Friday, June 6, 2008
It has been a while..
Well, since I blogged last, much has happened: Christy got married and moved into our basement (it's so much fun to have them with us!!), we went on a 7-day Western Carribean Cruise, I got my dental hygiene license (June 2), I've already worked 2 full days as a real dental hygienist (it's hard for me to believe it's real), Dave bought a brand new 2009 Carolla Sport (see ya later brand new tacoma's and no car or insurance payments (But it's for the best), we finally got our sprinklers fixed and the lawn is trying to turn green again, we finished our basement (new carpet and all), Mar came to visit with Josh & Charlie for almost a month (I miss that sweet baby!), I hosted a family bridal shower for Christy, Charlie & Nevi were blessed on the same day (thank goodness they were 2 hours apart, that could have been a rough one), and we are going to our annual Kenny Chesney concert this weekend in San Francisco for our anniversary (I can't believe Kenny isn't coming to Utah this year, his shows are always sold out, at least we get to make a fun trip out of it and see Charlie). I need to tell more about the cruise because it was AMAZING, but I need to go pack for San Fran tomorrow. We are going to the Bountiful temple tomorrow right before we head to the airport because we are sealing my Grandma & Grandpa Widdison who have both passed away. It's a long story, but they are both sealed to other people, so even after 50 years of marriage, 5 children together, and lifetimes of faithful church service, they weren't able to be sealed while still living. I'm so excited because I've always wanted them to be together forever, they loved each other so much!!
Saturday, May 3, 2008
I did it!!
Now that graduation is over, it feels really weird not to have to think about upcoming assignments and tests and studying. But it is definitely a good weird. It was such a busy day, but it was a good busy. It was so nice of Dave, my mom and dad, Brent, Christy, Kenny, Dave's parents and grandparents, Brittany, Bailey, and Owen all to come celebrate with me. I had a pretty sweet cheering section.Thanks guys!!
So this is how my day went down.
6am wake up to get ready, I had to be to the school by 7:30.
8am Convocation. This was an hour of boredom. Thank goodness I was sitting by Gina, we pretty much talked the whole time which made it bearable. The speaker was awful. She kept talking about how it is our responsibility to save the environment that her generation destroyed, blah, blah, blah. I know it's important to care about the environment. But she was pretty much chastising us at our graduation. Not cool.
9:30 pics with my friends
10:30 Brent's commencement. Brent earned his Masters of Accountancy. I'm so proud of him. That is such a huge achievement! I hope to be hooded some day when I earn my Masters. We only stayed long enough to watch him walk and get hooded because we had to eat before my commencement. The speaker at his was way good. He spoke of having ethics and how you have to decide now what you will and won't do. He said, "Everyone needs to have Go To Hell Money." He then went on to explain what Go To Hell Money is. You need to have enough money saved up that when your boss asks you to do something you think is unethical or you don't feel good about doing, you have enough money to tell him, "Go To Hell!" I really liked that because we talked a lot about ethics in hygiene and I'm certain that there will come a time in my dental career that someone will ask me to do something unethical, and I won't do it.
11:00 Brunch at the Union Building.
12:00 Line up for commencement. It was so fun to walk. It felt like such a huge accomplishment. It was also somewhat unreal to me. I've been working towards this moment since I was 14 and now, 10 years later, I did it. Crazy! Britt took lots of family pictures after so I'm excited to see those.
2:30 Lunch at TGI Fridays's. It was really good. My old friend Nate Hirschi was our waiter, I didn't even recognize him so I'm glad he said something.
5:00 We headed down to Brittany's to watch the kids/help with Christy & Kenny's engagement pics.
