I PASSED MY NCLEX NURSING TEST.......I AM A REAL NURSE NOW.......

the last sunset at sea...


in key west, florida....we rented jet skis and took a tour all the way around the island....about 25 miles...i got to drive the entire time and now i want one so bad...at one point we were only 90 miles away from cuba...and we saw the southernmost point in all of the united states. i liked this stop. it had fun shopping and was a quaint little island....more pictures to come once the water camera gets developed.


we had another formal dinner on saturday night....you better believe that i ate steak 4 out of the 7 nights we were at sea. i love steak!!!

in belize we rode horses in the jungle and the jungle attacked us...i had blood trickling down my leg at the end...it was my least favorite stop. i hear that it has the best scuba diving in the world...and i rode a horse....next time....

in grand cayman we went swimming with the stingrays....it was so much fun to touch them and feed them. we took picture on water cameras so i will have get those developed. in honduras we went on a zip line and played at the most beautiful beach ever....it was by far my favorite spot of the entire cruise....i want to go back someday and just spend more time in the warm water and the sun...i will have to figure out how to post videos...last time i tried nothing ever happened.

yes, i took pictures of all the towel animals that we found in our rooms each night. crazy that they clean your rooms 2 times a day and give you chocolate mints and turn your bed down for you at night...

formal dinner number one at sea




also where they had the hairiest man competition...


we watched movies at night and the last game of the NBA finals...


The deck with lawn chairs...

THE CRUISE BEGINS.... (the pictures are backwards still)


and we are off!!!!
the obligatory life vest picture.....it was so hot and sweaty...
our luggage......delivered to your rooms.....
the boat....CARNIVAL VALOR
standing in line to get on the boat in miami, florida with amren, jenni, and jerah

MY CRUISE EXPERIENCE...

the cruise was so much fun AND so much money. i learned a lot of things about myself last week....some good and some things i really need to work on. 7 single girls on a cruise modestly dressed was a sight for all to see....people asked us if we had kids or husbands back home and we told them no and they all just asked if the boys were crazy in utah....WHO KNOWS!!!!

we flew to miami then got on the boat to grand cayman islands to swim with the sting rays and to go snorkeling. then on to honduras and the zip line thru the jungle and the nicest beach i have ever been to. the next day we stopped in belize and all went on our own excursions. kathryn went golfing on an island with only an 18 hole golf course and an olympic sized pool. amren, jerah, and alesa (all sisters) visited friends from amern´s mission. me, becky, and jenni took a tour of the city and road horses thru the jungle and the rain. (this was my least favorite excursion.) on our last day, we stopped in key west florida and rented jet skis and went around the entire island. i loved it! i got to drive the entire way with jenni and kathryn on the back.

pictures to come...but i´m a little bit busy with work and studying for my NCLEX test and trying to be social in a new ward and working out.....i went to the gym almost everyday on the cruise ship....and i even ran 4 miles one day....whoop whoop!!!




oh and one of my favorite parts about my trip...was coming home to my big bed and to this and this........

MEMORIAL DAY 2009

i spent memorial day with matt and his family in las vegas. it was SO MUCH fun. we played in the pool everyday, went to the strip and watched the dancing waters, ate yummy food, played games, watched basketball playoffs & the american idol finalle &just relaxed. it was super fun!!!!

this is my favorite picture of us.


matt & i trying to get the pose right for our photo debut in the water...


we played volleyball in the water...


silly pictures with his niece and nephew


at the dancing waters in vegas.....someday i want to stay at the bellagio as a guest...but for now i just settle for walking thru it!


and i´m putting a plug out there for my nephew hyrum......I WANT HIM TO MARRY HER.....ha ha they are both 5 but i think it would be a cute match.

SCUBA DIVING!!!!!










so i finally finished my scuba diving certification. i had to go to midway, utah last friday and saturday and despite feeling like i was going to drown underwater, i made it!!! it was awesome and i´m excited to CRUISE it up next week and practice my skills.

HAPPY 29TH BIRTHDAY TO ME!!! (and to my roommate Jenni <28>, and to my cousin Jamie <30>, and to my roommates nephew Chad <11> - he shared birthday dinner with me, and to my pretend twin brother Adam <29> [same day, same year], and to everyone else who was born on MAY 17...







to celebrate, i decided to spend a few days enjoying my birthday:
+ i went to a real salt lake soccer game the night before with matt and seth and another girl named heidi.
+ i went to church and they had munch and mingle and i ate donuts.
+ i took a nap for 2 hours with my phone off and no one bothered me.
+ i went to Chad´s 11 year old birthday dinner with my roommates amren and jerah and kenny. we ate spaghetti and meatballs and apple pie....YUM!! and we played capture the flag and hit golf balls up the side of the mountain. (thanks to the pattersons who always invite me to be part of their family!)
+ i went to a ward birthday party for me and 2 other guys and i even got a birthday kiss on my check.....um, i think that was a first!


and my friend paige sent me an email with information all me....ha ha or kind of about me...

MAY 17 The birthday of profound simplicity
People born on May 17 have a clear-cut code of personal behavior which guides them through every decision they make. Straightforward and to the point, they have a talent for making simple but profound comments on situations.

With little time for small talk, they say what they mean and mean what they say. They are an inspiring example to others but don't have much patience with those who try to shirk their responsibilities; if they notice someone slacking or not pulling their weight, they are likely to tell them straight out. This clear-cut approach can, unfortunately, win them as many enemies as supporters and so thye might benefit from learning more tact. Thier insightful and original approach, combined with their refusal to be diverted from their chosen course, would appear to be a recipe for success. Where this is not the case it is because they have a tendency to overestimate the power of what they can achieve through determination and will-power alone. They often prefer to go it alone, but if this works against them they should recognize the power of a group of people working together to achieve a goal.

Until their mid-thirties, there is an emphasis in their lives on learning in all its forms and they need to take advantage of these opportunities to communicate and exchange ideas with others. After the age of thirty-four they may focus more on emotional intimacy and security. If they can learn to get in touch with their own feelings and the feelings of others during this period, it promises great fullfillment and happiness.

There is no denying that these people often have fixed views on things. This can hold them back as life is not as black and white as they think it is. However, if they learn to develop a more tolerant approach, it will not only help them achieve their aims and attract a following, it will also open up within them the compassion and determination to improve the lives of others and a creativity that might have otherwise remained dormant.

Love Inside out
People born on May 17 value personality, integrity, and a strong will over good looks, and would rather be alone than with someone they can't respect. Although they may try to suppress it, they have an extremely sensual nature and a voracious romantic drive; releasing some of that energy into a committed relationship will help mellow and soften them.

Health Give yourself a break
People born on this day are extraordinarily determined and at times this can make them drive themselves too hard and become prone to headaches or digestive upsets. Ideally, they surround themselves with close friends and loved ones who can encourage them to relax and unwind. Those who find themselves alone might find training and owning a dog extremely beneficial. As far as diet and lifestyle are concerned, they should stay away from drugs and alcohol as their body is extremely sensitive to toxins of any kind. Moderate to mild exercise, especially brisk walking, is encouraged to help them blow away the cobwebs, keep their weight under control, and boost their immune system. Wearing, meditating on, or surrounding themselves with the color orange will encourage them to be warm and open in the company of others.


Career Born Artists
People born on this day have the creativity and focus to excel in the world of art and music. Alternatively, education, science, research, and law, as well as working for themselves, may appeal. Once they appreciate the importance of working cooperatively with others, they may be drawn toward sales, promotion, public relations, finance, negotiations, social work, and banking.

Destiny To inspire others with their creativity and organizational talents
The life path of people born on this day is to learn the power of synergy. Once they are able to open up to others, their destiny is to inspire them with their creative and organizational talents.

Your greatest challenge is...
Asking for help
The way forward is...
To understand that if you want to make something happen, you must dare to ask for what you want


You're drawn to people born on...
December 22 to January 20
You share a passion for devotion, committment, and respect, and together you can create a fulfilling and intense union

Luck maker
Create a luck network
Many big breaks come from the least likely contacts, so make an effort to network and stay in touch with as many people as you can.


On the DARK side
Tactless
Judgemental
Stressed

At your BEST
Dedicated
Honorable
Insightful


Power Thought:
"I will always ask for what I need"

maybe we had a little too much fun! yes, look at those swings!!! afterwards it was dinner at iceberg and a SUPER INTENSE game of maffia. it was such a fun night.

HOLE IN ONE MANIA!!!!!!!!!!












last friday night i went with a group of 20 people to play mini golf. it ended up being so much fun. we were in a competition to see who could get the most holes in one....the winner got a real golf putter.........well, i got one, jenni got 2, matt got 2, and kathryn got 1......some of the other people made holes in one as well but i just have ours documented.

i love this kid a lot....he is super cute.

we went to a few museums one day while my sister was here. hyrum told us after we ate pizza in the park that museums are not fun...and then he saw all the cool stuffed animals and he loved it. hyrum and i did lots of fun stuff this trip.........we went to the movies and saw monsters vs. aliens 3D, went to a baseball game and watched my roommates lose, rode his scooter around my townhouse complex, museums, weddings, sleepovers in the kitchen and in my room, and watched cartoon network. he learned all about tooshie whoopings and we had fun. kademan got his first tooth the morning of my graduation and loved eatings chords around my house....how can you not love the cuddly little man!!!

