St George- Part 2

In St. George we went Mtn. Biking. We rode on Bear Claw Poppy which is in Bluffdale and on Sunday went into Hurricane to ride GooseBerry Messa, which is slick rock and alot like the trails in Moab.

These are the awesome view of Zions National Park. On top of the Mesa on the Gooseberry trail.

Me after I took a spill down, "Clavicle hill"

Viva Las Vegas

So we finally made it on a vacation!! Brandon finished with finals on Wednesday so we decided that night to head down to Vegas and St. George for the weekend. It was a short trip, but it was sooo nice to actually get a way for a while. We only stayed one night in Vegas. We stayed at the MGM Grand and saw the show Ka, by Cirque du Soleil. It was so freakin amazing!!! The tickets were pricey but it was so worth it. Both Brandon and I absolutely loved it!!! We cant wait until we can go see another show by Cirque du Soleil. They are actually doing a traveling show here in Utah in August, that I am hoping we can get tickets to.

This was driving through N. Las Vegas. There was a whole bunch of hobos's. They were everywhere! It was sad to see them with the tents and blankets all lined up against the fence.

One of the many pools at the MGM Grand

Me chillin at the pool!

We went to the Buffet there, It was all you can eat Prime Rib and Crab legs. Brandon was in heaven. I of course was all over the desserts that they had. YUM YUM!!

I tried posting a link to Ka, but I'm not sure it will work. If you want to see the Promo for it go to Youtube and search Ka by Cirque du Soleil. It is worth it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvDW4DRj7gc

Flying Tire

On Saturday we took our car in to get an oil change and our tires rotated. Later that day Brandon took me back to pick up my car, as I pulled out on State Street in Orem, my steering kinda felt funny and before I knew it I heard this horrible grinding loud terrifying noise and my car was incredibly hard to steer. I thought Oh-crap one of my tires just blew!!! So I was trying to pull my car over when I looked up and saw my tire flying!! It was bouncing across State Street and had crossed 5-lanes of traffic and cars were trying to dodge it. I finally got my car on the side of the road and a guy across the street picked up my tire for me and brought it over. Luckily Brandon was able to jack the car up and get my tire semi-back on. We luckily were able to get ahold of the tire place and they admitted fault. One of the "very smart" mechanics had forgotten to put the lug nuts on all of the way!! Hello- even I know that!!! I am just sooo glad that it wasnt worse and that my flying/bouncing tire didnt hit anyone. Well my car spent the day in the shop and is now all better. I think I need to sell it though as it is cursed, that car has had more things happen to it than any other car, and none of them have been my fault.

Tag: 6th Pic 6th Folder

I was tagged by Paige! This is Brandon's B-day last year. Our good friends Jesse and Tina brought over some kind of pie and trick candles that were huge. When we lit them I thought the whole house was going to catch on fire!!

Since I have posted this pic before I tried to find a funny pic, instead I found this pic of Brandon's hand. This was a few years ago when Brandon tried to almost blow his fingers off!! He was working as an electrician and somehow the current went through his wedding ring and burned a big chunk of his hand. It was pretty nasty!!

I tag the Ambers, Stacie, Ashley, Cassidee, and Kendall.

MTN. Dew a potent diuretic!!

Well I am finding out that drinking a 44oz of Mtn. Dew while at work is not such a good idea. I picked one up on my way to work tonight since I was already dragging and knew I would need some major caffeine fixage to make it through my 13hr night shift. Well before I even made it here I needed to pee!! I think I have pee'd at least 12 times already!! O-well at least it is keeping me awake.

I passed!!!!!

Yes it is 3:30am and I am blogging. Well I am at work and it sucks!!! Tonight has been crazy, I am soooo ready to go home. But the good thing is I just found out I passed my nursing boards. Yeahhhhhh!!!!! I am so freakin excited!!! Well gotta go one of my patients just called again for the millionth time. Will update so more later.

I am going to do better!!!

WOW so it has been over 3 months since I last blogged. Time sure does go by fast!!! Brandon and I have been super busy the last few months. The biggest thing was I graduated!! Yeah!!! It is so nice not to be in school right now. I am now a RN-well at least a Temp RN until I take my boards, which are coming up very very soon, so wish me luck. Brandon is still at BYU. He is wishing he was done with school, but still has one more year to go. I started a new job in the end of Dec. I now work at IMC in Murray on the Neuro/Ortho floor. It is an extremely busy floor and is certainly keeping me running all day/night long. Iwork 3-12hr shifts, well more like 15hrs by the time I drive up there and back, they are really LONG days but it has been nice to have extra days off. My house, or what I call it "shack" has never been cleaner, which is nice.

Here are some pics over the last few months...more to come when I get some time.

Graduation Dec. 2008

Me and "my girls"

Rieske Family pics-Nov. 2008

Week before Nate left on his mission.