ICU Critical Care Tech!

This is my cute husband.


He has been working as a phlebtomist at IHC for the past 6 months.

As of today is he is the newest critical care tech in the respitory icu! We couldn't be happier! :) You see, after Trev graduates nursing school he will need to work in icu for at least a year before he applies for graduate school for either nurse practioner or nurse anthestist. He will now have two years of extra experience in the icu and a foot in the door for a nursing job when he graduates.

We are so blessed and I am so proud of Trevor for working so hard toward our end goal of graduate school!

Memorial Day Weekend a.k.a an Awesome Weekend!

I kicked off the weekend by going to cheer practice with my cute little cheerleading team. LOVE them! They are the hardest working little cheerleaders in the world with the best attitudes and I love spending practices with them! We got our first floor libs on Friday - the first time they had ever even tried them! (The picture is a little blurry, but you get the picture.)

I went and got a new library card and spent an hour at the library looking for a good book - wow is that place overwhelming!

Trev had to work all Friday night so I made us some snacks for when he got home. Baked scones and made us pomegranate blueberry smoothies. Yum! I got the recipes from my new favorite website - ourbestbites.com. We stayed up late watching H.P. We are determined to watch the first 7 movies before the last one comes out in July! Can't wait!

For the past 6 months we have lived on our townhouse we have had an ugly, white, plastic shelf stuffed in a corner to hold all our food. I am thrilled to say that Saturday my much needed pantry went up!!! We have a few finishing touches to put on it - like a final layer of dry wall and paint - but my food is put away and it looks awesome!

Sunday Trev had to go to work so I drove up to Park City after church and spent the day with my family. We watched movies, played games, ate treats, and had a great lazy Sunday together!

On Monday we got to sleep in! When we finally got ready we went bowling and to lunch with my family. Trev had to leave the festivities early to go to work, but come to find out he didn't have to work Monday after all. I was stoked he got to come home and spend the rest of the day with me! :) My cute little side table got delivered that day and later that night we went to Trev's parents for an (indoor) barbecue.

Such a simple, but great weekend!

The Slater's world as of late

My boss has been on maternity leave the past couple months and I have been given the opportunity to fill in for her while she is out. I planned an incentive trip to Bali, Indonesia in March. I left Trevor for a week in March to go on a cruise as a host to another incentive program. In April I planned and executed a day meeting in Anaheim, California for 1300 people. Probably the most stressful three months of my life! I needed to prove that I could execute successful events! It would be 9:30 at night and I would be at work just be starring at my computer racking my brain trying to think if I had forgotten anything. I have always been a list maker, but wow, lists saved my life these past few months! I am grateful for the learning experience and happy to have a couple of events under my belt, but I can't wait for my boss to get back in a week and a half. Yahoo!

Trevor is working as a phlebotomist at IHC on 5300 S. We love it there! IHC is such a great company to work for and there are so many opportunities to move up. He currently works 4 nights a week including every Friday night and every other Saturday and Sunday (yes, our weekends our a riot). J Hopefully this summer he will be able to get a job as a critical care tech working Friday night to Saturday morning and Sunday night to Monday morning. A crazy schedule, but it will be less hours and will work better for school.

Speaking of school, Trevor started his first semester of nursing school in January at Westminster! He is loving it, but it is definitely a LOT of work. Those who have gone to nursing school know what I am talking about. Hours of studying, lots of information, clinicals, papers, memorizing, and the list continues. Luckily Trev will get a breather and have the summer off from school, but will start back up full force in August.

We had cheer tryouts for Elite Academy a couple weeks ago. Yes, I am back coaching. I just can't stay away! I am so excited for my cute new squad. We had our first practice Tuesday and we are going to kick some butt this year!!!

In March Trev and I celebrated our 2 year anniversary by spending the weekend in St George. Woot woot. We love the S.G.

Trev and I have also been called to serve in the primary. The 4 and 5 year olds. Heavenly Father is definitely teaching me patience before I have children of my own. The kids love Trevor, but they definitely know how to get a rise out of me. If I ask them nicely not to do something and then ask them again, and again, and again - I swear they look at me and laugh and then we give each other the stare down for the next 5 minutes to see who is going to win the battle. Ha ha, yeah I'm working on staying calm with 4 year olds. J

Now, we're looking forward to some warm weather and summer projects on our house!

Our townhouse!

Welcome to our new townhouse in Draper, Ut! We love it here and are so happy to be new owners of our very own house!

Come on in and I'll give you the tour.

This is the front of our townhouse. Ours is the middle townhouse in this picture.

This is what the family room before we moved in.

Walk in the front door and this is what you will see. There is three stairs that leads into the room. The kitchen is just off to the left and a half bath off to the right. The huge sliding doors lead out to a deck and have an AWESOME view of the valley. (I tried to take a picture, but it didn't work in the dark)

Trevor's pride and joy - the mounted tv. He get's plenty of call of duty and football in on this tv.


Now let's take a look at the kitchen.

This is the kitchen before we moved in.

And the kitchen after we were finished. What a HUGE different a little paint can make.

If you go downstairs instead of upstairs you'll find an open space, the laundry room, and the entrance to the garage which is on the back of the house.

Off to the second floor...

This is the extra bedroom/tv room on the second floor. This is where I go when I need a break from the video game playing.

And, the office also on the second floor. Needs a little bit of love, but we are working on it. :)

The rooms on the second floor have a perfect view of the Draper temple which is about a mile away from our house.

Not pictured is the full bathroom also on the second floor.


