Women's night at church...

So instead of studying I chose to go to church...

Flat Stanley...

William's cousin that lives down the road from his dad mailed us a project. It is called Flat Stanley. You are suppose to take Flat Stanley places with you and take pictures with him and then send it back to the student. So we did...

Flat Stanley has on a Wal-Mart blue shirt with Razorback red collar and sleeves.


William & Flat Stanley at the 5 and dime in Bentonville.

William & Flat Stanley in front of the Walmart Home Office sign.

William & Flat Stanley in front of the Arkansas sign coming from Missouri

Flat Stanley at the Fish Hatchey in Centerton

Flat Stanley & I infront of Old Main at U of A in Fayetteville.

William & Flat Stanley in front of Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, AR

Flat Stanley & I infront of Bud Walton Arena on U of A campus

Flat Stanley rooting for William at his first softball game of the season.

Flat Stanley with Jack & I in the backyard.

Finally home...and picture dump!

I finally made it home! I am exhausted. All 3 of the people on the bus from NWACC randomly won $25 gift certificates to Wal-Mart from door prize drawings. Wow, aren’t we lucky! Here are all the pictures from my trip:

These are backwards because I don't know how to post correctly.


Cheryl, Me & Amy with of WM gift cards we won

Me, Cheryl & Amy on our last night at the Rainforest Cafe.



My very first auction!

Most of the Arkansas students at convention

Everyone from NWACC who attended convention at The Aquarium

Me, Cheryl & Amy on the 2nd day

Me on the first day, no I don't have tape on my glasses, it is the flash.

Cheryl, Amy & I on the bus from Arkansas

Last Day of Convention...

I can’t believe today was the last day of convention! Where has it gone? Now it’s time to get back to reality and finish this semester up. We met for the closing House of Delegates today and then we had 2 sessions to go to. It was fun, but I was sleepy and couldn’t stay awake. After the closing ceremony was over around 6ish, Amy and I went to our hotel and packed all of our stuff in 5 minutes, which was a challenge, and made it back to the Opryland hotel where we were spending our last night with one of our classmates to catch the bus back home in the morning. We went to the Opry Mills Mall just beside the hotel and ate at the Rainforest Café. I love it! Every 30 minutes there was thunder and lightning and all the animals made noise like it was really a storm.

Day 3 of Convention...

Today we spent most of the day in the House of Delegates voting on by-law changes and resolutions. We didn’t get to leave the Convention Center until after 9:30. This morning everyone from Arkansas met in one of the rooms for the candidates that are running for National office to come speak to us. Afterwards we all got together for a group picture; somehow I ended up in the front. I got to go to my first auction today; it was a lot of FUN!

Day 2 of Convention...

I finally got some sleep! After sleeping 9 hours last night I feel marvelous! Yesterday we got to here lots more about why you should be a BSN, MSN or PhD nurse verses an ADN and that everyone should have to be a BSN to go into bedside practice. I feel very differently about that, but so far it’s just talk to get that changed and it has been for the past 15 years so there is nothing to get all worked up about yet. The Career Expo started today, all I really cared about was all the free stuff like pens and such that I could get. My pens always seem to disappear at the hospital. Maybe next year it will be more important to me, since I will be closer to graduating. I attended a session today about “Acing Nursing School Exams”, the nice thing about going to this one is that I already use at least 75% of what they told us to do, so if I use the other 25% then I should definitely be making A’s. Towards the end of the day at convention we got to hear some of the Resolutions that other members recommended for NSNA. After finishing for the day at 6:30 we were off to the Aquarium to eat dinner under the water. What a fun experience! After dinner, a few of the girls wanted to go “clubbing” in downtown Nashville. Since I have not toured this city before I figured what the heck and went along for the ride. I enjoyed getting to see places like the old “Grand Ole Opry”, The Titans Stadium and the At&t building that looked liked it belonged in Gotham City. We didn’t get back to our room until after 1am and I had to be up at 6am, so going out was not a good decision on my part….haha

Exhausted....

