I decided to start blogging again. My last post was about a year ago, but I signed on today and was reading back on some past entries and realized how much I loved and missed it. I loved documenting my life on here, mainly for myself as something to look back on more than anything else! A lot has changed in my life in the past year and I realized there are some things that have fallen by the wayside - not by conscious choice but due to the chaos of everyday life, and I really want to get back to them. Blogging is one thing on that list.
Short Life Update
This past year has been wonderful. A good percentage of it has been filled with work and school. I am still working in the same hospital in labor and delivery and I've been increasing my responsibilities there - I have taken on the role of Charge RN and have just recently applied to take my certification exam for Inpatient Obstetrics. I will take the exam sometime in the next 4 months. I am now enrolled in a different RN/BSN program at Grand Canyon University online. It has been going great since I started in May of this year and I will be graduating with my BSN in April 2017 and completing the program in May 2017. I can hardly believe that I am almost to this goal!
D and I have been making our new house a home for the past year and I absolutely love it. I have been buying all kinds of new Fall decor for this year because I'm obsessed. We are so blessed to have found our dream first home and we could not love it anymore. We just celebrated our 6 year wedding anniversary on September 4th. My family is doing well and my sister just recently got engaged and is getting married on 9/9/17!
This summer I was fortunate to go on two amazing vacations. In June I went to New York City (yes, again) with my mom and two friends. NYC is always a blast and this trip was no exception. My big excitement was that I got asked for directions from people multiple times!! It makes me feel like an honorary New Yorker haha! In July, D and I went on a 12 day excursion to California that included stops in San Francisco, San Jose, a long drive down the Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and San Diego! After spending such a long stretch out there I'm now positive I will move there someday! I fell in love! My favorite part was that in San Jose we attended the Olympic Trials for women's gymnastics!! This has been a bucket list item for essentially my whole life and the experience was indescribable! I also got to meet and hang out with one of my friends who is a former Olympian, Tasha Schwikert.
I feel that I really need to work on my relationship with God and begin to pray more. In the busy-ness, sometimes that takes a backseat so my goal is to really work on it. I am singing in my church choir again this year, which I love, but I also really want to focus on daily prayer and also starting some kind of bible study.
I recently was very unhappy with my weight. After my vacation, I was at my heaviest weight ever, and so I joined Beachbody and did the 21 Day Fix to jumpstart my goals of healthier eating and exercise. I lost 10 pounds in a month and am continuing the healthy eating currently. My weight loss goal is daunting, but I am going to do whatever it takes to get there. I have already stopped drinking soda, which was huge for me. I'm looking forward to my journey and the happiness I'm going to feel when I hit my goal. Once I get my weight down some more, I'm going to join adult gymnastics one night a week, which I am very excited about!
That is the update on my past year! I'm so looking forward to getting back to blogging regularly, I'm going to be checking out all of your pages for fun ideas for weekly posts! I hope you've all been well this past year and looking forward to catching up on your lives as well!
