Finally back!

Well it sure has been a while since I last blogged. Ben and I took a really fun vacation, and then I went to girls camp as the nurse. I just got back today and I am TIRED of doing things. haha. The rest of the weekend I plan on doing absolutely nothing. I start my new job on Monday in orientation so I should be busy from then on. Here are a few pictures from our trip. I really don't feel like typing everything we did OR putting all the pictures on here so here are just a few. Maybe I'll post again about what we did so I can remember what an awesome vacation we had. It was so nice to get away and just hang out with my husband!

Graduation Par-tay!

Well my lovely sister Nicole and my Mom put together a little graduation get together for me on Saturday, and it was great! Good food. Good people. What more can you ask for? A lot of my friends were moving and such, but my super best buds all showed up and of course my family and Ben's family were there. Here are some of the pics:

Here is Ben and I...

Here is the necklace Benny bought me :)

I told him I wanted it when I graduated!

I actually told him when I started nursing school and he remembered!

Here is me with my bestie Megan. We made it through nursing school together!

I sure am going to miss her :(

Here is Chance (Megan's fiance), Megan, Ben and Me! Cute couples!



Here's me and Crystal. I became friends with her when I met Ben.

Going on 8 years of friendship. I love her!

My best friends Rachel and Presley also came. They are so much fun!


Spencer was the guest of honor! Haha. Here is Ben with him.

Here is Spencer and Me! So Cute!

Yay for graduation parties!

Graduation Day

Ok. So graduation came and went, and now I'm officially a Graduate Nurse!

It ended up being a fantastic day! I love that all my family was there with me. (minus Raquel)

I posted all the pictures of me and my friends on my Facebook if you want to see those.

I'm just going to show the pictures of me and my family on here.

There are WAY too many pictures to post all of them!

And there you have it! Graduation day with the fam!

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.

Not too Shabby.

Well, it finally happened. Ben convinced me to try and play golf with him. Well, not actually play, just go to the driving range. The actual playing of golf is way beyond my span of talents. So for the first time I ever I went with Ben and did "golf stuff." Golf is something Ben loves to do, and he is very good at it. He always says "You are the perfect wife...except for the fact that you can't play golf." (He always adds that last part...) Anyway, so I always refused because I just knew that I would be the one out there swinging with all their might and missing the ball. Of course I actually did that very thing for the first few tries. HOWEVER, once I got the hang of it I don't think I did so bad. I got a number of good shots in there. I even admit I had a little fun. (but don't tell Ben, haha) No, I am planning on going with him more often now because it is something we can do together. Maybe someday I will get aiming down...not likely soon though.

It was a little frustrating to be right next to Ben who is just smacking these balls into space. Isn't he cute?

The club looks all weird in that last one.

Ben was a little confused by the fact that I felt I needed to take pictures of him playing golf with my phone, but hey, I like pictures and documenting things! It's a girl thing. It should also be noted that we went to "the golf course for losers who can't really play." Ben said this right as we pulled up. Wow, thanks Ben. haha.

However, I did enjoy doing golf stuff so I think that means I am officially the perfect wife :)