Christmas Card

Dear Friends & Family,

Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for the New Year from the Neumann’s!! We are putting out our first ever Christmas Letter to help us keep in touch and updated with all of our Family and Friends.
This year is the first full year Sean and I have been married! One year down… hopefully we last at least a couple more! 2008 has been a great year for us, full of many wonderful opportunities and definitely LOTS of change!
Sean has spent the year going to school full time at UVU, majoring in Political Science and working at APX selling alarm systems. He has done really well there and everyone at his work absolutely loves him and knows him as a Jokester. He likes working there but is ready to be done and move onto something new. Luckily for him he is graduating at the end of December!!! I can’t tell you how excited he is to have no more tests! He has worked so hard and done really well in all of his classes and I am sure he will be just as successful in the business world.
I started the year working at a local Charter school and decided that teaching was not for me! This fall I have been working a few jobs here and there and have also been working for a friend of mine, doing retail and Christmas Orders for her local store.
This past summer we had a lot of opportunities to travel and vacation with our families, which was a lot of fun for us. We went house boating at Lake Powell with my family before we left to go to Virginia for the summer. We were both able to find internships out in D.C. for a few weeks. Sean worked for the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) in their External Affairs department and I worked with a company called Bogart Associates doing event planning and fundraising for Congressmen. We both had a great time and were able to meet a lot of good contacts and gain some good experience for the future. We were also able to take trip to New York where we saw “Wicked” which I absolutely LOVED and even Sean like it! (he usually doesn’t like musicals). We had a really fun time staying with the Neumann’s and are grateful for their hospitality.
Now for our BIG news…We are moving to the D.C. area for GOOD! We have started packing and are making the trip around the first of the year (maybe not the best time for it but oh well!) We are sad to move away from my family but excited to be able to start a new phase of our lives!! We would love to have visitors so please feel free to come and visit us anytime!!
We have had such a great year and our lives have been filled with so much fun and joy because of YOU! We have been so blessed with such great family and friends. We hope that you are happy and that this upcoming New Year will be filled with joy and happiness for you.
All Our Love,

Sean and Cambria

Strawberry Cabin Trip

This past weekend Sean and I went with my parents and my two sisters up to our cabin near Strawberry Resivour. It is way up in the mountians and has an amazing view of the lake below. In the winter, there is so much snow up there that you can't drive up; You have to drive snowmobiles up to the cabin.!! Its great! Unfortunately, it was too early and there was not much snow up there yet. The View from just down the road Sean testing out the four wheeler. Inside its really cozy, still heated mostly by a wood -burning stove! On Saturday we loaded up the four wheelers again and the seven of us went to a nearby National Park to go for a long ride. We unloaded and took off for an adventure!

We rode through the woods and much to Seans dissapointment didnt see any bears.. ha ha he was set on seeing one. But we went to the top of the mountain and saw some more gorgeous views!!!

The view from the top was encredible and it was such a beutiful sunny day. We had a great time with everyone.

We had a great time and cant wait to go up agian over Christmas break and go snowmobiling and play in all that snow!

Grateful!

I have been thinking a lot lately about how blessed we have been and I want to share with you some of the things that I am grateful for!
I am so grateful for Sean. He is such a wonderful husband and my best friend. He works so hard at school and at work to take care of our little family! He is my best friend and I am looking forward to all the years we have to spend together!
I am also grateful for both of our families! Both of our parents are so wonderful and have been so helpful and supportive of us. We constantly look to them for guidance and advice! Our brothers and sisters (including in-laws!) are great! I married into a great family and am grateful for the friendship and relationships that I have developed with Sean’s family. They are all such a joy in our lives!
Lately I have realized just how guided our lives have been. The past few months we have had to make a lot of decisions that will affect our future. We knew we were going to eventually end up in DC but had no idea when. We didn’t know about jobs, housing, money etc. Looking back we have really been able to see how God has guided our lives. When we came back here, we had a hard time finding housing. We finally were able to find something that was a great deal without a contract which was perfect for us, not knowing when we were going to leave. I looked for a job for three months without any luck, now I found something to keep me busy and that will end at the end of the year. Everything that has seemed like a trial has really ended up a blessing, enabling us to go back to DC at the end of the year. I am just so grateful for everything that has seemed hard, but has turned out to be a blessing! It makes me really excited for the future! Bring it on!!!

