Thanksgiving and more

I figured it was time to update this. Normal life has been happening with a few new things. I decided to be like some of my nieces and nephews and lose a couple of teeth. I had my wisdom teeth pulled couple of weeks ago. To bad the tooth fairy forgot where I lived and I didn't get anything for them.

I had a good Thanksgiving. I just stayed around Salt Lake City but friends and family took pity on me and feed me dinner. I decided to take after my Uncle Kenny and hop from house to house in order to be fed. The question was how much can I eat? :) I actually ended up at my friend Amy's house helping cook and eat a wonderful turkey with all the trimmings. I then left and went to cousin Neil and Cora's house where I had a great time visiting with them and their family. I walked in though and their daughter Stephanie said you must belong to Carol Lynne because you sound just like her! All the cousins seem to think that I sound just like mom. Mom and I don't know about that but whatever.

I have a huge issue with the world and how it treats Thanksgiving. I think that if it weren't for football the world would not even stop for Thanksgiving. That irriates me. I love Thanksgiving because it has nothing to do with presents and it is our time to stop and remember who, where, and what we have come from. Okay I will get off my soap box now:)

So here are a few things I am thankful for:family, friends, work, green grass, flowers, trees, smiles, kids, Wendy's :), temples, testimonies, homes, hot chocolate, music, etc... LIFE IS GOOD!

On Friday I went down to John and Pam's and had another Turkey dinner. John even made homemade rolls from Mom's receipe. YUM! This is the same receipe that I make homemade bread with for those you have tasted some of that; so you know how good it is :)

THE BEST NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK IS THAT I AM MOVING!!!!!!

I am moving into a nice 1 bedroom apartment all by myself. No more roommates!!! You can't believe how excited I am. I move in the middle of December. More pics and updates later on this wonderful subject.

Here is the one picture of the day. It has been snowing here all afternoon. I guess Winter is officially here.

Only doing this for you Carrie

So my sister, if you don't know her, loves doing these tagged emails and activities. On the other hand I am not such a fan mainly because I am not a social butterfly like my dad and sister and I am just too lazy. But I will do this tagged thing to make Carrie happy but I won't inflect the pain on anyone else unless you want to do it then just pretend I tagged you.
For those of you who don’t know how this works, here are the rules:
A: Each player lists 6 facts/habits about themselves.
B: At the end of the post, the player then tags people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog for these rules.

1. My somewhat hidden talent is that I can say the alphabet backwards. I was taught by my 1st grade teacher Ms. Payson. She taught our entire class to do it. It is now more natural for me to say it backwards than forwards. It comes in handy when I have to file charts at work.
2. I enjoy working in the medical field and yes I am very morbid and enjoy drawing blood, doing surgery especially the ones where we have "bleeders" and blood goes spurting everywhere. Foreheads and noses are great for this.
3. As I mentioned above I am not a social butterfly. I like small groups over big groups. I rather listen than talk. I have found that you learn so much more about stuff and people by just sitting back and listening to people talk around you.
4. I love music. I love most any kind of music. I think I enjoy it so much because I don't play an instrument and I am in awe when someone is able to play or sing. I think my favorite instruments to listen to is the violin, flute and the piano.
5. I love photography. I love taking pictures. I love taking pictures of nature. I think this is my way of taking a time out and remembering how awesome this world is and how beautiful and divine it is.
6. I love family. I love being an Aunt. I love kids. Someone lately told me that children is what it is all about. I agree. Kids make me smile and laugh and make the world go round.

That was torture:) Carrie I think I should consider this your Christmas present:)

Update on my crazy world

To try to recap what has been happening in my crazy life I will start with going to this great musical event. It had over 3000 violins, 142 harps, 50 cellos, 12 basses, 10 grand pianos that 40 different kids played, several kids who played the organ, 200 flutes, and many more that I can't remember. It was in celebration of the 30th anversary of the utah association of the suzuki theory. For those of you who know music this probably makes sense but for me this was my first time hearing of the suzuki theory. I was able to go because Dr. Powell's oldest Emily plays the violin using the suzuki theory. All of the kids playing the instruments are between the age of 3 and 18. It was amazing to listen to and see all these kids play insync with one another. Here is a picture taken with my phone in the conference center right before it started:

Next I had a great halloween. The night before I went over to my friend's house Blakelee and we carved pumpkins and ate tons of candy. Here are the two pumpkins I craved.

Blakelee helped do my hair and makeup so I could be the Snow Queen. I had fun. Everyone at the office dressed up as well. We all had fun and I think the patients enjoyed seening us as well.
Me being the Snow Queen
Blakelee was a skunk, Sharon is the one with the backpack she is a hiker, and Barb and Laurie just got out of bed. Christy being a cowgirl wearing my hat. See I am wearing off on the staff. Pretty soon they will all be cowboy fans:)
Being pregnant was the popular costume at the office. This is LC on the left and Nicole on the right. Nicole was the best because she was making fun of BYU being a sophomore in collage with 2 kids on her back and 8 months pregnant. Everyone loved it. Even Dr. Powell who is the office BYU fan. I was going to take a picture of these two with Amanda who is actually 8 month pregnant to see if anyone could guess who was actually pregnant:)
To update everyone on work is that all the new girls are doing fabulous and I amazingly get to have my Tuesdays off again. It feels kind of weird to be home today.

