Brigham City Temple!

They finally made a decision! After months of work, breakouts, re-pricing, and revising we have finally been awarded the woodwork package for the Brigham City Temple. I've been working on it since a couple of months after the announcement between giving budget numbers to the contractor and producing our final bid. We actually heard from our competitors that we were the mill worker for the temple last week. Usually word on the street is pretty accurate, but we can't officially celebrate and hand off the job to a project team until we have a definite award from the general contractor. We were invited to a meeting at the architect's office this morning to discuss scope and schedule, and they awarded us the job during that meeting.

For those of you who don't know, this is especially exciting because I grew up in Brigham City. I've already told the project manager that one of the requirements for him to be assigned to the project (all of our project managers were fighting over it) is that he has to take me with him to do field measurements and help with other site coordination. I'm excited to see the work go through our shop.

November goal...

I'm here to report on the goal that I'm most excited about this month...Camden's Christmas stocking! I started it in January, and hoped to finish it by Christmas. I'm so excited to have it done just before Thanksgiving!


Hmmm....I wonder if I can get the new baby's stocking finished by next Christmas. :)

PS Keep reading...there's a new post below this one about Camden's 18 month update.

18 months...

Camden's 18-month mark was actually a few weeks ago, so I figure I better give an update before he's not 18 months anymore. :)

A few funny anecdotes from this month...

~ I locked myself out of my house. Brian was able to come home a little early, but while we waited, we took a 3 minute walk to a close store to keep warm. We looked in the Christmas section, and Camden saw a stocking with Santa on it. He excitedly pointed and said, "ish sheeshush!" (It's Jesus!) It was so sweet to me. :)

~Soon after, we've taught Camden to pat his belly and say "Ho, ho, ho!" when he sees Santa, who he doesn't get mixed up with Jesus anymore. It has a remarkable resemblance to his gorilla chest pounding.

~A few days ago he started calling the refrigerator magnets "A". All of them are "A", except "S", which looks enough like a snake that he makes his snake "ssss" for them.

~I think it is really good that Camden is so cute. He can get into more stuff that he's not supposed to get into faster than I ever thought possible. It leaves us feeling exasperated one moment and laughing at how silly he is the next. I know it will get worse before it gets better, but it's a wonder anyone survives toddlerhood.

~He's finally learned that all vehicles (covered wagons, bikes, skateboards, cars, trucks, planes, trains, strollers) don't have the same name! He's been calling them all "trucks" for about 6 months, despite our best efforts to teach him otherwise. Brian has a train game from when he was little, and Camden often asks for the "chooches". We think it is adorable and are glad he has a new word. :)

~He absolutely loves nursery and playing with other kids.

A few things that cause melt-downs:
~diaper changes (sometimes)
~putting on winter coats, hats, and gloves (really bad)
~getting carried, rather than walking (the worst)
~sun in his eyes in the car (really bad)
~putting away his scripture story picture book to say prayers at night

Anyway, we sure love him! We are so grateful he is part of our family, and couldn't imagine life without him.