A Happy Home is Filled with Love and Laughter

Remember When......

Anybody recognize this game?

POG's: Who didn't LOVE playing with the pog's....collecting the popluar cartoon characters and don't forget the importance of having a good SLAMMER.

So, after some reminiscing with BJ and some friends from school I thought it would be fun to bring up some of the memories we had when we were kids. Let me know what you remember from your childhood

BJ started singing "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles....turles in a half shell....Turtle POWER". He said his favorite was Michealangelo (the orange one for those of you that might be like me and didn't remember).

Oh and how did 15 minutes at recess seem like it lasted FOREVER? I remember playing four square like my life depended on it. Oh no! The Cherry bomber!

For the Girls: polypockets (that you could actually put in your pocket), cabbage patch girls, and off course barbies. My mom made me a furniture set for my barbies and gave it to me for christmas one year, one of my favorite Christmas gifts for sure.

What about you? What do you remember? funny stories? Let us know!

Back to School

Well...vacation is definitely over. Sad day. I started school last Monday! It is going to be a busy semester that is for sure which makes me feel a lot better about quiting my job. I was working PRN at the U of U in the ER. But my clinicals this semester falls right when I was working; Friday nights, and unfortunately there wasn't any other day I could pick up with my crazy school schedule. Thank goodness BJ just graduated and has a good job. He also just started giving plasma so that is nice. LOL he is making about how much I was when I worked once a week. :D

So...we have been studying EKG's this past week and have a test on it on Monday. We flew through a whole lot of stuff in just one week. Thank goodness I have NINA (she is a tele tech at LDS) to help me. I stole this link from my friend Ashley's blog...it is a hilarious video from youtube that described all the different heart problems. The man is mimicking a heart. His arms are the Atria, his legs are the ventricles. It is soo cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhGGzB09wQk

New Orleans

We'll be editing this post as we have time. Here are some pics from the Sugar Bowl. Go Utes

Graduation Surprise!

Video of BJ's reaction to the PARTY!

Christie planned a huge surprise party for my graduation which we had the day after Christmas. It was so awesome! I'm not big on getting all the attention, but felt so blessed by Christie's time and dedication she put into planning it. Some of the most important people were there and it was a lot of fun. The party actually was also for my twin brother JC, but he ended up getting really sick, so was not able to attend, unfortunately. Besides that, it was a huge success and it was good to catch up with some old friends and visit with family. The two biggest highlights for me were

Seeing how happy Christie was
Having my Mom come for a surprise visit from Oklahoma!

How much fun we had eating and visiting. Thank you to Christie, this has to be the most amazing wife ever!

This is a video of BJ's reaction to his surprise visitor!

2008 Christmas Memories

Just as many of you, our holidays were extra busy, and a lot of fun. Our families made it wonderful, and being together made it another magical season! Rather than writing all about it, here are just a very few of the memories we made this Christmas!

Playing with the kids (or being one of the kids!) at one of our family Christmas parties

Petting the camel at the live nativity at the park.

Sleeping under the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve! Santa was extra quiet delivering our presents!

Opening presents Christmas morning!

School & Soup

Ok first things first....I got through my first semester of the nursing program!!!! I took my last final today and I am so excited I can't even tell you!! I honestly have never studied so hard before in my life...but I really think (ok I hope) it will get easier because I feel like I learned HOW to STUDY for these classes this semester and in turn learned a lot! Shout out to all the girls in the program....couldn't have done it without you. (you think this speach is crazy...wait till I finish the program :D)

Now on to the soup recipe. So I really wanted to make a vegetable soup...I tried a couple weeks ago...it was good but I wanted to perfect it. So I got online to look for some recipes. I found this website:

http://www.bigoven.com/108450-make-it-easy-make-it-light-recipe.html

and decided to give that soup a try. Well, while I was writting down the ingredients and instructions, I saw that I could enter to win $100 if I took a picture of my finished soup...so I did! Ok so the exciting news is not that I won- well I haven't heard yet :D. The exciting news is that the editors approved my photo and added it to the recipe. I am famous!!! Ok my soup is FAMOUS! It is on that website posted above. How exciting! lol BJ was like, who has time to enter these contests...I said, "Nursing students on their two week break!!"

1 Year!!!!

We've been married for a year! Wahoo - what an awesome year it's been. December 13th was the day of our anniversary and to celebrate we went to the Forgotten Carols and spent Friday to Saturday night at the Anniversary Inn in the Jungle Safari room. Here are some pictures of our fun room.

We feel extremely blessed to be together and for all the support from all those around us. We've learned a lot in just a year. Oh, and time flies when you're having fun.