Andra's Adventures of Everyday Life.....

My New Couches

2011-06-04T14:34:00.001-07:00

So, for months and months the couches that I have had have been slowly falling apart. The arm on one side pretty much came completely off, the recliners were broken....so it was time for some new couches. It took months of shopping around since I have a hard time spending large amounts of money and found these. They are pretty comfortable and I got them on clearance. They are a pretty green color which is referred to has Sage. Daryl was nice enough to get my old ones out and place these so nicely while I was gone in Alabama for the last week. I LOVE THEM!!! I will post more about Alabama later with some great pics of me and my cute Alabama family at a later date! I think I need to go and take a nap on my new couches before I go to work tonight!

The Latest in Life

2011-05-24T21:41:00.000-07:00

So, ya know how I only blog like twice a year, well I figured it was time to do it again. So here are some pictures of a couple random things, not much, but atleast stuff to blog about!

So, here are me and some co-workers who volunteered at the Ironman St. George triathalon May 7th, 2011. We were at a run aid station and handed out all sorts of things to the runners. It was pretty inspiring to watch and cheer on these runner. It baffled my mind that they could swim 2.5 miles, bike 112 miles and run 26 miles.....CRAZY!!!! Our station was western themed and it was warm out but we had a great time.

Eating, it is what the men do best. Chad, Jeff, and Ezra (who was full on western style). We were so proud of his team spirit!

Me and the real cowboy Ezra!

Me and my lovely Stacie! Love ya Stac!!!

Chad, Stacie, Honee, Rebecca, Jessica, Oakley, Peggy, and me getting ready at our station!

Michelle, Stacie, Rebecca, and me just showing up together!

So next was a little trip I took to visit my brother who was in Las Vegas for a civil engineering convention. We decided to take a trip to visit the Hoover Dam, which I had never seen before. They built this new bridge the goes by the Hoover Dam instead of over it and Justin wanted to see the new bridge since he is all nerdy likes that engineering stuff. It was actually pretty cool though to see it and see what they have done. We drove across the bridge and went and walked on the Hoover Dam too. It's pretty amazing and huge!

My nerdy brother "holding" the bridge. We are standing on the Dam looking at the bridge.

Me and my lovely brother on the Dam.

Me standing on the Hoover Dam. It is massive!

This is the walkway on the bridge looking at the Dam.

Holy big! In person it looks a lot bigger I promise.

So Here are just two pictures of Daryl and in San Francisco in Union Square. In December we went out to California for Daryl's nephew DJ's mission farewell and I didn't take any pictures except for these couple. I wasn't really in a picture taking mode, and any of you folk who know Daryl know he HATES having his picture taken and most of the time he just lets me if he can tell I really want to, but sometimes it's more of a struggle. These couple he was willing. These are his nephew and niece Dylan and Ella with us.

AREN'T WE SOOOOO CUTE!!! I think so atleast! This is our backgroud picture for our computer. Yes, we bought a computer together because yes we one day will be getting married it is just figuring out when and when he decides to finally do the asking.

So, there are some pictures to atleast give some entertainment for any readers out that that even still read this, which I am guessing is very few at this point. So, new for me, not much! I'm still working on the cardiovascular unit in St. George and working at night which is horribly hard, but I'm dealing with staying up all night as best as I can. I also bought a new bike that I LOVE!!!!! It is a hybrid, so not road and not mountain, but it is a beaut!! The furthest I have ridden it is 15 miles and my butt was sore, but a doctor told me the other day that you must "bum train." Whatever that means!!

Here is a picture of me with my wonderful bike! I don't look great by any because I took this at like 11 o'clock at night, but, here is my bike. Also, I remembered so other pics I have. My friend Sarah and her husband came down a couple of months ago and I have like 10 random pics when he got a hold of the camera, but don't worry, I'm only posting two that he took for us.

Sarah and I talking while Brent was just snapping away in every which way.

Here is a normal pic of us.....I miss my little best friends!!! It's so nice when people come visit! Love you Sarah!

Also, Kelsey and Spencer came down for a little visit a couple months ago also!

Here we are chilling on my couch! It was so great to have you guys here, Love you so much!!

Oh, and of course I can't forget a pic of lunch with my work girlies!!! This one was taken right after christmas, at our normal lunch spot, Olive Garden.

So, that is about it! Oh, yea, I also finally sold my cute little Acura Integra finally. It was sad, I almost cried, but I got a Honda Accord that I love soooo much! I am also going to Alabama this week to visit my brother and sister and their family and I am way excited! I really need to get out of this place for a while. Well, that is about it for now, maybe, like I always say, I will try to keep updating, but no promises!!!

Where to Start!!!!

2010-10-22T19:55:00.000-07:00

Ok so first off we will go back to my graduation on May 6, 2010 and the graduation pictures my friend Kamill took earlier in the year. She is amazing!!
Some of my work peeps that came to my graduation dinner. Sorry laysha, I know you where prego but you where super cute.....love you all!!!
My mom pinning me at my ceremony.
Daryl and I after my graduation dinner.
My Cheesy brother Justin and adorable niece audrey!!

Kamill and I had a day of adventure going all over St. George taking pictures....it was a blast with a whole bunch of laughs.....she even got attacked by a horse!

Next, and actually if I remember correctly are some pictures of my sister Jeneeces sealing day with her hubby and kids in the Mount Timpanogas Temple earlier this year.

Jeneece, Ging and me....but Gingers face is not as fun as Jeneece and mine....Sisters...gotta love them!!

Ginger and I in front of the temple after the sealing.....it was awesome....and sunny!! Gotta love sisters!

Me and my sister Jeneece at the dinner afterwards.

Ginger and I chilling with the kids afterwards trying not to squint to badly

Ohhh aren't we so cute!!!

Then we just have some random stuff through the rest of the year.....

Laysha's baby shower that I threw with the amazing help of shauna( the one in the pink) and stephanie from work!!! I love my co-workers, they are the best! Yes she is drinking a bottle, fun baby shower game....Peggy in the red from work and one of layshas best friend nicole from oregon.
Girlies at the baby shower!!

Me, Laysha, and Jack!!

Drink up ladies!

Laysha with her plethora of food and her monkey cupcake cake.....

Shauna, steph (with lexie), laysha, and me at our Friday lunch date.....occurring still about every other friday....love my girlies!!!

The things we create at work....a graduation hat for a patient that was finally leaving after like a month....yes....normally this is what we put in the toilet to catch our patients urine.....we use what we have.....

Me at my first bonfire on the beach with daryl, we were just south of santa cruz.....it was for my birthday this last year. loved it!
Chilling with our bonfire to keep us warm!
I loved my headlight, I was very helpful by shining Daryl in the eyes over and over again while we were trying to carry all our bonfire stuff down. He thought I was pretty funny with it, and he loves my cheesy smile too!!!

And here is his cheesy smile....Just in the car getting ready to go somewhere....
He loves my kisses!!!

This last weekend I went and saw my family for the first time in like 4 months....and my little niece Kiya has gotten huge and even cuter!!! It was fun, we ate yummy food and hung with the family and played games. I need to go home more often!

And my little nephew Garrin has grown and turns out loves taking and having his picture taken, this is just one of many!!!

Ok, so that is my photo collage to catch up a little bit....more has happened, but I just don't have pictures. So I passed my nursing boards in June, and yes it was the worst couple of days of my life....I felt bi-polar trying to decide if I felt like I passed or not.....but luckily I did. I have been practicing as a nurse since then and have been loving it. I still have so much to learn, but it has been great. Daryl moved out here from California about a month and a half ago and is still looking for a job so pray for him. He plans to go back to school and then who knows where we will go......well....I think Ihave updated enough....hope there are still people out there to read this. I love you all and would love to hear from any of you!!!

Where have I been?

2010-10-20T16:21:00.000-07:00

Well, for anybody who even reads this anymore, which at this point I bet is no one....I have been around. Quick update, I'm working as a nurse in St. George still and I'm working nights. I will find some more pics to post and try to update soon. I really do want to blog....I just never do. More to come!!!

Light at the End of the Tunnel and Spring Break

2010-04-01T18:51:00.000-07:00

Here is my graduation invitation, sorry not everyone is getting one, I didn't really think about everyone I needed to send one to when I was printing them so everyone is invited, I just couldn't get them all out!! My graduation pics won't load right now so I'll load them on a separate entry!

So over spring break in March I went to disneyland and huntington beach and LA, to Hollywood. A quick sidenote, I seem to blog when I have the most to get done, not when I'm bored....little weird, but true. So here are some pictures. The weather was perfect in the 70's and the lines weren't long!!! Perfection!
Huntington Beach, super windy, but beautiful day

La Brea Tar Pits in LA, pretty freaking cool

Walk of fame, Frank Sinatra and Julie Andrews

Marilyn Monroe, and underneath it the inscription says "gentleman prefer blondes"

Hugh Jackman

Hard Rock in Hollywood, David Cook totally sat at the table next to us and my friend linds took a pic of her kids with him, it was kinda cool to see a real life star!!! =-)

Me at the castle in disneyland

Getting on spacemountain, I feel like I look like a little kid all excited, I'm not gonna lie, I was pretty excited. I think we rode it like 5 times and I swear it's faster then it was....

Me at the bugs life 3d show, it's a fun little show to go to I just love the glasses!

We ate at the blue bayou and they had the yummiest gumbo and monte cristo sandwich, to die for!!! It's to dark to see the pirates ride going behind us, but it's there!

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Where in the WORLD has time gone!!!

2010-01-29T20:13:00.000-08:00

So honestly, I decided tonight to get onto my blog, since it has been FOREVER and see when the last time I wrote was and yea, that would be September....so Yea, little bit of a slacker. But that is ok! Quick update, Passed last semester with a 3.88 I think and on to my last semester of nursing school, so crazy I know, who knew there was a light at the end of the tunnel!!

So I don't really have many pictures to post, so I'll will just post the couple I have since the last time I wrote and tell ya what they are and then as always, I will try to keep up with my blogging!! =-)

So here I am on a weekend home with my super cute little niece Kiya Leanne.....I love her hair....here it's just fluffed but it's totally curly!
Here I am in front of the Oakland Temple over the Thanksgiving when Daryl took me up to see the light display and walk around the grounds.

