Nursing Graduation

Well I did it. WE did it. Nursing school involves the whole family. After two (plus) years of hard work I finally have my RN! I am so excited! I can't imagine anything I'd rather do:) Thank you EVERYONE that has supported me through this very long and exhausting process. This wasn't easy on any of us. I remember the day I was accepted to nursing school. I received an email on my phone at the hospital the day after I gave birth to my little Cohen. I was so happy I cried (or maybe it was the hormones). So off to school I went, Cohen just 3 months of age, and a hubby that looked at me as I skipped out the door with a look of "what the hell am I supposed to do now" on his lovely face. Little did we know that was just the beginning. 

On to semester two, I started to go blind and then found out I had MS. It was such a shock and so devastating to the whole family. We somehow survived- and with me getting an A's and B's (remember 75% is failing). 

Semester three was pretty uneventful, however our little Tshirt business slowed WAYYY down and we had some medical bills and school to pay for. But we made it through.

Semester four-the last one. Hardest by far. Had a relapse of my MS, and more medical tests. I couldn't concentrate this time. Business still slow, more medical bills, more medicine that made me sick, more devastation for all but...

WE SURVIVED!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH TO MY WONDERFUL HUSBAND NOAH AND COHEN AND CAROL FOR ALL THE FREE BABYSITTING, EMOTIONAL SUPPORT, AND PHLOP SHOP SERVICE. TO MY FAMILY FOR ALL THE PHONE CALLS AND SUPPORT THROUGH THE TOUGH TIMES. SPECIAL THANKS TO GRANDMA AND GRANDPA KENYON FOR MAKING THIS ALL POSSIBLE. WITHOUT YOU I WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GO TO SCHOOL. THANK YOU FRIENDS (you know who you are) WHO WERE ALWAYS THERE FOR ME AND MAKING SURE I WAS OK. NONE OF THIS WOULD BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT ALL OF YOU!

Just Because

Here are a few random things we have been doing in the last week:

Learning to shave

Shaving daddy

Playing around

Cleaning Cohen's room-getting ready to paint!

Noah's getting ready too

New and improved - GREEN!

And.... drumroll please (literally)

Grandma Carols Bday gift for Cohen!

We will probably soon be posting pictures of the drum set thrown out the window but for now, he has a drum set to bang on!

Camp Verde!

Camp Verde is where Noah's grandparents have a vacation home. Noah used to spend many days as a child up at Camp Verde and has so many memories there. For his birthday Noah wanted to take us up there (our first trip) to make some of our own family memories. Great grandma and grandpa were there along with Aunt Cortney and Uncle Adam and Addison and Grandma Carol. We had so much fun hiking and eating cake!

Great Grandma Marilyn enjoying cake

Adam

Noah opening bday presents

Mommy and Cohen down at the creek

Cortney, Addison, Cohen and Amanda

Cortney and Addison

Cohen and Daddy

Feeling the dirt between his fingers on our hike

Cousins, so cute!

Pretty much our only family picture in Camp Verde

GG Marilyn

Noah and his Grandpa Jack

Had to stick one in on Grandma Carol signing to Cohen. Yes he is dancing and twirling his arm as always!

What we did this weekend

This weekend has been crazy, actually, this whole week has been crazy to say the least. So we wanted to wind down on Sunday with a good ol BBQ.

BBQ could be art

Our friends Eric and Dave joined us and brought their cute little puppy Hanz. Soooo Cute, Cohen was acting like a doggie here.

Cohen and Hanz in the sandbox...being boys

We also went out and bought Cohen one of those toys that you put in water and it grows

He didn't understand that we would buy him a toy that he couldn't play with and could only "watch"

Erik and Dave

Today we decided to sit in our backyard and unwind. It was such a beautiful end to a hectic day. So I layed out a blanket and got the camera out and this is what we came up with.  I love moments like these...

The Beginning

Ok. So I'm trying the blogging thing. Hopefully I will do well. We have Facebook accounts and myspace accounts and a picture website, but usually you have to have an account to look at that. So hopefully this will be able to reach everyone I want it to and keep them updated.

So lets start with our little family. I married Noah Field in March of last year so we just celebrated our 1st anniversary! And boy was it a memorable one! I decided to cook my wonderful salmon dinner with red potatoes and red pepper sauce. So we both had a long day at work/school and Cohen (our little one) is being such a good boy and letting me cook dinner. So I saute the salmon on the stove top and then transfer it into the over to finish cooking. When it's done I take it out with the oven mitt and sit it on the stove. I then start to place everything perfectly onto the plate to make a professional presentation of our anniversary dinner. Unfortunately I'm one of those people who HAS to clean while I go, so i then go to throw the salmon skin in the trash. The salmon skin is still in the frying pan so I was just going to take the pan to the trash and shake the skins out. Well...I forgot the oven mitt this time and just grabbed the handle like it was never in the oven. So I basically burnt my hand off. The pan went crashing to the floor, salmon skins and oil everywhere on our brand new wood. And there I was left with a bubbling hand. Turns out the burn wasn't all that bad, it didn't really even blister much. But let me tell you, it was PAINFUL. So I didn't want to eat. We ended up calling Dr. friend to get us a prescription for Silvadine cream, which didn't help the pain much but sped up the healing. Anyways, I will always remember my first anniversary because of that! Noah was so sweet and said it was the best dinner he'd ever had:)