Hello Hormonal, Goodbye Sanity!

So, so far this pregnancy thing has been a breeze! I mean sure I have had a few days of nausea and one day of vomitting, but considering how some woman can't keep anything down for the first three months I have been very lucky. The only other complaint that I have is I live in Vegas and it is 110 degrees outside and I feel like I am being roasted on the grill all the time! and I seriously swear I can't breathe, but other than that life has been good! Well apparently the hormones decided yesterday was a great day to go into full swing. I woke up a little irritable yesterday morning, but I figured it was just morning and I do that some times. Mikie went over to his dad's yesterday afternoon to help him with the car that he is rebuilding from scratch. I stayed home and did overdue thank you cards, read a book and looked for jobs! As the day went on I felt myself getting more and more irritable. I decided to apply for one of the jobs that I found and began filling out the online application. Now these applications tend to be quite lengthy and take a good amount of time to fill out. After working on it for an hour and a half I hit a wrong button and deleted the whole thing!! Oh the anger that flared inside. Mikie came home about that time (poor guy) thought I was pissed off at him! Quite the contrary, I could no longer control anything. I was just pissed off in general no reason for it. We sat on the couch Mikie asked what he did to make me so angry, I said I'm just grumpy it has nothing to do with you I swear at first I don't think he believed me! When he looked at me again he said are you going to cry? I said I don't know I might, then I started laughing hysterically until the tears started flowing, I quit laughing and just layed on the couch sobbing the worst part was I couldn't explain why! I felt like I was going insane. Poor Mikie just sat on the couch and didn't know what to do. He tried joking about calling 911- aka mom to see if she had any advice on what to do. That made me laugh again then I went right back to sobbing. This lasted for probably a good 45 min!!! After the roller coaster ride was over Mikie put his hand on my tummy and told the baby to quit making mommy crazy. What a day, lets hope I don't have too many like that I truly feel bad for anyone else who has to witness me like that!!!!

Bellino Bash

On Saturday night we had a huge party at Mike and Debi's house. The party was complete with amazing food, a live band and tons of friends and family! It was a celebration of many events. Mikie got his engineering stamp and is officially a professional engineer. Niccole turned 35 and was excepted to the nursing program which she starts this fall. I graduated from nursing school this spring and will be taking my board exams on July 1st. It was all a great excuse to have a party. Some of the dancing pictures are a little blurry, but kind of cute anyway. We are very blessed to have such amazing friends and a wonderful family!

Sheer Exhaustion from the many potty breaks of Pregnancy

So it has been a while since I posted anything so I guess it is time for an update. Lets start with the first question everyone asks me these days. I am feeling fabulous other than I am exhausted all the time and I live in the bathroom. I have only thrown up once and had two or three days of nausea, but other than that I can't complain. Two weeks ago I went to the doctor and had my first ultrasound. Everything looks great! I got to see the baby's heartbeat which was incredible. The baby was a mere 0.61 cm long and has a heart rate of almost 119 beats per minute. It hit me at that moment that I really was going to be a mommy, and I cried all the way home from the Doctor's office. I haven't had many cravings, but those of you who know me well know that I love chocolate and can eat it at any time during the day, this is the one thing that has not sounded good at all. Instead I crave chewy candy like starbursts, Sour pach kids and Suckers. I also prefer vinegar based dressings such as Italian dressing. I haven't been all that moody and luckily for Mikie when I am I take it out on the dogs before he gets home. Poor cinnamon may not survive! Mikie is finally finished surving out his jury sentance after a long miserable three weeks. Now it is back to work for him to play catch up!!!! We went to Kenny Chesney on Friday Night and had a blast, by far the best concert I have ever been too. I highly recommend going if you ever have the opportunity to go. Other than that there is not much new at our house. We are anxiously awaiting our hawaiian vacation and looking forward to partying the night away with friends and family this upcoming weekend. Stay tuned for new pictures soon!

Graduation and Baby!!!!!