I love this pic of my friend linds, we laughed so hard. This is at my friend Brit's B-day party in November and she was taking a pic of us....

Here is Brit, Me, and Sarah at the pizza factory for Brit's B-day!

This was moving day for my sister into my parents house and I was there to help and we were cold and trying to cover up our double chins!!

Just a little sisterly love!!

This was my co-workers bachelorette party at texas roadhouse with a bunch of other co-workers, it was a crazy night....but I left before the real craziness began!!! But I love these girls!

So there atleast are some random pictures so that you all know that I am alive amazingly enough! Daryl did take me to Wicked and it was sooooooo amazing I would go every weekend if I could, and Daryl even liked it!! So I'm about 3 weeks into my semester and it's weird because it doesn't seem like it's supposed to be over yet, but at the same time it's a sense of relief. It is a little worrisome thinking of all the things I feel I need to know, but I'm hoping it all just comes in time! Oh, and many of you probably don't know I'm living in a condo that my family bought. I live by myself which is a little weird at times, but other times it's great! Well, That's all I can think of right now, I will, as always, say I will make some kind of an effort to keep up on my blog, but no promises, all I can do is try! Love you all!!!

School has begun...

2009-09-08T17:41:00.000-07:00

Ok all, so yes, it has been a while since I have blogged...which is pretty normal for me. Well my third semester has begun, which means only one more after this. I get to go to the ER, Cardiac Unit, ICU, and Same Day Surgery this semester. I'm pretty excited for all of them and I start clinicals tomorrow. I even have begun practicing IV's....it was a little nerve racking at first, but now not so bad

And here it is....my first IV.....Thanks Katie....I had to stick her 3 times to finally get it in right....we are each others pin cushions. I have practiced other times, and even on a fellow co-worker which has made for great practice. I'm excited to get a little better at it that's for sure. We are 2 1/2 weeks into the semester and I'm allready counting down the days....is that bad????

Well, I have a couple of pictures to put up from my last California trip, which was sooooo great. One day we spent the whole day at the beach in Santa Cruz, we even ate the best clam chowder there and I got a couple new shirts. We also went to a Dodgers/Giants game which was super fun....Dodgers won....but the ballpark was sooo cool, it's right on the bay and we were front row, center field....LOVED IT!!!

This place was so cool actually, before we went to the game we went over to Fort Point which is right under the golden gate bridge and it's just an old fort right on the bay....it was so windy I thought we were gonna get blown right off the walls.
We are just little specks but i think it's so cool us right uner the golden gate bridge. It was so cold and foggy this day to you couldn't even see the bridge unless you were right under it like we are here.

Here are Daryl and I on the third floor of the fort looking out over the bay...the bridge is kinda in the way though!=-)

This is looking from Fort Point to the citty, you can kinda tell how foggy it was, but the air was so wet it was crazy.

Here we are at AT&T park watching the giants lose to the Dodgers, it was such a cool game, I loved it so much.

Here is Jimmy Chung in his Giants hat, and Daryl in his Dodgers hat....there was a bit of a heat rivalry here between friends...but it was all in fun....even when i had peanuts and sunflowers seeds thrown at me because I was wearing a Dodgers hat....crazy baseball fans....and boy do they get drunk!!!

I just had to put this picture up because Daryl's face is my favorite here....this is after we had spent all day just laying on the beach on the most perfect day.

And here I am on the Pier at Santa Cruz eating some of the yummiest clam chowder I have ever eaten in my life.....so good....now I want some!!!

Well, that's about it for now. I do have to say that Daryl bought me tickets to go to Wicked in San Francisco this weekend and I am more than excited....WOOHOO!!! we are probably going to go to another Dodgers/Giants game again too....yes I know, I am a little spoiled, but that is OK!!! Well, hopefully I'll have fun things to blog about soon.....

Death by Bike

2009-07-20T09:52:00.000-07:00

So my mom bought herself this nice new bike and I've been meaning to get mine fixed so I could ride it. I've been really wanting to get outside and run or ride to get back into shape. So this morning I woke up and thought I would go and take a nice bike ride. It wasn't too hot outside, actually compared to St. George it was really nice, so I thought it wouldn't be so bad. As I started out I was fine, but into it about 30 minutes I felt a little fuzzy headed and thought I should head back home, something isn't right. FYI, my house is at the the foot of the mountain, so to get back to my house you must go up hill. Since I wasn't feeling very good I decided to walk it back part way up the hill. I jumped off the bike and started walking it. All of a sudden I got super dizzy and nausea and almost fell over, luckily, there was some grass so I sat, partly falling onto the grass, while still holding the bike. Pretty sure people passing by thought I was drunk. I had to lay down to stop my head from spinning and keeping from throwing up. Then I thought for a minute, when was the last time I had a drink of water, and I came to realize it had been more than a day and a half. I know, who goes that long without drinking water, i never thought it but I do I guess. I came to realize that I was so super dehydrated. Lucky me, I had no cell phone or anything. So I decided to walk the bike the rest of the way and I should be fine. Not so much. I would walk for a couple minutes and the spinning and dizziness, and nausea would come back so I would have to sit down again, and a couple times I fell cause I lost my balance from being so weak. I did this many times before finally making it home. I even had to sit in a huge thing of weeds. Luckily when I got home and got into the kitchen my dad was home so I collapsed on the kitchen floor because I didn't even have the energy to stay standing long enough to get water. He got me a powerade and I sat up and started guzzling it down. Now I'm sitting at my computer writing about it because I still don't have enough energy to stay standing long enough to shower. Sorry, no pictures of this exciting adventure. Two lessons, always take your cell phone so you don't die on the side of the road and two ALWAYS drink a lot of water....still not sure what I was thinking! I'm still amazed I didn't pass out, I was so close I felt like I was about to, but never did, probably because the whole time I was praying to Heavenly Father to just let me make it home safe, and luckily he did thank goodness. So none of you guys have to come to my funeral yet, maybe the next bike ride though! =-)

Reflection....And a little update

2009-07-18T23:16:00.000-07:00

So I must begin with these pictures from last summer. This is me and my fam with my dear great grandma witt. She past away last week and today was her funeral down in Venice Utah. After today I felt so privileged to be a part of this wonderful womans life. She was 99 years old and one of the most kind and loving people I have ever known and if I can be half the person she was I will be happy. At the end of the funeral service one of my uncles got up and said something about her that I had completely forgotten.....whenever you would go to see her the first words out of her mouth were...."Oh Happy Day!" She was always so excited to see you, and you knew that she loved and and that was the most incredible feeling. She always made you feel that way no matter what. She lived such an incredible life and was one of the most incredible women I have ever known, I hope that one day I can life up to the example my grandmother set for me. I spent many summers with her helping her cut quilt blocks and watching seven brides for seven brothers. I wish I could have spent more time with her, but she is in such a happy and peaceful place with her dear companion, my grandpa witt.

I promise I'm not trying to start this blog off all sad and stuff, she truly is in such a better place and I only miss her now for purely selfish reasons. I was talking to Daryl the other night and I was talking about how you miss things about people once they are gone. I thought to myself how we take so much advantage of what we have here in this life and don't realize it until they are gone. We take advantage of so many things around us it is so sad. I have so many happy memories with my grandma witt along with so many other people that I no longer see and others that have passed on. I am going to try so hard to appreciate and love people, just as my grandma witt did, because I'm almost positive that she never took people for granted, and she savored every minute with every person and made everyone she was around feel so loved, special, and cared about.

I also was able to see some wonderful family members and get some good pictures of people that I really do miss. I want to start with one of the best pictures taken....me and my sister... Yes, that is me trying to lick Jeneeces face, and not succeeding, and I have no words for Jeneeces face whatsoever, but it is classic!

Blakey, Me, Moog, and Marci.....my wonderful cousins that I haven't seen forever!

I was using the pillow to cover up, but they said I had to get rid of it, I was a little upset....

Me clutching on close to the pillow....fyi, the pillow really has no significance besides the fact they made me put it down....=-( and I just realized....i'm not sure what is going on with moog's face, we were really struggling taking pic's.....

Me and my cute little niece, Kiya Leanne, my namesake, but you can't see her super cute curls on her head in this picture.

Me, Mommy, and sissy at the luncheon
Moog, Aunt Launi, with antlers (which is why I put this pic up, we laughed so hard at it), and obviously me!
Moog, Marci, and Me....we are only missing shanna!
Blakey, Lindsey(his wife), Jaye, and me!
Us on the couch yet again, but we brought in Jeneece cause we love her!!!

So to update you on my summer, there isn't too much. I ended my last semester with a 3.88 GPA and was so excited, especially since I only have two more semesters left, thank goodness. I have had the summer off from school and have just been working. Daryl was in St. George since may up until the 4th of July due to his dad passing on the 3rd of May. It was a beautiful funeral and Daryl stayed around and helped his mom out and then we spent the week of the 4th out in california, but I didn't take any pictures....my bad. We did celebrate Daryls birthday while he was there, and he is gonna be so super excited about me putting this picture up, but hopefully he will forgive me....

Oh so cute....we celebrated my birthday also, but no pics of that, but we drove up to Orem and spent a couple of days with my fam which was nice. Other than that, the whole summer has been chilling and working, nothing else really....well that I can think of at the moment. I came up Thursday this last week though and was able to go to lunch with my girlfriends sarah and kels.....sorry sarah we took this pic at kels house....i will get one with you....but here is my cute kels.....

I just want to note that my hair is getting long....yea for me, I'm trying to grow it out again after I chopped it off the end of last year....us girls can never decide how we want it...oh well!

Well, I'm so proud of myself for getting on to update finally, it's been way to long, part of the problem is that I don't have internet and that makes it a little tough. So this entry is full of so many people I love, but is also missing so many others that I love.

I just want to end this post letting you all know how much I'm loving St. George right now....this was printed on my blog on a post back in September, but I felt it really gets the point across....

