September 1st-GO UTES!

I guess I'm just looking forward to a lot of great things!

I'm not sure what is about Utah football, but it makes me happy! And I especially can't wait to see the Utes play in the Pac-12. It's gonna be a good year.

I can't wait for September 1st. Seriously, I get so happy thinking about watching football games again. :)

Also, it was really great to watch Urban and Kyle talk about Utah football together!

Look Who's Back!

This kid is home! And I couldn't be happier!

14 days

In 14 days I get to be Courtney, SN again! I can't wait.

I told some people the other day how excited I am for school to start again. One of them said "You must be a freshman." I was offended.

I just love what I get to learn and study. I'm passionate about it!

Find something your passionate about and go for it!

What are you passionate about?

Get Jazzed!

I'm Jazzed. Are you?

Clinical

My clinical for Fall semester is going to be here and here.

And I'm so excited!!

I can't wait.

I've been told that 3rd semester is the hardest semester, but I don't care. I'm so excited to learn so much more and be in the hospitals.

I. Can't. Wait.

Satisfied

One of the most satisfying things in the world for me happens when I'm at work.

Dr.: "Courtney, I need a blood draw for Bob."

Courtney: "Okay, I'm on it!"

In my head: "Heavenly Father please help me to get this blood on the first try"

(walk in the room)

Courtney: "Hi Bob! I'm Courtney. And I'm going to be drawing your blood today. Have you ever had your blood drawn before?"

Bob: "Oh yes! Many times."

Courtney: "Wonderful! Do you have an arm you prefer?"

Bob: "Nope."

Courtney: "Okay. Let me take a look here."

In my head: "Well this one looks good. Let's try it."

(I get everything ready)

In my head: "Okay. Here we go. I'm confident in myself! I can do this."

(stick the needle in. put the tube in.)

Here comes the satisfying part.....

The BLOOD comes rushing out into the tube! Rich, dark, lovely blood! I love it. It is so darn satisfying.

beautiful life

What a great day today has been!

I totally ROCKED my anatomy final!

And

I made dinner! I'm so proud of myself.

I hope your day was as good as mine.

XOXO

Courtney

sometimes it still feels like a dream

I finished my first week of nursing school today! I was so exhausted; I came home and took a 2 hour nap. But this week was incredible! I was impacted by so many things. The Spirit has already manifested to me many times that I am where I am supposed to be doing what I am supposed to be doing! And I'm so grateful for that.

I've already met some amazing people-students and professors. I'm excited for everything I will learn from them.

I'm excited to learn the Healer's Art in my next three years in the BYU nursing program. I'm excited to become a nurse that is knowledgeable and also compassionate. I'm excited to serve Heavenly Father's children everyday of my life. I can't wait to be a nurse.

I had a dinner orientation last night for all the new students. It was wonderful! I enjoyed every minute of it. We recited the Nightingale Pledge! I loved it!

I am so excited for the next three years. I know I'll have bad days and good days. It's going to be hard. I'm going to have late nights. And early mornings. I can not wait.

I don't know exactly what the next three years will bring. Life is so uncertain. I do know that I will have some amazing experiences and I know that it won't be perfect. But I also know that my testimony of Christ will guide me and protect me.

I'm scared. I'm nervous. I'm anxious. I'm excited. I'm happy. I'm grateful. I'm going to be a nurse!

Soeur Cutler

Emily is awesome! I love her. I'm so glad she always asked me for a ride home my Junior year. If it weren't for that I don't think we would have ever became such great friends. She was an answer to a prayer for me! It was a hard time in my life and I was praying so hard for a best friend. Emily was that best friend.

It always amazes me that no matter how long it's been since we last saw each other it's like no time has passed at all. We are still the same. I've loved all the time that I've spent with her. It's never a dull moment with Emily. And I will NEVER forget our night at Rock Caynon. :) Or our Annual Spanish Fork Rodeo-One Night Kiss N' Stand. Or our trip to the National Finals Rodeo. Some of my most treasured moments are with her!

I'm so proud of her. She has been through so much. And she is one of my heros! She is sacraficing 18 months of her life to spread the gospel and serve the Lord. I'm so grateful for her example. I'm going to miss her like crazy! And I already do. She's going to be such a wonderful missionary for the people in Switzerland. I'm so excited for her! Congrats Emily! Thanks for being such an incredible best friend! I love you!

Speeding Train

This girl is engaged! And I couldn't be happier for her. She's so awesome. She's became one of my best and closest friends ever in the past two years. I will be sad to see her move. But I love her oh so very much! And I'm so excited for her!! David is perfect for her and they are adorable together! Congrats Nichelley-poo, I love you!

