Monday, August 13, 2012
Oregon Coast Trip
Hey You Guys!!!We went to the Oregon Coast for a trip with just me and Erin. We needed to go on a trip since we hadn't gone just us since our honeymoon, and we wanted to do something before Erin graduated in May and before we got too busy with work and school and having kids or what not, so now was the best time. We decided to go to Portland for one night and then spend three nights on the coast in Seaside, OR. We went and saw the Japanese garden in Portland and then Erin freaked out about the driving so she was happy to run away to the ocean. The beach was so nice, our hotel was on the beach so we just went and walked up and down the beach the whole time. We did go look at some shops also when it was too hot to be out, since it was record heat that weekend in Oregon. The fresh seafood was amazing, I was pretty excited for it. The crab was fresh caught right there.
It was a much needed trip, and we had a great time.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Six months later.............
So I found this in my drafts and thought I would finally post it
Hello!! I almost forgot all about this blog. Our lives have been so crazy and busy lately, there hasn't been enough time for anything extra lately. We hardly have been able to see each other lately. This last semester Erin has had class monday through thursday until seven-thirty at night, two days in Idaho Falls and two days in Pocatelo. One city fifteen miles north of us and the other thirty miles south of us. She has also been working at the college as well for eighteen hours a week, in between her classes. She also had to go in to a classroom on fridays for a certain amount of hours, glad we had a friend to help her out there and had fun in her class with her too. So Erin had hardly any extra time. She did awesome this semester, straight A's, she likes to remind me how smart she is compared to me. It's true though.
I have been working like crazy. I've been at the same hospital still, but I also have been at the twenty-four hour clinic that the hospital owns because they needed someone to help out in the night shifts for them. So I have been trying to balance between day shifts and night shifts. It's been a little tough but I've gotten through it so far ok. I am still PRN but my averaged out weekly hours have been thirty-two hours a week, so I have been blessed imensly. I am very much looking forward to not having to balance day and night shifts. It makes it a little harder when the night shift is a twelve hour shift from eight to eight. But still enjoying being done with school and working.
We celebrated our four year aniversary this last week. That's crazy, it seems like it has been six months looking back at it. We have accomplished alot together, we are at the point that we know we can get through anything together. I'm excited for what else we'll go through together in the near future, life is so much better with her. Here are some things about her that I love:
She is shy at first when you are trying to get to know her, but once you get to know her, she is crazy fun.
She is very witty and can make up a song about anything, and I swear I have a new name every day, it never ceases to amaze me what she can come up with.
She is very practical and great with money. She would kill me if I ever got an expensive gift for her, she wants something economical and useful. Heck with the expensive, mushy gifts (YAY! Less chance for me to mess up on gift giving).
Love her sense of humor.
I love her love for the Gospel and her drive to strive to do whats right, which keeps me wanting to be the best I can be for her.
I'm so glad she's willing to be with me.
We had a great Holiday season. I've had to work a little bit around it, but it hasn't been too bad. We spent it here in Shelley with our families and have had a good time. We have played alot of Settlers of Catan lately, fun stuff. Here is a picture from one of our Christmas parties.
The ugly sweater party. I actually opened that hat from a white elephant gift exchange, matched my hat perfectly.
Hello!! I almost forgot all about this blog. Our lives have been so crazy and busy lately, there hasn't been enough time for anything extra lately. We hardly have been able to see each other lately. This last semester Erin has had class monday through thursday until seven-thirty at night, two days in Idaho Falls and two days in Pocatelo. One city fifteen miles north of us and the other thirty miles south of us. She has also been working at the college as well for eighteen hours a week, in between her classes. She also had to go in to a classroom on fridays for a certain amount of hours, glad we had a friend to help her out there and had fun in her class with her too. So Erin had hardly any extra time. She did awesome this semester, straight A's, she likes to remind me how smart she is compared to me. It's true though.
I have been working like crazy. I've been at the same hospital still, but I also have been at the twenty-four hour clinic that the hospital owns because they needed someone to help out in the night shifts for them. So I have been trying to balance between day shifts and night shifts. It's been a little tough but I've gotten through it so far ok. I am still PRN but my averaged out weekly hours have been thirty-two hours a week, so I have been blessed imensly. I am very much looking forward to not having to balance day and night shifts. It makes it a little harder when the night shift is a twelve hour shift from eight to eight. But still enjoying being done with school and working.
