Imagine, Dream, Believe

Life....

2010-08-10T21:12:00.000-07:00

Wow!! I have been super busy lately so that is why no blogging :( It is usually the last thing on my to do list & the first to let go! Anyways, I have been super duper busy!! Within the last two months I have had two weddings and I have one more on Saturday! These pictures are a preview of the first one.. You can check more out HERE. One of my best friends brother!

Ok.. Super cute couple! Loved them!! Then a couple of weeks ago, I did another wedding and Tuesday before the wedding we did the bridals.. WOW talk about lots of pictures in one week.. It was super windy that day, but it kind of worked to our advantage! You can see the full session HERE. Isn't she so pretty!

Then I took pictures for this super cute family! She is actually one of my friends and I took Drake's baby pictures when he was born last year.. It is amazing that year flew by so fast! Anyways more of them are HERE.

And of course a preview of the next wedding, which I had over 500 pictures for!! I am still working on edits! You can see the full session of this wedding HERE.

Now for some other stuff going on in my life.. I work out a LOT! I am trying really hard to loose weight but to do it the right way! I am working out 6 days a week and trying to get between 8 and 10 workouts in this time. I go to Gold's Gym as well as doing Zumba dance class.. SUPER FUN if anyone wants to join me let me know! Click on the picture to learn more about Zumba or to find classes near you!

The last time I weighed I had lost 7 pounds in 2 weeks, which is awesome because I am lifting weights too not just cardio, so I am gaining muscle weight as well.. so it was awesome to loose that much, even if I have LOTS to go! I am so excited for all of my workout buddies that I have & would love more people to keep me motivated! I will try to keep my progress updated more too..

My moms birthday was back in July & to surprise her we got her tickets to go & see Adam Lambert in Boise. It was going to be my mom & dad that went, but then my dad had class scheduled for work & couldn't get the time off & I couldn't take the day off because my co-worker was already on vacation.. so.. I didn't take a lunch and left a few hours early from work and drove down to Boise and then after the concert we drove straight home, and we got home about 3:30a.m. so by the time I got in bed it was about 4a.m. and my alarm went off at 6:45, so that I could be to work by 7:30a.m... so needless to say it was a very long day the next day at work, but it was worth it because my mom loved it & we had fun! I have to say that I love Adam as well, because we both watched him on American Idol & he is a very fun performer! I did see a lot of glitter boys & I will leave it at that! Camera's weren't allowed, so I snuck these pictures and video.. I did see quite a few camera's get taken away, so I had to be super careful :)

So anyways! I know this is a long post, but I hope you enjoyed hearing about the many many things going on in my life~ I hope everyone else is doing great!

My Favorite Things

2010-06-15T22:18:00.000-07:00

Lately life has just been blah.. I don't know what my problem is. I feel like I am still in the school mode on a lot of things, and I have a lot of decisions I have to make... The CPA or the PMP or the CPA & CIA, and the list goes on :) STRESSFUL! Most people get to be done when they graduate but not me, so there are some big decisions that I am trying to make & weigh out all of my opinions and make the best decision for me & my future. But whenever I get down I think of all of the wonderful things I have going on in my life right now... 2 of which are my beautiful nieces! They are the best thing that could have ever happened. They are so much fun & everyone thinks that little Pyper is my child whenever she is with me. I love that McKayla is old enough to have sleepovers at my house & I love that Pyper loves to snuggle with me. She is so cute when she just rests her cheeks on mine.. makes me tear up thinking about how great both of them are. McKayla turned 3 on June 11th, so naturally auntie Candra had to be sure & take her 3 year pictures! These are a few.. the poor girl still doesn't have much hair, but the second picture by the tree just makes her look so grown up!

And Pyper just turned 7 months.. still as cute as ever! I can't imagine life without the two of them & I am excited to see what the future holds for me! Hopefully some cute kids!

I also had one of two of the weddings I have this summer! It was a lot of fun and here is one of my favorite pictures from the wedding, hopefully I will post more soon... The colors were orange & blue... the grooms cake was a denver broncos cake ;) so fun!

I hope everyone is doing well! I am greatful that I was able to see some of my wonderful friends recently.. I miss all of you! (Kaylie, Angie, Wynn & Brandon) It was so fun to see all of you! I wish you were all closer! I was able to go to Boise & see Carrie Underwood! It was a lot of fun she came over the audience in a truck! So she was right above my head! Lots of fun! So anyways my favorite things right now besides my friends & family include picture taking(still working on getting better), GLEE(my music will keep me going till the second season), and reading something other than a text book! I have read 15 books since graduation! Feels so good! (I know I am a geek!) One of those books was rereading Eclipse before the movie comes out. I finished it in 2 days (of which I was at work both days) I just love getting lost in books and not having to think about reality! I am going to Mt Rushmore this next week & I am hoping to get a ton of good pictures! It will be a blast!

GRADUATION

2010-05-23T21:40:00.001-07:00

Most of you have probably already heard that I graduated May 8, 2010, but I thought I would put it here! I graduated with my bachelors in accounting with an Operations Management emphasis. (Just a fancy name to say WAY too many classes).

This is my announcement that I did & sent to family & friends!

On Friday my work had a party for me & this was my cake! I'm lucky to work with such great people! They spoiled me--- a nook :) and money!

This is my garage door from my three amigos that got to my house & car! My car was full of balloons I couldn't even drive until I moved them! I will have to post those pictures soon too!

After I graduated we went back to my mom & dad's house & had a luncheon. Here is a picture with my two nieces! Aren't they just the cutest!

This is my friend Shannon & I before graduation started! I met her my first or second year at school & we have been good friends ever since! I have actually met a lot of great people through school!

The cap & gown!

& How could I forget these! My shoes that I got the night before graduation! I wore them & half way across stage I almost fell, but oh well totally worth it!

Hopefully I will post more pictures soon.. ;) I should have tonz more time, but I am trying to get ready for 2 weddings! I am so excited about those!

I want to say how thankful I am to all of my friends and family that have been my support group all of these years! I am grateful to all of you! I am happy to the new people I have met and the old ones that I have kept in touch with! I am excited to see what other chapters open up in my life now that I have more time! I am still trying to decide what I want to do with the CPA exams & when I want to take them.. so we will see!

Here is a preview of some of the pictures I have taken since school got out.. engagement & senior pictures! Hopefully I will post all of these soon! Both sessions were so much fun! I am lucky to work with AWESOME people!

Picture Update

2010-03-25T22:20:00.000-07:00

I finally got my picture blog completely caught up! WOW that never happens! I've been on spring break this week... I will have to post pix sometime soon! But enjoy these!

This is the announcement I did for Whitney.. took the pix and everything today! Now I just have to get on the ball & get mine done!! WOW, it's going way too fast!

Okay...WOW...

2010-02-24T20:36:00.000-08:00

WARNING: LOTS OF PICTURES & LONG!

Okay.. I've been so busy with everything(school, work, pictures, family, primary, ect..) that this is one of the last things on my list & I am sooooo far behind... Since my last post.. I have had a lot happen. First this is the necklace I made for my aunt for Christmas.. Needle, fish wire, seed beads... I think it turned out pretty cute.

Then I have been taking quite a few pictures... These are some from a while ago.. which hopefully I will be able to update Candra's Pix blog with the full sessions... They are so cute!