BECAUSE SOMETIMES FHE IS MEANT TO BE FUN!!!

i had a taco party for my graduation and tons of people came. it was fun....i forgot to take pictures so my sister used my camera at the end....thanks for everyone for coming to celebrate with me......and yes, hyrum was the star of the evening...he loved playing games with everyone and showing the guys how much energy he has.

my friend lyndsi who i work with and my other friend domonia came...


the girls i sat by, studied with sometimes, and did projects with....i even convinced christina to go to russia with me last summer......i will miss seeing them everyweek. Laura is having a baby in june and christina is getting married in june........BIG STEPS for those 2 girls


friends from school....we all had the same classed together for 2 years......it made graduation a fun day!


the family...yes, the nephews think i am their favorite!!!


the prophet speaks...




I DID IT!!! YES I MADE IT THROUGH NURSING SCHOOL AND EVEN GRADUATED....now i just have to pass my NCLEX test and i will be a real REGISTERED NURSE!!!! whoop whoop! President Monson spoke at my graduation and even kissed his wife. it was awesome to be sitting so close and to give him a standing ovation when he kissed his wife....how oftern do you see the prophet kiss his wife?? and how often do you get to clap and cheer for the man?? it was good times. thanks to my mom who flew in for the big occasion and to paige, kyle, hyrum, kaden, lyndsi, and domonia for sitting thru all 4 hours of the show.

THIS IS WHAT I THINK OF YOU SWINE FLU............YOU CANCELED A STOP ON MY CRUISE....I REALLY WANTED TO GO TO COZAMEL, MEXICO AND SPEND SOME TIME IN THE SUN....AND NOW I GET TO GO TO KEY WEST, FLORIDA..........i will make the most of it i guess........right now i just wish we could not have such craziness over the H1N1, and please, let's be nice to the pigs!!!!

SO, I HAVE A 93 QUESTION TEST BETWEEN ME AND GRADUATION FROM NURSING SCHOOL....and its so hard to have the motivation to study right now! i worked the last 3 days and i have to work the next 2 nights so this is it........but the sun is shining and my bed is calling and i want to go to the gym and i want to eat a lot of food.....and so the studying continues.......





This is exactly why you should always, ALWAYS... twirl once in front of the mirror before leaving the house. But just think how many people she made smile throughout the day.

I WENT TO MY LAST CLASS TODAY.......and we took a picture of all the students.....i sat in the very back on the left.....last row of chairs....maybe you can pick me out...ha ha ha.....only 2 tests left to pass school and then only my NCLEX test to be a REGISTERED NURSE!!!!!!!!

MY GRADUATION PHOTO SHOOT WITH MY ROOMMATE AMREN.......i just posted these today to help me feel better about life. i am a difficult subject (ask amren...) but it was kinda fun to take pictures.....out of the 330+ pictures taken that windy day, these are my favorites!!!!!!!

IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT I TRY TOO HARD.....AND YES, I AM BEGINNING TO FEEL THAT WAY.....AND, IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT I AM BOY CRAZY.....THIS FACT MIGHT ALSO BE TRUE.....however, i am giving up my goal for april.....i need to find a new one in less than 10 days....any ideas????????????

so, its saturday, and no, i did not go on a date last night...oops! it is a lot harder to ask boys on dates than i EVER imagined....and so maybe i can find one for tonight...or maybe i will go on 2 next week...if i can find some time.

my little sister paige thinks she is SOO funny......this is what she said on her blog...she made an advertisement to help me find dates......too bad it has not even worked!!! ha ha welcome to my world...

http://paigesinclair.blogspot.com/2009/04/worlds-most-eligible-bachelorette.html

AND THESE ARE JUST FOR FUN!!!!!

(this picture is for you paige....no glasses on my date and close up)











so much fun the date was...everyone had fun, the food was good (a bit too expensive and there was awkwardness when it came time to pay......i just told everyone to go dutch...), the company was super, and we all made new friends!!!!!!! i loved my dress ...and i don´t even like sparkly things. hopefully there will be many more fun times to come.

the date was a SUCCESS!!!!! i was super stressed right down to the last minute....trying to find one more date for one of my roommates....i got turned down by so many boys.........but, i enlisted the help of my date and my friend lyndsi and we were able to have a group of 12 people go on the date. here are the photo booth pictures of my date matt and i...more to come....of the group, etc. we had a lot of fun eating and dancing and wearing fancy dresses.....i even bought a super cute dress at 5pm to wear that night....and now i have a dress to wear on our cruise (PS. i got vacation days so everything is paid for and ready to go....come on june 13th!!!!)

so, i decided that friday nights in april will be date nights......why not, i have nothing to loose and only fun times and memories to make...yes, my goals in 2009 are a little bit crazy and very random but hey, they are my goals...right?!?!?!?!?!?!

last friday was games and chocolate tasting.....a boy asked me out!

this friday will be a "formal" institute dance at the top of the rice eccles stadium at the university of utah.....and i´m setting my roommates up with some boys so it should be really fun. i just called and asked a boy out. man, talk about stressful....i even had to give myself a pep talk.....and i´ve asked out many boys in my life!!! i also called and asked out a boy for my roommate.....i think that´s why its kinda scary.....BECAUSE I AM ASKING OUT 5 BOYS FOR THE SAME NIGHT....good thing i´m not getting 5 dates out of it.......

so, here are the requirements that my roommates gave me when i asked about boys for them to go out with.....
AMREN: funny (i can work with that)
JENNI: taller than her (she is 6´1ish so that can be a problem), good dancer, has spiritual strength
JERAH: has brains and breathes......(both things are very doable)
KATHRYN: taller than she is (easy!)
2 dates down, 3 to go........now i just have to come up with a plan. the dance is the free part....we just have to get dressed up in FORMAL attire.....and i think we just might go to dinner before....maybe everyone can go dutch since i did all the asking out....and i can´t pay for everyone...YIKES!



i hope that my april new thing works out for me......good thing there are only 4 friDATE nights in april and not 5.

for my sisters......my favorite song right now.....clink on the link........

THE CLIMB by MILEY CYRUS



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG2zyeVRcbs

so, this was printed in BYU´s daily universe paper....and then they retracted all 18,500 copies to reprint it...i thought it was funny......

APOSTATES vs. APOSTLES

so, i have been missing my family a little bit lately...the interations and jokes and day to day things that happen....and it has me thinking....and then sometimes i do crazy things......well, yesterday, after watching conference, i went looking for a place to live in salt lake (i had 2 hours before work and no where to go). i looked at a place that was 5 minutes from caleb´s house (my last boyfriend) and so i decided to stop by and say hi. yes, people tell me not to do such things and yet i find myself doing whatever i want. it was a good experience for me and i witnessed a miracle and for that i am truly grateful. i talked outside with 12 year old McKenna for 15-20 minutes and learned about her school projects and her friends and her $100 pair of jeans and spring break. i went inside and the boys invited me to eat dinner. the brothers are so much fun to tease and to talk to....and call me crazy but i just feel so comfortable when i´m there...just like i belong....its like my heart is rejoicing in the PEACE i find with that family....now remember that i just wanted to say hi and not really be there long but i hadn´t eaten anything in 24+ hours so i had some apple slices (like 2 apples worth) and chatted with everyone that was there. it was so refreshing and i just felt good..........and it helped me to realize that its not caleb who i was missing but that family. they LOVE each other soo much.....it radiates out of the house and you can feel it as soon as you reach the door......... ...and i just soaked it all in. i love the way the kids interact with each other. i love the way they love each other. and i most definately LOVE the way sandy and ed (the mom and dad) LOVE EACH OTHER. that is the miracle that i witnessed. sandy is in another state helping with the new granddaughter and so they called on skype and were chatting and it was so absolutely AWESOME to watch the excitement and interation of everyone when they got to see their mom on the computer screen and then the little loving, fun, playful words that the parents said to each other. that family loves each other. those parents still love each other and do fun things for each other...once i even heard ed singing a song about how sexy his wife was in the kitchen. i loved it and i think its great. EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THAT THEIR MOM AND DAD LOVE EACH OTHER...there is no doubt in my mind.......that is what i miss.....i miss the love of a family.........and the more i thought about it last night while i was working, the more it came to my mind how SPECIAL a relationship it is that ed and sandy have and how amazing of an example it is to their children to be able to see that and feel that and enjoy that everyday. i love caleb´s family and they will always have a special place in my heart as i think i needed the experience and heartache of dating him so that i could see the joy and love of his family. they are my inspiration and i look forward to having that strong relationship with my husband and family someday.............AND YES, in the last few weeks i have decided that i want a BIG FAMILY with LOTS OF KIDS......BOYS. i´m gonna have to get working on it QUICKSTYLE but i want a big family with lots of kids to love and to be loved. i want to go back often and partake of the goodness of the WERTZ FAMILY.....i wish everyone could feel that feeling in their lives DAILY!!.....it is a gift from God and someone talked in conference about how temples are important places of worship and that we can have that feeling in our homes as well.
i think the coolest part is that this family knows they have something special and they share it willingly with anyone and everyone and that they don´t take it for granted...

so, this past weekend, members of the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints watched and listened to general conference. we were able to receive direction from living prophets and apostles on the earth today. i watched 4 hours on saturday then worked all night long. my friend paige called me around 12:30pm on sunday....after 4 hours of sleep....to see if i wanted to go to the conference center to watch it. i said sure and borrowed my friend lyndsi´s dress and then was off.......granted, i was not number one, two, three, or four on the calling list but i still got to go and feel the spirit of being in the conference center......here is our picture.....