7:00 Headed to SLC for the Jazz game. Yep, we got row 5 tickets to the game that sent them to Round 2 with the Lakers. The Rockets didn't have a chance. Right from the beginning the Jazz played awesome and they kept it up the whole game. I love Kyle Korver!! He is so hot. I wish I would have had my camera because towards the end of the game when they were 20 points ahead, he kept encouraging the crowd to stand and be loud. He's so cute! By the 3rd quarter the busyness of the day caught up with me and I crashed. I was so tired that I felt sick. The sickness was also brought on by the halftime show which was Rubber Boy. It was the most disgusting thing ever. The boy would like dislocated his shoulders to do crazy tricks. He would contort his body in the most disgusting ways. At some points I had to turn away. I never felt good after seeing that. Dave went and got me a Diet Coke, so by the end of the game I had enough energy to stand and cheer. I love going to games, it was so fun! As we walked to the care I was seriously delirious due to fatigue. Good thing Dave was with me to take care of me or I wouldn't have made it home.
Brent and I at graduation May 2, 2008
So this is how my day went down.
6am wake up to get ready, I had to be to the school by 7:30.
8am Convocation. This was an hour of boredom. Thank goodness I was sitting by Gina, we pretty much talked the whole time which made it bearable. The speaker was awful. She kept talking about how it is our responsibility to save the environment that her generation destroyed, blah, blah, blah. I know it's important to care about the environment. But she was pretty much chastising us at our graduation. Not cool.
9:30 pics with my friends
10:30 Brent's commencement. Brent earned his Masters of Accountancy. I'm so proud of him. That is such a huge achievement! I hope to be hooded some day when I earn my Masters. We only stayed long enough to watch him walk and get hooded because we had to eat before my commencement. The speaker at his was way good. He spoke of having ethics and how you have to decide now what you will and won't do. He said, "Everyone needs to have Go To Hell Money." He then went on to explain what Go To Hell Money is. You need to have enough money saved up that when your boss asks you to do something you think is unethical or you don't feel good about doing, you have enough money to tell him, "Go To Hell!" I really liked that because we talked a lot about ethics in hygiene and I'm certain that there will come a time in my dental career that someone will ask me to do something unethical, and I won't do it.
11:00 Brunch at the Union Building.
12:00 Line up for commencement. It was so fun to walk. It felt like such a huge accomplishment. It was also somewhat unreal to me. I've been working towards this moment since I was 14 and now, 10 years later, I did it. Crazy! Britt took lots of family pictures after so I'm excited to see those.
2:30 Lunch at TGI Fridays's. It was really good. My old friend Nate Hirschi was our waiter, I didn't even recognize him so I'm glad he said something.
5:00 We headed down to Brittany's to watch the kids/help with Christy & Kenny's engagement pics.
7:00 Headed to SLC for the Jazz game. Yep, we got row 5 tickets to the game that sent them to Round 2 with the Lakers. The Rockets didn't have a chance. Right from the beginning the Jazz played awesome and they kept it up the whole game. I love Kyle Korver!! He is so hot. I wish I would have had my camera because towards the end of the game when they were 20 points ahead, he kept encouraging the crowd to stand and be loud. He's so cute! By the 3rd quarter the busyness of the day caught up with me and I crashed. I was so tired that I felt sick. The sickness was also brought on by the halftime show which was Rubber Boy. It was the most disgusting thing ever. The boy would like dislocated his shoulders to do crazy tricks. He would contort his body in the most disgusting ways. At some points I had to turn away. I never felt good after seeing that. Dave went and got me a Diet Coke, so by the end of the game I had enough energy to stand and cheer. I love going to games, it was so fun! As we walked to the care I was seriously delirious due to fatigue. Good thing Dave was with me to take care of me or I wouldn't have made it home.
Brent and I at graduation May 2, 2008
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Things To Blog About Soon
I've got so much catching up to do that I just need to make a list and post when I can.