Aren't they all so cute! Love these pictures!

Then one of my best friends finally got her entire family(parents & siblings) together for a family picture.. It turned out so cute! They all have the cutest kids!

This is another one of my friends and her little boy! He is so smart & so cute! I'm so lucky that all of my friends have the cutest kids!

I know that everyone knows back in November I became an aunt again.. well the poor kid (but she's so cute) keeps getting compared to me as a baby. She does look a lot like me except for the blue eyes :) So as embarrassing as it is here are some baby pictures of me & one of Pyper. You tell me....

Oh yes.. the picture of my niece is one from just this past weekend. Isn't she a doll? I know I am biased but I think that they are both so cute. So here are some of the over 200+ pictures I took of my brother and his family.

Oh I have to show that I took this picture and did this for them as well.

Then McKayla has such a bubbling personality.. She informed me just on Saturday that we love Taylor Swift. I told her no we don't.. She comes up to me and she says "No, Aunt Candra, we LOVE Taylor Swift & Lady Gaga".. Aren't kids the cutest! She definitely keeps me going..

This is her a couple of months ago..

This is her from Saturday.. She is growing like a weed! Just like her little sister!

This is the two of them..so cute;)

Then I had to put these two pictures on here, she is so funny, the first picture is how she kept smiling.

So my brother says, "McKayla, smile with your eyes" and this is what we come up with.. See kids can smile and fake it too~

I just love them so much! This picture is Pyper's blessing dress

Then on Saturday I was able to take pictures of one of my best friends kids! They are some of the best repeat customers! They are so adorable!

Ok.. so January and February have been so busy with school & things.. I have been doing pretty good! There is this one teacher I have and I have had him before and he is not my favorite, he is kind of a jerk. Anyways.. I got a B on his first exam.. which feels awesome! I studied for hours and hours and a B on his exam is like an A++...he is so hard! So that was a confidence booster &
then in one of my other classes I also got a B on his exam, which I was happy about! My classes are very frustrating this semester, but it is my LAST SEMESTER, so I am keeping my head up and counting down (73 days) :)

Some other things that have been going on are...

January...Jury Duty. I don't know how many of you have been chosen for Jury Duty.. it is interesting, but not fun when you decide someone else's future. I had Jury Duty for the weeks of January 11- January 22, which school started on January 11 & I had auditors on that same day ( I am surprised I still have hair) So I didn't have to go to Jury Duty until January 22.. that's right the very last day of my Jury Duty I had to go! If everyone had of showed up to Jury Duty I would not have been chosen to be 14 of the jurors that had to be narrowed down to 6. Well I ended up being one of the 6 people they chose to be the Jury. It was a LONG day. I was there from 8:30 in the morning till almost 6 at night with a 45 minute lunch. It was insane & I hope that my name stays off that list for a while.

February... In fact it was February 1st, we had a very foggy night and it was hard to see the road from far away.. I have a night class and I was coming back from Pocatello. I saw something in the road I thought it was a cat... NOPE.. I was to Blackfoot and where the 3 lanes merge to 2. There was something in the road and I couldn't get over & couldn't slam on the brakes with a car behind me. I decided that I would just pray it stayed so I didn't run over the poor cat. Well I got close to hitting it and it flew up...It wasn't a cat at all...IT WAS AN OWL! A HUGE OWL.. These are the pictures... I drove all the way from Blackfoot to IF with this owl stuck in my car. I called my little brother to pull it out of my car. So scary! Anyways, I was lucky that only my grill was hurt on my car and it dented my radiator. Nothing more. My little niece was so concerned and she had to show everyone the pictures from my phone. She would say, "Candra broke her car, she hit a bird and it went boom". She won't forget about it either. Everytime she talks to me on the phone or I see her she asks if I have hit any more birds. On the phone she will say "ok drive careful, don't hit any more birds,i love you bye"Crazy kid! These are the pictures... they are from my phone so they aren't very good...

This is the damage & the way I drove home & below is my little brother holding it up!

One BIG BIRD!

Ok.. well other than those events I teach Primary on Sunday's and I have Sunbeams...there are 10 of them & just one of me.. I don't have a team teacher yet, so keeping the children calm and not jumping everywhere can be a big task! Well the laundry dishes and homework is calling my name.. but at least I am caught up... for now....

118 days & counting...

2010-01-10T17:14:00.000-08:00

Well, it's been forever :)... I made it through last semester barely, and tomorrow starts a new and last semester! I will be so glad for school to be over & new adventures in my life to begin. 118 days is the number of days until graduation! A lot has happened since the last post, so I will just update on a few things! I have taken quite a few pictures which has been a lot of fun. A new year has also arrived... time to start out fresh. I would not like to repeat 2009, even though some good things came of it. In 2009, I bought a house, saw the ocean, & had a new niece just to name a few things good! I have learned a lot from the past year & hope that 2010 will be even better! I will post pictures soon... but my new theme for 2010 is embrace! I need to embrace what is happening in life! 2010 is going to be a great year....graduation just to name something BIG!

I'm an aunt again!!

2009-11-16T20:54:00.000-08:00

I have been extremely busy lately with work, school & picture taking!! Life is never dull for me!! I did want to post on here real quick to let everyone know I am an aunt again! Pyper Rose was born on November 2~ Here are some of the pictures I took & put together a couple different announcements.... which is your favorite?? Leave me a comment to let me know! Hope everyone else is doing well!! Can't wait to see some of you at Thanksgiving time!!! WAY EXCITED!!!

Pictures!! More......

2009-10-18T19:05:00.000-07:00

These are a few of the resent posts I put on my picture blog.... Check them out here

Life is crazy busy for me & hopefully one day I will get caught up... Just an update... the semester started in August, so that is about all I have time for.... pictures & school & work.... I am taking 18 credits working full time & in the beginning of September I ended up in the hospital (not a great way to start off the semester) I had cysts on each of my ovaries, so I have been dealing with the pain & hassle of doctors ect... I just got put in the primary in my new ward, so I am teaching the CTR6 class-- there are 11 kids in my class so it will definitely be interesting.... Well I have to get back to my many projects & homework going on! LOTS TO DO!!

Pictures!!

2009-08-24T20:47:00.000-07:00

I am so glad that Kaylie was in town & we were able to hang out! Love you Kaylie! She has the cutest family & we got some awesome family pictures, which you can check them all out HERE

These are just a few~~

Thanks Kaylie for letting me take them!!(Still more to come of Drake)

The Oregon Coast~

2009-08-23T21:04:00.001-07:00

It has taken me a while to post my trip to the Oregon coast, but I have been busy putting together my house :) (and taking lots of pictures :) )

The Oregon Coast is beautiful! I loved it... the fog was a little annoying for picture taking, but other than that I had an awesome time! It was a great family trip to take with my parents & little sister. LOTS OF PIX BELOW!!

One of our stops along the way was a lavender field, it smelled so awesome! It was up on a hill and there were rows & rows of lavender very pretty!

We also followed the Columbia River a long ways & there were many bridges along the way...

We also stopped at the Tillamook Cheese house~ Very interesting & Yummy!

We were then able to stop at the Aquarium! Very cool! Lots of very neat exhibits!

These are just a few of the pictures from the Aquarium... I was able to touch a shark & a stingray so that was different!

