The end of an era

The beginning of August I finished nursing school and graduated with my second degree, a bachelor's in Nursing.  YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAA!  I feel like I have been in school FOREVER.  I swear if I ever think that I am going to return to school, someone slap me.  I am so done with school.  Now I can have a real job making some actual money.  Here are some pictures of my peeps from the back row.

The four musketeers

We had a party to celebrate our graduation and most everyone(except me) wash smashed drunk and hugely entertaining.

Me and Lisa

Meradity and Katie

We had a small bonfire to burn all nursing books, this would be me wiping my bum with some maternity nursing.

The Norwegian Barb in the middle who was very entertaining

Good times with good people, sad but exciting. I don't want to be grown up but now since I have a career, I automatically fall into that category. I am still working that out. I feel like I have been working toward something all these years and now I am here, now what.  Don't worry I am just having a mid 20's crisis, I will work it out.  I am so excited to start a new era in my life but at the same time I am sad that one is over.  I had an awesome nursing school class who helped me get through it and I love them for it. I couldn't ask for better friends.

Bear Lake

So, I realize I have some catching up to do and a lot has happened in the last few months so I will start off in late July where we made a trip to my friend Cassi's cabin in bear lake.  We just went up for the week end but we had so much fun and it was really relaxing.  We took Henry up and he played so hard he had to recover for 2 days. 

We went to la beau's to eat which is a bear lake must.  It just happened to be raspberry days that weekend so of course we had to get the awesome raspberry shakes, and they were totally worth it.  In fact we had to stop and get another one on our way home.

That night we went to the raspberry days rodeo, it was my friend Don's first time and it was great.  We saw bull riding, barrel racing and my personal favorite mutton busting.

You always see....interesting people at the rodeo and this fine specimen is what we sat next to.  We snuck a picture with the Don's iphone because we couldn't get over this chick.

Andrew even tried to get in the rodeo mood.  Notice his hat that he obtained from a friends dad who got it free at a rodeo in Wyoming.

We all went swimming and it was a little nippy but the water was so beautiful and Henry of course had the time of his life.  It was nice to come to bear lake and not have to do a triathlon.  Last year we did the bear lake brawl and it was great and all but this trip was much more relaxing. Andrew also brought up some guns and the boys got to shoot stuff.  I brought up my little gun and shot it.  It is about the size of a small water gun and totally awesome. I don't have the pictures of our shooting extravaganza but I will try to get them.

It is so beautiful up there!  Thanks Cass for letting us come up to your cabin and have so much fun.