Blog Blah

I haven't felt like blogging much for awhile. Lots of reasons, from everyone else's cute cleverly written blogs and pictures, to annoyed with what people say, and a bad attitude.

We moved. I hate moving. working only 3 nights a week can make things easier. I packed up the apartment while Ryan was working. Because of his crazy schedule we ended up moving on a Sunday. My family came up and some great neighbors helped. Thank you everyone!

I hate moving. We moved into our new condo. No one above or below us! we are above the garages though (people don't seem to use them too much) View of a large building. :( Closer to work for both Ryan and I.

Instant problems. Night #1. Ryan showers and the drain backs up. Toilet water backs up into shower. we can't shower or use toilet. Landlord comes next day and plumbers.

1st load of laundry that I don't have to take out of my apartment to do! Move clothes to dryer- nothing. The old dryer isn't working. The old dryer our landlord told us worked when we first saw the place isn't working. Super hard towels. Few nights later appliance man comes after we try resetting the breakers and blowing them, sparks. Laundry at my parents again. Thanks!
Dryer is fixed, not efficient, but works.

Come home notice a large pocket behind the front door up by the ceiling. Full of water. Landlord mad. Maintenance comes and cuts holes in my wall and ceiling. Days. Previous owners smoked can smell stale smoke. gross. wierd maintenance guys sheet rock and mud, come back and paint. Finally done! Please don't come back.




When we moved in I had to deep clean the fridge it was disgusting. Mad. Sanitize tub and bathroom floor after plumbers removed toilet to clean drain. I have done more work on this remodeled place then I have ever had to before. If anything else goes wrong I might move out!

It is coming along. I think everything is clean. I got curtains which my dad spent all day Saturday helping me measure and hang, and measure and hang pictures, IKEA trip. He is the greatest!

Still trying to find a place for a few more things, but all in all it is starting to feel like home.

Ryan graduated in December. we managed to lay low for awhile before the apartments noticed we weren't in school and told us to leave. So we did. Ryan is still working for UPS in the mornings and also selling cars at Murdock Hyundai. He is doing great!! I am not just saying that because I am his wife. he really is. He works long hours, but I am grateful for all he does! He is the best!

I am still at St. Marks working as a CNA on med/surg. Would love to work in the L&D Nursery or NICU, but at least I have a job. This week was pretty brutal but I am done until monday. Nice. Haven't seen Ryan more than a kiss hello or good bye in 2 days. He is supposed to be getting off right now, but has some appointments coming in at 6:30. Dang. that is good and bad. Bad for me because I don't get to see him, but that is how he makes us money! He is great!

I have actually been cooking now that I have some counter space, a full size oven and a dishwasher. That might seem trivial to some of you, unless you live at the Village! I feel so domestic. And I love it. tried some new recipes, received well.

My sister Leslie got a job at Murdock Hyundai as well. Not selling cars. She does not like Hyundai's. Snob. She is the receptionist. So I try to bring her dinner sometimes, even she liked my new recipes! I like being able to see Leslie more it is fun!

Sorry no pics. We cleaned the computer and put everything onto an external hard drive, now nothing is grouped and I am not going to search through all my pics to find the ones I am looking for. Plus we haven't really taken any. Bad pics from this post are from my phone. My 'My touch 4G'. Don't really love it. Miss my iphone, want the new one! but this will work and it is not bad, just not as good!

I am a good wife. I cook, sometimes, I clean, I take dinner to my husband (and sister) at work, and Ryan got a motorcycle. Yes a motorcycle. I never thought I would have a motorcycle but after having the scooter it became more of a possibility. He LOVES his motorcycle. I mean LOVES it! I hope not more than me because I am awesome!



I have to admit it is pretty fun to drive, and my brothers and dad LOVE it too! Spencer never used to text me, now he lets me know the weather all the time and invites us to come down!

Debating on making cookies and taking them to Leslie and Ryan at work , at Leslies request. But that would mean I have to get ready...