Some of the towns that we went to were very cute towns! They are definitely for tourists :) My first site of the Ocean, was a bit crazy... I had to walk clear down to the edge of the water just to see it because of all of the fog. Also seeing all of the boats in the dock was pretty neat. (I have to say it is probably because this was my first seeing the ocean and being near the coast)

We also got to see these on the rocks! Notice the fog! Very obnoxious.

But, it was well worth the trip to get to see these lighthouses! I am doing my downstairs bathroom in lighthouses, so I am getting these printed up & framed to put in my bathroom :) Very exciting!

The white lighthouse in the above ocean picture is the same as the lighthouse next to it just farther away... I love the picture, but there again the fog was in the way! (Oh well I still love it!)

And last but not least....

The Ocean~~~~

The picture below is my very favorite picture & I am so excited that I was able to get this picture! It is by far one of my favorites! I actually already have it hanging in my house!

So the trip was awesome! And I finally got it posted... More posts will come later of all of the photos I have been taking~ VERY EXCITING! And hopefully some of my house! I have pretty much got the living room decorated, so I will post that soon! And school starts Tuesday......AHHH!!! So many things going on & so much to do!!

Home Sweet Home....

2009-07-31T22:39:00.000-07:00

Well as many of you have probably guessed.... I bought a house! One of the best & scariest things I have done in my life! I am still trying to get settled in after moving & vacation! I will have to post pictures soon... So all in one month I crossed off see the ocean & buy a house on my list of things to do! Exciting but scary & in less than a year I will be able to cross off getting a bachelors degree in accounting! Now if only I could find the perfect mate..... time will tell! I also got done with my summer class & I got an A (YEAH!!) Two semesters to go! Next semester wil be the worst with 15 credits and full time work, but after that it will be smooth sailing!

Here is a picture of my house!

And this is cute little Drake that I took pictures of! (Sorry its not turned). Well I will post pictures of vacation soon! & definitely more of Drake!

Busy Busy Month

2009-06-26T21:55:00.000-07:00

Ok... I have been so busy with everything! I have a final next week for my summer class & I am so far behind on posting! First My little sister graduated on May 28th Here are some pictures from graduation that I did for my nieces video... Which I finished! (YEAH! Just a few late nights) She turned 2 on June 11th.. I will post pictures later, I can't believe how fast the two years have gone by!

And some other exciting news... I am going to be an aunt again! (Doesn't she look so excited :) )

I did find out a couple of weeks ago that it is A GIRL! They are excited I was thinking it might be a boy, but surprise it's a girl! The little niece is due right near my birthday! End of October early November! The name that they are thinking about is Piper... cute, but they haven't decided yet, so if anyone knows of cute girl name, leave me a comment! I better get to bed since I have to get up early! I will update again soon!

House Dilemma....

2009-06-02T20:16:00.000-07:00

Lately we have had graduation and birthdays & other things happening so I am a bit behind on my postings! I do want to first off tell Angie & Neal how much they are in my thoughts & prayers for the loss of their little one. I love you both & I am praying for you and your families.

My latest issue that I am having is trying to decide if I want to get a house or not. I have a year left of school & with the interest rates low & the $8000 tax credit I am trying to decide what to do. This is the townhouse that I am looking at, and trying to decide what to do! It is close to my family on this side of down and I really like it. Here are a couple of pictures of the townhouse. It is small and only has two bedrooms, but it is perfect size for me... I am not sure what to do... It is a lot of money and I know I shouldn't admit this, but I am a little bit freaked to live by myself... Any suggestions of what to do let me know!

I will get updated with graduation and other life happenings later!

American Idol.....

2009-05-21T10:45:00.000-07:00

OK... I don't usually get into American Idol that much.. This season was a different story! I looked forward to watching it every week because of... ADAM! I love Adam I think he is the best! He always took the song & put his own twist on it! Mad World will probably be one of my favorites forever! So, needless to say I am upset that he did not win! Kris didn't even deserve to be on the top 2. If Adam couldn't win I would have rather had Danny than Kris! One thing I know for sure is that Adam will go far & I will be a fan for a long time! GO ADAM!

Worst Nightmare...

2009-05-21T10:19:00.001-07:00

Well it has been a crazy week... On Friday night I went and babysat for our neighbors that live behind us & their boys are so cute! One is 2 and the other one is 8 months~ They are the typical fun boys & we had fun. While I was there my mom called me & told me there had been car accident with my little sister and her friend. They had flipped the car, so my parents were going to get her. What happened is this... They were up on Iona hill headed towards town & were on a gravel road (her friend was driving & had her license for a week). They were going too fast on the gravel and hit a turn and the car started to slide so she over corrected the car & hit the edge of the canal dirt & flipped the car into the canal. The water was pretty swift & deep. They had seatbelts on & the airbags didn't go off, both of which was a good thing. They both got out heavens only knows how. Her parents picked up the car the other day & there is no possible way my sister could have gottent the door open on her own, the door wouldn't even open the other day. So, with the swift water & the door the way it was it shouldn't have opened. The police officer even told my parents that they are lucky to have a daughter, because the last time there was an accident there, no one survived. I am thankful that she is just bruied up a bit & we still have her! She is one lucky girl! Here is her graduation announcement that we put together!

Senior PIctures

2009-05-12T21:13:00.000-07:00

There are some new pictures that I did so check them out!

AHH! LIFE...

2009-05-12T20:57:00.000-07:00

Ok... so I know that I was going to try harder to make this really positive all the time, well that is just not my life! I am going to get it out here on this paper for myself... so if you don't want to hear it just skip it! I have had one of the hardest weeks in a really long time! Monday was going to start out good because I just got back from Boise and had a really fun trip! Well Monday turned out to be a crazy day not only did I have to start class again, but I just felt that everything that could go wrong did! Not only after everything that happened that day, but I get home from school mind you it is like 930 pm and I had been up since 6am, my mom starts in on me now don't get me wrong I love my mom, but lately it has just been tougher getting along with her. So after Monday I thought ok Tuesday is going to be a good day & Tuesday went to crap when I found out that I got a B+ in English, not a bad grade but I don't understand how I got a B+ when all of my papers I have gotten 100% and A's. I am so upset about it I know it seems stupid but I deserve an A! So then again tonight my mom and I don't get along & I just don't think I can deal with things anymore! I have to get over my fears of being alone and just do it! I know that most of you that read this are like oh you will be fine I wished I lived by myself, but you don't understand I have this fear of being alone and with all the pressure I get of not being married ect ect.... I just am about to have a nervous breakdown, when I found out my grade I had to literally hold back the tears because I was at work, but as I sit here and write this the tears are streaming down my face as I am so frustrated with everything in my life right now! I don't write this for people to feel sorry for me so DON'T, I write this as my therapy to getting over it!

Finals & Friends!

2009-05-10T20:31:00.000-07:00

YEAH!!! FINALS ARE OVER!

