sisofeleven

2011-11-16T08:14:00.000-08:00

My curly haired little boy after his bath

Husker longies from Aunt Layna

Cabalas kids.

Lyrah's antiquity picuters

Exciting News!

2011-04-12T16:59:00.000-07:00

So most of you should know by now that we are expecting again this year. We had our first Dr appt today and I was rather anxious since the miscarriage though the morning sickness was reassuring. Anyway the Dr thought I was measuring bigger than I should have been for the dates I thought so the did an ultrasound and we found out that I am three weeks farther along. Yeah for that maybe the morning sickness will be over sooner than we thought. The second part of our news is that we get to go to Alaska in May with my in laws. Gene had lived in Alaska with his mom and dad when he was younger then when his dad died his mom moved with him back to CO. After high school he went back up there to work a few years. Anyway he asked Floyd, Lyrah and I to come along with him a Beth on their trip so we will get to see where he lived and worked ect. We are flying into Anchorage and get to do some touring around there then taking the train to Denali for a day and then onto Fairbanks for the rest of the trip. We will fly out of Fairbanks straight back to Denver right before our summer convention. So today I asked the Dr about a trip like that and she said everything should be fine. So we are hoping for no morning sickness by that time. All for now. Enjoy your spring.

13 months.

2010-10-31T19:22:00.000-07:00

Oh where did 12 months go. There were so many pictures I wanted to take and well I forgot my camera so I will just have to settle for what I have. This is our little bit on halloween. Well pictures aren't loading so you will have to wait a day or so to see them.

Lasts and firsts

2010-08-19T16:11:00.000-07:00

Mommies goofy girl.

this is the last picture of her crawling in the swimming pool. Grandma got a video of the first time she tried to stand from a sitting position. Which will probably be the last as next summer she will be walking.

crawling out of the water

playing ball with daddy

One of the last time's she falls asleep in her swing.

She went on the Walk of Hope Cancer walk with daddy last Friday night while I was working.

First bowl of noodles.

First smoothie

Around the time Nish did the blog about Kyrie getting older I was thinking about watching for Lyrah's lasts. I know she's not a year old yet and hasn't done a lot of her firsts but she is growing and changing so fast that she will soon have a whole pile of little lasts. She has already had her last little toothless grin and her last bottle with daddy or grandma. Or at least I hope they don't give her a bottle anyway when I'm not looking. We've had the last time we can leave her alone on a bed and soon will be the last time I can leave her at the bottom of the stairs while running up stairs quickly to do something because she is already trying to climb them. I can't set her down in the back yard and run around front for the hose as she can creep now and tries to follow me. She also walks the walls or furniture after us. She is learning the word no, eating everything she can put in her mouth and jabbering up a storm. So here are a few pictures of our summer of first and lasts.

More pictures

2010-07-08T19:07:00.001-07:00

9 Months old!

2010-06-27T18:52:00.001-07:00

I love to try to stand.

She pulled her head band over her eyes and then laid there and laughed.

Not being very photo friendly

I know I can crawl but I'd rather try to stand up or fall down and roll to where I want to go.

My attempt at a french braid.

She has enough hair for it, its just getting her to sit somewhat still to do it.

9 Months

2010-06-24T20:06:00.001-07:00

Sept 2009 I can't believe are darling little girl will 9 months on Sat. Time seems to have gone much faster with her than when we were waiting for her to come. These are not the best pictures of her but they are the pictures I have taken from the 26th of the month or very close to it. She is now working on walking around things and loves the swimming pool where she can "walk" around in the water in her float. She has two teeth on the bottom which I have tried to get pictures of but have not succeded. She is working on pulling herself up on things but would rather holler for someone to pick her up. She loves to talk and sing and doesn't seem to mind car rides. She loves rides in her stroller and the outdoors. Sat I will put some 9 month pictures up hopefully or as I am working it will probably be Sunday but till then enjoy these.

Oct 2009

Nov 2009

Dec 2009

Jan 2010

Feb 2010

March 2010

May 2010

April 2010

May 2010

Trip to TN #2

2010-03-24T19:34:00.001-07:00

We went and had an old fashioned photo taken.

We went to play a game of mini golf at one of the many places they had there to play. This one was about an explorer and you got on this train to ride to the top of the golf course.

The course we went on went in, out and around this mountain and water fall.

After golfing we had to go check out the Dollywood dress store. I'm sure you can see why.

A cute little rocking chair they had there.

Little bit had fun shopping. She got a dress and all the trimings.

Next we went to the dixi land stamped. Lyrah loved the music and kept trying to lean over as far as she could as we were on the ballcony.

They served supper while you watched the show. All finger food. You can see the bowls with the handles on our plates. We used those to drink our soup. Then we had cornish hens, potatoes, slice of pork, and an apple fritter.

Lyrah and I with one of the riders after the show.

This place was an upside down dinner theater. You can kinda see the door and lamp posts at the top of the picture.

Convention grounds where we had a potluck on Sat before we left to go back to Memphis.

I loved all the old barns there.

These places were on the road that the gps took us through to get out of the sever trafic in Knoxville. Each house had its own little bridge across a stream.

Tired little girl at the Memphis airport around 4am.

Glad to be heading home after a wonderful trip.

The plane to Atlanta.

Sunrise.

Coming down into Atlanta.

Glad to see our plane is leaving on time.

Sitting with Grandma for a little while on the way to Denver.

DENVER.

We were pretty happy to be home again.

The Love in my life.

2010-02-18T22:25:00.000-08:00

Little bit or my butter ball is learning how to lift her head up and move around.

Bamboo cloth diaper, one size. I love cloth diapers. I love how the look feel and smell.

This is what happens when you don't blog for a while. You have a build up of stuff that doesn't make sence and is hard to put in order. Well I don't know how many people read my blog but I doubt its very many not that it matters anyway because I blog for myself mostly anyway. But for those of you who do sorry for the long vacation. Here I thought I would have more time quiting my job but that didn't happen.

This picture is my life now. I love it. Cloth diapers on the line every other day. Nice, soft, clean diapers that smell so good. I don't mind taking off the wet ones or the dirty ones. Infact tonight while I was writing this blog there was a big blow out that I couldn't take pictures of because it happened in my hands and lap. Well I just took her upstairs and dumped her clothes and all in the tub. Well not quite dumped but sat her in her chair and hosed her down. The little stinker (literally) laughed at me. I love this life.

Small fuzzi Bunz pocket diaper

bum genius, one size pocket diaper. This kind velcro closed at the top and have rows of snaps that on this one are just about hid under the velcro strip to make it bigger or smaller. I don't like the velcro as well as it doesn't seem to hold fit around her waist and legs as well as the snap ones do.

My favorite the rum p a rooz or transformer diaper as Floyd calls it. It will fit from newborn to toddler.

