ViVa lAs vEgAs

OOOKAY i know i am totally MIA all the time! I never blog. but here is an amazing update!
Went to vegas over spring break with my mom. First of many Mother Daughter only trips.
Here are some highlights!

Mom and I at the wax museum!

A romantic mother and daughter Gondola Ride

My favorite of mom at the wax museum :)

Breakfast at tiffanys!

My upgrade I sent Mark haha. A girl can dream, right?



We stayed at MGM, but i loved PARIS!! hope to go to the real paris some day!


it was a fun vacation! I really enjoyed it but there is just so much to do in so little time! Mom and I both agreed wed love to go back!

On the home front......
Started school which is interesting. Its weird being back into the swing of things. But im so excited. Im hoping to continue working in school health after i get my NP but if that isnt an option I think dermatology is a good option.

My dog is HUGE!!! and a stinker! He gives Marley a run for his money for worlds worst dog!

Mark and I are going to start trying to expand out little family by 2 feet this summer! Life is crazy but mine as well add a little more!

We are so blessed by God and cannot believe we are about to celebrate our first anniversary so soon! Need some ideas for how to celebrate! This year has flown by I cannot even believe it!

I promise I will be better at writing and updating this thing. I have a really good idea for writing that I am going to go with pretty soon if I can find the time. So keep looking, I have a feeling it wont disappoint!!!!!!!!!!

this is what i have been spending most of my free time watching


im almost finished and i dont know what to do with myself. i watched this show when it first aired, when i was a freshman in high school. watching it now has made me miss college like crazy!! i really think they hit the whole nail on the head with the "lost 20 something" idea.

and a cute scott speedman doesnt hurt :)


i cant believe halloween has came and went. now we are looking forward to the holidays. My sister in law is doing thanksgiving for the first time and I am doing christmas for the first time. Im so excited and nervous. Im going to make my mommas sweet potatoes for thanksgiving which will be my first try and take over of my moms tradition. i invited her down to teach me and pass the torch.

The holiday season is fast approaching and im so excited!!! i cant wait to decorate my house and listen to the holiday cheer music and shop and wrap presents. and mason is so excited to decorate our christmas tree!!

but before christmas we are focusing on thanksgiving. and this little guy is who i am most thankful for this year :


No need to fear everyone !!! Mason is here!! :)

reading this book. and realizing more than ever the guilt i feel over missing out on the mommyhood gene that makes a woman want to stay home and raise her babies and not work. the very thought kills my soul. Most girls i know ultimately want to obtain that stay at home mom dream. in fact my own mother dabbled with it when she was able. but the didnt pass that on to me! this weekend (a weekend that should be filled with sleeping in and rest) has left me more than every frazzled. just read the to do list on the movie poster and it is blatantly aware of my feelings. friday night, natalie, Masons cousin spent the night and didnt go to bed until near 11. what time did they wake up but 530 am, on a saturday. mark wasnt home. i was all alone at 530 in the morning with 2 three year old and a puppy. that pees and poops everywhere. my house was a mess, i needed to shower, my bedding was wet with dog pee. and all i could wish for in that one moment was that it was actually monday and that i could escape to work. how sick is that? i would rather go to WORK in fact work a DOUBLE SHIFT than be home with children cooking and cleaning. i can see my grandma josephine rolling over in the grace. heaven forbid. i feel genetically imperfected. and this book gives me glimpse of the judgment i will receive when i have my own children and forgo the homemade cookies to the dollhouse roll you slice and bake...hell to even the kroger already made cookies which i will dutifully assemble on a crystale plate and pretend i mastered in the kitchen. my poor children will not have me on their pta because id rather be going to conferences out of town on the headway made with lice (no pun intended).
and now i am going to beg my 3 year old to go to sleep at 930 for a nap because he woke up at 630 this am. im tired. im worn out and for petes sake its SUNDAY . i have never looked this forward to a monday!

am i a bad person?

my life since july 4th: super fast : MOVED INTO A HOUSE, GOT A PUPPY, STARTED BACK TO SCHOOL....