I don't have my grades yet but finals & tests are over! Yeah! I think I did good, but we will find out soon I hope! My brother was in the Emergency Room on Monday night for what we found out later was food poising (he was in so much pain and thought he was going to die) so it was scary but I didn't get to bed till around 3am and then got up and had to be to work by 730am and then left to take an English final from 3-5 in Pocatello. I had my last final on Thursday, it was my tax exam & I think that it went pretty well although it was really hard... Thursday I was able to meet up with Angie for dinner while she was in town! She looks so cute pregnant & it was really great to see her! Friday after I got off work, I left for BOISE! I went to see my really good friends Wynn & Brandon. They moved to Boise just a little while ago about 9 months I guess. I have missed them both so much, so I decided to take a break & go visit them in their new house! I got there Friday around 9pm and we talked and caught up and then we went to dinner. After dinner we went to downtown Boise and walked around. I saw the capital building and the places where my friends work and a lot of drunk people! We came back to there house and watched movies and talked till 3am. It so much fun to be able to catch up and talk! Saturday we got up around 10 and relaxed and then we all three made lunch together Wynn is an awesome cook and it was so good! (I ate a lot of food while I was there I'm sure I gained another 5 pounds I didn't need) We then played the Wii and watched tv and I didn't even get out my pajamas the entire day Saturday! It was AWESOME! I haven't been able to relax like this for so long! Sunday we got up late and I had to come home. Thank you Wynn & Brandon for a great weekend! I miss you both already, but hopefully I can come visit again soon! It's nice to be home, but I am not looking forward to getting back to the grind with school and work tomorrow. Summer school starts tomorrow (yuck) at least it is only one class. Well that has been my week.... (sorry I forgot my camera so no pictures)

Clumpsy Me...

2009-04-30T22:00:00.000-07:00

Here is a funny story for you. Today at school it was the last day of classes & I just have finals next week. I was coming out of the Rendezvous building which I have done all semester. I wasn't really watching were I was going and there was a big metal post in the cement for a door stopper. I tripped over it and landed on the cement. My bag went flying and I ended up with a skinned up knee and some rocks in my hands. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the 25+ people waiting to get on the bus that saw me do this... One kid asked me if I was ok & told me he has done that a couple of times. I told him I was fine & jumped up to keep heading to class. I had to laugh to keep from crying literally!

Mac vs PC

2009-04-30T21:35:00.000-07:00

So I have been looking at getting a Mac for a while now. I have also been wanting to get the Adobe photoshop too. The photoshop is over a thousand dollars and I couldn't see paying that kind of money for a program. So, I got a deal for a Mac through school and the adobe package with every program came with it for only $300.00. I was so excited to find out it was such a good deal... So I bought a Mac. I love it!! It is so much easier to use. I am still getting used to it and havn't had much time to really use the photoshop yet because of classes, but I will soon! I am super excited for it since I have a bunch of movie's to do. My sister is graduating high school so I have her video to do as well as my nieces 2nd birthday coming up in June to do her video.. Crazy busy projects going on, but I love it!

Easter

2009-04-30T21:18:00.000-07:00

Well it has definitely been a while since I have blogged.... Life is crazy for me & will be until I finish school~ Finals are next week & then the semester is over. Summer I am taking one class & it starts the Monday after finals~~ I get a weekend... Easter was fun. Everyone was over at our house for dinner and we had fun... Everyone came except Zachary (which by the way we DID miss you & wished you could of got off work). Below are some picture of that darling little niece of mine. She was loving all over great grandpa it was soo cute... Since it was a nice day we all went outside to play. We blew bubbles and then we played Frisbee until my younger brother Adrian tried to catch the Frisbee with his teeth.. Just kidding. He missed the Frisbee & it hit him in the lip & cut his lip. We all felt so bad for him but he was just mad that he messed up the game. When summer finally gets here we will definitely have to play Frisbee more.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

2009-04-05T18:58:00.000-07:00

This week has been a busy one (as usual). With it being end of month and then having a bunch of projects for the end of the semester coming. On Thursday, I went to my appointment for my ears, and it turns out that it is my nose that is causing all of the pain in my ears (weird). So I have to put a bunch of sprays and gels in my nose like 4 times a day. I then have to go back in 8 weeks and everything is suppose to be back to normal by then (keep your fingers crossed for me). Friday night I spent studying at Barnes & Noble. Saturday I went to the easter carnival they had at ISU in Idaho Falls. It is for little kids and so I took McKayla & it ended up being a lot of fun! They gave them books & candy. They had games like the cake-walk, bean bag toss, and they had someone doing cartoons of the kids..

She loved this we did it like a million times!

You can't see it very good but this is the cartoon of her.

This is her & the CHEESE grin! I think it's cute!

After words we went to the park & took some pictures because it was
a really pretty day! She loves to do this~ Crazy funny girl

Then Saturday night, we had the girls over while the boys were gone & played games, My mom, sister, sister in law Stephanie, and my grandma all came over. (My sister in law Nicole was sick so she didn't make it over. We missed you Nicole.) After everyone left me & my sister ran to Walmart & I saw the teacups last year & didn't get one because I wasn't doing much photography. But look what I found!! I am so excited! & of course I had to try it out on my niece!

Poor girl! I always try things out on her!

I have to say she does look really cute! Next week when Kaylie is in town, I am going to take pictures of her new little one in the teacup! I can't wait to try it out! I think that those pictures are just so cute! Anyways I still have a bunch of homework to get done! Have a great week!

What a week!

2009-03-29T17:03:00.000-07:00

Well... Crazy busy week.. At least I was able to do some of my own things! Since it was spring break I was able to catch up with a bunch of my friends~ YEAH~ It was really good to see Aleesa on Tuesday. She my friend from school & she is going to graduate in May & have a baby boy in June~ I am so excited for her. I was able to also hang out with JenniLynn who is funnier than ever. Thanks for dinner it was great! I was also able to catch up with a couple of girls from high school, Heather & Ashlee. They both have two kids that are way cute & loved talking to them & catching up on life since we last talked. Ashlee is also a great cook~ Thanks so much for lunch! It was great to see both of you & I hope we can do it again soon. I went to a movie with my little sister on Friday we went & saw 12 rounds. It was a very intense but really good movie! I also did a lot of homework & worked (a lot). I was able to get a bunch of my homework done yeah! I still have a bunch to do, but I am so glad that I got a break! Now tomorrow it is back to the grind for 5 weeks & then I will just have one class over the summer & 6 classes left & I am done! YEAH! Count down begins!

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today!

2009-03-21T21:47:00.000-07:00

The title explains it best~ Lately my blog has been a little... well depressing. NO MORE! I am going to start blogging about all of the good things that have happened lately~ I forgot about these pictures from Valentines~ My sister went to sweetheart ball & that sunday for church her & McKayla both had on red dresses... McKayla was going up to everyone to let them know how pretty she was~ I have to admit she is pretty cute~

This is a picture from Valentines Day when she came to hang out with me... I let her have a cookie & I did her hair with the bows I bought for her (she is going to have curly hair just like me lucky girl...not) although I have to say it was much funner to do her hair then mine. She also loves flowers and these are some flowers my dad got my mom for valentines day.

So it is Spring Break for the next week thank goodness (I know it is just a time for the teachers to pile on the work.. 2 memos, 1- 6page paper, 1 presentation, 3 cost accounting cases, and lots of tax homework) & this is going to be a much better week. I wish I was in California visiting Angie, but hopefully August because I want to see the ocean! Miss you Ang!

