St George for Labor Day

For Labor Day weekend my family planned a trip down to St George.  My brother-in-law's parents have a house down there and they are currently serving as mission presidents in Italy so we were able to use it for the weekend.  

We enjoyed lots of swimming,

Shopping and Going Out to Eat,

Zion's- hiking Angel's Landing,

Walking around the St George Temple- we wanted to a session but it was closed for cleaning

 and Playing at the Park with Lenna!

I had so much fun visiting! Thank you mom and dad for a great trip home!  See you next week! (I'm heading to Utah again for my brother's farewell but this time Todd gets to come with me for a little bit!!)

Utah

After being in Richmond for one month, I went home to visit!  And yes, it was mostly for Lenna's birthday party but since I didn't have a job I stayed for a little over a week.  I was able to spend a lot of time with my family, especially my younger brother before he leaves on his mission! 

Here are some highlights of my trip:

*Lenna's Birthday! (see last post)

*Rollerblading with Jordan! (we missed you Jenna!)
We used to go a lot during the summers at the
Ogden Parkway so it was fun to go one more time with Jord!!  

*Motorcycle ride with Nate up to Snowbasin!

We climbed up on the Moose at Snowbasin, well Nate climbed up there, he just lifted me up!

*Getting together with my Friends and meeting Sammy's beautiful baby Violet

Sammy (holding Violet)- McKenzie- Katelin- Emily- Me

*Dinner and Ice Cream with the Gilbert's

*Seeing Todd's Grandma home and doing well

*Hiking to Waterfall with Nate

And St George with my family! (pictures/post coming next...)

Lenna's First Birthday!

So my one and only niece, Lenna, turned one on August 30th!  Before Todd and I moved to Virginia, I asked my dad multiple times if he would fly me home for her birthday.  He told me no so I learned to deal with the fact that I was going to miss her first birthday.  Then the week before, my sister called and said she had talked my dad into flying me home for her party! I was so excited!

Any of you who know my sister, knows that she makes everything a big deal and throws wonderful parties.  And of course Lenna's first birthday was amazing.  

It was a "tiny" party so everything was miniature.     

I stole these pictures from my sister's blog.  So for more pictures, go there! 

The invitation

She is so adorable!! I can't believe she's already one!  

Happy Birthday Lenna! We love you!

Job!!

I finally got a job! I'm so relieved! I will be working in the Progressive Care Unit- PCU (which is a step down ICU) starting September 27th at St. Francis Medical Center! And even better... No night shifts!!  The hospital was built in 2005 and is very nice! When I went in for my interview, the lobby looks like it could be a lobby for a fancy hotel!!  

Here are some pictures of my new place of employment that I found online

Wish me luck!! :)

Our first visitor

My sister, Erika, came out to visit us this last week!  It was so fun to have her here! She was so nice to come to help us pick out furniture for our house and decorated!  She did an amazing job!  I love it and I don't think I could have done it without her!  I guess that's way she's the interior designer and I'm the nurse!  I told her I would take care of Lenna any day if she decorates my house.  Besides furniture shopping, painting and decorating, we were able to go up to DC for a day.

Julia Child's Kitchen

House Pictures
Family Room

Before

During

Kitchen

Before

During

The After Pictures...

Family Room

Kitchen

There are still a few things we need to do, but I'm just so happy we have furniture and a place to call home! Don't mind the empty picture frames, I still need to find pictures to put in them and we need to put the knobs on the cabinets.  A full tour of our house is coming soon! (I just need to find a place for everything upstairs) 

Stay tuned!! 

The hard workers

Thanks Erika! We really appreciate everything you did for us! xoxo! 

White Coat Ceremony

Todd is officially a medical student.  The White Coat Ceremony was on Friday, August 13th.  I'm so proud of Todd.  He is going to make an excellence doctor!  We went and celebrated afterwards at a Brazilian Restaurant with some of the other students.
It was delicious! 

Proud Wife!

Some of the Utah students

There are 12 students from Utah attending school with Todd.  5 of them are in our ward! It's nice to have  so many students and their wives living so close!