Flowers

Wednesday night about 11pm Justin got a text from one of his best friends. It said the fallowing, "I am getting married tomorrow at 12:45 at the courthouse. Be there at 12:30 if you want to come." So, immediately after we read this. Justin freaked out. I on the other hand decided to be supportive. I didn't know what to say. So, I fell back on my typical response, "well, do you need help with anything." The only thing that they really need was flowers. I offered to help out. My Mom was a florist, I worked at a floral shop, I should be able to help. Being part of the Internet generation I googled "how to make a wedding bouquet" and found a great website. Needless to say this is my first attempt to make a bouquet, but I think it turned out well. I even tried a Boutonniere.
The wedding was interesting, my favorite part was the picture of George Bush in the background.

Making the Rounds

May has been an intersting month. As most of you know I got excepted at Nevada State College. So this has brought on a lot of excitement but also a lot of worring. Now we know what needs done and have to find a way to get it done. So about two weeks ago, Justin and I decited to head to Vegas and see what we could find out. The first leg of our trip took us to Salt Lake. We were able to go to dinner with Michele, Miceala, my Grandpa and Kristi. The next day before heading down to Beaver to see the Carters we went to Costco and Baught "The Host" on CD. This made the drive almost fun. We spent mother's day in Beaver and were excited to see and play with my cousins. Justin loves playing with the Kids, I do not have the energy to keep up with him. We made it to Vegas and were able to spend alittle time with Jess and Von. We joined them and some of there friends for a scavenger hunt in wal-mart. We lost but took some fun pictures.

We spent the next day house hunting for over six hours. We found a good realitor but I didn't find any places that I loved. Oh, and while house hunting we found one of the old casino's was on fire. We called 911 and reported it. We sat for a while and watched it burn. The pyro in me loved it.

We made it back to Idaho in time for Celeste's graduation. She is our neice. It's always a little weird to me that I am closser in age to his neices then to his siblings. I had fun playing volleyball, gitar hero and we even went to the "Progect Graduation" Fairfeilds verion of safe and sober night. The graduating class was 18 people so the party was open to all the high schoolers. And now I am just waiting for the children to get out of school so that I can go to work full time.

THE VEGAS

Its Official I have been excepted into the Nevada State College Accelerated Nursing Program. Which means we are moving to the Vegas. Well the Henderson at least. We are both really excited and will keep you posted on the plans. Class starts Mid August. Now I just have to find the motivation to study for Finals. These are the flowers that Justin Gave me. And the Daffodil that my niece pulled out of the neighbors yard.

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Thursdays in the Life of a Gorringe

This Thursday played out in an all too familiar way. I ended up waking up that morning and debated on whether to drive to school. School is about 45 miles away and on Thursday one of my classes was cancelled and the other one I could watch online. I decided that it wasn’t worth getting out of bed. Well around three o’clock p.m. I was working on my school work on the computer and I heard Justin’s Voice upstairs I ran up to see him and I found him using crutches and he had a walking boot on his foot. His response was “Oh, Hi Honey, I just spent two hours in the ER. I got ran over by the forklift.” I freaked out and almost started crying. After I made sure he was OK. I got really mad. It is sad that it has become such a common event to go to the ER in my family that he didn’t even think to call me and let me know. He claims that he didn’t want to worry me at school. Well his foot is now a lovely shade of Blue but it is not broken. He has stopped using his crutches and has been working on the truck all day so I assume he is feeling better. I have since forgiven him for not calling but made him promise to call me next time he is admitted to the hospital. Oh, by the way this is the third Work Comp. case he has had in the two and a half years we have been married. I was just glad that it was Thursday and that Grays Anatomy was finially back on.

The Good Life

I have really enjoyed the last few weeks. I am finally done with my online classes which drops my course load from 20 credits to 13. This not only makes my life less stressful but allows me to do more of the things I would like to do. One of the things that I really missed doing, even though I know it sounds corny, is doing house work. I truly believe that this last week has been the first time I have been caught up on laundry, dishes and cleaning it quite some time. Justin has honestly forgotten where things “really” go, he didn’t even think to look for his clothes in the dresser.
Last weekend we went to Salt Lake City. We spent the previous weekend there too, but I ended up having to go down again to take the TEAS test (it’s a test to get into nursing school). I did really well on the test. It was also part two of birthday week (Justin’s birthday). Michele took us out to a lovely birthday dinner where we shared Justin’s special day with the table next to us. We always enjoy spending time with the Michele’s Family and we all enjoyed the birthday brownie.
The only other thing that has been going on here in Burley is that last night I volunteered at an AIDS awareness convention. It was put on by the World Vision Company. It was very moving and I enjoyed volunteering. I spent the night handing out head phones and IPods for the guided tour. I have to admit the reason I signed up is because I got extra credit in my Microbiology class but I have vowed to do more volunteer work. Life is slowing down and now we are in the waiting stage. I sent in my Application for nursing school on Tuesday, all fingers crossed.
Oh and Justin got a promotion at work, which means a little raise but also working some nights. So it looks like I have the bed to myself tonight.

SPING BREAK

These last week was my spring break and in appropriate co-ed form we decided to head somewhere warmer. We decided to take a trip to The Vegas and visit our friends Jess and Von. We then flew to Phoenix to visit some of my favorite people. We spent the first few days with Vince. We walked around a lot, hung out at the pool and ate a lot. The makings of a great vacation. We enjoyed spending time with Vince and I fell in love with his puppy. Her name is Maddie.

For our birthdays Vince took us to the Texas Roadhouse for some yummy food. They made Justin and I sit on the "birthday" saddle and sang to us.

On Wednesday we went to the Mesa Temple and walked through the visitor center and did a session. We also took lots of random pics. This is me hugging the cactus.

The last few days we spent with my best friend from elementary school, Stephanie Rider, who was also celebrating a birthday her mom got giant cup cakes for us all.

We spent Thursday at the Grand Canyon. It was quite some hole. The day was perfect and the views were unforgettable.

The last night we were in Phoenix we went to the Easter Pageant at the temple. We met up with Katie, Brian, Chris, Kira and their baby. It was a blast catching up with everyone. I miss them all already.

We flew to Salt Lake on Saturday and spent my birthday and Easter with the Rands Clan.

Oh and more importantly I got a car. I love it, it is so bold that there is no excuse not to see me coming down the road.