DIERKS BENTLEY

This weekend my friend Ashley and I went to the Dierks Bentley concert for my birthday!!!  I wonder why I forget all the songs these singers sing until I get to their concert...however it excites me when I forget and then they start to sing the song and I love it!!!  Opening for Dierks was Eli Young Band and Jerrod Niemann...both of whom I love also!!!  We had a blast!!! 

After the concert we went to a bar and had a few beers, and I must say I have been the several bars and never once experienced a loss of power at a bar...so there we are getting a beer and the power went out...the music stopped and it was dead silent in the bar...eventually they got the power back on by the flip of a breaker, but still it was a first and it's funny when the crazy loud music stops, but you are talking, actually yelling to your friends because it's loud and you don't stop yelling because you never expected the power to go out!!! 



Mia and I are excited to head for the holiday in just a few days!!!  I can't wait to see my family and extended family!!!  We will be home from Wednesday-Monday. Mia will probably hate me after Friday because she is going under the knife and getting spade. I will even be making a trip to eastern KS with my dad to go to the Sunday night Football game with the Chiefs vs. Steelers...I can't wait until the Chiefs destroy the Steelers, especially so that I can have a visual imagine in my head of my brother-in-law Lee crying black and yellow tears!!!  Can't wait to get back to my roots!!!!

Annual Seminarian Dinner 2011

Last night my mom and dad came to Denver for the evening to go to the Annual Seminarian Dinner with the special guest ArchBishop Charles Chaput!  It was a fun event!  The wine, food, choir, and speakers were wonderful!  Last night was the first time I have seen my uncle since his installation in Philadelphia, and he looked sooo tired!!!  He has a lot on his plate, but I know that he will turn the Archdiocese of Philadelphia around!  It was great to see the smile on his face when we walked up to him a the VIP cocktail party because he had no idea we were going to be there!  He grabbed my hand and kissed it, then he saw the huge ring I was wearing....took it off, put it on his own finger and went over to another Bishop and said "This is what I wear in Philadelphia!"  He thought it was sooo funny and I'm glad that he could laugh!
A kid from Oakley is in the seminary here and his mom and dad have been friends with my mom and dad for a long time, so they also came to the dinner.  It was nice to see them and we all had a great time! Since the dinner was downtown at the Theatre Convention center and the train station was just a block away from the convention center, I decided to take the train downtown by myself for the first time!!  Much to my surprise, I never felt unsafe...it was cheap, and I didn't have to deal with Friday rush hour!  I'm so glad that I took the train!!    I'll leave with you some pictures...they were taken from my phone, so they aren't as good as quality as they could be, but they work!

Mom and I waiting for the dinner to begin!  We were kind of hiding so that Chuck wouldn't see us!

Mom and Dad outside the ballroom!

Dad and I waiting for Chuck to arrive!

Mom, Dad, and I at the dinner!

Mom, Dad, Sheri, Bob, Shawn, and I at the dinner!

A week of nights....

Well, I started the night shift this week and surprisingly I was ready!!!  For most of you that know me, I'm not really a morning person....sleeping in is my specialty...like this morning, the alarm was set for 8:30 and I woke up with Mia snoring by my side at 10:30am.  So, I am totally a night person!  The transition was a lot easier than I ever thought it would be!!  A plus to working nights is that my friends that I met at orientation are also on nights, one of them works in the ICU with me as well!!!  I have told myself that I am working nights until I get my savings account back to where it was before I moved here!!!  Since I have been debt free, I am a money hoarder....once it's in my savings account, I cringe when I have to take some out just to live, and I had to to by some furniture!  Since the night shift is $5.75 more an hour and another $2.00 more on the weekend....it'll be a great income to get my savings account back where it was!!!
I'm anxiously awaiting the arrival of my parents for the evening!!  They are coming to Denver for an apprieciation dinner for my uncle!!!  I'm soooo excited to see my uncle and my parents!!!
Right now, I'm getting a little laugh!  Mia does a really good job of entertaining herself....she is running full throttle from the living room to my bedroom with a toy in her mouth making it squeak!!!  This cute little rugrat about saw her life come to an end this last week!  I was sleeping on the couch after a night shift and she fell off the couch because she is too chicken to jump off. Well needless to say she created quite the disaster....she dug through on of my plants, got dirt everywhere and tried to eat the leaves...which surprised me that she continued to chew on the leaves because it was "Mr. Nasty", my cactus that she was chewing on. She also chewed up some cardboard that was on the floor with my new cell phone case....she was a bad little puppy that day!!!!!  But, I love her all the same!!! 
One more thing before I sign off....HAPPY VETERN'S DAY!!!!!! 

