Easter Weekend

On Saturday night we went to dinner with the Lobdell's and then to their church for Easter service. They always present people to the church with their sponsor during the Easter service. This year Alissa my sister-in-law was one of them. She has been going to months of classes at the church to learn about the Catholic religion. So she was baptised and became a member of the church.

After church we went back to Trevor's parents house to have cake for a little celebration.


On Sunday morning we went to my church with the family. Crazy crowded like usual. Especially with lots of people that you don't see around the church much, just for special occasions. A lot of people criticize those that do that but I don't. I am just happy that so many were there to hear the service. After church we went to my grandmothers for lunch with the family.









This coming up week I start finals. I have a make-up test tomorrow on Cardio. I missed it at the beginning of the semester when I was sick. Kind of nervous about it because the material was covered so long ago, it seems. On Thursday I have a final for one class and then Monday May the 2nd is my other final. Please pray that I do well. A week and a day from today I will officially be done with school. For a while anyway.

On This Day I Married My Best Friend

Two years ago today Trevor's and I walked down the aisle and said I do.....You can see it HERE.

I am so blessed to have him in my life. Too bad I have a test tonight. This year has been a roller coaster for us with me being in school but I could not think of someone better to be on the ride with. Thank you Trevor for being such a wonderful husband to me!!!! We will celebrate after I get out of school with THIS trip in May.

My Crazy Month

Wow! Two posts in one weekend when I haven't posted anything in a month. Well...today was my last day of my preceptorship. What a crazy last 3 weeks it has been. I just added it up and in the past 3 weeks between my actual full time job and my preceptorship I have worked a total of 200 hours and 30 minutes to be exact. Not counting the hours of paper work I have done in my spare time, you know. So I guess you can understand why I have been out of the picture for the entire month. My preceptorship was in Labor and Delivery and Shelby. It felt weird pulling back into the Shelby Baptist Medical Center parking lot so many times in the past few weeks. It really brought back many memories from the two years I worked as a tech in the ER. The first day on the L&D unit was when all the memories started to come back to my knees especially. After walking on concrete hard flooring for 12 hours straight reminded my knees of the old days and I was younger then. Okay enough about my knees back to the unit!! I had a wonderful preceptor named Wendy. She taught me so much more than I could ever learn in a text book. After being at Shelby in L&D for 16 years, she knows her stuff and takes very good care of her patients. I did so many things on my own and actually felt pretty confident in myself by the last day. I know that you all do not want to hear about all of the gory details of everything so I will not go into all of that. I did not realize how gory things were until over dinner the other night with Trevor. I was explaining something to him that I did when he in turn felt nauseous over his meal and informed me that he was done listening for then. I guess with my dad being a fireman and my sister working in the ER for a while too my mom just got used to our conversations at dinner and never thought of it. But when I try to talk to Trevor about some things they appear to be not dinner conversations with him or conversations ever as far as he is concerned. All I know is you definitely loose your "always beautiful to your husband" look when you are in labor. This is just my opinion not every ones I am sure. You definitely go through a lot with them the few days you are at the hospital for sure. Though Trevor may be passed out beside the bed during most of it, I am sure he would still call me beautiful to my face at least. HA! I am kind of going to miss being there on the weekends. There was always something new and different with Wendy and I. We never once had a smooth delivery. You are lucky all of you ladies out there if you get one of those. After every day she would tell me it is not always like this. I did see enough c-sections to get my fix on them for a long time, maybe forever.

I am taking a break from studying now because after work tomorrow I start back class 4 nights a week and tomorrow is my first test back. Hopefully it will not be too bad. It is in my easier class. I say that, but my last test in this class I didn't do so great. With that said I probably need to get back to studying. I just wanted to let you guys know I wasn't dead or avoiding anyone and I can't wait to spend time with my friends and family again. It will have to wait until May though. I have 12 tests in the next 6 weeks. Taking a short 1 day break for Trevor's cousins wedding. So if anything that will be the only post made by me until May. Hope everyone has a wonderful week! Please pray for me to make it out of all of this!!!

# 33

I haven't checked anything off of my 101 list in a long time so a few weekends ago I thought it was time. Trevor and I went to his parents property where he always goes to fish this afternoon. They have had the property for a couple of years and I had never been. It is so nice out there and so different than I thought it would be. It is a lot bigger than I thought too as well as in the middle of no where. This is the entry to Heritage Lakes.