We celebrated our four year aniversary this last week. That's crazy, it seems like it has been six months looking back at it. We have accomplished alot together, we are at the point that we know we can get through anything together. I'm excited for what else we'll go through together in the near future, life is so much better with her. Here are some things about her that I love:
She is shy at first when you are trying to get to know her, but once you get to know her, she is crazy fun.
She is very witty and can make up a song about anything, and I swear I have a new name every day, it never ceases to amaze me what she can come up with.
She is very practical and great with money. She would kill me if I ever got an expensive gift for her, she wants something economical and useful. Heck with the expensive, mushy gifts (YAY! Less chance for me to mess up on gift giving).
Love her sense of humor.
I love her love for the Gospel and her drive to strive to do whats right, which keeps me wanting to be the best I can be for her.
I'm so glad she's willing to be with me.
We had a great Holiday season. I've had to work a little bit around it, but it hasn't been too bad. We spent it here in Shelley with our families and have had a good time. We have played alot of Settlers of Catan lately, fun stuff. Here is a picture from one of our Christmas parties.
The ugly sweater party. I actually opened that hat from a white elephant gift exchange, matched my hat perfectly.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Stepping Stones
Ok, I'm sorry again it has been a while since I last posted but I have some pretty good reasoning.
First, we moved back over to Shelley, ID and moved into Erin's parents house so I could finish my clinicals at the hospital in Idaho Falls and not have to take out student loans, very thankful for them to help out. I finished my last semester there and finally graduated from the Radiology Tech. Program!! Woot woot! There was a lot of sacrifice and stress and all kinds of mixed emotion that were endured during these last couple of years, and I am soo glad it's done. I scheduled to take my national registry test a week and a half after I graduated to get it over with. I studied that whole time and was stressed out so much. My test was in Utah. There was alot of other stuff going on with the family and stuff, so after all the planning this is what happened:
My sister Britt was moving down on friday back to Eagar,AZ. My parents were heading down there for some business so they were taking a load of stuff for them down. I ended up driving one of their cars full of stuff too down to Utah, took the test, then the next day drive the car to AZ for them. I drove down to Utah early so I could have a little bit of study time. Well I parked down the street from the testing place and studied and when it was closer to time to leave, I tried to leave and the car battery had died because I forgot to turn the light off when I parked to study (my mind was freaking out about the test ok!). So I had to wander around frantically to try and find someone to help me jump start my car so I could make it to my test on time. I finally found a nice guy who helped me, and I went straight over there without very much extra study time or eating anything. I took the 220 question, 3 hour test, and I got an 81!!! I was so excited to get done with that. I went and stayed with my friends Cord and Whitney and as the day went on, my stomach muscles would get looser and looser and it was aching because of how nervous I was before. Man it was so nice to be done with that.
The next morning I drove to AZ with my sisters stuff with no AC and no cruise control. It wasn't to bad really, other than getting my left arm fried from having the window rolled down. I met up with my parent in Eagar and dropped off the car and we headed to Show Low to stay with my grandma. The next morning my dad and I headed for Blackriver, where we love to go fishing because of how great the fishing is and how much fun we have with all the people that are there. The Bigelows are always a fun and crazy bunch to be around. We were there for three days and caught a lot of fish. The second day I caught 11 fish on my first 11 casts!! It was amazing. We fried up fresh fish that night too and it was amazing. There was a lot of people in camp, and it was a blast.
We got back on saturday night and the next morining decided we needed to make a stop in Phoenix to try and find Katelyn and Jade a car. You can read their wild story of why they needed one here. So we went down there and called all sorts of people on the way down to see where to find a car and we ended up calling a guy that was leaving to Australia that weekend and needed to sell his car and we got it from him. So, the next morning, my mom and I drove the truck and trailer back to Idaho while my dad stayed and put new tire on and made sure everything was good then took off to Tennessee to take the car over to them and fly back later after he dropped it off. Pure craziness of a trip it was, haha.