First and for most, I am not really sure why I am blogging instead of sleeping, insanity maybe. I have pretty much been awake since 5 am on Tuesday morning, minus a few cat naps on a 55 passenger bus that had 40 people on it. I am not really sure how well you can sleep on a bus like that, plus they were blaring movies over the TVs on the bus. So we left Fayetteville at 7 yesterday evening, and arrived in Alma around 8 but had to wait until 9 for all of the people to be there, then we arrived in Little Rock at 11:30 and had to wait until 12:30. After everyone got settled we made our journey back on 40 heading to Memphis.
The first hour or so we played Taboo and Mad Gab, which were pretty stinkin funny! By the time we got to Alma we were all ready to read so from Alma to maybe Russellvilleish I read, until my book light got broke. After picking up in Little Rock the bus driver made a Wal-Mart fun in Forrest City, I think we were the only people there, seriously! I purchased a new book light which I hope lasts more than just this trip....they are kinda expensive. We finally arrived to Nashville this morning around 7:30 am. We got our luggage and caught a cab to come to the hotel that we are staying at, which was an experience to say the least. My first cab ride, ever! So we showered and got Driving Ms. Daisy shuttle to come get us and return us to the Gaylord Convention Center, where we got credentialed to be delegates. So, it's about 11ish and we have a session to be in at noon and since we have no ride we have to heat at the Convention Center.....big mistake. I got a burger from this place called Stax, the burger was fabulous and came with fries well that was $10 and than $3.50 for a milk shake. So I am good and full after that. I got thirtsy laster in the day to figure out that their are no water fountains and that a 12 oz botle of soda is $2. Needless to say I will be bringing my water bottle with me tomorrow! So we decided after the opening House of Delegates that we were all too tired to stay for the opening ceremony and the conuntry Jamboree. We all, 6 of us, went to Applebee's for dinner and came back to our hotel, and of course my tooth has been hurting and once I took the meds it makes me where I am not so sleepy. So here I am blogging instead of sleeping...I did finish my first of 3 chapters on Respiratory, so some progress is better than none. I do have some pictures from today but I will post them tomorrow, the cord to my camera is in my room and I am in the lobby so my room mates can sleep.

Convention time....

I leave for Nashville shortly and I am so excited! I am missing 3 days of lecture, but I think it will be ok. I will be back on Sunday evening. I hope to post somethings before then.

Please remember me in your prayers, I still have an infection. After taking a round of antibiotics before my root canal my tooth is still hurting and the dentist said that only happens when there is an infection around your nerve. So needless to say, no fun! I started the 2nd round of antibiotics last night and am not feeling much better yet, but hope to soon! I feel feverish right now so I hope the meds work soon so I can enjoy this trip.

Also, I got a call today and I go for an interview for a Patient Care Assistant job at Northwest Health in Springdale on next Wednesday. I am excited about this, so hopefully I can get into what I will be doing and get some experience and get more comfortable with what I am doing, it's just a tad bit nerve racking with an instructor standing over your shoulder all the time.

Well until next time....TOODLES!

My baby boy turns 2!

My little Birthday Boy

Jack will be 2 on Thursday, but I will be out of town for the National Student Nurses Association Convention in Nashville as an alternate Delegate for our school. So, we went yesterday to this dog bakery in Rogers and bought him some pupcakes. He loves them! William got him his first pig ear, which he demolished and he just finished eating a doggie moon pie. So many fun treats for doggies. He also got a Kong Frisbee for his birthday, and Rylee(sister) got a light toy it's funny to watch her chase it.


Jack's pupcakes


My sweet little boy

Today was also the 1st of 6 Easter services that our church was offering between CPH and FBC. It was amazing! I hope they put the play from the 3 weeks on DVD, because I will sure buy it. It makes my heart hurt to think about how my Jesus was treated and then he died for my sins. What an AMAZING man! After church we went and ate at Mimi's Cafe, the last time we went there was just after they opened. I love their food! Afterwards we went and walked around the mall where we ended up buying William a Suit Jacket, I am so excited. He has never had one since I have known him. He didn't even wear one when we got married. I am excited! I will post a pic when the tailor finishes it and we get it back.


Our annual Saturday evening Easter picture, FYI the last time I wore a dress was the day we got married.


More of my new dress.

I passed both of my tests for sure but I don't know my exact grade, I will post them as soon as I know.

I got my root canal on Friday and over this weekend I have just about confirmed that the other tooth that broke in January needs one too! So, between all of my teeth problems and my colonscopy Murphy is eating us up!

We leave from Fayetteville on Tuesday night on a 55 passenger bus heading to Nashville and we will be back on Sunday evening. I will try to post pictures while I am there permitting I have time.