Wow! It has been awhile!

So the last blog we did was all the back on January 30th and now it is May 17th. I can see now that keeping up with a blog during nursing school was a ridiculous idea, but I figured since the nursing semester has ended I could do some updating on how Jaimee and I are doing. I am not going to try and catch up on all the things that happened during the last semester because that would be way to hard. So right now I am currently taking summer classes. I am taking Microbiology and Psychology. Psychology was my favorite class in high school so I am really enjoying it here. If I didn't want to go into Nursing I would definitely consider Psychology, it is so interesting and I am so intrigued by it. Micro on the other hand is a bit on the boring side since it has a 3 hour lecture every Tuesday and Thursday and then lab after class that goes for about an hour and a half. The lab portion is pretty fun because we get to do lots of neat things with different bacteria. As for Jaimee, she started her job this week!!! She is working at Carriage Courts it is an assisted living place with people who have dementia about 2 minutes away from our apartment. She has worked every day this week and yesterday was her last day of training so she was on her own today. Since working there she always brings home new stories to tell about her 8 hour work day. For the last couple weeks Jaimee's sister has been staying with us since she has a job at King's Island. It is nice having another person in the apartment but we all have different schedules so just has someone is leaving the apartment someone else in coming home. We also have new neighbors; they are a young couple who recently got married. They are very nice and a lot better than the other neighbors we have had in the past. We are still looking into moving out of this apartment and one closer to the school in August with Bailey. We are keeping our options open but we are really trying to make a decision hopefully somewhat soon because August will be here before we know it. It will be an eventful summer for Jaimee and I. Jaimee with work and me with school and going home for the month of July. The spring semester of Nursing was mentally and emotionally exhausting and it is so great to have time to relax and just have fun!

Cinco de Mayo!

Newpot Kentucky

Spring Clinical Group!

Welcome back to Cincinnati

2 weekends ago Jaimee and I left Cincinnati to go on our separate ways. Jaimee to Chicago for Winter Retreat and Me back to Richmond to spend time with my family and Ben for the last weekend before he went back to Grove City. That weekend needed to be filled with fun but at the same time some studying because we had our first nursing exam that coming Monday. Plans changed a little and Jaimee ended up staying in Richmond because of the bad weather. Overall Jaimee and I had a wonderful weekend but let’s be honest we did not get studying accomplished. So on Sunday we both headed back to the apartment and decided we had to do some major studying because the exam was the next day Jaimee arrived back first and behold there was yet another problem with the apartment. Every time we come back there is always something new that goes wrong. This time it was blown fuses in both of our rooms. Even though it was no too big of a deal it was still very frustrating and did not get fixed in the appropriate amount of time like we were told. But anyways we finished studying that night and woke up the next morning to study some more before the first exam at 2:30. We managed to get through the test but not doing as well as we planned. That is okay though because it was only the first exam. Later that week we had a biology Lab exam so we knew we needed to study for that. In the mean time I got a letter from the court house on Tuesday saying I had been called as a witness on January 31st. I was extremely confused so I called the number on the form and find out what the whole thing was about. Well it ended up being about the traffic accident I was in on the 9th when someone rear ended me. I wasn't going to have her pay for the damage because it was very minimal, but obviously she didn't know that. So for some reason she went to the court and pleaded not guilty for running into the back of me which makes no sense at all seeing as it couldn't be anyone else’s fault. SO anyways tomorrow I have to be a court at 9 am. It will be an early morning and an extremely long day. But back to last week, we managed to not do very much studying for our lab exam but we both got A's so that’s good news. On Friday we were finally able to celebrate my birthday!! Bailey and Jaimee made me a cake! We got Chipotle for dinner! AND we got to watch the movie Courageous! It was an awesome night. The weekend then flew by with grocery shopping, church, and homework. During the weekend we found out that our past problem with the apartment had not gone away like we had hoped and prayed for. This really discourages us but we know God has a plan and somehow this will all work out. Please continue to pray for us because "it is always something" here in Cincinnati. So to sum it up we are feeling a happy homecoming to Cincinnati... not.  We hope and pray it gets better!!!

