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!!

2010 Fit for Life

This past weekend my friend from work Amanda and I ran together in the 5k race Fit for Life. Granted it was only a 3.1 mile race, but it was Amanda's first race and we wanted to run it, she ran a little harder and faster than I, and I could have probably pushed my self harder than I did, o well there is always next time I did finish at about 33 min and 20 sec.
I was not gutsy enough to run the 1/2 marathon like you Teri!! Congratulations by the way for running that hard and finishing, that is amazing. One of these days I will get to that 1/2 marathon just not quite yet! I will be running in my first 10k in October with my husband, he is a great person to run with because he pushes me to my limits which is a good thing. This will be the next step towards that 1/2 marathon. I also wanted to congratulate Jenny for the hard work that you did in your triathlon, that is also amazing. I haven't even had kids yet and I can barley do a 3.1 mile race. Good job to the both of you!!

4th of July scare!!

4th of July weekend this year was spent in McCall enjoying some time with my husbands family. We all had a blast and a real nice sunburn to go along with it. Ben had to work early Monday morning so we had decided that we were not going to stay for the fireworks over McCall lake. So we headed back down the mountain probably just before 6:oo p.m. For the 2 days that we were gone one of Tom's friends had agreed to to watch over our dog and our house.

As we were coming up Horseshoe bend hill, we get a text message from Tom saying that when Ryan (his friend) came over to feed the dog, he was missing and not at the house. Right after Tom's text, Ryan had called to tell us the news that our dog was missing, and that he had called our aunt Angel, and our neighbors that know our dog pretty well to see if the would help find our little escape artist. We were so grateful for all of those who came out to help found our little doggie. After 2 and half hours of driving around and asking everyone and anyone in the neighborhood if they had seen him?, where did he go?, when did you last see him? Angel finally spotted our dog in someones back yard hanging out with two other doggies. Boy were we happy to have finally found him. If we had not found him the night of the 4th we probably never would have found him. When we did finally find him he was really tired and soaking wet, he being a lab he can not get enough of the water, somewhere on his little journey he found the water and jumped right in.

Thanks again for all those who took time out of there 4th of July activities to help find our furry little friend.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!

Well I guess I should have posted that it was my birthday a few days ago!! On the 10th of June I turned one year older and I am now an old lady as some people told me. Well I don't feel old!! I am 25 this year and I had an AWESOME birthday, I took the day off from work as did Ben so that we could see each other's faces!! We went on a drive out to Montuer (I am not sure how you spell it) but it is between Horshoebend and Emmett. It is our new favorite place!! We have been looking at a piece of property right off the Payette river that we would like to buy but unfortunately we already have a house and mortgage. Oh well we can dream right!! Any way after are our little drive, Ben took me out to Tucano's the Brazilian restaurant for lunch. Then we came home and let our bellies digest before we went bowling, and then we grabbed some Ice cream on the way home and enjoyed the evening!!

I wanted to THANK all of those who wished me a Happy Birthday on my very special day!!

Toughest Half Marathon in the West Robbie Creek

About a month ago my husband finished one of the toughest half marathons in the west!! This was his first half marathon but wont be his last. This year the Robbie Creek registration sold out in just about 16 min. Registration opened online at about 12:oo noon. Just before this time I had the computer out with the web page up and ready to go because other people had told us that it sells out quick so you have to be ready if you want a spot in the race. The registration link finally appeared so I clicked on it as soon as it was available and the page kept giving me an error message, so at this point both me and my husband were panicking thinking that we would not get it. Luckily Ben's boss Ryan, who ran the race with Ben was able to get him self registered right away and he called Ben to ask if we had gotten in and we said NO. Ryan was able to get back in right away and register Ben for the race.



When Ben had decided that he wanted to run Robbie, both Ben and Ryan trained hard for about 4 months prior to the race. They ran long distances for a while, then when it came closer to the race they started running in the foot hills where the race would start.



When race day was finally here on April 17th they were ready, well so they thought!! Both Ben and Ryan finished the race but they said that it was nothing like they had trained for. It was much much harder than what they thought. Ben ran pretty good up hill but when the course started down hill this was when the race started giving him problems. He ran all five miles down hill with a cramp in his left calf. At this point he did not want to stop to rub it out he just wanted to keep going to finish. As the race is a total of 13.1 miles, uphill and down hill. Anyway they finished at about 2 hours and 29 min.



Right after the race Ben felt pretty good, he jumped in the creek at the end of the race to cool off while Ryan and his wife went off to go find some food and drinks. Once Ben had cooled off this is when things turned a little ugly!



Ben was suffering from heat exhaustion, he was puking all the water and Gatorade he had drank during the race. This was NOT fun for Ben. He was all ready really tired from the race and then puking on top of that wore him out really fast. He had absolutely NO energy for anything. After about four hours of puking every half hour, we decided that it was probably time to take him to the ER and get him some fluids and medication. Once we were able to get him to stop puking and fluids back in him he was good to go.



After all of that Ben says he is going to run Robbie again next year and he will be better prepared, he will train harder and hydrate himself weeks before the race!!