Picture Update

So Brant and I have been busy the past 4 months. (Can you believe it's already been 4 months!!! I sure can't!)

To celebrate the end of tax season, Brant & I headed down to Zion National Park for a little R&R. We first stopped off in St. George and stayed with my friend Whitney Harris. I didn't get any pics with her, but we had a great time with her & her family.

In Zion, we took it pretty easy and just did one hike - Hidden Canyon. Before leaving, I purchased new hiking sandals (Chaco's). I was super excited about them, but learned quickly the benefit of breaking in hiking shoes/sandals. About 1/3 way through the hike my feet started hurting and I had blisters. So Brant & I did the majority of the hike barefoot. I had a good reason to, but Brant just thought it was fun. We had such a great time in Zion and it was just what I needed after a stressful busy season.

For Memorial Day, Brant's family scheduled family pictures on Saturday morning. On our way down to Provo for the pictures, Brant and I decided to do a spontaneous trip up to my family cabin in Island Park, ID. Well, pictures took a LOT longer than we expected and we didn't get home until 6:30 pm! But we decided to throw caution to the wind and quickly packed a bag and the car and started the 4.5 hour drive. We got there just in time for it to start snowing (ugh!). We quickly turned on the heat and jumped in to bed. The next day we headed in to Yellowstone. On Monday we hung out in West Yellowstone and ate at my family's favorite pizza place.

Needless to say, it's been a fun 4 months! But I'm very excited for summer and all the fun new adventures we're going to go on.

What's On My Mind

Oh hey blogging world. Remember me? That's if anyone still reads this thing... But guess what...I'm sitting at work right now (my new job!), no one is in the office besides me, and I'm having a lazy day. So I am going to blog. Woot woot!

So here are things that are on my mind...

~ I wish I were still hanging out at the park with my sisters. We met up for lunch today and it was very hard to get myself to come back to work. I feel like my sisters get together a lot because their kids play with each other quite often. So it's nice now that I work closer to them we can do fun things like meet up at a park for lunch or something. I love my sisters. They're the best!

~ I don't want to invoice clients for work we did yesterday right now. I do that everyday and I need a little break from it. Plus remember how I said I'm having a lazy day? Yeah...doesn't really help with my desire to invoice.

~ How is that I've only been working here for 3 weeks and I'm already looking forward to the day I don't work anymore. I guess that shouldn't really be a surprise as we all know how badly I don't want to ever work another day unless I really want to.

~ Speaking of...I've been SOOOOO baby hungry lately. And I swear baby's are EVERYWHERE! I can't escape them. And that doesn't help with the whole wanting one thing. Nor does it help with my desire to not work. Seriously, I would absolutely love to be a stay at home mom right now. Not because I think that job is easy (I have 5 sisters and plenty of friends who have taught me otherwise), but because I know that would make me happy. But I also know that I need to keep working so that we can actually have something to live on.

~ Brant & I planned a camping trip for this weekend with some friends, but now it's supposed to be cold tomorrow and rainy. I'm hoping he won't still want to go. But I have a strange feeling that we're going to end up being cold and wet in the mountains tomorrow night. Wish me luck!

~ I just misplaced 3 day sheets (in other words the work that 3 employees did yesterday). We searched for them for ever before I found them. I was kind of freaking out. But crisis averted!

~ Today just isn't my day... I went to replace the ink in the printer, and it exploded ALL over me. As in all over my hands, my dress, my leggings, and the floor. Thank goodness I'm wearing all balck so you can't actually see the ink (except for on my hands). I think it took me at least a full minute (if not longer) to start doing anything aboaut the spilled ink. I was in such complete shock over the situation I just sat there with black hands not sure what to do next.

~ I'm ready to go home to B now. Thankfully it's 5 so I'm out of here! Until next time blogger friends...

Wedding Pictures

Remember how two months ago (from today actually) I became Kristy Carpenter? And remember how it was the best days of my life (so far at least)? And remember how I haven't posted any pictures or details of that day on here?

Well...here are some of my favorite pics/moments from that special day.

 Coming out of the Bountiful Temple as husband and wife!

 The whole group

 My bouquet smelled great!

 I'm so happy my parents were able to come home from Sweden

 With Brant's parents

 

Friends

 I'm kind of obsessed with my bouquet!

 

 Toasts at our wedding dinner

 DANCING!!

 My "other family" - the Ricks

 Oh and I'm obsessed with my cake!

 Bridesmaids

 We danced the night away

 

Dancing with my new husband

 And my dad

 Brant and his momma

 I love my parents. This pictures makes me smile.

 Great friends

 Having a blast!

 And he said he wouldn't dance...

 

But Kent was king of the dance floor

 Though Brant put forth a valiant effort

 The kids were excited about the cake

 I was too

 Wasn't Brant so nice to not smash the cake in my face?

 But he had to get me a little bit. It's ok...I got him first :)

 Kiersten caught the bouquet (well...Hollie caught it, but let Kiersten have it)

 

Kent caught the garter. Watch out girls...he's on the prowl!

 Last dance of the night

Leaving the reception

Oh by the way...

Did I mention how I got a new job?

Well I did! I'm very excited about this new adventure. But I'm also a little scared. It is something pretty different than what I've been doing and it means I have a whole lot more responsibility.

Starting April 23 I am going to be the new controller of Lawn Butler. It's a landscaping and construction company located in Centerville.

So that means...

No more taxes

No more 30 min + commute everyday

No more feeling like I'm at the bottom of the totem pole

Instead it means...

12 min commute

Helping a company grow & expand their business

Being responsible for the majority of the 

financial aspects of the company

The possibility of being CFO (Chief Financial Officer) 

of the company in 3 years

Yeah...I'm pretty excited about this new job. However, as much as I complain about my current job, I really do love the people I work with. It's going to be very hard to say goodbye to them all. I haven't loved the work, but I've loved Lake, Hill & Myers. It was pretty sad telling the partners and manager that I've decided to leave. I wish I could take them all with me. But the people I'm going to be working with seem very great as well. I'm sure I'll grow to love them just as much as I have the people here. 

So...10 more days of taxes (so Brant tells me). I can do it, right?!?!