Well, one week down! What it week it has been. I am tired and drained from all the change, but I am so grateful to be where I am. After a couple days of orientation last week I worked a couple shifts and then another today. Right now I am on the infant medical/surgical floor. I can't tell you how much I love taking care of those sweet babies. As I was sitting in a rocking chair feeding a two month old last week looking down at her beautiful face I thought "Wow, this is my job?" It couldn't be better.

But let me tell you it is SO different than working with adults! To put it simply everything is just small small small! Tiny feet, tiny cribs, tiny medication doses, tiny diapers(YAY). It is hard to adjust to doing things at such a smaller scale when are used to taking care of some big people! The diagnoses are so different too! I have so much to learn! It is bit overwhelming, but I am all for it!

So far I am surviving the drive. I feel like I need to use some Star Wars powers and force push the cars all out of my way. Poor Lu (my car) is racking up the miles and due to the gas prices I am draining our checking. I am still pretty hesitant about spending an extra hour getting home by taking the frontrunner. It just isn't worth it to me when all I want to do is get in bed. I found I can stay awake just fine driving home in the morning as long as I have Celine Dion to blast in my car.

I have to admit that seeing babies all the time just makes me even more baby hungry. Chris told me he doesn't think that is possible, but let me tell you, IT IS. I am so ready for that next step. I am also hearing some pretty cute name options that I am remembering for later use. I am afraid to mention any to Chris in fear he will shoot them down imediately. Which he has done a lot. Well I think about it pretty much all the time, but for now I am just having the faith that it's going to happen when it's supposed to happen. Just like everything else has. :) Life is good

I'm back!!!

One of my favorite pics from the family shoot in October

Hello everyone! I am finally back to the blogging world! It has been over a year, but I have decided it was time since I want to keep in touch with some of my former co-workers at McKay who don't have facebook.

There is WAY too much that has happened since my last post to try and recap so I will just try to start fresh and hopefully I can back track a little bit.

Overall though I am very very happy. Chris and I are doing great! We are more in love than ever and we both agree that marriage is wonderful. I am so grateful to have such a wonderful husband. He makes me so happy. I don't know who said the first year is the hardest, but if that is the case then WOW I am in for some amazing years! I guess we are almost at 2 years now. It is crazy to think that I have know him for almost 4 years! I know in the big perspective that is nothing, but it seems like a lot. At the same time, it seems like we've been together forever.

I got a new job! I am now an RN on the Float Pool at Primary Children's Medical Center. For those of you that don't know what Float Pool is it just means that I will be going to all the floors where ever they need me. The floors are Infant, children's medical and surgical, immunocompromised, NICU, PICU, neuro trauma, and the rapid treatment unit, with the option of training in the ER (which I'm not sure about yet). I am so excited to be with the kids. When I did my capstone (135 hours) there for school I loved it. Pediatrics has it's own sadness and difficulty, but the Spirit is soooo strong there! I know it is where I am meant to be.

Amidst my ever growing happiness it is hard to see the difficulties Chris is going through with his parents' divorce. It so hard on him. The dynamics of it all are so messy. I can't imagine how rough it must be on him when I know how much it has affected me. I know things will never be the same, but I hope that our relationship with certain people can renew and heal. I wish I could be more Christlike about it all. I know my attitude could be better. For know I just pray for him and his family.

Things to look forward to include:
Disneyland in 2 months!
The end of the semester for Chris
Summer
Hopefully our family will grow :)
and much more but those are the top!

I plan on trying to update this weekly if possible. I hope to hear from everyone! Please leave comments so I know people are reading. :)