Updates

Well Hawaii was wonderful, of course! I will have to post some pics later. We drove to Hana and camped for 2 nights, it was beautiful. The 2 hour drive was really pretty, but not very relaxing!! The little 2 lane road sometimes narrowed into one lane and became pretty scary! But we survived. We hung out for a little bit at a black sand beach which was cool, but it wasn't a swimming or laying out beach, mostly just come look and go beach. We did find a local beach that was pretty nice and a red sand beach which you had to do a little hiking to get to, but once you were there it was amazing! The rocks created a little bay like area that you could snorkel around in and see some pretty cool fish. It was apparently a well known nudist beach! Could have done without that!! We didn't camp on the beach. The campsite was more like a big open field with a few trees and you could see and hear the waves crashing into the cliffs that separated you from the ocean, it was beautiful! We tried some of the local fare. Chicken plates with rice and macaroni salad. Basic but good. The last 2 nights we went back over to the main part of the island and stayed in a hotel. Besides the fact that there was a shower it was about as nice as camping! But it worked, even though little lizards could get in through the crack where the air conditioning was and that kind of freaked me out! It was a great trip! I love Hawaii. I think I could live there. It is the prefect temperature and you have a beach and you never have to deal with SNOW!!
I can't believe Thanksgiving has already come and gone. I have been looking forward to it and now it is already gone. It makes me not want to look forward to Christmas because I don't want it to be over! (maybe just the cold snowy part!) I started working at St. Marks Hospital as a CNA on in med/surg. Right now I am working Thurs, Fri. and Saturday nights from 7pm-7am. I can handle the hours ok, it is just hard to go! Hopefully once school gets out I can work more during the week. The nice thing is once I am done with school I will have 4 days off! Love it!
We saw Harry Potter, twice, on Imax! LOVED it!
My sister Leslie came home from Ecuador. She was volunteering at an orphanage for 3 months! The boys were pretty upset when she extended her stay a few weeks! It is so sweet that they missed her. We all missed her and it is great to have her home. It was fun to pick her up from the airport and see how excited she was to see us!







We spent Thanksgiving with Ryan's family in Park City. Well everyone else spent the week in Park City, Ryan and I commuted back and forth for school and work! But is was still fun. Even though Saturday before Thanksgiving I had to drive down in a snow storm and it took me 2 hours to get to work when it would have normally taken only 1/2 hour! It was not fun. The Blizzard of the century came and went without much blizzard! and hardly any snow! But Utah went into panic mode and scared everyone to death, over nothing! We have had bigger storms before and after that nobody has said anything about! Hello we live in Utah it snows! (even though I don't like it) It was great to have everyone together for Thanksgiving though! We even managed to get some pretty good family pictures!



And of course Thanksgiving dinner was delicious!


What a great start to the holiday season! Spending a whole week with family who are now scattered all over! And meeting some of them for the very first time! It's now back to the grind. School is almost over, on the final stretch!! I am so excited to be done! Ryan will graduate with his bachelors in communications! My nursing application is due in January. Ryan is still working for UPS but out at the airport and from about 2-8 on mondays and 4am-8am tues-fri. Still crazy hours but somehow they seem better! :) I love him so much he is the BEST! Once we make it through finals we just have to pray I get into the nursing program! So if I don't post very much it is probably because I am either studying or exhausted! But life is good, we are truly blessed!

Happy Holidays!

In case you were wondering...

This is where we are going for fall break!! AHHH can't wait!!

Summer 2010

This is Mama's house in Mount Pleasant Utah we went down and helped clean it out because we sold it. The first time I went down with my dad I was ahead of him by about 20 minutes and I hadn't been down in probably 15 years so I drove around and tried to find it, I knew I couldn't miss it because it is ORANGE!! I was right when I saw it I knew. Sara, so you remember mama "teaching us to drive" the riviera? "be careful" she said to you "it jack knifes off the road!" that is all I remember her saying. I didn't want to try to drive after that!

This is my tart flag I made for the 4th of July. Ok so it doesn't look exactly like it did in the magazine but it was delicious!



Here is a picture update of our summer. I was in school and Ryan worked almost non-stop, but we managed to fit in some fun!
Fireworks at sugarhouse park.
One day we were driving up 4th South, past the cemetery and I saw a bunch a deer, little baby ones, they were so cute! We went home grabbed the camera and drove through the cemetery looking for them. Apparently they live there but it was still exciting to see the cute little babies.
If you look close you can see the little baby laying down.

Summer was full of visits from family. It started off with Ryan's brother Greg his wife Michelle and there 2 boys Deagan and Kayden who we met for the first time. Greg got back from 3 weeks in Israel! And we got to see them before they headed back to NY.


Then was the Nelson family reunion. Practically in our backyard at This is the Place State Park. Bryce, Liliya and there kids came down along with Carol, Dale and Melissa. Friday we hit Raging Waters, it was a blast!




They could have stayed all night!! Saturday I went to the Family Reunion with Ryan's family while Ryan slept. Then we went shopping at the outlets in Park City and what do you know swimming again!

We did have a break in between semesters and Ryan also had a week off from UPS so we went up to Jackson and went camping.





