Last night I spent some time reading a bunch of blogs on the fun, exciting, creative things you all did for Halloween. You know what we did? I got up at 4:30 because I have this awesome head cold making it hard to sleep, went to work at 6:30 am, spent 12 1/2 hours mostly on my feet passing medication to the elderly and charting (that mostly sums up my job), came home completely exhausted, did laundry, ate the delicious dinner Ben made, cut his hair (please note that when you add up all the above factors on a lady who is 7 months pregnant you end up with a less than stellar haircut) and finally went to a friends house to hang out for a bit (so there was some fun to be had). No costumes, pumpkins, or candy.
So we really didn't do anything to celebrate Halloween, lame I know. However, I do fully intend to celebrate the upcoming holidays with gusto. The upcoming months make up one of my favorite times of the year and we have a lot to look forward to this year. To start off the Thanksgiving spirit, I'm going to try to blog every day between now and Thanksgiving about something I'm thankful for. This is not a "make sacrifices in order to accomplish it goal" but more like a "I usually don't have anything to blog about so I'll give this a try and see if I like it, no sleep lost" goal. Anyone want to join me?
10.24.2010
I'm going to miss this
There is a country singer, I'm not even sure who it is, who sings a song about appreciating the stage of life you are in. The chorus says something like, "You're gonna miss this, you're gonna want this back, you're going to wish these days hadn't gone by so fast. These are some good times, take another look around, you may not know it now, but you're gonna miss this."
This is how I feel about the impending change about to happen in our lives! I am so excited to move on to the next stage, actually have us both graduate from college (in two months!) and move on to bigger and better things. However, I know that part of me will miss this stage. Ben and I have had such a fun couple of years being newly wed students in Provo. We've enjoyed the time we've had just together, the wards we've been in and the friends we've made. One thing I know I'll miss is our little apartment. It's small and pretty simple, and it's the first and only home we've had together. I love this little apartment.
This is our awesome family room, complete with an old couch my parents had in storage. My brother Will wants this couch really, really bad and has come to visit it a few times since we moved it to Provo. The center part folds down into a little table with drink holders, perfect for eating breakfast on Saturday morning while watching HGTV.
This is our little kitchen table we found second hand on Craigslist. It's been perfect for us. This is where Ben and I braved the adventure of Courtney learning to cook.
My little kitchen. This is the oven where last February I blew up Ben's birthday cake (who knew cake could do that? Apparently if you use self-rising flour it does....it was like a chocolate volcano inside my oven) and had to make another cake after a quick run to the store to get regular flour and oven cleaner. Luckily the second cake went much better.
I really have no great memories of the bathroom, other than I love the shower curtain. For the first year we lived here our shower curtain was plastic and the color of a band-aid. I finally decided against being quite so frugal and bought this one from Bed, Bath and Beyond. Turns out, I still had enough money from wedding gift cards that I didn't actually pay for the shower curtain. And to think I let the band-aid curtain bug me for a whole year.
Lastly, our little bedroom. That completes the tour of the Hugo apartment. Mostly I wanted to post this for my own memory of this little place. It's had it's annoying little quirks, like the fact that sometimes we can hear exactly what is going on above/below us (the first year we lived here the people below us fought a lot, Ben and I knew way too much about their personal lives), and that the only heating/air conditioning unit is in the front room and requires a system of strategically placed fans to get cold/warmth to the bedroom, but we've loved it. It's been a wonderful home.
This is how I feel about the impending change about to happen in our lives! I am so excited to move on to the next stage, actually have us both graduate from college (in two months!) and move on to bigger and better things. However, I know that part of me will miss this stage. Ben and I have had such a fun couple of years being newly wed students in Provo. We've enjoyed the time we've had just together, the wards we've been in and the friends we've made. One thing I know I'll miss is our little apartment. It's small and pretty simple, and it's the first and only home we've had together. I love this little apartment.
This is what I see when I walk in the door
This is our awesome family room, complete with an old couch my parents had in storage. My brother Will wants this couch really, really bad and has come to visit it a few times since we moved it to Provo. The center part folds down into a little table with drink holders, perfect for eating breakfast on Saturday morning while watching HGTV.
This is our little kitchen table we found second hand on Craigslist. It's been perfect for us. This is where Ben and I braved the adventure of Courtney learning to cook.
My little kitchen. This is the oven where last February I blew up Ben's birthday cake (who knew cake could do that? Apparently if you use self-rising flour it does....it was like a chocolate volcano inside my oven) and had to make another cake after a quick run to the store to get regular flour and oven cleaner. Luckily the second cake went much better.
I really have no great memories of the bathroom, other than I love the shower curtain. For the first year we lived here our shower curtain was plastic and the color of a band-aid. I finally decided against being quite so frugal and bought this one from Bed, Bath and Beyond. Turns out, I still had enough money from wedding gift cards that I didn't actually pay for the shower curtain. And to think I let the band-aid curtain bug me for a whole year.
