Nursing School

I wanted to catch everyone up with my nursing life. I'm in my 4th semester in the BYU college of nursing and I'll graduate in April with a bachelor's of science in nursing as well as my RN (as long as I pass the boards)!! This semester my clinicals are in the Intensive Care Unit at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center (pictured below). I am really enjoying the ICU and even though the patient's are in critical condition, I enjoy having only 1 or 2 patients to focus on. I wish I could take pictures inside the unit of me doing cool things, but unfortunately, the privacy laws prevent that. =)

One bummer in the ICU is that most of the patients can't talk because they're on a ventilator so you can't really interact in that way. It is neat to form relationships with the family members and build trust with them. On my shift last week my patient was doing better and then just started going down hill. The patient's grown-up daughter was there when we told her that we would have to re-intubate her mom (a step back in her progress for sure). She was having a rough time with it because she thought her mom was out of the woods and said to me (a complete stranger until just hours before this) "I need a hug." I enjoy being a nurse (well a student nurse at least) and getting to help complete strangers every day.

Our Wedding Day - August 18, 2007

Here are some pictures from our actual wedding day. Can you tell I love the color pink? Thanks everyone for making this day so fabulous. Enjoy some moments from our special day.

Wedding Pictures

Our Wedding Day

Sorry it has been forever since I updated our blog. It's been a busy end of the summer but we're back and here is what has happened. WE GOT MARRIED!!!! Yeah!!! Sean and I were married on August 18th in the Salt Lake City Temple.

The day literally started off with a bang because the 23-story Key Bank building in downtown Salt Lake was scheduled for imposion. Crazy huh? It's true though. At 6:45 am the building was imploded and our hotel was only a couple blocks away. We watched out the window and could hear the boom and feel the shaking as the building quickly went down. Dust and debris covered everything so the sidewalks and streets were closed for hours as they cleaned it up. Good thing we didn't have an early wedding huh?

The day was perfect though because it was cloudy which helped to bring down the August tempertures. It did rain a little but that's supposed to be good luck isn't it? =) A nice old man in the temple said to me, "You know why it rained don't you?" I asked him why and he replied, "Because Heavenly Father doesn't want all that dust and debris on His temple so he washed it off." I think he was right.

Well it was a terrific ceremony and we are so happy to be sealed for time and all eternity. I love the temple. We had so much support from family and friends and we are so grateful for that. Thank you everyone for traveling far to be with us--we'll never forget that.