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Thank You

I just wanted to thank my wonderful husband BJ and my friend Rosalee and mom for talking to me yesterday and letting me vent. I really appreciate you guys. I am loving nursing school but it is a lot of work and at times feels a little overwhelming. (tiffany don't stress....I am just a big worry wart you will do absolutely amazing!)
For those of you that don't know me well, I worry about everything...more than the average person. I think it was just a curse I was born with. :D
But I have to say, that nursing school is helping me deal with stress and helping me not to worry as much. There is just so much -that if I were to worry as much as usual I wouldn't make it! So it has definitely been teaching me and helping me cope better.
I am sure this won't be the only breakdown I will have for the next year but it really helped to have the reminder of why I want to be a nurse and that it will be all worth it in the end. This will be a huge accomplishment for me and I know I can do it, I guess I just need a little reminder sometimes. So thanks again guys!

Circus Circus

Elephants, kids and clowns! That's who we spent our evening with last night! We went to the circus. Christie and I must be kids at heart, not having kids ourselves, but we had a ton of fun. It was awesome to see the elephants - one of them even painted a picture. We saw some pretty spectacular twists, rides and heard some roars from the tigers. I don't ever remember going to the circus, nor does Christie - but we had an awesome time. What clowns!

The Cutest Niece and nephew in the WORLD!

This is my nephew Carson Scott and his new baby sister Brooklyn. This was the cutest video- I just had to share it with everyone.!!

5 K run & U of U football

WOW. We made it! These last 3 weeks have been pretty busy. With BJ working full time and going to school full time and Christie starting the nursing program and working Friday nights...we end up staying pretty busy to say the least.

But things have been going really well. This is BJ's last semester until he graduates with a bachelors degree in computer science. I am so proud of him and this huge accomplishment. BJ just takes each challenge and shows it "what's what". He is such a hard worker and can do anything he sets his mind to.

The picture to the left is BJ and some friends from our ward right after they ran a 5K. He told me the night before the race, "I think I am going to run the 5K tomorrow." And it just did it. A perfect example of BJ doing what he sets his mind to.

As for me, the first three weeks of the nursing program have been quite an adventure. It was overwhelming at first, not knowing what to expect. But I am really enjoying it now. It took me a little bit to get used to studying all the time but now it is almost routine. I don't even know where to start as to what we have done thus far. The last week we practiced Baseline Assessments on partners, took a full health history (that was fun to see the looks while Nina took my "pretend" health history on the bus). Oh and we also practiced intramuscular shots on this cool flap of "make believe" fat. lol I really don't know how to explain it better than that. :D

But despite all the craziness we still had time to go to the first University of Utah football game. It was a lot of fun. I am a BYU fan at heart but BJ thinks I might change my mind after this season. I Cheer for U of U when they aren't playing BYU so we will see when that infamous BYU vs. U of U is here.

Nursing Program First Week

Well I made it through the first week of the nursing program! YEAH! For those of you that don't know...I just started the nursing program at the DATC. It is a four semester program with no summer break so I was a little nervous about it. Thankfully a girl named Nina (shout out) who lives just downstairs from BJ and I, just found out that she was accepted into the program as well. So we carpool and study together. I am just so grateful for her and all the help she is to me.

The first week went pretty well. It was a little overwhelming not knowing what to expect and intimidating since it it is an accelerated program. But I made it!

We have already had two tests and two pass off's and we start clinicals in a couple weeks, which I am so excited for! Wahoo.

For clinicals we have a DATC patch that we need to sew onto our uniform. I kept telling BJ that he should sew it on with his mad sewing skills. Well, last night I was studying at Nina's apartment and came up to find the apartment completely clean, laundry done, dishes done, and a clean vacummed floor...not to mention...BJ watching football while sewing on the patches on the uniform. I am just so luck to have BJ. He is way to good to me!!! I am the luckies girl in the world. I definitely couldn't be doing this without him!

Water, Weddings and Salsa

This has definitely been the most busy week that Christie and I can remember! We were running crazy. It started Tuesday night with my brother Ryan's wedding dinner. We had some delicious steak and honored him and his wife Tiff.

Wednesday morning we took a practice bus ride to DATC where Christie will be attending school this fall. Of course, we hurried home so we could make it to Ryan and Tiff's wedding in the Bountiful Temple. After the pictures were done there, we hurried and went to Raging Waters (we had to make up for the time we tried to go before.) We didn't have a long time, but Christie and I had an awesome time. I was so proud of her for being brave and doing the biggest slide. We then hurried over to Ryan and Tiff's reception and ate too much chocolate from the chocolate fountain.

Thursday left no time to relax as we worked and then went up with Christie's family and worked until 11:00 pm that night making and bottling Salsa. (Her mom didn't go to bed until probably 2:00 am) It was a lot of work, but we really enjoyed it and love our Salsa!

We're just getting ready for this semester of school - good luck to everyone!

Twilight Series

If anybody knows me really well, they would know that I am not a huge reader unless it is a really really good book. Well... so far the "twilight series" have been really really good books and I can't stop reading them. I just barely finished reading "new moon" (I know I am behind) and I really want to start into the next book "eclipse" before school starts. So I was wondering if there is anybody out there that would let me borrow that book????