Junior Prom

So I am from a small town where Junior Prom is a big deal. Many find this weird but hey, it's TRADITION! So for prom they decorate the school gym. It can be pretty decked out; they get out of class to decorate, organize and to learn a promenade. The community comes and the junior's get presented and they dance for everyone and then they dance with their parents. Wierd, but that's what small towns are about :) So the last child at home just had her prom. (No more proms for the Richins family, yes!!) My other sister and little brother made it up to support her. Here are a few pictures of her beautiful dress and the family.

DECEMBER

The beginning of December I took a trip with 2 of my aunts, my mom and my sister to San Diego. We went to my cousins wedding, my sister was the photographer so we all tagged along. It was a great little weekend trip. We had so much fun! Thanks Rohrers for letting us come and crash at the rental house! It was so fun to see everyone and to be together! As you can tell the weather was a little cold, but hey if there is no snow, I am happy :)






Christmas we spent up at my parents house and then the whole family went to St. George for a week to meet up with some other cousins and aunts. It was great and there was no snow :) We played lots of games and ate lots of food :) We took a day and went to Vegas. My favorite thing in Vegas is the Bellagio water show, yes I am a nerd I know.

We played a game and one of the cards I drew I had to choose 1 out 5 things I would do on the card. Believe me, this was least embarrassing and the easiest :)





While we were waiting for the water show to start, little miss impatient Ashlee was clicking a pen and it exploded all over her hands, it was so funny :)


My favorite part of Vegas! The first one when we got there was the Titanic song and I was ticked off because the last time I was in Vegas (5 yrs ago) it was the same show so I wanted something new!! Then they started doing the christmas songs.....then I was happy again :)


We took family pics down in St. George, here is one. Having a photographer in the family we seem to take family pictures on a monthly basis :)

Thanksgiving

So we had Thanksgiving at our house. Dave's mom and sister flew in from Denver and we managed to fit everyone at our house. It was so fun to have everyone together. My sister took some pictures of Dave's family and emailed me a couple, I will post more when she gets them to me. She did a great job! Little Linc is so cute in the boys picture! We love our little Linc and Shiloh.

Halloween

It always sounds so fun to dress up but then I'm sick of my costume after about 5 minutes. At my dental office this year we all made vampire teeth out of the acrylic that temporaries are made out of. So we were all vampires. As you can see some got the contacts and they scared every little kid that came it; it was kind of funny. I also dressed up for the YW/YM halloween party here are a few pics.

Vacations!!! :)

I can't believe August is almost over! I am super excited for fall, but this summer has been so fun and I am sad to see it ending :( Here are some of things we have been doing. A few weeks ago Dave and I went to Cincinnati with Trav and stayed with Trav's family and we went to a Tennis Tournament while we where there. It was so relaxing!!! Mostly because Trav's mom is the best hostess ever; I even had chocolates on my pillow every night :) We went boating, went to King's island, watched tons of tennis and of course, did some major shopping :)


We took the boat down through the center of town; docked and ate at a restaurant that had really good ribs!


At King's Island; I rode mmmmm...1 ride. I get motion sickness so bad; I am a blast at amusement parks!


Roger Federer, he is one of our favorites.


Tommy Haas, he is one of my favorites.....It might have something to do with his rockin' abs :)


Andy Roddick..... too bad he is playing kind of crappy right now.


The last Tennis match we saw. It was between Federer and Ginepri, it was sooooo hot that day!!


When we got back from Cincinnati I went to Bear Lake with family while Dave had to stay and finish up the last week of his school. I had never been to Bear Lake before and I loved it. It was so beautiful there and we stayed in a super sweet house that had a steam room and dry sauna.... I was loving it.





When I got back from Bear Lake I left Dave again to go to LA to visit my brother and his wife. It was great! I was able to read Breaking Dawn at the Beach, shop at H&M (my favorite store on earth), go to Universal Studios and eat tons of great food :)





When we got to Universal Studios I saw a Top Chef trailer... I was super excited; We love that show and I got to meet my two favorite contestants and they cooked us some food :)


Waterworld show


Jurassic Park picture they took, picture of a picture.... thanks Jenny for giving me the idea.... the pictures they sell you are a rip off!

