Long Time + No Post=LONG POST...

Well, lots has happened in the last little while! I graduated from nursing school and am still not employed sadly enough but its still early and I'm working to find one any day now!

The best news of the month is we got a new addition to the family! Everyone welcome:

Trevyn Ty Clark!

He was born May 27, 2009 and he weighed 7 pounds 8 ounces and was 20 inches long, and he is the most precious thing ever! It is so fun to have a baby in the family again! Em did great and had a beautiful labor and delivery (at least in nursing world!) I got to go up and stay with Jen at her new house which is absolutely gorgeous and was able to hang out with the niece and nephews while em was in the hospital... then we ventured over to Cannonville and got to stay in Emilee and Dallas's new adorable house! It was a very fun trip, I was glad to be able to go... Thanks Jaron for putting up with me being gone so long!

Other exciting news is I turned 23! Kelsey stayed the night at my house and we got up to my nice roommates making me breakfast, we did some shopping, Kels did my nails, and then I got to hang out the rest of the night with my girlies! It was a fun day, thanks everyone for the texts and phone calls I love you all!

Other side note, wedding plans are coming along really well, I feel like I am starting to get the big things planned and out of the way... man i didn't think there were quite so many details to planning a wedding, but so fun and so worth it!

I'm Graduated!

Well, after what felt like a long time and also like it flew by, I graduated from nursing school! I never thought the day would come and now that it has come and gone, it feels like a dream that never really happened!

We had SOOO much fun with all my family here though, my dad and grandpa got to see the airplane museum, we got bahama bucks with me, my mom, Kels, and my grandma (who tried the dill pickle snow cone, brave woman, it tasted like a dirty old sock!) we went swimming, did lots of shopping and just got to hang out and talk, it was a blast!

For our graduation dinner, we went to a place called Joe's Farm, it was a really cute place to take pictures and we had a great time before we headed off to the pinning ceremony!

My family all left Friday and so I got to spend the weekend with Jaron's family which was so fun, we did more shopping, swimming, did baptisms at the temple, and ate at Tia Rosa's where we are having our wedding luncheon... It was so awesome but me and Jaron feel lonely now! I also really made him lonely cause I went to St. Johns Sunday to plan wedding stuff and I got my dress, YAY!

P.S. A big thank you to EVERYONE who supported and loved me through this incredible journey I have been on,,, words cannot express the gratitude I have for you! What a wonderful blessing it is to have amazing family and friends!

Holy Cow!

Do you see that counter over there on the right side? I am so excited graduation is almost here! I finished my clinicals working nights at the hospital last week, and let me tell ya I am in for it if I have to work nights, that is a little rough on ole Sharla! By day three of doing that, I had blood shot red eyes and I looked like death! I had an awesome nurse preceptor though that taught me so much so all in all it was a good experience. Now the hard part is gonna be to find a job... the market for new grads these days isn't looking so good, so everyone cross your fingers! These pictures are graduation pics we took for our announcements with my nursing besties... the invites were sorta expensive to make so if you didn't get one, it is at the Mesa Arts Center on Thursday, May 14th at 7:00 pm... In other news, Jaron turned 24 on Sunday, May 3rd... it is so nice that we are exactly one year and one month apart! I will have to post pictures later when I get them and tell all the birthday happenings... Life is so good! But we will survive the hot summer? I'm beginning to remember what its like and although I love summer, there is nothing worse than burning your arm on the seatbelt when you hop in the car!

New Beginnings...

Well, life is crazy these days, I took my final last week and passed, so now all I have to do is complete 96 hours of preceptorship and I am done! I will be working nights at Banner Gateway Medical Center for the next couple of weeks and then its on to my pinning ceremony! I can't believe how the time has flown...

Another, grand, lovely, amazing, long-awaited news is that me and Jaron have set a date! August 28th hopefully will arrive soon! I am very excited to start with a new job and start a family with Jaron. He has truly been my superman through this whole nursing school experience and I don't know what I would have done without him...

While I am at it, I don't know what I would have done without my parents, who have been amazing and so good to support me, even if it was just to put a couple extra dollars in my very dry account... they never hesitate for a moment to help me and I appreciate that so much. I am very blessed with some amazing people in my life! So graduation and wedding here we come!

Lunch Date

Kamarie and I were talking on the phone the other day and we decided to set up a lunch date, so
I drove out to Queen Creek and got to meet Paxton for the first time! He is such a cutie! We went to Serrano's for lunch and it was awesome just to catch up. We called Bailey who lives pretty close and so we got to go see her and her two kiddos, adorable! It was so nice to catch up with you guys, thanks so much for letting me come over, you have cute houses and even cuter kids! We forgot to get pictures, bummer, but it was really fun!

Spring Break Happenings...

So this year for spring break, which is going to be my last spring break sadly enough, I was able to spend it with all of my family. Kelsey had to go get the last of her stuff from her apartment in St. George, so I met her in St. Johns and we headed out the next morning. We got there and ate at Texas Roadhouse and she got to see most of her friends from up there. Jen and Tyler and Carson have been staying with Jen's sister-in-law since they don't have there house to move in to yet but we were able to stay the night and hang out with them. Carson is getting cuter by the day!

Excuse the double chin I got going on, hopefully that just a bad angle!

We had to keep our trips pretty short cause I only had a few days so we headed over to Cannonville to spend the night with Em. We went out to eat and had a blast staying up late just catching up on things. Em is lookin great with that little man in there! I am so excited to have another nephew! It was fun to get to play with Westyn, Treyson, and Makyndie. Treyson kept saying, "You just stay forever!" I wish I could have!
We got up and went to Escalante to spend the last night with my grandparents, and we had a good time there, Kels gave Em a pedicure and I gave her a back rub so she got the royal treatment! It was fun!
The next day we headed back to St. Johns and Jaron met me there Friday and he was the master barbequer for the weekend, he knows how to cook a mean steak! We cleaned my grandpa's grave and a few other ones since it has been five years that my grandpa has been gone, man how the time flies! We headed back to my grandma's for an awesome barbeque and it was fun to just get to hang out with family! Sorry for the long post, spring break was great, thanks to all my family for the amazing hospitality!

Nursing and Psychology

So just a funny story today, Jaron was talking to me after work about his second class that he is starting today for his psychology major at UofP. He was telling me that he was going to have to write quite a few papers and I was giving him some suggestions with the little bit of nursing/ psych knowledge, some topics he could use and all the sudden he is like, " You know, if we were driving and someone got hurt and we pulled over to help, you could patch them up and make them all better and I could be like 'OH, are you okay? How are you feeling? Do you need your mother?'" I thought that was so funny!
I hope he doesn't turn in to one of those psychobabble people that tries to analyze the hidden meaning of what I'm really saying when I say something! Jaron is always good for a laugh...