We had a friendly deer that kept coming through our campsite hoping we would feed it. I could have reached out and touched him he was so close. The first morning fellow campers came by to let us know there was a bear sighted in the campground, we were the only ones in a tent...we did some hiking, Ryan did some biking and we had pitiful fire. The wood was wet so all it would do was smoke, but I did make some mighty nice marshmallows! Ryan did take me to see Eclipse at the Spud drive-in. How romantic! :)
Holly and Brad also spent a few days with us on there way back from Missouri. Then over labor day weekend Bryce and Liliya ditched the kids to come hang out. We had love having people come stay, so thanks to everyone who took a little time to stop by!
School is going. Ryan's last semester and the first time we have ever gone to a football game, although we did watch them other years. This year we decided to go to a few games. We took my brother Tanner and cousin Chad to the UNLV game. It was a blast and the perfect day for a football game.



We even went and got us some red shirts so we could show our school spirit!! We had so much fun we are going to get tickets to the next game. I hope Caroline is proud of me. I always think of here when I watch football! GO UTES!

Lame

Not that many of you care. But our hard drive is full so we haven't been able to get pictures off the camera onto the computer so I haven't felt the need to blog. Not that things are super exciting.
School started again, Ryan's last semester! I am so excited! And a few more for me! It has been a pretty busy summer with school and work and family, but it has been great! I think we had almost all of Ryan's family here at one point or another this last month, it has been so much fun to have visitors!
Tomorrow we are going to the U game with Tanner and Chad and we are so excited! It should be a perfect day too. I wanted to go to a game before it starts getting too cold.
Anyway were still around I will post some pictures soon.

Who's driving this CRAZY thing!

This crazy thing just happens to be my life right now!! I am past the super stressed out point of just coming home and crying because it has been a long day and Ryan is making dinner! I am sleeping better and I am now done with my first 2 tests.
In case you didn't know I am back in school. I decided to go back and get into nursing, and the U has an accelerated program where I can get my bachelors in nursing in a year because I already have a bachelors degree. I just need to finish a few prereqs. This semester I am taking Physiology (yes I did take that the first time around but it has been over 7 years so I now have to retake my anat and phys!) That makes me feel old! and I am also taking into to bio-organic chem. and yes it is just as fun as it sounds! I am still working at Wasatch...and on the weekends because I have nothing better to do I am taking a CNA course it is 5 days ( Sat/Sun...Sat/Sun...Sun) and they are 10 hour days! It is killer! But hopefully it will help get me into school and get a job! Oh I almost forgot on Fridays I volunteer at St. Marks hospital in the NICU for 4 hours.
My family is going to CA for a week and we don't get to go because of school and Ryan can't get work off. I am definitely going to need a break at the end of this semester. And that doesn't' count church callings! I am in the Stake Primary presidency and we are both on the Activities committee...Ryan is still working UPS nights, just got an early morning shift mowing lawns at the golf course and teaches Elders quorm. Ryan has been WONDERFUL though. He did the laundry the other day, cleaned the apt. he makes dinner and lunch. He even helps me study since he has taken organic chemistry he is my tutor. The other night he went through my notes and marked out what chapters to read in my book. I wouldn't survive without him!! Sorry no pictures, studying isn't all that interesting and my house is now a disaster! I guess that is a working students life!

Thanks

Thanks to everyone who either did not get the census or did not fill it out, you helped give Ryan (another) job! I think Ryan loves part time jobs. He is now working for the 2010 Census. He gets to go around to people in the area who have not returned the census. Conveniently he gets to go to the student housing since no one got the census. I love all of Ryan and his crazyness!
I have the week off so now I feel like I need to stay up late just because I can...so here are some random pics from the last little while.

One nice sunny Sunday we were at my parents house for dinner and the boys here first hitting golf balls at one of the sheds, then throwing them...boys? And my brothers love anything that has to do with throwing balls!




Then we decided to go to the golf course to find more golf balls. Christian and Tanner, who are so very much alike! wanted to scour the hillside, the rest of us didn't so we drove down and met them at the base of the canyon, where there was a little pond on one of the holes. Leslie and Michelle were being so helpful and finding golf balls they even waded into the pond to grab them! Silly girls!




Spencer who is now 16, gets to drive around the awesome Riviera and since we were being nostalgic I decided to wear one of grandma's hats! Pretty sweet!




Tanner turned 14 this year and I have to say we are pretty darn good gift givers not only did we get him the video game he wanted he got glow in the dark silly putty!! (Last year he wanted $8 worth of silly putty, which we did!)


and how often do you see this??



Here are some more cute pictures from our last trip up to Rexburg. I just can't resist, they are too cute!




Again not really too much going on here. Ryan has one more project to finish then his semester is done!! I am sooo happy!