The Van Ausdal's: 2010

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

REGISTERED NURSE...FINALLY!!!

WOW....it feels so good to say this, I thought the day would never come!! I am FINALLY- OFFICIALLY an RN! Nursing school was so hard and there were days that I wondered if I could ever actually make it to the end, but I am proud to say that I DID IT! Thanks to my wonderful family and in-laws, great friends, and loving husband for all of your support and putting up with me through school, I never could have done it without you!! I am now working at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center as a Registered Nurse on the Neuro Trauma Rehab Unit. (I have worked here for over 2 years as a CNA, then LPN, now finally RN.) So needless to say I have been very blessed to make it to where I am at this point in my life, and I know I never could have done it alone!

My parents are such a great support, Love you guys!

HUGE shout out to this girl-Ash, I never would have

made it through school without you there every step of

the way. Our sweet husbands put up with more than

you can imagine! I love you Jord!

My BFF's of nursing school!

My nursing license!

The letter saying I passed the NCLEX...PHEW!

Monday, October 11, 2010

FaLL FuN!!!

Everyone has to do their annual "fall" post....right? So yeah, it's true, fall is my favorite season too....I love pumpkin spice candles, Hot chocolate by the fire, and my fall wardrobe- BLAH BLAH BLAH. No but seriously, this fall has been super fun so far! Every fall me and Jord go up to Sundance for the full moon lift ride. This year we went with our friends Trav and Jasmine and had a blast. We have been spending all of our other spare weekends up at the cabin watching the leaves change, running around on the fourwheelers, and chasing deer and elk (and an occasional skunk-see pic below!) Last weekend we were up at the cabin because it's tradition to go up for the Oct. session of general conference. We also celebrated my mom's 50th birthday up there. This weekend we decided to take another little getaway up to the cabin with some of our neighbors Pete and Jaime Williams, Todd and Amy Mower, and Kurtis and Kim Jensen. We had so much freakin fun, and can't wait to get back up there before it snows! Hope you are all doing well and feeling festive, I sure am! :)

Sundance

Mom's 50th, do you like her crown I got her?

The candles had $$ wrapped around them!

Cabin!

Williams and Mowers

SKUUUUNK!

Me and Jord @ Ed Douglas hole

Me, Jaime and Amy

Me Jaime and Kim on top of Skyline

Sunday, August 29, 2010

New baby!!! And some other fun things.....

Wow, yes I suck at blogging. Every time I sit down to write a new post I realize I have a million pics and events to pick from. Now that school is over and I actually have time for a life, I am going to be better at blogging! This is probably going to be a long post but I'll try to be to the point and not ramble!!! A few things that have been going on this summer

1) First and foremost, Jord and I got a new baby niece! Zac and Cami had their sweet baby Addison on July 26, 2010. She weighed 6 lb 10 oz, and was 18.5 in long. She is beautiful and looks just like her mommy with just a titch of her dad. It's been fun having a little baby in the basement! Jord is hoping it will make me baby hungry...needless to say I'm not there yet.

2) Me, Jord, and my mommy took a little vacation to Vegas last month, I didn't take many pics, but we had a blast! My mom decided that since my dad was in Alaska fishing, that she needed a little getaway too, so she invited me and Jord to take a little vegas vaca.

3) The whole fam went to the SF rodeo like we do every year! I thought I'd post a couple pics of the rodeo. Nic's (girl??)friend Bree got a little embarrassed when I made them get a pic with the clown!

4)For Jord's friend Bryce's B-day party we went to this power tumbling place, it was really fun. Definitely a bit unsanitary, but we had a blast. Me and Jord were having fun in the Sumo suits. Jord even took a few dives into the foam pit with it on!