Sorry It Has Been Awhile

Sorry that it has been awhile. Every time I sat down to update something would come up. So now I have a task of trying to remember what has happened in the past couple of weeks. The big update is that we have 4 (can you believe it 4) new people at work. 4 people and they are working hard and learning on a very quick scale because they have no choice. But the long hours are not over for me yet because first we have to get them trained so they are able to work independently. I will continue my long hours for sure the next 3 weeks including working on my day off but hopefully after that I can go back to only 40 hours a week.

Last week was a highlight with mom and dad coming over and we went to the Saturday morning conference. We were able to see President Hinckley "knight" President Eyring. That is a moment I will never forget. Then we went and ate at Goodwood. It is an amazing BBQ place. We ate, ate, and ate some more. Then headed down to Spanish Fork to see John and Pam and have cake and icecream for mom's early birthday. Conference weekend is always a great weekend. You are able to watch it from home and bring in that spirit right into your home.

Yesterday was Mom's Birthday. Mom is great. I called her yesterday and ask if they could make a trip back over here to probably help me move in the next month and she said that was possible. Mom and I are alike in that we like our alone time but she is much more willing to give up her time then I am. One of the nice things about being single. I can still be selfish:) I know without a shadow of a doubt that if we need OUR MOM she will be there. If we need anything at all she will try to give it to us. I love you MOM!

Here is Justin and Kaylynn's (These are Carrie's and JL's kids) turn at my okay try at scrapbooking:

Book Club

So last Tuesday the childrens book club I go to started up it again. I hadn't realized how much I missed it during the summer. The book club is unique in that we don't read the book and talk about the deep meanings. We invite the authors to tell us how they came up with the idea to write the book and how they went getting it published and if they always knew that they wanted to be a writer. What is interesting is writers have a different way of thinking and it is cool to be let into their thoughts. The other thing about this book club is that it has been going on for 70 years. The lady in charge is 90 and she is great. No one is too important to ask to come and speak to us. The author we had come this time was K.L. Fogg. She has written Serpent Tide and Widow's Revenge. She lives here in Sandy. She was very interesting to listen to and how the hard part about being a writer is remembering to do the normal everyday things. She said that she gets caught up in a story and she has to set a timer or life will just past her by.

Last week I also went over to Dr. Powell's house and they were getting ready for the weekend where their stake had decided to pretend that they had no electricity and they had to sleep outside in their tent. This way they could see how prepared they would be if something were to happen and they actually had to use their 72 hour kits. I just think it is a very cool idea. I think it is also great that their kids are being taught young how to act if a disaster were to happen.

It is officially fall here in Utah. The first snow hit the mountains last night. I was thinking today if I liked spring or fall better and I really can't decide. I love spring because everything is turning green and babies are being born, it is the re-birth of things. I also love fall because of the colors and there is just this crisp air.

I have this new program that I am playing with where you can make collages. I seem to do better at scrapbooking on the computer. I started with Jason and Melissa's kids. So John and Carrie calm down I will get to your kids and post theirs. Hope you enjoy them.

Made it

I made it through another week. This week was not as tough as last week. I was able to come to some understanding about some people and I was able to let go of most of my hurt feelings by realizing that some people don't get or don't care how their actions and what they say may hurt other people.

I had to work on Tuesday again but they were able to work it so I could have Thursday off which I needed just to recharge. 2 of the girls I work with turned in their 2 week notice. Their last day will be around the 28. I was asked if I was sad to see them go and I told them I was but I am not going to cry over their leaving because it is what they want or they wouldn't have found other jobs.

Friday was nice because all the doctors went to Idaho for the Intermountain Dermatology Conference so it gave all us MA a break. For part of the day I was the only one there and I was able to get a lot of those little things that just keep being put off. It also gave time for some of the girls who are relatively knew to ask question about things and I had time to teach them instead of having to rush through an explanation. I also got a great compliment from my nurse manager on Friday. She told me that she appreciated my positive attitude and my hard work. It was great to hear after questioning several things at work.

Friday night I went to dinner with Blakelee and Mackenzie. We then went to Blakelee's house where we laughed and laughed and had a ton of fun which is what I needed:)
So today I helped Christy and Matt take part of their roof off. Can I tell you how sore I am going to be tomorrow! Just so some of you feel bad for me I will let you know I have 6 blisters on my hands.
Sorry no pictures I will try to get out and take some this week:)

Tough week

It was a very tough week at work. To much drama. To many of us have been stressed for to long because we are short staffed. To little trust or understanding on peoples part. Sometimes when I have a week like this I wonder if it is worth building friendships with people you work with. Because then things get taken personal and work doesn't remain work. Then the people you thought you could trust use your personal life to stab you in the back at work. Don't get me wrong in that the true friendships I have developed I am thankful for and I guess this kind of stuff really lets me know who values my friendship as well. I remember a poem which most of you have probably read as well talking about the different types of friends. We all have friends who come into our lives for a short while but make an impact, but for some reason we part ways. Then we have the true friends who once are made are always there for else for the rest of our lives. So enough unhappy things.

The happiest part of my week was on Friday when I babysat the Powell girls and I totally got blamed for taking the girls to a pet store last week for them now having a hamster as a pet. I helped the girls build a playground with toilet paper rolls for the hamster. We just had a blast playing with it. The Powell girls just make me smile and that is exactly what I needed after a not so fun work week. The other couple of nice things was that my sister FINALLY updated her blog:) and then a great friend I had growing up but haven't seen or talked to since we became adults I now have her email and we are going to get caught up with each other lives. Everyone use to call the twins. My grandma still talks about the two of us.

I don't have any new pictures so here are some misc pictures that make me smile:)

My brother giving his kids a rough ride in the video