Santa Monica Beach :)

So back to work for now and I can't wait until I get more time off so I can plan my next vacation :) Next time I guess I should probably try to take Dave with me :)

Youth Conference

So I went to youth conference this last weekend with some of the young women. Yes... I got called to be in the young women's; which is kind of weird because I feel like I just got out of young women's. I seriously feel like it was yesterday, even though it was almost 10 years ago! So we went up to Utah State and is was so fun. We have the best young women in our ward and they are so awesome, it was great to spend a few days with them; I'm not sure if they feel the same :)

Graduation

So my little brother graduated from High School this week! Super weird. It's been super fun to watch him play sports this year. The football team took state earlier in the year and Jake also did track and he took state in the hurdles last week. My mom is down to one kid at home. I don't know what she will do when McCall graduates!

Vacation/Wedding

So the past couple of weeks have been pretty crazy. My brother got married in St. George and then we had to hurry back to pack and fly out to California for the cruise. The cruise was pretty sweet except I did get motion sickness :( If I was on the upper decks and had air I was ok. The best thing about a cruise is you eat whenever you want and I did! I gained 10 lbs. on the cruise; which I don't need and now I am an a serious diet :) It was great weather and very, very, relaxing. We went to several places in Mexico; Cobo San Lucas, Mazatlan and Puerta Vueratta (I don't know if I spelled those right; oh well). Cobo was my favorite. Here are several pictures of what I have been doing the last couple weeks. Now it's back to work and real life :( I won't have anything to post about for several months now because my life is pretty boring :(

We're going on a cruise !

So we are going on cruise leaving April 16! Just about 4 weeks away :) I am just hoping that I don't get sick; I get motion sickness really bad so I just hope the ship won't be bad. With today being snowy and cold I am really excited to go. Plus I just can't seem to find my summer clothes from last year; guess I better buy a few! I hate it when that happens :)

San Diego

So this last weekend Dave had a work trip in San Deigo so I decided to go with him. It was great to get away for few days. The weather was pretty nice there. We are nerds and we went to the San Diego zoo. I have heard it is awesome so we went. It was really fun. Here are a few pictures of some of the animals. The Gorillas were probably my favorite; they had a lot of personality. Sorry there are so many! I couldn't choose which ones to put up. House pictures are in my previous post. :)

House pics :)

We finally have internet!!!!! I have missed it so! Here are a few pictures of our new condo :)

New Home :)

So we are finally in our new home. It seems that it took us forever to get moved in. We were supposed to move before christmas. We stayed up until about 3:00 in the morning to get everything put in boxes because we had movers coming so we could get moved in one day because we were leaving for Denver. So we showed up to do our final walk through and do closing and they had to pull our carpet up due to a small leak. So that was super crappy but I was glad that it was taken care of the right way. So we still had to pack for Denver and everything was packed up. So we dug through boxes to pack and went and stayed at a friends house until we left for Denver. We were in Denver for about a week and came home and we still had 5 days until we closed. So we ate fast food for like 2 weeks straight; not good for the the already struggling figure :) So anyway we are finally moved in and it's so nice. It's a small place but it's ours and everything is new. I will post some pictures soon. We still don't have internet yet but hopefully we will soon.

Moving

I hate moving :) It is the worst. We found out a couple weeks ago they were going to have us close on our condo before x-mas since we are going to be gone for the week of christmas. So we have been packing and trying to get ready. I hate packing; it is the worst thing ever. We have given about 5-6 huge garbage sacks the the D.I. and I'm not done yet. I would rather throw things away than pack it up. I have posted a few pictures of us throwing away our couches. These are my husbands Grandparents couches they we have lived with for the past 3 yrs. which my husband used during his college days. They are so old and we hate them :) We couldn't wait to destroy them. We close the 21st of Dec. and then we are gone for christmas so pictures will follow.

Ligmajet!

