wow... it's been a long time!

Hi everyone!!! So I'm sorry that I haven't wrote forever, for the two people that read this blog. :) Our lives have been so so crazy!! Rick has been doing awesome with school and work. He has done a few presentations for work and he has to do another one in November in front of the whole company which is like 300 people! He is doing so good in school and is just kickin butt in everything. The nursing program has been going on for a couple months now, and it's CRAZY! I love it, and it's so fun to learn all this stuff.... but some days, wow! It will be great to be a nurse one day and be done with school! The great thing is, is that there is tons of great people that I love to be with in the program with me and it's fun to learn and do the stuff that I've always wanted to do. I pretty much have time to do nothing else, and poor rick and ruby get cereal and mac and cheese for dinner quite often, but it will all pay off in the end. Ruby is doing great, working and playing, and just getting use to living in our small little town of Monroe. Our two dogs are great! Maci pees all the time when she gets excited, still working on that, so if anyone has helpful hints on that it would be great. Something about nursing school has made me want to change my apperance. So lately I've cut all my hair off and as of last week I colored it all dark brown. I guess it's my way to be in control of something! But it's a fun change! Well that's all for now!

School... eek

Well I had orientation today for the nursing program.... I can't believe it's that time! Where did our summer go? School starts for me and Rick on wednesday. Pretty scary, but if we don't do it we'll never have a career or degree... so school is a must! So wish me and Rick luck...I think we'll need it! Oh and by the way... I'm starting up a little cake business... so if anyone would like birthday or holiday or anytime cakes, give me a chance!!! Oh and we got a new little puppy! She's a chiweenie and her name is Maci! We love her!!

Busy summer!

Well we've been crazy busy, but we've been having tons of fun! A couple months ago I wrote that we had a girl living with us, well she's back and she is now our foster daughter. Her name is Ruby, she is 27, and she has mental disabilities. It's pretty entertaining to see people's faces when I introduce a 27 year old hispanic girl as my foster daughter! I think it's a really good thing for us and for her. It's just another new adventure in our life. We're going to finish our basement and have a little apartment thing down there for her to have her own space. She's way excited! In June we had Rick's grandpa's funeral, it was up in Idaho. It was really interesting to learn about Rick's grandpa and meet alot of his extended family. All of his siblings and families were there, and I know that it's a funeral so it's not suppose to be fun, but being there with everyone and spending good family time was way fun! Then the beginning of this week we went up to salt lake for my family renuion. All my brothers and their families were there, and it was so fun! We all just hung out, went to the Bees game, played games and just enjoyed being together! (Not to mention eat delicious (not so healthy) food) The end of this month me and Rick are going to go to Colorado for a Rockies game. We love going to baseball games... so fun! And then a little up date on everything else.... I got into the nursing program.. yay yay yay!! It starts Aug 25. I'm so excited to be done with pre reqs but way nervous to actually start the program. But I'm way excited to start learning everything and actually start to be a nurse. I've been dreaming of it for so long, it will be nice to actually do it! Rick's going to be going to school full time and working. He's going to be crazy busy! I'm so proud of him! It's going to be so weird to have seperate lives from each other this semester. Last semester I took him to school, and stayed with him because I was his note taker, then brought him home and everything. But this time he'll drive himself, have a different note taker, and I'll see him when we both get home for the night. It's going to be crazy, and I'm sure I'll be nervous for the first little while till we get our routine down and I can trust that he'll be okay. But we both need to enjoy the rest of the summer before all that insanity begins. Rick loves driving his truck, and is getting way comfortable doing it. So overall, we're doing great and having adventures like always!!

rick's truck

Well a couple weeks ago Rick got his truck back!! finally!! he's been driving all over and he loves it. It's so fun to have him drive me around!! The other night we went on a date together and Rick drove. We got to the restaurant and I got out of the truck and helped him out, then when we were both out and ready Rick said, "okay now you have to get back in the truck so I can open the door for you." Oh man he is so cute!! So I jumped back in, and he wheeled around and opened the door for me. I wouldn't classify Rick as a romantic... but he sure can put those giddy butterflys in my stomach.

Vegas!!

So we've been home from our vacation for a while now but I haven't put any pictures or anything up. We went to tons of fun shows and saw lots of cool things and just had fun. I already want to go on another vacation!!