Noise and More Noise

So, hello everyone that i have not talk to in a long time. This is Jaimee here and i can tell it is going to be a long night. GOOD NEWS THE PEOPLE BELOW ME JUST TURNED THEIR TV OFF AND I CANT HEAR ANYTHING BUT MY LITTLE FINGERS TYPING! okay, so if you are curious about what i am talking about i'll inform you. The people below us like to watch endless television in the evening and they pop  a DVD in right before the want to fall asleep and they don't wake up for a while. SO, 12 o clock rolls around and the DVD is over and it goes to the disk menu which the music proceeds to play on repeat for a long time. It is irritating. i try and stomp on the floor to wake them up so that they remember to then turn off the TV. it worked last night but not this night. I've been praying for patients but when you get tired and you try every possible noise to reduce the noise below you just want to explode on someone. It is off now, and i plan on leaving a note on their mailbox in the morning asking them if they would kindly be considerate of their neighbors.

On another note, Sam and Ben are coming in the morning to visit us! I am so very excited about that. Morgan and i have to get up early today and get the apartment in ship shape for their arrival. Since it is a small apartment it wont be much of a chore for us though.

I guess our plans for tomorrow will include watching Lord of the Rings 2 and then in the evening Morgan and I will be making them dinner! As i sit here and think of what i want to talk about next, i am just going to tell you about how school is right now. Clinical's for us (Morgan Bailey and I) are Wednesday Evening from 2:00pm - 10:30pm. I love it so much more than morning clinical. I am so much more awake and ready to do stuff compared to last semester. The day is longer, but we also get to begin to give medications to the patients (supervised of course). Research on our patients takes so much longer this semester because we have to write down all their Meds and a bunch of information for each of them. We have to understand what we are giving them and why. The three of us are on the Oncology floor, which is the cancer unit. I am excited to be on this floor because i will not get to experience new things and i am happy for the change where i wont have to be doing a bed bath every day along with the usual vital signs and standing around.

Our Nursing 150 class is much more work for us than last year. I can already see that and it is only the second week. My eye balls feel like they might fall out from all the reading i have done. Some of it is interesting, but sometimes it is so much reading that i cannot concentrate. Though, tonight i found out if i listen to Beethoven when i read, i can focus on it better. Isn't that so cool?

Well, its 2:15 and now i am getting drowsy. I do need some sleep right now. I have to be up by 9 to get a shower in and some apartment cleaning done before the boys arrive. I hope i am not so tired that i cannot fall asleep. Wish me luck, and pray that the people below can begin to be more quiet the rest of their time here.

Goodnight everyone
Lots of love from us

-Jaimee

Another Day, Another Blog.

Okay once again it has been a while since we have updated this blog but we have been busy with school and other issues. So to start off on Saturday the 29th Jaimee and I spent some time studying for our exam but then decided we really needed to get out of the apartment and go do something. Jaimee came up with the idea to go to Dave and Buster's so we went! It was so fun! We played a full screen version of Fruit Ninja, but then we found a deal or no deal game! We played it a lot and all except for 2 times my first instinct was the winning case. Of course I didn’t pick my first instinct though. haha. Then I played one last time and I won! It was great :) After we got done playing the games we wanted to we gave our tickets and went to the gift store to pick out prizes. We ended up just getting 2 Dave and busters cups and some candy. That part wasn't too exciting but we were happy we got to have a fun filled night!

WINNER!!!

 The next morning Ben's grandparents invited us to go to church with them at Hope Church, so we went there that morning. After church they took us out to eat at a restaurant called Bravo. Jaimee and I had never eaten there before and it was really good! Now on to Monday which was Halloween! For Halloween Jaimee, Bailey and I dressed up as cows and went to Chipotle so we could get it for only 2 dollars! We had so much fun doing it and it was so worth it! The rest of the week was spent studying for our exam on Friday. Finally the exam was over and we went back to the apartment to pack up things to go to Bailey's. After we did that we all washed our hair and got ready to meet Mrs. Allen at Macaroni Grill for dinner because she was in town. Once again we had a great meal! After that Bailey and I decided we wanted to go to Cold Stone Creamery since I never had it before. We were unable to find a one but we went somewhere was almost exactly the same! When we got back to Bailey's we watched some TV shows and spent the night relaxing. On Saturday we all worked on our Nursing papers that are due next Monday. We didn't do anything else that day. Then it was Sunday and we decided to go back to Hope Church since we loved it so much last time! The rest of Sunday was a relaxing day for Bailey and Jaimee, but I decided that I wanted to do homework that day so I did. Nothing exciting happened Monday and then before we knew it, it was Tuesday. On Tuesday we went to the hospital to get out patient research for Wednesday (today). After that we volunteered to work the phonathon at the school to get service hours. We were kind of dreading it, but it ended up being really fun, and we got free food and a free t-shirt so that made it even better! Then Jaimee and I went to ethics and found out that we don't have to write a second paper! This takes a lot of stress of our shoulders since the end of the semester is right around the corner! We are going through some things right now with the apartment and that is adding to all our stress. So we ask for your prayers that everything works out soon and that God will reveal what his plan is for us, and through all this we try to stay as stress free as possible since finals are almost here. Well that's all for now!

