I passed the Clinical Licensing Exam for Social Work

Dear licensing exam,
I finally conquered you, after you took many months from my life. Ever since May and I wore that stupid cap and gown I have had anxiety attacks over you and you have never left my mind. I tried to conquer you once and I failed. It was very traumatizing for me and I thought my life was over (literally I did). So I didn't think about you for a few weeks and went to find a job without you. I luckily found one but then the intern license I am currently using is expiring in january and I needed to face you once again. So I was lucky enough to have an employer that allowed me to take time off every day to study for you and for the last 5 weeks every night has been dedicated to you. My poor husband has not a home cooked meal since I started studying again, everything in my life has been put on hold or sitting on a pile on my desk and I wasn't able to enjoy any part of life because you were always there in the back of my mind. Well today I finally conquered you, after 170 questions and 4 grueling hours I finally saw the "PASS" on the screen and I screamed and jumped up and down in the testing center!! I will never have to face you again and I can start living life like I want to.

Sincerely,

Michelle, the social worker

P.S. My husband is the most supportive man. He stood by me during my last year of graduate school and all the time I was studying for this test. I wouldn't have made it without him. When I got home from my test I found these flowers. He said they were either congratulations or condolences :) Thanks sweetie, and thanks for the cute blog post!! I love you!!

So Proud

I don't want to steal Michelle's thunder, but I wanted to post before she got home and puts up a huge post about today. I just want to let her know that I am proud of all the hard work and dedication that she has put in over the last month or so in preparing to take her LCSW licensing exam. I am very proud and can't wait for her to put up a post telling you how she is feeling. I love you Michelle!

A week of Halloween

Halloween this year turned out to be really fun. Halloween is not my favorite holiday, I hate thinking of a costume. But with the Kelly family halloween party and seeing our cute nieces and nephews in their costumes it turned out to be a lot of fun. Every year the Kelly family gets together to carve at least two pumpkins each. And this is not just carving a silly face this is serious carving. So here we are with our first round of carving.



Dave was so excited to pick out pumpkins this year and of course he had to get the biggest one there. This pumpkin was huge and by the time he had gutted it everyone else was done carving and he was still going. :( I didn't want to say "I told you so" to his face so I'll say it now :)


These two pumpkins were dave and I's. He did the wolves which in my opinion was the best one there and then I did a bat.

Here is the final product!! James, Dave's brother carved Jim and Dwight from "The Office". It's always a lot of fun to see the final product of all the pumpkins.

Then on Halloween night we went down to my sisters house in Lehi to hang out. She made homemade donuts with chocolate frosting and sprinkles. They were amazing!! Here is my nephew Gavin as a BYU football fan, then the other niece and nephews I didn't get pictures of were: enoch - a cowboy with a nerf water gun, Carson - Buzz lightyear, Brynnley - Tinkerbell. They had taken their costumes off by the time we got there.

And here is the cutest little flower you will ever see. My niece Kate wore her costume all night because it was her pajamas. My sister Tresa who is so creative when it comes to making homemade costumes sewed a stem on her sleeper and then a flower on her hat. Isn't she adorable!! All in all halloween was a lot of fun. We ended the night with me typing as Dave dictated to me a paper that was due by midnight. He e-mailed it in at 11:45 p.m. :)