does that cover it for you?

the new house is really coming along and it feels almost surreal. mark and i still refer to our payment as our rent! weve already to managed to flood the basement (tree roots in the pipe = 200$ cost to fix) , break the fan in the kitchen (swiffle sweeper lift gone wrong), and marks brother stepped through one of the steps on our porch (glad it wasnt mason)
we just sigh and say "were home owners now"
this has to be the only thing i miss about renting, knowing that someone else has to fix whatever breaks...but in owning my own home we have to fix it.
but needless to say its a beautiful little country home ! and i adore it! i will tackle room by room to decor and design and it will be the home of ones dreams!

my puppy is zeus who is a weimeraner and im midly obsessed (ok, more than midly). hes so cute, honestly ive always loved animals and want to save them all but this dog has got a special little hold on me. now if hed only stop pissing and shitting in my house! He is a little bit rediculous in that he will pull the toilet paper off the roll to make a pile and then pee on it, as if to say...here mommy and daddy let me help you clean it up by making it easier...if hes smart enough to do that why cant he go outside? we decided to break down and get a crate to train him because taking him out every hour isnt working...hes like a phantom pooper or something...moves with the super speed of a ninja !

the new school years has been good, im glad to be back and away from night shift....
its funny to see new kids and the old kids and how much one short summer can change them! the boys are taller than me!

my mom came down last weekend with my uncle which was so nice to see some loving faces here. i like when my family visits it makes it feel less large here...im honestly alone a lot and it can be hard but really im a loner type of person. after a long day at work there is nothing i love more than peace and quit, a good book, jammies , and the couch! i have friends down here but they are married with babies which is different than most of my friends back home but not quite where i am not. im a newlywed who likes to go out to dinner and go to the movies still with some gal pals but im lacking in that department i guess. im not really sure how to go about meeting people. i feel limited as this is a small town, everyone has their friends...god i sound like im throwing a pitty party for myself...its really not alll that bad !!! :)

i recently read this book :


i got the idea from the trailer for the movie, its where i get lots of book ideas...whichout ever even seeing the movie!! but this time i really want to see it. i heard that it wasnt a very good movie from someone that the characters were devoid of personality as it didnt really get deep into their heads in the flick. but i found the book to be opposite....

the funny thing is i saw this trailer :


i mistook it for a book that had these characters meeting every year on this one day, but instead its about these characters lives throughout the years but just a peak into one day. i found it to be powerful and moving, i even shed a few tears for these characters that i grew to love and find myself in and my relationship in. i think the critics were way off...although i have yet to see the movie, the trailer is on the ball..


anyways, just a little recommendation from this avid reader! and if you have any recommedations, feel free to send them my way! im off to start "I dont know how she does it" by allison pearson *another movie hint*

Happy Fourth!

Happy 4th of July fellow americanos!


Ill start by saying that I have had several topics that I wanted to discuss via blog butttt never seem to fully commit....yikes.

however i saw this photo by the famous LC/lauren conrad :


and am now completely obsessed and need my hair like that asap!

im off to a family cookout...what are your plans??????


more on life later!


much love!!! and be safe!!

it all started with a doorbell ringing

So I've mentioned before that I am back at the hospital working night shift, which leads me to being awake practically all night even when im not work and relishing in the daytime napping hours. I love naps.

Friday I was taking one of my infamous glorious naps. I was very cozy in my shabby chic comforter and blankets, about to enter my second REM cycle when I hear the doorbell. My first thought was damn mark probably forgot his keys again, so i reluctantly exit my bed and make my way downstairs (now, i should have known this wasnt mark, because Mark rings the doorbell like 50 times in a row out of the sheer pleasure of annoying me, but alas i digress.)

Im looking hott to, let me tell you...totally rocking the comfy clothes and messy bun and im sure my makeup from earlier is smeared all over my face now that ive been napping...but i open the door, intending it to be mark ....

and surprise its not mark...


who is it you ask???