Snow Day Fun!!!!

Yesterday, the Denver area got lots of snow, so my great friend Sarah and I decided to have a baking marathon!  I went down to Parker to Sarah's house, we went grocery shopping, baked and decorated fall sugar cookies, and made soups for dinner!  Mia went a long for this fun and had a blast playing with Brogan...at times there were whines from Mia only because Brogan was picking her up by her hair...but Mia survived the day!  Sometimes the look in Mia's eyes was, "Just leave me alone so I can take my nap"! 
We had a great time and chit-chatted, laughed, and remincsed about good ole times!!!  After about 4 hours of baking and decoating cookies we had 79 of the cutest turkeys, pumpkins, and leaves...and they are also sooooo delicious!!! 

Sarah cutting out the cookies!!!

Our final project

While Sarah and I made cookies. Brogan and Mia fought over who was going to get Mia's bed...

And Brogan won.....

Meanwhile, Brogan also decided she was going to try on my Uggs....

After the cookies were baked and decorated, Sarah and I made soups for all of us!  We decided on green bean dumpling soup and chicken noodle soup...needless to say they were amazing and it felt soooo good to sit down and relax!!!!  There was enough left over to freeze and have at another time!

Finally it was time for Mia and I to go home for the night!!  Since it was 23 degrees outside at 8pm, Mia had to snuggle into my coat or she would have froze to death!









New Name....

Since I am not currently a traveling nurse, I fee like I need to change my blog title! So, I'm asking for a little help from the people that read my blog....I have been googling names of blogs, and there isn't one that really just catches my eye.  I really want a pretty unique one....so I'm asking for suggestions from my blog readers!!!  Either leave a comment on here or send me a message on facebook.  I can't wait to hear some of the suggestions!!!!!!

Happy November!!!!

I can't believe it's already November and in just 2 weeks I'll be 28...YIKES!!!  The last two weeks in Denver have flown by and I have loved every minute of it!!! 
The job is great, I just wish that I was off orientation already!  I hate when people are constantly watching over what I am doing!  My preceptor is great and only helps, hovers, or explains things when I ask.  I am still trying to find my way around the brand new hospital, but other than that all the people are nice and very helpful!  I told myself this last week that I can't wait until I am here long enough to precept someone and know everything that my preceptor knows!!!
Mia is tolerating the 12 hour shifts of being contained to her play pen.  When I get home she is a crazy little puppy that runs around like a chicken with it's head cut off, but she is just toooooo cute!!!  I often times wonder what in the world is going through that head of hers!!  Today, I found out that she loves coffee...I had a cup of coffee and I sat it down and turned around for one second and there she was lapping up the coffee like is was going out of style!  Even when I told her to stop, she still went after it!  Needless to say, that ended up being a wasted cup of coffee!!! :) 

Here is picture of my sweet little Miss Mia last night on Halloween....she HATED her little outfit, but still looked like a little dollie!!!  Isn't she the cutest thing you ever did see?

Update on PA school:  I will be contacting the admissions office for CU-Denver this week and see what is best for me to do.  I don't want to declare a major, but if I have to then I guess I will.  So if I have to declare a major, it'll either be in biology or chemistry and then hopefully apply to PA school when I get all my pre-reqs...so in January, I'm sure you will hear me complain about going to school again!!!  I'm excited, but dreading it too!!!!
That is about all the updates that I have....but I have one thing to ask of my friends, family, and anyone that I don't know that reads my blog...one of my aunts is having some major health issues and has been struggling for 8 months to get a diagnosis...I just ask that everyone pray for her and her family...my prayers are filled with requests for their family.