I love having a daughter. I love having a baby. and I love that she has a cousin the same age as her. I hope the grow up to be a good as friends as some of the cousins in the older group are.

Kyrie and Trey love Lyrah. I love how they are with her. I am so glad we are in the same town and I hope the grow up to be great friends.

I know we didn't get the best grandparents pictures but I love the pictures I have of my parents with Lyrah.

Time with Grandpa Ogden. She is the first grandchild for them and they both love her very much.

My little Valentine.

She is starting to react to peoples voices. She is such a beautiful happy baby. I hold onto these moments when she wakes me up at 4:30.

She is growing so fast. Its hard to believe that soon she will be 5 months old.

Valentine's Day with my two loves.

My happy little Valentine.

I love how my husband is with our daughter. When I tried to quit my job they begged me to stay even just one day a week. So as it helps me keep my education credits up I did. Floyd watches Lyrah while I work as he doesn't go to work that day. They have their own little routine and are starting to have fun father daughter time.

Almost 2 months.

2009-11-24T22:35:00.000-08:00

Nov has been an interesting month so far. Lyrah is weighing in at 10lbs and that was when we were in Kearney the first part of the month. She is sleeping pretty well at night only getting up two times and sometimes only once. She likes to be held the best but will settle for her swing or laying on the floor sometimes though not if daddy is around. We are trying to get her used to a pacifier but she really has no use for it. My Dr appt in Denver went okay and I will go back in Jan for them to run tests. I had some tearing in muscle when I had little bit but they can't fix it until I quit nursing so it will be awhile. My bottom is becoming bearable and I will start work again the middle of Dec. I am looking forward to getting back to the people I take care of but not looking forward to leaving little bit at home. At least we will have a auntie here so she will be in good hands. Floyd is busy at work and has been asked to stay over and help on the docks after he is done each night so that means that he has plenty of hours. We are looking forward to finishing up our month with Thanksgiving at mom and dads and hopefully news of a new little one in ND.

Humm I think I actually like this swing.

A funny picture of me.

Auntie Kaela figuring out if she holds me and walks I won't cry.

Grammie Cine spending time with me.

This is my mommy (Jeanne) with her dad (my papa Leon) and his mom Grandma J.

Mommy and I went to Kearney for the weekend. While there we took some generation pictures. This is mommy great grandpa Arthur Herndon and Grandma Jane.

While in Kearney we got to meet some of the workers. Mommy didn't get a picture of Aunt Jana and I on her camera though.

I think uncle Morgen likes to hold me.

Me with Grandma and Grandpa Ogden. It was NE football day so I got them all to wear red! I had on my overalls to match grandpa.

The first smile mommy caught on camera. I was happy the Huskers won.

Watching the game with grandpa.

I am growing into my overalls but mommy still has to roll them up.

My first bath in the tub by myself. Usually I crawl in with mommy. I love my bath and always try to get my face wet but for some reason mommy doesn't let me very often.

At our house we like to play find the baby. My little baby booties uncle Doug got me,

Uncle Doug made me some moccasins. Soon they should fit.

My favorite way to sleep is in mommys arms.

Prefold diaper.Mommy didn't get my face cause
I was crying.

Great Grandma J and aunt Elaine got me this outfit. I just about grew out of it before mommy got it out of the closet.

Sleeping on the floor while Grammie and mommy clean my room and go through my clothes. I have outgrown some of my clothes already.

Almost a month.

2009-10-23T09:55:00.000-07:00

Cousin Kyrie like to keep me close every chance she gets and I like to be snuggled.

I am starting to keep my eyes open more to observe this crazy world that I live in.

My longies from Auntie Layna. These are so nice and warm.

Look how big I'm getting. These are some of my favorite sleepers. So nice and cuddly and warm. When she is wearing these I don't have to worry about her kicking the blanket off which she likes to do.

Two and a half weeks.Well now its 3weeks.

2009-10-22T10:20:00.000-07:00

It has been a very busy 3 weeks since little bit was born. We got our cloth diaper soap last week so started using the cloth diapers. We are still learning how to get them on well and which ones need a cover so right now I am washing lots of clothes and diapers but we are making progress. Little bit is growing but my scale wont weight her so I don't know how big she's gotten just that she is filling out her clothes better. Both setts of grandparents and most all the aunts and uncles have been to visit and now we are enjoying a nice quite house (well not really today because daddy is sick downstairs and little bit is fussy today so mommy hasn't gotten much done except for building up a headache) for the most part. Little bit likes going on walks wrapped in the moby wrap auntie Nisha loaned us and is beginning to stay awake longer at a time. All for now as it is feeding time again.

Lyrah Renee

2009-10-01T19:10:00.000-07:00

Well I don't really know where to start. This last 7 days have been busy ones. Last Thur was my last day of work. Friday we had our Dr appt to go to and not much had changed. I was dilated to 2 or 3 I don't remember and 70% effaced. Dr said anytime now so I went back home. When we got home I packed to go home with mom and we left that evening for Kearney. Sat am I got up feeling kinda crampy and ready to get the show on the road. Around noon I started having heavy contractions the kind that you have to focus through and Floyd had just got to Kearney so that was good. I had an absolutely wonderful labor team and every move or need was anticipated. I tried all sorts of positions and found several comfortable ones but couldn't stay any one way for long. As far as having pushing contractions well I can't say that I had many and she wasn't crowning or didn't seem to me to even be moving down. I would start a pushing contraction and it would just disappear into a regular one or I would start a regular one and then end up pushing but a contraction start to finish with pushing involved I don't think happened until the last one and then little bit came flying out into grandpas arms. No she didn't come a little bit at a time either she came all at once.
I ended up tearing really bad so have that to deal with but when I look at her it is totally all worth it and would do it all again. When I got back home we went to the Dr for an exam and I have a 4th degree tear with swelling so they can't do anything about it right now. For the time being I am on antibiotics and anti-inflammatory until the inflammation goes down and they can have a colo/rectal surgeon examine me and see what they can do. So I am looking forward to a long road to bottom recovery but then nothing in this pregnancy was normal so I am quite used to the abnormal popping up to deal with and it may give me more time off work to spend with little bit which I am all for.

Baby's room

2009-09-19T21:54:00.000-07:00

Babys room pictures.

38 weeks!!!

2009-09-17T22:32:00.000-07:00

Well I am 38 weeks much like the photo challenge. Guess I have been taking pictures with my child all along and didn't even realize it. Soon little bit will be out in the real world and I will get to take pictures with her as a person instead of a bump. My belly does finally seem to be big enough for people to see that I'm expecting though not as big as people expect it to be with only a short time to go. Floyd and I are enjoying getting ready for the little ones arrival though both of us are experiencing times of panic it doesn't last long and fortunately not usually at the same time either. I am really enjoying these last few weeks of being pregnant though I still have lots of mornings when I think I will be sick that usually goes away after lunch time and I have yet to be sick these last few weeks. The gallbladder problems have quit since she has drooped so although I still have to be careful what I eat it seems I can eat more with not as much problem and have actually gained 5 lbs in the last 2 weeks.
We have baby stuff ready to go and my in laws are here this week painting the baby's room. Work, well this week I've picked up 3 days and managed to work all of them so now I am ready for baby to come any time she chooses. I'll put pictures up when the room is done.

