Engagement Photos

This was fun. I am so glad that we decided to get engagement photos done. It was a last minute decision and it turned out GREAT! Thank you Kelly Marie Photography for doing such a great job! If you are ever in the Myrtle Beach area and need photos done....she is the best. My flower crown was created with the help of my friend Crystal Walter... she is so talented and creative... I would wear a flower crown everyday of the week.. ;)

whats up!

Things I cherish... getting up early enough to drink my coffee and watch a show that recorded the night before.
AND my 2nd semester of nursing school is coming to a COMPLETE END FINALLY.... 2 weeks left all in all. Then 2 weeks off and the start of 3rd semester over the summer...... 10 weeks 2 nursing classes BRING IT..... ahhhh hopefully I can squeeze in a afternoon at the beach every once in a while:)

OH AND ALSO I found the house that I neeeeeed in our future place of living.....

It is so cute and old- built in 1928- MY KIND OF HOUSE

There are 3 fireplaces :) and original hard wood

and french doors awwww... 

putting this on my dream board and hopefully it will come true (power of positive thinking)

Notes from my pup

Lately I have been receiving letters in the mail from my pup.... how is that possible? She has the best dad everrrrrrr
I miss my dog SO much.. and any time I see a Australian Shepherd, I immediately go into crazy dog lover mode, "Can I pet your dog"? "Do you just love aussies?" "I have had 2","Awww your such a pretty doggy" "Muah Muah Muah".
So needless to say I miss my babe so much and am thankful for the cute letters Bud writes from "her".... he is such a great dog dad....

Look at those two together.... I'm pretty sure they can read each others minds:)

Hello March

Birthday trip in Jan to Charleston

My charleston dress 

Husk for birthday lunch :)

My peeps

Thank youuuu for coming... LOVE YOU

OFFICE DONE to get my study on. 

Table and chairs 20 bucks goodwill project.

Quick lunch at the beach

Got to see my Nahla babe and her favorite dad

Squeezed in board time

my place

jumbo

flowers for nothing

UO couch put together by me and only me... 

my life

Adding yoga into it all

only pic from vday

nerdy dorky weirdos

YUP it snowed in Myrtle Beach... weird 

BEKS came to seeeee me YIPPEEEE

Used our christmas present fire pit finally... 

GOT TO SEEEE LAKEN in KY

:)

RAD likes to study tooooo

Rad's ABCS

Anyone ever read this book? Was reading nursing book questions in the floor at B&N and a woman told me I HAD TO READ IT... especially since I am going into healthcare but that it is a "hard read"..... hmmm maybe when I graduate I will have time to check it out:)

Positivity

School has started. I feel crazy. I feel lost. I feel like I don't know anything. So what do I do? HAVE A ME DAY. Get back to what I am all about. I had a pretty good clinical today to start the day off right at 5:30 AM of course the whole time back in forth in my head I am nervous then confident- back to nervous then a little more confident.  Even when I walked downstairs to leave the house and saw that the back door had been left open all night long, not even that stopped my day from being great (Thank you Market Common for being a safe place to live). The Doctor sent my medicine to the wrong CVS all the way 15 miles in the other direction that I passed coming home from clinical BUT that definitely didn't stop my day from being great. Thank you power of positive thinking:). My Urban Outfitters couch arrived today woooohoo. I went to my first yoga class here in Market Common and had a legitimate conversation with a female who could possibly be my soul sister and it WASN'T about nursing school...... Helloooo January you are turning out. Now I am going to attempt putting together my couch.... then later I am going to see Silver Linings Playbook.  I LOVE THIS DAY, I wish it would never end!

Only thing that would make this day all the way perfection was if my loveee was here and my famm.

Rad and Photo booth makes for a funny video.

P.S. He just learned how to snap... :)

Getting into nursing school twice is T-O-U-G-H.

This time last year I was going through orientation at St. Mary's Nursing school in Huntington, WV. Now a year later and the first semester of nursing school under my belt I am going through it all over again at a new location in Myrtle Beach, SC. Yesterday I got the call that I was accepted into the program and would be starting in the second semester of the program .... but there was a catch.... it would probably be at the Georgetown location .... which is exactly 39.9 miles from my house and takes 1 hour and 5 minutes to get there (according to my iphone directions). I just sat in the car and cried, cried, cried. I felt so selfish for crying because I know how hard it is for people to get into these programs and after last semester of not getting in I knew that this was my only chance and I had to get over it and for the next 18 months get used to driving 4 or more hours a week through traffic (especially those horrible grueling months of the summer with all the vacationers traveling around Myrtle Beach, that thought made me cry harder). I had spent the first 2 years of college driving all over the place back and forth an hour to where Marc lived, I was happy to leave my driving days behind me.  The woman who called to tell me the news said that I should just consider myself going to Georgetown but that it wasn't official, there was still that little teeny tiny chance I would get in at the location that is exactly 0.5 miles away from my house now. I had an anxious feeling all day long and then today while I was running errands the miracle woman called me and told me that I got in at the location of my dreamssss. All worries set aside and I could relax.... until she told me that there was a mandatory orientation at 8:30am on January 10th, the morning after my 21st birthday of course. It is always something. BUT regardless I am so so so so happy and relieved that I am moving on with my career path that I love.  Now I can enjoy my Christmas while reviewing first semester information haha. Although I am nervous about starting somewhere different and not knowing how they do things, I am sure if I keep a positive attitude that I will catch on easily. The only thing that gets you through nursing school is taking it one minute (or second should I say) at a time and lots of melt downs of course and then there are times when u cry while eat cereal or something silly like that. :)