On friday night, i went on a date...yes folks, a boy asked me out on a date...we tasted FINE, DARK CHOCOLATES from all over the world and learned how chocolateers make the bars from the cocoa beans and even how to savor every moment of the tasting....we had to touch it, smell it, snap it when we bit into it, and describe the taste of each one...and then there was even a quiz afterwards to see if we could remember which was which. it was fun. afterwards we played a new game.....the BANG! game. i liked it and definately want to play again and not get eliminated so quickly. oh and yes, i would go out with the boy again...if he asked...

so, i just worked 2 nights shifts in a row and drove home safely without falling asleep....took a shower...and now i´m not tired.....so here´s to blogging.....and i stole this list from amy´s blog......

I've done the items in bold

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain.
9. Held a Praying Mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Been to the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on a train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise (june baby!)
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied - everytime i go on a trip i realize that i have enough money for me...
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check - oops!
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy - i still have my baby blanket and i sleep with it every night
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Tied a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book- does a newspaper article count??
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem...SOMEDAY
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury...NOPE....i´m still waiting to be called for jury duty....
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Visited Italy

there are obviously many more things i need to do in my life....i better get moving!

my roommate amren is an aspiring photographer....she took pictures of me and i'm going to make my own graduation announcements.....well, if i ever get a chance to relax........or have a day off of work and school but then i'd prolly sleep instead....those were just a sneak peak of what is to come and the real good pictures.

 

 

the before picture....heather, trevor, gary, and me


the after picture....


gotta love the colors!!!!


i just really like this picture!!!!!!!!


can´t forget the llamas...but where are their colors???



so this weekend, after working thursday and friday nights, i decided i needed to have some fun......the hare krishna temple in spanish fork, utah puts on the festival of colors every march....and after seeing everyone´s pictures from last year, i decided i really wanted to go.........it turned out to be more difficult than i thought to find people to go with me....BUT....rejection after rejection after rejection.....i found some really fun friends to go with. so here are our pictures. afterwards, we tried to stay cultured and go to the bombay house or the indian palace but all other 40,000+ people had the same idea so we went mexican instead.....gotta love the crazy people in provo and all the restaurants for putting up with us...yes, we ate in public like this and loved every second of it!!

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--N9klJXbjQ

i want to see this movie....OCTOBER 16, 2009 here i come!!!





p.s. i don´t know how to make it so you guys can click on the link to see it....someone please help me!

last week was spring break....and how did i spend most of my time with a week+ off of school....oh, i spend it working 48 hours (i picked up an extra along with my other shifts) and so i decided to give myself a needed break and go on a little trip to st george.....yes, i think that i love that place.....every time i go down there it is with different people and i have a lot of fun. i think that i need to buy a house or a condo down there and make it my getaway place. (PAIGE&HYRUM, YOU GUYS LEFT BOISE AND I HAVE HAD TO FEND FOR MYSELF ON NEW TRIPS AND NEW PEOPLE TO HANG OUT WITH DURING BREAKS FROM SCHOOL....i think they call it making new friends.)

friday i spend 7 hours by the pool in 85 degree weather and loved every second of it. i got a sunburn that turned in to a tan. YEAH!!!

saturday i went to the st george temple and then on a hike with mia, tracy, and margaret.....such fun girls and such a fun hike! we went to red cliffs park and hiked halfway to the top of a mountain and then came back down through water....it was FREEZING....and we got completely soaked but i want to go back and do it again.

oh and yes, we slept in everyday until 10 or 11 or noon...it was sooo nice!!!!!!! (i think i might just sleep in tomorrow too.)





the after shot......there was a young men´s group hanging out there also and we asked on of them to take our picture and he gave us the funniest look....it was priceless.


me getting ready to slide in for the 10th time....and no you couldn´t touch the bottom and yes the water was freezing


TRACY


MARGARET


MIA

rachel, laura, me

karen and me



so, after 2 years of waking up way too early to go to clinicals...i am almost done with school.....and guess what?!?!? i never took any pictures of my in my hated green scrubs. so i guess its about time.........here i am with my preceptor. she is the nurse that i do my internship with. i had to follow her around for many many hours and learn everything i could from her. she was super nice and even gave me movie tickets at the end of my time so i took a picture with her.

also, i´ve had the chance to do some service this semester (well every semester actually but this has been the funnest by far!). the church and a bunch of other companies have been so nice and donated supplies and time and doctors and nurses have volunteered time and money to set up a free clinic in provo. it is every tuesday and thursday nights....so for the past 3 weeks i have gotten to volunteers and take vital signs and "triage" patients before they went in to see the doctors. it was fun. and now i have a new goal for after nursing school....well, i have many but top on the list is......TO BECOME FLUENT IN SPANISH!

here are the only scuba pictures i have so far. this was on our first day. i think susan was more excited than i was at that moment...i was trying to not fall over with 50+ extra pounds on my back.....i can´t wait to go for reals....i will keep you posted.

WHAT HAVE I BEEN UP TO LATELY.....

* working full time = 36 hours a week but only getting part time benefits (thank you hiring freeze at ihc)

* going to school...all day tuesdays (9am-8pm) and then in april for 3 fridays.

* i finished my capstone preceptorship (internship) at the end of february and now its the home stretch to graduation....MAY 1, 2009.....crazy that i just need to pass my tests now, write one more paper, and do some computer assignments.....and i can be a RN (real nurse) and not just a LPN (low paid nurse...i applied and bought my cap and gown today.....my mom and paige & kyle & hyrum & kaden (they are coming for kyle's brother's wedding but i'm glad they can fit me into the busy schedule) are coming out to celebrate with me.....anyone else is more than welcome to come too....president monson si supposed to be the guest speaker

* i work out at the gym....i have been working my arms a lot and swimming more this month...after an absence in february because i had no time to sleep let alone work out...I LOVE IT! and just maybe i sleep better on the days that i get exercise.

* i have almost completed my scuba certification...trip planned for june when my roommates and i are going on a cruise.....it will be my first one ever....that is my new thing for june! we are going to belize, honduras, mexico.....it will be a party in the sun!!!

* i have been country dancing the first tuesday of every month....its free!! and i like it but i need to practice more to get better...they should have more free days and i think i would go more often.....i have been dropped, fell on, and flipped around.

* i have put the miles on my car....2 almost 2 years and 30,000+ miles and i'm still waiting for my factory waranty to cover something....next up 2 new tires and an armrest add on.....whoot whoot the fit is getting a facelift.

* i still have straight hair and i still like it...but i think the magic might be wearing off...

* i'm looking for a place to live in salt lake city, utah.....who knew one day i would live there and be excited about it! anyone know of a good place??

* i made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies FINALLY.....it only took me 6 months and 3 ingredients (spice cake mix, chocolate chips, and 1 can of pumpkin pie spice mix)

* i go to institute every wednesday night with my friend paige. it is fun. i enjoy it. my friend paige in my winger....lingo for a wing man but we are girls so we will be wingers!

* i cancelled one of my credit cards...it had a $20,000 limit....it felt so good telling them to cancel that card.......and i loved my limit that i only really used once to buy my brother a septic tank....

* i sit with nothing to do in the middle of the night A LOT...i don't really like it.

* i'm trying to make new friends....it is harder to do at 28 that i thought it would be.

* i love sleeping in my own queen size bed all to myself....it happens maybe 4 times a week...sometimes more but most times less...

* the sun finally came out in utah....who knew it could elicit so many good emotions in me....i drive with the windows down and i love to have the warmth hitting me. i love spring and i love the outdoors.


* i am excited for what the future will bring.....................

in rebuttal to the last new blog, someone has made this one.....i think maybe these people have WAY too much time on their hands....kinda like me in the middle of the night and NOTHING TO DO and i have to be awake......and the lights are on like its noon day here at work and we are all just biding our time....waiting for the sun to come up so we can go home.

http://whymormonguyzstaysingle.blogspot.com/

my life has been crazy busy lately and its gonna stay that way, but i decided to take some time to myself tonight and read up on a new blog that i found out about at work.....you should check it out...it made for some good reading..ie a break from studying for a nursing test.

http://www.whymormongirlsstaysingle.com/

HAPPY READING!