1. Rock Band
2. Front Room
3. San Francisco/Charlie
4. Wedding plans
5. My Hot Hubby!!
6. Basement
7. Uncle Max--Eek!!
8. Babysitting Konner
1. Rock Band
2. Front Room
3. San Francisco/Charlie
4. Wedding plans
5. My Hot Hubby!!
6. Basement
7. Uncle Max--Eek!!
8. Babysitting Konner
Graduation Banquet
Last night was the dental hygiene graduation banquet. It was so fun to reminisce about all the fun, hard, and crazy times we've had over the last 2 years. If you would have asked me 2 weeks ago if going to dental hygiene was a good idea I would have said, "NO!! Run away as fast as you can!" But as of last night I'm actually starting to feel the deep sense of accomplishment and it feels good. I would recommend it to anyone. I even thought to myself last night, maybe I should get my master's degree. I'm sure I will at some point, but I need to take a breather for now. Tickets to the banquet were 26 dollars so only my parents and Dave's parents attended with us. They presented a few awards during the banquet and I was fortunate enough to receive 2 of them. I earned the Utah Dental Hygiene Association's Clinical Excellence Award and I was elected into the National Dental Hygiene Honor Society: Sigma Phi Alpha the Beta Mu Chapter. Pretty awesome!! I feel really good about the last 2 years and I'm thankful for the opportunity that I have had to meet and learn from so many wonderful people. Looking back, it really has been a good 2 years (not the best, I reserve that title for the years after graduation from high school thanks to Mindy, Christy, Autumn, and Evan). Graduation is tomorrow so I'm sure I'll have tons of new pics to post then when I'm in my full graduation attire.
My Hygiene Friends: Meredith, Celeste, me, Gina, Monica, and Holly.
Thanks for getting me through it all gals and
thanks to 4 inch heels for making me look ginormous!!
Instructor Parry pinning me and the class
Melinda Andreason, President of the Utah Dental Hygiene Association, awarding me the Clinical Excellence Award. (That award is my favorite)
My Hygiene Friends: Meredith, Celeste, me, Gina, Monica, and Holly.Thanks for getting me through it all gals and
thanks to 4 inch heels for making me look ginormous!!
My parents
Dave's parents
Dave's parents
Instructor Parry pinning me and the class
Professor McConaughy awarding the
national honor society award and pin to
Meredith, Monica, and me.
national honor society award and pin to
Meredith, Monica, and me.
Melinda Andreason, President of the Utah Dental Hygiene Association, awarding me the Clinical Excellence Award. (That award is my favorite)
Friday, April 18, 2008
Tax Season Is Over
Now that we have 2 accountants in the family, Dad and Brent, we really have to celebrate the end of tax season. It's a family tradition to go out to dinner the day after tax season to celebrate. This years we went to Mimi's because Blair lives in SLC and didn't want to drive all of the way to Ogden. The food wasn't very good, but our waitress was amazing and it was really fun hanging out with the family. I love having brothers and sisters to laugh with. Thanks Dad and Mom for dinner and thanks Dad for doing our taxes and installing our fireplace.
Getting Lazy
Since my school days are almost over, I'm starting to relax too much. Lately, I've been trying harder to get out and get stuff done, but I really like hanging out at home. Yesterday I managed to get out and pull weeds and it actually wasn't too bad, I enjoyed getting some fresh air and sun. On Wednesday it was Tesha's birthday so we went to breakfast at the usual, Jeremiah's, yum! I love scones!! Then it was off to Tai Pan, where we spent atleast 4 hours finding all sorts of cool stuff. I could shop all day at Tai Pan, there's just so much to see. Then we met up with Christy and went to the Layton mall to shop around, I finally got new sun glasses from Aero, Hallelujah!!
I got contacts on Monday. It took about an hour to get them in and 45 minutes to take them out that first day, but by day 2 I could do it in under 5 minutes. I'll be a pro in no time. I'm so glad to get rid of the glasses.
So now I'm just waiting to graduate on May 2, take my final boards on May 8, go on our cruise on May 24, and hopefully get my Dental Hygiene License in early June.
I got contacts on Monday. It took about an hour to get them in and 45 minutes to take them out that first day, but by day 2 I could do it in under 5 minutes. I'll be a pro in no time. I'm so glad to get rid of the glasses.
So now I'm just waiting to graduate on May 2, take my final boards on May 8, go on our cruise on May 24, and hopefully get my Dental Hygiene License in early June.
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