Playing Katchup...Yum!!

So...I KNOW!! It sure has been a long time since this blog has been updated. Something Morgan and I did not plan on with having this blog was that college would be so busy that we would not be able to update as often as we hoped. I guess the good part is that I am doing it now! And you will finally be able to hear all about what has happened in the past...if I can remember it all ;)

So when we left off...That's right, Fall Break was just beginning...

Morgan and I both went to our morning class on Friday and then after that we packed up all of our stuff and we headed to Richmond. Well, really we got back to the apartment and Morgan left around 11 and I left around 12:30 because I didn’t pack my stuff the night before. When I finally got my things pack and put into the car, I hit the road. When I got back into town, I met my sister and mom at Wendy’s to have lunch. As soon as I walked in, I noticed that there was a guy lying on the floor having a Seizure!! There wasn’t anything I could do; we had not read anything in my book about helping people in that situation. Anyways, the paramedics can and they helped him out. So after that even we were able to eat our food and have good conversation. After lunch, Stephanie and I went back to my dad’s house so I could get my laundry started. That did not take too much time, then my sister brought out her new long board and we were outside for a while trying it out.

That evening, I left the house to go to the Allen’s house so I could see the four of them again. We went to Pizza King to have pizza and talk about college and stuff. I had a good time being with them again. It felt like old times. I think we went back to their house after that and watched some TV…pretty sure it was Big Break that we watched until I decided I was too tired to stay any longer and risk falling asleep as I drove home.

The next day was Saturday and Sam planned on having lunch with me. After I got ready for the day, I decided I wanted to stop at the mall and get a few winter clothes. I tried to stay there as long as possible so that Sam could meet me at Chipotle for lunch, but he took a long time and I didn’t have anything else to do so I went to Glen Miller to wait for him. That didn’t work either, so I just went home and he picked it up and brought it to my house instead.

When I got back home, my dad and brother we outside playing ladder ball so I watched until I could have a turn. Finally I got to play against my brother and I won! By that time, Sam got there and I was starving. We ate food, and at the same time I introduced Sam to the best show ever, Psych. He actually enjoyed it like I knew he would. From there my dad asked if we wanted to go walk the bike trail with him and Austin, so we agreed. Sam brought his camera and we had a good time walking, and catching up on conversation.

After we got back to the cars, Sam took me to Starbucks because I thought it sounded so delicious! I got the pumpkin pie drink aka the pumpkin spice frappachino. We sat outside until Sam brought me back because he had to go to his friend’s house. That night I laid in bed watching Psych =)

The next day was Sunday and I went to church at CPC. After that Sam and I headed to best buy because he wanted to get some things and I needed to get my new computer checked out. I was having really bad stomach pains so when I did talk to the Geek Squad I was completely distracted and annoyed because the guy wanted I to pay him 200 dollars to get something put on the computer...UGH. I had enough and found Sam and we left to go back to his house for lunch. I couldn’t even think about that because I felt too nauseous. I took some Tylenol at his house and had to lie on the couch for close to an hour before I felt better. His family came over to celebrate September birthdays and we had very very very good food. That evening Cody Dale met up with Sam and I and we went to see Real Steel at the movie theater. It’s pretty much a MUST SEE movie. It’s the best.

