Nurse Pinning Ceremony

Stu started his graduation week with the nursing pinning ceremony tonight. This is just for the nursing students only so it is small and intimate. My family and Stu's family came to the ceremony. It consisted of faulty speakers, two student speakers and then the graduates went up to get their stuff. Their names were called and they walked across the stage. It was followed up with a video that had pictures of all the nursing students and would you believe it- Stu was in most of them...in the background looking dazed and confused. The ceremony concluded with the nursing plead that the student said as a whole and then of course...lots of pictures. Stu just loves pictures.

I put these sticky things on Stu's car and told him he had to drive around for at least a week with it on. You can see how happy he was about that.
Sarah, Stu & Mom and Dad Reeder
Stu, Sarah & Mom and Dad Nicholls
Stu getting his pinning ceremony stuff.

*Side note. Stu had a older lady (40's) in his class that he was quite close to that did not pass one of the classes and will have to retake it next semster. She did come to the ceremony but didn't feel like she should walk since she did not pass the class. Stu told her that she needed to walk with them and if she came up on stage he said he would let her pinch his butt. He said "I know you wanted to all semester long..here is your chance". She was nervous about what I would say and Stu reassured her I didn't care. Needless to say, she was up there with them walking and Stu said she got a hand full of his cute bottom ;-)

Real Salt Lake

Stu is a big soccer fan. So when we got invited to the REAL soccer game against the LA Galaxy from our dear friends Josh and Andrea Johnson, he was not about to pass that up. Stu just finished his last final today, so a soccer game would be the best way to start the graduation party.
We met up with Josh and his new son Cohen at the Trax station before driving to dinner at a mom and pop restaurant called Indian House. Stu has never tried Indian food before so I was excited to have him try it. Of course..he loved it. Indian food is sooo good!

Cohen and Sarah at dinner. (Pretty good self portrait if I do say so myself)

After dinner we headed to the game. REAL Salt Lake moved from their temporary location at the U stadium to their very own stadium called The Rio Tinto stadium. Stu and I had not been there yet so we were excited to see the stadium and watch a game. The seats were great. REAL was ahead almost the whole game until some very bad calls from the officials gave a goal to the other team. The game was tied, REAL got another score then LA came back to tie it again and the game ended with a tie. Stu and Josh were NOT happy campers with this tie. My thought was "at least they didn't loose"
Overall we had a great time!

Josh, Cohen and Andrea in their REAL gear

Sarah and Stu at the REAL game

This was the face Cohen had all night. He is so cute!

Viva Las Vegas

Liz turned 30 on May 2nd. She did not want to spend her 30th in Salt Lake so Leesha, Erin and myself with Liz jumped on a plane and headed down to sin city. We arrived at 9 AM on Friday checked in and headed straight to the pool for the girls to lay out. I myself put on my SPF 85 (yes they make it that high) and read a book while the sun beauties got their sun. After the pool and showering we headed out for some shopping. After some major credit card damage we headed out to dinner.

Sarah and Leesha at the pool

Saturday was Liz's birthday, we woke up ate breakfast and did some more shopping before heading out to dinner and dancing. We tried out this sushi place (KOI) that has gotten some great reviews and where stars eat. The sushi was good but not worth the price we paid. I can get just as good of sushi anywhere around here and a heck of a lot cheaper. We did some more shopping before we heading out to the club Toa (our name was on the list to get in for free) and we danced our hearts out till Liz almost got into a fight with a big black man. We decided we were done and headed on back to the hotel

Self Portrait (Leesha, Liz, Erin and Me)

Sarah, Leesha, birthday girl (Liz) & Erin

Sunday Erin had to go back to Salt Lake so we took her to the airport and my sun beauties (Liz and Leesha) wanted to head back to the pool so we did for a bit. We ate dinner at a really yummy burger place where you can make your own burger and then we went to see "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" (you can pass on this movie) before we ended the night with some gelato!

Overall the birthday was great. I think (hope) that Liz has a great time and it was so much fun to hang out with Leesha and Erin again!

Liz, Leesha & Sarah in front of Excalibur

Prom

Every girl dreams of her prom. Tonight was my little sister Leah's prom. Even though Leah is a Junior her 'boyfriend' (I think he is her boyfriend :)) is a Senior and he asked Leah to his senior prom. The location was the Capital building in Salt Lake.

Leah has been excited for prom for a month. She found a dress-lime green, and he found a tux-white. There is going to be a limo, dinner and dancing. She was more excited for prom then Wicked.

Tyler and Leah

Leah asked me if I would come out to see her off before her date came to pick her up. So I dragged Stu with me. Leah had her friend Andy over to get ready for prom with her. Andy's date was Tyler's best friend.