30 so days left

2009-09-01T01:03:00.000-07:00

I've been having good weeks of pregnacy since I found out I had gallstones and could fix my diet for the most part to advoid the pain. We got a baby crib from a girl I work with and got a mattress and glider chair for the babys room. Then we found a cute little dress that we had to get also. This week I am going shopping for a car seat and a few more baby diapers. We had our appointment with the surgen last Friday and found out that I should be okay as long as I watch my diet and a stone doesn't get logged somewhere it shouldn't. I can wait until after I have the baby and maternity leave is over to schedule having my gallbladder removed. YEAH!! Dr appt went okay also though I am still loosing weight now they have a good reason for it. Only grew 1 inch in 3 weeks but little bit is moving around well so everything looks good. We got a monitor from walmart that you can hear sound on so I listen to her heartbeat every night before I go to bed. I think that is prety cool. You can also hear her making sounds. I think she likes to suck her thumb a lot and am interested to see if her thumb is blistered when she is born. The Dr said that happens to some babys when they suck their thumbs before they are born.
Looking forward also to convention and the rest of the week of work although my job is going well it is getting harder to manuver around and lift people. Little bit sleeps through most of work though so that is good, at least I don't have her kicking people to often or me while I'm trying to take care of someone.

Oh and if you average the guess for the baby game the baby will weight 6.8lbs be 19 1/2 inches long and be born between the 27th and 28th of Sept.

2009-08-19T17:17:00.000-07:00

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Baby guesses.

2009-08-12T21:35:00.001-07:00

Okay I know everyone knows its a girl but when will she be born, how much will she weight ect. Please take a minute to click on the side bar and place your guess if you haven't already. Thanks.

33 weeks.

2009-08-11T21:38:00.000-07:00

Two of my favorite baby pictures. I don't know why they show up sideways as they are not like that in my picture file.

I was losing weight and still am because of my gallbladder problems so the Dr wanted to do an ultrasound to make sure baby girl was growing okay. She is, she measured in at 4.5lbs and from the pictures looks like she is getting fat on her checks. I had a gallbladder ultrasound also because I've been having a lot of upper right side back pain. My gallbladder is full of gallstones which I don't think I can do anything about before I have this baby so its try to eat a low fat diet. I am proud to say I haven't had any caffeine now for 2 1/2 weeks. As far as foods that bother me well I am still figuring that out and still end up having attacks a few times a week but it is getting better I think. I did find out that organic apple cider vinegar in hot water with some hunny in with it to help the taste takes care of the heartburn so now I only have pain in my back instead of back and front.

30 weeks

2009-07-24T20:01:00.000-07:00

Sorry no pictures. Will have to have someone take one tomorrow. I am finally begining to look pregnant in my work clothes though. Today we went to the Dr and this is how it went. I desided to do the glucose test. I mean how bad can it be and if I am going to be a nurse I want to know what these tests that I tell people about are like. Well lets just say I'm not doing that again. So I go in yesterday before our prenatal class and get the glucose to drink and the instructions are you will probably feel better if you eat 2 hrs before drinking the glucose, then you have to have your blood drawn an hour after drinking the glucose. So I got up before 5:30am and ate a little breakfast. I mean realy anything so I don't get sick. Then I went back to bed but made sure my head was raised so I didn't get heartburn (my very close companion in this pregnancy). Well a little before 7:30 after dozing some off and on I woke up and could feel the heartburn building up. I thought well this isn't to bad yet so lets try to get the glucose down. YUCK!! It took me 10 minutes instead of the 5 you are supposed to drink it in but I did get it down then went to take a shower to get ready for the day. Well by the time I was done with that I could hardly move or talk. We got to the lab just in time with my handy puke dish which I have carried everywhere with me for the last 6 months and I was told just to have a seat in the waiting room and wait. Well this is a timed test and I was pretty desperate to get my blood drawn before I threw up as if I did that the whole experiance would have been for nothing. So I made it back to the bathroom and when I came out the secretary asked me why I didn't tell her it was a timed test. Well lets see I think my exact words that I managed to get out of my mouth on arriving were " I am here for the glucose pregnancy test." Okay if you are working in the lab you should know that is a timed test and if you don't get it done soon enough it is NO GOOD!! I was not going to redue this whole thing. So then she got my insurance paper and drivers license from Floyd and started asking me if my info was current. Okay so I'm still sitting there trying NOT to throw up and managed to get out everything is exactly the same as 3 months ago when I was here. UGGG. Finaly although I never though I would say this as I hate having my blood drawn the lab lady came and rescued me. So I got a blood draw in my right arm. Just got out of the lab and lost everything I had tried to eat in the last few hours but that helped get rid of the heartburn.

So I am still having some heartburn and we desided to go over to the mall because we had checked out of our room and the Dr appt wasn't until later. They were setting up for sidewalk sales so I got a 1/2 hour nap in the car which seemed to help and then went in with Floyd to look around. I managed to resist all the baby girl clothes except for a pair of newborn overalls. Just couldn't resist them. So we got them and then went back to the hospital for my dr appt, which went somewhat like this. First I stepped on the scale and I have lost 5 lbs since my last visit. (I am the only one in the prenatal class of 18 or so that has lost weight) Then I got the Rhogam shot after making sure that it was the right one, so now I have a bandaid on my left shoulder also. Then the Midwife comes in and orders a ultrasound for next visit because I am not getting any bigger although I can garante little bit is as her kicks are getting harder and she can get me in the bladder and the ribs at the same time so I know she is growing. Then they also order a holter monitor which does your heart beat as my pulse tends to go way up while I am at work. So I have low B/P and a high pulse No wonder I feel kinda off sometimes although it could just be job stress. Then before I left they informed me that they didn't draw enough blood (they drew three tubes) at the lab and I needed to get my fingure stuck. UGGGG!! So there went my fingure on my left hand. Well at least I have 3 others. I sugested that I just leave my left arm there and they could do all the blood work they wanted on it and I would pick it up when we go back for our next visit. HAHA.

Then we went to one of the friends funeral lunch and got to see lots of old friends and that was a good time. We also had a nice drive home and it rained this evening so I didn't have to go out and water after all.

As far as I can tell little bit is doing fine. She moves around a lot, has started kicking when we sing in meeting and seems to like music. If I pat my stomach then a lot of times I can get her to kick or maybe elbow where I am patting. She also gets the hicups which the dr said is a sign of a healthy baby.

