Catching Up!

Hey world! I decided I would catch up on some recent events over the past few weeks. Finals week was the most hectic week of our lives--To say the least-we survived! I passed all my classes, graduated with My Bachelor's of Nursing on December 11, 2009, and recently scheduled my NCLEX (which I'm taking next month!) I can't believe two years has come and gone. I learned so much about myself and never thought I'd make it to the end, but I did! Graduating from Nursing school is probably my biggest accomplishment yet!!! This program was INTENSE! Overall it was a great experience and has given me perspective on a lot of things in the nursing world. For example- going through my clinical experiences I know WHERE I'd like to work, and being assigned to various nurses I've seen the "GOOD, BAD & UGLY." After observing and interacting with certain nurses I just KNOW what kind of NURSE I will and want to be.
I'm extremely excited to get out there to help take care of others, gain experience, and have my DREAM JOB! THANKS to my lovely family, friends, and fellow nursing students!! I absolutely could NOT have done this without any of you!!
Here are some pictures of our latest adventures since school got out! We've had a good time with all of our friends (we're gonna miss you Jorg & Kara!!!) SO excited for CHRISTMAS in 2 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!



We went down to Vegas with our good friends Jorg & Karalee to watch BYU play in the Las Vegas Bowl! We stayed at the Monte Carlo. It was SO FUN!! The Changing of the Seasons at the Bellagio was the COOLEST thing ever!! These pictures dont do justice because you can't really see the fine detail! That polar bear is made up of REAL white carnations! And the Reindeer was made of Pecans--pretty neat!

The game was FREEZING!!!!!!!!!!

**Grateful**

As my last week of classes are wrapping up (for good!) I think I've finally realized that I'm "growing up and about to enter the REAL WORLD!!" Somewhere between getting married, about to graduate from school, applying for jobs, purchasing life insurance, and all that good stuff I guess. In all of this though our lives are ridiculously BUSY, and we feel like we're always on the go, go, GO! I had some time today to think about what means most to me in my life, and I'm SO grateful for LIFE-- It's great. It's spontaneous. It's stressful. It's worth living for!!

Without a doubt, I'm GRATEFUL for the gospel

and for these men! I LOVE them!

I LOVE this man more than anything! He is my world!!

I am lucky for the sweet, loving, kind, fun, person he is...&

of course HANDSOME!! : ) He makes me WANT to be BETTER.

He is there for me in anything that I do!

He's my best friend and I'm so thankful for the time we

get to spend together!

I had to post this pic because it reminds me of

the goofy, adorable, funny guy I married!

I don't know what I'd do without TEMPLES. When I see one..

it makes me SMILE! This is probably one of our

FAVORITE things to do for date

night!! I'm thankful for my returned missionary--

He's taught me so much about the gospel-

a lot of which has been shared here!

FAMILY--There is nothing better than being

able to be with the ones you LOVE

the most!! I am truly grateful for the friends I have.

They all are very special

to me and I'd do anything for them!

I had to post this because we love UTAH!!

When we flew to Washington and

back in to Utah...all I could think is how much

I LOVE this place! We hope

we can live here FOREVER haha.

Finally, I'm thankful for HAPPINESS!!

I think this is somethingthat everyone looks for!

My life is happy!

Everything I just posted makes me happy.

{Phoenix}

My nursing class went to Phoenix for the NATIONAL STUDENT NURSE ASSOCIATION convention. We went to a NCLEX-RN review course, attended some workshops, and went to a career exhibit! It was a fun trip! The HIGHLIGHT of my trip was the PHOENIX SUNS game!!

Jenna, Janette, & Sam

Having a little fun shopping!

SUU Nursing Class 2009 (minus a few)

Phoenix Suns Baby!! I was so freakin excited!

Suns are my fav!!

"Thriller" performed. I'm dying to see the whole thing now!

Downtown Phoenix

**Halloween**

We had a Halloween party with some of our good friends!! It was one of the BEST times ever!! I love all these guys so much and anytime we're together there's never a dull moment! We ate pizza, had homemade rootbeer, carved pumpkins, and played games!

Del & Kenzie...........Bode & Taryn.........Scott & Jimmy

I apparently don't know how to carve pumpkins!

I cut out the wrong piece of the paper! haha

We went up to the BYU game. Sadly,

it was the WORST, most disappointing

game!! I had to post these pics because the last game

we went to was Florida State

(which they lost too, and I was too mad to post anything!)

But I decided to post these ones,

because although they lost we went

to ESPN college gameday which was a blast up

until the game STARTED!

**Shooting Range**

The HUNT starts this weekend! While I've been busy with clinicals..Jimmy's been using that "spare" time to shoot his gun {endlessly!} We both had the day off today which is so RARE, but of course he had to get me out to the shooting range to show off his new gun & scope! It was FUN--I'm not around guns that much and I forgot how scared I get around them haha.

Side note-is it really October 12th? Time is seriously going by faster & faster! Its good and bad I guess...good because that means CHRISTMAS is around the corner-YAY!!! My favorite holiday! LOVE everything about it, can't wait!

It seriously took me like 10 minutes to

pull the trigger haha how lame?!

**Life Lately**

Hey everyone! Its been awhile since the last blog update. We moved into a new apartment, and are in a new ward. We were so SAD about leaving our other ward because we absolutely loved it and grew close to many. Our new ward is great though!! We actually have alot of friends in the ward which has made the transition easier!
Jimmy and I are staying BUSY with school! Jimmy has a few accounting classes, & math (ugh..dont envy him there haha), and work. He's doing so good trying to balance everything. I'm so proud of him!
As for me...I'm finally a SENIOR level nursing student!! I graduate in December (YAY!!) I'll be honest at the beginning of the semester I was a little bummed about it being my last semester because I'm one of those weird kids that enjoys school (sometimes) but now that I'm a month into the semester--I'm SO ready to be done! My clinicals this semester are little different. I have a preceptor which means I take the role as if I'm the nurse. Oh did I mention that I'm working the night shift 1800-0600! Yup, 12 (more like 13) hours shifts...NOT gonna LIE its starting to kick my butt, but I'm more than halfway done with them and I've learned so much! Once I'm done with these, I have to complete 8 high acuity shifts..E.R., NICU., Cath Lab., etc. My professor is a life flight trauma nurse and I'm hoping to go over to Page, AZ...where she works at Classic & go on a flight over there!!!!
We've been lucky to have time off to go up north to the BYU game & The Killers Concert the past two weekends. The concert was a BLAST!!

Anxiously Waiting....

THE KILLERS Jimmy wanted me to mention

his new hat (he's obsessed) haha.
*Also he got glasses..I totally wasn't used
to the idea at first, but it's grown on me..

This is my awesome professor-Aja!! We intubated this sheep.

Its very similar to the "US" & this is me doing the bagging,

it was the coolest thing ever! Photo courtesy: Jael : )

PRIVATE BLOG!

Hey everyone! We've decided to make our blog PRIVATE! I've tried to avoid this for sometime because I love when I come across a friend's blog thats NOT private & I'm able to drop a quick line & see whats been going on, but to alleviate my husband's concerns and mine as well, PRIVATE it is! So if you wanna check out our blog...send me your e-mail address! Thanks!