Bowling!!!!

Okay so for Rick's birthday I got him a bowling ball. And being the slacker that I am I haven't posted anything about it till now. But he did great!! We had tons of fun!!! So if anyone wants to go bowling... let us know!!!

post surgery

Well Rick went in for surgery last wednesday and they started the surgery thinking that he had 6 bladder stones, but once they were in his bladder they realized he had 10. And they are big ol' stones!! So they got 8 of them out but it was getting to risky so they couldn't get out the rest. So we went and had x-rays done today to see what the story is with the rest of them. So next week we'll figure out what's going on and will probably have to the do surgery all over again to get the rest. It sucks, but hopefully when it's all done Rick won't get infections any more and he'll feel so much better. So once again I'll keep you updated!!

every sunny day has a cloudy day behind it

Well we are back from vegas. We had so much fun!! Just like every vacation, it just wasn't long enough. Me and rick went to alot of shows and alot of shopping and eating and on and on. We stayed in some awesome hotels, and it turns out if you're in a wheelchair they consider you VIP so we got hooked up with rooms and seats in all the shows and didn't have to wait in line some places!! I'll post pictures later, but yep awesome vacation!!

Well tomorrow Rick has surgery :(. We found out that he has 6 bladder stones and 1 kidney stone. So tomorrow they are going to take out all the bladder stones. It's not a major surgery or anything, but he still has to go under and all that crappy stuff. So wish us luck with that.

I guess since we had so much fun, life had to bring us back down. But I'm excited for whatever the next up is!!

Still there........

Well we are busier than ever! I know I keep saying that but we just keep getting busier! Rick is still going to work and getting in the groove of things. They still don't really have everything organized for him so he just catches up on homework and other things while he's there. He's also doing great in school! It's really cool to see the things that he can create on the computer. He's going to be a great draftsman. I'm still working Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings then Monday and Friday nights too. I go with Rick to his school and I'm his notetaker.. in reality he doesn't really need one cause he's doing great but it's still fun to go with him and catch up on my homework and get paid for it! I'm in anatomy and boy oh boy it's a hard and crappy class. But I'm pulling through. I study about 3-4 hours a day and think and dream anatomy. It will be a relief when it's done. I'm applying for the nursing program here in the next few months.. so everyone keep your fingers crossed for me! We still have Ruby living with us until April. We're planning to go to Vegas during spring break for our anniversary and just because we need a get away! We're way excited! We still go to therapy in provo on saturdays and Rick rocks it! I'm so proud of him and how hard he tries at everything he does. It truly is the biggest blessing in my life to have him as my husband. He's amazing!! So there's an update on us... I'll write again later!!

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This is how I feel today!!

oh my goodness!!!!!!!!

So I've been meaning to write, but we are the busiest we've ever been! I'm trying to study like 3 hours a day and go to school, work, rick's school and everything inbetween. Rick's busy with his school and work and therapy and dealing with me studying all the time and giving him cereal for dinner cause I never want to stop studying to make dinner. (poor guy). But we're doing good! We also have a girl with mental disabilities living with us till March. But the busier we are the faster our days go. Which is a good thing. But we're hanging in there and making it all happen. We have sad days but we have more happy days. A favor to anyone who reads this silly little blog.... pray that rick will get better soon! We're long past ready! Thanks!

yay!!!!!!!!!!

Rick got new feeling in his right tricept today!!!!!!!!!! yay!!!!!!!!!!!

Once again......

So once again I've been a slacker with the whole blog thing. The funny thing is, is that I have no idea if people read our blog so I could be feeling guilty about not writing to myself! Well last week me and Rick started school again and Rick started his new job. So monday, wednesday, friday, Rick has work and I have school and work. Tuesdays and Thursdays Rick has school like all day and then we are going to go back to provo outpatient rehab on saturdays. So if we make it through this semester alive... gold stars for us! And lately I've been doing projects around the house like painting one of my walls red and making picture frames and drawing and painting a cow on plywood and so on. So we're always tired but we're getting alot of things accomplished and it's good for us!! We're trying to think of somewhere fun to go for our anniversary over spring break that's cheap so if anyone has ideas let me know!