So it is time for a much needed update. I am officially a graduate nurse!!!!! Graduation went really well. Alot of family came to celebrate the occassion. It was great to see everyone. Thanks to all that came to share the occassion with us! I finished my preceptorship in the NICU and loved every minute of it. I have decided that is definantly where I want to work! I discovered on May 10th that we had some other big exciting news. We are expecting our first baby the begining of next year! The official due date is January 17, 2009. We are so excited! Mikie was at work when I found out so to tell him I went to Babies R Us and picked up a couple of baby out fits and made him an invitation that said: It's a birthday celebration. You are invited to attend the birth of your first child on January 21st, 2009 at summerlin hospital. (This is the due date I estimated, I was not off to far). Then I wrapped it all up for him to open when he got home! The response was priceless!

The news came just two days after our 4th anniversary! We spent the night at Mandalay Bay here in town went out for a fabulous dinner and enjoyed everyminute of our mini vacation. It was hard to come back to reality. Its okay though we will be taking a much needed vacation in July, its off to Hawaii for a whole week, just the two of us. Happy Graduation to me from my wonderful husband (I know I am totally spoiled). But before we go there I am hoping to take my board exam. So its back to the books for a few more weeks. Wish me luck I am going to need it!

The Scoop

As of yesterday I am halfway done with my preceptorship in the NICU! Five down five more to go. I absolutely love the NICU. I have been reintroduced full force to the politics involved in nursing and forgot how much I "loved" them..... NOT. The politics are rediculous!!!!! But what do you do.... it is all part of the job. Mikie is working crazy long hours and is super busy! So much for working 4 tens. I don't even remember the last time we spent a whole day together hopefully life will slow down here pretty soon, however I believe it is just going to become a new kind of busy. I hopefully will be taking my board exam in June then I will be on the prowl for a job.... apparently not an easy task. We have Debi's family reunion the end of July up by Ely. Then we have a month worth of weddings in August! and to add to the chaos, now that school is almost over we are both anxious to start our family!!!! So to all who are wondering yes we are officially trying. I don't know who is more excited mikie, me or the littlest aunts to be. Gracie called me last wednesday just to ask if I was pregnant yet!!! The week before she had a dream we had a baby boy!!!!! (hoping this is great intuition) Then on Saturday I talked to her and brianna and they had made stuff for "baby tooty" (don't worry we will never rely on Gracie to name our little munchkins).They also love telling the old man- my dad- that he is going to be a grandpa!!!! We laugh, because my dad is so not ready to be grandpa..... well dad, Suck it up because hopefully it will be sooner rather than later! So to sum it all up graduation is just around the corner, Mikie is exhausted and needs a vacation, and with the prospects of hopefully having our home grow by two feet life is great! We are doing very well and looking forward to the next chapter in our lives!!!!

Love the Drunken Nights I will Never Remember with Friends I will Never Forget!!!

After two long years we have come to the end of the road! All that stands between us and graduation is 120 hours of on the floor experience!!! I will be working in the neonatal intensive care unit at the highest risk hospital in Las Vegas! I am a little terrified of the area, but am very excited for the learning experience of a life time. I have been done with the school part of school for a week and have loved having some free time. I finally figured out how to Digi Scrap and I am ADDICTED!!!! All of these pages came from our end of nursing school celebration! We went to margaritaville to let lose with the friends who have become family over the last two years! We know more about one another than we ever wanted to, we can finish one another's sentences, know what one another is thinking, and how to get one another through the rough times. We have learned together, grown together, changed together, ganged up and fought back together, cried together, and laughed together. We always have one anothers backs. I can't imagine not having each other to get through nursing school. We all did it, but we did it together! And to our families that have been so incredible, we are back! We are ready to take back our roles as wives, husbands, parents, sons, daughters and now nurses. We are all so lucky to have such great support systems...They have all risen above and beyond to keep life from literally falling apart at the seams! Thank you, thank you and thank you again! Congratulations nursing class of 2008!!!!!!

I am unofficially, officially done with NURSING SCHOOL!!!!

So our hellacious final was yesterday afternoon!!!!! I am officially, unofficially finished with nursing school!!!!!!!!!!! I still have to do my preceptorship which consists of 120 hours of on the floor experience, and I have one other blow off class that doesn't meet again until the 1st of may!!! So a few of us went to the bar after the final but the real party is on Saturday night. We will be going to margaritaville to get our drink on and boogey the night away. I will post more pictures sometime next week