An announcement

2009-06-25T18:17:00.001-07:00

Well we have known since we had babies ultrasound that we were having a girl but since I didn't want to know in the first place we thought we would try to keep it a secret and only tell 2 people each. Well to give my husband credit he did really well until his grandpa died and then he really really wanted to tell his parents. So now the cat is out of the bag so to say so we might as well tell the rest of the world that we are having a girl. Well at least that is what the ultrasound says.

Fathers Day and Funeral stuff

2009-06-23T18:37:00.001-07:00

Kuehn cousins at the lunch after the memorial service. All but Neil were there. Have to get the rest of the picts onto my desk top to transfer over.

baby game.

2009-06-17T16:45:00.001-07:00

I got this off of Layna's blog and thought it would be fun to do on mine also. Good luck and have fun.

Oh some clues well lets see 1)its a baby 2)heart rate at last dr visit was 140
3)I don't have any cravings that I can think of but ice cream and milk give me really bad heart burn. 4)Floyd says girl and I say boy but only because the Ogdens always have boys. I don't have any specific feeling about what it is. 5)Chinese gender predicter says its a boy.

Baby's 20 week pictures

2009-05-12T19:19:00.001-07:00

Babys legs (you wanted to know what I was? Haha I will keep my legs crossed and you will just have to keep guessing.

Already working at getting my thumb close to my mouth.

20 weeks

2009-05-11T17:40:00.000-07:00

Lynisha came over today and took some pictures for me. This is us under our hanging crabapple tree and me at 20 weeks.

2009-04-29T21:06:00.000-07:00

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Shopping trip

2009-04-24T22:10:00.000-07:00

A ride in the fire engine

Playing in the center of the mall while mom was shopping in the store. He would run in a circle then come and say Hi G! then run in a circle again. He was just the happiest little boy I couldn't help taking his picture.

They discovered a photo booth so I had to take their picture as I didn't have any dollars for the machine to do it though that would have been cute.

Dinner at Red Lobster

We went shopping at the mall and I got 3 maternity skirts. Sometime my husband will take pictures of me that I can put on here.

For lack of anything else stupid people

2009-04-07T21:56:00.000-07:00

So as I am sure you all know and have experienced either first or second hand or someone you know has experienced the job market is not a place you want to be searching on in this day and age. I mean really I would not like to be out looking for a job especially when I have a perfectly good one and it is in no jeopardy of running out or not having enough work or my boss laying some of us off for a period of weeks. In this profession that just doesn't happen. So I was very surprised when at work today to of the employee's left for lunch and never came back. After an hour of no phone calls, no car wrecks or other accidents reported no new admits in the hospital ect well what was the boss to do but call the state and turn them in for resident abandonment. I mean who would jeopardize their job in this day and age like that??? This means that these people can never work any where in the state again at their job or for that matter any other state. Now how can you really feel sorry for people like that? Well that is how my night went how is your day going?

Oh yeah right!

2009-04-06T16:39:00.001-07:00

Did you ever have one of those winters where they kept predicting storms all winter long but you only got 2-3 inches and it was gone by morning? We have had one of those winters here. A few weeks ago we had this big storm that was supposed to be really bad moving in so we were all prepared to stay at work or bunk down at home which ever was the case. Well we got a lot of wind some snow flurries and it was really cold but nothing else happened except they closed all the roads and interstate because of the wind so there were a lot of trucks by the interstate. They even closed school for 2 days.

So when this storm was coming we thought what ever or yeah right here we go again with a lot of hoopla about nothing when they said they were closing the interstate AGAIN! The first 6 pictures (from the bottom up) where on the way to work on Sat. We had blowing snow so a blizzard and it was coming down pretty fast. We still had all of our winter stuff in the car but this time I didn't think of grabbing an extra set of scrubs or my purse with meds in it. We did send Floyd to the grocery store to pick up snack food when we got to work as they had closed down the hill to anyone but truckers because the police where trying to direct traffic so there was not a lot of choice for supper. So Floyd went and got the necessities for us. Cigarettes for the smokers, chocolate, pop and chips for the rest of us. Thank goodness he did because at 5pm they closed the roads in town to anything except for an emergency and we were stuck, me at work and Floyd over at Jims. We had one of the girls boy friends deliver pizza as pizza hut was only delivering to walmart and the motels up on the hill.

The residents were all relaxed and enjoying the snow fall in their nice warm rooms so we had an easy afternoon but were kinda waiting for the other shoe to drop as everything was going so well. After supper when we had about 15 people in the living room watching the movie and eating popcorn the other shoe did drop. We lost all of our power except the emergency lights in the hall ways. You should have heard the screams. I'm okay if I walk into a dark room or know its going to be dark but I was in the middle of a room pushing a resident in a wheel chair to bed and of course had the door shut. Lol I don't know who I was trying to reassure more the resident or myself. It just took me a minuet to figure out all I had to do was crack the door and I would have enough light in the room to put this person to bed. The other logistics took most of the rest of the night though to figure out. I mean in a nursing home we have, oxygen concentrators that plug in, air mattresses, electric beds, electric bed alarms, and electric heat/air units in all the rooms not to mention the lights.
Well most of us kept our heads and we found some flash lights so could go around in pairs and put people to bed and finish passing meds. The people in the living room were quite entertained by all the commotion and just sat and watched us run around for the most part until we could get them to bed. Most of the staff also kept their heads and stayed calm which really helped out a lot because the one who didn't was working residents up and that was the last thing we needed.
As they had closed the roads in town and had absolutely no car travel there were three of us plus the house keeper that ended up spending the night. Hospital beds aren't that bad when you have nothing else. We got extra blankets and bunked down for the night at the end of our shift prepared to start work in the morning if no one else could make it in. At 5am we got the call that everyone had 4wheel drive or big pickups so they didn't need us and if we wanted we could head for home. Well I was sure happy so called my husband who thought he would just bring the car to get me. HAHA. Fortunately a police stopped outside the house and told him that cars were not advised on the road at this time as they would get stuck. There were 3-4 ft drifts in the roads and it was still snowing at this time. SO he decided to wait until Jim woke up. By this time everyone else had left work in cars or pickups. Glad I didn't to with the cars because sure enough they got stuck. At about 7am I finally called my sister and asked her to call her husband because my husband would not go wake him up and I had no where to sit except our break room and by this time I was really tired and wanted to go home. So she called and woke him up and soon I had a ride home. I crawled back in bed and went to sleep as I needed to be back at work at 1:40 and had no idea what the weather would be like by then. The second set of pictures is driving back to work on Sun and at work. The top pictures are today Monday. The streets are pretty clear and a lot of the snow has melted.

