First off fall semester is now in FULL swing!!! It's definitely keeping me super busy, but I'm loving it--I love school! I'm a nerd, I know--I'll admit it! I'm taking a pretty full load--11 credits (which is good for me) and that includes my wonderful research methods class (love the teacher--hate the class...this would be why I'm not going into doing research everyday--too complicated!)...I'll stick with my clinical psychology! Exciting news too, I'm on track right now to hopefully graduate with my bachelor's next fall (Dec. 2012), and I'll be putting in my applications for grad school next fall as well! Yea!!! I'm so excited!!!! This semester's been very busy between school and health stuff, but I've had amazing professors who've been so great to work with me, great doctors, my awesome family who's sticks by my side through everything (especially the last like 2 months that've been pretty crazy), and my Heavenly Father who truly blesses me through it all...I know that without Him, my family, and everything I wouldn't be where I am!
So the semester started the end of Aug. and the first weekend of September I had to go down to Colorado for a check-up with my hip surgeon. My mom always goes with me--it's usually a pretty quick trip when we're just going down for check-ups, but we thought since we were going the end of the week this time we'd stay a day or two longer and they had a fun farmer's market that we wanted to go to. Well, my sister Jodi was able to come with us too, so we made it a fun girl's weekend! We had to leave Wednesday, drove straight to Vail, CO (about a 7-8 hour drive), had a LONG day of appointments the next day, Thursday, (appointments started at 6:45am with an MRI, had physical therapy and strength tests, and ended at about 10:00pm when I saw the doctor...no joke when I said a LONG day!)!!! The appointment went great though and my hips are doing well...just have to continue working on keeping getting them stronger, being careful what I do, and not overdoing my range of motion! Friday we went shopping around town--they have lots of fun shops and the town is just cool to walk around, and then there was this lake by our hotel so we walked around it...very pretty and fun! Then Saturday morning it was off to the farmer's market and then our drive back home! Lots of fun!
The city where the farmer's market was....
Down one of the streets in one of the towns we shopped through...(I think this one is in Edwards)...
Views from off the deck at my doctor's office at the hospital...up along the mountains of Vail, CO...very pretty!!!
We also got to have a shower for my friend Sarah Wiser as well, this past month! She just had her little baby Zachary--he's so stinkin' cute!!! So the middle of Sept. we were able to all get together at my house to have a shower for her! It was so fun to just visit, see everyone, see all the cute, fun baby stuff, and eat lots of yummy food!!!!
Party favors...little diapers with tootise rolls in them....
DELICIOUS cupcakes that Kelsey brought--they were banana with chocolate frosting!!! (sorry the pic's sideways...my computer was being lame and wouldn't let me turn it)
Sarah opening up presents....she got lots of super cute stuff!
Annie cheating at the game where you guess what chocolate candybar is melted in the diaper--she decided to taste them!
Sarah Nielsen trying to figure out what candybar is melted in the diaper...
Taking a group pic of everyone at the shower--had to get a funny pic in! :)
And of course a cute pic of everyone there for the shower!!! :)