Whoa.

Well, tomorrow is the big day. I still can't believe it's here.

These past two years have been:

Fun. Difficult. Hilarious. Challenging. Crazy. Frustrating. Intense.

Not to mention all the years spent taking prerequisite courses and such.

I am graduating nursing school tomorow :)

3 Year Anniversary!

Today Ben and I have been married for 3 years!

This is the night Ben proposed!

It's been a great 3 years! Let's have more K?

The Bird Purse.

So here is the birdie purse I made. I have been carrying it around.

It's just casual. Like me. Just birds and seersucker.

And there is the dog bowl. haha.

And the award for the cutest kid ever goes to...

THIS GUY!!

Here's a little preview Sister. You have the cutest kid ever!

YAY!! (warning, there are a ridiculous amount of exclamation points in this post)

YYYYAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just passed the second of two tests needed to get my diploma!! YAY!!!

My friends and I were very nervous about the two computer tests we had to pass because they are usually very hard. It is a program called ATI that is separate from our school grade. We had a pharmacology test and a comprehensive RN test (the comprehensive one was a beast of a test with 180 questions), and we had to make certain grades on both of those. If we didn't make those grades we wouldn't get our diploma! SO I PASSED BOTH!! WOO HOO!!

Also, getting a certain grade gives you a 90% chance of passing the NCLEX which is our licensing test we have to take after school. That makes me feel good that I'm in that 90% chance group!! I am obviously retaining most of the knowledge they have been pushing into my head for the past two years! My friend and I definitely did a celebration dance in the parking lot!!!

Now all I have left is our final on Friday which I am not worried about at all. A

fter Friday I will be DONE! Then, graduation next Friday!! YAY!!!

Nursing school is finally coming to an end!!!

Grateful.

I am just so grateful to have the Gospel of Jesus Christ in my life.

Words can't even describe the peace I feel knowing what I know.

The Gospel can answer all the questions. I am just so extremely grateful.

these two are so cute!

Two of my favorite models are gonna have a baby!

Congrats to them, and thanks for letting me take your pictures.
They are bound to have a freaking cute kid!

my brother is a stud.

True statement.

Ben and I recently went to one of Preston's baseball games,

and naturally I had to bring the camera!

Here are some pictures of my cool brother :)

This is Preston right before he struck the guy out!

Yep, that's right. Pitcher, Catcher, and an awesome Batter!

Photos

Isn't he just one good lookin senior?

I told him it would be easy to get nice pictures of him because he was so good looking.

I believe I was right!

Congrats on graduating and good luck!

Pink Dots

So I learned to sew when I was pretty young, and I have been sewing ever since.
I had my own little kid sewing machine, and a friend and I would sew purses and beanie babies all day. Now that I'm all growed up, I mostly go through phases with things I make,but now I am back in the sewing phase.
I made these house shoes the other day out of material left over from a blanket I made my friend a while back.

It was a simple little pattern that didn't really take too long.
You can get the pattern here: cute shoes
But I love them and I wear them around the house constantly.

Between sewing and painting I have pretty much taken over the kitchen table.

Which I am sure Ben appreciates. I don't work on this stuff everyday so it just sits there all messy until I work on it. It's just become part of the house.

I need to turn our other room into a craft room, and we can just keep the door shut when I'm not working on anything. Yikes....

(why the heck am I showing everyone my mess?!)

my little picassos

So I have been painting lately like I said, and tonight I got this crazy idea in my head.

I thought, "hey, lets make a painting with puppy paws!" (thus further proving my obsession for my dogs) So I created a little set up in the back yard and attempted to get my dogs to walk all over the canvas with different color paint on their paws...who is crazy enough to try that??
It pretty much ended up being just as big of a mess as I thought it would be...maybe even more.

Here is the diva himself.

I forgot how prissy my pug is.

He hated getting paint on his paws.

He wouldn't walk on the canvas either so I ended up just grabbing him and putting his paws on it.

Therefore, the smear marks are him resisting me.

Charlie is really a piece of work himself.

Gus really didn't know what was going on...but he didn't like it.

He ended up with paint all over his face and body.

You can kinda see it in this picture.

Also, navy blue on paws was a bad idea.

I also ended up covered in paint from the knees down.

BUT Here is the final product.

No definite paw prints, however you can pretty much tell it's art...haha.

Oh well. I like it. I'm hanging it up.

Side note: No doggies were hurt in the making of this art. They did, however, end up getting baths.

The Nard Dog

Andy Bernard is by far my favorite character on The Office. He is also the reason for one of my favorite Office moments EVER! When Ben and I watched this episode some time ago I made him rewind a million times to see this part over and over. I was laughing so hard I started crying. Classic.