Subject: Moving to St. George...?May 30th: Just moved to St. George. Now this is a town that knows how to live!! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. What a place! It is beautiful. I've finally found my home. I love it here.June 14th: Really heating up. Got to 100 today. Not a problem. Live in an air-conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned car. What a pleasure to see the sun everyday like this. I'm turning into a sun worshiper.June 30th: Had the backyard landscaped with western plants today. Lots of cactus and rocks. What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing the lawn for me. Another scorcher today, but I love it here.July 10th: The temperature hasn't been below 100 all week. How do people get used to this kind of heat? At least it's kind of windy though. However, getting used to the heat is taking longer than I expected.July 15th: Fell asleep by the community pool. (Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body). What a dumb thing to do. I learned my lesson though. Got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.July 20th: I missed Lomita (my cat) sneaking into the car when I left this morning. By the time I got to the hot car at noon, Lomita had died and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag and stank up the upholstery. The car now smells like baked cat. I learned my lesson though. No more pets in this heat.July 25th: The wind sucks. It feels like a giant freaking blow dryer!! And it's hot as hell. The home air-conditioner is on the fritz and the AC repairman charged $200 just to drive by and tell me he needed to order parts. I'm gonna kill the next guy that says; but it's a dry heat! Yeah, so's a freakin' oven!July 30th: Been sleeping outside on the patio for 3 nights now. $425,000 house and I can't even go inside. Why did I ever come here?Aug. 4th: It's 115 degrees. Finally got the air-conditioner fixed today. It cost $500 and gets the temperature all the way down to 85. I hate this stupid town.Aug. 8th: If another wise person cracks, 'Hot enough for you today?'I'm going to strangle him. Damn heat. By the time I get to work the radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like baked cat!!Aug. 9th: Tried to run some errands after work. Wore shorts, and when I sat on the seats in the car, I thought my butt was on fire. I lost 2 layers of flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs. Now my car smells like burnt hair and baked cat.Aug 10th:The weather report might as well be a darn recording. Hot and sunny Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. It's been too hot to do much for 2 months and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week. Doesn't it ever rain in this damn desert? Water rationing will be next, so my $1700 worth of cactus will just dry up and blow over. Even the cactus can't live in this heat.Aug. 14th: Welcome to HELL! Temperature got to 115 today. Forgot to crack the window and blew the windshield out of the car. The installer came to fix it and said, Hot enough for you today? My sister had to spend $1500 to bail me out!

And that my friends is St. George.....oh do I love it....and just for the record my car AC is on the fritz, not a good thing! Well, I better post my super long blog and hope some people out there really read it, hope to get internet and update soon!!!!

PS Joyce, this one goes out to you!!!!

Time flies by....

2009-04-24T23:10:00.000-07:00

Well hello out there blogger world, I have not written in a long time, and I don't have a ton to update on, but I do have a few pictures just for fun. So it's been almost 2 months and I have had so much school work to do since then that time to blog has not even been a thought, until now....only one more pharmacology test to go and then the summer will truly be here for me. I've done good this semester but it has been so hectic and crazy I felt like I was a chicken with my head cut off, it was crazy...but inbetween the madness I was able to do a couple fun things....like go home and finally see my family for a weekend!

So first of all, an announcement, yes I am pregnant.......NOT!

Turns out my sister is but she wouldn't take any pregnant pictures with me unless I made myself look pregnant, so underneath that jacket is a folded up baby blanket my friends....no baby, sorry to disappoint you all! Isn't my sister sucha cute pregant lady, she's bigger now, this was back in March, she's about to pop!

I love this picture, my little 18 month nephew just chills when the TV is on, so this his him beginning his many years of "being a man" and watch the boob tube, he was soo mesmorize by it it was hilarious.

Me and my little nephew trevin chillin on a Sunday afternoon!

This is one of my favorite pictures....so my mom and dad have the wii fit, so my little 18 month old nephew garrin wants to be a part of it when everyone else is doing it so we pull out a little white scale to put it next to the wii balance board and he joins right in with his papa, it's so freakin cute, I love it!!!

Next, I finally made it to Zions....turns out I have lived in Utah my whole life and never gone to Zions. So Daryl, who is from Cali, came out and he took me there for my first time, it was soooo beautiful!

We hiked Angels landing, which no children should ever hike because I made it up part of the way, but the last half mile you have to hang onto a chain because it's so narrow or you will plummet to your death, so Daryl had to hold my hand the whole way up and down because I have a little issue with heights......

But at the top, the view was worht it and boy was it amazing.....pictures don't do it justice!

This is almost to the top, but not quite there, you can't see it on my face here but I was freaking out about being so close to the edge and it's a long ways down!

Isn't it just so beautiful!!! I love it!

This was one of our beginning views at the first part of our hike......It was a hard hike, lots of switchbacks, but it was soooo pretty....it was really, really windy at the top, I thought I was going to get blown off....I kept telling Daryl to tell my family that I love them if I don't make it....but obviously here I am....still alive!

Another adventure I had was driving to Cali with Daryl....he needed some company for the long drive back to San Jose and I wanted to see the Kreys (a senior couple from my mission) who live an hour outside San Jose....So I took advantage and went out. I was only there for 2 days.....but it was so good to see them....They are the sweetest people in the world, salt of the earth kinda people....

This is me with the huge would carving of Oscie, the Cal state mascot....he's carved out of a huge piece of redwood I think and sits right on their front porch....I was a big fan!
Brother Krey is a dentist and was on the school board out there in Brentwood for years so they named a elementary school after him....isn't that the coolest!!!

And here I am with Brother and Sister Krey, aren't they so cute. We went over to Brother Krey's dental office to each lunch with him....don't they just look so amazing...they are some of my favorite people ever!!!

So lets see, what else is there to report....I have one final left and then I will just be working full time at the hospital over the summer. I was planning on taking my LPN but with the economy no one is really hiring LPN's and you have to work at your highest license so I would lose my job as a CNA at the hospital....so I opted not to take it. Though, I did take the predictor test and it said I had a 98% chance of passing which made me feel good, like I'm learning some things. Today before I came to work we had our LPN graduation party which was a nice little BBQ to celebrate the end of the semester....thank heavens, I thought this semester would never end. So now that I don't have so much school to worry over, maybe I will be able to blog more....YEA!!! Hopefully I will start taking more pictures too! Well, that's about it for now....I'm signing off, but will hopefully be keeping more updated now!!!

Ode to Spring

2009-03-03T12:18:00.000-08:00

So, there are so many wonderful things about the spring. The warm weather, the cheerful mood, the birds chirping, the flowers blooming, etc.... especially in St. George when spring starts in February, I LOVE THAT! I just need to note that all of these things are wonderful, and grand....but the one thing that brings great joy to me as this time of year rolls around are MINI CADBURY EGGS!!
These little bundles of joy make me so happy, yet so angry that we only get to enjoy them for a couple of months out of the year. I was able to endulge in these wonderful tasting treats last night and pretty much put myself into a diabetic coma because you just can't stop popping them into your mouth. That hard candy shell, and delicious inner chocolate just melts in your mouth and you continue to eat more and more until you feel ill (just a side note, last night I was not the only one doing this, but found out that 2 other people, that I wasn't even with at the time were enjoying the same feeling of putting themselves into a diabetic coma due to the goodness of these little eggs). Today during class I was able to yet again enjoy that feeling of making myself sick because I love them so much. Maybe this is why they only come around once a year, because if not we would all be hospitalized year round. So enjoy these little treasures while you can, because come Easter they will be gone again for another year. I think I should buy them in bulk and sell them throughout the year to make a little side cash. ENJOY!!!

Fun at the beach!

2009-03-01T03:36:00.000-08:00

So ya know those moments when your blog gives you such great joy, well right now at 4:30 in the morning while I'm sitting here at work, trying my darndest to stay awake, I have just felt that. I added a great picture of me at the beach in Santa Cruz on my title and changed my background to "having fun at the beach," which turns out is my dream in life. Everytime I go to California I never want to come back. I need the beach in my life, it brings me great joy. So as I searched for a background when I saw that one I thought, PERFECT, because that is all I want for the rest of my life. I know, random blog, but sometimes ya just have to ramble, that's all!

This last week has been good, but busy as usual. I've been at work all weekend, and will continue to be at work until Monday, which as we all know is exciting! I have tests to study for and presentations to do, oh and papers to write, so yea, my normal exciting life. I did get a new roommate that will be moving in tomorrow. Also, just a little comment for all of those in the cold weather, it was in the 70's today, and this next week is supposed to be super nice, spring has come for St. George and boy is it nice. Bring on the pool!! Spring break is in 2 weeks and I can't stand it, I'm so excited I feel like a kid at Christmas. Well, that's about all I have to say for now, I will try to keep any fun or random thoughts flowing out on my blog so I don't hear people tell me over and over again, "you need to update your blog."

Where have the past 2 months gone....

2009-02-20T23:33:00.000-08:00

So I haven't posted forever....so I'm sitting here at work and so excited to finally be doing it for once. The past 2 months have flown by. All I do is study, I'm not gonna lie. This semester has kept me on my toes. We have 2-3 tests a week and clinicals that keep us nice and busy. I'm normally a pretty organized person, but these days my brain feels extremely scattered from all that I have to get done. So instead of boring you with all of my school fun i'll load some pictures from a couple trips I made to vegas and some time with friends. Beginning of the year my friend Carie came down and we decided to hit vegas for some shopping and a little fun for the day.

So here is our amazing bed, that I will explain a little story about it later, but it was at mandalay bay and the room was awesome!
Carie and I in the hotel lobby!

Trying to take our own picture in the lobby!

Driving to vegas in Mahonna the honda! (that is Carie's car's name)

This is a great picture that Carie so kindly took while I was filling gas. That is my big ol' booty! According to my dear friend Kristin at work she quoted "my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard"

This is when we were going to Ceasars Palace and I found a hottie to take a pic with!

Outside Cheesecake Factory waiting to get some yummy yummy food!

My vanilla bean cheesecake that I now crave everyday of my life, thanks to Daryl.