There are a few people that actually live on the property and the houses are pretty nice.
Here is a picture of Trevor's parents actual land. It has a very pretty view but I don't think they will ever build on it.





They have two lots and one is for sale if anyone is interested. We took Stanford with us to swim for the first time this year. It took him a minute to get used to the water again and get his swimming legs back.





He is so much better than he used to be about listening. I don't even think we brought a leash for him. He was just running around everywhere. But he did stop and come to us when we asked him to. This is very unlike the years of him running from us as a game to him, which I know everyone can remember. We had such a relaxing day together before I started my working streak. I am so glad that I was able to go out there. On our way home we went by Panera and had lunch. I love that place.

Snow and Valentine's Day

So..last Wednesday night my clinicals got canceled due to the threat of snow. We have had so much of it this year. I wasn't that concerned about it but happy clincals were canceled due to having a test the next day. Instead of starting to study that night at 11:30, like I usually do when I have clinicals, I started at six after I got home and settled from work. It was pretty nice. I was still studying at 11:30 when I looked outside and saw that there was at least an inch of snow on the ground and still snowing. Around that time I made the executive decision to stay up later to study. I thought for sure we would not be going to work on Thursday. We have closed for everything like that this year. So around two in the morning I decided to call it quits and go to bed. To my surprise at five in the morning on Thursday I got a call saying we were starting clinic at normal time, seven. Let me tell you how pumped I was that morning. It made my day a little brighter seeing all the snow that morning before a lot of people were out. It was so pretty.

Not really sure why the date is a day off on my camera. It is really the 10th but oh well.

After I left work I went to take my test then came home and crashed.

On Friday after studying all day we actually had class that night to make up for a snow day. After class that night Trevor and I went to The Melting Pot, one of our favorite restaurants, to celebrate Valentines. Mr. Hosey and Miss Madison decided to join us there. We had a great time. We usually don't do a lot for Valentines day just a nice dinner and cards.

On Monday at work I got these beautiful flowers delivered to the office from the best husband ever.

I had class that night until eight. I went and picked up Chinese for us to eat, even though it was 8:30 by then but we really wanted to eat dinner together that day. When I got home we exchanged cards and there was a large box sitting on the couch. When I opened the box it was these bad boys...

A pair of Michael Kors boots. I was really surprised, due to the fact that I had never told him I liked them. He overheard me talking to a girl a few weeks ago at a get together that I really liked her shoes and what kind they were. So the next week he said he started to look for them. He said he knew that I would not spend that much on shoes. He is such a good man and I love him very much. I hope everyone else had a good Valentine's Day!!!

Weekend of Birthdays

Last weekend was eventful. I studied during the day everyday which was a waste because I didn't do well on my test. First off please pray for me I really need it right now. We have only had two test so far and I am already struggling. I wanted this semester to be different and me not stressing out so much at the end of the semester to make it through my courses but it is impossible. I have the same teacher as I had last semester which is awful. It doesn't matter if I was to memorize every chapter on the test she makes everything so difficult and tries to trick you on almost every question. If I can get out of this ladies class I can for sure pass NCLEX. I am starting to study right now for our test on Thursday. Please, Please pray that it goes much better than the last.

Now back to the point of my post... On Saturday night we went to our friend Madison's 21st birthday. Such a little one but so sweet. I haven't been to a 21st birthday in a long time. We went to her family's house for a fun couple of hours away from the books.

On Sunday Trevor cleaned while I studied during the morning because we had a showing of our house that afternoon. Then we headed to my parents for Madison, my nieces 7th birthday. I can not believe she is getting so big. We had a good time eating lunch with them and doing cake. I am so sad that I can't be more of a part of their lives right now. But with school and work it is a lot just for Trevor and I to be a part of each others lives. Of course Maci has to have everything that her big sister has so my mom made her a small cake and she had a present to open too.

Our First Date!

Six years ago today is the day I went on my first date with this man!

We met six months prior in August, my first day at the bank. He met me after I left school at Jeff State, where I started out before Bama, at Rite Aide on Valleydale to pick me up. We went to dinner with my work (Amsouth Bank) at The Cheesecake Factory. It was our first time to ever go there. It was so good and my work family was so fun to hang out with him for the first time and break the ice. We had such a good time that he called me the next day and asked me out again for that night. I am so lucky to have someone that takes such good care of me especially right now. I love you baby and Happy 6yr Anniversary!