Aquarium

Elena, Evy and I went to the aquarium in Sandy today.


Evy wasn't scared of the stingrays, sharks or whatever this thing is. She only got scared when I physically tried to force my mom to touch the electric shock button that gives you a jolt similar to what an eel does to its prey. She made me do it but chickened out herself. I swear my left arm tingled for 5 straight minutes.

We watched them feed the penguins.

We had story time.

Grandma can't go anywhere without her trademark red shirt and jeans.

Easter 2011

We spent the Saturday before Easter at Grandma and Grandpa Call's house in Idaho. This is my mom's mom and step-father. They never disappoint.


Dying Easter eggs. Hayden, Spencer, Brooklyn and Maddi. Every year someone has to make Michele's signature watermelon Easter egg.

Melanie, Kate, Holly, Evy and Sami. Matt, Steve and Kate all flew up for the day. I would like to publicly make fun of them for this.

Brooklyn, Maddi, Kate, Sami, Jack, Spencer and Evy. Sami was such a dear and helped the kids gather eggs instead of putting them all into her basket.

Evy loved it.

Evy and Nelson during the hunt. I am sure this was Nelson's favorite activity since he is such a hunter and all. He later shot guns with my grandpa and helped plant trees. He would have been a farmer if he'd had the chance he always tells me.

Melanie, Vera, Holly, Spencer, Melissa and Maggie. I look positively gigantic here. I swear I am not expecting. Just extra large that day I guess. Too much Easter candy.

We went to church in our new ward for the second time. Ignore our gravel driveway. We can't have a real one until the weather permits. We all know how weather doesn't cooperate in Cache Valley.

We went to a nearby school by our house after and also another park so Taggert and Evy could get out. Someone was BBQing with their family and it smelled divine. I can't wait to start BBQing.

I'm done with school for the summer! 4-21-11

This semester I took a nursing assessment class. I had to do a physical assessment on my partner (luckily it was my friend Rachael from work) in front of a nurse practitioner all from memory. I even had to look in her nostrils. I dare you to do this to your friend in an exam, without laughing.

Next I took a nursing research class, where we critiqued research articles and learned about the steps involved in medical research. This class is notorious for being confusing, but luckily I had an awesome teacher. My final project was on whether grape juice was as good for your heart as red wine is. (It actually is quite good for your heart according to many articles I read)


As many of you know, I am finishing my bachelor's degree in nursing. Not all schools can give you a bachelor's degree, they give you two associates degrees instead. So if you want an actual bachelor's degree, you have to go to a university after nursing school to receive one. I will start again in the fall and have 3 semesters to go. It was mostly online but I also went to class every few weeks or so this past year and really liked it. I am switching to straight online next year since it's too hard to find help with Evy when I attend school. I do think that as useful as online classes are, there is no substitute for a classroom and interaction with people.

Move to Hyde Park April 2, 2011

 Thanks to family and friends, we finally moved to Hyde Park. I can't find my camera for the life of me, so all I have is the pictures Karlene took on her iphone at the storage facility.

Cute little Evy

We're so glad to be in our new house but I am still commuting to Salt Lake for work until I find a job in Logan. The best part about moving to a new neighborhood is the chocolate chip cookies they brought. De-lightful. Now we get to look forward to putting in our yard this summer. Yeah!

March 1, 2011 Visit to Logan

Evy and I took a ride up with Nelson's dad Gene to Logan for the day to visit Nelson and check on the progress of our house. First of all, let me say I am thrilled January and February are over. Let it be known I DO NOT like those months. We went to Chili's for lunch. Nelson caught Evy drinking his diet coke. Gross. She didn't like it.


Evy and I in front of our house. It's just about done.


We went to Aggie ice cream of course. This is Aggie blue mint ice cream flavor and it's stinkin' good. It looks like we shaved steps in the side of Evy's hair. I assure you we did not. Let's just say her hair has been a "little slow" growing in.


Delish

Hyde Park House February 2011

The house is coming along nicely. Do you think they'll throw the port-a-potty in as a freebie? Sure hope so. The front door and garage door are going to be dark brown. I was hesitant to let Nelson do that, but we needed some bold colors.

Nelson and I thought there would be more brick. Oh well, you get what you pay for right?

Master bathroom

Kitchen. It's strange seeing all the colors we picked come together. You really just guess and hope they work together. Looks like we picked a lot of the same colors for things.

This carpet is darker than I thought it would be. I purposely picked dark though. My friend Amber had dark carpet in her tv room growing up. I can't tell you how many times we spilled root beer and it never showed up.

Front room

Main entryway.

Tiling our house - January 22, 2011

We are trying to save as much money on the building of our house as we can, so we decided to do our own flooring (except for carpet). This is a great idea, but unfortunately involves a lot of family members. We owe Nelson's family and friend Russ big time for driving all the way up and spending their Saturday helping us. Nelson still has to do the kitchen this coming week. He's putting hardwood in (which he hasn't done before) and he's not looking forward to it.


This is Nelson's friend Russ from his mission working on the bathroom. Everyone cursed me when they discovered I bought 4 inch tiles for the bathrooms. They apparently take forever but they did these faster than the rooms with 12 inch tiles. Maybe it's because they did those last and were sick of it by then.


Nelson and Brett in the mud room that leads to the laundry room. We bought cheaper tile for this room and you could tell. They kept cracking. I guess you get what you pay for.


Mud room when they first started.

This is the entryway. Brett and Darren did this section. This is pre-grout.

Entryway again.

Evy was a trooper as usual. She was just bummed she couldn't roam around. She also didn't get a lot of affection from others because she puked in the car on the way up and reeked. I cleaned her up the best I could but only a bath and a washing machine can fix that problem.