Getting ready to eat my cheesecake.....and I was kind enough to share it with Carie....I know, I'm nice

This is my other love and what I crave to eat everyday of my life....AVOCADO EGGROLLS! They are my passion and everyone should eat them!! Now i'm hungry! Our room was way cool, but I'm going to move on to pictures of my next Vegas adventure. It was in the middle of the semester when I needed a break from all the studying. Brit, Linds, and I headed down, found a super cheap hotel, shopped and ate at Cheesecake Factory, because, let's be honest, for me it is a must to eat there whenever possible. It turns that all there is to do in St. George is make Vegas trips....ya know, sin city baby! The morning after heading back, doesn't it look like I had a super late night in vegas....like our matching jackets....

All of us at breakfast after a long night of walking, shopping, and eating....don't worry, the best 10 bucks in the world was spent when we decided to take the taxi back to the hotel because our feet were gonna fall off.

You can see linds taking the pic!

Bath and body works had 3 dollar items....and boy do they make good gifts......

More cheesecake for us to share......oh yums.....so good!!!

random fountain at the miracle mile shops in planet hollywood.

Us chillin on the strip and everyone and there dog had "big boy drinks" aka, huge freakin cups of alcohol.....gotta love vegas....pretty sure we were the only sober ones!

Brit and I just lookin' cute!

Here's to vegas baby!!! Who needs alcohol when you got straight H2o!!! On the rocks please. We had a lot of fun and laughed a lot. Some random guy that night that walked by us told me how much he liked my hips and kept getting me to shake them, oh the people we meet!!!

Aren't we all so cute getting ready for a night on the town!

This is one of our sweet beds in our hotel room!
Sorry random pic from my last cali trip, I have a few others but for now this is all that is making it on the blog, me at the palace of fine arts after being lost for an hour (and then soon after that another couple hours of being lost in San Fran)
Me and dylan.....so cute, I stole his hat and wouldn't give it back until he took a pic with me! He's gonna be such a heart breaker!!!

Me and my St. George Family, Linds, Derek, ella, and dylan!

Me and kels when she came down with her cute little family for the weekend!

Kels, Inara, and me at the bowling alley with her cute fam and my cute st. george fam! We bowled and had a good ol time! I love when friends come to visit!

Ok, so these are really the only adventures I've had in the last 2 months. I did take another trip to cali, but will have to write about it later. I'm at work, so I need to do some patient care. If any of you are ever patients in the hospital please don't pee on the floor, the nurses don't really appreciate it and it makes for a long night when all your patients are doing it. Well, all is good with work and school, just busier than busy, but chugging along just doing my thing. I will really try to blog more.....Love ya all!!!!

December (and some) Fun!!!

2009-01-02T00:35:00.000-08:00

Ok, I can't believe that I'm finally sitting down to do some blogging, this is amazing to me, this could be a long one, so all of you should be prepared. First off, finals went great for me. I got a 92% on my comprehensive nursing final and didn't even study, boy was I proud of myself since that will probably never happen again as long as I live. I really just have some pics that I really want to get put up because I love them. So first of all, I just love this picture so I have to post it. i was watching my friends kids over night and we had a little fun with the camera.

These are my adopted niece and nephew Ella and Dylan, and I love Dylans face in this, it makes me crack up everytime I see it, so classic, I just had to post it. This is me and ella sporting our piggy tails that we are so proud of, aren't we so cute.

So now really getting into December up at the Tuacahn theater they have a nativity and santa and lights, so me and some friends went on up to see. Brittany, lindsey and I missed the nativity, but got to sit on santa's lap that made the whole trip well worth the drive.

Lindsey and I in front of the lit up wagon

Brittany and I sportin' our stuff!
And Santa's lap, no worries, we asked him for world peace!

Next we had a little stop at panda express for dinner and Brittany and I were very impressed with the huge panda panted on the wall, if you haven't seen him, you should definitely check him out, he's huge!

Brittany and I made a new friend this day! (PS, brittany please forgive me for my delay in getting these pics up especially since I pressured you to get them to me so speedily, I still love you)!

Another new thing that has occured is that yes, I am domestic and I am so proud of myself.....

Exhibit one(and the only one as a matter of fact), the beanie that I crochetted myself, yes my friends, I did that and you could not even imagine how proud of myself I was to do it. My friend Hailie at work showed me, and I went crazy. It was so much fun so now I can call myself domestic.

Next on the list are my cute friends. We had a friends party at a hotel, which I was so tired for, but it was so good to see my cute little friends who I hardly ever get to see.

Sarah and I taking our own picture in the hotel lobby. Us in front of the fireplace in the lobby. It was snowing out of control up in Salt Lake this night it was crazy!

You can barely see sarah and melissa because of all the snow! This is when we were leaving the restaurant and going to our hotel room.

And Lisa in her beautiful wedding dress! You look beautiful Lisa!

So now, on to christmas! I drove home from the Friday before christmas and spent a bunch of time with my family which was awesome. Christmas eve was fun, we played games, laughed a lot about appropriate and inappropriate things as my family tends to do, Jeneece with razor will be one of my great highlighted memories, feel free to ask anyone who really wants to know, but really, i'm not sure you want to. Christmas morning was great, same as the norm, front room with all the presents and the tree. I got some really good things, gift cards, clothes, jewelry box, new robe, lots of new movies, overall is was great to be with the family!

Chillin with the stockings, don't we look good in the morning!
The tree!

The Loot!!

Me and garrin (I mean lets be honest, this blog is partially dedicated to me showing off my cute nieces and nephews)!

Joe trying to stay warm under garrins tiny blanket and Joe is not the smallest of people.

When you are hungry, your hungry! Isn't he just so adorable!!!!

So Christmas afternoon we all took off. My parents to Alabama (which actually ended up getting delayed until the nexgt day) Me to my vacation in sunny california for five days and Jeneece and joe down to delta to see the in-laws.

So on to my California adventure! It was so great, I got there Christmas night and spend the evening with my adopted family the Evans. We played games and ate lots of food and just enjoyed the day. The next day we hung out with the family again and just chilled. Saturday we went to San Francisco, and It was so awesome. First we went to Alcatraz.

The sea lions down at fishermans wharf, they were super cute!

Me at alcatraz looking at the city, isn't it so beautiful!

Alcatraz, it was pretty awesome to go throught the jail, it was amazing to see, it sure made me never want to go to jail. They even put me in solitary confinement and shut the door, it was very dark and I was a little scared, but I luckily get out in a couple seconds, I couldn't imagine being in there for days!

A view of San Fran from Alcatraz

On the boat on our way to alcatraz.

I got to ride the cable cars around, which actually was a long wait to get on, but it was super fun to ride. We went to cheesecake factory that sits on like the 13th floor of Macey's department store in the middle of downtown San Fran. The wait was forever, but the food was delicious and the view was amazing. Anyone who goes there get the avocado egg rolls, they are to die for!!!

For dessert we went to good old Ghiradelli Square, yummy yummy, I ate good!

Down on fishermans wharf I got to open up my own pearls right out of the oysters and make my own jewelry, I made a beautiful necklace that I don't have a picture of but will try to post one cause it's pretty.

This is me and the lady helping me open up my oysters to get my beautiful pearls. I have one more that I think I want to put in a ring or something. The weather was a little cold, but it was so beautiful. That night we headed down to monterey to hit the aquarium the next day The sea otters were my favorite, they were so freaking adorable! They are so playful and cute!
The views of the bay were so incredible!

The jellyfish exhitbit was so cool to watch. It was a trip to watch them all swimming around.

This is just a quick snap of downtown monterey, it's such a fun, cute little town in the bay. we then went and ate at the monterey fish house which had amazing food, super yummy clam chowder and creme brulee....like i said, i ate good all weekend!
Next was Carmel, and the 17 mile drive around pebble beach, and it was so amazingly beautiful. I have so many pictures, but I'm only posting some, but it was beautiful, the beaches, the waves, and even the cute little city of Carmel was adorable.

Pebble Beach baby!

We were walking on the beach and we set our sandles down and the water came up so high so fast Daryl had to pick me up to keep from getting taken out from the water and his leather sandles got soaked, and the water was not warm just for the record. I love the beach and now want to live in california!
I was so excited when I convince Daryl to take a picture with me since he is anti camera cause I was getting tired of it being only me in all the pictures, we needed a little variety! We stopped at a bunch of the little places and ate yummy, and super expensive, sandwiches at the pebble beach market, it must be were all the pro's eat, i felt pretty cool. The houses there were so huge and unique, it was like driving through a movie set.

Next was Santa Cruz, which I had never been to and fell completely in love with it. I got like 3 shirts there and ate clam chowder on the pier, and it was to die for....LOVE IT!!!
This is my favorite picture from off the pier because of the amazing colors from the sunset in the water, this is my current screen saver on my computer!

Me on the pier at sunset!

The boardwalk, doesn't it just look fun!

The bay!

More of the boardwalk.

The last day in california I just ate good food yet again at BJ's pizza, slept in, shopped a little and hopped on my plane. I didn't want to leave though, it felt like I was leaving a dream and going back to real life, which really is what it was. The flight back was late at night and the dumb airline sent my bag to burbank california, so I had to wait til the next day to drive back up to the airport and get it, it was such a pain, because then I had to turn around and drive right back to St. George to make it back in time for work. But one good thing came out of it, I got to see some friends from my mission at the airport when I went back to get my bag the next day.

Brittany, Ruthann, and mee, and I had nothing that morning to get ready so I was in jammies and whatever I could find to go to the airport in and get my bag. Ruthann was a fellow sister from the mish and Brittany was one of my super cute little converts (on the left).

Ok, so now that I have loaded up on lots of pictures and random details, all is well on the homefront. My next semester starts next tuesday and I'll be doing maternal newborn, pharmacology, peds, and b-med, definitely enough to keep me busy. I may be going to to vegas this weekend with some friends for some fun, but other than that you all have just seen what I have been up to this month. I will try really hard to blog more often so I don't jam it all in at once. HAPPY NEW YEARS to all of you, can you believe it's 2009....what happened to 2008! Love you all!

FYI...

2009-01-01T03:39:00.000-08:00

Ok, not that a ton of you follow my blog but I have a whole bunch of things to blog about and put pictures up, I just haven't yet because I didn't have internet for a while, i was busy with finals, holidays, being on vacation, etc....now I'm at work and just wanting to send a quick shout out to say soon following will be post with a great deal of catch up....sorry for such a wait, I know all of you are so excited....that's all...

