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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...

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??

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!

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!

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~

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

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...