MY FAVORITE PICTURE FROM CHRISTMAS....ALL THE GIRLS AND MY MOM....PLUS 2 LITTLE BOYS!

today was a super busy day....i had school for a few hours and i learned how to do a HEAD TO TOE assessment on a patient, then i went hiking with my friend taylor and drank a JAMBA JUICE (yummy!), ran some errands, uploaded pictures to my blog, and went wedding dress shopping with one of my longest friends heather clayton (we become friends at age 11 in houston, texas....she was also the last one besides me who was not married from all our high school friends...i guess AND THEN THERE WAS ONE...) so, now its time for me to go to sleep....yes at 10pm so i can wake up to go to clinical at 5:30am...yikes! next week will be super busy as i have a 20 page paper to write plus i´m working sat and sun and then it all starts over again next week. i am grateful to be busy and looking forward to may 1, 2009 (GRADUATION DAY!!!!!!)

then on monday it was back to the other boys.....we ate breakfast at noon and then went hiking at ¨THE CRACK¨.....and then it was time to pack up and go home to do some homework. sorry for the picture overload....but now my blog is a happier place to be.

sunday we spent with some new boys...yes, we went party hopping in st george and it was good times....we went to church in a random ward...they had one of the best relief society lessons i have heard in a long time and then the funniest started....a man in sunday school said ¨with faith, you can stop beating your wife!¨say what?!?!? his wife was no where to be found. other funny things were said but you get the picture. we then ate lunch and played cards, went on a hike to zion national park and got mocked by the old man at the entrance, ate roast for dinner, and then went to a ghost town at dark. it was the best....and i had just said the day before that i wanted to go to a ghost town.....instant gratification at its best.

Texas roadhouse for dinner on valentine´s day......it was yummy after waiting for 1 hour and 30 minutes to get a table......i bought new jeans at the outlet mall while waiting....they are super fun!!!!!!! good times with fun and funny friends. our friend jj is the elders quorem president and so we had him sit on the saddle and they sang to him.......hey, it was president´s day weekend so we were celebrating jj!!!!

so, st george was super fun last weekend.....my friend paige, julia, and i got in the car around 1pm and started our grand adventure...we met up with caleb, darin, and jj to go shooting.......i kept shooting over the target....then it got colder and darker and the boys had fun with the .22 hitting the red disks......those guns have huge kick backs.

the boys.....


the target......


my non-profesional gun shooting skills!!! who knows what kind of stance that is????


the girls.....


the background.....

my sister paige and her family moved to dayton, ohio......way too far away so no more road trips for me.....but they stopped in utah for a little bit and i got some cute pictures.

i went to bear lake for the 3 day weekend in january....i met some fun new people, played some games, and enjoyed being away from my life for a bit.

MY SNOWBOARDING EXPERIENCE......
riding the lift, falling off the lift, falling on my butt A LOT, enjoying the cold weather and not being cold, fun friends

my last trip to fruitland, idaho......we went to an army museum and them to an old prison museum...hyrum and i also made bouncy balls.

i need to make my blog a happier thing to read.....i think it needs pictures.....i will have to learn how to download them from my new camera...please come back on thursday night.....

i'm glad we have PRESIDENTS.....this past weekend i went to st george with some friends. it was fun. 3 girls on a road trip to party hop and spend time with different boys. valentine's day was spent shooting and eating at texas roadhouse. sunday was spent going to church in the funniest, friendliest ward ever.....we got some good top 10 quotes...my favorite "if you have enough faith then you can stop beating your wife" (said in sunday school) and then they all invited us to stay.....fun times since 11 young single adults showed up and then our other 5 friends as well plus 4 random guys on the side. we ate some good food, played some fun games, took a hike thru Zions, and went to a ghost town. monday we ate and hiked and drove home. i enjoyed it. pictures to come.

things i learned from this weekend:

1. it seems like we all (young single adults) have the same story.....get to know new people and you find out they like to travel, their dating life/relationships end up just like everyone elses and we all have crazy stories to back it up, who needs to get married when you can go on fun trips and play!

2. boys will be boys and that's why i like them!

3. i LOVE warm weather.........i can't wait for it....i pray for it everyday!!!

4. i like to sleep...i'm not a fan of night shifts. i like to sleep in a lot.

5. some people don't like me. that makes me sad. i will have to try harder to be more funny and more likeable....i like to meet new people. i like my friends. i hope they know how much i appreciate their friendship.

i have had a few people tell me lately that my mind jumps too far in advance....that i forget to find joy in the little things along the journey....so i'm trying to be better about it. what is the purpose in dating? to get to know someone better...nothing more and nothing less........you date someone to get to know if you want to go out with them again and of course to have fun!!!!!!!

i think this sums up my "committment issue"




























i went on a quasi blind date on thursday.....meaning he called his friend who emailed my friend who texted me to see if a boy i had met one time for 5 minutes while he was sitting down could have my number to ask me out. at first i said no and then decided that everyone gets one chance. we went to dinner and then to a political rally about families. the date itself was not very fun for me. you see, i'm not that passionate about politics and i think that a first/blind date should be fun and short and simple and to the point...we can save the marathon dates for later...after you know that you like the person a little bit. he asked me out again but i have plans that night to learn how to scuba dive....i think i will keep my "ONE HIT WONDER" status and not go out with him again.

p.s. what do you think about internet dating?



p.p.s. tell me your funny awkward, good and bad dating stories......

last night i was driving to salt lake for institute and called my nephews....the first one i just left a message for and the other one answered my brother´s phone and after telling him 3 times that my name was aunt heidi, he told me that he didn´t know who i was because i don´t come visit enough and handed the phone away......sorry NOAH, i will work on that!!!


and this is an email today i got today and wanted to share it......my nephew hyrum is funny......he is super smart and has the funniest imagination. i used to have many competitions with the last boy that i dated....who has the most friends on facebook and who is the favorite brother/sister, aunt/uncle, friend, etc. i always wanted to win but it seemed like he was always winning. anyways, since we are no longer dating, its funny that now i am winning at life....and it feels so good! i have 32 more friends than him on facebook (not that you guys care but i do!) and i think i win the favorite aunt award hands down.......this is what hyrum wrote to me today...


new words to live by:

Dont put someone as a priority who only sees you as an option!

Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay...it's not the the end!

love
HYRUM

i love you heidi


hyrum
sam
sinclair

So, one of my goals for this year is to do something new and different and challenging each month. i made my list on the side of my blog, so check back each month to see what fun things i´m doing.......

i made if through january......i think it was the longest and most difficult january of my life. i went snowboarding with some friends. it was so hard for me....i fell off the lift a ton!!! and it was hard to stand back up on my board after a night of falling down. but, i ended the month with a party for a friend....it was a fun way to end a terrible month....

and now i´m ready to embrace february. every friday in february i´m going to learn how to scuba dive........i´m a little bit nervous after reading my book and learning about all the things that could go wrong, but i love the water and i´m excited for this new challenge!!!!!!

what a CRUEL world we live in...when one person can make you feel so bad about yourself just because they don't want to date you....this is ridiculous......and yet i found myself in this situation again and again and AGAIN.......and i find myself there with so many other girls...what is wrong with this picture...EVERYTHING!!!!!!
there are so few older boys to choose from and there are millions of smart, fun, whitty, charming, fun, incredible girls out there...no wonder the boys worry that there might be "someone better" for them in the big out there but they should realize that the one they have is worth it and go for it......WHAT DO THEY HAVE TO LOSE??? nothing but their pride!

and its interesting how one conversation at the right time could help me to change my attitude and i can feel SO MUCH better about myself. LIFE IS STILL GOING TO BE HARD, BUT I CAN HANDLE IT! i am working right now in the middle of the night and just looked at my pictures on facebook......and guess what?!? i'm a major babe AND i've gotten so much better looking over the years and i have had so many experiences that have made me better and I LIKE WHO I AM!.....granted, i started out as a cute baby then something happened but then i went on a mission and i think i've gotten more and more beautiful in the last 4.5 years....but i think i've had to so that someday i can find a hunsband who thinks i'm beautiful and that i have a lot to offer to him.

people like me. they enjoy me. they want to be my friend. they love me. they think i'm funny and beautiful. i somehow forgot these simple facts in the last month or so and it feels good to be back to normal.

so, to the last boy who broke my heart, i say this......

TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY TO THE NEW START OF MY NEW LIFE.....WISH ME LUCK!!!!!

some christmas pictures of my family......still trying to figure out my new camera so these are from the old one........now, i just need to sell the old one.....any takers?!?!?!?

its 2009. i worked at the hospital last night and felt productive. again i woke up SAD.

so, one of my friends did this on her blog and i decided it would be fun. here are my highlights for each month of 2008:

JANUARY
lots of snow in utah, my new car got hit, i started my 2nd semester of nursing school, dating jeff, spending time in idaho

FEBRUARY
saw a baby be born for the first time, joined a byu bowling league, DISNEYLAND for free with my roommates and visiting Tiajuana, Mexico for the day, got this text message from my boyfriend = "Sorry, i actually made plans with someone else for tonight. let´s try another time."

