A Happy Home is Filled with Love and Laughter

HOUSE pictures

OK ok I know I was supposed to post these FOREVER ago. Whoopsies. Well, here they are. Some pictures of our new house TENNEY STYLE. Well it is not exactly

Tenney style yet...it will be after I paint :) but it will at least show you what it looks like for now.

We are loving being home owners. It is very busy and there is always something to do. We planted our garden as you saw with my previous post, we bought a lawn mower, BJ is working hard at taking care of the dandelions, and we have both done some minor decorating.

Our neigbors are awesome. We LOVE our ward. LOVE the bishop and already feel like we know him really well. We are excited to get to know more of our neigbors and ward over the summer.

Like I said before, with a house there is an endless to do list and one of those is cleaning the bathrooms. We have 2 1/2 bathrooms and since

BJ hates cleaning bathrooms and does all the outside stuff ....that leaves me to do them. You would think I would be smart and only use one bathroom so there is less to clean. NOPE I use all 3! I dont even think about it until the end of the day and I realized that I had used all three bathrooms! Ridiculous seriously!!!

Oh and we got

new couches!!! Woot woot. LOVE them. We seriously sat on over 25 couches before we found these at RC Willey clearance. I was pretty excited. I went by myself, called BJ and bought them right then. It was the biggest thing I have bought without having someone else discuss it with me. But we love them and have gotten a lot of compliments on how comfortable they are which is what we were going for! Score. Now I just have to paint so they dont match our walls. ha ha

This is a picture of my walk in closet. It is so fun to have so much space. We both feel so so so blessed right now!

Our guest bedroom

The upstairs bathroom

Our office

Our laundry room. We have a dryer for the first time in our marriage. We have always just dried our clothes by hanging them. We couldn't fit a dryer in our old apartment and BJ was used to it from his mission in Italy. Can I just say I LOVE having a dryer!!! It is wonderful. I went on a laundry rampage for awhile. I am doing better now. :)

Vegetable Garden/ Womens Conference

OUR Garden! :D We have planted anything and everything in this garden (pumpkin, watermelon, carrots, lettuce, herbs, green peppers, tomatoes, green beans, peas and more....). We are hoping they will come up, we added fertilized soil but the dirt is still hard and has the consistency of clay. But hopefully by adding good soil to it over the next years it will start to show.

Our tomatoes in the water walls are doing really really well! Which is good cause BJ and I LOVE tomatoes!!! We also planted some flowers in the front by the door which I am totally excited for. I love vegetables but I really wanted to plant flowers. The only thing I am worried about with having the flowers so close to the front door is bees. But really not a lot of people come to the front door (salesmen, hometeachers, parents) eh, I guess it wouldn't be so bad after all. TOTALLY joking!!! :) Speaking of parents.

* that was a good transition huh jk

I got the opportunity to go to Women's conference with my sister in-law (my mother in-law ended up having to watch kids :( and my grandma, mom and some sisters were there as well. It was so much fun!! I drove up with Jamie (sister in-law) and came home with my mom and went to dinner with the family at Texas Roadhouse. It was fun to spend so much time with family but the best part was the things I learned. I felt like I was a different/better person after leaving. I learned so much and felt the spirit so strong. Got answers to questions I didn't realize I was asking. I highly recommend going next year ladies!!!

Nurse Christie - part 1 of 2

Christie graduated with her LPN (Licensed Practical Nursing) last week! She has been going non-stop and only got a week and a half off. Regardless, this is the first step towards becoming an RN. Only 2 more semesters to go (that's 4 consecutive semesters) and she'll be there! I am so proud of her and all the work that she is putting in. You may hear her say she's ready to quit, which she may be tired of the work, but she loves caring for people and will make a great nurse!

Here are a few pictures from her graduation - Go Christie!

Christie sang in a small choir

Oh yeah! Just after getting her certificate
Some of the girls who make it possible (after a smart comment by Ashley's husband)

Thanks to the family as well

Nursing School Stress

We moved into a new house! Woot woot! I will post pictures of the house later...when I take some :D. LIFE IS CRAZY!!! Here is my schedule for April:

Wed April 1st: ATI TEST (if I don't pass I don't go onto the next semester...no stress..right?!)
Thur April 2nd: PCMC clinicals LOVE IT
Fri April 3rd: PCMC clinicals and 20 or so page PEDS PAPER DUE ugh
Sat April 4th: study for peds and pharm test
Sunday April 5th: BREAK - general conference!!
Mon April 6th: vocab quiz, school of course, and study for pharm test, finish ticket to class (we have to read the chapters on what we are going to be taught and write a "ticket to class" or a summary of the chapter and 2 questions we have).
Tues April 7th: Pharm TEST #5, study for peds test
Wed April 8th: Peds TEST #3 TAKE A BREAK and get ready for the next crazy two weeks!!!!

