time I could spend doing anything. Now it's back to the daily grind!

Here's the Clinic




Yeti, the resident cat.Natasha, the resident bird.

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year!!! Wishing everyone out there the best 2o10!!

For Santa!

Merry Christmas everyone!! Hope everyone out there is having a wonderful holiday. We are all ready for Santa to come down our chimney tonight. We've even made him some Gingerbread cookies for his trouble. We had the best time talking about all the fun things Santa is going to bring. ...If he's been a good boy.


The one on the bottom left had to have emergency surgery. He didn't make it.

High five Junebugz. Good job.

4th Annual Smith Basketball Clinic

This Saturday Ryan was one of the coaches at the Smith Basketball Clinic. It is a free clinic that AD Smith puts on once a year to get kids interested in sports. He also does the regular clinic during the summer.

We brought Juno to the clinic to have fun running around with all the other little kids. He is still about a year too young for the age group that was learning how to run drills, dribble and shoot but he still had a blast running around screaming 'nice shot!' to everyone. hahahahaha.



Update: Juno is successfully getting four bounces in his quest to learn how to dribble.

MVP! MVP!

Christmas Cheer

Merry Christmas from the Camu clan! This will be our first Christmas spent up in the great Pacific Northwest. Luckily, my mom is spending the holidays with us so it doesn't feel like we're totally alone up here in the cold.

Earlier this month the weather dropped down into the single digits and we live in heaterless house. We have a couple of radiator heaters from the dark ages so needless to say we were blowing fuses every other day. It's the middle of December now and good ol' Mother Nature has blessed us with temps in the 40's and 50's which feels like a nice summers day to us now. The rain has begun and will probably last throughout the month and into January but I'll take the rain any day over those 8 degree mornings.


I took Juno out for a little photo shoot for our Christmas cards. This is how he felt about it.

But he soon warmed up. He's a ham for the camera, just like his momma.




Good to know the train table is still being put to good use.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone out there! I hope to have a few more blogs written before the ball drops. We wish you and yours a wonderful holiday season!!!

Love you all.

Saturday Market in Winter

Once Winter rears its cold shoulder, The Downtown Saturday Market moves to the indoors of the Fairgrounds. We missed it last week so my mom and I decided to check it out and see how it compares to the normal outdoors market.

The produce is still very fresh, organic, and YUMMY! The best thing, I must say is that they separate all the arts and crafts booths from the vegetable booths. It was so nice having wide open spaces of just produce and yummy brownies to gaze upon without everything else clouding you.

We stumbled upon some sun chokes. If anyone knows what to do with these, bring it on! I will be searching for them on the food network site tonight. haha.


Beet it.
Chanterelle Mushrooms. Again, Ideas on what to put these in?
Having these for dinner tonight!

and finally... ChestNUUUUUUUUUTTTTTS roasting on an open fiiiiiiire.. sorry had to do it.

I heart my farmers market. I really need to get down there more often.