Leah and Andy

Sarah and Leah

When we showed up I went into big sister mode and made sure she had: lipstick, lip liner and gum with her. (Stu and Cannon my brother just sat there looking like we were all nuts).
As 5:30 (pick up time) passed the girls got really anxious for the boys to show up. Originally they were going to have a limo but then they were not able to get it due to the price, so the girls were going to be picked up in a Durango. Keep in mind these girls are both wearing hoop shirts which make them every "puffy". I thought "How are they going to get in and out of a Durango?" As 5:45 approached we looked at the window to see a black limo pull up in front of my parents drive way and two very sharp looking men in white tuxes got out. The girls started to squeal from excitement.

Andy and Leah right after they saw the limo pull up

The girls dates

After the bootiners were pined and the corsages put on, more pictures were taken and then the girls were led out to the limo by their dates. My sister was so excited and it was so exciting for me to see her so happy...FINALLY.

Leah's corsage

The gang in front of the limo

13.1 = Half

Today my fellow running buddy Liz and I took on the Salt Lake 1/2 Marathon (13.1 miles). This is one race we had not done yet. I was a little nervous about the weather since it has been snowing all week, but the weekend cleared and race day was perfect weather.

Liz and I stayed close together the whole race but by mile 10 I was spent and I just wanted to be done. My feet hurt really bad. I left Liz and ran on ahead so I could be done. I also knew that Stu was waiting for us close to the end and I wanted to see him. Stu was our only support for this race. If you ever have a chance to support a runner; do so. As a runner myself- knowing that you have a support group at the end of the race is what helps you finish a race. You race to the end to see all those yelling your name.

Liz and I both did great on our race. I came in at 2 hours 7 min and Liz came in at 2 hours 9 min. Starting this month we have a race every month till October. Hopefully we can get those great bodies we have been talking about with all this running :)

Sarah and Liz at the Salt Lake Expo picking up our racing packets

Sarah on the home stretch

Sarah and Stu right after the race

Liz and Sarah were happy to get their medals!

3 things about April 15th

April 15th

1-Taxes

2-Snow

3-Wicked

1-Taxes-they are due today. Lucky for us we filed way back in the first of the year and have spent a good majority of our refund already.

2-Snow-that is right, it snowed today. Regular blizzard here in Salt Lake City. Where is spring?

Snow!

3-Wicked-I have been looking forward to this play since June 2008 when we bought our tickets. We dressed up and went to dinner (Sushi) and arrived in time to sit and get ready for the start of the play. We had excellent seats in the grand tier and I brought my binoculars so for me the play was 'up close and personal'. Stu took me to see Wicked 2 years ago in Denver and it was a delight to see it again. I remember the big parts but forgot all about the small details. We got all the original cast (for this production) except for Elphaba. We got her 'stand in'. At first I was bummed we did not get the original Elphaba for this production, but her stand in was FANTASTIC. She looked and sounded just like the original Elphaba played by Inda Menzel. The play was so great and I am so excited to hear from all those friends and family members that have not see it yet, to see if they loved it as much as I do.

The Wicked sign on the marquee

Stu and Sarah in front of the Wicked sign outside the Capital Theatre

Stu and Sarah sitting and waiting for the play to begin

What you see when you first walk into the theatre

What the...

Where did all the days go? We are in the 2nd week of April. Snaps, time flys when you are having fun.
Here is an update on our family:

1-Stu's TV broke after only having it a week. 4 days after we set it up a line appeared down the middle. 1/2 the TV was in HD and 1/2 was in regular. Stu called the company who sent out a guy to fix it. The guy had to take the TV to fix a panel and told Stu it will be about 2 weeks before he got it back. Stu was not a happy camper
2-NCAA--Michigan State made it to the finals, they lost to North Carolina, but I must say for someone (me) just randomly picking teams, I think I did pretty good. They almost won.
3-I am running a 1/2 marathon next Saturday if the weather does not do what I want it to do I will play the card of a spoiled brat and not run it. Every weekend it has been cold and rainy/snowy. YUCK
4-Things have pick up at work. I have finally gotten an office that is right next to my boss. I have a window (which is nice) and mustard and ketchup walls (bright yellow and one red wall). I will not complain because I do have my name on a name plate on my door. How official is that? Because I have been so busy with work and working out, my house has suffered. I know that none of you will be visiting my house anytime soon, but it is gross and I feel the need to tell you that I have not cleaned it in 2 weeks. Say it...GROSS
5-Stu has less than a month till he graduates! He could not be happier. He hopefully will have a job lines up and can start working right away.
6-We have passed out huge birthday sweep that starts in February and ends..today. Mom N, Mom R. Grandma, Grandpa, Leah, Dad R. Cannon & Karly. We can now start saving for my birthday next month!
7-My New Year's Resolutions are coming together. Catch up on scrapbooking (I am getting closer and should be caught up by the June/July time) and teaching aerobics at the gym. My dear friend Liz has been helping me each week to get ready to try out and she has told me I have till the beginning of May. I know she is not kidding either. YIKES that is scary.
8-We have one week from today that Stu and I will see "Wicked". Stu took me to see this play in Denver for my 29th birthday and we are excited to see it again. (I will post pictures)