Our hanging Crab apple tree. (MON)

Icicles that fell off of the roof this am (MON)

At work Sun

The lights below our tree Sun night

A bush and snow drift at work Sun

At work Sun

A little girl building a snow man Sun

Some of these homes had snow clear up against the front doors. Sun

Icicles at work Sun.

Streets Sun afternoon

Our front yard Sun am

Nish and Jims front yard Sun afternoon.

Stop sign on the way to work Sat.

Snow starting to pile up on the trees Sat

Our tree and front yard Sat.

Spring break

2009-03-26T18:08:00.001-07:00

Fun at the ball field Fri afternoon.

Geese and kids quacking.

The little girls rolling down the hill.

Playing some kind of game on the hill.

We got subway and went to the park to eat on Friday. This side of the table didn't have to be tricked to have their picture taken.

To get Shayla and Kaela's faces Floyd told them to look at the geese that were coming to get some food.

When the kids got here the went out to the back yard to blow bubbles. Trey wasn't very interested in that so watched Morgen hit pinecones with the racket ball racket and played with his trucks.

This is our spring break in reverse as I am to tired to put these on in backward order so they show up in the right order when I am done. This is Floyd and Shayla walking Kyrie and Trey back home after spending the afternoon at our house. They walked over with the rest of the kids and Trey was a little tired when it came time to go home.

6th folder 6th pict.

2009-03-07T11:02:00.000-08:00

My second set of flowers from Floyd.

My world at the moment.

2009-02-12T20:27:00.001-08:00

Well lets see when I found out I was pregnant I weighed 162 now I am down to 152 although this was not the way I pictured loosing weight I guess its a good thing some of it is coming off. I got some medicine for the morning all day sickness which does help some of the time unless I am stressed which has been most of this week as our classes are 5-6 weeks and this first one is done tomorrow and I have a final in it I have to pass to go on to the next class. I am still working 3 days a week which is not helping in the studying any but does help to pay the bills and I have the insurance. I did make it through clinicals and passed those so now all I have to do is pass the final tomorrow and then start the next class on Monday. I have two other classes also but they are all semester long. Our teacher keeps telling us just 13 more weeks now before we take our practice test. Well this is all for now as it is my bed time.

Handmade gift

2009-02-08T13:51:00.000-08:00

It's your lucky day!!!

Lucky you! The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you. This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2- What I create will be just for you.
3- It'll be done this year. (might be a little while)
4- You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be something for your scrapbook, or something I sew. I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
5- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog.The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me! Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it!So....who will be the first 5 people?????

Names

2009-01-26T18:29:00.001-08:00

So we got a baby name book the other day and I've been going through it. Don't know if I have any baby names picked out from it but here is what I got on our family names.

Leon (German) brave as a lion Ray (French) Kingly, royal

Maxine (Latin) greatest Eleanor (Greek) light

Jeanne (Scottish) God is gracious Rae (English) doe (Hebrew) female sheep

Jana (Hebrew)gracious, merciful. (Slavic) God is gracious Beth (Hebrew, Aramaic) house of God

Laura (Latin) crowned with laurel Diane (Latin) Diana divine

Lynisha could not find anything Ruth (Hebrew) friendship

Derek (German) a short form of Theodoric (German) ruler of the people Leroy (French) King

Dalayna (Delana or Delaney (German) noble protector (Irish) descendant of the challenger Marie (French) Mary (Hebrew) sea of bitterness

Ryan (Irish) little King David (Hebrew) beloved

Relyssa Reese(Welsh) Rhys- Enthusiastic; stream Sharon (Hebrew) desert plain

Meshayla-Mesha(Hindi) another name for the zodiac sign Aries Rose - flower

Morgen (Scottish) sea warrior Kyle (Irish) narrow piece of land; place where cattle graze (Yiddish) crowned with laurels

Kara (Greek, Danish) pure Elizabeth (Hebrew) consecrated to God

Kaela (Hebrew, Arabic) beloved, sweetheart Dawn (English) sunrise

Floyd (English) Lloyd(Welsh) gray haired; holy Edwards (English) prosperous guardian

Some really good news.

2009-01-24T13:32:00.000-08:00

Well lets see I passed my classes for first semester, passed my pharmacology math test so I can do clinical's second semester and got a100 on my first quiz and a 90 on my second quiz. Humm in there any thing else going on interesting in my life. Oh yes its my parents Anniversary, my brothers birthday and my birthday this month as well as my grandma's birthday, my niece and a cousin among others to bad I didn't wait to get pregnant in April then our baby could join the hord of other Jan birthdays or maybe May as there are a lot in our family then, guess it will just have to enjoy sharing a birthday with aunt Relyssa in October.

Pictures from our trip to Denver

2008-12-23T20:52:00.001-08:00

Fun with Christmas lights.

Floyd and Wes.

We went to Heritage Square and watched the Charels Dickens play A cricket on the hearth.

Sunset

Some pictures from the indoor golf place we went to it was all glow in the dark paint with black light.

What I did or what got done on Christmas break.

2008-12-21T22:08:00.000-08:00

The bathroom was kinda a pale purple color.

All primed

All painted with the first coat

Towels with the paint.

With the shower curtain and towels back in place.

I had finals last week and despite not getting to finish my test because of a time crunch with another class and being told I did not pass I PASSED. We have to have a 75 to pass our classes and go on to the next semester. I don't think I've had below an 80 in any of my classes before but working and going to nursing school is apparently not the thing to do so I ended up with a 75.9 in Pharmocology and a 78 in Nursing of the adults, but then again I got a 98 in Basic nursing concepts and I did pass the semester so now I am enjoying a break and cutting down on my hours at work when I start back to school.

So for the next 3 weeks I am off of school and wanted to do a few things around the house that we haven't had time or energy to do since we got married. Jana came up after sp meetings so this was the perfect opportunity to do something. So we decided to paint the bathroom. Well if you give a Jana a thought she will run with it. First we went to Walmart to pick out paint samples. Then we both had to look at them in the bathroom and then take them over to Lynisha's house to look at them again. 2 out of 3 one the color choice. My husband being color blind and me being really color inept, well we didn't really have to much input but when you put our new towels with the paint sample it matched perfect. So then onto Walmart again to get paint and all sorts of other stuff with a few calls to Dad. They have these really neat straight edge and corner brushes that we got as well as some rollers and regular brushes. In the middle of all that we made homemade white chili and went over to Nisha's for lunch. Then we came back and taped the bathroom and Jana started priming while I went to work. Jana with a little help on the ceiling from Floyd got the bathroom primed that afternoon. The next morning Jana came back over and we painted the whole bathroom in about 45 min. Then that evening Floyd painted the second coat, and put everything back in the bathroom. So here are the pictures from the last few days of our bathroom.

Thanksgiving

2008-11-30T23:02:00.000-08:00

Sky full of red ballons after the first Husker TD

The martching band spelling out Huskers

Getting ready to start the game.