Want to hear what my neice did? My parents took us three older kids to dinner which included my sister-in-law Stephanie & my neice & she was mad that her dad would not let her put the straws in the glass of water so she hit the glass of water & it went flying~ I had to laugh because when her mom & dad get after her she always says Candra (it sounds like Condu ? on why I think its cute) or grandma to save her! She is growing up way too fast~ Here is a scrapbook page for her year 2 video, which is coming fast June 11.

Girl after my own heart~ Just kidding!
Lots of things are coming up this week I finally get to catch up with friends I haven't talked to for a while! I am excited about that. My ear is doing a little better, I will be glad to get into the specialist to see what is going on because I have lost some of the hearing in my right ear & I want it back! :) Anyways I hope this post is much better than my last few! And I hope all my friends are doing well!

So MAD!

2009-03-18T14:25:00.000-07:00

I hate to be so negative all the time, but I have to rant about how my day has gone so far... I got a call from the specialist they can't even get me in until April 9th... Crazy. So now I have to live with the pain with nothing for 3 weeks. And today was one of my two exams...Ok, so I studied for hours & hours for my accounting test. I go to take the exam- you could go in at 12:30 the class doesn't start til 1:30, so I figured if I was there a little after one I would have plenty of time to finish the exam... I had to drop something off at the Pocatello Courthouse and you have to go through the buzzer ect... After that and parking and walking to the college of business and getting to the classroom it was about 1:10. Plenty of time right? WHERE WAS THE TEACHER??? Nowhere to be found... apparently he leaves the classroom after he has handed out the exams at 1230. Great! I looked everywhere for him... I went to his office, came back to the classroom, back to his office and then stayed and waited for him to come back... FINALLY he came back and said to go up to the room and he would bring an exam... I got my exam at 1:45 and it is a long exam... so I am busting my butt to get it done because it is a long exam and at 2:25 he says 15 minutes left... not even close to being done I am just trying to get everything done that I can... So he collects all the tests including mine at 2:40 when the class doesn't end until 2:45.. Needless to say I AM SO ANGRY!! I can't believe that he left the class room and if he could have just given me 10 more minutes I would have probably been able to get it done.. I HATE THIS!!! I knew the material because I studied really hard but it is not going to show because I didn't get to finish! CRAP! I hate crying in front of people, but when I left the classroom I just started crying my eyes out! I hate the feeling of defeat...Sorry just my little frustration for the day....

AHHH!!!

2009-03-17T18:42:00.001-07:00

AHH!! This is how I am feeling right now! Today has not been a very good day & I hope it doesn't continue because I have too much to do....I went to the doctor again today because my ear is not feeling better & it is starting to effect my hearing in my right ear. I am so sick & tired of being like this! So instead of medication they are sending me to a specialist & I may have to have tubes in my ears. I talk to them tomorrow, so we will see what happens! I am so frustrated because I have an exam tomorrow & one on Thursday. I just know that when I talk to them tomorrow I am going to insist that if I have to have surgery that it be next week, because that is spring break... What a way to enjoy spring break oh well! I just want to be back to normal... whatever that is...

Catch Up....

2009-03-07T11:07:00.000-08:00

So, I'm so busy trying to catch up on everything that I missed... work, school! Everything has been absolutely crazy, but that is just the story of my life ~CRAZY~ One of the things that I have been trying to catch up on is my English 308 short report... I also did something totally out of the ordinary... I have to explain. My little sister just turned 18 on the 2nd and she is totally and completely in love with the Jonas Brothers (& no i'm not in love with the JB's) I hadn't got her a birthday present yet & she comes into my room on Thursday freakin' out because the JB's are coming to Utah on July 4th for the stadium of fire... I copied the link without her knowing and tickets went on sale on Friday. So I did what any good sister would do... I bought her & I tickets to go to the concert for her birthday & graduation. I gave them to her on Friday when I got home....She was screamin' & so excited... So on July 4th I will be drivin to Utah to go to the concert with her... Other than that nothing else exciting has happened---

Take 4...

2009-02-27T16:31:00.000-08:00

So, last week was hard I did do well on both exams but...this week was even worse. I don't know what happened but I woke up at about 4 o'clock Thursday morning and barely made it up stairs (not even to the bathroom) to the garbage can and it didn't stop coming. I missed both my classes and work. I hate being sick. I threw up the entire day & my dad took me to the doctor for the 4th time at 7pm they did the flew and strep test and they both came back negative. They think it may be all of the antibiotics I have been on or the ear pressure I have. I still have fluid behind my ears. So they gave me another prescription not an antibiotic and told me lots of fluids and rest. So, after I got back from the doctor I threw up again & since about 9pm last night I haven't thrown up. I missed work again today which I hate doing! Today I feel like I have done 200+ crunches because my stomach muscles hurt so bad! I hope this is the last time and it gets better...

When is it ever going to end...

2009-02-21T09:16:00.001-08:00

So, this week has been absolutely crazzzy... After going to the doctor last Friday, they put my on an antibiotic augment en ($45 presciption) and it made me sicker than a dog. Tuesday I took my tax exam and I think I did pretty good and Tuesday night I was at the school with a study group studying for my next test on Wednesday, and I threw up at school... I was embarrassed and I barely made it to the bathroom the last time (4th) so I decided I better cut the study group short and go home, so I did. Wednesday I took a sick day from work and missed my exam :( I was so MAD! Mad at myself for getting sick and mad I had to miss the exam. My teacher had on his syllabus absolutely no make up exams would be given so I was debating on dropping the class, which just upset me even more. I emailed my teacher told him what happened and he emailed me back and was so nice and concerned. He said if I felt better I could take the exam Friday at 11am. Thursday I called the doctor and he told me not to take the augment en and put me on a Z-pack. The z-pack was only $15 so not as bad of price, but still 3 times in the last week and a half! If it continues I will have to get tubes in my ears and that scares me cuz I've never had surgery.. So I did even though I didn't feel completely better I went and I think I did pretty good... I will find out next week! Anyways I hope this ends SOON! I want to get better and move on and get school done! Other than that I had this huge cost accounting case that I did and I got a 23/25 which I was way excited it was a case that I worked at least 6 hours on! And then English is going great I have gotten 4 paper's back so far and I've gotten A's on all of them YEAH! I hope to continue to do this! Hope everyone else is well!

Follow up....

2009-02-16T15:18:00.000-08:00

Ok... so the last time I wrote I went to the doctor, well Friday I was done with the medicine and not feeling any better, so I went back to the doctor. It turned into an ear infection...AHHH... when is this going to end! So now I am on antibiotics and still not feeling the best. I have a tax exam tomorrow and then another accounting exam on Wednesday. On Saturday (Valentine's Day) while most if not all of you were out celebrating I was.... you guessed it studying. I went over to barnes and noble to study.. I then left when stupid high schoolers came and were just having a good time before heading to the dance but when I am trying to study it is so hard to have 6 teenagers laughing and giggling in my ears!! Anyways, I am getting back to the studying hope everyone elses Valentine's was great!!

The Doctor visit

2009-02-08T21:09:00.000-08:00

Ok... so yesterday my ear and throat hurt, but I thought it would go away. NO today it hurt even worse. So, I broke down and went to the doctor. I have fluid on my ears again! I hate it because they just give me steroids and then I get sick and can't sleep at night, which sucks. The last time this happened I missed 2 exams for school. I just wish it would go away! If anyone has any suggestions that might help me..Let me know!

