A Bunch of Everything... This is a long one!

Here is what we have been up to:

 

CAKES!

 1) i obviously have too much time on my hands 

 2) i find any reason to make a cake - i love it!

 3) can't wait to make cakes for my babies!

Practice cake-  put a little of everything on there 

Chocolate Ganache- enough said!

 Football b-day cake. It was ginormous - but it was for the Avianos, so I knew I had to go big :)

I replicated (on a smaller scale) the top tier of
our wedding cake for us to cut
on our first anniversary.  

- used same ribbon and velvet underlay from
our wedding : )

Whipped this us for a dinner with some friends

Caramel Apple Cake for Thanksgiving
( inspired by a cake on Pinterest)

WORK/SCHOOL 

1) the reason why we came here - tyler's dental schooling... he actually really enjoys it and did extremely well his first semester. We recently found out that he got the air force scholarship.

                                         

                     Tyler's white coat ceremony for dental school,

                                so proud!

                             my first day of work- didnt know what i was

                                    getting myself into haha

2) i thought it was a sick joke, but no, 

they make all the thousands of nurses that 

work here wear ALL white- no color allowed. 

im getting used to it, but i miss color! 

3) Cleveland Clinic Neuro ICU summed up in ABC:

                   Assessments (neuro- often ordered every hour...)

                   Baths

                   Charting

     A tech I work with told me this, I would say add stat Cat scans and tubes coming out of peoples brain, and then you have the jist of CC Neuro ICU.

4) i can now say i knew nothing about neuro starting this job - alot of nurses dont know enough about neuro i am discovering. i have learned so much, and i am so grateful! i feel i have an awesome new skill set that i can take with me to any other field of nursing. all that i've learned has come at a price, my orientation has been very hardcore - sometimes i want to cry!   

5) they call it NICU...  i will never call it NICU

6) the hardest part of working here is that most of the patients i take care of will never get better. we withdraw life support on a lot of patients ranging from their 20s-90s (did that last night), its common to see/hear about a death on the unit every time i work. ive never seen anyone that was really sick get better. it gets frustrating/depressing...

Gems of Ohio:

1) kirtland, ohio... do your church history- there is tons here! 

   come visit me and i will take you!

I went with Stephanie when she came to visit me!

Tyler went with his brother Jarom (was on a church history tour with BYU)

 2) Put-in-Bay... Another adventure of Steph and mine.. We took a ferry boat to this small island in lake erie.  Most people drive around golf carts, including us. it was so randomly fun!  

                                                                    who needs hawaii?

cars lining up to get on ferry - i wasn't brave enough to drive my car onto a boat

3) CLEVELAND- the biggest gem of all!...well, not really, but we are enjoying it so much more than we expected.

                          We are renting the second floor of this classic, it feels like home!

our neighborhood, Little Italy, during the annual feast

We are grateful for everything in our life, our blessings and trials! We are excited about going back to Arizona  for Christmas - cant get better than that! Hope everyone has a happy holiday!