Before the game started. This was when we got to our seats the first time. We had been in line when the gates opened but had to go back to the car to drop some stuff off that we couldn't take into the stadium.

Sea of red. Walking down the overpass seeing all the people milling about for the first time.

Thanksgiving dinner. Very good. Turkey with dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, yams, and little jellos and Rubarb, strawberry pie for dessert and more waiting for us when we got to Omaha.

Playing my father in law in Othelo

The little jellos. The one on took looked like a smiley face.

Out of order

2008-11-16T19:34:00.000-08:00

We went to Mom and Dad's for Kyrie's birthday party. These are some of the many faces we saw there.

I forgot to take a picture of dinner.

2008-11-16T18:41:00.001-08:00

Kyrie playing monopoly with uncle Floyd

Trey playing cars

Kyrie playing dress up.

Trey getting ready to take pictures.

We had the kids over for the evening on Sat night. When we were at Walmart earlier we decided to get some toys for our house when they came over. We got a dress up trunk for Kyrie and a color tot toy for Trey but forgot the batteries for it so he played cars instead. After lunch on Sunday Kyrie wanted to stay and play so she did. She got a little multi playing in what with dress up and getting to play a board game with uncle Floyd both.

I had Nish and family over but forgot to take a picture of my pretty Longaburger set table. The video is from last week. Kyrie was posing Trey to take pictures while he was trying to take pictures with the camera.

Fall 2008

2008-10-30T18:16:00.000-07:00

The pictures of the flowers and butterfly's where taken by Floyd when I was at school. I was really wanting to go take fall pictures and he offered to take my camera and go get some pictures. He came back with a lot of pictures from the park that where really neat.

These are some of the trees around town.

One of my favorite streets

At the college. The trees along the building and the red ones down the parking lot are all crab apple trees but the one by the door is still green while the others along the building are yellow and the ones along the road are red.

I love the different colors of bushes. I am hoping some year to have our front yard like that.

Our crab apple tree. It is not really changing colors.

Pumkins

2008-10-16T21:34:00.000-07:00

Floyd has never carved a pumpkin before so Sat we went to the store and got some pumpkins.

So first you pick some pumpkins that you think might be the right size. Then you sit there and figure out what you are going to do next. 1)cut the top off. 2) try to figure out how to get all the pumpkin goo out of the pumpkin with out getting your hands to dirty. Then I have to laugh because I realize he is wearing his don't panic shirt. 3) once you figure all that out carve your pumpkin. 4) find some candle's and matches so you can light your pumpkins. 5) find the best place in the front yard to show them off. I had a great time with this.

Photo update Honeymoon

2008-10-16T20:39:00.000-07:00

Chipmunk eating out of my hand.
Floyds favorite picture taken on the way home.

On the way up to Estes Park from Loveland

From where the cable car starts looking up the mountain.

Views from the top and feeding the ground squirrels or chipmunks. They had bags of peanuts for sale and these little critters would stuff their cheeks. They literaly ate right out of your hand.

Miniature golf.

Floyds pictures from the drive back. I was driving and he was using the camera for the first time. I found them rather interesting studies in motion.

The long and short of it

2008-10-15T21:08:00.000-07:00

At school for patient care we are supposed to make long term and short term goals. Well instead of that I have long and short post. Hopefully a long post that I've managed to shorten.
School is going pretty well. I got a 102 on my Basic Nursing Test the other day. We started clinicals this week have them next week and then the week after is our Basic Nursing Final. Tomorrow I have a 10 chpt test in Pharmocology that I have done a lot of studying for but still don't feel like I've got it all.
Tonight on the way to work Floyd got pulled over and it was discovered that his liscence expired in MAY!!! Now why did someone not cetch that the 10 times we had our liscenses checked at the court house for various thing before and after we got married. I mean come on fokes.
Sat I had the day off so in the evening we went and got pumkins to carve. Floyd has never carved pumkins before so we had lots of fun. As soon as I discover the box my camera cord is in I will get some pictures of them up. I am just about ready to go to Walmart or somewhere and get a new card.
AFTER a week of surching we found our IRON. I have to have school patches on my school uniform and I knew we had an iron somewhere but hadn't found it since we got married.
So that is the long and short of it for the night. You all have a wonderful rest of the week.

Happy Birthday Resse

2008-10-02T22:40:00.000-07:00

Happy 17th Birthday to my sister Relyssa. Hope you have a great day. Love ya JeanneRae

Some really good news

2008-09-30T20:16:00.000-07:00

This is kinda fun as most people now have live update blog feed that prints the title when you update. Well my really good news is that I am more than 1/2 way now through my first group of classes and am passing both. Basic Nursing I have a 91 in which is really good and Pharmacology I have a 78 in which is passing. For some reason I have had a really hard time in Pharm and that is tough because we will have that until we graduate in May. You also have to keep all your grades above a 73 or you have to quit the program and wait until the next go round if there is room. Which right now there is a two year waiting list for our town as they only have one teacher and so can only have 16 students and our hospital doesn't support that many most of the time because we don't have that many sick people in there at a time most of the time.
In two weeks we start clinicals at the hospital and at the end of Oct we have our final for Basic Nursing then move on to Nursing of the Adult I, II, and III. All for now. Jeanne Ogden

2008-09-28T20:26:00.000-07:00

Your Autumn Test Results
You are a dynamic, vibrant person. You aren't afraid to pursue your passions.When you are happiest, you are calm. You appreciate tradition and family. You enjoy feeling cozy.You tend to be afraid of change. You are never ready for things to be different.You find solitude to be the most comforting thing in the world. Being alone with your thoughts feels very peaceful.Your ideal day is spontaneous and surprising. You like to play things by ear, and you always end up doing something interesting.You tend to live in the moment. You enjoy whatever is going on, and you don't obsess over the past or future.

The Autumn Test

2008-09-28T20:14:00.001-07:00

What Your Bed Says About You
Outward appearances are a concern of yours, but not your primary concern. You try to take care of yourself and your home, but it's not an obsession.You are an organized and disciplined person. You do the right thing because you want to, not because people expect you to.You are very low maintenance. You tend to go with the flow, and you're easily pleased.In relationships, you tend to be quite dominant. You enjoy taking charge.You tend to be a down to earth, practical person. You think in terms of what is actual.You are a traveler. You are comfortable anywhere, and you rarely feel homesick.

What Does Your Bed Say About You?

