While Jon and I were our in Maryland we decided that we needed to get a little bit more direction in our lifes and set some goals to lead us away form a life of sales. not that we didnt not appriciate all that "Sales" as a carere had done for us, we just really werent sure that our relationship would beable to make it threw such a high stress lifestyle for an extended period of time (AKA FOREVER). So we started Brain Storming, what sort of things Jon liked to do, ( creativity, hands on, working with people, problem solving,drawing, speeking) these are some of the things we came up with. Then we tried to put a medical twist on it becouse of the stability. we came up with a couple of options, and started to do some research. Finally we came up with a careere plan dentistry. Then it was time to get on the phone and make some phone calls, we called a couple of differnt schools that had dental progams. Jon spoke with counseler after counseler trying to figure out pre requisites, service hours, job showdowing hours. Lots of differnt things. Then he called ISU and spoke with 2 or 3 differnt counselers there. There more people we spoke with and the more research we did the more confident we became in our desision.

When we got back to Idaho it was time to make some changes to our life. Although the summer had been good to us it was not going to be quite enough to sustane the lifestyle we had come accustome to without some additional income. Luckily for us my good old dad steped in, one of the ladies at his office had just recently put in her 2 weeks notice wich opend up a possition for me. He also was able to work around my class schedgule so i could still take a full credit loat this semester ( im taking 17 credits). But here is the real kicker, when we were looking for places to live we came accross maried housing, Wow was it cheaper, and all of our utilities are included, power, water, internet, cable tv, gas everything. But like everyhting eles at ISU it was OLD, clean, but old. After a lot of complaining and crying we decided it was a sacrifice we would have to make. so we unloaded our storage unite and haulled all of our stuff to pocatello....who knew we had so much crap!!! we moved for 4 days straight. My mom and dad helped us clan the entire thing corner to corner and my dad replaced all of the lighting fictures to try and up date the place. After all of the cleaning, decorating, and updating i have to tell you this place feels just like home. It turned out to be absolutly beautiful! I guess i need to lean not to judge a book by its cover.

In the mists of moving i decided to start a new diet. Its called HGC, its a hormon diet wich means i give my self a shot every moring as soon as i wake up and can only eat 500 calories a day. The medicin tells my body that im pregnent and becouse of my low intake of food my body uses the fat that it has stored. I know its a really weird concept but IT REALLY WORKS. over the last 2 years i have gained about 35 pounds. Its a lot i know im kinda a fatty i can admite it, and having insilin resistence does not make it easy at all to lose weight. However with HGC i have lost 19 and a half pounds in 14 days. TALK ABOUT AMAZING!!! my goal is to lose 50 pounds this year, i guess i have 31 more to go before im at my medically corect weight.

If any of you have ever done the drive between pocatello and Idaho Falls you will know what i mean when i say it is so so boring. well I drive back and forth from Rigby to pocatello 4 days a week and Just to Idaho falls 2 days a week! Talk about not fun!!!! that drive at 6:30 inthe morning is NO FUN AT ALL!!!!!!!

Changing my program, so i decided to try this relitivly new nursing program that ISU is offering its an LPN to RN program. before you just recived yoru LPN or your RN now you can get the LPN with the direct intent to go on to your RN. This will work out better for me becouse i already have the Pre Requisits done to be able to apply in February and i could finish my RN portion onlie from ISU depending on where Jon decids to move us to as soon as he is done with his pre requisites.

So yeah this has been my life for the past few weeks im very sorry that i have not made time to blog. Im going to work on making it more of a priority.

Me getting ready to go for a ride in the Tube

Jon after his crazy tube ride

My hubby and my Mommy

Jon and i at Rainbow Bridge

The Whole family

Jon enjoying his boat ride

Gun-site Canyon where we stayed

It was another amazing week full of laughter, adventure, new memories and family, what could possibly be better. Thank you so much mom and dad for inviting us to come along we had such and amazing time.

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