Things are still going

Ok…so it’s been a while since I’ve post on here…whoa to school and well, school only! I’ve been doing my preceptorship which consisted of three 12 hour shifts a week with a nurse preceptor. I’m really sad that it’s over because that means I get to go back to being a tech instead of a nurse. I still enjoy being a tech though because I’m still on the same infant and toddler floor and working with all the same people. I just hope there’s a job opening for me there…

Since I’ve been doing school for 5 days a week for the last well, 5 weeks, I haven’t really done anything other than that! Tyler’s just been working. We did go and get a different, bigger truck so that Tyler can have a vehicle to drive little Lowe around in once he comes. It’s an extended cab Nissan Frontier. We both really like it. Surprisingly, we got the little Ranger sold off in like an hour!!! Tyler posted it on Craigs List yesterday and within 5 minutes had someone call to say they were going to come look at it. So they came and bought it right on the spot! Crazy, but we’re thankful for it because now we’re not going to have to worry about it!

I went and registered at Babies R Us and Target this last week with two really good friends of mine (Thanks again Kathie and Heather ;). It was loads of fun except neither of the Babies R Us here in town or online have the lamp that goes with the sheet set I want. I saw the lamp at one of the stores about 2 weeks ago and suddenly it’s not online or in the stores! That makes me really grumpy because it’ll be the only piece to the set that I won’t have. It’s the Sweet Safari set by Just Born. Tyler and I have searched and searched on the internet to try to find the thing but all sites just lead back to the Babies R Us or Toys R Us websites to no avail. So if anyone reading this happens to find one…I’d be delighted to know about it (or pay you back if you so happen to want to buy it on the spot…)

So I think that’s all that’s been going on with us here in Tucson!!! Oh, 9 weeks left by the way!!!

Yeah to February

I am now 29 weeks pregnant. Only 11 weeks left to go!!!

So it's been two weeks since I posted on here last...I just don't really know what happened last week...oh well. These past two weeks have been really busy for me with my preceptorship in full swing. I've only got 4 more 12 hours shifts and one 6 hour shift left. That makes me kind of sad but happy at the same time. I just wish I were an RN already so that I could just have work and not have to worry about doing homework related to what I've done during my shift...sigh, it'll come soon enough. I just hope that all the mess with hiring freezes goes away soon so that I'll actually have a job once I've graduated...

I ended up having to go to the hospital on Wednesday to get rehydrated and some medicine...I got really really sick on Tuesday night and was up all night. I called my doctor's office and called their on call line and got instructions from the other doctor in the office to go to the triage area of the women's center at the hospital I'm going to deliver at. I ended up getting an IV through which I got 1.5 liters of fluid and some medicine to help me not feel too nauseous. I was able to take some sips of apple juice while there at the hospital and I felt a lot better than I did when we got to the hospital. We started to drive home but I had to have Tyler pull over because I got sick again...there went all the apple juice I had just drank! But I spent the rest of that day in bed, not really doing anything. I was finally able to keep down some saltines, chicken noodle soup and gatorade at dinner time.

It was quite the experience...I learned that when you're pregnant and get really really dehydrated, you start to have contractions!!! So now I know what they feel like and I don't really like it that much...especially since I've still got so long until I want to be having them!!!

My parents came down this weekend for Lindsey's baby shower. My mom and I went to the shower (which was loads of fun! Yeah to Lindsey...she get's to welcome her baby in the next 4 weeks and I have to wait another 11ish...). Tyler and dad went on a bike ride and had loads of fun...hehehe. Tyler had planned a 33 mile ride and since my parents got in really late the night before due to traffic, decided to cut it down by like 7 or 8 miles...but he forgot to take into account a couple miles and the shorter ride he thought he was taking them on ended up being only 2 miles shorter!!! So we all had a good laugh over that, the boys survived so it's all fine!!!

Tyler and I got a recliner to put in the baby's room and the crib is at the store...we just need to go pick it up and put it together!!! I'm so excited!!! Pictures to come I promise.

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!