A very random post

Phew...Nothing but boxes, cleaner, and vacuuming over here!  (And maybe a little bit of the 5 hour version of Pride and Prejudice while I'm cleaning...) We move to Idaho tomorrow.  Wow, TOMORROW, people!  Tomorrow always seemed so far away and then all of a sudden it just showed up.  I have been busy trying to pack in an organized manner and if you have ever moved before, we all know that that lasts like maybe 10 seconds.  I can be as organized as I can be, but then there is ALWAYS. MORE. STUFF.  You might think that is the last of it, then it's like, "oh yeah - I forgot about that, Oh yeah - that too, oh, yeah - that...there is just STUFF EVERYWHERE!  Okay, I'm done with my rant.  I would way rather be packing than be at work, where James is today, so I guess I should count my blessings.  And in brighter news, we dropped a big load off at the DI and let me just tell you, that felt amazing.

Well, I do have a few pictures of our last couple weeks here in Logan.  They aren't amazing, but they are better than nothing!  I really am trying to be better to use my camera for PERSONAL stuff as well as business.

Last week, we had a great day before Easter Celebration.  I created a mini easter egg hunt for James, which he whined about the whole time because he doesn't want to have to FIND his eggs, he just wants to eat the candy.  So we finally resorted to me telling him hot or cold if he was close to an egg, to get his torture over with quicker.  And I was a really cool, sexy wife because I left him love notes in the eggs as well.  :)

Then after the egg hunt, I made him go on a nature walk with me that I've wanted to go on for a long time.  It is by the golf course in Logan, there is a trail that follows the Logan River.  It is very pretty and relaxing and I just needed to smell nature for a bit.  Bring on Summer, I am SO READY!  We both smelled a bit like we had been camping when we got back and it was wonderful.  I don't know how we smelled like camping because there was no campfire around or anything, but we did!

After our nature walk, I again made him take me to a little movie

called Water for Elephants.  This is how I asked James to go over text messaging:

Cindy: Hey can we go see Water for Elephants tonight?

James: What the H is that?  My instinct tells me no.

Cindy: It is a total guy movie, you will love it.

James: No.

When he got home, I showed him a preview, begged and he finally said yes. 

He loves me.

And we both liked the movie a-lot.  James liked it, I LOVED it.  

Just FYI.

I can't believe we are coming up on 2 years this month.

Pretty crazy.  

We will miss you Logan!  

(and we will miss Charlie's amazing Oreo Shake)

Idaho Bound

That's right!  

In a couple weeks we will be headed HERE:

with smiles on our faces!

Yes, we did just move to Logan last August.  :)  

James has decided to change his major from Forestry and pursue 

the Nursing Program.  In doing some research, we discovered

that we can save a boatload of money by attending in Twin Falls.

Not to mention that it is very close to our families who we miss

when we are away too long.  We have been looking for a reason

to get back to Idaho, it just came sooner than we were expecting!

We have loved living in Logan!  We have made some great friends

and both of us have just learned so much while being here.  We have

both grown so much here by meeting the people we did. I feel

that it was a very much needed stop for us.  An important stop 

that has and will change our lives for the better because of it..   

Our time in Logan has been short, but a very

important stop for us and one we will remember for a lifetime.

It is interesting to be able to look back on our lives and our

journey and be able to see the hand of the Lord in plotting

our life's map.  The road we take and the stops we get off 

on.  We have been very blessed to know the Lord is behind

us and can feel his hand in our lives.   The move to Twin is

scary.  We have to start all over again, in a sense, but we are 

excited as well and are looking forward to leaping with faith.

(Woah, I don't usually go this deep on here...haha)

Anyway, now we are Idaho bound in a couple weeks and I haven't 

done a lick of packing.  Why is it that procrastination seems to makes 

me the most productive in the end??

Egg-cellent Weekend

,

It was a great weekend of family food and FUN!  

It figures that all of this fun happened in IDAHO!  Woot Woot!

We had a great time with family at my cousin 

Garrett's Farewell.  He is going to be a great 

missionary!  It was fun to hang out with

family and cousins we hadn't seen in a while.  

Oh and every year my mom puts on an Easter Egg hunt 

for all the kiddos.  It was awesome as usual and here 

are some pics.  I may be biased, but I have some dang 

cute nices and nephews...

    

 

          

 

Fun weekend and cute kids!  

Can't wait until we move...

Wait, What's that?!?!?!  

YUP.  

We are MOVING to Idaho in just a few

short weeks!  It's been a six year run in Utah 

for me. It's been so fun and we have made some 

amazing friends here.

Not to mention, James and I MET in Utah...

 but MAN OH MAN, it is going to be GREAT to be back home!  

The Duo who JUST might Save Country Music

WARNING:

If you are not a Country Music Enthusiast don't go any further.

I am a fan of COUNTRY music.  Not country pop.  Sorry Tim McGraw, but 

that's what you are now.  And don't even get me started on Toby Keith. 

These two are who they are wherever they go and whoever they play for (say that 10 times)

and a girl just has to respect that.  They are COUNTRY and proud of it.  

And I just happen to be the same way.  :)  

I just downloaded the second album and I love it as much as the first. 

They are country darlings.  

Okay, I'm done.  

Hey There Mr. Tax Man

Tax season 2011:

Is tax season (for all of you who are too cheap to pay for a real accountant) frustrating to you???

Here is a break down of how our process went:

-Turbo Tax
-Trying to find all W-9's this last year.  Including um...FOUR for me. Yes, FOUR.
-Thinking we are doing awesome when we found all of our W-9's, until realizing we still have to find a whole bunch of other crap needed for taxes (stock info, bank account info, 401K info...)
-Having 3 or 4 frustration arguments between my hubby and I (probably less than last year).
-Punching buttons on Turbo Tax we THINK are right, but really we have no idea what they mean.

Really, is it worth all of this stress (on our marriage - haha)???   Next year, I am thinking Mr. Accountant man is sounding nice.

LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT TAX RETURN THOUGH.

So long, Farewell????

So it's no secret I have sucked it up big time with blogging on this thing lately, but I do have a pretty good excuse.  I have been working my tail end off getting my new photography website up and running.  While, it is still under construction and I'm trying to work out a few "kinks" with the decor and stuff, I am mostly posting over there.  While I have tampered with the idea of just combining my personal and photography blog, I'm not sure i want to give this blog up quite yet.  I might try it for a while and see how I feel about it.   Anyway, if you care to see what I've been up to you are more than welcome to follow me on my new photography blogsite which is www.cindylynnphotography.com.  I may still come back to this blog every once in a while, but I will mostly be over at my new blog.  It is just too dang crazy to try to keep up on too many different things.  I am seriously trying to simplify my life!  Anyway, sorry for the ramblings.  I'd love to keep up with you on my photo blog if you want, or if not, maybe I will see you back here every once in a while...

THANKS!

2 degrees

I am thankful to have an

amazing husband.

I am most especially thankful to have an 

amazing husband when 

it is only 2 freaking degrees outside!!!

This is because he will start my car

for me in the morning on his way

to work.

When we were dating 

it used to be the flowers and dates 

and cute little visits to my work...

But now I think the car thing might be 

sexier.

I love love love him.