My Favorite Things

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!

Okay...WOW...

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....

I'm an aunt again!!

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!!!

Busy Busy Month

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!

Easter

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.

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

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!

One of my Favorites...

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!

Catch up!

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!!