Terrific Tuesday

Today was such a beautiful day! Temperature was hot, the sun was out and I was ready to spend as much time outside as I could.

I started off the day by doing about a two mile run. I use nike+ to track my workouts and I love it! Here is what it does:

This is an amazing way to know how far and where I ran, and also the speed of my run throughout the entire thing, I love using it and then I automatically import it into MapMyRun where I currently log all my workouts and can view it on a monthly view.

Then I went to the daycare where I work to spend time with the babies :) I only work Tuesday's this semester, so next week Tuesday is my very last day there and I cannot believe it.  I have been there for over 3 years and it will be so hard to say bye :( We spent time today on a walk and the babies loved the warm weather and loved saying "puppy" every time there was a dog walking by.

I returned home shortly to then go hike up sugar loaf in Winona with some great friends. It was too warm of a day to spend time inside, plus, this was one of the things on my 'bucket list' for Winona!

 The view!

 Just enjoying life :)

The girls

I am so glad that we were able to spend time doing this today, it was perfect. I did not make it to the top of sugar loaf, but we hiked to the base and that was enough for me ;) Heights are not my specialty...

Tonight for dinner, we had a celebratory dinner at Lakeview Drive Inn for Winona's American Sign Language Club to end the school year meetings, started off sunny sitting outside and less than 10 minutes in it started to pour & we quickly had to go inside.

The group [inside due to the rain] enjoying some dinner and ice cream

What have you been doing during this warm weather we have been having? Ps lets all hope it doesn't snow this week...

"Sometimes you don't know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory." -Dr. Seuss

I'm Back

Hello blogger friends :)

Not sure who all is here..but after my successful two posts months and months ago, I'm going to take a spin at this again. I am an avid blog reader and seriously follow so many great blogs and now it's my turn to take a try at this for the second time!

So here I am...about one week away from graduating with my degree of a bachelors of science in nursing to become an RN. I had my last test today of my undergrad college life and it was a weird feeling. I finished my test and came and sat on my couch and just realized that after I study and take my boards for nursing (the NCLEX test)...I will have nothing more to study for or homework to do...and that is a very strange feeling for me after being in school for mostly my whole life.

These past few weeks and upcoming weeks are being spent with my best friends in Winona doing things that we love doing and also things that are on my 'bucket list' of things that I want to do:

1. Enjoy the beautiful lakes

Dani and I enjoying a walk around the lake on this fantastic day we had.

2. Go to Penguin Zesto for ice cream :) 

Alyssa is like me & never turns down ice cream, so we jumped at this idea last Saturday night and enjoyed some hot fudge sundaes at one of the local ice cream shops in Winona.

Those are the two completed items on my Winona Bucket List and things that are left to do include:
3. Run around the big lake (in preparation for the 10k I plan to run in July!)
4. Climb Sugar Loaf
5. Kayak on the Winona Lakes
6. Take a long bike ride around the town

I was able to spend a great weekend in Winona

My old 619 roomies for life, Tsana and Jen! 

Fun times at the bars with great friends

Mangos for drinks with my favorite ladies

This is kind of a long blog post for my first time back...but it is just a small glimpse of my week and there will be more blog posts to come...stay tuned for a layout and title change..I need to personalize this thing and make it unique for me! 

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone." -Neale Donald Walsch

(Thanks to Tsana for this quote-directed to what I am going through now with graduation and new things to come for me)