Holiday Movies!!

Tradition............tradition! Although this is the most well known song from the classic Fiddler on the Roof, I absolutely love traditions. One of the traditions that my family has always done is watch classic movies around Christmas time. The pictures above are some of the ones that I have watched so far. Even though I don't have a family of my own yet, I thoroughly enjoyed watching them by myself! I love cuddling up on my couch with a blanket, the Christmas tree on, and watching these classic and amazing movies. I have been watching bits of them every day and absolutely love it! The next ones on my list are White Christmas and It's a Wonderful Life. I love the holidays and the wonderful classic holiday movies!!

My Job

I have always known I wanted to be a nurse.

I've grown up helping take care of my family and love taking care of people. However, I don't think I realized how it can sometimes be not only physically hard, but mentally and emotionally taxing. I tend to get attached to my patients as I get to know them. Just like any job, there are good days and bad days. Working in women's services where I take care of postpartum and OB/GYN patients, it is usually a happy and exciting place. None the less, it can be one of the saddest places when a newborn doesn't survive. To watch a mother grieve the loss of a newborn baby can be so hard, but I have found that my understanding of the gospel and Christ's Atonement makes this process so much easier and I can feel at peace that one day, they will be reunited. I'm so grateful for the gospel in my life and for the knowledge that we can see our loved ones after this earthly life. I believe that there is a purpose for everything, including death.

CHUCK-A-RAMA

Is where we go for Thanksgiving every year. Oh yes, the buffet of all buffets. You better believe it-this is Thanksgiving for the Taylor family. No cooking, no messes to clean, and the picky eaters couldn't be happier (not to mention the best rolls and sweet potatoes ever)! We follow the Chuck with bowling across the street at Bountiful Bowl, then watch family home videos. We ended the night with seeing Harry Potter 7, which of course, I thoroughly enjoyed. Aunts Jane and Julie came with and we are missing Mary (in Hawaii) and Oliver and Patrick (on missions). I have so much to be grateful for and at the top of the list is my wonderful family. Yep a very Happy Thanksgiving this year!

Plays and Musicals!

I know it's been so long since I've posted anything- I should be banned from the blogging world! Hopefully I can figure this program out and be a better blogger! Jace and I are both working full-time and going to school full-time, so we've had a busy year. However, one thing that we have been lucky enough to do this year is see a lot of plays. I know this sounds geek-ish, but I love musicals! I grew up going to musicals as a family tradition and now Jace and I really enjoy going to them. The ones that we have seen this year are Pirates of the Caribbean (Hale Center Theater), Music Man (Rodger's), Tarzan (Tuacahn), Aida (Tuacahn), Thriller (Kingsbury Hall), Wicked (Gershwin in NY), and In the Heights (Richard Rodgers Theatre, NY). Have a very Happy Thanksgiving!!

Our St. George weekend getaway!

So last weekend, Jace and I both had Saturday AND Sunday off (never happens)! So we planned a little get away trip down to St. George. We left on Friday night, watched TV for a bit then went to bed. On Saturday, we woke up, got our free continental breakfast, went to Zion's National Park which was beautiful, watched the BYU game, went to Pizza Factory for dinner, then went to an amazing play, Aida at the Tuacahn Amphitheater! Oh, when we got back to our hotel, we totally snuck into the Jacuzzi and pool for a while. Then on Sunday, we stopped at the St. George temple, then the Historic Cove Fort on the way home! Everyone has to go there at least once! It was such a blast of a weekend and so, so nice to get away!

Yeah, the wind was blowing like crazy!

Zion's

My cute hubby

I just want to say how much I love my husband, Jace. Tonight, I came home, was exhausted from working all night the night before, so I layed down for a sec. Jace had worked all day long, but when I got up, the vacuuming, bathrooms, mopping, and laundry was all done (and not for the first time)! Wow, I'm one lucky girl. I love you Jace!

BUNCO! And our house....

I've been meaning to post some pics of our future first home... I'll try to keep them updated! We are building a home in East Layton. Kinda scary, but way fun! We will hopefully be moved in by the end of October, just in time to have some trick-or-treaters!

August Bunco at the Flannery's!

Bunco was such a blast! Shanae was a wonderful hostess and it was so, so great to see everyone; can't wait for next month!

Sun Valley!

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
My favorite book of the series
Enjoyed the movie, a little disappointed
A ton left out
Weasley's house never burned down in the book
Ron was really good, overall acting was better than the others
Have a small crush on Cormack McLaggen, Jace has one on Hermione (see below)
Hope Bill and Fleur will be in the next movie-where will their wedding be?
Still a huge Harry Potter fan

Our favorite place to go in Sun Valley!

Cheeseball picture, but we had to sport our HP scars!

Sun Valley is pretty much in the middle of the mountains and is gorgeous! This is pretty much my family's idea of camping.....pitiful I know, but so much fun!

GEL TOES! Also known as "rockstar" toes... they last for like 2 months and are all sparkly and fun!

Road trip! We almost ran out of gas and finally found a gas station out in the middle of Idaho in a city called Malta!

Lakeview Hospital- my second home! And gardening.....

Our first garden together! Even though it belongs to my Aunt Julie... we had a blast planting everything!

I've had several people ask me about where I work and what its like; here are a few pics!

This is one of the two halls I work on......

Yeah, this pic was taken at like three in the morning, but there are these sweet little pictures of babies down the whole postpartum hall.....so cute!