Foot Saver's

I have discovered something, I am very hard on shoes and my feet. Since I graduated high school I have worked in the medical field. To work in this field you need good strong shoes. When I started working I bought a good pair of tennis shoes, they costed about sixty dollars, and I wore them to work. They would work great but then they would be entirely worn out by six months to a year. I would go by another pair of shoes and keep going through the same routine. It gets pretty expensive after awhile. Also after a few hours of standing on your feet you realize you need good support on those feet, (I know sound like an old person). When I went to working at the hospital I was standing on my feet for longer amount of hours and by the time I would get home from work my feet and legs would just ache and kill. It was really quite miserable. I started paying attention to what other nurses and aides were wearing on there feet and I tried a few different options that weren't to expensive but my legs and feet would always end up aching. That is when some nurses at work suggest I get a pair of dansko professionals. Looked them up online and they were a pretty penny but I thought they looked pretty cute. For my graduation my in-laws bought them for me, and I tried them out. CAN WE SAY WORLD OF DIFFERENCE! I LOVE THESE SHOES! I can stand for 12 hours and walk and my feet don't hurt at all! It was such a difference. And everyone says that they have had them for so long, like years. No more having to buy shoes every year! So I will save money in the long run. So for anyone who has to stand for a long time (teachers, doctors, check out people, nurses, or anybody else) I recommend these shoes! They are serious foot savers! Here is a picture of the ones that I got, they come in all sorts of colors and designs.

Seriously love them!

Hunting '11

It is that time of year again, the one that my husband waits for all year long, the hunting season. This year he participated in the muzzle loader hunt, and I got to join him the last day of it. Unfortantly we didn't get anything, so freaking upset about that but we did see about 20 does, and a moose. Just no bucks, which sucks cuz we hiked all over those freaking mountains, and I got the lovely job of bush-wacking! So much fun but it is a little cooler in the brush. Here are some pictures, lets see if you can spot the hunters! Thanks Riley for taking these pictures.

Our boots after walking up and down the mountains, isn't it just the best picture, I do believe it is.

Riley and Me just sitting around the campfire.

Our attempt at making a big hobo dinner in the fire, it turned out pretty good.

The finsished product, it looks delish and tasted even better.

Me outside of camp, just enjoying the scenery.

We saw Justin's (one of our nephews) on a tree, so we took a picture of it for him.

The four-wheeler (Quad) all ready to go hunting again.

Spot the Hunter? It is my brother Jake looking for the deer that did not come :(

Riley likes to take scenery pictures! So enjoy the scenery, I did love all the colors up there. It was absolutely beautiful!

More Spot the Hunter! (Hint: there are two of them).

Jake and Chris (brother in law). That camo hides them pretty well.

PS: Keep reading, I updated the blog with two posts.

Graduation

Well the time finally came for me to graduate! It was fun, I enjoyed the pinning ceremony where we got our RN pin but the actual graduation was a little on the boring side, oh well. Thanks for everyone who came to see me graduate. Here is some pics from it.

The diploma cover we got that day! My actual diploma still has not yet arrived.

Some of the peeps in my class, they were so much fun! I will miss seeing them every week. We need to plan some get togethers.

My table partner, Val, she had to listen to me talk when I was done listening to the lecture. Sorry girl! Love ya lots!

Grandma and Grandpa Venable

Love them so much! Thanks for supporting me through all of this! I am so grateful to have them in my life, they have taught me so much.

Grandma Jensen

She supported me so much, by saying how proud of me she was, and kept me going through the many long hours of studying and clinicals. I am so lucky to have such great grandparents. I feel so blessed.

My parent's, Troy and Jodi Venable, they also supported me through this long process, they are so proud of the fact that I made my dream come true of being a nurse. They had to listen to me when i just couldn't take it anymore. Thanks mom and dad. Love you so much!

Two of my nephews, Justin (in black) and Gabe (in red) and my sister Shelby, I didn't get a picture with their mom and dad and another nephew but I am so grateful they came down to watch me graduate. Katie and Jesse were also there and I am so glad that they could come down as well.

My wonderful husband, I couldn't have done this without him, he had to suffer right along with me, he was such a great help to me, he jokes that he could have passed boards right along with me, and he really probably could have. I am so grateful to him. Thanks babe, I love you so much!

Getting my RN pin, this is one of my professors, Lona, she was awesome, love her. I will miss her, but I won't miss her tests. Ha ha.

I can offically say, we graduated in a barn! Yeah! I loved it!

My father in law, Brad Sabey, also came down the next day to spend some time with me and Riley, I am so happy and grateful that he came down, him and Shannon, bought me some pretty sweet shoes for graduating, I finally got Dansko's. And let me tell you, they are totally worth the price. So thanks to my wonderful in-laws. We feel so blessed to have the support that we have.

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!