MARCH
more bowling league with our matching barbie shirts and winning the most spirited award, BYU splash and dash with my friend laura, hyrum came to visit for a week during my spring break

APRIL
FLASH, my dog for 17+ years, was put to sleep

MAY
passing the LPN test, Ukraine Nursing Study abroad, having my 28th birthday (in another country)

JUNE
Ukraine + Russia + Estonia (visiting my mission again) + Finland, Kaden was born

JULY
Idaho, my dad getting remarried, going to Lake Havasupai and jumping in the WATERFALLS

AUGUST
San Diego trip with my roommates, watching the OLYMPICS, hyrum came to visit for a week with my mom, one last tubing trip down the provo river with my roommates

SEPTEMBER
BYU football games, US OPEN + Wicked in NYC, new STRAIGHT hair, skydiving with my roommates

OCTOBER
blind dates, met Caleb

NOVEMBER
dating Caleb, Switzerland with Jennie:Brent:Drew:Avery:Liam

DECEMBER
3rd semester of nursing school ended, Houston to see my family for Christmas, Tistan was born, getting an email from a boy that says "i still like you a lot, i just don´t know of i feel like i want to date you exclusively."

HAPPY NEW YEAR......ITS 2009!!!!!

so, i´ve been in a bad mood lately....and rightly so, i think!!! but i haven´t felt like writing on my blog. i don´t think it will change too much in the next little bit but its the middle of the night and i decided i could write my new year´s resolutions and then maybe i will keep some of them.....and i´m copying this idea from a friend.

SOCIAL
* make more friends in my ward and in general
* go on 2 dates a month...maybe 3 if i feel like 2009 is going to be my lucky year
* find a boy to LOVE me.............ONE WHO WILL PUT FORTH EFFORT TO STAY IN LOVE WITH ME AND DECIDE THAT I AM GOOD ENOUGH TO BE LOVED and that i am good enough for him...
* go to FHE and other war activitied
* go on ONE INTERNATIONAL TRIP this summer to celebrate graduation and my single awareness independence!!!!!!!
* get on facebook less.....this habit is a hard one to break....especially when i work nights and i have to do anything i can just to stay awake..........i even have a goal not to facebook stalk certain people with very strict penalties.......let´s just hope i can do it...its 3:08am and i already broke this resolution!!!!!!!

EDUCATIONAL
* graduate from UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY nursing program on May 1, 2009
* take piano lessons and be better at playing the piano...this means i need to practice!
* learn how to do something new each month = get new hobbies of some kind and really enjoy new things (any suggestions on this would be greatly appreciated)
- photography
- sew a quilt
- read a book and join a book club
- learn how to cook new things ------ and not be afraid to try new things.

PHYSICAL
* go to the gym 3-4 times a week.....or at least do some kinda of exercise if i am not by the 24 hour gym in provo
* do 1 triathlon and run the entire running portion
* swim 1 mile at deer creek resevoir
* eat better.....sometimes i just forget this important thing.....

OCCUPATIONAL
* become an RN and get more responsibility at work
* get a second job that has nothing to do with nursing........maybe a server or at a craft store or best buy to get some discounts or at a school helping kids to read....i have been thinking a lot lately about being a teacher again.....i really think my new dream job would be an elementary school math teacher.....

SPIRITUAL
* go to the temple 1 time each month
* read the scriptures at least 5 verses each day
* listen or read all the conference talks.


there you have it. i hope that i can be good about my goals in 2009. i hope i can find what i am looking for. I HAVE HOPE!

so, i spent a week with my family in houston....wearing flip flops and shorts, meeting my newest nephew tristan, spending kathy´s money, and buying some good christmas presents for myself......those pictures are to come when i am at home with my camera. i´m at the hospital tonight working on new years eve and so no pictures.

my favorite presents were a new camera that i bought for myself with money from kathy, and a picture of the savior from my grandma. i have a few more presents to buy for myself like a new blow dryer and a straightener so i don´t have to keep using my roommates..........

i came back to FREEZING utah on the 23rd and spent christmas eve working at the hospital. then the WERTZ family were nice enough to take me in. it was kinda fun and different being at another family´s house on christmas and seeing how they celebrate and what traditions they have. i was supposed to work on christmas day but got put on call and in at 1pm but then i ended up being off the rest of the day. that night, as i was leaving, it was raining and then it was blizzarding........my car was sliding and i couldn´t see so i went back to their house and played the wii fit all night long. it was super fun and i feel like i´m kinda good at those games.....


i stole this picture off facebook but they were my christmas family this year!



crazy how i think that the past few years i have been adopted by different families on christmas.......i´m glad there are people out there who are nice enough to take in one more person on christmas day. thank you is not enough!!!!!!!

it is the middle of the night....i have not worked a night shift in over a month....my patients are asleep.....i am tired............why is the night going by SOOO SLOWLY??!!?? prolly because i am excited to get out of utah and go home to texas for the week. i get to play with my nephews and have them fight over me being their girlfriend....i get to meet tristan.....i get to go shopping..........i get to sleep whenever i want and wake up whenever i want.....and hopefully in MY bed.....i will be sharing with one of my sisters or hyrum!!!!!!!

8 TV Shows: (i think i have forgotten how to watch tv lately...but i love movies...so i think i will do 8 movies instead...in no particular order and ones i have watched recently...i don't know if i have favorites)
1. Dark Night (Batman)
2. Wedding Singer
3. Penelope
4. Man on Fire
5. The Never Ending Story
6. Serendipity
7. AquaMarine
8. Hallmark Christmas Specials.....i love that there are so many on TV right now

8 Favorite Restaurants: (maybe i need to get out more????)
1. Texas Roadhouse
2. Zuppas
3. Taco Bell
4. Carrabbas
5. Sizzler
6. Anyone who cooks for me!
7. Lon's Cooking Shack
8. Subway

8 Things that happened yesterday:1. Went to work
2. Checked facebook way too many times!
3. became an aunt again = 4 nephews and 1 niece
4. talked on the phone for a long time
5. laughed
6. cried
7. drove my honda fit
8. decided i needed to get more hobbies!

8 Things I Look Forward to:1. Sundays...
2. seeing or talking to my friends
3. cuddling while watching a movie with a cute boy who likes me
4. eating steak
5. swimming outside in the ocean or pool on a hot day with warmer water...i.e. not water in utah becuase it is always freezing
6. riding on roller coasters
7. HUGS
8. getting stamps in my passport

8 Things I love About Christmas:1. going to Houston, Texas
2. wrapping and opening presents
3. the snow
4. no school
5. shopping for Kathy
6. fireplaces
7. looking at christmas lights
8. singing christmas songs

8 Things on my wish list:
1. meeting the man of my dreams, falling madly in love, and getting married in the temple
2. To be the best wife ever....make my husband fall in love with me everyday and to love him A LOT
3. have kids and be a good mom
4. learn to play the piano better (our neighbors are giving us a piano to keep in our kitchen...i am excited to practice more...it will give me something to do when i am bored and home alone)
5. to laugh everyday
6. be a good nurse and graduate from school and love my job
7. visit all 7 continents....still 3 more to go
8. having enough money so that i don't have to worry

one of the hardest things for me to learn in this life has been PATIENCE.......never has this been a virtue of mine.....and yet, over and over again i am asked to have patience...........i just want to know the answers right now........time is my biggest enemy and my greatest friend....THE TRUE TEST.....WHICH WILL WIN THIS TIME??






on another note, i take my 3rd semester nursing final in less than 2 hours. i am nervous. it is comprehensive and my brain is not thinking that way. wish me luck!






i´m an aunt again...my brother and sister-in-law became a family of 5 yesterday......welcome to the world TRISTAN GABRIEL BUCHANAN.......i will get to meet him on thursday. i fly to houston on wednesday morning to spend a week with my family. i am super excited, the day cannot come fast enough. my sisters call everyday to tell me what they are doing and i want to just play with my niece and nephews who LOVE ME NO MATTER WHAT!!!

thanksgiving....the table settings.......and me playing with the kids...like always!!!

the switzerland countryside.....
the bears of bern...the capital and one of my favorite cities
a chocolate factory.....switzerland is known for their chocolate....and i brought back 70 swiss franks worth of it....YUMMY!!!

Church in French makes my brain hurt!!! singing is kinda fun but why do the french have to drop the endings to some words and say them with a weird accent for others....i don't think that it is the language of love.......ENGLISH WOULD HAVE TO BE MY NUMBER ONE CHOICE IN "THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE"!!!!!

Thai food is YUMMY and kinda easy.....i think that i need to work on my cooking skills when i get back to America.............maybe i will start cooking more for my roommates.....www.allrecipes.com

Speed scrabble is fun.....good thing because it is the only game jennie and i have to play here!

