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.