An update

2008-09-23T19:06:00.000-07:00

Hi to all. I can not find my camera/computer cord so will just have to do a written update. School is going good. We are on our 5 week so are in the middle of midterms. Hard to believe we are already 1/2 done with this group of classes. Beginning Nursing is going great as I have that class 4 days a week I don't seem to be having any problem keeping up in it. Pharmacology which I thought would be my easy class is instead my hard class as we only have it 1 day a week for 2 hours and that is over the t.v. which doesn't have a very good connection so we are getting a lot of static and not much lecture which is very unhelpful.
Work is going great although I am doing to much of it and trying to cut back so I have a little time to spend on married life and my house. We still don't have my apartment rented which is a drain but we are working on that. Married life is going great. I have a wonderful husband who takes every chance he gets to make me happy. If I could only get a gingerbread cookie recipe I would make him quite happy to. Aren't simple little things wonderful. We found out when Dad was here that our cherry tree was really an apple tree. I don't know if we can use these apples to make anything out of as it is a hanging ornamental one. We do have about 16 at the school though that I am checking to see if I can pick some apples off of as the are the regular small apple variety and a little bigger than ours.
We went to Floyd folks last weekend to try and surprise his brother but only his parents got surprised as Doug figured out we were coming also. Had a great weekend. This Sat I am taking off so we can go to BirdCity for the weekend. We are enjoying a very nice fall here so far with warm days, some rain and our grass is growing quite nicely.
All for now.

Wedding

2008-09-08T22:24:00.001-07:00

Sisters

Parents

Jeanne & Floyd Ogden

Ring

Wonderful Delicious wedding cake

Wedding party.

Flower girls

Grandma J

My Mom and I.

Brothers waiting. Doug & Floyd

Walking down the aisle with our parents

Trying to decide which shoes to wear

Flower procession. My siblings and cousins

I had a beautiful wonderful wedding day. I wanted to put some pictures up and thank all those people who may my day so very special. First I will have to thank my wonderful husband for sharing the day with all these people but first of all finding my skirt and bring it to me first thing in the morning so I would have something to wear :) I had done laundry at his house and discovered Sat morning that I really didn't have anything comfortable to run around in. I know you don't really like crowds of people dear or having your picture taken or waiting on me but you were great through the day. Second I would like to thank my Mom and Dad who did lots and lots and lots of behind the scenes work and work that everyone saw also. Thanks Dad for all you did and thanks mom for coming up ahead of time and not complaining that the wedding was here instead of in Kearney though I know you probably had lots to complain about I didn't hear anything and you were the best MOB I've ever seen.
Thanks to Floyds parents for raising an awesome man in the first place for all that you guys did and the best yet rehearsal dinner party. The food was great it was beautiful and the watermelon was the best. I know there is a pict somewhere of it.
Thank you Lynisha for being my everything. You are the greatest sister. We had beautiful cakes and flowers and you kept me calm through it all and managed as your husband said to keep everything together at home. You are an inspiration. Everyone at school and work said the cake was the best. Thankyou Jim for loaning your wife out to caos for how many weeks.
Thankyou aunt Gay and Raimie for all that you did. Coming early to help out, taking pictures, the great shower and all. Thankyou uncle Patrick and Jeffery for loaning us your wives and for what you did with the video camera and directing cars kids, etc.
Thankyou to all the flower girl's mommies for the loan of your darling little girls for the day. They where the greatest. Thankyou Jana, Doug, Renee, Jim, Derek, Ryan, and Cody for being in the wedding. Renee thankyou for coming ahead of time also and keeping me calm. That was a great BIG help.
THANKYOU to the rest of our family and friends for all that you did. Laura I am so glad you got to share the blog page with us and for your phone call. Now I am going to bed so If I forgot people or things that you did please know that I do remember it is just late so its not getting wrote down. I have the greatest family though. Jeanne Ogden

School

2008-08-21T17:38:00.000-07:00

Well I went to our program orientation today. Lots of paper work to fill out and things to get done before hand which by yesterday afternoon I finally got done. Nothing like waiting until the last minute. So we got packets today and filled out a bunch of papers as well as got to meet some of our instructors and then people from the nursing home in town came to talk to us to try and recruit as well as the hospital. We got our schedules for this semester as well as test and quiz dates which is really nice because then we know a head of time when our quizzes and test will be and she also put on which chapter in the book they would be on. So we have a paper due on Monday when classes start and a quiz on Wed but that is over beginning abbreviations that we use every day at work any way so not to worried about that. We get a day off every month and 3 weeks of for Christmas break as well as 3 days off school at Thanksgiving so that will be nice. Only a day and a week until the wedding so I'm glad the first week of school won't be to hectic. I'm sure I will be blogging more about school later but until then its almost wedding time.

Lazy summer days.

2008-07-28T10:42:00.000-07:00

Sunset A real smile instead of turning the other way, I'm so proud of you Shay.

His two favorite things at the moment watermelon and walking in the lake.

A new way to walk across the lake and be able to breath.

A very muddy sea turtle

Walking along the shore

Wedding plans

2008-07-24T21:27:00.000-07:00

Well for all of you that are asking the wedding planning is going pretty well on my end. I am hoping it is going as well for my mom, aunts and dear sister who are doing the bulk of the planning. I have my dress, and shoes, Floyd has his suit and shoes. We have our rings ordered and the guys vest, ties ect. We are still looking for shirts for two of the guys. My mom, grandma, and aunts are working on the flower girl dresses this week and Lynisha is working on flowers and cake ideas. So from my side things are looking pretty good. Work is going pretty good and I get the day off tomorrow to go to the lake with my family and my brothers fiances family. Next week is the Kearney shower and I work untill then so I will be pretty busy. I am trying to get my appartment packed up as far as all the stuff I don't need and get wedding stuff in one place so I know where it is all at. I keep thinking I have everything done for school and then have to go to Scottsbluff to get something that they didn't have the last time I was there.
So that is how my summer is going. Hope you all are having a great summer.
Oh I forgot we are registered at Target and Dillards.

Seven things about me

2008-07-22T11:08:00.000-07:00

1. I never thought I would drink coffee but like mom says never say never as I love it now. Coffee on Sunday morning at Jim & Nisha's, ice coffee, and flavored coffee.

2. Hobbies- blogging, reading books and other people's blogs, cross stitching, taking pictures.

3. I've gone to college three times and 4 different colleges. Hopefully this will be my last time.

4. I've moved at least every 2 years of my life, lived in 4 different states and 10 different towns.

5. My favorite form of exercise is swimming and then walking. I hardly ever get to swim anymore as I go with Trey and Kyrie but I have been getting a lot more walking in.