I got back up here and now I got hired at the last hospital I did clinicals at! It is only PRN/On call (kinda whenever needed) but it is getting my foot in the door so hey, I'm excited to get my career started.
Erin is doing great, she just started more classes for the summer so she'll be pretty busy, doing that and working at the school.
Other than that there is just a bunch of stuff going on, it's flooding up here and fires down by Eagar are insane and everybody down there are evacuating, Erin's grandpa just passed away (sad day), and too many other things to add. It is just crazy right now!!!!!!
First, we moved back over to Shelley, ID and moved into Erin's parents house so I could finish my clinicals at the hospital in Idaho Falls and not have to take out student loans, very thankful for them to help out. I finished my last semester there and finally graduated from the Radiology Tech. Program!! Woot woot! There was a lot of sacrifice and stress and all kinds of mixed emotion that were endured during these last couple of years, and I am soo glad it's done. I scheduled to take my national registry test a week and a half after I graduated to get it over with. I studied that whole time and was stressed out so much. My test was in Utah. There was alot of other stuff going on with the family and stuff, so after all the planning this is what happened:
My sister Britt was moving down on friday back to Eagar,AZ. My parents were heading down there for some business so they were taking a load of stuff for them down. I ended up driving one of their cars full of stuff too down to Utah, took the test, then the next day drive the car to AZ for them. I drove down to Utah early so I could have a little bit of study time. Well I parked down the street from the testing place and studied and when it was closer to time to leave, I tried to leave and the car battery had died because I forgot to turn the light off when I parked to study (my mind was freaking out about the test ok!). So I had to wander around frantically to try and find someone to help me jump start my car so I could make it to my test on time. I finally found a nice guy who helped me, and I went straight over there without very much extra study time or eating anything. I took the 220 question, 3 hour test, and I got an 81!!! I was so excited to get done with that. I went and stayed with my friends Cord and Whitney and as the day went on, my stomach muscles would get looser and looser and it was aching because of how nervous I was before. Man it was so nice to be done with that.
The next morning I drove to AZ with my sisters stuff with no AC and no cruise control. It wasn't to bad really, other than getting my left arm fried from having the window rolled down. I met up with my parent in Eagar and dropped off the car and we headed to Show Low to stay with my grandma. The next morning my dad and I headed for Blackriver, where we love to go fishing because of how great the fishing is and how much fun we have with all the people that are there. The Bigelows are always a fun and crazy bunch to be around. We were there for three days and caught a lot of fish. The second day I caught 11 fish on my first 11 casts!! It was amazing. We fried up fresh fish that night too and it was amazing. There was a lot of people in camp, and it was a blast.
We got back on saturday night and the next morining decided we needed to make a stop in Phoenix to try and find Katelyn and Jade a car. You can read their wild story of why they needed one here. So we went down there and called all sorts of people on the way down to see where to find a car and we ended up calling a guy that was leaving to Australia that weekend and needed to sell his car and we got it from him. So, the next morning, my mom and I drove the truck and trailer back to Idaho while my dad stayed and put new tire on and made sure everything was good then took off to Tennessee to take the car over to them and fly back later after he dropped it off. Pure craziness of a trip it was, haha.
I got back up here and now I got hired at the last hospital I did clinicals at! It is only PRN/On call (kinda whenever needed) but it is getting my foot in the door so hey, I'm excited to get my career started.
Erin is doing great, she just started more classes for the summer so she'll be pretty busy, doing that and working at the school.
Other than that there is just a bunch of stuff going on, it's flooding up here and fires down by Eagar are insane and everybody down there are evacuating, Erin's grandpa just passed away (sad day), and too many other things to add. It is just crazy right now!!!!!!
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
3 years ago..........
Today is our 3rd year Anniversary!! It has been a crazy 3 years. In the 3 years of being married, we have changed both of our majors twice, moved 4 times, worked in 6 different places, gone to 5 different colleges and have had 3 different cars. If in 3 years I would have known that I would be soon graduating with a Radiology Tech degree, you studying to be a teacher, we would be moving in with your parents for 6 months and me not having a pickup, I would have thought it was a crazy idea and that it wasn't going to happen. But life is crazy as we know it, and I wouldn't change any of the time I have spent with you for anything. Happy 3 Years Sweetheart!!!
