Updating per Uncle Kenny

Per my Uncle Kenny's request he wanted the picture of a hummingbird that was at his house on my blog. I also add pictures of flowers from his house as well.

Laramie 08.17.09-08.23.09

Monday afternoon I travel from Fort Collins to Laramie. Greg and Kori let me stay with them and kept me well feed (I even had to eat veggies). Greg and Kori had to work during the day so I reacquainted myself with Laramie and took pictures of peoples flowers on my walks. Laramie weather was heavenly so I would take a couple walks a day. I also got to hang out with Patty for a couple hours one day. There has been a lot of changes since I was going to college but also several things have remained the same. Greg and Kori live in this wonderful neighborhood that takes great care of each other.
So on to the pictures. Sorry you get to see a ton of flower pictures and believe me this doesn't even represent a quarter of the pics I took.









On Saturday we went rock climbing up at Vedauwoo. We get out of the vehicle and we are putting sunscreen on when Greg sees a moose, but I can't get my camera fast enough and we decided there was no way we were going to go chasing because the grass was so tall. So we started to hike towards the rocks and that is when I am able to get pictures of the moose. It was very cool!!!



Here is the group pictures. This was about an hour into us climbing because we had started up oneside and realized we couldn't make it to the top so we went clear to the otherside and started to climb. The boys are little monkeys and had no problems scambling up the rocks.







A wonderful sunset in Laramie.

Thanks Kori and Greg. I had a great week. Just what the doctor ordered. I don't know if I was sore from rock climbing or having sword fights with Bodie and Jamen:)

Fort Collins 08.14.09

I started my vacation by heading to Fort Collins, CO. Susan and Dave let me stay at their house. It was so nice to visit with Susan. I had not made it out to Fort Collins in several years and when she goes to Grand Junction to see her parents I don't see them because her parents are in a different stake now. Susan's mom happened to be there as well so that was an extra plus for the trip. Susan's brother and his family also lives in Fort Collins and we spent some time over there as well. In fact as soon as I got into town we went to their house because they were building boards to play cornholing. If you are asking yourself "what the crap is cornholing" then you are having the same thought I had. There is actually a national organization. It is a pretty fun game. The only problem I had with cornholing was the color and team put on the boards. :) To learn more about cornholing go to www.americancornhole.org.



Susan's kids decided they wanted to play dress up and have me take their pictures. This was pretty funny and everyone had fun. The only kid I didn't get was the baby because he was asleep.











Thanks Susan for a great time and for letting me eat the yummy peaches your mom brought over. Monday afternoon I headed to Laramie, WY for the rest of the week.

So You Think You Can Dance because I know I can't!!!

People have been yelling at me for not updating my blog so here is probably my favorite dance from So You Think You Can Dance.
This is the top 20 on Season 2.


This is the 100th Episode version with the top 8 from season 2 and Wade Robson that was performed last week.

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day

I have the best DAD in the world.

Thanks for all you do!!!

Grandma Ruby Tribute

Last week on Tuesday May 12th my Grandma Ruby passed away. We had her funeral on Saturday May 16th which was her birthday. She would have been 82. This has been a huge shock and completely unexpected.

My Grandma's greatest legacy to me is her love for people and willingness to serve others. She lived just 15 minutes from us my entire life. Her house was right by the middle school and we loved spending the night and walking to school. She would fix us popcorn on the stove. We always thought that was cool. She always called us on our birthdays. She loved this country and those who protected this country with their lives. When she made friends it was for a lifetime and she no longer consider you a friend you were family. So then you would get a phone call for your birthday :) She loved the gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. She loved serving the in the temple. So many more memories that I can't even begin to tell them all.

Here are a few pictures:

Grandma Ruby last July

Grandma's High School picture

Everyone at the funeral helped guide Grandma to the car. We decided to do this in honor of her always serving us we now had a chance to serve her.

The pallbearers were my dad, my brother Jason, my brother John, my brother-in-law JL, family friends Casey Waughtel, Bryan Waughtel, and Nick Kohls.

My mom with Carrie's youngest Kaylynn. If you want to know what my mom looked like when she was 2 Kaylynn is a carbon copy of my mom. We found some pictures while we were going through things and no one could tell if it was Kaylynn or my mom.

My grandma holding the newest of her great grandkids 3 weeks ago.

