A Joke

Today I was passing an elderly man in the parking lot and he randomly asked me "do you know how many seconds are in a year?" I said, "No, how many?" He replied, "12 - January, February..." HAHA!! Get it!? Seconds = 2nd's. Cute. I could not stop smiling from this encounter! What a sweet and happy man!!! It truly made my day! :D

My weekend

I had to work night shift on Sat night - how horrible is that?! You basically lose your entire weekend due to sleep! I feel like I wouldn't mind it so much if that (work) was my life, but when I have a bunch of other things going on, it is really hard to lose my weekends. Anyway, one nice thing that came from working was that I was able to watch the sunrise on Sunday! I was in my patients room and saw the sun rise behind the fog, creating a pinkish purple sky. It was lovely!! I was really excited, but I don't think my patient was as excited as I was. Lol.

Also on Saturday was a baby shower I hosted for Julie, my close friend from nursing school. Here are a couple pics:

Julie & Me

Della, Julie, Stephanie & Me

The weather was amazing this past weekend - it was just too bad that I had to sleep through most of it! I was driving to the hospital and looking at all the people out walking and I was wishing I was doing the same. Oh well. Anyway, that was pretty much my weekend! I hope you had a great weekend though!!

Less than 100 days!!

Less than 100 days until our wedding - now the real countdown begins!! :) We are sooooo excited!!! I still feel like there is a lot to do, but I am not really worried about it getting done - I know it will. It's just a matter of finding the time in the midst of everything else...

Boston it is!

I just wanted to give you all the update that we are officially moving to Boston! Right now I am working on getting my RN license in Massachusetts so that I can start applying for jobs. I have heard new grads are not having the easiest time out there either, but I know things will work out. We hope you can come visit us sometime! :)

Wedding Shower

Last weekend we had our first shower - it was a co-ed wedding shower with our friends from church. A huge thank you to the Wintheiser's for hosting this lovely event! It was amazing!! The theme was "Honeymoon in Europe" and was centered around the 3 countries we will be visiting: Spain, France, & Italy. Click below to view my album of pictures!

Wintheiser Wedding Shower

Visit to Boston

Well, on Saturday Brian was 90% sure we were going to end up in Boston, but then last night we heard that Fordham has a nicer offer than Boston College. And we are also still waiting to hear from other schools (mainly University of Chicago), so for now everything is still up in the air.

However, we did book our flight and hotel for our first visit to Boston!! We are SO excited!! We are going to be there from March 25-28 because Boston College is having their accepted students day and we want to explore a little and perhaps look at housing. I can't wait to post pictures from our trip!

4 more months!

The wedding is now 4 months away, yet there is still a good amount of stuff to be taken care of (the biggest being my unconfirmed florist). We just keep putting one foot in front of the other, juggling school, work, planning, moving stuff, etc. We definitely have a lot going on right now and a lot of huge changes coming up this summer, but we are very excited about it all! Thanks again for your prayers!!

I thought I would post some family pics - we took these in November to give to our parents/family for Christmas.

Sisters

Dad's Side: Brian, Me, Crystal & Luis

Mom's Side: Us 4 + Joshua (my half-brother on the left) &

Jacob (a new addition to the family - my mom is basically his legal guardian)

We're moving!

For those of you who haven't heard the news, Brian has been accepted to Fordham University (in the Bronx -eek!) and to Boston College!!! We are thrilled, but still waiting to hear from the other 5 schools he applied to. Although we can pretty much say at this point that we are for sure moving this August - wow! I will keep you posted, but we should probably know by March where exactly we will be going. I know we will end up where we are supposed to be, where God wants us to be, but this is a big decision for us and we of course are both excited and nervous. Please keep us in your prayers - thanks!

Manuscript

I found out today that my manuscript will need (major) revisions before being completely accepted, so I will be getting back to work on it now. I just had to share the news with you and will update you once things are finalized.

Melissa's Wedding Reception

Last Saturday, Brian and I went to the wedding reception for a friend of mine from nursing school. Melissa and James were married in January in Costa Rica and they celebrated at Park Ave Restaurant in Stanton on Saturday. They had live music and the food was wonderful!
It was a very fun reception and we didn't even know anyone! But we enjoyed getting to know some of their friends - we sat with some of James' friends from high school. You could just feel the energy in the room - it was great! Congrats Mr. & Mrs. Kinnings!