BMWs are amazing, small cars.......you can fit a mom and a dad and 3 kids under 4 years old in 3 car seats in the back seat and a Heidi........too bad jennie laid in the trunk on the way to church but the night before the 3 adults got cozy in the front seat.

thank goodness for computers that work all over the world......i'm so lucky to get to type some of my 25 page papar here in switzerland.....i just hope that my teacher likes it enough to give me an A when i get back to real life in a few days.

so, thanksgiving dinner was supper yummy. we spent the morning cooking pies and making salad and drew helped me make a spinach artichoke dip........it turned out ok so i must have done somehthing right!

then we went to a huge house in the country. most people here live in apartments and they are super expensive.........double that and you have a house in the country but you also 4X the size. there were 5 american families there to enjoy thanksgiving dinner....and we even had an 18 POUND TURKEY from france....it was so moist and good. we had pumpkin, pecan, apple, berry pies....rolls....chunky mashed potatoes.....salad....gravy.....and cheese and crackers for appetizers......and it was all delicious.

i think there were 12 kids there........i talked to the adults and played with the kids......funny how it seems to work that way........the 10 year old girl asked me how old i was and when i told her 28 she told me that i was an adult (in a shocking way!) and that i wasn't supposed to be playing with the kids but she was glad that i did. yep, being 28 and single, i guess i get to enjoy the best of both worlds......being a kid sometimes and being an adult sometimes.......we made thankful turkies by tracing our hands, ate some chocolae, played phase 10, and i even got to practice the piano for a little bit.....i am on the same level as the 7 year old girl so i think i need to practice some more!!!!!!!

so, switzerland is 8 hours ahead of utah.....when i wake up in the morning, everyone there is going to sleep or has been sleeping for a fews hours now......sometimes this fact amazes me and other times it leaves me wanting to change the time!!

friday was a fun day. i got my typical 9-10 hours of sleep for here......i think that my body is recovering from the 3-4 hours of not good sleep i was getting every night before i got here (oh and did i mention that i slept almost the entire 10 hour plane ride to paris and the 1.5 hour ride to Geneva??!!??) i think my body loves me right now.....and i'm storing up hours for when i go back to school and finals and papers and work and some good CALEB time.

we went to a castle yesterday....my favorite one yet! and then we went to an outdoor christmas market. i bought my switzerland souvineer......a hat with ear flaps to keep my head warm.....i think its kinda cute.....we shall see.

then, jennie and i tried out hands at being domestic...more her than me.....we tried to make some pie crusts...the doubled recipe didn't turn out the best and so we had to improvise......pecan pie is done.......who knows how it tastes...and i don't think we are going to eat it. this morning we are going to make a banana cream pie and a salad and artichoke dip.......and then off to thanksgiving in switzerland..........


p.s.
i think that i figured out why i have so much fun with jennie and brent and their 3 kids.......they remind me a lot of my sister paige and her husband and their 2 kids.....we just laugh and talk and play games and brent and jennie act a lot a lot like my sister and kyle.........right down to the funny things they do and say. i've been having a lot of fun here.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM SWITZERLAND!!!!!

so, for the big turkey day, jennie and i took her 3 kids to the mountain.....the most amazing view we could have had with a crystal, clear sunny day.......and the gondola lift to the top was closed for the month........just our luck....yesterday the nestle chocolate factory was closed for the winter. so, after driving 2.5 hours, we decided to take the short lift up to murren and to walk around the city that was pretty much deserted.........we found one restaurant that was open and they told us it would be a long wait so instead we walked around the CRUNCHY SNOW and enjoyed our view of the snow covered swiss alps. the view was MAJESTICAL!! we then went down into a city and found some swiss cow bells....good times.......

for the big feast....we ate CHEESE FONDUE!!! it was yummy. with some sparkling apple cider.......don't feel too bad for me, we are having thanksgiving dinner on saturday with a bunch of american families here...and brent, jennie's husband is going to play in the turkey bowl!!!!

tonight i got to help give the kids a bath...its fun to hear them giggle and to see how much they love their parents. i hope that i can be a good mom someday......maybe the theme of my trip can be "how to be a better mom heidi"...


HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!

so, there will not be any pictures for the duration of my trip...i forgot the camera cord...oops!!! however, i think that i will try to write about everyday...just a little bit....i forgot my journal too......i think my mind was a little bit distracted by a really cute, fun boy THAT I MISS A LOT!

anyways, on to my switzerland story....

so, yesterday i managed to stay awake until 8:30pm.....i played with drew and avery and liam and talked to jennie...and then while reading my scriptures i fell asleep..........and slept for 12 hours!!! i woke up this morning though with no jet leg and ready to go. i went with drew to his speech therapy lesson and ventured out on the trolleybus with 3 kids. then we ate lunch and it was off to a castle with 3 kids in car seats in the back of my friend jennie's bmw.

i have a new RESPECT for mothers after today. my friend jennie is AMAZING!!!!!! she lives in switzerland......not speaking the language very well.......with 3 kids......she takes them on little trips and to museums and helps them to have a normal life........people look at her weird here because she is carrying one kid on her stomach and has one kid in each hand..........and she is excited to go see places.........

so, we drove to a cobble stoned street village and looked at some shops.....and then met up with harmony (jennie, harmony, and i were all in the same freshman ward at byu = how crazy is that....jennie and i have been friends for 10 years now!!!) ........and guess what.....she has 3 kids as well.............so we looked thru the castle and watched a cool 3D movie and ate at mcdonalds and had a fun time......all the while i am atill in awe of these 2 women..........

ha ha....at least i could help them a little bit and i loved walking thru the streets holding hands with the girls in their scarfs and listening to the kids talk......they say the funniest stuff.............and i just get to enjoy them!!!!!! my new favorite way to walk down the street is with 2 kids in tow....i need to get a picture of that before i go home. someday i will have my own kids but for now i guess i just get to enjoy everyone else's kids and help out in any way that i can!!!

i made it to switzerland!!!!!!!! stay tuned for updates.......

ok, i decided to introduce you guys to CALEB EDWARD WERTZ.............by telling you about all the things i like about him..............

* he is the funniest person i know...and makes me laugh everyday!!!!!

* those blue eyes.....they are to die for!

* he is the favorite of everyone in his family...he loves his mom mucho.

* he is athletic! and everyone wants him on their team.

* he sings along with the songs in the car and me

* he wants to be with me just as much as i want to be with him....and he is always excited to see me!

* he takes me on FUN dates all the time....even though we see each other everyday...

* he carries my bags for me and always opens the doors when i´m getting in the car.

* he loves to cuddle with me!!!!!!!

* he is an amazing cook. his family even has him cook dinner for them. my favorite part = he cooks dinner for me almost every night. i know how to cook but i would
rather do the dishes......it works out well

* he plays games with me

* i can talk to him all night long and never get tired.....he is super fun to talk to

* we are facebook friends

ok, so the list could go on and on...but i just wanted to let you know that i´m loving my life right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, caleb and i went to a fireside last night. there was a long line of cars getting out of the parking lot, and i brought my camera, so what do you do??? take silly pictures of course!!!!!!!

welcome to the new, fun and exciting life of heidi marissa buchanan.

so, about 3.5 weeks ago i got put on call at my job at the hospital. i was kinda upset about this because i really need the money. my friend paige invited me to go to a cabin with her and her roommates and told me that there would be fun boys there. so, i decided to go. as soon as we walked in the door, a boy named caleb gave all of us a hug hello. well, as the night went on, i got to know caleb better and we ended up talking until 4am.....i thought he was cute and way funny and it was fun. we went home the next morning and i didn´t really think too much....just thought that maybe he would call or something but he didn´t ask for my number so i was just going to wait and see what would happen. as i was going to work that night, i got a text message from caleb. i was excited. we texted some the next day and then on tuesday we decided to go on a date. it was fun and i was definately interested in getting to know him better. we went out again on thursday and then saturday and sunday......and well, i think i´ve seen him everyday since then. we have been doing lots of fun things but i always bring my camera and then never take pictures. i´m trying to be better. so, some of the fun dates we have been going on are 1. tin foil dinners 2. wal-mart scavenger hunt 3. painting with our mouths (we had the paint brushes in our mouths and we had to draw something in nature.....i think i got more paint on me than the poster) 4. hot tubing in park city 5. REAL salt lake soccer game. anyways, i think i´m the luckiest girl right now and i´m having tons of fun. hopefully there will be more pictures to come....

i got my hair cut again last tuesday...on my Veteran´s Day off of school and work.......i got my roommates to play hookey from school as well.........they changed the part in my hair, put makeup on my eyes, and we went shopping....they wanted to change my look and so took me to DI and i told them i would try on anything they wanted me to....just for the day........so i got to push the cart around while they piled it high with some funky looking clothes. (i guess i should preface this....2 of my roommates get tons of clothes from DI and you can never notice...they look super cute and stylish.) it took me forever to try all the clothes on and i was getting a little bit frustrated as i didn´t really like anything on me.....i settled for 2 skirts, a shirt, and a new coat. now, i just need to get some shirts and then maybe i will enjoy my new clothes. i think i look the same with or without makeup and it takes some extra time....maybe i´m just lazy but i like the way i look without makeup and so it was a one time deal.

