Party Time!!

I passed nursing school!!! Ahhhhhh! I can't even believe it! I have wanted to be a nurse for so long and now it's like really happening! It's so funny because this whole semester I was so stressed out that I was gonna fail but really I had nothing to worry about! Now I just don't know what I'm going to do with all of my extra free time since I don't have to always make myself feel bad for not studying. So now I just have my preceptorship at Banner Gateway OB on the postpartum unit, graduation is May 13th and the NCLEX! After all three of those things I will officially be a registered nurse! It's crazy to think about all that has changed within the last two years of nursing school and there will so much more change these next few months. I'm a little scared, but it's more of an excited scared so that's ok :) Wahoo!! I PASSED NURSING SCHOOL!! Happy dance.. happy dance!!

Grateful

I'm grateful for a lot of things in my life
but today I am especially grateful that I was raised in a safe home
that my parents loved me
that they protected me from a lot of scary things in the world
that they taught me wrong from right
that they raised me to be a good person
that they helped me to learn and grow just like every kid should be able to do.

I spent 12 hours on the adolescent unit of the psych hospital today.
I saw how detrimental it is for a child who does not have a safe home.
I found out a lot of evil things about the world today that make me feel sick.
It makes me feel even more sick to think that innocent little kids are affected by such evil.

I called my mom right after I got out of the hospital to say thank you.
She said she would've killed anybody that ever tried to hurt us.
I wish the kids that I met today would've had someone to stand up for them :'(

A Few Questions :)

Here are some really cool pictures that one of my friends posted on facebook and I really like them!

Definitely strength! It takes a lot of courage to show people your true emotions sometimes.

 

Seriously! I would kick myself to the curb right away! I love how we can list off a thousand things that are wrong with ourselves before we will say something positive. I just love it.. NOT!

When life gets hard serve others.

Not that being productive is a bad thing but really, is all the stress of today's society worth it?

I LOVE this one! It makes so many different thoughts come into my head about the things that are most important to me right now. It also reminds me of a line from one of my favorite efy songs... "will I hear Him say well done when He sees who I've become?"

Pics from this blog: http://www.aaanything.net/40316/pictorial/random/25-beautifully-illustrated-though-provoking-questions/

ONE mOrE Tesssst!!!

I only have ONE MORE TEST left in nursing school!!! I finished my last pysch test yesterday so now all that's left is my FINAL on Monday! I seriously cannot believe it, I have wanted to be a nurse since forever and now there's a good chance I might actually become one!! :) After my final I start my preceptorship working the night shift at Banner Gateway in OB. Bring on the babies!! :) I'm so excited!

And just because I think he's cute...

Bahahaha!!
(This is what he gets for not looking at my blog)

This is from when we went to Cali to go to SIX FLAGS and Knott's Berry Farm but it rained the ENTIRE TIME!!!! I don't wanna talk about it.... I'm still a lil bitter.



Did you know?!

Did you guys know that you can print out your blog and turn it into a little book??? Maybe this is just common knowledge, but I just saw this on Cutest Blogs on the Block and thought it would be a really fun idea to do someday. Especially if your posting about your kids and stuff! Do all websites like cutest blogs on the block do this?? The world may never know...

Time to get a lil mud on the tires!

Ok, I lied.. we didn't really get any mud on the tires, just dust. I LOVE camping. A couple weeks ago I didn't have clinicals on Saturday so we got to take off and head up north. It was amazing! If you really know me than you know that I would rather be in the woods than anywhere else. Who needs to take showers anyways??... Jamie and I decided that our 10 year plan is to quit our jobs and go live in the woods (he just doesn't know it yet, that's why it's our "10 year" plan and not our "in a few months" plan) So don't be surprised if one day I just stop answering my phone and you can't find us anywhere. I won't have cell service... I have Tmobile haha

Hint: Start looking HERE (see picture below)



Colcord Rd on the way to Haigler Creek... good tires required!



Me in my natural habitat

Jamie thought this tree looked scary so he wanted a pic with it... I wouldn't mess with him...

On our way up to see the water wheel falls just north of

You can't tell but there is a 50 foot drop off right behind us!! Not gonna lie, I was a little scared...

 It's too bad I'm a terrible photographer and these pics don't do any justice... Oh well, just trust me that it's gorgeous up there! A few other highlights from our trip: quading on a quad that is waaay to fast... I don't care who you are, fishing in the creek that I have fished in since I got my first Barbie fishing pole back when I was like 6, sitting by the fire eating cheese burgers and drinking IBC's, sleeping in the back of the truck looking up at the stars, and watching HEROEs on our laptop for a few hours (thanks to Dug and Breezy getting us hooked on another series!!), and eating egg burritos is the morning by the fire! I bet you wish that I had pictures of all of these special moments... but I don't... it's just an added benefit of being a terrible photographer haha.

PS. I didn't catch any fish!! I'm blaming it on Jamie for trying to shoot my bobber with his new sling shot that he brought... boo! 

On my mind...

What's on my mind right now??? You don't even wanna know... which is exactly why I'm going to share it with you...

-I'm really not good at blogging and I think I like changing the background on my blog more than posting haha.

-I wish Jamie didn't have to go to work and we could just play all day like it was after he broke his back.

-I want a puppy, or a baby.... I haven't decided which one yet... lol

-I only have ONE MORE TEST in nursing school and then I take my final! Somebody pinch me! I hope I pass!!!!!!

-I should be studying for that test right now instead of blogging.

-My psych teacher is cRaZy! (excuse the insensitve terminology) She is really nice but she is driving me insane!!

-I'm getting pretty tired of studying psych stuff... I've already diagnosed myself and pple around me with a ton of different mental conditions.

-I had the pleasure of attending my first AA meeting this week (Alcoholics Anonymous)... the first step to recovery is admittance, so... JK,JK! Don't worrry, I just had to attend for school. This was an incredible experience for me! It was so sad to see how horrible addictions are and how they affect everyone involved. To me, the Words of Wisdom just seem like common sense, but I really take forgranted how grateful I am to have counsel straight from Heavenly Father to stay away from certain substances. He knows how horrible and debilitating addiction is and He doesn't want us to go through that. I was very surprised to see that the 12 steps in the AA meeting involve God. Can you believe it?!?! Hmmm... what a grand idea... that God can actually help us... So it was very refreshing hearing all these people that were hurting from past or present choices talking about how they found God and religion. It was weird though because even though many people were talking about God I sensed that they were still searching for truth. It's kind of an empty feeling. I know because that's how I felt before I joined the church and I could sense that same feeling in that meeting and I didn't like it. I went to the temple afterwards and I was trying not to cry just even walking through the halls. It's good to be reminded how grateful I am for truth and to never take forgranted being worthy to enter the temple because nothing can compare to the feelings you have just being in the House of the Lord.