Update.

So I took my last final of my undergraduate career today. Humanities 202, check. Regardless of the herd of junior/high school kids there for some french fair, I made it the the HTRC and I think I did just fine. Thank goodness.

I had my College of Nursing Graduation banquet tonight. It turned out fantastic! I helped coordinate it and I am really happy that I chose to be a part of planning graduation. I've made some amazing friends in the Nursing program, seriously, you have no idea. I'm a little sad to move on with life, but ready at the same time.

Tomorrow I leave for New Haven, CT. Can I just say that I am really excited?! what an opportunity! I've never been there and I've always been fascinated by the whole "Ivy League" thing. More to come on that.

Also, I graduate next week. YES! finally!!! my family comes on Wednesday--also YES! and then as of Thursday I will be a college graduate! years of hard work in the making and it is finally here.

Also....with my sister comes this little delight.

Photo courtesy of MobileGorilla.com

i am leaving behind my Samsung Glide, which has started to become, what I call "possessed". (I was slamming it on my kitchen counter the other day because it wouldn't work....yikes.) and turning to the fantastic world of the Blackberry and I am SO excited! (I don't care if anyone has any bias against it. I like it. therefore anyone else's opinion is just their 2 cents. sorry.)

Cant wait!

Holy fantastic!

Check this clip out. Seriously, I did not expect this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY

She's fantastic! what a splendid surprise! and I have to say, I'm a little too pleased that she shocked some of those snooty-looking girls in the crowd. you go Susan Boyle!

Twitter.

Photo Courtesy of AusRegistry

I don't know much about it, but I keep hearing about Twitter. I want people's opinions. Does anyone use Twitter? Is it even worth signing up?

Time flies...

So, I have a pretty busy month. I have my last day of clinical this coming Tuesday, I can't believe I am already at the end!

On April 8th we are going to see Wicked up in SLC! I love this play...I am soooo stoked!

Photo by Theater Station

Then on the 17-20th I am flying with one of my professors and another student to present a poster about our experiences in Ecuador at Yale! It is for the Unite for Sight conference.

Photo from here
photo by This site

I am pretty excited! I just started working on the poster today and found out there are going to be 2,500 people there! holy crap....not to mention like 60 different countries. I am really grateful for the opportunity! There will be more to come!

Next, GRADUATION on the 23 and 24th! My family is flying in and Heath's family will come down from SLC! I can't wait!!

FINALLY, Heat and I are going on a little get away right after graduation to GUATEMALA! We will be seeing some of these sites:

Tikal Ruins

Lake Atitlan

Heath served in the Guatemala City North Mission, so it will be fun to go back and see some of the sights before we get too busy with life! It is going to be a busy month, but I plan on loving every minute of it!!

oh, by the way...

So I never really said much about Heath going to DC for the Inauguration!

So, he went with this group called UPIC through the Golden Key club. Well, UPIC has been in the news a little lately, some unhappy customers among other things. but we wont go there!

So here are a few pictures Heath took while he was there!

He wasn't able to get close enough to see the actual inauguration, but he did get a pretty sweet seat for the parade. In fact, the Obamas got out of their limo right before they got to where he was and he was able to get this picture!


Heath saw Gov. Huntsman at the DC airport and decided to take the opportunity


While he was there he was able to hear a couple of interesting speakers, Colin Powell (see picture) and Al Gore among others


And a shot in front of the Capitol!

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So my birthday was on the 18th. [thank you to all of you who remembered!]

However, I actually celebrated on the 16th, due to Heath going to DC for the inauguration which he was invited to attend by one of the honor societies he is a part of.

We celebrated by going snowshoeing up at Soldier Hollow. It was really fun! I had been wanting to try it, so we got adventurous and broke away from the books for a few hours. Afterward, we came home and got cleaned up then ventured up to the Riverwoods. We ate dinner at Shoots when we saw the line for Tucano's--I should have known trying two new things in one day was too much....

Here are some pictures from our adventure!





We've done a few other fun things of note as well!

Home made pizza on our pizza stone....




Puppy chow/Muddy buddies (whichever you prefer to call them)...


And finally, we decided to try out our bullet blender and make chocolate mousse--we saw it on an infomercial...dubbed in spanish....but it looked tasty! although i thought it needed some sugar added to it...





And FINALLY, Heath and I had our 6 month anniversary on the 15th! Time sure does fly!

Christmas Break Update!

Finals ended and the celebration began! Heath's birthday was on the 19th of December, so we celebrated by going out to dinner and enjoying no more homework and studying!

Heath with my presents I gave him! Like that ghetto newspaper wrapping paper?

Heath Modeling my gifts :)

So Christmas was fantastic! Heath and I spent a few days with his parents up in Holladay! Then we boarded a plane and headed to TULSA! yay!

When we landed in Denver, we saw the plane that ran off the run way...


It was so good to finally get to Tulsa. We did a lot of fun things while we were there!

We went to Ted's Cafe' Escondido with some of my friends from High School

Me and Corey:

We also went to the Oklahoma City Temple with my parents:

And then we went to see the Oklahoma City bombing Memorial

Where we met up with my dear friend Bekah!

Survivors tree

Outside the memorial is this statue donated by the local Catholic church



We stopped to get some amazing BBQ on the way home


It was built in an old gambling hall and had some interesting posters on the walls:

Really Ronald?

For New Years we spent it with some friends in my home ward Ginger and Jared, Zane and Michelle, Heidi and Nate and Jordan and Sonja (newly engaged!)



Happy New Years!!


Heath and I watching Jared set off fireworks in his back yard


When we got back to Utah, we went to the BYU v. Wake Forest game with Joanna and Jimmy Joe and some of their friends!




It was a great game, but unfortunately BYU lost in the end....

But it was a GREAT Christmas Break! and soooo good to finally catch up on some sleep!