So, my roommates and I went to a bridal shower 2 weeks ago and we shopped at target for the gift.....we found this lip gloss and other products...........so, if you are looking for fuller lips, please visit target and get some.....
SEXY MOTHER PUCKER LIPS!!!!!

not the best pictures but they have to do for now until i remember to bring my camera with me when i see caleb. he is fantastic! and i really enjoy every second i am with him.

so, i just found out that you can text CHACHA (those numbers on your phone) and there are live people standing by to text you back.....sometimes they can send you jokes, you can ask questions and they give you random answers......its kinda fun....they will even look things up to give you a good answer.

well, this weekend while i was at frightmares at lagoon....the last day of the season...we tested out CHACHA.....the conversation went something like this....


CALEB: Does Heidi like me?
CHACHA: Totally, Dude. That is so happening.

HEIDI: Does Caleb like me?
CHACHA: Yes. I´m as sure of it as there are stars in the sky!




fun times!!!! good thing there are cyber people out there looking thru a crystal ball to let us know the obvious.....

BYU FOOTBALL GAME.......so, thanks to the Cougar Club, my roommates and i have been able to go to the football games for free this season....all we have to do is volunteer for 2 hours before the game to show people to their seats. Here is a picture of us with our free passes that let us sit anywhere.......thanks to the rich people who donate money to BYU!!!!!

Blind date fun. My friend Paige set me up on a blind date last week. we went to CPK and then made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies and carved pumpkins. the date was super fun....the pictures to prove it!!!!

Kristi & Ryan pumpkin


Paige & Robb pumpkin


Heidi & Dave pumpkin


This is our group picture.....in the dark....it looks kinda creepy but i like our faces over the candle-lit pumpkins


The group in the light.

My new dress. My favorite part was the bag that it came in....pictures of my wearing it to come later....

so, its 0422 in the morning and i am trying to keep myself awake. i have studied for a test i have tomorrow but nothing else is sticking in my brain. i have enjoyed topics of conversation about boob jobs and the dates i have been going on....the kinds of boys that i like and nursing school....and so the next best thing is doing this survey. enjoy getting to know me a little bit better...

This is for your entire life!

(X) Gone on a blind date? = these are my only dates lately, it seems i need to be set up to go out with boys.....but i have been loving it. just ask my roommates = i am a boy crazy, social loving person.....my secret: i think blind dates are fun....because i can have as much fun as i want and most likely i never see the person again....I AM A ONE HIT WONDER!!!
(X) Skipped school?...only recently have i been skipping school. in high school, my sisters always were "at home sick" but i felt this need to go everyday. now, i pay for my own school and so i think i have to go to get my money's worth...but i skipped school last week to go to work.
(X) Watched someone die? = YES, i am a nurse, it comes with the territory...the worst part was putting a 16 year old in a body bag one day....that was not very much fun!
( ) Been to Canada? nope...someday...
(X) Been to Mexico? Yes....my grandpa lives in Tiajuana and I LOVE going to visit him. once i even brought 7 boys and me to visit. now my dad lives there...maybe i'll get another trip to the mexican beaches???
(x) Been to Florida? YES and everytime i went to disneyworld for free!!!!! thanks lynna!!!i love the sun.
(X) Been on a plane? of course.
(X) Jumped out of a plane? YES, 2 times actually....the most recent was about 1 month ago.
(X) Been lost? GOTTA LOVE CORN MAZES .... especially when you take a 4 year old and a 4 month old!!!
(X) Been on the opposite side of the country? yes
(x) Gone to Washington, DC yes, i lived in maryland for 6 months
(X) Swam in the ocean = check.......send my to the ocean wearing my pink/red bathing suit anyday.
(X) Cried yourself to sleep = i'm a girl, this has happened too many time to count
(X) Played cops and robbers
(X) Recently colored with crayons
(X) Sang karaoke yes
(X) Paid for a meal with coins only......some would say i am cheap, others frugal....me, i used to use my change to buy tacos at taco bell.....
(X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't = yes, i never thought i would go on a mission, but i did and LOVED it; there are many others but i'll just leave it at that.
(X) Made prank phone calls...it is kinda fun!!!
(X) Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose
(X) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
(X) Danced in the rain love, love, love to do this...well, mainly i like to play in the rain. i even did it with the girls from my ukraine study abroad last summer and we got the best pictures.
(X) Written a letter to Santa Claus
(X) Been kissed under the mistletoe?ha ha ha...this is a funny one with my roommates right now. we put mistletoe up in our last house and all tried to use it. and the funny thing is, i think we all did!!!!! hey guys...all 5 of us kissed someone last year.....WAHOO!!!!! WAY TO GO FANTASTIC 5!!!
(x) Watched the sunrise with someone you care about
(X) Blown bubbles
(X) Gone ice-skating...i'm not very good at this...but i keep trying to enjoy it.
( ) Gone skiing NOPE and i have lived off and on for 10 years in Utah....i keep waiting for someone to take me but maybe that's a lost cause?!????!!!
(X) Been skinny dipping outdoors ha. of course. i live on the edge.
(X) Gone to the movies

1. Any nicknames? Rawhide, HeidiHo, Heids Hodie(my favorite at the moment!)
2. Mother's name? Collette
3. Favorite drink? Gatorade Frost...the purple kind or orange juice
4. Tattoo? no thanks.
5. Body Piercing? in my ears
6. Had a job that you loved? yes, i currently love my job at the children's hospital. but i also loved delivering flowers and delivering pizzas at Papa Johns
7. Birthplace? Lake Charles, Louisiana
8. Favorite vacation spot? Penag, Malasia......but i like lots of vacations...i have been one vacation at least every month for the past 20 months...i think it will continue
9. Ever been to Africa? nope.....but here's to hoping...i still have to go to Antartica, Africa, and Austrailia to make it to all the continents
10. Ever eaten cookies for dinner? yes....
11. Ever been on TV? yes...i was in a hot dog eating contest to try and win tickets to the Baseball world series.....i lost to a man who ate 16 hot dogs in 10 min, 7.5 seconds.....i had 6 and then threw up behind the dumpsters....i have not eaten a hot dog since that day!
12. Ever steal any traffic signs? no, but my siblings do.
13. Ever been in a car accident? no.
14. Drive a 2-door or 4-door vehicle? 4 door so i can take my friends for drives
15. Favorite salad dressing? RANCH with BACON
16. Favorite pie? chocolate mouse pie
17. Favorite number? 5-17, my birthday.
18. Favorite movie? i don't know....normally i can't watch movies more than once...
19. Favorite holiday? my birthday...i have been in a different place for it for most of the last 10 years...i'm still trying to get a stamp in my passport on that day...the closest i've gotten is May 18th.
20. Favorite dessert? cookies
21. Favorite food? lasagna with peas
23. Favorite brand of body wash? oil of olay body lotion!!!!
24. Favorite toothpaste? crest
25. Favorite smell? fresh baked bread
26. What do you do to relax? sleep in my queen size bed and watch movies, go swimming
27. How do you see yourself in 10 years? HAPPILY married with SOME children; to who and how many is yet to be determined. working as a nurse part time. going on vacations once a year to fun places.
28. What would you like to do that you've never done before? GET MARRIED
29. What is your favorite flower? roses or maybe gerber daisies
30. What is your favorite color? ORANGE AND BROWN....but recently i have been trying to like green
31. What vehicle would you love to have? new honda civic

FREE IS GOOD!

SO, ON MONDAY MORNING, AFTER WORKING A 12+ HOUR SHIFT, I DID THIS....



SO THAT I COULD GET A FREE TICKET TO BODY WORLDS.....some people think it is weird, but i find the human body fascinating and this exhibit was about the heart and the body. i work with kids who have congenital heart defects so it was pretty cool. you should go if it ever comes to your city!



THEN TUESDAY NIGHT I WENT OUT COUNTRY DANCING WITH MY FRIENDS LYNDSI, PAIGE, AND KATHRYN....i have to admit that i was a little bit anxious at first but I HAD A BLAST. boys asked me to dance almost every song and they even threw me up in the air and all around. i think that i might go again. THE BEST PART=the guys told me that if you mess up its always the boys fault...the girl is just supposed to follow his lead. this was intense dancing but super fun!! and it was free...even better for those who are poor!

more blessings in my life.....

so, it turns out i have a lot to be thankful for this week.

1. the story goes like this.....the church = my parents = going on a mission = meeting mike = joining facebook = needing a place to live = finding my roommates!!! funny how all those things lead to the next. i had fun a women's night out at deseret book during the priesthood session of conference and even bought a new dress...pictures to come.

2. my nephew HYRUM.........this kid makes me soooo soooo happy!! he is the only person who called me on saturday and he talked to me while jumping on his new tramploine and then while he was stinking up the whole house in the bathroom. what a funny kid. he told me we were going to talk about TOPICS because that is what you do on the phone. we talked about his preschool and my nursing school and then mickey's house in florida and how he is going to loan me money to take him there. somebody has some big shoes to fill whenever they finally win my heart over. i love you rummy!!!! p.s. paige....he told me he didn't lie at all on saturday so NO SOAP. ha ha ha

3. it rained ALL DAY saturday. i loved it!!!

