SURPRISE!!

Sorry I haven't posted in forever! Life has been really busy, and these are probably going to be kinda short...sorry! :-/ So about a month ago my wonderful husband threw me a surprise birthday party. And a surprise it was, especially since it was a month early :) He had been hiding things from me all week so I knew something was up, but he led me to believe that it was a "thing" we were going to be doing down in Idaho Falls or something. I had work this Saturday, so I had to try and hurry home. Then the door was locked....hmm, somethings up right? But I was still clueless! It was really sweet of him. He invited a lot of my old roommates and a few friends from home (he had to steal their numbers out of my phone). AND his football team was there as well...and guess what gift they gave me? Silly boys...So Mike has been having fun telling everyone that I am pregnant and that we're going to have all girls with the first being named McKenzie. SOO his teammates went to DI where they found a white maternity shirt. They put "Team Wife #1" on the back (since Mike's the only one married) and signed their names. Then they proceeded to put their team name and draw their mascot on the front, topped off with McKenzie (fan in the oven) written over my belly! What crack ups! We all got a good laugh out of it, only a few of my Jerome friends thought it was for real and started freaking out, but we hopefully got that all sorted out so that rumors don't start flying. I keep telling Mike that he's becoming the boy who cried "wolf" and no one is going to believe him when its for real. But my husband will do what he wants, and I'm glad he can make me laugh :) Below is a video he got of the "surprise". Enjoy! :)

Ohio Open House

While out in Ohio, we were able to have an open house and I was able to meet a lot of Mike's friends. We stayed out there for about a week. We were actually suppose to leave Sunday morning, but the flight was booked, so we chose to be bumped and stayed till Thursday. It was a nice surprise, and an answer to Elise's prayer. Mike's little niece was so sad to have us leave, and Saturday night when she was going to bed her mom (Jenn) told her that we would be gone in the morning. While saying her prayers she broke down and in tears asked Heavenly Father to, "Please don't let Mike and Camille leave tomorrow!" It was sweet and after that Ryan (Mike's brother) was sure he'd see us again at church. Well, he was right! Thanks Elise for praying and letting us be able to stay! :) Here are some pictures from our week out there...

Elise's hair for the open house. Jenn was inspired by my sister Angela's little girls. Funny story about that, Jenn asked Naomi (my niece) if her mom did their hair. Naomi is very blunt, sarcastic, and funny and she said, "No, my Mom doesn't do hair, our neighbor does it". Very true :)

Michael's good buddies from high school, Michael (left) and Alex (right)

The beautiful center pieces on the tables

One of Mike's tennis coaches, Mr. Baggily and his wife

The yummy food beautifully arranged

The amazing cake that Jenn made for us. I guess when she found out we weren't able to cut our cake at the reception, Jenn decided we needed that memory. So, for the next week before we came out, Jenn devoted her time n finding out out to make an extraordinary cake, and I think she succeeded! It was such a nice and fun surprise. Thanks! :)

Cutting the cake

And eating the cake

Playing on the playground with Chauncey and the girls

Michael holding his new nephew, Parker. He's going to make such a good daddy one day :)

Pushing Elise, Kate, with the help of Emily

Playing dress up in princess dresses. This is their "princess pose". I thought it was adorable :)

Michael couldn't help but get involved either and chose to dress up like Snow White. Silly Mike, you're too big!! :)

Starting our life

On July 18, 2009... Michael and Camille Reese were married! Yeah! :) Below are some snap-shots from family during the day. It was a beautiful morning and a LONG day!

The initial walk out. I hate my candid faces :-/

Coming out of the temple and being greeted by the mob :)

Us with Mike's parents

My parents and Me

Me with the siblings. Left to right: Angela, Marjorie, Me, Trent, Heidi, Jeanine, Valerie

Careful girls, he's mine now! :) Mike's sisters Stephanie (left) and Stacie (right)

Mike with his "father" on the mission, Elder Folk

We did a lot with these guys up at school. They're really good friends of Mike's...Jeremy (left), Austin (right)

The guys in Mike's family in their cool shades (I especially love his nephew Justin's pose)

My two good friends...Kassie (nursing buddy on left) and Sharon (roommate on the right)

The beautiful cake. Only problem was it was COMPLETELY fake...some miscommunication has made for a funny story!

Eating frozen cream puffs after we found out our cake was fake. 

The official line at the reception. From left to right: Robert Bingham (Dad), Ilene Bingham (Mom), Sharon Smith, Me, Mike, Cameron Brown, Lola Reese (Mom), Steven Reese (Dad)