Grandma with all of us grandkids. My grandma loved my mom and aunt but all of us knew that she adored us grandkids.

We will me you grandma!!

I'm Free

Don't grieve for me, for now I'm free; I'm following the path God laid for me.

I took His hand when I heard Him call; I turned my back and left it all.

I could not stay another day; to laugh, to love, to work, or play.

Tasks left undone must stay that way; I found that place at the close of day.

If my parting has left a void, then fill it with remembered joy.

A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss. Ah yes, these things, I too, will miss.

Be not burdened with times of sorrow; I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow.

My life's been full, I savored much; good friends, good times, a loved one's touch.

Perhaps my time seemed all too brief; don't lengthen it now with undue grief.

Lift up your heart and share with me; God wanted me now,

He set me free.

We will miss you grandma!!

Update in my life

So I guess it is time to update everyone on what has been going on in my life. Really it has been pretty much the same. Work and trying to study plus have a social life. One of the best things is I was able to catch up with one of my favorite people that I had not seen in several years. Shanna and I hung out for several hours and it was like we had just seen each other. No weirdness just a great friendship. She has a beautiful family and a beautiful house that they are building. Each day at work I usually learn something new. It might be something about medicine, disease, drugs, or how to be a better supervisor. Of course highlights of work is the blood and guts and then helping a patient figure out why they have a rash. Lately the big allergen has been shin guards for soccer. Mainly it is the rubber backing but sometimes it is the dye of the fabric covering the backing.

So I have put a couple of pictures through out so you can see something beautiful in between my ramblings.

Now for the crappy part which has been the month of April. April fools was actually a great day at work because we were able to get Dr. Hadley who does surgery and he starts before anyone else. The girls in the back had set it up so lights were all turned off except for the waiting room and our physician assistant had called Dr. Hadley to tell him that he was sick and wasn't going to be there. They then also had the supervisor from upstairs come down and tell him that all of his staff for that day had called in sick. He was very, very worried. He didn't know what to do. Here was all these patient and yet he didn't know how to feel out any of the paperwork that needed to be done before he started. Then everyone came into clinic and said April Fools. It was great. He bought pizza for the clinic that day.

Now for April 2nd. I was in one meeting after lunch and then I get pulled out of that meeting and into another meeting where I am told that 3 out of the 6 RN have been laid off. 2 of which work in my clinic and were working in my clinic that day. Before I got pulled into this meeting each of the nurses were told and then sent home because HELLO I WOULDN'T WANT TO WORK THE REST OF THE DAY. The one thing nice is they can work for the next 30 days, so it wasn't an immediate lay off. But I had to leave that meeting and go check on my clinic because we had 3 physicians working and yet now was down 2 people and by the time I made it over to clinic most of my staff was ready to walk out. NOT A GOOD DAY or feeling. I don't think I slept for a week after that. Part of this lay off is the condition that the department can not hire a nurse for one year without offering that position to one of these 3 nurses first. So I don't know what will happen when I finally finish. I have gone back and forth from being angry, to not caring, to having faith that some how I will be hired when I get done. Mainly I have a hard time knowing that I have worked my butt off for almost 5 years for this department and yet that may not be rewarded or even cared about. That is hard to come to grips with. One thing nice is that I have Dr. Powell in my corner, meeting with people and pleading my case. That gets me over being angry to having hope.

With me losing these 2 nurses and then Amiee in May and then Kristen in July I will be down to 4 employees by July 1st. We actually finally got the okay to hire 2 people. So that will help but I will still be short staffed.
The next crappy thing is remember I told you I was in a meeting that I was pulled out of. Well that meeting was also with Human Resources because someone was doing something illegal. The problem is that we are all human and were feeling bad about having to fire this person because she is 6 months pregnant. But this situation got dragged out until just last week because she was trying to save her job by throwing everyone else under the bus which was not a very pleasant thing. I felt bad for everyone that got dragged into this mess. Jennifer, who is her immediate supervisor, was able to miss most of it because she was out of town. It is a good thing she bought me a little tiny mug that has Vegas Princess on it. So now we are friends again.
Wanting to end on a happy note is that clinic seems to be calming down and I am calming down. I had a good Easter and a good Conference weekend. Plus Stephanie Powell called me inviting me on a girls only Disneyland trip in May. So excited!!! This will be my first time :)