THIS POST GOES OUT TO 3 PEOPLE WHO HAVE INFLUENCED MY LIFE FOR GOOD AND I JUST WANT TO THANK THEM FOR MAKING ME FEEL LIKE A GOOD PERSON AND THAT I HAVE A LOT TO OFFER EVEN WHEN I DOUBT.

1. Susan Walker......i met her while on study abroad in Jordan, in the middle east. we lived in the same hotel room for 6.5 weeks along with Erin Cox...and the fun times keep going on 2+ years later. thanks for being my friend Susan. i hope that i can help you right now as much as you help me!!! keep your head up and heavenly father will bless you with answers.

2. Jena Topham Scott.....she was my favorite companion on the mission. we would stay up late analyzing who we would potentially marry and we would just have fun while trying to tell the people around us in Narva, Estonia about the gospel. i would make all the meals and she would talk to me in the kitchen...it was the best set up. we were roommates right before she got married and it was fun to see that excitement. now she is married with a cute little boy and being the single parent while her husband is serving our country in Kuwait. i´m glad that we can still laugh about the crazy things in life and still be friends. only one week till she gets to see her husband while he´s on leave for 2 weeks!

3. Taylor McCarrey...another friend from my mission....and we are still friends. yeah! thanks for the phone call yesterday. it really helped to boost my spirits...good luck with that girl.....it makes me happy that you have found something fun and new and exciting...you better keep me updated!!!

it seems that this week i have found some extra time to watch a few movies and read a few books.....easy reading and mindless entertainment goes a long way in the middle of the day or morning when i am bored. i know that soon i will have 4 papers to write and a poster to do for school so i guess it was nice to have a mini break for me.

i liked this movie....free from redbox with a code on mondays...who wouldn´t want to marry their best friend and have a free trip to a foreign country


i saw this movie without knowing anything about it. my friend susan wanted to see it. i found that i think british humor is HILARIOUS. and even though it was a little bit more crude than i thought it would be, i LOVED the message at the end. i walked away and went to sleep hoping that i too can become a better person.


the jury is still out on this movie....it was a bit cheesy for me and yet how nice for people who can´t have kids the natural way to be given other opportunities to have children anyway possible.


as for my books....too many easy-reading, lds books burrowed from my friend lyndsi. i read Sam, the story of Charly´s husband. it made me think about how silly these books are and yet i read it in one day. ha ha...my sister jenna would be proud! and now i started reading another book. who wants to study for a test when there is lds romance in the air!?!?!?!

after we had all jumpped.......


me with my tandem master.....his name was utah and he tried to convince me that he had written a book on chivalry and that because he had some seniority that he got to choose the prettiest girl to jump with.....he also told me i was giving him a free lap dance at 13,000 feet in the air.....YIKES!


the blue plane...


and since i didn´t get any sky pictures i stole this one from jenni.....look at those cheeks!!!!! and most importantly, look at the background...it was BEAUTIFUL!!!


so sorry about the picture overload just thought it was good times.

so the 5 of us couldn´t all go in the same plane so it was me, kathryn, and jerah and then in the next plane it was jenni and amren. we learned that jumpping out of a plane is the best cure to clear you head and that the sky diving lifestyle is not the most moral.....the men made crude jokes and jenni´s south african tandem master put one of her braids in his hair and slapped her butt in the air because he thought she was cute and TALL....and luckily, they all waited until after we landed before they started drinking.

the back of our suits said DANGER.....the perfect thing to have written on your back when you are jumping out of an airplane. i didn´t have $70 extra after paying $180 for the jump to pay for pictures while falling thru the air so i just have the before and after pictures.....they had us land on our butts. the last time i went we landed on our feet. i must say that i enjoyed the 2nd jump a lot more.....i think that it inspired me to want to make one more jump in my life........sometime later.....

THE ADVENTURES IN SKY DIVING BEGINS


we started out by arriving in ERDA, UTAH.....far far away by the great salt lake...


we had a weather scare where they said we might not get to go and asked people if the wanted to leave. not me or amren or kathryn.....so we talked to the divers and almost everyone else left. then less than 15 minutes later, they had us rushing to get ready. WE WERE NEXT ON DECK!!!!!

then it was time to suit up with out harnesses and get some instruction. we watched the craziest video before with a long bearded man and the story of people crashing into the ground. they gave us 3 instructions to remember: 1. BELLY BUTTON OUT (when you leave the airplane, go with your belly button first and your head back) 2. BREATHE (this may sound silly but you are supposed to breathe between clenched teeth otherwise its like drinking from a fire hydrant) 3. BANANA (you are supposed to make a banana with your body and use your hands as dental floss between your hands and brain)

I THINK THAT SATURDAY WAS A SUCCESS!!!!!!!

YESTERDAY I JUMPED OUT OF THIS PUMMELING TO MY DEATH.......



ONLY TO GORGE MYSELF WHILE EATING HERE AFTERWARDS.......

this is just an FYI entry....i really am not bitter, just tired of trying over and over again and getting burned. at least for tonight i am going to workout at the gym and try not to care about boys!

YOU WANT TO KNOW MY FAVORITE PART ABOUT BEING SINGLE??
I CAN GO ANYWHERE, WHENEVER I WANT....NO QUESTIONS ASKED, NO ANSWERS GIVEN..IT IS GOOD TIMES!!!

YOU WANT TO KNOW MY LEAST FAVORITE PART ABOUT BEING SINGLE??
BEING LONELY AND VULNERABLE!


YOU WANT TO KNOW THE FUNNIEST/MOST AWKWARD/MOST INTERESTING PART ABOUT BEING 28 AND SINGLE???

1. people in my nursing school who are married try to set me up with their single friends....

* i went on a blind date last year with an older brother of a girl in my school and it was a one hit wonder...

* a boy is trying to hook me up with his friend who is athletic and outdoorsy but everytime he calls my phone says it cannot connect to me due to the hurricane in the area (my area code is 281= thanks hurricane IKE).....that´s ok, the kid from my class is still trying to be nice to me and gave me a ride home from class on the back of his motorcycle......yes, i travel in style!!!

* i went to clinical today and the first thing to nurse i´m assigned to work with tells me that she doesn´t like working with students....SURE....THANKS A LOT FOR A LONG DAY!!! and then she finds out that i speak russian and i am single and she´s nice and tries to set me up with her russian-speaking brother-in-law....whatever....is that all it takes for people to be nice to me......you are single and available then i will give you the time of day?!?!?!?! i think there is a problem with that

2. happily married/ in lovers la la land people try to set you up........well at least they talk about doing it and then it never really happens......THE FUNNY THING IS, I SECRETLY LOVE BLIND DATES.....IT IS A FREE GOOD TIME TO ME AND I MEET SOME OF THE STRANGEST/INTERESTING/FUN PEOPLE FOR ONE NIGHT AND THEN I NEVER HAVE TO SEE THEM AGAIN.

3. my roommates get asked out by boys that they are not really interested in them but they still keep going out and if someone can get a date just because they are TALL then why can´t i get a date just because i am AVERAGE HEIGHT......HEY, I AM KINDA FUNNY!!!!!

4. people look at me and think ¨wow she is young....18-23 max¨and then they find out that i am 28 and no one believes me so they still try to get me to go out with 22 year old return missionaries.....fresh off the mish........WAY TOO YOUNG GUYS!





yep, the lovely world of dating....aren´t you guys all glad that you aren´t dealing with that anymore!!!!! (i just realized that 85% of the people who read my blog are married......)






P.S. TO THE BOY THAT I REALLY WANT TO DATE.....THE ONE THAT I HAVE FUN WITH AND WHO MAKES ME LAUGH..........I HAVE OFFICIALLY GIVEN UP ON YOU FOR THE 30TH+ TIME AGAIN. WHO CARES THAT YOU HAVE SCHOOL AND ARE SUPER BUSY AND DON´T REALLY WANT TO DATE SOMEONE SERIOUSLY UNTIL YOU ARE DONE WITH SCHOOL......WEAK SAUCE!!! you are deleted from my phone and yesterday was the last time for me to be nice to you.......its official, i´m done putting myself out there FOR YOU.

on saturday as my roommates and i were driving thru the canyon to park city to go to a hoe-down for a young single adult activity, this is the sunset we saw. it was beautiful!!! i learned many thing from that activity....
1. some older men are kinda attractive = we met a 35+ year old guy and he was kinda quarky but funny
2. square dancing is fun...we had to learn when i was in 5th grade at lowery elementary and i hated it then.
3. dances are fun when boys and girls are willing to learn new dances, make fools of themselves, and most especially when the boys ask the girls to dance.
4. i like NOT working on saturday nights = who would have thought i would have so much fun!!!

more BYU FOOTBALL action.......they won again this week folks and the final score was 44-0. Yes my cougars are doing amazingly!!! i sat next to my roommates and gary bunker, an elder from my mission....and he used to play football on BYU´s team before the mission.......and for those of you who think that no one ever really wins things at the games, here is a picture of bunker with a diamond.......or cubic zerconium....he found it taped under his seat....and now he takes it into the store and they tell him what he wins. what a lucky kid, not he just has to find a girlfriend, date her, and get engaged to use that free gift. GOOD LUCK BUNKER!!!