Fall 2008

So maybe Im no so good at this blog thing. I have not updated our blog for like 3 months!!! Sorry guys!!

We moved back to Utah in the middle of August
to a little basement apartment in Lehi. Its a one bedroom, one bath with a kitchen and living room. Its small but cozy and we love the location! It is close to everything that we need!! We still have our love sac which we LOVE and use all the time and we also had a new addition to our furniture... we got a new couch!!

Our bedroom

Kitchen area, I like it Becuase I can be making dinner and still be see everything. My last kitchen was like a cave!

Sean is in his last Semester of School at UVU ( I cant tell you how excited he is to be done!) and working at APX still. I am doing some odds and ends and Doing the Christmas retail for a store called Kneaders in Provo.

Besides school and our jobs we have been keeping pleny busy! We have season Tickets with David and Cameron to the BYU football games and have been going to those. We both love football games so that has been re

lly fun for us! And we love being with our friends and David and Cameron are some of our oldest!

With David before one of his famos Parties! It was a cocktail party and everyone had to dress up. David calls that white suit his cocktail suit.

For halloween we hung out and carved Pumpkins with our good friends and cousins Jeff and Lindsey Snow and Matt and Brittney.

I Cheated and used a pattern off the internet, so did everyone else, except for Sean. He wanted his to be a real original jack-o-lantern, and they all turned out to be great!

The Finished Products!!! Lindsey and Jeff did the Skull, Matt and Britt did the Ghost on the lower left hand side, mine is the ghost on the top right and Sean did the one on the lower right. I think it is cute! We put our pumpkins out on Halloween hoping kids would stop by, but we live on a busy street and we didnt even get ONE!! Sad!!

Well we have been having a lot of fun. Life is so fun and we are trying to live it up! We are really happy and enjoying this stage of life and trying to get ready for whatever may come in our future!

New York City a.k.a. the Big Apple!!

Last weekend we went on a little mini vacation with Seans family to New York city! We had so much fun! Seans parents had a lot planned for us and we got to do a lot of things while we were there. We stayed in a hotel that was right in time square so we were right in the middle of everything!

The view from our Hotel Window.

Sean and I in time Square at about one in the morning.. might as well have been 7 at night, it was still so crowded!

The next day was a busy day! We went to one of the tallest buildings in the world! The Empire State Building! we took an elevator to the top to get a birds eye view of the city. It was such a beautiful day, you could see for miles!

Sean and I on top of the world!

Me and Whitt

Sean and his mom!

After we did that, we took a boat cruise of the Hudson Bay, past the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, the Brooklyn Bridge and the city.

Ellis Island. The guide was telling us all about this place and it is absolutely amazing how many people came through here.

A great picture of the New York Shoreline

We went to dinner at a great resturaunt on the roof of the Rockafeller Building called the Rainbow room. We ate with a great view of the Empire State Building.

Then we went and saw the musical Wicked!!! It was awesome!!! One of the best shows I have ever seen! Even Sean loved it and he usually doesn't like things like that. All I can say is WOW!!

West Wing Tour

A few weeks ago we got to go on a tour of the the west wing with Seans family given by Secretary Leavitt. It was really facinating and something that we have never done before! The whole tour was beautiful!

We couldn't really take pictures inside but we could take pictures outside. Our first stop was the Rose garden which was beuatiful! The President often does formal meetings there and it is right outside the Oval Office.

We went with Seans family; John and Joanne, Justin & Lindsey, Sean & I, and Whittney

Sean and I in the Rose Garden right outside the windows the lead to the Oval Office. Inside there are all these beautiful paintings and art peices and each of the rooms is decorated so extensively.

We also got to go check out the Press Room where the president addresses all the important issues and does his press conferences. Sean had fun in this room :)

Sean acting like he is speaking to the press

Sean acting really important in front of the cameras!

Beautiful picture of the side of the front of the White House at night

Sean and I infront of the White House at night