Update for the last few months...

Christmas and New Years

2011-2012

So it has been too long since

I last blogged...I have decided that I am going to try to post each month at least once. This has kind of been like my journal for the last three years! Wow how they have flown by! Today I have reflected on my life and found so my things to be grateful for! So many blessings and things and people that have brought me joy! This has been much needed reflection because school is tough....yes I'm still in school. I will graduate with my Bachelor's in Nursing in April though! I can't believe I have been in college for five whole years! It really has gone by so fast! I am so excited to be done though! So lets see what have Ty and I been up to lately. He is in school full time too and we have both been working. Me at UVRMC as a nurse (still can't believe it!) and Ty a few hours at Cabela's still. We spend every moment we can together...which is sometimes not a lot with me working three nights a week. I am loving be married to my best friend and he has truly tried to help my life be less stressful. School is taking its toll on both of us as well as sleepless nights at the hospital, but if we can just make it to April I think things will get a whole lot better:)

We spent Christmas break with his family. I had to work Christmas Eve and Christmas day.....I was not happy. So we celebrated our first Christmas sleeping lol:) We opened presents that morning when I got home from work and then went back to bed. I have some pictures I will post from Christmas. We spend New Year's Eve with my dad's family. We had our annual Wiseman New Year's Party and went bowling and laser tagging. It was so much fun! The holidays are always my favorite! Spending them with family and my hubby was the best!

Lately I have been struggling with the stress of working full time and going to school full time. There are times where I have just wanted to quit one or both and be a mom:) I am so baby hungry and I have been since I was like 12 lol:) I am trying to be patient until Tyler is ready and has a stable job, so that hopefully I can be a stay at home mom. That is my real calling in life I believe. Sure I can take care of sick people as a nurse, but I really want to take care of a family so bad! That will come I know someday. For now I'll just keep plugging through and stop and reflect like I did today, it helps so much!

Oh one last thing...Tyler and I got called to be ward missionaries for our ward. It has been an amazing experience for both of us. I went on splits with the sister missionaries a few weeks ago and I felt like a real missionary lol. The Spirit is so strong when you are teaching the basics to those children and people who don't know about the Gospel. I love it!

Officially A Registered nurse with a job!

Wow! This has been one crazy summer! First I graduated with my associates in nursing in April. At the time I was engaged and planning a wedding too. Then I took my NCLEX-RN on June 24th and passed!! Waiting those couple of days to find out if I passed or not was torture! So when I found out I passed I didn't immediately start looking for jobs because I was getting married in a couple of weeks. I was working at UVRMC at the time anyways and my manager said that she wanted to hire me as soon as there was a position available. It's definitely nice to have your foot in the door. So I was not too worried about finding a job. I got married on July 8th and went on my honeymoon. When I returned and everyone started asking me when I was going to start working as a nurse then I got a little worried. But no reason to be worried because I got a job on Monday last week working at UVRMC Medical/Surgical 6th floor at nights. So this week was my first three shifts. They were long and I'm still exhausted, but I hope I adjust soon:) So this is a picture of me going to work my first shift as an RN!! And some of my graduation pinning ceremony back in April. My aunt Amy who is also an RN pinned me there.

Newlywed and Enjoying Summer

So it has been way too long since I updated this thing sorry..

..Anyways biggest news is I'm married to a wonderful man named Tyler Toyn! Married life is so good! We went on a Baja, Mexico cruise for our honeymoon too. I was so excited to go on a cruise and it was a lot of fun. My favorite port was Catalina Island. We snorkeled at "Lovers' Cove" and saw tons of fish! Then in Mexico we went to

a natural blow hole by the ocean. Now that we are home we have been putting our apartment together in American Fork and enjoying the sun:) We just returned from a family vacation to Bear Lake. It was fun too. I went wake boarding and got up on my first try!! Having eight children under the age of six with us was definitely challenging and was a good form of birth control for me haha! Well that's a little bit of what has been going on with the Toyn's...pictures of our adventures to come soon!

Moving out...the best thing I ever did for myself!!

So as the title says I officially moved out on my own to an apartment in Orem last week! I am having a blast with roommates and cute guys:) I realize now what I have been missing in my life for the last two years! Even though it's going to be a struggle financially at times with school and everything....I plan on staying on my own now for good (until I get married of course:) I just really like the responsibility and control I have of my own life! Everyday I am learning and growing into a better person I think:) I love my roommates! I was nervous to move out not really knowing anybody I was moving in with, but it has turned out to be so fun...my roommate Tori and I clicked from the beginning, good thing since we share a room:) I am also enjoying working this summer my two jobs and not worrying about school. Between all of the that I am still a pretty busy woman and never seem to get enough sleep, but hey sleep is overrated right? :) I will try to get some pictures up of me and my roommates and friends soon to make my blog more interesting!

School is almost over....Bring on Summer!!

