Life - An update for those who knew me back in the Day

So life is totally crazy. Mine seems to be just some long winding road. After high school I moved to Provo for a while (some of my best memories). I got interested in photography and started taking pictures of everything. Eventually I started working in a photo lab in West Jordan at the Walgreen's. When Utah got boring I headed home to Washington where the grass is ALWAYS greener! You've gotta love Washington and if you don't, then whats wrong with you!?

Back home I got a job as a manager of a Kodak photo lab inside of Target. Great experience but man, being a manager sucks. The whole time I felt like I was drifting. I wanted to go to school but didn't know what for. I looked at a list of degrees and would think "I could do that, I could do that I could do the..." but I didn't WANT to do any of it. And I couldn't see the point in taking classes when I didn't know what it was I was looking for. Thats how my mind works. I have to have something I'm working toward in order to get motivated. Otherwise what is the point. In Feb of 2005 I found out they were going to close all of our photo labs and I would be out of work. That was great because I had been trying to quite for a year, but then they told us we still had to stay until Aug in order to get our severance pay.

It worked out great because it gave me six months to think about what I was going to do. I had considered going into photography as a career, but really the market is saturated with photographers and I think having to work to make a living at it would take the joy out of it for me. Finally one day at work what was apparently obvious to everyone else finally hit ME square between the eyes (isn't the Spirit funny that way) and I knew I wanted to go into nursing. More specifically I want to work in Labor and delivery. Children are so sacred that I cannot think of a career more rewarding than helping mothers to bring them into the world (except for possibly bringing them into the world myself, but that is a bit beyond my control right now). My job ended in Aug and school started at BCC in September. I wanted to get into the nursing program there and I worked for a year on the prerequisite's and in the meantime got licensed as a Certified Nursing Assistant. That way I could gain experience in the field and be sure nursing was right for me while earning better money. And it's true, I love it, even having to do all the crappy dirty stuff. I've found that when you care about the people you're caring for the crappy dirty stuff doesn't seem so...crappy and dirty.

Just as I was finishing up my prerequisite's and getting ready to apply for the program at BCC I realized that I hadn't prayed about if that was where I was supposed to go. Ever feel like Heavenly Father is just leading you around by the nose? Ho only gives you the next few steps, just enough to keep you going without over whelming you. Wisdom in Him but hard for us to follow. And he told me to go to BYU but didn't specify which one. So I headed to BYU-Idaho. I don't think I was ready yet for the real BYU. But I'm glad I went to Idaho first because I think I really did some growing there and made a few friendships that now I couldn't do without. The frustration once I got there was that I had to many credits to apply for the nursing program right away. I could do the alternate program but for that they want you to have you generals done so I started working on that. By the end of summer semester I was one semester away from an Associates of Sciences and the nursing program there would still be two more years and I would still just have an Associates Degree. But I knew if I transfered down to Provo I could get a Bachelors of Nursing. Leading me by the nose. I think it really was wisdom in Him because when I started out I was still looking for the quickest way but now I've finally figured out that that is not always the best way.

So here I am, finally in Provo and finally filling out a nursing school application. I love being here in because My mom is serving her mission in Salt Lake and my older brother and his family are just up at Thanksgiving point, just 30 min away. I have 3 nephews and a niece. Aidan is going to be 9 this summer, Connor will be 8 in the Fall, Coby is 5 and Rylie is 4 and they are they four joys of my life, wind as it may be. But my philosophy is the more windy it is the more you learn. I think God planned it that way.