So I gave a lig injection for the first time yesterday! In my office the hygienist's give about 90% of the docs injections. So I have had lots of practice :) So we have a Ligmajet in our office. Ya, when they first asked me to give one I was like, um....what's that? Don't worry I didn't sound stupid at all :) It is the pressure anesthesia. He will use it if he is only working on one tooth and it's not deep or if a block is missed and he is ready to go to work. The pt. is numb immediately and they only stay numb for about 20-30 min. So yesterday he was working on the buccal of #19, so instead of block he wanted me to just give a lig. It was super easy to do and you can see the tissue blanch and the pt. isn't numb forever. See all these things I am learning being out of school :)

New Car :)

So we did buy a new car. We actually have had it about a month now. We bought a 2004 Honda Accord V6 and we love it. Now that we have a nicer car we want to get rid of my car sooooooo bad. It is torture to have to drive that thing now. But it's worth not having a car payment :) I loved working with the place that we bought it at. We bought it at Rand's auto. You can print their inventory list off at randsauto.com They were so great to deal with and they were the lowest prices around. I highly recommend it. We are starting to get ready to move in to our condo, it is expected to be done the end of next month. We have been shopping for couches and looking for stuff that we need, it's so fun. So anyway, life is good and busy and so glad I am done with school :)

Car Problems :)

So this has been a really fun week for us and our cars :) Dave and I both have super old crappy cars. We have known that we were going to have to buy a car in the next few months but we wanted to wait until we were in our house and stuff. We could not make Dave's car last. So Dave's car is an '83 Mercedes Benz, super old. He just uses it to drive to work and back so we thought we could make it last. That was not the case :) On wed. night Dave calls me at about 9:00 when we was coming home from school and said he was stranded on the side of the road and that he was pretty sure that his engine like blew up. So luckily I have triple A which I recommend to anyone with old cars. We called to get it towed and they took like an hour and half to come. So while we were waiting in my car I had turned the key off but I wasn't paying attention and I didn't turn it off all they way. So I went to start it after we had been there for and hour and my car was dead. We were stranded on the freeway with two crappy cars that wouldn't start :) We called my brother in-law to come jump my car. When the tow truck got there, he was really confused to which car he was towing:) He was pretty sure that the engine was a goner too. So I was kind of excited because we finally get to buy a new car :) The timing wasn't the best but I was super excited. We will finally have a car with AC yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

New job!

Yes another new template, I got on one day and the whole thing was crazy, I don't know what happened to it. So get used to me changing it every week :) So it has been awhile since I posted and I have job boys and girls!!!!! It is two days a week right now but will probably go to full-time here in a few months ( one of the hygienist's is having a baby). It is good, I like it. I have an hour for each pt. and the office is pretty nice and laid back. The best part is that it is pretty close to my house :) When I move it's going to be a little farther but that's life. So it's getting to be the end of summer and I was thinking back to a year ago and I was gearing up for my last year of school. I am so glad I don't have to do that anymore :) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It has finally hit me that I am done with school now that this is the time I would be going back. It is so nice to be done and it's nice to have some regular money coming in :) It has been stressful finding a job that I like but was worth it in the end. Things do work out!

Another new template!

Yes as you can see I have another new template. I change my template like I change my underwear.......... don't worry, I change my underwear often. Anyway, I temped today and it was pretty good. I did see a pt. every 40 min or less but I had help so it went well. They asked my if they could call me to temp, they get temps often, I said sure! It's not like I have any other options right now. Anyway, it was good and I love getting paid at the end of the day :)

New pics!

I have been trying to add pictures to my blog and it hasn't been working the past couple weeks. I decided to download a new browser and low and behold it worked, yeah!!!! I was excited. I will try to change them often. Don't worry, I do the same thing with my hair. I get bored and change the color every time I go in :) I need change, what can I say.

Still Looking :)

So yes I am still looking for a job, it is crappy. Too bad there are so many offices I don't want to work in :) There is one office I interviewed at that I would like to work there so I should know by this week so we'll see what happens. I did do a working interview yesterday at an office that I don't really want to work in but I had the funniest experience with a patient. First of all I did SRP on this patient, which was sweet, and I had to give her two injections (PSA and IA) and I got a positive aspiration on the PSA. All through school I never got a + aspiration so it was good to finally get one because I was like oh, you can definetely tell and you barely have to pull back on the syringe so that was good. So I finish both quads and so I am talking to her about brushing and flossing and the importance and all the good stuff. When I started to talk to her about flossing she says to me, " I don't really want to floss because I don't want it to seperate my teeth and cause spaces." It took everything I had at this point to not start laughing hysterically! So I explained that flossing is not going to seperate your teeth, it doesn't have that much pressure. It was so funny because she had so much calculus, I'm thinking to myself wow, you will let your teeth get nasty and bleed but you won't floss because it's going to seperate your teeth. Interesting!