My Little Brother Got Hitched Too!

My little brother found the girl of his dreams and they were married for time and all eternity in the Twin Falls Temple on August 5th 2011. They are a very cute couple and everyone can tell they are two little love birds!! Congratulations Kurt and Janaye I wish you the best of luck, and I am very happy for the both of you.








The above picture are two happy parents of the groom!!


In the above and below pictures the little girl is Janaye's little sister she needed hugs from both her sister the beautiful bride that she is and of course from the handsome groom!!



Ben and Marshall hanging out before the bride and groom made there grand exit from the temple doors!!



I have to apologize for the quality of the images that were taken at the reception. I had accidental sent the camera home with my husband. So all I had to take pictures with was my cell phone. But they are not too bad to say the least!!




Here we have the amazing wedding cake that my mother and I worked so hard on. Really I didn't do much, she did most of it!! She is amazing when it comes to wedding cakes. She knows how to make a picture perfect wedding cake. One picture was taken while all the lights were off during the reception, the other was taken with the lights on so that one can appreciate how the color stands out in the light!


Good luck to both of you!! You two are a beautiful couple and welcome to the family Janaye!! Have fun!!

My Sister Got Hitched!!

My oldest sister, Nicole, got hitched on 7/1/2011. It was a smashing party!! The decorations were awesome, it had a shabby schiek look to it. They had these really cool old rusty doors that were connected to eachother. Each door pannel was different. They had one glass pannel door that hat there last name etched into it.

They had a display of three generations of wedding dresses, my great grandmother Hazel Sckogsberg, my grandma Lois Hartley, and my mothers dress. I learned the my great grandmother Hazel elopped to get married!! Her wedding dress was not traditional, in fact back then often times they wore thier best dress that they owned, her dress was brown in color and it looked neat up against two off white wedding dresses.

The colors my sister picked out were Lime green, navy blue and Ivory. All the colors looked great together!! Her wedding dress was amazing, it was also Ivroy!! Not to mention how awesome the cake looked!! Of course we would get the best wedding cake maker in town to do the cake! No one else is better than my Mom when it comes to making cakes, she is pretty amazing!!

I wish my sister the best of luck and hope that she is happy, she has waited a long time for this day to happen, so I hope it was all worth it to her!! LOVE ya sis, Hope you and Brandon live happily ever after!!

Things you've missed!! Or I forgot to mention for that matter!!

I had another birthday on the 10th of June here it is a month past and I am just now blogging about it! This year I turned 26. It feels like the older I get the birthdays seem to come faster and faster each year. My birthday was great I took the entire day off from work, Ben was fortunate enough to take at least a half day off from work and we were able to enjoy each others company! We first went shopping for some new running shoes.
You see since I have been on my feet a lot from all of my clinical hours from school I developed plantar fasciitis in my left foot from the worn out shoes that I have. Since I have a little time this summer I thought I would take advantage of that time and run a little, the only thing was that my running shoes were also worn out, luckily my birthday came just in time.

Next stop was the indoor miniature golf course. I had never been here before but it was pretty psycadelic.
This is no ordinary miniature golf course, it is a black light course, the carpet was crazy, with some pretty weired art work on the walls as well! They had 3D glasses that we could have worn while we golfed but since I have a problem with motion sickness I thought that probably would not be a good idea. we had lots fun and I got a hole in one on one of the wholes.

Later we went to dinner at Tucanos and ate way too much, and of course they had to sing the birthday song to me in Portuguese(how imbarising!! They made me stand up and shake a tamberine). Since we ate too much we had no room for dessert at the time so we went home and rested a bit.

After a couple hours of rest we enjoyed a tasty treat from Cold Stone Creamy. I couldn't go with out ice cream on my birthday!!
We then called it a day and hit the pillow for the night. It was a fun 26th birthday and was thankful for the time that Ben and I were able to have.

Its offical I am a Registered Technologist in Radiography

One whole week ago I took a 3 hour exam and lived to tell the tale!! The x-ray board exam is 220 questions, testing our knowledge in 5 different categories including:

Radiation Protection
Equipment Operation and Quality Control
Image Production and Evaluation
Radiographic Procedures
Patient Care and Education


My overall score in all of the areas was a passing score!! Once the test is submitted the ARRT gives us a preliminary score to let us know wither we had passed or failed. I let out a big sigh of relief when I had seen that I had a passing score. Then usually in one week the ARRT sends us the official score with our certificate and our credentials card, which I just received yesterday. The exam was held at a general testing center, where you are monitored the entire time to make sure you are not trying to cheat in any way. At this testing center there could be other people in the testing room taking different types of exams as well. Prior to the exam they tell us what we can and can not bring into the testing room. They had suggested to bring a sweater or jacket as it is hard to make everyone happy with the temperature with in the room, so I brought my sweatshirt. I started with it on and then probably 10-15 minutes into the exam I had to take if off, I swear it was 100 degrees in there I was so hot!! Any way I am so excited to start putting my knowledge and skills to the test when I start my first shift as a Registered Technologist.

Radiologic Sciences Class of 2011

Well I have hit a major mile stone in my life today!!! I am proud to say that I have completed my Assocaite Degree in the College of Health Sciences in Radiologic Technology!!! Next step Bacholors in Health Sciences in Sonography only one more year left and then onto real life no more balancing my time between school, work, Legedu and my AWESOME husband Ben.


I have to say thank you to all of those who have helped me along the way to reach this goal of mine! My husband has been the greatest throughout these two years in the radsci program, he has been my rock and my fondation, the one person who has helped keep me together through all of the studying, not so great test scores and some really good test scores and homework assignments, not to mention the household duties!! Thanks Love for all that you have and do for me!!

LAZY PUPPY!!

I had to post this picture!! I was looking at all of my stored images on my computer and saw this cute picture of Legedu. This is truly how my dog sleeps at night still to this day. Is this a sign of a Lazy doggie?? Well I think it is very cute and Legedu is an awesome dog and vey well behaved. I am glad he is part of our family.

Whats New With ME!!

Well the truth is, nothing is all that new. Still going to work and school, right know this is the story of my life!! It won't be for long though, I can see light at the end of the tunnel for my schooling! I have almost completed the 2 year x-ray program at Boise State. I am all set to graduate this May with my Associates in Radiological Sciences. The next step will be getting accepted into the Ultrasound program at Boise State,I actually just had an interview on Friday for acceptance into the program and now have to play the waiting game to see if my interview was a success or not!! I should know the news during spring break, which is just one week away!!