My Conclusions

I've come to a few conclusions about some things in the past few weeks. First, my husband really is a good guy, but sometimes he tends to exaggerate as you all were able to see on his last blog. He is the best ever, and such a sweetheart and I really couldn't ask for it better. He is so good to me and supports me in every way!

My second conclusion is that if the mornings weren't so cold here in Cache Valley my horse wouldn't look frozen.
My third conclusion is that if I didn't work so much you would actually be able to tell that my other horse is really supposed to be white with a little brown not completely gray.
She usually stays pretty clean and when I have the time to spend with her she looks a lot better. The picture below shows how white she can really get.All I can say is two and a half weeks and counting! Happy Tax Season Everyone!!!

Brittany is Amazing!

Well as many of you know, or should know, it is tax season and has been for a little over two and a half months now. And as most of you know my lovely wife Brittany is a tax accountant at a local firm here in Logan. And since she would never brag for herself I get to do it for her, she has her Bachelors Degree from the University of Utah and she has her Master's Degree from USU in tax, any way I thought that that was pretty impressive myself.

Well you are probably wondering why I am writing this or what is up with the title. Well I truly think that Brittany is an Amazing person. Just to let you know what she does during all of this "tax season stuff". Well since the beginning of February she has been working 70 to 80 hour work weeks, that is a lot of hours to put into work in one week. I will bet that most people have never worked over a 50 to 60 hour work week in their lives and she does this for close to four months. I have worked two weeks of my life where I worked a 70 hour week and close to 8 of those hours were traveling. Not only does she work close to 14 hour days, but when she comes home she is always excited and happy to see me, and she keeps a way good attitude about the whole thing. In the summer I would work ten hour days and come home grouchy.

Oh and I have to mention numerous times when there is an activity in the ward or for relief society, instead of saying that she is tired from the 14 hour day she just worked she will go straight from work to the activity. So that puts her leaving the house at 5:30 in the morning leaving work around 7 to go to the activity and then not coming home til around 9 to finally settle down for the night. She already has done this twice this week alone, Wednesday night was Temple night (and after Temple night we always go to Charlie's for ice cream) so that put us home at like 9:45, and last night was the relief society dinner and then my basketball game, and then I was asked to help ref the next game, so that put us home pretty close to 11.

Well I just wanted to post about my Wonderful wife and tell everyone just how amazing she is and what she has to put up with during tax season (although she would not call it putting up with). And the biggest thing that she has to put up with is ME, which would be hard for anyone to do I realize.

And Then There Were Three

Justin and I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about expanding, so we decided that the time was right. Justin's parents have been trying to talk us into it since we were married, so finally we decided we would. Here is the new addition: Oscar.
Justin's sister got Oscar, a cockatiel, eleven years ago but since then she got married and moved away and her husband doesn't want to have any pets so Oscar stayed in Leeds. Justin's parents kept telling us we should bring him home, but we aren't allowed to have any pets in our apartment. However, we figured it wouldn't hurt to call the manager and just see if maybe he would say it was okay, and he did. We were a little surprised.
Oscar likes Justin the best. When we let him out of his cage he always tries to stay closer to Justin. If Justin leaves the room he gets mad and tries to fly into the same room with him. He also likes to be scratched on top of his head and he will turn his head almost all the way around trying to get you to rub it.
Oscar can be pretty grouchy though. When it is late at night and Oscar is sleeping if we walk past his cage or turn on a light he gets all grouchy and starts yelling at us.
Oscar is pretty fun Hopefully he will stop being so terribly grouchy and a little more friendly once he gets used to us.

Trip to Vernal

Last weekend Justin and I went to Vernal to celebrate our nephew's birthday and to also be their for the blessing of our other nephew. It was fun to be able to get to spend time with the family and to see the new baby.
This cute little guy is our nephew, Levi. He was born at the end of December. Just in time to qualify for a tax deduction in 2008 and also the recovery rebate!! Good timing guys!
We also celebrated Trey's fifth birthday. We bought him a set of golf clubs because his dad claims that he is going to become the next Tiger Woods. We figured we better get in on some of it now.

This is Trey blowing out his candles on his birthday cake!!

Trey enjoyed opening his presents and having the attention on him. Happy birthday Trey!!
This is a picture of Justin's sister, Stacey, her husband, Brandon, and our two nephews, Trey and Levi.
Babies usually start screaming when Justin holds them, but Levi actually seemed to like him. I guess he is slowly getting the touch!
It was nice to have the whole family there because that doesn't happen very often.
We don't get family pictures very often, so I was making every one pose for us.
These guys are Justin's parents.
This is Justin's sister, Michelle, and her husband Clayton.
This is Trey. I wish that I had one third of his energy.
This is Justin's baby sister, Stephanie.
Justin and his Mom.
For some reason we didn't end up with a picture of Grandma Stirling, but she was there with us too. It is always fun to get to see her too. We had a fun trip to Vernal and are looking forward to the summer when we can see everyone again!