Thanksgiving Catch Up

2008-11-28T00:01:00.000-08:00

So, the holidays are here upon us once again as they tend to be every year that goes by. I can't believe the year is coming to an end. 2008 is almost over and I swear it seems like it has just begun. Where has all the time gone. So, in thinking back through the past year my life has changed a lot. The beginning of this year I was at BYU, planning on attending nursing school there and working at the hospital and also in a serious relationship that I had been in for over a year. Now, just a short 10 months later I'm living in St. George going to nursing school here and single (for those of you who didn't know, yes Jeremy and I broke up). Life has thrown a couple curve balls for me this year. It's amazing how much can change in such a short time. One year seems like so little time, yet so much can happen. I haven't updated in a while but not much has happened. For a while my St. George family (the Evans, the house I lived in when I first moved down here) were here over Halloween time. I went to a halloween/birthday party for Lindsey and dressed up as an olympic badmitton player with my friend Daryl. I spent a lot of time with their family while they were here, but worked Halloween night and so I missed all the dressing up. I missed seeing all my cute little nieces and nephews dressed up but enjoyed their cute pictures. Also, about 2 weeks ago I watched Derek and Lindsey's kids (ella and dylan) for 2 days while they went on a cruise. I have some cute pictures of them that I need to post since they are now my adopted niece and nephew, but I'm at work so I will have to post them later when I can hook up my camera. I've mainly just worked and gone to school and studied. Sadly, but truly, I still don't have some super fun social life, but to be honest, I never really have. My hobbies lately are looking at plane tickets all over the place because I feel a very needed vacation, sad isn't it. Life has been pretty stressful down here. The past 2 days have been really rainy and hazy, which seems weird for St. George since the one really good thing I've found down here is that I've still been wearing my shorts and capris and it's almost december, kinda cool, gotta admit. Life always throws curve balls, but eventually they straighten out and all things work out for the best. Today was such a interesting day, since it was Thanksgiving and I was away from my family since I had to work. Derek and Lindsey were kind enough to invite me to spend it with Lindsey's family in Cedar City. The food was delicious, and their family was wonderful and inviting and so kind to have me there, I was very very grateful. I missed my dear family though, especially since I never see any of them being down here.
Even though life has thrown a lot of twists and turns my way I feel that I need to express my gratitude, since it is Thanksgiving and all. I am so grateful for my family, I don't even have words to express my love for each one of them. I miss seeing them so very much. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. I'm so very grateful for the friends I have made down here thus far, cause there are some in particular that have been such a blessing in my life. I'm grateful for the whole Evans family that have helped me feel like I do have family close by, it has helped me so much. I'm grateful for all my friends and I look at their pictures everyday (along with those of my family) and look at the smiles and our faces, and how happiness just radiates from those pictures and savor so many fond and wonderful memories. When life gets rough, I look at how happy I look in those pictures and know it's in me to get through. I have great friends and I love them dearly. I am so very blessed for the gospel in my life. Words cannot express how I feel about the gospel and my Savior and Heavenly Father. Ya know when you just have those days when it seems like everything is crumbling around you....well, since being down here it has seemed to be a more regular theme in my life. Yesterday was one of those glorious days and so I went and read my mission journal, and some talks from the church website and ensign. In my mission journal one of my dear investigators wrote and bore one of the most beautiful testimonies I have ever read and it just reminded me how amazing this gospel is, not just for me, but for so many others. When she wrote it she hadn't even been baptized yet but had felt so much allready that she knew it was true and had an amazing testimony. I read about specific days when it was so hard to serve and have faith to continue on but as I would read on I would see just how much the Savior was helping me out day by day. I'm so grateful for so many of my experiences that I have gone through, it has made me who I am, and is continuing to mold and shape me, which turns out to be a pretty painful experience at times. The Atonement is what I am most grateful for in my life, for the fact that without it I don't know where I would be, or what I would be doing. I have purpose and meaning in my life and I know the church is true and has blessed my life and changed me forever. I think I am very ungrateful at times and just felt that I needed to express my gratitude outloud for some of these specific things since Thanksgiving is all about being thankful, which I really need to be more often. This last sunday it was obviously the main theme and I really knew I needed to be better at it(oh and PS I finally got a calling in my ward, Relief Society teacher, little bit of a change from teaching primary, but I still plan on using lots of candy =-)! I really do have so many amazing and wonderful blessings in my life and I know I need to be more grateful for them, not just on good ol' Turkey Day! I know I could go on and express so many things I'm grateful for, but this post is allready getting a little on the rambling side so I will end it here. I love you all so much and am grateful for you all. I'm so grateful for this time of year and the reminders it brings into my life of how many blessing I've been given. Know I think fo somany of you so often and am grateful for the part you play in my life. I can't believe Christmas is right around the corner. I hope to see as many of you as possible when I finally get to go home in a couple weeks, but until then I will try to post some pictures and keep you updated. Nursing school is a little boring to keep you updated on but I did score a 93% on my last test, so things are going good, just busy!! Well, love you all!

YEA....PICTURES AT LAST....

2008-10-25T19:48:00.000-07:00

I'm so excited that I finally have internet regularly and can now post some pictures. So I will update on the last couple of weeks. First, since I have never been too upbeat about moving to St. George, one thing that I really loved is in the first place I lived down here there was an amazing view of the sunset every night, so here is some pictures, though, it doesn't do it justice, it truly is beautiful.

Ok, so last week was semester break, which was really exciting for me because for some reason BYU never had it and it was a very needed break from work and school. One of the main reasons I went home though was for a wedding for my MTC comp, Alese up in Logan, which I have come to fall in love with.

P.S. Those sunglasses I'm wearing are from my mission and are totally broken and hanging on their last legs so I broke down and went and bought a new pair inbetween the sealing and the luncheon but they are still hanging in my car, I couldn't throw them away, total memorabilla(not sure how to spell that word).

So here I am at the logan temple which looks out over the whole city, it really is one of the most beautiful cities in Utah, I totally fell in love.

Here I am with the happy bride. The sealer was one of the most amazing sealers I have ever heard. He seemed to know exactly what to say that perfectly applied to them. It was such a wonderful ceremony and so full of the spirit.

Next I was lucky to be able to have a little breakfast with the pals! It may look like I had just gotten up, but it was 10 o'clock in the morning and I was still in my PJ's, and I spent the whole rest of the day in my PJ's, It was wonderful since I haven't done that for who knows how long. I love being able to get together with my friends, I miss seeing you girls, I LOVE YOU!!!

We also had a little birthday celebration for my little nephew Trevin. He turned 9 and boy is he getting old way too fast. He got some good gifts, including the cool game battleship.

He didn't want a cake so he got moon pies, which are pretty much huge, glorified oreos, which are pretty yummy. Here we are playing a pretty intense game of battleship which I of course won and then he was teased by the other nieces and nephews that he lost to a girl, poor little guy!!

Here we are having a little cuddle time in the recliner!

Such a kissable, little, bony face!! Isn't he so cute!

Here is little Garrin wanting to help me win Trevin at battleship, not much of helper though!

Hangin with the nieces and nephews is my fav!!

Cuddlin' with little hunt man!

So that was pretty much my week at home, hanging with the fam and seeing friends. I don't have any pictures, but I did go and visit my little friends on the 5th floor and many of them weren't there, but some were and boy do I miss you guys!!! LOVE YOU ALL!!

So, I will have another picture or two of this but this morning I did this thing for the nursing program called "The Flu Shoot Out." I think they do this since so many retired folk live down here. We gather at a huge parking lot and people just pull up and we give them there flu vaccinations in their cars, they don't even have to get out, roadside service. It was pretty fun. I did it out in Hurricane, which until this morning I had never had the privilege of visiting that cute little town. So here are a couple of us holding our syringes ready to shoot!! =-) It was kind of weird to finally be doing something nurses really do, even though it's just giving shots it was almost like it made me realize that I'm moving down the path and even getting somewhere doing it! Oh it makes me so happy to be able to post pictures again, I felt like my blog was getting so boring. Not that it's the most exciting thing ever, but I always enjoy pictures. I am finally settled in my apartment, bed, dresser, bookcase, and all(thanks to my daddy, he's the best). It's a great feeling. Next post I'll try to get a picture of my cute room and apartment for you all to see. Just so all my friends and fam know I spent hours updating all my picture frames and pictures in my room today since all my pics are like 5 years or more outdated. Now all my pictures are mainly from the past year. I'm keeping busy with school and work. We pretty much have a test every week for nursing which means constant studying that makes my head want to explode sometimes. I've had some ups and downs in the past couple weeks that have been pretty trying, but overall I'm chugging along and doing well. I miss you all so much and am excited to keep posting!!! Love you all!

Late night update...

2008-10-10T00:13:00.000-07:00

So it turns out the time for me to update on my blog seems to be at night, when I'm at work, and when I'm feeling like I'm about to fall asleep. I don't have much to update on, but I am in an apartment. It took weeks but I finally found one that was atleast close to my price range. I moved in last weekend. I have 2 roomates. One of them is in the nursing program with me and the other is in the dental hygiene program. We all have busy schedules and are always studying or working so we actually seem to see each other very seldom. They are super nice girls. I will be in this apartment until my family gets their condo situation worked out. It took weeks and weeks but things finally have worked out for my living arrangements. I still don't have my dresser yet so I'm living out of a couple of different bags. The closet isn't too big so it got filled pretty quick. I should be getting my dresser on saturday and once I get it organized I will take some pictures of my cute and typical college room for you all to see. Nothing exciting, but hey, it will get some more pictures on my blog.
So my momma is down this weekend playing softball in the senior world games. I went to their first game today and they are rockin!! Their team name is baby boomers and they are so great to watch. I will hopefully be able to make it to a couple of their games tomorrow.
School is going well. I scored the highest in the class on the cardiovascular test a week ago, I was so proud of myself. So far I have been doing really well and getting A's on my tests and quizzes. I gave a shot for the first time today and I was a little scared. I was so shakey at first, but luckily my lab partner wasn't scared and told me she trusted me completely....atleast one of us did. After I did it though, it seemed like no big deal. We were even lucky enough to give each other shots in the butt....I still have my little circle band-aid on. =-) I tried to find a picture of some syringes and post them but I'm still a little blogging retarded so I don't know how to get the random pictures of things off the internet, so any of you blogging experts, and many of my wonderful friends out there are, please feel free to give me tips on how to get pics from the internet onto my blog.
Ok, well, that's enough random updates for all of you. Once I get my room settled and organized I will post some pictures of it. So sorry that my blog has been so boring lately!! GO BABY BOOMERS( that ones for my momma, the rockin softball player)!!!!!

