Another week over

so i think i'm doing pretty good on posting something every sunday...yeah to me and following a few of my new years resolutions!!!

i started my preceptorship for school this week and it's awesome. i cannot wait until i am actually a licensed nurse and can do everything on my own without having to ask someone to get the meds out of the machine for me or come with me into the room to administer them!!! it'll be awesome to actually have a career and be able to work on my own!!! granted i will still ask all the questions i have because i'm not ashamed of the fact that i won't know everything and will still have tons of questions.

for a preceptorship, i work with a nurse and try to take care of our patients on my own (with her supervision). it's supposed to be teaching us leadership, management and delgation skills but i feel as though i've already learned those from the student nurse externship that i did last summer. this will be a time for me to improve these skills and better learn to talk with doctors and other disciplines in the hospital. i love it so much! yeah to nursing!

this week was pretty uneventful otherwise. i did get bit on the finger by spike but that's what happens when he's in his doghouse and has his bone with him...silly protective little dog. he got in big trouble but i guess i need to be more careful and be sure he's out in the open when i try to pet him or take his bone. like my friend heather said though, we didn't raise him, we adopted him and can't really do much about those qualitites and traits he learned while in his original house of 6 years...we'll just have to be sure Lowe doesn't try to do anything with spike's bone when Lowe gets big enough to be outside with the dogs.

oh!!! we ordered our crib for lowe's room. i'm so excited to be getting that and can't wait for it to come so we can put it together...granted i won't have any bedding for it until the end of march but still, it'll be nice to have set up. woo hoo to nesting setting in already!

13 weeks left!!!

Halfway thru January Already?!?!

Yeah to January! I can't believe that it's already the 18th of January! I've got 14 weeks left of the pregnancy and that is sooo hard to believe. We feel little Lowe moving all the time now and I love it so much. He's got to gain about 5-6 more pounds and 6-7 more inches. I just don't know where he's going to fit...whew!

School started this week for me and I think that it'll be a pretty easy semester. I've got good teachers and an awesome group for my community health class. The grade is almost all based on this group project so I'm sooo glad to have been blessed with a group of girls I can rely on especially since Lowe could come any time during the second half of the semester when our group stuff is due. Yeah to understanding friends!

Tyler is really happy that the Cardinals are going to the Superbowl. I'm hoping that the Steelers win their game this afternoon so that it'll be the Steelers in the Superbowl too (they're my team if you did not know...). I'll have to add a little note to this post after the game is over!...So the game is now over and it's going to be the Steelers against the Cardinals in the Superbowl!!! At least one person in this house will be happy when that game is over...I hope it's me!!!

I start my nurse preceptorship for school this week and I'm kind of nervous since I haven't really done any really direct nursing stuff since about last summer! I say this because I felt like I did not do much of anything during my 4th semester of nursing school (the classes were ICU and psych...and the ICU experience was not good...no high acuity patients at all!!!) I'm on the infant and toddler unit that I've been on before for school and work so I'm really comfortable with the population and all my co-workers are really supportive...I guess I'm just nervous about living up to expectations! But I think I'll be ok...yeah to confidence!!!

We're getting more and more impatient for Lowe to come...14 weeks!!!

Becky, you must like getting pelted by snow balls!!!

Becky doesn't let me on here very often, but today she told me to figure out how to load videos from our camcorder to her blog so here you go. This all occured on a day we were in Idaho at Christmas time and there was a whole lot of snow. Becky wanted to make the most of it.... as usual! This is a short video of her getting pelted by a bunch of snowballs that she asked me to throw at her! Winter is so much fun in Idaho... but only when you're visiting!

Another Week Closer

So since I just posted something on thursday...nothing much has changed.

I am now 25 weeks pregnant and still loving it! Lowe moves all over the place now and Tyler and I both love it soo much! It's funny because it seems as though he'll move more when Tyler puts his hand on my belly. He'll kick and do somersaults and I love feeling him move.

I finally got around to getting a yoga for pregnancy dvd and was able to exercise for the first time since I found out I was pregnant...I know! That's awful that I haven't done any organized exercise for about 18 weeks but I was sooo tired and blah feeling that first trimester and have just now gotten the time to do stuff other than school. I'm hoping to do that workout at least twice a week if not three times and do some light weights and cardio. I need to prepare my little arms for carrying around Lowe and his car seat.

School's going to start this week...I'm looking forward to it only because this'll be my last semester. I cannot wait for it to be over so that I can finally be done with school!!! Yeah to finally becoming a nurse.

Poor Tyler is sick again this weekend. We're hoping that he won't get more sick than he is now! Luckily he's got the day off tomorrow so he'll have another day to rest and get better. I cleaned our entire house on Friday and I've been bugging Tyler about things when he's left something out of place. Normally it's the other way around since he normally cleans the house b/c I've always got work or school going on. It's nice when the house is clean and we both try to keep it that way.

15 weeks to go!

Happy New Year!!!

so i know that this post is a little late since it's already the 8th!!! but oh well. to sum up 2008...tyler and i had a great year! we both lived through it...hehehe...but moving on to important things, we adopted another dog (so now we have two), we got pregnant and bought a house! craziness!

for the first family home evening of the year we did a new years resolution thing that i found on this fhe planner blog (it's on my list off to the right if anyone cares to know) and i found the talk by Christoferson (spelling?...) from like 2000 that the little activity is based off of. so we read exerpts from the talk and filled out our paper about our resolutions. so far so good for me! i'm just waiting for some pregnancy yoga dvds to come in the mail so i can start working on the physical parts of the resolutions i made. there's four parts to the resolutions to be sure you include all aspects of your life: intellectual, social, physical and spiritual. we're planning on reviewing those papers on the first monday of each month to see how we're progressing! you've got to make pit stops with goals to be sure you're getting somewhere with them.

i finally got around to organizing the few belly pictures that we've taken of me...i think they're from about weeks 7, 8,9, 16 and for sure week 24...i know i know...some people are going to be disappointed in me for not taking these pictures more religiously but come on now...everyone knows that during the first trimester pictures of yourself are about the last thing you want!

Week 7ish

Week 8ish

Week 9ish

Week 16ish

And here's the most up to date pregnant picture of me! We took this on monday but i really think i'm getting bigger by the day!

So we got to spend Christmas up in Idaho with tyler's family. it was soo much fun! we got to see our little nephew Makray who is so cute! it was awesome to be able to see everyone and thanks again for everything! i can't wait to use the baby stuff everyone got us and thanks again lisa for cutting my hair!

it was a white Christmas up there and as soon as i can get it figured out....i'm going to post a video of the snow that fell on Christmas day, so much fun and oh so cold!