So- since my last post summer has ended and I've been now married 3 months!

The summer- exciting, tension building up towards the wedding, out of the normal, unpredictable, fun, growing, challenging, adventuring, settling, and love. lots of love.

The wedding- Perfect (even including the incident where my vows were lost and I had to rewrite them five minutes before the ceremony began). Only thing I would have changed- the photographer. But the actual day -perfect. blissful. full of smiles. sincere words. my own little special designs. wonderful bright flowers. dancing with my husband ( who would have thought! ) I couldn't have created a better day. We had the most fantastitic wedding, it was so "us"

The honeymoon- adventuring. Ireland. hiking. Austria. delicious and decidant german food. laughing. buying me flowers off the street markets. learning. adapting to sleeping in the same bed. full of surprises. exhausting. but still fun. a completely new experience to start our completely new life. and again, I wouldn't change or give up those memories for anything.

Settling into Mike's "old" and now "our" new apartment- haha, I think we're still doing that. Buying my favorite ever kitchen table for 150 off of craigslist- so fun (plus it came with a small buffet desk matching table). Comfy sofas. Buying, trying, returning countless rugs. painting our bedroom. endlessly still trying to decide what to paint our bathroom. the great coffee table hunt. And even though some days I still wonder what we are doing in Miami- it will always be our first home. Ours. love it.

Senior Year of Nursing school- it's school. ready to graduate. oncology floor for medsurg- really have enjoyed experience, the first time I actually look at myself during the day and say I could do this for a profession, thats surely a step in the right direction. PSY clinical rotation- started off scared and now it has grown on me so much that I don't mind my Friday's at all. The patients are so great, and hit a special compassion part in my heart. They always make me smile. But as always a busy semester with lots of learning and remembering of all the facts from the two semesters past. Let's just wait and see how that cumulative from the entire 1 year HESI for medi surg goes :)

Working on creating a name for M & H's new "family" blog- our little piece of pie, within our front door.

Hopefully I'll be able to put up pictures soon from the entire wedding process. But until then- create a great day.

Summer Vacation

After months of tedious work and stuffing very complex information/disease processes/ nursing care/ pharmacy info/ clinical signs and symptoms into my head, I'm finally on summer vacation. I have been in fact for about 9 days. It seems like I've been on break so much longer though. Probably because any breath of fresh air -when, for once, I don't have the tension of there always being some work to be done hanging over my head -feels like a huge gust of relief.

Like a little girl in a candy shop wondering... is this for real? Do I really get to play this much every day and have it be okay?

Yep!

Happy summer sailing!

There is a hole in my Sunday

As a little girl there was always one thing that I would look forward to during the week. Sunday donuts. No matter where we lived or what temperature it was outside, Sunday was always the day that the family ventured to the nearby bakeshop to get fresh donuts for breakfast before Church. Some mornings dad would have already gotten the task done early. Knowing how happy it made me, he'd wake up early, put on his boots, and get the donuts and bring them home. We'd all wakeup to the fresh smell of bakedgoods in the house. Even during the bostons blizzards mom bundled us up like snowmen with scarves from head to toe and we'd waddle and hike out to our little sunday treat. My parents weren't going to spend the entire day inside with two rambunctious little girls. Mom always said "we are an adventuresome family!"

Haven't managed to find a donut shop in Florida that I am a fan of yet. Yes, every place has dunken donuts. But when you are used to the fresh smells and scenery of the little family owned shop, no donut will taste good in comparison. Just call me a donut snob! I can tell the difference.

Probably for the better though ;) I know donuts aren't always the healthiest things to eat!

I'm a flower girl.

I love have live flowers around the house.. whether they are gerber daisies, roses, liliacs, a mixture. Anything that brings freshness and life into the house. But more then that.. I love putting them all over the house. In the bedroom. Bathroom. Kitchen. Family room. My mother gave me that trait. When we were younger and in plays and musicals every couple months we would have bouquets and bouquets... and bouquets of flowers around the house. And she was always in charge of setting them up and placing them. I would wake up the next morning and find a pretty surprise in a vase on the counter or sitting on my night stand.

While I do love flowers, I often won't buy them for myself. It's probably a cheap thing or the fact that every time I'm at the grocery store I want to make a purchase, and that if I indulge myself once I'm worried I'll indulge myself every time :)

Thank goodness I got myself a certian fiance who has great taste... in a girl and in flowers!

Wedding Updates!

Save the Date Ideas

Bride's Maid Dresses (note, not actual colors of the dresses)

The second one from the right on the top left corner!

Good Days Start When...

1. You get to wake up naturally, even if it is at 7am, because you went to bed at 9pm the night before.

2. The sun rises before your eyes open.

3. it's friday!

Start of my third to last semester!

Time to put my cape on and get back to saving the world.