THESE GUYS:


yes backpack and all, i can tell they are taken back by my obvious stunning good looks as they start their schpeal about the church they are from and then they ask me...."do you know Jesus Christ"........


and as bad as i want to just slamm the door, i feel bad..because isnt that kind of like slamming the door in Jesus's face....

so instead i calmly reply yes i am in fact down with G - O -D and Im catholic....and i expect the man to say okay thank you for your time, but oh no, mr backpack (which has to be empty because what could he possibly need in that thing that isnt in his hand/pocket already) starts to explain the difference in churches to me....like dude, seriously? its like 80 degrees and your wearing a button up long sleeve, long black pants, and a tie....im sure you feel you are doing the right thing but my God that i pray to...he doesnt punish.

somehow he gets the picture as im slowly closing the door ...and he leaves....

after he leaves I start laughing to myself thinking of the halloween my jr year of college when my friends and i ran into someone dressed as a door to door religion salesman at a party...my best friend in her drunken stupor began to swing her gold shovel (she was a gold digger) at this man in defense as he chased us around the party with his books (he took the role a little too seriously) ....I like to think God has a sense of humour too!


But now really dudes, i mean come on...how many people do they seriously convert harrassing people from their sleep like that?? and even if it did work...dont they know the mass quantities of people that make fun of them? its aweful! but how come NO OTHER RELIGION besides the mormons and jehovahs do this??? i mean really...of the hundreds and thousands of religions we know of, who else does this? when is the last time someone came to your house and asked you if you accepted Buddha into your life???


moral of the story is...yes i love Jesus, but if you interrupt my precious and rare sleep I will bring out the swinging gold shovel.

How to Become a Southern Belle

Yankee is a term I often hear when people are referring to me. I did move from the northern most point of Ohio to the south. Now I never would have even imagined that Kentucky was considered "southern" except on a grouping of a map. But the pearl earrings and sorority massiveness is definitely widespread in the Lexington area among girls. Now I am in a sorority so I do have that going for me, but where our campus had sororities here in the south its a little bit more exclusive and a lot more prestigious. Anyone at my college could join a sorority and it didn't have the classic stereotype that it has here. Being involved with the UK chapter has me living vicariously through this women getting the experience I dreamed sorority life was.


I think its time that I start learning the ways of a Southern Belle.

My blog definitely needs some new direction, Im not in nursing school anymore, and Im not doing much interesting things other than getting married and working...but how many times can you read about that! But one interesting thing I have going for me is that I moved from one state to the next and although I have now lived here for almost 2 years (WOW) I havent exactly assimilated into the culture. I still refer to cleveland as my home and bluejeans and a hoodie are my everyday wear in the winter...not acceptable here. When I meet new girls I feel completely boring and out of place. Im not blonde, I dont have pearl earrings (in fact i rarely ever even wear jewlery) my makeup is simple, i dont fake and bake, i do not have a twang, and I do not own a lilly pulitzer dress....


So for my first lesson in being a southern belle......ENTER the LILLY PULITZER DRESS.



Here we go girls. Now I have heard of "a Lilly" before, but I have never had much interest. But now I want one with a burning fire. It is the most essential item right now. A 20 something girl in Lexington Ky must own a Lilly and wear it to Keeneland every april/october for the races.
Are these dresses cheap? Hell no. But they last. and they are adorable! The Lilly print is now EVERYWHERE. It is now a brand for furniture, accessories, shoes, kids wears and ....sorority prints! There are currently 4 lines of sorority prints out and soon to be a few more *after a huge facebook vote to be the next printed sorority*...I heard a rumor that my sorority (chi o) was going to be a new up and coming print and I am anxiously awaiting this proof. Until then I will be signing up for an extra shift at the hospital this summer in order to afford one of these beaut's.

I plan on going to Keenland this October for the first time (cant believe I haven't gone yet!) and I will be wearing a Lilly. Also, for school next year I will be decked out with the finest lilly accessories... if you are going to fall for something, fall hard :)


So lesson one in fashion of a Southern Belle is the lilly pulitzer!





and here is a link to the website, feel free to send me something :) http://www.lillypulitzer.com

All my love!