One of my Favorites...

2009-02-07T21:53:00.000-08:00

Ok so this is a video of my niece before Christmas... She is so funny! I know Christmas was a while ago, but I thought I would post it anyways. This week has been crazy busy & I am not feeling very well. I think I am coming down with a cold...my throat & ears kill... Homework is keeping me very busy (I have a paper, a project, tax problems, and a presentation still to do before the weekend is over and the clock is ticking LOUDLY) along with life and work... I thought I would post since I had a few brief moments. Oh yes, I have to tell you about my run in with a spider yesterday. I came home from work and nobody was home. It was after 6pm and it was a little dark so I turned on the hall light before heading to my room and BAM there was a huge hobo in the hallway just staring right at me. I screamed and since nobody else was home I had to figure out how I was going to take care of this problem. I had some shoe boxes full of papers that need shred so I grabbed one of the boxes and dropped it over the spider thinking this would take care of the problem... WRONG... I lifted up the box and the spider started to move. I quickly grabbed the next shoe box and did the same thing except kind of pushed down on the shoe box. I did this a few times hoping when I lifted the box he would be dead, and he was. The next task however was figuring out what to do with this dead spider. So, I grabbed two pieces of paper and maneuvered the spider onto one of the paper and put it in the toilet. This was a very brave thing for me to do since I am deathly afraid of spiders. I hope that you get a kick out of my story... oh yeah this little task took me @ least 20 minutes to accomplish! Go Me! I hope everyone is doing well!

Birthday & More...

2009-02-01T21:06:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was my Grandpa's 80th birthday party. It went great. I did the video for his birthday & then I also did a book for him as well. It was a very long day, but totally worth it. He loved both the video & the book! He looks great for 80! It was great to have all of my immediate family there for the party the only one's that we had missing were my 2 cousins-(Jacob is on a mission in Mexico & Todd is in the Navy in England). We were able to get a picture of my family with my grandparents that turned out good. My grandpa worked for the highway department for a really long time..(40+ years). So it was a lot of fun for him to see a bunch of his friends that he hadn't seen in a while. Here are some pictures...

Our Family Picture

His shirt from the dept. with all of his pins.

My grandparents with their kids.

This is a picture with all of the great-grandkids!
The party turned out great! Other than the party life has been really busy... The auditors are finally done & gone & I am so excited for that...although it is month end and my co-worker is on vacation this week, so it will be a busy week. School is keeping me extremely busy & I am trying not to fall behind... I have a little bit:) I did get one of my papers back from my Business Writing class & he gave me 100%...Yeah!! Anyways it is getting late & I have homework to do and have to be to work by 6:00am so I have to get up at 5am! Way too early I know! Oh one more thing... here is one of the pictures I took this weekend for my little sister who is a senior and graduates in May... It turned out cute, this is the outfit she had on for my grandpa's party & I did her hair, she doesn't have naturally curly hair like I do, so it took a lot of time and about 65 bobby pins to make it look this good! Anyways this is her favorite and I will post more later! Hope everyone else is doing great! Will post soon!

What else can I say??

2009-01-18T19:26:00.000-08:00

Crazy~~ What else can I say? I haven't posted for a few weeks, but this is what has happened... I had auditors at work starting on the 5th and that is always crazy~enough said... Then that same week our cat that we have had for 17 years broke his hip and on Wednesday the 7th we had to put him to sleep. I went with my mom and my sister, it was probably one of the hardest things I have to do... I will NEVER forget watching his head go down after them putting the needle in his little arm. So this post is dedicated to my Moonbeam, who is now in heaven... I miss you so much! It has been a little rough... School started Monday the 12th & it is going to be a busy semester as well~ Some of my classes seem to be pretty good & others seem like they are going to be crazy... I finished my grandpa's book and video for his 80th birthday party that should be fun...Well I hope everyone else is doing well~ I will post again soon...

Happy New Year!

2009-01-04T15:51:00.000-08:00

I hope everyone had a great New Year! I just hung out with a couple of my great friends & went to bed early (1:30-that's early for me). Christmas was great-- we had a lot of fun with everyone who came over. McKayla was soo cute I got her the noisest toy ever...it is a princess CD player portable that plays the songs on a loud volume & doesn't turn down. It is great!! A couple of weeks before Christmas I broke down and bought a Wii- along with the Wii Fit. I wanted to be able to work out on the crazy days- even if it only means 20-30 minutes on the wii aerobics---which by the way is a great workout. I also have guitar hero-so it was a lot of fun to play the games with the family on Christmas. Yesterday I went to the gym & boy did it feel good to finally get to run for a while! I know some people hate working out, but I love it & when I have time I really love to stay for a couple of hours!! Yesterday I was only at the gym for almost an hour- but in 35 minutes I ran 3 miles! I have done better but since I havn't been for a while I am working back up to my running a mile in less than 10 minutes! It is one of my goals this year not just to loose weight, but to get healthy--I need to eat breakfast! I get in a hurry and go to school at 5am and then I don't pack anything for the entire day so when I get home at 10pm it is too late to eat but I am starving so I am really hoping to do better this year and pack things to go for the entire day! So anyways school starts in a week---I am dreading going back although it means only 2 semesters to go after it's over! YEAH!--Then it's the CPA exams & I am DONE! The quote I am going to focus on for the year is "Life isn't measured by the number of breaths that you take, but by the moments that take your breathe away." I know everyone has heard that, but I have had so many close encounters with my life last year that I just have to live life to the fullest and enjoy every moment I have, because you never know when it could be cut short. I also challenge anyone who has not seen The Ultimate Gift- you need to watch it- It is on DVD, but it is one of my favorite shows & it teaches you to appreciate life & help people along the way! Sorry this is so long, but here are my New Years Goals for 2009---
GOALS FOR 2009

1- Get healthy--Start eating and getting exercise in at least 4-5 times a week!

2- Be Positive- Enough of the negative--Life is too short to be miserable!

3- Get good Grades- I am going to work my butt off to ensure this comes true!

4-Complete my Projects- I have a bunch of projects for the new year I want to get done!

5- Blog more- I didn't do very good last year, but I am going to do better this year!

These are the five I am going to focus on for the year! I am also going to take more pictures! Here is one of McKaylas pages that I finished! I think it turned out cute! I will blog again soon!

WOW!

2008-12-29T20:50:00.001-08:00

Okay! So I can't believe that Christmas is already over, but it will be in my heart all year long as I try and do the project for next year! I have scanned over 3,500 pictures over the last 4 days and it is fun, but overwhelming because I still have soo much to do... I know everyone is going to get sick of hearing about my picture project... so sorry! I just am trying so hard to get as many pictures scanned as I can before the audits at work and school starts on the 12th! It was fun seeing a bunch of you around Christmas at Alli's shower. I hope everyone had a great Christmas and has a fun New Years!