Monday was the day that Sam had to leave to go back to college, but we did get to spend half the day together. First we went to his grandma gingers house to spend some time with her, and then we went to subway for lunch. We brought it back to his house to eat as we watched an episode of Psych. Then I left to go back home. Morgan came over for a little while that evening, but then left to watch a show with her family.

The next day, Tuesday, I cannot remember what I did.

Wednesday was the day Morgan and I went back to Cincinnati. When we got back, Bailey came over and we headed to CRU. After that Bailey stayed over. We spent the next evening studying so much for our Nursing Exam which was a tough one, but I turned out with an 87% which is not too shabby. From that day, Bailey started practically living with us ha ha! We have had so many things to study for, she has just stayed here. We had a biology lab exam that we spent so much time studying for, and I got an 88% on it! I was so happy my hard work paid off. During our study periods we made time to have Bdubbs and we ordered 50 wings, along with making a stop at Greaters for some cotton candy ice cream. All in all we love having Bailey over to hang out with. She is the best and the most fun to be around. She literally never stops laughing…she thinks I am funny.

On the 21^st of September the three of us went back to Richmond because Morgan wanted to visit Ben and the Harrington family since it was Molly and Bens fall break at Grove City. Morgan left early, but bailey and I left around three. My older brother was back in Richmond from Korea. It was so good to see him again. That night my dad, Philip, bailey, and I went out to eat at El Rodeo. Bailey and I learned about Simon’s cat that night. Such good You Tube videos! After that we stopped at Wal-Mart and bailey and I bought hair dye to color our hair. She got blonde and I got my favorite – Red! That night we made out hair real pretty!

The next day we got up and ate French toast my dad made, and then my brother took us to the Circle center mall. We had a great day there with him. When we got back, bailey and I got ready for the Fall Festival thing for CPC at the Golden’s house. That was a fun event. There was a hay ride, caramel apples, hot apple cider, and of course all the wonderful people I had been missing. After that, bailey and I were going to go to a haunted attraction, but decided not to. Instead we went and hung out at the Harrington’s house. After we left, we rented a scary movie to watch at my house. Paranormal Activity 2.

 

The next day, we went to church and then later that day we headed back to Cincinnati. That weekend was such a fun and happy one.

This week was just a normal busy week, and we had a lot of reading to do for an upcoming Exam next week.

That’s about it for now. Hopefully we won’t let it go too long again before another entry is up =)

The week of FUN pictures:)

So I will start off by talking about Sunday where we last left off. We woke up, ate breakfast, and then headed to the Kopp's church. Nick was playing that day:) Church was great and then we headed back to the Freemire's house where we ate all kinds of leftovers for lunch. Sam and Jaimee went out together to Chipotle for lunch:) Then we pretty much all sat around until 2 in the afternoon when it was time to leave. We took pictures and said our goodbyes and then we were on our way back to Cincinnati! We once again took 2 hour shifts. Bailey drove first, me second, and Jaimee third. The end of my shift was when we dropped of Ross. After we dropped him off, we were back on the road again. Son after we started driving again we got hungry and decided to stop at Taco Bell for something. We got back home kinda late and went straight to bed. We got up for class at 7 and the rest of the day did school work. Sam came over in the evening and we made oreo balls though! So that was a plus! It took us forever to get our homework done but we finally got it completed around 11. We then watched a movie and headed to bed. All of tuesday and then Wednesday morning all consisted of school. Then came Wednesday evening! It was CRU time:) We all love cru it is so great! Jaimee and I curled our hair and we headed over to Bailey's house to do Module 7 for our online class before going to Cru. Cru was great like always and it was soon time to leave. As we walked up the stairs we passed by all the candy machines and decided to take pictures! We took so many pictures that night. It was sooo fun:) I will post some of them below! As for today not much went on except Jaimee and I had a major cleaning day where we cleaned the WHOLE apartment:) We decided it would be a great idea since we are leaving for fall break so we can come back to a clean apartment! After we cleaned we decided to make some dinner and watched our weekly shows of modern family and Survivior. Then we went ahead and did Module 9 for our online class! We are like 3 weeks ahead in this class. Its great! Now we are getting ready for bed so we can go to our 9am class in the morning. That is our last class until FALL BREAK!!! No class until Thursday next week!!!!!!

Busy Busy!!

