My favorite weekend every year: our annual girls trip! Since starting work full-time at the hospital last summer, I don't get to see my friends a lot anymore, I'm either with the boys, or I'm working, but for this trip I took some PTO and it was everything I needed and more. This year, we rented the cutest little cabin in Pine, about two hours from Phoenix. Becky and I shared this cute bedroom. The bunk room! After everyone arrived, our friend Corinne cooked us dinner, and we played games by the fire. This may have been one of my favorite parts, we all sat outside enjoying the sunshine and reading our books. We had some mimosas before walking into town to get some lunch and shopping. What I love about these trips, is that there is no pressure, and no expectations. Everyone can do their own thing if they want to, want to take a nap...go take a nap, want to read your book...go read, but it was also really amazing spending all this time together, making meals, playing gam...
A quick look at our January! Nursing Level 2 unlocked...after getting a heated vest, I now also have my personal space heater at work. No one warned me how cold hospitals are...haha! We watched our friend's dog for a few days and Mr. Finn was in heaven. He wouldn't let go of poor Nugget and always wanted him to be right with him. His eyes say "Save me!!!" Cherishing the times that he will cuddle with me. I know I don't have much time left, and that makes me really sad. Self-care...reading a book in our hammock while the kids were playing nicely together. Another downfall of them growing up, is that we now have to order adult meals at the restaurant. I might have to get another job in order to afford these two...haha. Katie sent me this picture of Finn sleeping with their dog one night. Sweet things my co-worker leaves for me when I was sick at work...she made me a to-go tissue packet because the box I kept carrying around kept falling out of my fanny pack that I...