Here is the master bedroom before we moved in. There are about seven stairs from the second floor to the master bedroom and then seven more stairs to the master bathroom and walk-in closet.

The master bedroom after a little painting and a few decorations.
Go up the few stairs and you get to the master bathroom.

And, the master bathroom. I really wish I had a before picture of this bathroom. It was a MESS, but cleaned up quite nicely.

Thanks for dropping by! Hope you enjoyed your tour. :)

This summer has flown by!

Life has been a little crazy and I have slacking on the blog.

This is what has been happening in our lives since the last post...

I graduated from the University of Utah with a communication degree in August! I decided not to walk or anything, but now I am wishing I would have. It was kind of a big deal, huh? That explains the lack of pictures.

I have been working at 4Life as an event coordinator which has been so much work, but I have loved every minute of it! I have a great boss and have already learned so much. Our big convention for distributors from around the world was about two weeks ago. I spent the last couple months preparing for the food, logo wear to be sold, a fashion show, props, photography, housing, and employee logistics. I think I have found my niche and can't wait to see what else this job has to offer.

Trevor started up his fall semester at Westminster. He also applied for the Westminster nursing program in August. Hold your breath...we find out in November if he made it or not. They had double the applicants that they usually do for the program. Yikes!

Trevor turned 23 in June and I turn 23 on Thursday.

I learned how to drive Roxy - our manual Toyota Corolla. If you see a white Corolla jerking around on the road - be patient - its probably me. I'm still trying to get the hang of it.

Other than that the summer has been pretty laid back. No big trips or events. Just enjoying every day to day life. I can't believe it is already the end of September! I'm sad that summer is over, but I am getting a little excited for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas!

I'll try to keep you updated...And take pictures. :)

All this for $15 bucks?

Maybe someday I will finish my last post about Turkey...
But for now, I have too post about the greatest thing my friend Brittany told me about and I took advantage of.

Anyone ever heard of Bountiful Baskets? It is an organization that gathers fruits and veggies from around the state and provides them at a low cost. You sign up for the basket on Monday night and pick it up on Saturday morning. The basket includes 6 fruits and 6 veggies - all for only 15 bucks. Every week the food varies. The only catch is you have to volunteer every six weeks for each time you sign up. Not bad at all.
This Saturday I picked up my first basket
5 plums
7 peaches
Bag of apples
Bag of grapes
3 mangos
bananas
3 weird little fruits
12 corn on the cob
2 cucumbers
5 tomatoes
4 onions
10 peppers
Head of lettuce

What a deal! Thanks for a great shopping tip Britt!

Part 3

Israel was by far my most favorite part of the trip.

With my sunburned body, and nasty lips we left the hotel before the crack of dawn (3:15 am), hopped on a bus and made our way to the airport.

After an hour plane ride we landed in Israel about 11:00 am. We met up with our tour guide and hit the ground running. We only had 8 hours to see Israel!

We first stopped at a place where the landscape is very unique. Because of the geography one side of the hill is tropical and plush and the other side is pure desert. The far mountains in this picture are African mountains.

Our next stop was to drop by the Israel BYU center. It was Sunday so nothing was open, but it was fun just to drop by and see it.

We then made our way to Holy Sepulcher where Jesus was supposedly crucified. The building was beautiful and everything was done with such detail. A couple different Christian religions own each part of the building. They all had a little shrine where people were praying and chanting. I was a little taken back by the atmosphere. If this was really where Jesus was crucified I was shocked at the lack of reverence. But, the Latter Day Saints believe that Jesus was actually crucified and buried in a completely different place. Trevor and I want to go back some day with an LDS tour guide. It would be so incredible to see Israel from that point of view.

After the Holy Sepulcher we went to the Mount of Olives. The trees were incredible! Our tour guide said that the outside bark very well could have witnessed the days of Jesus. What happens is even though the bark might die the roots are eternal and new branches grow through the old tree.

After those sights we took a tour of what they call “The Old City’. The city is divided up into 4 quarters. A section owned by the Jews, a section owned by the Christians, a section owned by the Muslims, and a small section owned by the Armenians.

Each section had its own look and feel and it was fun to just walk around the city and see the ruins. The city is actually built on top of the city from ancient times. So in some places archeologist have dug into the ground, not to find dirt, but to find ruins of a city.

In the Jewish quarter we saw the Wailing Wall, which is where the Jews believe that directly underneath it is the wall of Solomon’s temple. It is a place of worship for them. They write notes and stick them in the wall so that their prayers will reach heaven.

After seeing Jerusalem we took a bus ride to the Dead Sea. Trevor and I were debating if we were going to get in the water or not because we didn’t want to ride back on the airplane all stinky and wet, but we did and I am SO glad! The water was so dense that we didn’t have to swim or tread water. All we did was sit down and we floated. It was so cool! We took the mud and rubbed it all over our bodies. The water and mud has a lot of minerals in it so it is supposed to be great for your skin and health. I believe it. My skin was so silky smooth afterwards. Trevor bought some Dead Sea skin care product for me. It has magically made all my acne scars, wrinkles, and sunspots disappear!!!! Ha, kidding…I only wish it made your skin flawless.

(not the greatest picture, but that is us out there floating away)

(not us, but you get the idea of the mud bath)

Our last adventure was eating dinner at where the Dead Sea scrolls where found.

After a full day we made our way back to the airport. We arrived back at our hotel room at 2 am.

It was a full 24 hours of tourism and we LOVED every bit of it!