Wow it has been way too long! So a little update is way overdue....school is almost over!! Yay! Finals week is this week and I have already taken three of the four finals I have. They have gone pretty well...just holding my breath, hoping I get the grades I think I deserve! This semester was definitely a challenge, but I had a lot of good growing experiences:) Another exciting thing happening this week is I am moving out to an apartment!! I'm getting more and more excited about it as I pack up! It is a bitter-sweet move though...I will miss my aunt Marla and lots of friends I have made in my current ward:( But I know that it is time for a change and although I don't like it change makes us better, stronger, and grow up...which I need lol! This summer I will not be taking classes, just working and playing a lot:) I'm excited to be starting to work at the same doctor's office my mom works at....practicing my nursing skills:) Also I will still be working for Familylink (my current job). But other than that I want to just have fun and live it up with my roommates and friends! By the way I forgot to mention the scary part is I don't know any of my roommates really well...so wish me luck! I think it will be fun though:) So one more final to go and then call me up and I will be free to party:) I am also loving the warmer weather...the sun just needs to decide to stay for good;)

A Job! I got a job! Yay!

So this week has been really interesting and good for me. I was not planning on working this semester, but this job opportunity just popped up for a job with a company called Familylink. It's a company that helps people find living relatives and do genealogy. I start on Wednesday this week. I think that it will be good since I wanted to be working this summer for sure so I can move out and have roommates again! Things seem to be working out really well for me lately. School is busy but good and I'm happy. Been on a few dates lately and just enjoying life again. I feel so blessed!

Blessed

Lately with all of the tragedies of others surrounding me I feel so blessed. The earthquake in Haiti and all of the people trapped on that island without food, water, and medical supplies has made my heart ache. I wish there was more I could do to help. I feel so incredibly blessed to just have been born in America with the gospel in my life! I am blessed to be going to college and getting an education and not only having the necessities of life but enjoying so many luxuries as well! Please everyone keep praying for those in Haiti!

Birthday Wishes:)

So in about a month I will turn the big 21! Wow I can't believe how the time flies! So just for fun I thought I would post a few things that I would like for my birthday. So if you ask me what I want for my birthday I might refer you here:)

1. Itunes gift card

2. cute headband (I think my step-mom has this covered:)

3. Snow (the fifth book of the Anita Stansfield series I love)

4. dark brown boots

5. $$money is always nice$$

6. A full time job offer for summer (I know this is really wishing hard;)

7. Mary Kay product (Got this already a little early:)

8. A GPS-since you all know how horrible I am at directions;)

9. A gift card for a massage...oh how I need this with my crazy stressful weeks!

10. Movie passes...there are so many good movies out that I want to go see:)

11. Chocolate!

12. Coconut Lime lotion

13. A new backpack...that is not so heavy:)

Well that is all I can think of right now but I'm sure I will be adding to this list......:)

The Holidays and a New Year!

So it has been a while and with it being a New Year and all I thought I would try to do better at blogging:) A lot has happened in the last two months! Thanksgiving and Christmas were wonderful! It is my favorite time of the year, besides the cold weather:) I love spending time with my family and remember all of the blessings I enjoy. For Thanksgiving I went to California, Disneyland to be a exact, with my dad and his family:) It was a fast paced crazy vacation, but it was so much fun! Next post I will have pictures I promise! For Christmas break it was nice to just stay here in Utah and spend time with all of my family, going to parties and laughing with one another. My family is the best! We may not be perfect, but they make me so happy:) Now with the start of another year I can't believe it is 2010 already! I have made some goals to work on this year that I may post later on. The most amazing thing that the new year has made me realize is how much I have grown. I loved, lost, and found myself in 2009. I have still got a long ways to go, but I think that I am so much happier now than a year ago and I learned some very hard but valuable lessons that made me stronger. Now this week I will start my second semester in the nursing program. I am a little nervous to tell you the truth. I have heard it is so much harder than the first semester, but maybe it will be good to have a challenge:) I'm excited to see where this year will lead me and what will happen in my life....stay tuned for more insights into my "crazy" life:)

Hugs are the best!!!

It has been a while since I updated my blog so I thought I would just write a little something about the great night I had and some of the realizations I have come to about life. So tonight I went on a date for the first time in a while and this date actually came about because I took the initiative to talk to a friend and invite him to go to a Jazz game with me. Then he asked me out to dinner tonight! I was so excited! So you are probably thinking that we did something extraordinary but we didn't we just went to dinner and talked. I think what made me so happy is that he gave me a few really good hugs and that is something I have been missing a great deal lately. This got me thinking about how easily someone can have such a positive affect on me....just give me a hug:) Anyways random but I had to share. So guys the way to a girls heart is no a fancy, expensive date sometimes we just need a hug. I will post pictures from the Jazz game soon!

Mission????

A lot of my friends are starting their mission papers or have their calls. I'm excited for them, but I feel a little left out. I am starting to think about a mission, but I am right in the middle of the nursing program and to be honest I'm scared of going on one:) There is a part of me that wants to go, and another part that really doesn't think I could do it....and I don't want to go in the middle of school. Is that bad? Is it selfish? I need some advice people!

School, life, update...