Not sure what to say...

2008-09-24T19:29:00.000-07:00

So, I haven't blogged for a couple weeks. I have limited internet access and have been bombarded with studying. My family came down last weekend and we all went and saw Les Miserables at the Tuacahn theater and it was pretty well done, I liked it a great deal. It was good to have family around, I realized how much I miss just having them so close, it is just a comfort. My sister and I (also dragging Jeremy along) to Las Vegas to go shopping for the morning. We found some great deals and I bought more than I should have.

St. George is still the same old St. George. I'm getting to know people in my ward and the people in my nursing class a little bit better. This last week has thrown a number of struggles my way, one after another. It feels like anything bad that could happen is happening. I've come to realize how hard it is to deal with these kinds of things when you have no close friends or family near by. It is definitely trying me and because there is always something to learn from everything we go through I know I must be getting a great deal of something out of it all. I feel very lonely and I think I say a prayer in my head every couple minutes, which I'm pretty sure it's what is keeping me afloat. All will work out in the end, things always do. Sorry for probably the most boring post I have ever posted but I just wanted anyone reading to know that I'm alive and kicking and thinking of many of you. I will try to post more and things that are more interesting.

Heat and Politics!

2008-09-10T23:49:00.000-07:00

So, since I don't blog as often as I would like to, I'm combining two blogs into one. Yet again, I'm here at work trying to stay awake. It's getting a little better but my body is still not happy with this whole staying up all night thing. So first off, my brother-in-law and sister sent me this great email about moving to St. George that made me laugh that I felt it needed to be posted so you could all understand my pain. Excuse the couple little swear words....enjoy it, I sure did!

Subject: Moving to St. George...?
May 30th: Just moved to St. George. Now this is a town that knows how to live!! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. What a place! It is beautiful. I've finally found my home. I love it here.
June 14th: Really heating up. Got to 100 today. Not a problem. Live in an air-conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned car. What a pleasure to see the sun everyday like this. I'm turning into a sun worshiper.
June 30th: Had the backyard landscaped with western plants today. Lots of cactus and rocks. What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing the lawn for me. Another scorcher today, but I love it here.
July 10th: The temperature hasn't been below 100 all week. How do people get used to this kind of heat? At least it's kind of windy though. However, getting used to the heat is taking longer than I expected.
July 15th: Fell asleep by the community pool. (Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body). What a dumb thing to do. I learned my lesson though. Got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.
July 20th: I missed Lomita (my cat) sneaking into the car when I left this morning. By the time I got to the hot car at noon, Lomita had died and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag and stank up the upholstery. The car now smells like baked cat. I learned my lesson though. No more pets in this heat.
July 25th: The wind sucks. It feels like a giant freaking blow dryer!! And it's hot as hell. The home air-conditioner is on the fritz and the AC repairman charged $200 just to drive by and tell me he needed to order parts. I'm gonna kill the next guy that says; but it's a dry heat! Yeah, so's a freakin' oven!
July 30th: Been sleeping outside on the patio for 3 nights now. $425,000 house and I can't even go inside. Why did I ever come here?
Aug. 4th: It's 115 degrees. Finally got the air-conditioner fixed today. It cost $500 and gets the temperature all the way down to 85. I hate this stupid town.
Aug. 8th: If another wise person cracks, 'Hot enough for you today?'I'm going to strangle him. Damn heat. By the time I get to work the radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like baked cat!!
Aug. 9th: Tried to run some errands after work. Wore shorts, and when I sat on the seats in the car, I thought my butt was on fire. I lost 2 layers of flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs. Now my car smells like burnt hair and baked cat.
Aug 10th:The weather report might as well be a darn recording. Hot and sunny Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. It's been too hot to do much for 2 months and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week. Doesn't it ever rain in this damn desert? Water rationing will be next, so my $1700 worth of cactus will just dry up and blow over. Even the cactus can't live in this heat.
Aug. 14th: Welcome to HELL! Temperature got to 115 today. Forgot to crack the window and blew the windshield out of the car. The installer came to fix it and said, Hot enough for you today? My sister had to spend $1500 to bail me out

My sister informed me that they only have enough to bail me out of jail once so I need to make it count when I do it. Everyon says that fall here is great, and my same question to them over and over again is when in the heck will fall come cause it's still hitting the 100's. When I read this I was laughing so hard I was almost crying cause it just seemed so true.

Next, right along with heat is politics. Things sure are heating up when it comes to politics these days. As elections get closer and closer people get more up in arms about the elections. I have come to find myself a little fiesty about the whole thing. I'm not trying to turn this into some political blog. I strongly feel that everyone has their own right to believe what they may and vote for who they want, including myself. I feel very strongly about some things and worry for the future of America at times when I see what we have in the political group. A friend of mine sent these comparisons to me and I found it interesting to be able to see them laid out before my eyes. I just hope that people are voting for the right reasons. Be informed and know who you are voting for and what they are really going to do for America. Vote responsibly (ya know like drink responsibly, know what you are doing before you do it....do I sound like a parent...?) I know that not all politicians will do all that they say they will, but atleast be informed. I'm not even totally informed. I admit myself that I don't know a lot and probably am missing lots of pieces of each situation.

2008 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE COMPARISON TALKING POINTS ISSUE

JOHN McCAIN BARACK OBAMA
Favors new drilling offshore US? Yes No (first answer McCain second answer Obama)
Will appoint judges who interpret the law not make it Yes No
Served in the US Armed Forces Yes No
Amount of time served in the US Senate 22 YEARS 173 DAYS
Will institute a socialized national health care plan No Yes
Supports abortion throughout the pregnancy No Yes
Would pull troops out of Iraq immediately No Yes
Supports gun ownership rights Yes No
Supports homosexual marriage No Yes
Proposed programs will mean a huge tax increase No Yes
Voted against making English the official language No Yes
Voted to give Social Security benefits to illegals No Yes
CAPITAL GAINS TAX

MCCAIN-0% on home sales up to $500,000 per home (couples). McCain does not propose any change in existing home sales income tax.
OBAMA-28% on profit from ALL home sales. (How does this affect you? If you sell your home and make a profit, you will pay 28% of your gain on taxes. If you are heading toward retirement and would like to down-size your home or move into a retirement community, 28% of the money you make from your home will go to taxes. This proposal will adversely affect the elderly who are counting on the income from their homes as part of their retirement income.)
DIVIDEND TAX

MCCAIN-15% (no change)
OBAMA-39.6% - (How will this affect you? If you have any money invested in stock market, IRA, mutual funds, college funds, life insurance, retirement accounts, or anything that pays or reinvests dividends, you will now be paying nearly 40% of the money earned on taxes if Obama becomes president. The experts predict that 'Higher tax rates on dividends and capital gains would crash the stock market, yet do absolutely nothing to cut the deficit.')
INCOME TAX

MCCAIN -(no changes)Single making 30K - tax $4,500 Single making 50K - tax $12,500 Single making 75K - tax $18,750 Married making 60K- tax $9,000 Married making 75K - tax $18,750 Married making 125K - tax $31,250
OBAMA -(reversion to pre-Bush tax cuts)Single making 30K - tax $8,400 Single making 50K - tax $14,000 Single making 75K - tax $23,250 Married making 60K - tax $16,800 Married making 75K - tax $21,000 Married making 125K - tax $38,750 Under Obama, your taxes could almost double!
INHERITANCE TAX

MCCAIN- 0% (No change, Bush repealed this tax)
OBAMA-Restore the inheritance tax Many families have lost businesses, farms, ranches, and homes that have been in their families for generations because they could not afford the inheritance tax. Those willing their assets to loved ones will only lose them to these taxes.

NEW TAXES PROPOSED BY OBAMA New government taxes proposed on homes that are more than 2400 square feet. New gasoline taxes (as if gas weren't high enough already) New taxes on natural resources consumption (heating gas, water, electricity) New taxes on retirement accounts, and last but not least....New taxes to pay for socialized medicine so we can receive the same level of medical care as other third-world countries!!!

You can verify the above at the following web sites:
http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/election/2008/index.html http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/issues/issues.taxes.html
http: //elections.foxnews.com/?s=proposed+taxes http://bulletin.aarp.org/yourworld/politics/articles/mccain_obama_offer_different_visions_on_taxes.html
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/candidates/barack_obama/ http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/candidates/john_mccain/

So I know there are so many political issues and as you can all tell I'm not a huge fan of Obama, and honestly never have been. A poll was taken when President Clinton was elected with women of why they voted for him and 40% of women voted for him because they thought he was good looking.....come on now, seriously! So I've been getting a little worried with all of Obama's "it's time for a change" that people aren't looking deeper at what he plans to do and people just want all these changes he keeps talking about. And seriously, look at the time spent in politics, that really worries me. Well, enough of my ranting. I love all of you no matter what you vote so I hope no one gets all mad about it, I just felt with elections coming up it's important to know what's going on.

As an update, I haven't seen as many of my pets around lately. My black widow spider has been hiding away lately and I've killed the ants off with some very powerful Raid! It's obviously still too hot down here for my likings. School is going ok, I passed my first test with an A. I start clincals and labs in just a couple weeks. Well, I better sign off for now! I will post as often as I can and when I can think of fun things to post.

Staying awake....