Lastly, our little bedroom. That completes the tour of the Hugo apartment. Mostly I wanted to post this for my own memory of this little place. It's had it's annoying little quirks, like the fact that sometimes we can hear exactly what is going on above/below us (the first year we lived here the people below us fought a lot, Ben and I knew way too much about their personal lives), and that the only heating/air conditioning unit is in the front room and requires a system of strategically placed fans to get cold/warmth to the bedroom, but we've loved it. It's been a wonderful home.
10.23.2010
Rain
I love the rain. I think I always have. Growing up in Utah, I appreciate the blessing of a rainstorm. I love the way it smells outside during a rainstorm. However, it has never smelled better than it did today, after working 12 1/2 hours in a nursing home that smells like old people, cleaning products, and cherry air freshener.
10.18.2010
Taking Time Off
This past weekend Ben had to go out of town for a medical school interview, so I decided to take a little mini vacation up to Kaysville. Provo is always a little lonely without my main man. Staying at my parents house is so relaxing for me, even though I technically had a backpack full of homework with me, I didn't really even think about it the whole weekend. Instead, the weekend was filled with making these amazing chocolate dipped caramel apples. One of our fall traditions is to make these apples and take them around to people we like, love, or want to thank.
It was so much fun to just hang out with my mom and sister
We spent a good chunk of the weekend laughing.
That happens a lot when Heidi is around.
It was so fun to just hang out with the family for a relaxing, fairly unscheduled weekend. I stayed up in Kaysville until Monday morning so I could go to my doctor's appointment. My little boy has turned and is head down now! (This is a huge load off my mind! The kid has been breech this whole time) After the appointment, Will treated me to lunch (he's an awesome big brother) and I headed back to Provo. After taking the weekend off work, clinical, and school responsibilities it's definitely time to buckle down and start working on the big project I have due in a few weeks. It sure was heavenly to have a little break!
It was so much fun to just hang out with my mom and sister
We spent a good chunk of the weekend laughing.That happens a lot when Heidi is around.
It was so fun to just hang out with the family for a relaxing, fairly unscheduled weekend. I stayed up in Kaysville until Monday morning so I could go to my doctor's appointment. My little boy has turned and is head down now! (This is a huge load off my mind! The kid has been breech this whole time) After the appointment, Will treated me to lunch (he's an awesome big brother) and I headed back to Provo. After taking the weekend off work, clinical, and school responsibilities it's definitely time to buckle down and start working on the big project I have due in a few weeks. It sure was heavenly to have a little break!
10.09.2010
10.06.2010
Gratitude
I loved President Monson's talk in General Conference this last weekend on gratitude. It occurred to me while he was talking that if I followed his counsel, and lived a life of gratitude, life would just be better. The tiny, little, every day worries I have would melt away if I filled my mind with gratitude. So, in a goal to do better, here is a list of things I've been grateful for in the past few days:
First of all, for Ben.
Everything with him is more fun.
He takes care of me.
And he recently made me the most delicious
pumpkin pancakes for breakfast.
Spending time with my family. They make me laugh.
This was one of the last pictures we took of all of us before Nate left.
We miss him, but I'm also grateful he's a missionary.
He writes the funniest missionary letters I've ever read.
I'm also grateful I got to spend time with this lovely family last weekend.
Meet the Bradens.
Pam and my mom got to be good friends when we lived in Boise (back in 1991). They were in the Relief Society Presidency together. Pam was also Will and my preschool teacher. She has four awesome and hilarious kids. They've been visiting us every Conference weekend (and usually several weekends in between conference sessions) for years. We love it. It's a big party. We literally laughed all weekend long.
It's Fall!
I love this time of year.
Right now the mountains look beautiful.
It's football season.
We ate pumpkin pie at a neighbors house last night.
I can make soup again for dinner.
School is well underway (if you didn't know, I love school)
Fabulous Holidays are coming up.
I just truly love this time of year.
PS: I'm going to make the blog private at the end of the week. Last call for email addresses :)
First of all, for Ben.Everything with him is more fun.
He takes care of me.
And he recently made me the most delicious
pumpkin pancakes for breakfast.
Spending time with my family. They make me laugh.
This was one of the last pictures we took of all of us before Nate left.
We miss him, but I'm also grateful he's a missionary.
He writes the funniest missionary letters I've ever read.
I'm also grateful I got to spend time with this lovely family last weekend.Meet the Bradens.
Pam and my mom got to be good friends when we lived in Boise (back in 1991). They were in the Relief Society Presidency together. Pam was also Will and my preschool teacher. She has four awesome and hilarious kids. They've been visiting us every Conference weekend (and usually several weekends in between conference sessions) for years. We love it. It's a big party. We literally laughed all weekend long.
It's Fall!
I love this time of year.
Right now the mountains look beautiful.
It's football season.
We ate pumpkin pie at a neighbors house last night.
I can make soup again for dinner.
School is well underway (if you didn't know, I love school)
Fabulous Holidays are coming up.
I just truly love this time of year.
PS: I'm going to make the blog private at the end of the week. Last call for email addresses :)
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