Praise the Lord!

I had a great night tonight. My church dedicated our new building and it was a party! We had a wonderful worship service with communion and then we played music and danced the rest of the night! Besides being so much fun it is so amazing to be a part of this church. My church has been meeting, growing, and surviving through the Grace of God for almost 20 years now. I became a part of it (much to my dismay at first) about 11 years ago and I'm so grateful for it. My church is truly my extended family. I was so overwhelmed with emotion and gratitude for all that I've been through with my church. I remember when we got the permission to meet in another church's fellowship hall, and that was pretty great. I remember when my dad was the head of the building committee and headed the building campaign to get our very own building to worship in. With the help of many people from many religions all around the Salt Lake Valley we got our building up. It's where I met some of my dearest friends while writing scriptures on the framing wood and concrete floor before they were covered and placing each and every stone on the outside with our very own hands. We've come so far from meeting in any building we could to having our own small building out in a field to now having our building with the sanctuary and the new building that is our fellowship hall (that isn't just a hallway) with lots of new rooms for the kids and youth. This church has come so far and has been such a blessing in my life and I'm truly honored and overjoyed to be a part of it. Praise the Lord!

Yay Green!

So as you all can see, I'm done with sappy V-Day and it's onto to awesome St. Patrick's Day. Don't get me wrong, I like Valentine's day just fine. In fact, we had a great V-day this year. My bro-in-law's awesome girlfriend and I made a delicious dindin for our guys! It was fun. We dipped strawberries and made pasta with a homemade alfredo and I made Max and I lobster tails and Brittany made Art halibut. And for dessert we had chocolate mousse pie! Yum. But as much fun as is was, it's not at the top of my list as far as my favorite holidays go; so bring on the green! :)

I know I was born to do this.

Had a really, really, really hard day at work last week.  Hardest day I may ever have in my career and I'm not even a nurse yet.  And it was an event that some nurses that have been doing nursing in Labor and Delivery for years have never experienced.  I couldn't be more grateful for the team that was on that night; the Doctors, RN's, etc.  I wish things had worked out differently but they didn't and we all have to accept that.  I pray that all the others that were there that night are coping and I pray for the family of the patient.  We don't have all the answers but this did bring me comfort in an odd way.  I have always said, even in my essays for nursing school apps, that even after the longest night of the hardest shift that I still want to come back to work for my next shift.  And guess what...  I still do.  Even after this I know in my soul that I was born to do this job and I still want to go back to work tomorrow night.  

Self-Shot Family Photos

Me and my awesome sis, Laura.  She's one of my best friends.

Three generations of strong women

My sis, mom and I.  And for some weird reason, it always ends up that I'm on mom's left and Laura's on mom's right every time we take a picture like this...

Me, my hubby, my gma, mom, Larry and Laura

Mom & her soon-to-be hubby, Larry

My sis, Laura, Max and I

So these are being posted a bit late but here they are. We decided to do some family pictures while my sis was in town for Christmas because we haven't had them done since before I got married. We tried to get a lady from our church, who does photography, to shoot them for us and then I would take the raw images and enhance them on my computer myself. But when I called her to make sure she was still coming, she didn't answer or call me back. So I decided to set up my tripod and try out my camera timer and shoot our family photos myself. And guess what... They turned out pretty good. So here are a few of the images; my family shoot that I shot. :)