Some Random pics....

A sunset pic taken on my street

Aaron and I at a Wedding in Eureka in August

Agate Beach



Another pic of Agate Beach

Aaron and I at agate beach, nothing like wearing a jacket AND sweater in August!!

Us :)

Lola Bug and Me

The 3 younger boys when they came to visit in September

Johan and his family, wife Angel and Baby Fynn

My first Nephew, Fynn

Another week

Well this week was a little different. Normally I try to work 3 nights in a row but this week I ended up working sun, thur and sat, ugh!

Sunday was okay (although that is the one day of the week I hate working!). Monday I got off work in the am and went to sleep until early afternoon, then was in the cleaning mood and went through Aaron's cupboards and tossed away boxed and can food from the 90's!!! Lol. He actually made dinner that night which was nice, nothing like bachelor food :)

Tuesday I headed down to Sacramento for a class on wednesday. It was okay but I don't care to hang out in strange places by myself and at my hotel there was some darn young mom screaming on her phone all night with her kid screaming right along with her... so much for getting any sleep....

On Wednesday I attended a Class on Life-Threatening Pediatric Emergency's, it was a great class and I learned a lot. The teacher is a Nurse practitioner that works at University of Illinois Childrens' Hospital in the Pediatric Intensive Care, so she had some pretty neat stories, not all of them good though... :( but some of them were amazing stories of survival. I try to attend as many educational opportunities as possible because things can go wrong so quickly with children that if the need arrised, I would hopefully know exactly what to do. I love my job and everyday that I work I learn something new.

So back to work thursday night, it was a pretty slow night, so that was a nice break. Got off work at 7:15am this morning and slept till 3pm today :) Like I said this week is kind of odd though, I don't work tonight but I do have to work tomorrow night so I'm debating whether I should just stay on the night schedule for tonight so I can sleep tomorrow and go back to work tomorrow night or just sleep like a normal person tonight and then sleep a lot tomorrow too..... ahhh, the joys of working nights :) It's not bad working nights right now because I don't have any children and I can sleep whenever I want but I don't have a clue as to how people with kids work nights, they must have a lot of help!
I'm thinking I'll probably hang out with Aaron for a few hours and then after he goes to bed early(he has a fishing tournament tomorrow) then i'll head back to my house and paint my bathroom till 5 or 6 in the morning :)

Like I said Aaron has a fishing tournament this weekend at Shasta, so I'm wishing him the best of luck, the bite has been really difficult lately because it's been sunny and warm forever now... if we just had some clouds and cooler weather the fish would bite better.... and he has a chance at winning a boat so i'm keeping my fingers crossed :)

Well i guess that's all for now..... i'll try and find some more pics to post as well.....

Well, these aren't in order but here they are.... I'll get better with this in time :)

My surprise ice cream cake that Aaron got me from Baskin Robbins

Aaron and I at Rivers Restaurant on my birthday


Aaron and I at the Steakhouse at Rolling Hills Casino


Poor posture but the shotgun was so heavy I had to lean back to be able to hold it up, lol, maybe I should work on my arm muscles a little more....

A cool pic Aaron took of the storm that was rolling in

My fantastic Cabela's hat that Aaron got me :)

I'm going to give this a try......

Well I have decided to try blogging..... Mostly for my family and friends that I don't get to talk to on a regular basis. I'm hoping to be able to keep everyone posted on what is going on in my life and post pictures for you all to see......My plan is to post at least once a week but we'll see how that goes, lol.

Just to get everyone up to date.....

Aaron and I have been dating for 7 months now, things are wonderful and I couldn't be happier :) For everyone who doesn't know Aaron.... He's 29, grew up in San Diego and Redding. He is a project engineer for Siemens, his specific job is designing water filtration systems for large cities. He is also really into bass fishing. He has several bass tournaments coming up here at Shasta. Aaron also fishes in the stren series western division for FLW. oh, and did I mention he's 6'7?

Work is going great right now, I've been at Mercy Medical Center in the Pediatric department for 14 months now and I love it. I also still drive to Chico about once a month and work at Enloe Medical Center, the patients I care for there consist of children and Adults. I just can't believe its already been almost 2 1/2 years since I graduated nursing school! I'm still hanging in there on nights. I work 6:45pm to 7:15am, 3 nights a week. I do like working nights but it does get old sometimes. However, there is no way I would be able to make it to work at 6:45 am.... lol. At least not anytime soon.....so i'll be working nights for awhile.

I've been in my house for 1 1/2 years now and I still love it. I have painted the bathroom downstairs and now I'm working on painting my bathroom upstairs, at the rate I'm going I may have my house painted in 10 years.... lol. I have all these visions about how I want to decorate every room but I just can't seem to find the time to get it all done. I will post pictures for those of you who don't live nearby.....

I just had my 26th birthday, I can't believe it! Thank you to everyone for all the birthday wishes. I had a great day. Aaron and I went to dinner with my good friend Autumn and her fiance at a nice restaurant in Redding. Aaron got me several presents (he's such a great boyfriend) including; earings, apron, electric blanket (probably my favorite, lol, I'm always cold!), scrapbooking software (I'm soooo excited to start using it!), a very cute cabela's hat and sweatshirt and a few others things. Then for the weekend, we went to Rolling Hills Casino about 45 miles away and had a great dinner at a steakhouse, then went to a Comedy show. We had the breakfast buffet in the morning which was awesome (breakfast is my favorite!) and then we went to the clay course and shot skeet ( i won a gift certificate in the spring for that so i've been wanting to use it). I only shot about 10-12 times because the shot gun was so heavy and had a good kick but I did get 4 or 5 of the clay discs. I had a great time though, and then right as we were about to finish it started pouring rain.... It was nice though, it seems like its been a looooooooonnnng time since it rained, I think June or something like that.

In other recent news.... One of my best friends, Autumn (we went to Nursing school together) asked me to be here Maid of Honor at her wedding next summer, so i'm very excited to be able to share that day with her.
Yesterday, Aaron, I and another couple went to see Frank Caliendo at the Redding Convention Center, for those of you who don't know him, he's a comedian. He mostly does impersonations, he pretty funny! He has a tv show on tbs called Franktv, starting another season next week I think.

So I hope this will be a good tool to keep everyone informed and keep in touch better with everyone. I feel like I am at a great place in my life right now and I couldn't be happier. I'm looking forward to fall/winter and I'm excited to see what this next year in my life brings.

PS. I'm on Aarons computer and all my pictures are at my house so I will try and post them ASAP.