So I know that it has been forever since I last blogged, but not a lot of exciting things have happened lately. I started back to school and Nursing is going well. It's not exactly what I expected but I think it will get more challenging in the coming months. I have recently taken my moms role while she and my step dad have been out of town for their anniversary. Let me just say that I'm glad I don't have children yet lol! My mom comes home in two days and it will be nice to get back to normal. Friend wise I'm feeling a bit lonely lately. Not because I don't have great friends, I do! It's just for about two months now I have felt something missing and finally figured out what it is-a best friend! To go and do everything with. Now some may think I mean a boyfriend, which would be nice, but I'm not picky I would be happy with a really good friend guy or girl that would spend time with me whenever I was bored or lonely:) So anyone looking for a best friend just give me a call! Well I know that does not sound all that exciting but that's my life right now. I'll keep you updated:)

Wisconsin Take 2:)

So I just got back from my wonderful vacation to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where I visited my cousin Jen!  We had a lot of fun and I was actually able to relax and enjoy myself:) Here are a few pictures of the fun we had.  We went to a thing called Summer Fest where there are a lot of different bands playing and fun people to watch and of course great food:) One night that we were there I splurged and bought tickets to Kenney Chesney!  He was awesome and of course there were a ton of cute cowboys there:) We had BBQ's and hung out with Jen's group of friends.  It was a nice break from life back home:)

Nursing School...direction in life yay!!

Wow it has been a while and yes a lot of crazy things have happened in my life, but the most recent happy and exciting thing is....I got into the Nursing Program at UVU!!!  I am so glad!  I finally feel like things are coming together and pointing me in the right direction in life:)  I also just finished my physiology class on Wednesday and that felt so relieving!  Now it's like I don't know what to do with myself and all this free time:)  Don't worry I will fill it up fast lol!  I am leaving on a little get away as a present to myself for all of my hard work these last two years:)  I never do this for myself so I am excited!  I am flying out to spend some time with my cousin Jenny in Wisconsin on Tuesday!! I am excited!  I will take lots of pics and post them when I get back:)  I am just feeling so blessed right now!

Insights

So something kind of strange and unexpectant has happened to me over the last few days. I have come to realize that I don't mind being alone anymore. I mean yes, I love to go and do things with my family and friends sometimes....but I actually have grown to like "me" time:) yay! I never thought I would be ok with myself but I think it is coming slowly but surely!

It's been too long!

Hey everyone! Ok so I know it has been forever since I last posed anything. Sorry about that, my world has literally been turned upside down in ways I never imagined, but I'm hanging in there. So I have done some pretty fun traveling in the last few months and wanted to post some pictures on here. The first trip I took back in March over Spring Break to visit my cousin Jenny in Wisconsin! It was so much fun I love her and we had the best time together! We went fun places like the art and science museum, The Gig where her friend had a going away 80's party ( I loved getting all dressed up for that:) and then of course we had to try the famous fried cheese curds of Milwaukee! They were really good! Then I was super lucky about a month after returning from that trip my family got the chance to go to Maui, Hawaii! It was beautiful! I wish I could post all of the pictures I took but that would be like 200!! My aunt and uncle we so nice and let us go with them to there time share there and it was a much needed break from life! Somedays I still wish I was there:) We had so much fun in the sun! My cousins loved the sand, especially Olivia ( I love the picture of her playing). We also went snorkeling and I wished I had had an underwater camera the fish were so neat! Someday I want to go back there! So school is out now and it's a little weird being in between semesters but it's nice to have the free time. I have relearned how to crochet from my grandma and am currently working on a baby shawl that hopefully will be finished by the time I have my first! Good thing that is going to be awhile:) Oh and I almost forgot! I cut and colored my hair and I love it! I am going to keep it this dark for a while! Well I will keep you posted and more up to date on my crazy life:)

My 20th Birthday Party!

Hey so I finally have some fun pictures to post from my birthday party. It was actually a celebration of my brother kale's birthday too. He turned ten and I turned twenty! And yes I feel old! So we went down to Fairview where my aunt has a farm and up the mountain to a huge hill where we went skiing and sledding. It was a blast! Everyone made fun of me for how slow and cautious I was while skiing, but I think I am getting the hang of it:) Here are some of the pics...

Weight Watchers!

So I know, I know you are all thinking why is she doing weight watchers!? Well I am just trying to lose a few pounds before I go to Hawaii in April, but it is so hard! I am hungry all the time even though I feel like I eat less than a bird right now! Oh well, everyone says my body will adjust. I just hope it is soon:) Anyways random stuff I know but I need all the support I can get I guess.

Happy Birthday!

So yesterday was my birthday and it was an interesting birthday...I turned 20! And I feel so old because on my birthday I had to work and go to school...Boring!! I miss the days when I actually had time to celebrate turning one year older. But my family will celebrate with me in a few weekends so I will have pictures then I promise:)

Fun Shopping!

Wow what a crazy weekend!...But amid the craziness of taking care of my unlce's father and their dog while they were in Arizona, spending Valentine's day single, and trying to mend some family relationships, I still found time to have a little fun:) Today I went with my friend Beth and her mom and my mom to Park City and shopped until I dropped! It was awesome!! I found the cutest jacket and some other really good deals! I would put a picture on here of the jacket if my camera was working...grr! Anyways it was a really good day today and something I have needed for a long time! thanks bethie!! I'm hoping for the best for tomorrow:)