2008-09-03T01:15:00.000-07:00

So here I sit at work, my second night shift and all I can do is think, "stay awake, stay awake, stay awake!" My body is so not happy with this night thing. I'm such a light weight that by 10 I'm tired and ready for bed. So here I sit at 2:15 and my stomach hurts, my muscles ache, and my eyes just want to close. All I can think about is my nice comfortable bed waiting for me to pounce in 4 more hours. I know that my body will adjust to it a little bit better, well I hope atleast. Some nurses are really encouraging and tell me that I never will adjust and will just be miserable....that just gives me that warm fuzzies....I mean come on, you can lie a little here and there in these kinds of situations. A little fake optimism doesn't hurt anyone. It's a super slow night, all my homework is done, which I'm coming to find as one of my favorite things about nights (so far that being the only one)! It's amazing the fantasies you can have just about sleeping, who would have thought til you are forced to stay up all night. So tonight I have had many political conversations with patients. It's amazing as elections get nearer how riled up people get, myself included. I watched Obamas acceptance speech, and don't get me started on that. If any of you are curious of my views, contact me personally cause it could be a while. It's funny how the older patients get so fiesty about it. It made for some good nightly conversations this evening.

Well, overall, all is well down in the desert. It's still to stinking hot to stand. I do have a couple pets in my temporary home to keep me company. One is a black widow on my front porch, which terrifies me to no end. Then the lizards that are all over that cause me to have a heart attack everytime I walk out the door because all I hear is a scamper in the bushes and think it's someone jumping out to attack me. Then I have the friendly ant infestation in the kitchen, which raid has helped to eliminate. And finally, the friendly cocharoaches that hang out on my front porch as a welcoming commitee when I come home, ore leave, isn't it so sweet? So many wonderful pets for me to enjoy. I and thought I would want a dog.....

School is going well. Not to chaotic....yet! Once labs and clincals all hit at once my brain will be very tired. For now, it's just a little here and there. I know this is a random blog with random thoughts, but thats what you get when I'm trying to stay awake. Any helpful hints for pulling nights from you experienced folk would be helpful. Sorry no pics again. I haven't taken much since I've been down here but the sunsets are beautiful from the view of my backyard. I'll have to post some of that. Well, babbling has helped slightly to keep me awake and the false code blue that was just called gave me a little jolt of adrenaline. I'm signing off for now, excuse any bad grammar or miss spellings, I can't think very straight and my brain function is on the lower end.

Will I really survive this?!?!?

2008-08-25T16:19:00.000-07:00

Ok, so this is going to just be a short little blog, with no pictures...I know, not as fun. Well I've made it down here to the desert and am pretty much settled in, not fully, but close enough to survive. I came down Saturday and spent the weekend unpacking and taking it easy. Today (Monday) was a long day and wish allready the semester were over....just 17 weeks to go....wahoo! So I've decided they think they need to lay the most on you your first semester to see if you can survive it....seriously, I wanted to poke my eyes out after orientation meeting. I sat there thinking the whole time, "is this really possible to fit all of this in in one semester while working....I'm never going to get sleep..." I had all the usual thoughts of why am I doing this....can I quit now.....what was I thinking.....!! I came home, had a little cry, said a little prayer and thought, don't know how, but this is all going to work out. Soon after work called and added another thing for me to add to my virtually unbendable school schedule. I decided the nursing program wants to make it seem as hard as they possibly can. Also, get this, we are split into different groups for labs and clincals....so some people have 2 weeks to get all their labs done to start clinicals, pretty hefty and they have to read 129 pages from their texts by tonight.....I know...seriously, I'm glad I'm not in that group. The girl sitting next to me this whole time unfortunately was in that group and I gave her a great deal of sympathy. She was super nice and is my first official friend that I have made down here, YEA for me!!! We'll I really have so much to do it's ridiculous, I feel like I can't even think of it all.....my head hurts....well, all of you please keep me in your prayers, because boy do I need it right now. It's so weird to also be living alone, i'm not sure what to think about it all yet, but it seems like I won't even have a chance to think about it. I must go, but I'm here, safe and sound and kickin.....kind of....love you all!

A couple goodbyes.....

2008-08-22T11:44:00.000-07:00

Ok, so I totally need to apologize for putting so many new posts up at one time. I haven't had a lot of time, and now I'm running out of time so I trying to catch up before I leave, which happens to be tomorrow. For those of you wondering, I have a temporary place to live, but am still up in the air for the second half of the semester, though I know something will work out. Heavenly Father always takes care of me. Once I get down there I won't have as much access to the internet so I'm trying to get in as much as I can now before I'm down there. So here are some last pics of my friends and family right before I leave.

My friend Stephanie came in town from Oregon to do a play that she is in about Nephi. We all met for lunch so here we are at the Pizza Factory. On the left is Stephani with little Sage, then me holding Inara(hope I spelled that right), Kelsey's newest addition. Then Kels, and Sarah with little Michael. Aren't my friends so beautiful, they are the best in the world, I love you guys!!

That night I went to my sisters house and she made some delicious taco soup, one of my favorite meals, and boy was it good. This is my cute little nephew, Garrin, just out of the tub. He's in his

sweet cow towel. You need to blow this picture up because lets be honest, he is so freaking adorable I just want to hug the picture. He just turned a year old this month. Oh he's so cute!!

Again, isn't he just so cute, just look at him!!
A little close up of us!
Oh, I just want to squeeze him to death.......

Me and my sista....isn't she so cute!!!

Us with Trevin and Jess!
The girls, Neece, momma, and me!

Throwing the Marshall, and Western gang signs, we so thug.....
Joe, Neece, and Me!!

Well, this will be the last post from good old Orem. I will try really hard to post regularly while I'm down there. Everyone please stay in touch! I will be up regularly. Sorry so many pics lately, I just had a lot of people I wanted to get on my post. I love you all so dearly....make comments, email me, call, any of the above. Yea, for a new adventure.....St. George, here I come!!

Hiking!

2008-08-22T11:20:00.000-07:00

I love the outdoors!!! Jeremy, Emily, Brannick, and myself decided to take a backpacking trip up to the high uintas, and boy was it beautiful. We of course all looked great, so here are some of the pictures of our fun overnight trip.

Emily and Brannick
All of us ready to head out! My pack is monstrous, I took Emily out with it atleast once, the first little bit of walking Emily and Brannick kept laughing at how big my pack was....it just shows how tough I am....right...?

Emily and I allready for our hike, Emily is all ready for the sun with her hiking hat!
Ok, so this picture will forever make me laugh. On the way up Brannick was talking about his nice fishing poles and Jeremy was saying he's to scared to bring his nice ones up here in case they were to break. Emily was out for a nice fish, had a nice cast and noticed, wait, something is wrong here....she started reeling in her pole and noticed whole top of the pole had flown off into the lake. Her face was priceless, she felt so horrible, but I couldn't stop laughing. So here she is with half a pole.

Emily with her blinding head lamp and roasting marshmallows, a must when camping!
I was freezing cold, so I went for the old stylish sock and sandal look!

Here we are eating the brook trout and cutthroat they caught for breakfast, it was sooooo delicious!!!

Here we are heading back out of the mountains the next day!
Jeremy and I in front of Weir Lake.

Emily posing in front of Weir Lake.
Emily and Brannick!
Jeremy and Brannick.
Emily and I!
This is a view of one of the first lakes we went by, Long Lake. It was so beautiful up there, it's just amazing to see it. We passed a whole bunch of different lakes and we also lost the trail and did a little off roading if you will. Brannick was determined to go swimming, but none of us were willing to get in. Overall, this was a great trip. I was sick all night and most of the morning though unfortunately, I threw up and felt like death had come over me. By the time we hiked back out though I had gotten it out of my system. It was a good trip, and loved the beauty of it and the feel of being in the outdoors.

My last day at work, THE GREEN TEAM!!

2008-08-21T09:36:00.000-07:00

So my last day at work we organized a little "Green Gang" if you will. As you can see we have a sign and all, so don't mess with us. Everyone seemed to notice all day just how many of us were in green scrubs. It was connecting time for all of us. Some of us couldn't keep a "thug" kind of face.

A couple days before we had a little hot dog party at Cory, the best pharmacist ever, house. Someone brought some baked beans that were beyond delicious and I think Amy and I ate the whole pot, it not all, close to.....

For those of you who haven't noticed the newest trend, Amy is sporting it here, the tucking of her scrub pants into her croc, only the cool people do it.

My last day was a blast, we had cake, and fun for all. I'll just post some of my fav pics with my fav people!!!

Me and Amy!!
Me and Angel! Emily, Jamie, and Chelsey getting excited for my cake!
Me and my cake!
Chelsey was very excited to lick the knife!

Good shot, I was hungry!
RICKY BOBBY!
My cake cut up and being enjoyed!
Most of you allready know who this is, LINDY!!

Just a little note, my camera was taken and used without my knowledge of what was being done with it, these next pictures may be a little gross for some of you, but please know that no one was hurt or really drinking what you think they may be drinking.....

I'm not going to lie, I'm not even sure what to write for these.....

My peeps at work, throwing the gang signs and supposedly working inbetween it all!
Me and Melissa!!
Me and Cory!
Me and Jamie Ann Young!!

How cute all my little cute friends are! Well, my last day was sad! I will mainly miss all the people that I got to work with, but no worries, I'm coming back! You all rock and will miss the fun times, and even some of the not so fun times! All I have to say though is when the Green Gang is in town, don't mess!!! Love you all! Thanks for a great last day!

Catch up time...

2008-08-21T09:21:00.001-07:00

Ok, so I haven't written for some time, my bad!! So I will get some pics and update you all on what's going on with me. First of all I have seen a bunch of people lately. I've tried to get caught up with as many friends and family as possible.

So Here are some of my mission pals! On top we have Alese and myself and then next is Linds and me. Alese is getting married....HURRAY, and Linds is heading off to South America for a new adventure.

Next was another get together with some of all my high school friends. We decided one last get together before we all separate more than we allready are. Here are some pics of my favorite people.

Here are only some of my cute little friends!!

Kelsey's little girl was not all about getting her picture taken, obviously!

Still not excited about it, and for some reason Kels is sticking out her tongue, not sure if it's on purpose or not!
Here they are again!

Us trying to take our own pic, it's the only way to do it! Me and sarah!