5) Me and Jord celebrated our 2nd Anniversary on Aug. 16th!!! This probably deserves a post of it's own, but oh well. My hubby is amazing and I love him so much. We kept it pretty low key this year to save our money to go to DC and New Jersey in Oct., and hopefully Mexico in November!! We went to the Toby Keith/Trace Adkins concert, and had a nice dinner. Jord of course spoiled me with lots of presents and flowers! Jess and Chett were at the concert too, so they came up on the lawn and hung out with us. Me and Jess rocked out while jord and chett made fun of drunks, pretty romantic anniversary eh...LOL?

6) Last but not least some of our BFF's Steve and Lauren got married on Aug. 18th. The sealing was beautiful and it was great to be there in the temple with them. The reception was interesting as the weather couldn't decided what it wanted to do, but it still turned out great!

Hopefully I can get my act together and start blogging more than once every two months, I guess we'll just have to wait and find out!

This guy and Jord became good friends at the concert....he was totally drunk and kept trying to share his beer with Jordan. It was so funny.

Me and Jess were just rockin out!

This was at the power tumbling place for Jord's friends Bday...Th sumo suits were heavy!

Welcome sweet baby Addison!

Proud mommy and daddy

Very proud uncle....he will be a great dad some day!

Pround aunti and uncle!

Very proud grandparents!

This pic is the night before Cami had Addison

Viva Las Vegas, we love rainforest cafe!

Jimmy Buffets Margaritaville!

Monday, July 5, 2010

Recent Happenings.....

So not a whole ton has been going on lately, just a few things to blog about and a few new pics!

One of my Bestie's, Ash Erekson got married on the 11th of June! It was great to see her and Brady get sealed to each other in the Manti Temple. It was a little bit overwhelming and brought back so many memories of when me and Jord were sealed there....that was almost two years ago, can you believe it? Anyway, Ash and Brady's ceremony was great, and the reception was beautiful too!

My sis in law Cami had a baby shower a couple weeks ago, and all I've got to say is little Addison is going to be totally spoiled! It kinda made me want a baby....not bad enough though (sorry Jord!) The shower was fun and Cami got lot's of great stuff for the baby! She is due on Aug. 8th, so not too much longer and I'll have a crying baby in my basement...oh I mean an adorable new niece :)

Jord's sister Lindsey and her cute fam came here from Oklahoma to visit for a couple of weeks, we had such a fun time hanging out with our little niece Avery. She is getting so big and talking so much, she keeps us laughing all the time!

June 30th was a day we all waited for forever, why? Because Edward and Jacob debuted their beautiful faces yet again!! Chels came from San Francisco and got us tickets to go see the show the day it came out. It was absolutely fabulous, no disappointment at all! I don't have any pics from our little twilight outing, but it was an event worth blogging about. It was fun to spend the night with Chels, and I would like to let you all know I'm staying strong....GO TEAM EDWARD!

4th of July is a favorite holiday around our house! It's always a tradition to go to the cabin for the weekend. Our friends Scott and Ash came up with us from Fri. to Sat., and we had a great time fourwheeling and playing games with them. Then the rest of the time we just hung out with the fam, went fourwheelin, rhino riding, played cards, tetris, darts, and had a lot of fun dance parties/ workouts....you should have seem my mom, she's an animal!!! Anyway, the cabin was a blast and we were happy to have some time with the fam. On the 5th of July, we both had work off so we spent the day out on the lake with our friends Pete and Jaime. Jord got his first bad sunburn of the season, but also got the hang of wakeboarding for the first time, he was having so much fun! After boating we had a BBQ with Jord's family at his Aunt Beckii's house and stuffed ourselves until we couldn't eat anymore.

Well that's about it for now.....stay posted for some more entertaining blog posts, the reason I say this is because I have exactly ONE MONTH left of nursing school and then I anticipate my life being a LOT less boring after that!! Then maybe I'll post some things that are worth reading! Hope you all had a wonderful fourth of July!

P.S. I included a few cute pics of my lil Jersey pup....she's getting big and is changing all the time, but she's the cutest thing in the world and we love her to death!