I've figured something out in the past 48 hours-life NEVER slows down. You think it will. But it doesn't. I feel like I'm on a speeding train, sometimes it makes me nauseous. But sometimes I put my head out the window, like a dog, and it's SO fun! Sometimes I want to jump off, but I know that if I jump off it will hurt really bad. And other times it's like a really fun roller coaster ride and I never want to get off. Either way, I love my speeding train. Life is so incredibly wonderful and awesome and crazy!

:)

I got a new job that I love! I got a job as a medical assistant at the IHC Saratoga Springs Instacare and Family Practice. The only bad thing about it is the drive. It takes me about 25-30 minutes to get out there. But it's totally worth it. I love the other nurses and ma's. And the doctors are great too! I've been training this whole week. I even did 4 blood draws today!! It was so fun. And got me really excited to start the nursing program!

The Lord has really blessed me. And I am so grateful!

Dreams Do Come True

Yesterday, June 26th, was a very anxious day for me. But at 3:10 p.m. all my anxiety was replaced by excitement. If you would've been walking by my apartment at that time you would have heard two girls screaming and jumping up and down.

I had this crazy dream that I really wanted to get into the nursing program at BYU. After being a huge slacker my freshman year I kicked myself into shape and worked super hard my sophomore to get my grades up. And I started volunteering like crazy! I got my GPA way up. But I was still afraid it wouldn't be enough. I had no idea what I was going to do if I didn't get into the program.

And yesterday I received an email from the nursing advisement saying this:

"Congratulations! Your application for entrance to the Nursing program at BYU has been reviewed and the College of Nursing Acceptance Committee has voted to grant you acceptance to the program for Fall 2009."

:)

I was freaking out! I ran down the hall way and started screaming and jumping up and down with Kristen. Then I called my mom, dad, Nichelle and Kelsey. Then I texted Lee, Chris, and Sara. And started texting everyone I could think of! I hadn't even read the first paragraph of the email yet. I was on cloud nine all of yesterday. And still am!

I had a dream. And it came true! :)

Thanks to everyone who has been such an awesome support to me through all of this! You know who you are. I couldn't have done without you! I love you all!

No longer desperate

The search is over! I got a job. And I'm actually pretty excited about it. It's at Linx Satellite. And I will be working with a new product that they have called Voip-it's a phone service. I will mostly be doing projects for the new product and getting cusomters set up on the product.

They liked the experience that I had at Pinnacle so I'll probably be doing some things similar to what I did there but in a different area of the company than what I was in at Pinnacle.

I will probably have to work until 9 some nights. But that isn't too bad. And I really needed a job. And they're going to pay me pretty well too.

So, happy early birthday to me!

Excitement

I. Am. So. Excited.

Because of this!

today

I posted this about a week and a half ago in regards to my humanities test....

I found out how I did on my test yesterday, and I felt like this:


But then I went to class and got my test back. I noticed that my professor added my points wrong...and I felt like this!!! I'm not sure if I've ever been more happy about a test! It was the most wonderful feeling!

give me some suga'

On Decemeber 29 I loaded a motor home along with my mom (who had back surgery 10 days before), my dad, Lee, Chris and Laura and started the journey to New Orleans. On December 31 around 8:00 P.M. we arrived in New Orleans. We spent New Years Even on Bourbon Street. It was quite the experience. I wasn't sure how I felt about New Orleans after that night, but in the next few days I found like I actually really enjoyed the city of New Orleans. We took a shuttle into the city on the 2nd and got a little tour of the town. It has so much history. It's old and authentic. It was fun to see the Mississippi and even take a ferry boat.

The game was that night. And it was so much fun! Before the game even started I was angry though, because of some stupid Alabama outside the stadium and some stupid BYU fans back in Provo. But the game was AWESOME! And incredible. The Utes came out and went up 21-0 on the Tide. It was unbelieveable. Utah ruled the whole game. The final score was 31-17. Brian Johnson got the MVP of the game and Louie even got to kick one last field goal. My Utes ended up #2 in the nation! It's a shame they didn't get the oppurtunity they deserved, along with many other teams in the nation, to go for the championship.

It was an awesome season of football. I had a lot of fun with my mom, lee, and chris at all the home games. And I had a blast in New Orleans with my family! I did miss one thing this Utah football season and that was Christopher. I will be watching the Sugar Bowl again in 2010 with him!! Go Utes! Sugar Bowl Champs! #2!

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