Labor and Delivery

I started my preceptorship in L&D at Timp. Hospital this week. Can I just say it's . . . "Awesome!" I am totally loving it. I've got a cool preceptor and the other nurses are so good to give me learning experiences. Joe thinks I'm crazy when I come home excited about IV's, placing Foley catheters, and the latest . . . cervical checks! It is seriously the coolest thing.

While I was helping take care of a laboring mother last night, I realized that she was in the same L&D room that I delivered Jake in. I got teary-eyed knowing that was the room and experience when I decided once and for all that I was going to school to be a L&D nurse. It feels fantastic to finally be where I belong.

Family Gathering

Look at those cute GrANdKiDs!

Mike, Hayden, Jammie, Ashly, Shelby, and Dylan (hiding)

Sam & Megan

Joe's brothers (Mike & Sam) were in town this past weekend. It was so fun to see the grandchildren and catch up with my sister-in-laws. Life would be better if they would just move back to Utah. :) We miss you guys!

Science Fair Update

Alrighty, here's the UPdaTe! Morgan decided to continue on her science journey and compete in the Central Utah Science and Engineering Fair at BYU. (See previous post.) What a good kid. If it was up to her parents, she wouldn't even get her homework done.

She'll be competing on March 26th and I will be there with a smile on my face. Did I mention it starts at 8 am and finally ends that evening with the award show from 7-9 pm? Oh, I forgot, I'm supposed to keep smiling. We are really proud of you Morgan.

Strange Day

Wow, it's been 2 years today. I've tried to ignore it all morning and afternoon, but the ignoring is over. I miss you mom! Still don't understand why you had to leave this earth so early. I still had so much I wanted to share with you (especially my kids). You were a beautiful woman inside and out and the dearest of friend. I love you to the moon and back!!!!

Yet Another Science Fair

It's that time of year again. Morgan participated in the science fair again this year and after going on to the Central UT Science Fair at BYU for the past two years, this year we were not as enthusiastic. We decided together that we'd do an extremely simple and cheesy project that had no chance of moving on.

Part 1 - she participated at her middle school. 10 out of 30 projects were chosen to move on. Guess who was chosen Are you kidding

Part 2 - Morgan participates in the Alpine School District Science Fair in Pleasant Grove. (pics above) We are proud of her but we all blow it off and are giggling and laughing through out the award show since there is no chance to move on. Wrong again! Morgan is called to the stage, wins again, and is to move on to BYU. Is this for reals

Part 3 - The decision Hummmm . . . we have three days to register on-line for her to participate at BYU. The dilemma is this - we don't want to seem "snotty" or ungrateful. Morgan had several friends with great projects and they were very disappointed to not move on. Now Morgan has the opportunity and we really don't want to bother with it. Dang, what's our deal Anyway, we'll let you know if we register or not.

Long story short, we are proud of Morgan Even when she tries to fail, she can't Way to go sis.

USNA Convention

Last Friday and Saturday, I headed down to Price, Utah (a.k.a. podunk, UT) to attend a convention by the Utah Student Nurses Association. The city itself was a bit too quaint for me (no offense if you live there, have lived there, or ever plan on living there. You have nothing but my condolences.) To quote my friend, Suzette, "If I had to live here, I'd shoot myself."

The food, well that wasn't any better. We chose to ignore the advice of our hotel manager and tried the most expensive restaurant in town. Surely if it's expensive, it's got to be good, right? WRONG. Blaaaa, I think we'd all like to forget that. All I can say is, "I wouldn't feed that steak to my dog!!" (Inside joke.)

Now for the good stuff. I had so much fun with my girlfriends. It was like being a teenager again, and that's saying a lot. I was with my friends Suzette, Annette, Heesoon and Meliss. They are so great! We stayed up until 3:30 am giggling and laughing. I have a feeling people were asking for refunds at the front desk of the hotel the next morning. We got a couple "bangs" on the wall from frustrated guests trying to sleep.

Anyway, thanks for the laughs girls. As excited as I am to get the heck out of school, I will miss seeing you each week. You have become near and dear to my heart.