My friend Chantel had her baby girl, beautiful Norah Ryann!

Norah was born in Portland, OR on August 4, 2009 at 8:21am weighing in at 8lbs 15oz. I'm so excited to be an aunt to another precious angel!

Have you ever walked-thru a drive-thru?

Well I just did...what an experience! I can now cross that off my list of "things to do in life"! So the story goes...I walked across the street from my new place to the America First Credit Union to deposit some checks and get a cashier check to pay our August rent. So I get up to the building and round the corner to walk in, yet it was locked. What? It's Saturday, but I know it's opened right now. I looked at the hours sign and only the drive thru was open on Saturdays. So I wasn't about to walk back to my place to get my car to just drive-thru the drive-thru. So I walked around to the back of the building, and waited to see what station opened up first and walked right up to the speaker and sucky up tube thing. :)

I called the nice person inside, and asked her if it was ok that I wasn't in a car...haha, she laughed and said it was just fine! So I received the same service, maybe even better. I didn't have to lean out of the window to hear her. It was great, I got my cashier check, and walked away feeling a little silly, but smiling ear to ear!

New York City - July 7-12, 2009

Hello from Times Square! I loved it! The lights, broadway signs, and the energy!

It's daylight so he's not alive yet, the Natural History Museum was really fun to walk through, but I'm sure more fun at night. :)

Pinkberry! We need one of these in Utah! It was so good! I had passion fruit yogurt with kiwis and strawberries on top. Amazing!

The Washington Arch, a little taste of Rome!

The Empire State Building! It was really fun to see it, finally!

Or I'll take the Lego version, King Kong made a few appearances in the gift shop! Do you like my hat? It's a typical NY souvenir.

Downtown New York, the Statue of Liberty is off to the right and the WTC buildings would've been seen from this view.

Serendipity 3! The restaurant in the movie, of course! We ate there and had their famous, frozen hot chocolate!

The Boathouse in Central Park! Ohh, romantic! Now I just need a guy!

My first NYC hot dog, tasted pretty good!

Grand Central Station, I made my train!

Oh, and I found out the Titanic Exhibit made port in NYC, finally, and I couldn't help but go! It was so awesome! My favorite part was feeling how cold the water actually was for those who perished in the sea. They had a huge frozen iceberg that was the temperature of the water, oh man, I wouldn't have lasted a minute!

Brooklyn Bridge, I took this picture from the Harbor Cruise I went on. What an amazing bridge!

The WTC site, still seemed a big hole, but they have begun building the Freedom Tower, to be done in 2012.

Hello from the Big Apple! Why is it called that? I never figured it out, but I had a great time! I went with three other girls from my ward. We arrived that afternoon and once we got unpacked at the hotel, we took off on foot for Times Square. Yet had we known, we would've taken the subway because it was a 20 block walk, needless to say, we took the subway from then on. The pass was so worth the money! So a few features of my trip were seeing the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, rollerblading in Central Park, the WTC site, a harbor cruise, eating at Serendipity 3 (the restaurant in the movie Serendipity), 4 Broadway shows (The Lion King, The Phantom of the Opera, The Little Mermaid, and Mary Poppins...all amazing, I could barely believe I was actually at Broadway seeing shows), the Titanic Exhibition, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grand Central Station, eating a hot dog in Central Park, seeing the city from the top of the Empire State Building, Union Square, Washington Square, Lincoln Center, Manhattan LDS temple, and many other wonderful sites and memories.

I have finished moving to my new place. I now live at Turnberry Apartments in one of their townhouses with a friend from my ward. She's also a nurse so its a lot of fun, we have a lot in common and can share our work stories! This new place has a pool, tennis, basketball, and volleyball courts, which I am very excited about! Yeah, come and play with me. Well I will talk to you all soon! I wish you well.

Hello to all my friends!

I am here! Wow, what a past few months...well the internet in my house went out pretty much after my last entry so that is why you haven't heard from me lately. I am currently looking for a new place to live. The contract at my house is up the end of July and I am looking for a condo hopefully or a townhouse with a good friend in my ward Lindsay Smith. She's a nurse at St. Mark's hospital in the NICU. I've loved my roommates and the house but two are leaving for graduate programs and there's no way just the three of us could afford the rent on the house. So I am moving at the end of this month.

I'm also leaving for New York this coming tuesday. Exciting, I know!!! It will be my first time! So between working, planning my trip to New York with a few girls in my ward, and preparing to move and look for a new place, I've been pretty busy. Yet come August all will be good. I am planning however to go to Portland again to visit my friend Chantel after she has her first baby. Yeah! Well I hope you all are well. I love you all and are grateful for you in my life!

Can life get any better? Campfire, hotdogs, and marshmallows!

Wednesday, May 13, 2009. My roommates (Meaghan, Marianne, and Becky), Meredith, Erika, and a few friends from BYU, Kristin and Julia went up Millcreek Canyon in SLC to build a campfire, roast hotdogs, and smores! We picked a spot near the river, started the fire, and began roasting! It was slightly chilly so I was glad I wore layered jackets. We had a lot of fun and decided to make an official "campfire/roasting" box with the leftover marshmallows and cookies to take for future adventures.

Erika and Becky preparing to build the fire!

Julia, Kristin, and I roasting our marshmallows!

This is my favorite picture of my roommate Marianne. She's so awesome!

Smores anyone! Oh yah, stripped Keebler cookies sandwhiching a roasted marshmallow, could life get any better!

I can make breadsticks!

So my parmesan cheese breadsticks didn't look quite like these, but close! A month ago, I spent a few hours writing down my favorite recipes from my mom's collection, and today I decided to give this one a whirl. I was excited...success! I can't wait to try something else and see if I really have a nitch for cooking and baking now that I have the time to do it. :)

Happy Nurses Day! May 6th!

I love being a nurse! I have had so many great experiences at Primary Children's Hospital. I love my co-workers, managers, and the doctors are great! In celebration of this day, I wanted to take a look back at my nursing study abroad trip to Argentina in spring 2007. This cute little guy was my buddy in the NICU! He really relaxed when I stroked his head, which pretty much fit in my palm. Oh I miss him, I hope he's doing well!

Argentina had some pretty interesting ideas! A few are demonstrated here! They shield the sun from the window with paper towels and they believe the saran wrap on the baby keeps the heat in. We tried to teach them it can harbor bacteria from the moisture, but to no avail they kept it on! We tried. So to all my nursing friends, Happy Nurses Day! You are all such great nurses, and friends! Thank you for your friendship, love, and support in my life!