Halloween at the Great Wolf lodge

Jayden and Mallory or should I say the witch and the vampire! ooo... scary!

Mals friend Jayden from school got to invite one person to go with her to celebrate her birthday at the great wolf lodge for a night and she asked mal to come. So, Mallory got to go over night to the great wolf lodge for the 2nd time this year she was very excited! While they were there since it was so close to Halloween they had a trick or treat thing set up and she got to wear her costume early for it! Yeah a costume that gets worn more than once for 3 hours!! Makes me feel better about that money spent :) Alisa Jaydens mom did their makeup and I think it looked great! I might have to have her do it again for Halloween night not sure I am good at that kind of stuff. Anyways just wanted to put a few pics up of their time at the great wolf lodge and in their costumes.

Mallory got a new camera!

Here are just some of the pics Mallory took over the weekend...

Making cookies YUMMY!

Playing with Lily and Max.

At Starbucks with Me Me (my mom) she got lots of close ups... mom this was her favorite, Mal said "this is such a good picture of me me, she looks beautiful!! we should frame it!"

This weekend wasn't anything too different than the norm EXCEPT... Mal got a new camera so everything was captured on film. Jeremy was nice enough to give Mal a digital camera that she's been wanting for a very long time! She loves taking pictures of anything, everything and everybody. I will tell you about just SOME of the pictures she took (I had her choose a few that she wanted to post) and what we were doing in them. We went out to dinner to red robin the night she got it with Jeremy and his brother Scott. Then we went and played with Jeremy's new puppies Maximus and Lily. While we were there Jeremy showed Mal how to work her camera and some of the features it has, ie how to use the timer and take a pic of herself or themselves as you can see. She's had a lot of fun with her new camera "thanks again Jeremy!" (says Mallory)

We also got to see my mom AKA Mal's me me and went to coffee with her Saturday morning. As my mom and I talked Mal was either snapping shots of her or showing her pictures she already had on her camera. Then we went to see a movie, City of Ember which I thought was pretty good for the whole family. Mal really liked it too. I also helped mal capture a few pictures of Mal and Jeremy making cookies...lots of cookies I think I ate 8 at least! Enjoy Mal's first works with a camera :)

School school school

There isn't much to report so I haven't been writing much... I started school again and it takes most of my day, my first class starts at 8:30 and I don't get done on campus until 3:30 except Fridays I get done early :) I spent the majority of my weekend studying microbiology other than going to church. The Foxes (Rick, Mag, and their kids O'neal, Drey, and Blakely) have been going with Mal and I the last 2 weeks and it has been really nice to see them! Other than school and Mals schedule (sleepovers, play dates, birthday parties, skate nights, etc) there isn't much else to report.

I am waiting on getting my transcript evaluations back from shoreline college. I am very hope full that some of the classes I took at ASU will count towards the pre requisites for my Bachelors in Nursing! Nursing school has become VERY competitive over the last 5 years or so not sure exactly when it changed? I looked into Med school and found that it's the same GPA to get into med school as it is to get into nursing school 3.5-3.8 in the Seattle area. UGH! I definitely study far more than I ever have! I keep telling myself it will all be worth it in the end!