I know, it has been so long since a new blog has been put up, but Morgan and I have been so very busy and there just has not been time. I will not remember everything that has happen in the weeks that have passed, but i will try my best. 

So, since we last talked, Morgan and I have recently gotten involved with a group at University of Cincinnati called CRU. It stands for something like Crusaders for Christ. On Wednesday,  Morgan, Bailey, Sam, and I decided we would check it out. After we spent 20 minutes trying to find what place it was at we soon stumbled upon it. We got there during the worship part. CRU is an amazing group. It has good songs, funny leaders, and a speaker that really touches your heart and brings the stories in the bible alive. It was so good getting back into a group of christian's again. 

The rest of the week consisted of lots of school and lots of homework. Morgan and I really like to try and get most of our homework done during the weekend so the week following is easier to get through. It helps us out with our schedule.

The weekend that was coming up, Morgan Bailey and I were invited to a movie on Friday with the girls in CRU. We went to the house of some of the girls, and ten minutes after we got there tons of girls showed up. The house which they called the "Coffee House" was full that night. We watched a movie called "shes the man" and ate cookies and popcorn. We met lots of girls there and we are so excited to get to know them more. That night the three of us went back to the apartment. Bailey was spending the night, and we ended up staying up pretty late. That night we had an issue. Morgan and bailey both found bugs on the carpet that looked like bed bugs. we were freaking out. All of us seemed to be itchy and we were so freaked out. After spending an hour freaking out and looking up images of bed bugs on the internet, we decided that no, it was not really a bed bug. Wheewww, but that night i had dreams of bugs all over me =(

Saturday we made banana cake and spend the day goofing off and attempting to study.

On Sunday, Morgan Bailey and I all went to church and then after that we spend the rest of the day studying for our exam. Class was at 7:30 on Monday so i had to get to bed at a good time. That didn't happen at all, i was so worried that i wouldn't be prepared for the test. 

Monday came and the week followed after that, and nothing too exciting happened to us. The one exciting thing was planning our mission to Illinois. Bailey was planning to show up on the weekend and surprise her sisters and also surprise Molly with Ross as her homecoming date. She also planned to have Kenzie's boyfriend Josh show up to watch her performance at the Friday football game. After days of trying to keep this quiet and to make sure this was planned completely Friday finally came and we were off to Illinois. We drove for two hours to Indianapolis to pick up Ross. We went to Chipotle for lunch and then we did the last four hours of driving. I had lots of fun traveling with Ross Morgan and Bailey. We sung the Disney songs and other songs and had great funny conversation. We avoided an hour wait in a line of cars because bailey decided she would drive around the line and cut in front. We also located a beautiful rainbow and Morgan and I learned that there was an arrow on the FedEx truck. FINALLY we made it there!! we were so excited to put the other half of the plan into action. We met up with baileys mom and dad and we drove to the school. Josh met us there and we went in search of baileys sisters. We looked in the room, but they had already gone out to the practice field. It began to pour and we were standing in the rain as Bailey surprised her sisters!!!

After that fun, we headed back to her hours to change. We stayed there for a while until the football game, then we went to watch molly do her flags and Kenzie do here poms performance. We had fun there, but it was COLD!!

We then left and went back to baileys house where we got warm and i waited for Sam to show up =) he made my day when he told me he wanted to drive from Greenville IL to crystal lake IL =) it was the best thing ever because i have missed him so much. We watched Aladdin that night, but really we didn't because most of us girls fell asleep. The boys went over to the Kopps house before we put the movie in. 

Saturday morning we had an amazing breakfast thanks to DeeDee Freemire =) she made chocolate chip pancakes, waffles, and cinnamon rolls!! after breakfast we sat around until we finally decided on going to the apple orchard. After the orchard we came back to the house to have lunch. After lunch we hung out here at the house and watched an old Disney movie. Ross and Molly got all ready for the dance, got pictures, and then headed over to another house for more pictures. We sat around her for a little bit until the pizza came for dinner. YUM. We ate and then after that we sat outside at the bonfire. Now we are just sitting around the living room. I am getting tired, but this weekend has been great so far. I don't wanna go back to school yet!! We have church tomorrow in the morning and then we have to make our way back home.

=) i hope i didn't leave any important details out!!