Crazy Month~

2008-12-18T09:52:00.001-08:00

These past few weeks have been crazy ones. With finals & getting ready for Christmas it has been crazy! Tonight is my last final!! YEAH!! I am so glad this semester will be over because it has been a crazy one! On Sunday I stayed in Pocatello, so that I did not have to get up at 4am & drive to Pocatello for my exam at 7am. It was suppose to be a cumulative exam so I studied for 3 hours on the first 6 chapters...needless to say their were only 2 question on the exam! Bummer... I just hope I passed his class. Tuesday I had another final & had gotten together with one of my friends from class & we studied a total of 10 plus hours over the weekend & then I left work at 2:30 to study some more! I checked my email before I left work, but there were no email's from the teacher. I went over to the school & studied more & I felt really good about this test, because I wanted to get a good grade in the class. The test was suppose to start at 6pm everyone was there except one student & the teacher. We waited around for half an hour before someone checked their email. He had emailed us at 2:40 that the test was cancelled due to weather conditions & his "beater" car. I was happy that it was over, but furious that I had studied so much. Then a couple of weeks ago my week went like this...Monday-sick& missed a test Tuesday- my coworkers mom died Wednesday- went & made up the test & got a parking ticket Thursday- my brother went to the doctor & that same day they did a catscan to check & see if he had a tumor.(We got test results back a week later & he doesn't have a tumor Thank goodness) Friday- my coworker's mom's funeral. That week I thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown because I still had school with all of that going on. So even though my grades aren't going to be as good as I would have liked them to be it's ok because there are more important things in life. Besides all of this I have been working on a big Christmas project for next year...DVD for my siblings. I am scanning, scanning, and scanning pictures that we have of when we were growing up. I think so far I have scanned over 4,000 pictures & still have it seems like 10,000 to go! I am seperating them by child & scrapbooking them all on my favorite website for this (scrapblog.com) and then I am putting them on a DVD to music so that their kids can see what they were like growing up. I am also putting all of our home video's and dare video's on DVD for them as well. I wanted to have it done for this Christmas, but next year it will be done! I started doing DVD when my neice McKayla was born. I did two her first 6 months & then I did one for her for her birthday. I am going to do this for her every year! I also did one for my brother's 30th, my brother's wedding, my coworker's mom's 80th (it was in October & I also went & took pictures...last one's ever taken, I feel very fortunate to be able to take them) I also just got done with one for my mom's friend for her siblings & kids with her parents on it. Her parents are both gone & she has the pictures of them growing up and through the years the DVD turned out great! I am also working on one now for my grandpa's 80th~ Anyways I better get back to studying, I can't wait to see you all for Christmas!

Holiday Season

2008-11-26T20:29:00.000-08:00

I hope everyone is doing well! Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and everyone will be at our house! It will be fun~ I am going to take pictures of McKayla in her Christmas dress! Things have been a little bit crazy~ finals are coming and I am trying to get all of the projects done before I go back! Kaylie was up here for a couple of days so we were able to hang out! It was so much fun & then I got to take some really cute pictures of her kids! I wish that everyone lived closer so that we could get together and take everyone's family pictures. Hope everyone has a great holiday! I hope to also see everyone at Christmas time...

Update...

2008-11-09T17:19:00.000-08:00

Well I haven't posted for a while... my apologies...things have been crazy for me! School is crazy & I can't wait until next semester. I had to drop out of my tax class... I just had too much going (16 credits and working full time), so I was pretty disappointed in myself, but I had to do it & next semester will be better! On October 26th it was my birthday & I turned 24. Wow~ I feel a lot older, not just because of my birthday but just life itself! I have definitely been keeping busy with everything going on and I will be excited for a break at Thanksgiving.. I definitely need a vacation soon! McKayla is very cute and lately has been very excited to hang out with her auntie! On Halloween she came into my work to see me & she wanted to stay...she has never done that, I think it had to do with the candy we had, because she is a mama's girl! I was excited that she wanted to stay with me. The other day I took a paper over to my brothers house and she came running over to me and I picked her up and she told her parents bye-bye, I was so sad that I had to go to work & couldn't take her with me... I think taking a child to daycare would be extremely hard to do! Anyways everything else is going good~ Hope everyone else is doing well~

Picture update!

2008-11-09T17:10:00.000-08:00

Check out Candra's Pix for updates! The kids are Kaylie's sisters & neice & nephews... Enjoy! The family is one of my favorite families ever! They look so cute~

Picture update

2008-10-31T22:57:00.001-07:00

Check out Candra's pix for an update! Here is a sneak peak of the pictures that I have taken & finally gotten them updated!!

Catch up!

2008-10-31T20:54:00.000-07:00

Happy Halloween everyone! I have been tagged by two different people for two different things, so those I will get done first & then post another update for later. Life is definitely crazy and not showing any signs of slowing down! I really wish that it would slow down so that I could catch my breath. This is a picture of my niece in her Halloween costume that auntie Candra bought for her! She looks so cute~her daddy is a bronco's fan so she is too. Then she has the matching bracelet & bow!

This is the first tag... Carlie tagged me to post the 6th picture in the 6th folder on my computer! It ended up being one of myself instead of McKayla, which is amazing since a lot of pictures are her! I have been trying to scan all of my mom's picture so that I can put together DVD's for my family, anyways this is one of me when we went to Canada when I was little... I tag anyone who wants to try!

Seven Random things about me!

Angie tagged me to give 7 random things about myself...

1. I hate spiders!! I am so deathly afraid of the things and how appropriate it being halloween and all! Even little ones freak me out. I can't even imagine when I have a place of my own and have to figure out how to get rid of them. Maybe I will have to call my little brother to come and kill it he would do anything for me right Adrian?? (this is a cute spider though)

2. Speaking of Adrian...I do love him now, but when he was born...I totally took all of my stuffed animals & brushed their teeth. My mom had just gotten home from the hospital after having a c-section & nobody was watching me, so I took my toothbrush & tooth paste & brushed their teeth... They will never let me live it down!

3. I have a lot of movies... Kids, chickflicks, action, and even tv shows... I know it's crazy!

4. I love prison break! It is my favorite TV show ever! And it comes on Fox every Monday night which by the way is usually when my night classes are scheduled...good thing we have a DVR on our tv to record it & this season is one of the best yet!

5. My favorite name for a little girl is Madalyn it has been my favorite name since I was 6 or 7, and when we would play house I would name my kids Madalyn & Elizabeth... I've grown out of Elizabeth, but I am still in love with the name Madalyn. Madalyn Kay will be the name of my little girl... hopefully it will be ok with whoever I marry.
6.I hate my hair! It is naturally curly, so a lot of people think I am very lucky, but I hate it! I feel like I am always trying to tame a wild beast. I got it from my grandma on my dad's side Lucky me!

7. I love shoes! My sister says I have OCD over stiletto shoes! I love them! It has been more difficult to wear really cute shoes lately because I walk a lot on campus & up 4 flights of stairs everyday! Here is a picture of my niece trying one of my shoes on!

I tag anyone who would like to do this~ it was kinda fun trying to think of random things!
Will post more later!!

Crazy couple of weeks!

2008-10-05T15:36:00.001-07:00

The Last couple of weeks have been a little bit crazy! I have been keeping very busy with work & school & picture taking! Last weekend alone I had 4 sessions! Another thing that happened was Wayne Richards of KLCE (radio station 97.3) died. It has been so sad but also very cool to see all of the "Drive Safely Wayne" signs around town. There is even a big billboard on Yellowstone for him. Very touching.

