Graduation Day

We are back from our trip. In fact... we have been back for over a week. Here's some FAQ and announcements:

I started my new job last week, however I don't start working nights until September. There's a period of training, and interning, it's really like being in nursing school again. I take the NCLEX June 24th. So I'm not an RN yet, but I am a GN (graduate nurse).

We had a lovely time on our trip and will hopefully post pictures in the coming weeks.

No... I am not pregnant! Neither are we trying and it would be lovely if people would quit asking me and/or harassing me about it. I've said numerous times that graduating school was not what was holding us back on having kids, so just because I graduated it does not mean it's time to have a kid.

Now onto graduation day!

In the morning I attended my pinning ceremony. It was fun to look back on pictures from the program and see everyone before the actual graduation. We also got our RN pins which was weird and exciting all at the same time. Everyone was happy to be done, but I didn't feel like I was done yet. It wasn't settling in.

I won an award for most organized classmate! :-)

Mrs. Routh (Foundations of Nursing), me, Mrs. Schmitt (Mental Health nursing)

Mrs. McLelland (Complex Adult Med/Surg)

Dr. Burke (OB clinicals), me, and Mrs. Adair (OB lecture)

Nursey friends!

At night it was graduation time!

Mom and I

Dad, Mom, Me, Tyler

We went out to dinner at Fogo de Chao.

Michelle and I.

Elizabeth, Megan, Michelle, Katie, and Me.

We came home and finished packing. It was a long graduation, but I'm glad I went. It was nice to sit with my nursing class and good friends I made in school.