These are some of my last little get togethers! My friends are the best and I will miss being so close to them it makes me so sad to leave! We've been friends forever so I know I'll still see them all the time!!! Well, time for my next post!!!

My summer.....to this point...

2008-07-30T17:58:00.001-07:00

Ok, so this summer has been full of family time and work mainly! The family time was the best. It was the first time since being home from my mission that I really have had some real family time (except we were missing my one brother Adam, if you're reading this I love you and miss you and am praying for you in Iraq). So Really, what it comes down to is that fact that I have TONS of pictures and I want to show them off. I mainly have pics of my beautiful nieces and nephews! We started off going to visity my great grandmother who is 99 years old and she has lead an amazing life. She is such a special and wonderful women who has lead a long and beautiful life. Next, we headed to St. George for another brief stop, where I must add was hotter than crap, 110 degrees! I thought I was going to melt! I have to post this just for my cute little niece, but she was insistant on us wearing matching camo shorts!!

Isn't she just the cutest,(or one of the cutest, I have other nieces and nephews just as adorable) thing in the world!!!
Here in St. George my nephew was baptized before we headed out to Disneyland. I know I allready posted about Disneyland, but boy do I love it and it truly is one of the greatest places in the world!!! I was so tired and exhausted, but ready to keep going! And boy do I love the chocolate covered bananas! It was so sad to leave! (Neece, for some reason I don't really have any pics of you and your fam.....no good!) Also along with this trip was beach and a brief stop in vegas on the way back home! We kept ourselves very very busy the whole time!! If any of you have the chance, hit the shark aquarium at the Mandalay Bay in vegas, it was awesome, little pricey (but what isn't these days), but good!

Next we had a little break until My brother and his family came back through. This next time though we just spend doing family things and celebrating birthdays for nieces. One of my nieces, Hawley had a birthday that seemed to last for days since we kept doing things for her, but boy was it fun. We played a little family game of kickball that was a total blast! I haven't playedthat since elementary school and it was awesome.
It was hotter than crap, but so fun for all!! For those of you, (especially my family) if you look close at this pic you know exactly what I am doing!

We also went to a fun little place called Jump On It! Awesome for kids, exhausting for adults. It's just a building of tramps all put together. I never realized how hard it is to keep breathing and jumping. I was done after about 5 minutes, yet my little nieces and nephews went for a straight hour and were ready for more. My brother and I thought we were going to die by the end. I even got injured. While playing a wicked game of freeze tag my toe got caught on a spring and almost ripped it off.

At that point, I was done! Sorry, no pic of that, wouldn't want to gross anyone out!! It turns out little kids fly across these tramps like mesquitos on water. Yet, my brother and I lob from tramp to tramp because we weigh so much more. It was pretty funny to watch the difference.

We also took a nice drive up the canyon by the blazing fire at bridal veil, which let me add a quick annoyance......people who play with fire and start forest fires.....I just want to say, really, how retarded are you?!?!!? get some sense and grow up!! Anyways, enough of that. We went and got super yummy shakes at Granny's drive in up in Heber.

We also enjoyed a lot of pool fun! A good way to keep cool and keep the kids entertained enough to give you some peace for a little bit!

You always need to have a little bit of chicken fighting! We hit the pool a couple of times!!!

Our last day was a BLAST!!!! We spent it up at the Park City Ski Resort. We went down the Alpine Slide and rode the Coaster, which was sooooo awesome! The coaster is just a mini roller coaster in the mountains on a little sled, so fun! We ended the day taking lots of fun pictures with all of us. You'll notice the BYU apparel, (which my sister-in-law and I tend to match, flip flops, shirts, pants.....we have good taste) which we bought earlier that day at the pricey BYU bookstore. I have so many pictures that I wanted to post that I didn't even know which ones to choose. I have so many more and so many other things that we did! We did eat a lot and not very healthy so I think all of us packed on a few extra pounds. Well, I better close now that I posted all these great pics! Enjoy them, sorry they aren't better labeled. I just had so many I wanted up I didn't know where to start! The summer is flying by way to fast and it is almost over which makes me soooo sad. I feel like I have had a great summer with my family. So many other things have happened that I really wouldn't know where to start. I still have a couple weeks left, but it will be full of preparation for moving. Though, this summer will be one to remember!! And a little P.S. I'm still working on this whole blog thing, so sorry if it isn't very creative or organized, I'm still figuring all of it out! To all my family, I love you all so much and wish we were closer more often! Know that I'm thinking about all of you daily and love you soooo much!!!!!!

Hungry and Homeless

2008-07-21T18:55:00.000-07:00

Ok, so for those at work, many will be familar with these pictures. Emily and I had a little down time at work one day and were talking about my lack of finances as I'm preparing to move. As we all have seen at the gas stations there are the little jars with sad little faces on it and a paragraph explaining the sad lives of these individuals. We decided that yes my life is sad enough and we took some pictures to try and help me so that when I left for nursing school I wouldn't be "hungry and homeless." These pictures brought a number of laughs, as was meant to occur. We took a plastic cup and pasted these beautiful pictures on it along with a paragraph describing my sad situation and my need for funds so that my face will not be seen at the homeless shelter. It started something like this..."Say 'YES' to Andra, and you can transform her life!" I felt it deserved atleast a brief post since I'm so willing to let others see such beautiful pictures of myself. It made for a good laugh and collection cup of random and useless items. For those of you truly concerned I am still looking for a place to live and have not come upon one yet. Feel free to send a pray my way. I need all the help I can get. Here are a couple more for entertainment purposes. A shout out to Emily as the photographer and also in the creation of such an entertaining cup. Don't I look as pathetic as I could possible get. Just looking at them gives me a bit of a giggle.

New Babies....and my fear of motherhood....

2008-07-21T18:30:00.000-07:00

Ok, so I love newborn babies, they are just so precious and so incredibly beautiful it is amazing to see them. One of my bestest friends just had her second baby and see she is soooo beautiful. Isn't it amazing to just think how innocent these little things are. So I have to come realize from all my friends having babies what it is that I am really scared of. I know having a little baby will be soooo hard, and little kids also will test my patients as much as humanly possible. What I have come to realize is that there are two main things that I'm scared of when I think of becoming a mom. First of all, giving labor. I have had nightmares about this and boy does it scared me to go through labor itself. Next, having teenagers. I know this sounds so weird but I'm not terrified of them being babies or little kids but I when they grow up and they keep you up worrying all night about where they are, they get rebellious, and they can get themselves into real trouble. I think of myself as a teenager and get terrified. I know for most this may be true, but boy does it scare me. Can't I just keep them until that age and them give them back? I know I will adore them by then but this is definitely the age range that scares me the most. I just hope that I can be a good mom. Anyways, back to what is important....Isn't Kelsey's little fam sooooo cute!!!

It's so great to me to see my friends having babies and seeing there sweet little families grow. One day my blog will be about a family of my own. Until then others babies will be posted from time to time.

I love you Kels!! You are a beautiful mom! To all my other friends and family who are moms or are going to be, I love you all and know that all of you are amazing and beautiful women and the worlds best moms. I love you all so much and look up to each and everyone of you for different and specific reasons. Keep up the good work!!

Go Green.....Ali's last day...

2008-07-18T07:20:00.000-07:00

I'm starting my morning off with a post. It's so sad when someone has to leave. Dear little Ali at work is moving away so we had a fun little pizza party and also a little photo shoot to keep us entertained all the day long. Here is a picture of me and my blogger heroes. All along they supported me and told me to make a blog and over and over again I denied, then one day, bam! It was the day! I love this pic because Ali is so much taller that she has to lean her head over so far it might fall off. . Work friends are great!

Next we have Ali and I prepared for the worst! MRSA, here we come, no messing with us!

You've got to love that personal protective equiptment! It also so happened to be a day of green. On some random days it so happens that many of the same employees will all wear the same color scrubs. Today was Green Day!! Go Green! So many of us wore green that we decided it was picture time.

Our little friend Rojas is running a little late, so this picture is just of all us hot looking ladies in our hospital green scrubs!!!

Here we all are.....The green team! Such a fun crew! I love my work and my coworkers. They are all so wonderful and Ali leaving made me realize how sad I am to leave such wonderful people. Here are just a couple close up's taken for pure entertainment.

A little close up fun for all! Emily has the greatest grin ever! Check out those pearly whites! Well, I love my work and all those I work with! Ali best of luck and we must stay in touch! Thanks for helping me to understand the blogging world, I will need much more help as I continue down this road! And remember as shown in the above pictures, our dear wall at work, "Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart!" Don't forget us!! P.S. One day Ali, you will see Pedro appear, just for your viewing pleasure! =-)

Disneyland....The happiest place on earth!

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Ok, So I need to do a little ode to my family. We just took a family vacation in June and went to Disneyland and it turns out Cinderellas castle there is so much smaller than I remember it being, yet it was still so magical. You really just have to love being there. You are so tired, wasted, sore, etc...all the time and yet you keep going and going and going. I love my family and I love being with them. Just look how happy my cute little nieces and nephews are, it truly is the happiest little place on earth. It seems like you walk a hundred miles, spend a ridiculous amount of money on food, and yet, it's just a world of it's own and you feel happy just being there, how do you not love this place. So to my family, thank you, I love you all and hope we have more wonderful family adventures.

Lots of loved ones!!

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Bitter Sweet.....

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So for quite a while I always said I will never be a blogger! Over and over I said it, but here I am beginning my own personal blog. I have always thought what do I have to talk about on a blog, so I guess I'll find out. Please don't expect anything too entertaining. As you can see my title is even very "original" if you will. So any thoughts on a witty title would be greatly appreciated. Well, in a month I will be moving down south to the desert, St. George, Utah. I'm excited for the fact I got into nursing school and will be moving forward with my schooling, but sad that I am leaving so many family, friends, loved ones, such as my dear boyfriend Jeremy, and lets be honest my free rent. It's gonna be a killer. So I'm working on getting housing and things going soon so that I do have somewhere to live in a month. Hence the bitter sweet. It will be a new adventure and hopefully it will be exciting enough to have things to post about. So it turns out I don't have any pictures of just myself so I will start by posting a few with other wonderful people in my life. Well, this is just a starter post, I am now an official "blogger."