Last weekend I took a break from the busy schedule & saw Nights in Rodanthe! Nicholas Sparks is one of my favorite authors & I had read the book. It is a great movie~ Very sad~ I am also in my spare time reading his new book The Lucky One~~

The following are a preview of the pictures I had taken last weekend~ Check out candraspix for a full view of the pictures~ Hopefully the ones I took this weekend I will get up there real soon! We even did our family pictures! Amazing with the crazy schedule all of us have~ especially me~ I also got to go to LeAnn Rimes! She is amazing & so down to earth I love her voice! Anyways hope all is well for everyone! I will post again soon!

4 weeks down!

2008-09-21T08:05:00.000-07:00

Wow!! Thank goodness 4 weeks down!! If only I didn't have so many more weeks to go! School is absolutely crazy! I have two exams this coming week~I am not looking forward to! Things have been pretty good! I had another crazy Tuesday~ this time it was my tax book that cost $150.00 was missing 50 pages!! AHHH! I better not have any more bad Tuesday's! It comes in threes & I have had my three so I should be done right? I have also been busy taking pictures~ I did a soccer kid & wow sports shots are harder than I thought... they turned out cute.. here is a preview & then check out Candra's Pix for more! Have a great week...

Life is Crazy!

2008-09-14T11:40:00.000-07:00

Well it has been a couple of weeks... lots has happened! I had a scary experience last Tuesday. It was late at night and I was coming back from class & stopped at a red light. The light turned green & I started to go, when I had a strong feeling to look to the right, just as I did there was a car that had run their red light and I was about to hit them head on. Angels must have been watching over me, because I was able to stop my car without hitting the other car. It was a very scary experience, but I am grateful I did not hit the other car, because I can't even imagine what could have happened. School & work are keeping me busy as usual. The drive to Pocatello 4 days a week is getting very old very fast! I have still been taking pictures & I just posted some

on my other site from a couple of weeks ago, but here is a preview! There just aren't enough hours in the day!

My family & I also just went to Cats yesterday at the Colonial theatre in Idaho Falls. The Broadway musical from New York came here! It was an awesome show! It only played twice, once on Friday night & once on Saturday~ both were sold out shows! They were amazing~ even though I didn't get to go to New York to see them it was still a great show! One day I want to go to New York to see a musical on Broadway! Well this week is just as busy as most, but I will keep you updated!!
P.S. Here are some more pictures of my little cute niece!

What a week!

2008-08-31T16:06:00.000-07:00

Well school started on Monday & what a week it has been! Monday started bright and early at 5:30 am. Way too early! My schedule went like this... Monday I had accouting 323 at 8am in Pocatello and then I have to drive back go to work & then I have 2 classes in IF at 5pm BA 400 & MGT 460 & get home about 10:30. Tuesday also starts bright and early at 5am. I have accounting 331Tax class;( and then I drive back for work & have class at 6pm which is Finance 478. Wednesday are about the same as Monday & Thursday is the same as Tuesday except I have Business Law in Pocatello at night! So it has been crazy~ but I will get through it! I also got some super cute pictures of Kaylies kids! They are so cute~ check out more of them on Candra's pix. I also have more photoshoots to come so keep checking for new photos! At least I have a break from school tomorrow to be able to get caught up on my homework for the week to come, but I will at least try to keep up on my blog!

Where does time go?

2008-08-24T14:36:00.000-07:00

Well~ time has flown this past week and a half... I took vacation from work & went to Boise for 3 days last week & this week I was suppose to go to Oregon, but that didn't happen (I will get to see the ocean someday). I did get a lot done this week though! I had a lot to do to get ready for school & I took McKayla for a day & took her to Applebees with a friend for lunch & she was so good! She had applesauce & macaroni & cheese! She loves hanging out with her auntie Candra! School does start tomorrow & although I am ready to get it over with I know it is going to be crazy!! I can already see the 1 a.m. study sessions in my future! I did get some really cute pictures of Gracie & her sisters this week---check them out on candraspix & today I got this new one of McKayla so I thought I would post one of Gracie & her sisters & one of McKayla I can't believe how fast all of them are growing! It makes me feel old~ Well hopefully my first week of school goes well & I will post again soon!

Weekend Projects

2008-08-10T22:14:00.000-07:00

Well it is unbelievable how much time you have to kill when you don't have homework!! Kaylie & I got together on Friday & made bows--I am so glad she puts up with me:) They turned out so cute! So I came home from work on Friday & made some more! Most of them I am going to keep for when I have a girl, so all I have to say is I Better Have a Girl someday! The other project that I did was the wedding present for my brother-- i think they turned out good too... Crazy! I can't believe I have to go back to school in 2 weeks, but I am officially a SENIOR!! Since the summer classes got on my transcripts I have enough credit to be a senior but since I am going to be an accountant that doesn't mean I am that close--I have to have 150, so I am only about 50 away and then I will be 16 closer after December! One more thing-- my niece had her first sleepover at our house while her parents went away for their 5 year anniversary & she learned the word NO-- it is the funniest thing, you will ask her a question and she will say no and then start giggling, so cute! I am going to try & get it on the camera & if I do I will post it! Well I hope everyone else had a great weekend, will post again!

Pictures with the tutu

2008-08-07T15:02:00.000-07:00

These are the pictures I took a month or two ago with my neice & the tutu I made along with the bracelet and bow!

Candra's Pix

2008-08-06T19:19:00.000-07:00

So check out my new blog that is for all the pictures I am taking... I know I already have enough to do without this too, but this is probably my very favorite thing to do right now!! Here is a clip of the wedding pix, but there is more on my pix so check it out! www.candraspix.blogspot.com

What a month!!!!

2008-08-02T14:17:00.000-07:00

Okay..so I have not updated my blog for like a month! Ooops! It has been crazy busy!! I just finished with my summer classes & I have 3 weeks before I go back! It will be crazy! So a lot has happened in the last month...where to start... well a few events are my little brother got married yesterday ( i will post pictures later) Thursday the day before I had two finals for my summer classes. I ended up with 2 A's and one B+ dang it! That is still good for how fast the classes went! Oh and here are a couple of pictures of the bows I made for a friend that had twins! (Katie if you see these before I get them mailed to you I'm sorry) I will post the matching bracelets later! Anyways lots to do I will post more later!

Funny things kids do.

2008-06-27T23:36:00.000-07:00

My niece turned the big one on June 11th, and of course I had class, so instead I celebrated with her the Sunday before. We were watching the video that I made for her & she loves to dance! Her favorite song is Vouge by Madonna. Anyways this is what happened & I wish that I would of kept recording because right after I stopped, vouge came on and she jumped up and started to dance! Crazy bunch of cuteness!!

My Little Bumblebees

2008-06-06T13:10:00.000-07:00

The little girls in my picture are Gracie & McKayla. Gracie is the little girl that I have babysat since she was little, so she holds a very special place in my heart & McKayla is my neice! Which of course is very lucky to have such a wonderful auntie like me:) Next week is her birthday, she is going to be a year old!! I can't believe how fast the year has gone!! I got her a couple of outfits and of course had to make the matching bows and bracelets! I also made her a video of all the pictures & video we have all taken of her & it is very cute & 30 minutes long!! Then I also went on shutterfly and made her a book with her pictures! They are all cute and I am so excited! Have a great day everyone!

New Blogger!

2008-06-03T18:24:00.000-07:00

Ok-- so this is very new to me! Hope everyone is well!!