Taking a break

Sorry guys, I have been taking a break from blogging. Usually I stop blogging because I get super busy....this time it is not the case. I have been taking some time to myself and I will update you all when I feel like it.

:)

Sprinkles!

Today, my sisters and I went shopping at the mall. For weeks I have been asking Shaun to take me to a cupcake shop that is close to the mall. Because Shaun isn't a huge cupcake fan, it was hard to convince him to go. Well today my sisters and I decided to go. Let me tell you Sprinkles has some delish cupcakes! I had a red velvet cupcake. Yum!





-Posted from my iPhone

Easter Sunday

I spent Easter Sunday with my family. We went to church in the morning and then went to back to their house for the rest of the day. Because Shaun is still working spring training with the Milwaukee Brewers, he had to spend the morning at the ballpark and was able to meet up with the family later. We had an easter dinner with all of the family, searched for eggs, and played a board game.

Here are pictures from the egg hunt:

The family (minus Dad)

The hunt in the Desert

Shaun and I with our family's Dog

We had a wonderful Easter as always. It is great to take the time to remember Christ's death on the cross and resurrection. Sometimes we get wrapped up in everyday life and forget to remember the sacrifice that was made for us. I am so grateful to be a daughter of Christ.

The Nephew

The nephew is 19 months old now and I'm pretty sure Shaun and I have the cutest nephew! We spent the day with the Palmer family today for our Easter brunch. He was so precious all day today! He loved finding the Easter eggs and loved playing with uncle Shaun.
He calls us "nay nay" and "shaw". It is so much fun having him around to play with and watch him grow!



This is a picture of him after church at dinner (we went to a sat. night service). Shaun was playing a game with his goldfish. Notice his super cute tie!


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Hiking

After Church on Sunday Dad, Michael and I went on a hike. The boys were looking for a geochach and I was going along for the fun of it.

The boys in my family have been hooked on this geochaching for about the last 6 months. It is basically a high tech game of hide and seek or treasure hunting. Anyone can place a jar anywhere and then log the coordinates online to the website. Once posted, other people can go looking for it. Once they find it, they can open the jar and log that they found it. That is the simple explanation of it.

Anyways, the boys wanted to go looking for one on Sunday and it just happened to be on the top of a mountain in the valley. I spent the whole time on the hike being the girl of the group and pointing out all the beautiful wildflowers that covered the trail. It was absolutely gorgeous outside and the flowers were beautiful.

Pinning Ceremony Tonight!

Well, I am off to get my hair done, pick up my Aunts from the airport, spend the afternoon with the girls, and then go to the pinning! SO EXCITED!

Pictured above is the announcement that I sent out last week. I had someone great design them.....my wonderful husband, Shaun. I didn't want to do something expensive or over the top, so I asked Shaun to make one for me. He has been doing design work on the side as a hobby lately and I think he did a great job!

Thanks again babe!

Anyways, I am off to start the day! I will post a ton of pictures tomorrow!

Graduation Dinner

On Saturday night, I celebrated my graduation from Nursing School. My family and Shaun's family went out to dinner and had a wonderful meal. The 13 of us enjoyed catching up with each other and celebrating.

My family:

Shaun's family (minus one) :

I got some wonderful gifts!

(ok, so you can't really tell in the picture, but they are some super cute nursing shoes!! I was really excited to get them!)

My nursing pinning ceremony is on Tuesday. A pinning ceremony is a traditional nursing ceremony. It is a symbolic welcoming of newly-graduated nurses into the nursing profession. The new nurses are presented with nursing pins by the faculty. We all have to dress in traditional white scrubs and get "pinned".

I purchased my white scrubs yesterday and they are hanging in my room, waiting to be worn. Tomorrow, I will be cleaning and getting ready for my Aunts to come into town. I am also getting my hair and nails done. :)

Tuesday is the big day. This is such a huge accomplishment for me and I am happy to get to celebrate all of my hard work!

Thanks again to all of my wonderful family! I had such an amazing time with all of you. Thanks for all of the great gifts!