Thur April 9th: study for OB (no clinicals...spend time with nate?!)
Friday April 10th: study for OB and pharm (no clinicals...just study all day)
Sat April 11th: cousin baptism, study for Pharm, OB, review peds, and practice skills for pass off and maybe go to the JAZZ game
sunday April 12th EASTER
Monday April 13th: OB TEST, OB QUIZ, and study for pharm (finish ticket to class)
Tuesday April 14th: Pharm TEST, another ATI TEST, FINAL PASS OFF on skills, oh and STUDY FOR PEDS
Wednesday April 15th: Peds test...go home and sleep :D
Thursday April 16th STUDY FOR FINALS
Friday April 17th: STUDY FOR FINALS
Saturday April 18th: STUDY OB FINALS
Sunday April 19th: Sunday rest :D
Monday April 20th: OB FINAL
Tuesday April 21st: PHARM FINAL
Wednesday April 22nd: PEDS FINAL oh and LPN GRADUATION!!!!!!!!! yep the same night as our final. :)

Gosh, I love nursing school. ha

Ok, Ok I really do like nursing school but if you cant tell, right now I am a little overwhelmed and just keep reminding myself to take it one day at a time.

MOVING

For those of you who didn't know we are moving into a house in Woods Cross THIS SATURDAY! I don't have any pictures yet but they will be comming soon. :)

So with moving and school I haven't had much time to keep the blog up to date! As soon as we get settled I will post pictures and give you a better update on our lives.

Here are a few pictures of our house. We close THURSDAY! We will post pictures of how different it will look when we add our personality to it, but here is some pictures so you can see what the house looks like.

I love that the laundry room is UPSTAIRS where all the bedrooms are because it helps a lot with my knee problems.

It is a two story house, 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, big backyard, two car garage, about 1380 square feet, approx. 0.24 acres, and a cute little park across the street. We had looked at a couple other houses that had what we were looking for as well but as soon as the realitor opened the front door of the house I knew it was the one. It has a really good feel to it. The previous owners although we have not met them...seem to be really nice people! They had pictures of the savior up in the hall, and just overall took really good care of the house! We feel very blessed to be moving into this house. As soon as we get settled and get couches everyone is welcome over! :)

Dutch Oven

Just wanted to post a few pictures from yesterday. Christie's Dad has a dutch oven catering business that we help out with. It was a lot of work, but we have a lot of fun getting together and working.

BJ with the ovens

Christie scoopin' ice cream

Christie (with her knees up!), Kirsten, and Heidi

Update

I have been meaning to blog for a while but when I finally had a break from school I didn't want to do anything. :D

Instead of overloading you with everything I will just do a quick overview of what we are up to. It will still be a long post but a little shortened.

BJ has been enjoying not being in school, but has been quite busy beating records on the Wii and reading the twilight books. (shhh that is a secret....I love it!)

I have of course been pretty busy with school. We just took a final today. Crazy huh! But I am pretty excited so have more than one class...it gets old after a couple weeks. We are starting OB and Ped's next week as well as pharmacology which we started two weeks ago. I am sooo excited to go to Primary children's for clinicals as well as OB. It will be a lot of fun.

THE PRICE IS RIGHT

We had to do a presentation for class on any topic we wanted. We decided to do a skit on the costs of health care and what we as nurses can do to help patients deal with the $$$; with resources such as case managers, and making sure we double check what we are charging to the patients (making sure it is the correct patient etc..) We followed the "price is right" theme, getting our whole class involved. We actually found the actual prices it costs for a liver transplant, x-rays, lab tests, and even what a bed pan costs. It is crazy how fast it adds up.

It was a lot of fun. Here are a few pictures!

Ashley

Nicole (Insurance Representative)

I am the contestant...Nina is the host (Bonnie Barker lol)

I made a t-shirt that said I love bonnie! lol we are silly

Rachel: we missed her sledding :(

Julie (Case Manager)

Another big thing BJ and I have been busy with is our search for a house. Since BJ graduated we were given notice that we had till april 7th before they kicked us out. You have to be going to the University of Utah to live here. After some fasting, a temple trip, and prayer we decided to go out looking for a house. We put an offer on a house in Woods Cross last saturday and they accepted it! We are pretty excited. More info about the house to come.....

HOBO SLEDDING (1/31/2009)

Hobo sledding. My friend from nursing school (Nina and her hubby Tanner) took us out for some good ole' hobo sledding. BJ and I had never heard of it before, but it is a lot of fun. Instead of sledding with a sled you wrap yourself in a black garbage bag and go down the hill. I didn't know what to expe

ct but you actually go down the hill pretty fast. Not going to lie...it hurt the first time cause we hit a rock and without a tube or sled it hurts pretty bad. But by the end it was totally worth it! Thanks Fullmers!

Julie & Hubby

Ryan (Ashleys hubby)

Tanner on the Left, Nina in green, and Ashleys behind :-)

BJ and I

Jeremy and Nicole (cute! )

For my birthday (Feb. 5th) BJ took my SHOPPING! It was sooo much fu

n! I had to go to clinicals that night but I absolutely LOVED all the time I got with my hubby and the amazing day he made it. I had so many phone calls and cards, it seriously was the most memorable birthday I have ever had. I just felt so blessed to have such an amazing family, husband and friends that I cried. I could just feel all the love, it meant a lot!

My mom and I spent some time together (Feb. 18 Monday) getting out hair done, waxing our eyebrows, and going to lunch. I love my mom so much. I have always been really close with her and loved the time we got to spend together. Thanks mom!

Draper Temple: BJ and I just barely got back from the draper temp

le open house today. It was a lot of fun. My dad had an opportunity to tour the temple while it was being built and taught us a lot of cool things about the temple. One thing he told us...that they also tell ya on the bus ride on your way to the temple...is that all the doors are made out of a wood imported from Africa. It is beautiful wood. The spirit inside was magnificent. What a grea