On another note we finally moved back over to Eastern Idaho again!! I hate moving but I'm glad we moved back over. We are in Shelley and we moved in with Erin's parents for the time being until one of us finds a decent job, which will be hard with Erin is going to be taking 15 credits this spring and me doing 40 hour clinicals a week and not getting paid. So that's why we are where we are at. It is very nice to be around alot of family again.
I hope you all have a Great Holiday Season!! And I hope that we all remember the true meaning of Christmas, that our Savior, Redeemer and Brother Jesus Christ came into the world to save us from ourselves and give us the chance to have joy more than any earthly thing could give us.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
We're Alive!!!!
Ok, I don't know how I could have slacked so bad at updating this, I haven't had very much time but I should have set some aside. Ok enough with the excuses, this is a little bit of what we have been up to.
We have been so busy with school and work, it has been crazy this last six months. Erin busy with elementary education, and me, still plugging away at radiology. We only have 2 1/2 weeks left of this semester, I can't wait. Only these couple of weeks left of classes and all I have is next semester of clinicals then I'm done!!!!! Can I hear a WOOT WOOT!!!
I was able to go to a couple of Boise State games, one with Erin and Alyssa:
And the other with my parents and Aunt and Uncle and Cousin's Husband:
We had so much fun, it was a blast. I was able to meet up with one of my good buddies and his wife, Jonathan and Melina Crosby who was interviewing for PA school in Boise (Congrats Jonathan!) and it was very nice to see them, glad they are going to be closer up here.
We just had thanksgiving in Shelley with both of our families, and we had a good time, except for the crazy blizzard we had! It was insane, roads closed eveywhere, and it got cold afterwards, very cold. We barely made it to Shelley and barely made it back to Twin Falls. But it was a good time, and I got to hang out with good company:
My niece and Nephew. They are my favorite Niece and Nephew.
Well, we are in store for some big changes soon. 2 1/2 weeks until school ends then we are moving back over to Shelley so I can finish my clinicals at Mountain View Hospital in Idaho Falls and Erin is taking classes at Idaho State University. We are moving in with Erin's parents to finish off these last 6 months of school. We are very grateful for them to help us out so we don't have to have any student loans at all for me to finish school!! I will be the happiest man ever if I don't have to get student loans! Then we can maybe look at buying a house instead of trying to pay off loans. Well I need a job too but that's a whole other thing.
Well, at the moment I can't think of other things to say, but I will try to be better.
We have been so busy with school and work, it has been crazy this last six months. Erin busy with elementary education, and me, still plugging away at radiology. We only have 2 1/2 weeks left of this semester, I can't wait. Only these couple of weeks left of classes and all I have is next semester of clinicals then I'm done!!!!! Can I hear a WOOT WOOT!!!
I was able to go to a couple of Boise State games, one with Erin and Alyssa:
And the other with my parents and Aunt and Uncle and Cousin's Husband:
We had so much fun, it was a blast. I was able to meet up with one of my good buddies and his wife, Jonathan and Melina Crosby who was interviewing for PA school in Boise (Congrats Jonathan!) and it was very nice to see them, glad they are going to be closer up here.
We just had thanksgiving in Shelley with both of our families, and we had a good time, except for the crazy blizzard we had! It was insane, roads closed eveywhere, and it got cold afterwards, very cold. We barely made it to Shelley and barely made it back to Twin Falls. But it was a good time, and I got to hang out with good company:
My niece and Nephew. They are my favorite Niece and Nephew.
Well, we are in store for some big changes soon. 2 1/2 weeks until school ends then we are moving back over to Shelley so I can finish my clinicals at Mountain View Hospital in Idaho Falls and Erin is taking classes at Idaho State University. We are moving in with Erin's parents to finish off these last 6 months of school. We are very grateful for them to help us out so we don't have to have any student loans at all for me to finish school!! I will be the happiest man ever if I don't have to get student loans! Then we can maybe look at buying a house instead of trying to pay off loans. Well I need a job too but that's a whole other thing.
Well, at the moment I can't think of other things to say, but I will try to be better.
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