Thursday, June 19, 2008

Nicole (Nielsen) Donaldson




10 years has gone by in a blink yet been so full of adventure as I'm sure it has been for everyone whether you're in Utah, away, single or married or have children. And this is what makes it so hard to know where to begin...
After graduating from Springville High I attended BYU and changed my major a few times, finally settling on Nutritional Science with a Russian and Chemistry minor. I had so much fun, even rooming with Taryn Burton my freshman year and going to St. Petersburg on a summer study abroad with Taryn and Allison Arnold among others. I then served in the Russia Moscow mission from 2001 to 2003. After returning home and a few interesting relationships later I met my husband Joseph Donaldson (Timpview '96) randomly one summer evening on BYU campus while walking to my car. A dance, weight lifting, and nutritional science class later we were engaged and married April 2004 and then found ourselves in Louisville, KY for Medical school that August. In the four years there we had two children, our daughter Elle (2 1/2) who my mom says is a "mini me" but a daddy's girl and our son Hyrum (9 mos) who follows the Donaldson boy tradition in looks and height. After my husband's graduation this May we moved our things to New Orleans in preparation for Internship and Ophthalmology residency starting in June at LSU-Ocshner for the next four years.For now I enjoy the challenge of staying at home with our children and am anxiously looking forward to what the future holds for our family.
This summer has been filled with many mini reunions for our family and we are so grateful for this time to reflect and reconnect and we look forward to seeing/hearing from as many of you as we can. We'll definitely be enjoying a scone and some root beer at the Art City Days festival this week! Please keep in touch on facebook or email nicoleedonaldson@hotmail.com.

3 comments:

Lonely Anthony said...

Hello

Nicole said...

Email address is actually nicoleedonaldson@gmail.com, sorry:)

Nicole said...

We also have a blog now...josephandnicolefamily@blogspot.com. Hope you are all well!!!