Long Time Coming

I did it! I finally passed my boards and I am officially a Registered Nurse. I am so grateful to everyone who helped me out, especially our families, and of course Riley, he had to deal with nursing school the most. He says he should get an honorary license for having to put up with the late nights, early early mornings, and having to work for free, ha ha he doesn't know the half of it. He actually could probably pass most the tests just listening to me study and talk about things out loud. I just can't believe I actually made it, this has been my dream for so many years, it is what I have always wanted to do with my life. I couldn't believe when i saw my name on the dopl website, it was very surreal and dream like (it was pretty late at night when it posted so it could have been a dream). Just to make sure I wasn't dreaming I got on this morning and there it was again! Oh so thrilled! My next step is to continue working in Float Pool at the hospital, except as a RN, and see what happens from there. I graduate tomorrow from school, and will update with that soon. YAY! I am a RN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Prayers Please!

I won't go into detail but I would appreciate saying prayers for me for the next little bit. I will explain in my next post! Thanks so much!

Scrubs Burning Party

Since we are officially done with nursing school we had a scrubs burning party with some people from nursing school at Lisa's house. It was so much fun and best of all we are DONE with school! Can we say FINALLY! To celebrate the fact that we never have to wear that smurf blue scrub outfit again we held a burning party. It quite the fiesta, we had food, and family, and fun. It felt liberating to burn those scrubs. I am just going to miss those people, they became a big part of my life while we were in school. Here are some pictures of those awful colored scrubs burning!!!!

Keep on reading after this post I updated a few times!

Some of the group, not everybody could come to the party! We had lots of fun though! Wish everybody luck with the Boards! We will be great nurses!

Me burning my scrubs! They burned better than I thought that they would!

Hands down the best picture ever!

Jami's little boy was the first to throw in, he did a mighty fine job!

Riley and Me before burning the scrubs, we got to play badminton, and I showed off my mad skills on the trampoline, it was so much fun to just hang out and not think about having to go back to school ever again! YAHOO!!!!!!!!!

First day of school!

Riley's first day of school was on Aug. 22. He wasn't to thrilled to be going back after his summer working but hey somebody has to be making the money when we get older. He is taking alot of classes for his major, taking lots of PE classes. Shouldn't be to hard of a semester for him, just lots of busy work. It was also his birthday this past week, he had to go to school and work, so afterward we went to dinner and had some fun. We went golfing for it as well. Riley shot his best score in golf yet. He got binoculars from me for his birthday and he plans on getting some waders from both our parents. So I think it was a pretty good birthday for him. Well for him it is back to the grind of school work during the day and working in the afternoon. He will do great this semester.

This is Riley on his first day of school! So excited!

St. George

This summer we went down with my family to St. George to spend a couple days down there, we went to Tuacahn, and saw The Little Mermaid, which was so much fun, I loved it, it was done so good. The next day the boys went golfing and the girls went to Vegas, it was my first time there, I didn't really want to gamble so I hung out with Shelby and Abbee, who aren't 21 yet, and we walked the strip, talk about an eye opening experience, but it was fun all the same. Then me and Riley went and visited Aunt Elaina and her family, love that little Kabitu, she is so freaking cute. On Sunday we came home and did family pictures with my family. Here are some pictures of the weekend. Thanks mom and dad for taking us, we loved it.

Abbee, Shelby and me in front of the M&M factory! Right after that we got caught in a down pour. So much fun!

Abbee and Me in front of a guitar statue.

Shelby and me, on top of the M&M factory, don't look down we were a long ways up. Kinda scary!

Riley and me, at Tuacahn, waiting for the show to start, they had the misters on at this point and Riley really wants some of those to help keep cool.

Shelby in front of the stage, we were goofing around til the show started at dark.

View from the Top

Yesterday, a miracle happened, I had the day off of work. That doesn't happen very much especially on a Saturday with both me and Riley off so we decided to do something fun. We went four-wheeling up to the top of Ben Lomand, it's called inspiration point. It was so much fun and the perfect day to do it, it was overcast so not to hot at all. Once we got to the top we went over to the other peak, it was so fun to see everything up top. When we were up there their was a few people up there but not to much, Riley sees these guys walking up the trail we just walked up from, well it is a small world, turns out one of the guys was from Riley's home town, what are the odds of running into someone on the top of the mountain from over 700 miles away. I am beginning to believe my mother in law when she says Southern Alberta is the center of the universe. Then last night we spent some time with Shane and Haulee, it was so much fun and we laughed like we haven't laughed in a long time, so much fun. Well here are some fun pictures we took of our little adventure. Enjoy!

Me and Riley going to the other peak, so much fun, and it felt so good up there with the wind blowing on you, and looking at Willard Bay below.

This is one of the view's from the top, this looks over Ogden City. Lots of houses down there.

So cool to see this from up there, I highly recommend this trail for anyone. It is an easy ride and doesn't take very long at all. Only like two hours or so it is 13 miles to the top.

This is the other part of the city, you can see I-15 down there and the Great Salt Lake in the distance. Pretty sweet looking!

This is the other part of the view, it overlooks Willard Bay and the Great Salt Lake. Lots of water out there this year.

Another picture of me and Riley, this is at the basin, about half way up the backside. It was so green up there still for being the end of July, it was so pretty, and there was still some snow but not to much of that either. I highly recommend this ride for everybody. So much fun, but be aware you get DIRTY! If there is alot of people on the road it can get pretty dusty but totally worth the view!

Life!

A little catch up on life, sorry I haven't updated in awhile. A lot has happened in the past little bit for starters, I am still in school, not so much fun, I am having breakdowns about weekly now, it my last semester and getting ready for boards is not even fun at all. In fact I just took a practice test, pretty sure I failed it. It does help me to know what my weaknesses are though. New exciting news, WE MOVED! We moved to a townhome and I just love it, it is so cute. I will take pictures once we get done decorating.

Riley is still having to go out to the lake all the time for work, he is getting a nice farmers tan, it makes me laugh really hard. It looks like he is wearing a shirt still when he takes it off. So funny!

We had a fun 4th of July, we spent that day in Farr West. Here is some of those pictures.

Well wish me luck! I am about to enter a not very fun time of finals, exit test, and boards.