Monumental moment

So today marks a monumental moment in my life and Adam's life...and no I am not pregnant.

In the years that we have been married I have traveled to Georgia once and Texas twice, all by plane. Adam has been to Georgia, Texas twice, Kanas, Washington, and Afghanistan. None of these trips have we EVER been on the same plane and gotten to go together....
Well today that is about to change... Adam and I are leaving today for ENGLAND!!!!!

I am so excited to spend the next couple weeks in this beautiful country with my love!! A lot of people have asked us why we are going...well we are going for fun and because Adam served his mission in England and has wanted to go back ever since. We were going to go last year but since Adam had surgery we didn't end up booking anything to go. Adam and I have wanted to go ever since we were married so over the course of our almost 6 years of marriage we have saved little by little for this amazing trip. It has been a long road to saving up enough money, but we finally did it and we are going.

I still can't believe we are going and I am sure it won't sink in until I am actually there.  Anyway that is the fun excitement in our lives....now that school is over but I'll post more about that later.

I PASSED!!!!

This past Tuesday I took the NCLEX-PN. I walked out thinking, "what was that!" I was not certain about pretty much every question...this morning I found this out...

Sorry for the bad picture but it means that I PASSED and I am not a licensed LPN!!!

Yahoo!!! Thank you to my wonderful husband who is so supportive of everything and the late nights studying. Now onto finishing my RN through Weber online. This time next year I will be getting ready to talk my NCLEX-RN!!

END of Semester!!!

Can you tell that I'm super happy that the semester has ended...only sad thing is that a new one is about to start. ugh...which means that I'm a little scared. Why you may ask...well I'm starting Weber's LPN to RN program, and it's online. I really hope that I do well in this program. I'm scared, but excited that I'll be done with  my degree in December.

This past Monday, 12/30/13, Adam and I celebrated that the semester was over. We do this every semester..but we also celebrated because we rocked our classes. Adam got Straight A's in all 3 of his classes. I got 2 A's and 1 A-. So what did we do to celebrate....we went to...

 RED LOBSTER

We had 2 gift cards, totaling $50

Then we went to the movies and saw

Awesome thing about seeing the movie...It was FREE!!! I had movie passes from work

It was a great DATE night!! We have not gotten to go on a date night like that in a long time so it was really nice!

Now wish us luck on our next semester, hope we survive it!

Christmas

Christmas was so much fun this year. First reason being because Adam was actually home this year. We had such a busy day of visiting family, we first went to Adam's family and then my family. Later that night we went to his sister's house and my niece wanted to show me what she got for Christmas. One thing she got was a karaoke machine. We ended up staying at their house a singing our hearts out and laughing all the way while doing it.

My made us these pillows for Christmas. They are so pretty and look great with our Christmas tree.

Saturday after Christmas we got to go to the temple with Adam's little brother and his wife. They received their endowments and will be sealed in February. It was an amazing experience to go to the temple with him. The temple was super busy and we were lucky to be able to get in the same session as J Ryan and Breanna. We even got to the temple an hour early.

After the endowment session we went and saw my Grandma. She has cancer and is close to dieing, so this visit might have been the last time that I see her. It was great to see her and I will miss her very much. I wish that she was at her home down here rather then up in Salt Lake.

Thankful!!

This last week we had a couple birthday in the family. First we had Adam's little brother J Ryan. He turned 22!! Then Adam's Mom Jane Ann had her birthday. She would have been 56 this year. We took flowers up to her grave. on Wednesday night.

Thursday morning Adam and I went and ran a 5k. It was a great way to burn off some extra calories before eating a big dinner later that day. Everyone who finished the race got a medal. Adam ran along with me the whole time. He could have ran a lot faster if he just went and ran at his normal pace. 

If you look in the picture you can see the big man in the back with the stroller...he almost looks like he is dieing.

While at the race we ran into one of my teachers and her husband.

In the picture you can see Adam making his super yummy pie crust...with lard..yes lard..and the picture above it has the finished product...banana cream pie!!! SO yummy!!!

So that was our Thanksgiving...running a 5k and then dinner and fun with family.  It was a great day. I was so thankful that I actually got to spend Thanksgiving with my amazing husband instead of having to be miles and miles away.

Halloween!...I know I am a little late

So for Halloween we were...wait for it...terrorists. When Adam was deployed he sent home clothes that Afghans wear...so to say the least we were legit!

Here is a picture of Adam with the pants that they wear...ONE SIZE FITS ALL takes on a whole new meaning.

Don't worry once you put the cord through the pants they fit anyone.

Here is the finished project. You can't see Adam's gun, but he had it.

It was a pretty good Halloween. We watched High Spirits and ate popcorn and nachos....we didn't have any trick or treaters because we live out in the middle of nowhere.

Nursing School!

So nursing school has been so amazing, and hard, but so worth it! 

I have gotten to experience so many things and make so many friends.

A couple weeks ago we went up to LifeFlight! It was AWESOME! 

They are amazing people and I'm so happy that we have LifeFlight, maybe one day I'll be a flight nurse.

 

Here is me and some of my friends from school

About 2 weeks ago I had clinical in L&D. I got to see 2 c-sections which were amazing! I now know why people hurt after a c-section and it is just because they had muscle and all that cut, but if you have ever seen a c-section there is a lot of tugging involved.

The other night my niece was playing doctor with me. I had her listen to my heart and her heart with my stethoscope and then she decided to get her stethoscope out too. She listened to my arm and told me that I had puppies in it. Then she looked in my ears and told me there were puppies in there too.  In order to fix me up she gave me a shot to get rid of the puppies. She is so super CUTE!

There are only a couple of weeks left until I finish my LPN and then I have to take the NCLEX-PN, which I am scared for! Then it's a new semester at WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY. I got into their online PN to RN program. So I can now see a light at the end of the tunnel and I will graduate next December as a RN! Once I get my RN, there will be 3 RNs in Adam's family. Both my sister-in-laws are nurses.