I passed the NCLEX, yeah!

Oh my goodness, what a summer! I found out today that I passed this beasty test. I just started crying and thanked my Heavenly Father for blessing me. I worked so hard to pass this test and I figured after all that I can do, He would help me with the rest. My family has been so great for me, they've been such a great support. Thank you dad for your father's blessing, it gave me the needed strength to get through the test. I am deeply grateful for all the support from my friends and family. I am so excited to dive into life now. I have a list of things I've been waiting to accomplish and do. I love you all, thanks for being there for me!

Craft day!

Wahoo, it's finished! This was my saturday project inbetween study sessions. It took a few sessions of spray paint and sanding, but it finally came together. I also bought a hammer, yah that's right, and used it to hang the shelf on my wall. It looks really cute in my room!

The Hardy Family Reunion in Yosemite National Park, July 23-28th, 2008

Welcome to Yosemite National Park!

We had a great time! Since our family has all grown to pretty much the same height these days, we took two separate cars, which allowed for two people to sleep at a time and then the passenger had to stay awake for the driver. So we traveled about 13 hours to Cali and 13 back, so it was nice to have the extra room to spread out! In Yosemite, we hiked to a few waterfalls. The boys hiked Half Dome. I would've liked to, but I felt I wasn't in shape to do it. So the rest of the family that day hiked to Vernal Falls, which was still a pretty difficult hike. We also went to the Mariposa Grove of Sequoia trees. These trees can live to be over 2,000 years old and although they aren't as tall as the Redwood trees, they are wider in diameter. Check me out trying to be a tree hugger, huge huh! Well, it was all around really fun for our family to be there all together before Bryce leaves on his mission. Speaking of which, Bryce got his mission call the day we got to Cali so he had to wait until we got home so his "Brotherhood" could come over to watch him open it. It gets better, his mission call is "California San Fernando Mission" which has Yosemite located just north of its boundary. So pretty much we were in his mission when he got his call to the mission. Got to LOVE it!

A night with the Bee's! July 5th, 2008

On July 5th, Emily, mom, dad, and I went to our first Bee's game! It was a lot of fun. We each got a snowcone, and since they allowed us to put on our own flavoring, I destroyed it. I should've let Emily do it because I melted all the ice and pretty much drank pure sugar "tiger's blood" juice. Otherwise, we got to annoy our neighbors with the cool sound banger things. Yet Emily decided to use her razor long nails to puncture the one I'm holding in the picture after the game. Ah, it was great, her nails really can be dangerous! :) After the game, there were amazing fireworks to celebrate the 4th. They played instrumental music (my favorite) to the fireworks. They were the best I've seen in a while. The boys had better socializing things to do, but it was a great time for the four of us. Go Bee's!

Pitching tent in the backyard

In May, Chantel and I decided to pitch a tent in my backyard, eat popcorn while watching a movie on her laptop, and play cards. Well needless to say, the popcorn got eaten, but we were unable to finish the movie due to limited battery power. :) So we ended staying up late and talking. While we were talking we could hear raindrops starting to fall. We didn't think anything of it and fell asleep. But at 5am, we awoke to pouring rain and you can tell from the picture we didn't tuck the tarp in. So we were sleeping on a huge waterbed. It was awesome, it was so squishy! It finally started leaking through and got Chantel's pants wet so at 6am, we retreated to the house. I called Bryce on his cell phone and he let us in. All in all, it was a great adventure!