Nothing Too Exciting Here

I wish I had some great thing to blog about but in all reality, Ryan and I have not been doing anything too fun lately. But I though I'd write a little about our day to day goings on.

Ryan: Most of you know that a while ago, Ryan was offered a "promotion." This basically meant doing the same thing with a fancier title and more money. We'll take that! He likes it though because it seems that he doesn't have people looking over his shoulder so much. Everyone seems to love Ryan at work. He had a work party where we all went to see the new Harry Potter and everyone couldn't tell me enough how much they love him and how he is the best. He wouldn't tell you but I can brag for him, cuz that is my job as his wife. He is way too nice too because I'm pretty sure he doesn't really say no to anyone. It seems like whenever anyone needs something done, they all come to Ryan to have him make a report for them, do slideshows for them, fix their salesforce for them, do a training for them, etc. Last week he had a training every day for different people and one day he did three separate trainings for different people. Wow! He is way too nice!! So needless to say, Ryan has been pretty busy at work. He is also in the running for a fun award that says, "Hey, you're awesome," so naturally he'll get it because he's that awesome, although I'm a little biased.

Andrea: There is really not much going on in my life. I basically just sit around waiting for my mom or Ryan's mom to come into town to visit so I can do something fun with someone! So please come visit, we love it!!! Other than that I am just working from time to time. I am scheduled for three twelve our shifts a week, but most weeks I get put on call because our census is low at the hospital (we don't have enough patients to justify having as many nurses as are scheduled come in, so we get called off). So basically that means I only work twice a week (which is totally fine with me). I also got my manager to let me only work 6am-noon on Sundays now so that I can go to church every week now! I have the best manager. I'm way excited because I was beginning to feel inactive and like I didn't know what was going on because I only got to go every other week. Speaking of church, I also got a new calling. I got moved up from primary to the Young Women. I am the secretary in the YW's presidency. A part of me is totally sad to leave my class! I just love those little kids. I always walk by them still and they get all happy and say "Sister Gardner!" and it makes my whole day! But it is okay because YW is fun too, just way different. It is funny because I really feel like I was JUST there so I feel like more of one of the girls than one of their leaders! I really like the leaders I work with and I love the girls, they are great, so I think we'll have a good time for sure! Back to work--the other day I was at work and I get this call from my manager asking if I would be willing to take a student. I totally feel under qualified to teach someone else how to be a nurse but am totally flattered that my manager would think I was good enough to teach. I feel like just yesterday I was doing my own capstone so I just hope that we can learn from eachother and I can teach her what she needs to know to be a good nurse soon. On days that I don't work, I get really bored because I don't do much else. (Another plea for the mothers to come visit please! Or maybe even move here *wink wink!)

Us: We are still living in Bluffdale, waiting for our apartment to be finished after the flood. They already installed the pumps in our side so they are going to finish the basement this week hopefully. Although I think we're gonna miss the free netflix and treadmill we can use whenever we want and the King sized bed and the great couch. Haha. It has been a pretty good stay, but it will be nice to get all our stuff back and having a normal living situation again.
The greatest news for us is that in about a week and a half we will be heading to HAWAII!! I told my mom last year that we should go to Hawaii in Jan or Feb because I would be in between graduation and starting a job so I had nothing to do. She was all for it until she decided to take the two boys during Christmas while we were all gone. (still can't believe she did that!) But now we are finally making our trip in the first part of February with my parents. We are going to Maui, which I have never been to, so I'm way excited and of course, Ryan is always excited to go back to his mission. So hopefully in about 3 weeks, we'll have a very pretty post!

This turned out to be way longer than I expected. Congratulations if you made it through to the bitter end! Hopefully you don't find our lives too boring!