6. I can walk about 4 miles while at work.

7. I hate to shop for myself but could spend all my money on other people.

Rocks

2008-07-17T19:48:00.000-07:00

So I was reading my mom's post about the story of the professor filling up a jar and don't know how to add a post transfer to take you to that post but anyway you can check it out under mom. So I was thinking of rocks in my life the bigger things that our important and fill up our lives. One would be my fiance who I spend a lot of time with and thinking about a stressing for. The stress was that he couldn't seem to hold a job down for one reason or another but I kept telling him just like my mother tells me and I know as it has happened many many times to me THINGS WILL WORK OUT!! So he had an interview at Cabela's Wed and got a job there that will be 12 hours a day for 5 days a week. So that stress is now over hopefully. As far as school well I have all my shopping done for that and all my medical stuff done so I am just waiting for classes to start. With the wedding and planning well I just have to remember that I turned most of that over to my family so I just have to let them deal with it in their own time line and not stress over it myself, after all that is why I gave them the job because I didn't need more on top of getting ready for school and the stress of work and always having to train new people and deal with odd hours. So that is my life today but I am going to relax and enjoy a wonderful breezy evening with my fiance under a beautiful cherry tree.

4th of July

2008-07-04T22:03:00.001-07:00

I had to work 14 hours on the fourth of July but this is what I got in for fire work pictures.

They had a small fireworks show for the residents outside on the 4th. The smoky bright light picture in the top left hand corner is the type of fire works they chose for elderly alzhimer patients that don't really like smoke and noise. I did have fun trying to figure out the settings on my camera and don't think I did to bad of a job as half of these I was holding my camera in my left hand and taking picture while eating an icecream cone with my right hand. GO ME! Think how good they would be if I had actually set the camera on a stable surface. lol. I did have a lot of fun though. HAPPY 4th of JULY WEEKEND ALL AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!

Late night ramble

2008-06-20T22:18:00.000-07:00

Hello again all. I bet you thought I got lost out there in the computer world. But here I am and really I was lost in the wedding planning world and on the wedding blog page. So lets see for an update. Even though I've managed to pass off the wedding plans to most of my family ( which I give you a HUGE THANKYOU for) I still do have a few things I have to do.
So Wed Mom, Lynisha, Raimie and I headed down to Denver to pick up Beth and go wedding dress shopping. We had printed off the picture of the dress I thought I really wanted and Lynisha surched stores and printed out directions. So with Beth in the passenger seat and Gene on the other end of the phone helping to navigate we got to our first store which was closed on Wed. Well we got a bright Idea to call and see if the next store was open. It was so we headed over to the mall where the store was at and had lunch at Chilies before finding the store. Well this store was okay they did have some dresses with sleeves but really most of them were in 6-8 and I am not that small so it was hard for me to get any idea what so ever what I wanted except for the neck lines that might look okay. Well we didn't find what I liked so we went on to the next store.
This time someone got the bright idea to call ahead and see if the stores actually had the dress I wanted to try on or at least the line of dresses. Well we found a store that did so headed clear across Denver to find it. This store was really nice inside and they had racks of dresses with sleeves and big dressing rooms with a stand and mirror so you could really see well. So I started trying on dress after dress after dress. Most of them were a close size so that was really neat to be able to see what they actually looked like. So I tried on the dress that I liked from the magazine but it just wasn't right. I tried on a few others and liked one or two well enough to buy them but none really grabed my untill I found the one. I tried it on and it was just perfect.
After that we went in the paper store for a few minuets and then onto the mall to check out flower girls dresses. Well we found a few cute ones but I think mom is going to make them. Now it is on to shoe shopping which is a total different post. All for tonight.

More engaged or the rest of the cherry tree story

2008-06-11T11:06:00.000-07:00

Well good for you Dalayna. What happened was that Floyd and Jim came back from Walmart with the kids and it was time to leave and instead of hitting save now I hit publish post. So to get back to the cherry tree like Dalayna said that is under my guy so you will have to go back and read that post. Now back to my story after the cherry tree or I guess that was even before we started dating on a Thur Lynisha was tearing down wall paper and needed the kids out of the house so Floyd and I took them swimming at a motel here in town and out for icecream on a very cold day. When he came to pick me up to go get the kids he brought me flowers. How sweet for no reason at all. Then we had the birthday supper and the dating. Then came the cherry tree which was just the cake topper. He also got some little lights up around there so it is a really pretty place to sit in the evenings.
Then about a week or so latter he took me to work and somehow we started to talk about all the rings people at work wear. I said IF we ever got engaged I wanted an engagement watch not a ring because rings were just a pain at work since you always had to take them all off to clean your hands properly and they tear at the gloves we wear. Floyd: what are you kidding. Me: no I always thought an engagement watch would be nice anyway. Floyd: Well we have to get married then. Me: what why? Floyd: Because I always wanted to give my wife an engagement watch. Me: oh well. what else can I say.
Any way after that we started to plan our wedding with Nish and Jims help. Floyd also had to tell his parents as he wanted his dad to go watch shopping with him. Then we were going to just send out save the date cards to all the family by July. Well obviously that didn't quite work out as there was Antioch with all the family. So then he was going to purpose on Sat of Antioch convetnion. Well he ended up purposing on Sunday morning and since we didn't have the watch with us all the family who could came to Sidney afterwards and we had a party there. Needless to say that gave Floyd a good idea of my just jumping into something and planning as we go very quickly. I do have to learn that I have someone else I need to talk things over with now.
So we had the fairgrounds here in Sidney saved for New Years Eve which was our first choice for a date but that didn't work with everyone else we wanted there so we moved it to Aug 30th which is a lot sooner but with all my family no problem at all. So more up date as they come along. And if you have wedding Ideas please call Lynisha as she is my planner Thankgoodness as I don't know how I would handle work, getting ready for school and all that stuff I need to do and plan a wedding also.

Bloggers and photographers

2008-06-10T19:19:00.000-07:00

So this is what my mom and aunts do when the get together. First they talk about the blogs they've read and then they take pictures the whole time and laugh about the pictures they've taken of each other. I think they see who can get the funniest picture. Well this time I think I caught it. This is them looking at the funny pictures they got. Good times and lots of laughs. Love ya all. JR

Engaged

2008-06-10T17:11:00.000-07:00

Well to all you out there that live in my computer. This will be a wildly mixed up post as I'm trying to type as fast as the thoughts are flowing through my mind and believe me thats rather fast at the moment.
Wow I haven't talked to my family in the whole time I've been in Sidney as I have in the 2 days I've been engaged. So lets see I moved to Sidney in Nov and went to Union meeting down in CO. Since it is a smaller town most of us road to meeting together and sat together also. Well word got around to Floyd's mother that his girlfriend (that would be me) came to meeting as seemed to be a really nice girl. Well we laughed about that because I had just moved here and really had no interest in dating among everything else I was trying to do. Well needless to say we spent a lot of time together at Nish and Jim's as there isn't really any other people around our ages and they are family. Kyrie calls Floyd uncle anyway because he has been around since he was born. So we say well we are doing this to simplify her life. LOL. Well anyway in Feb after my birthday party in Kearney I came home and there was no one else here so I called Floyd up to see if he wanted to go do something since I still had 1/2 day off before having to go back to work and thought I might as well enjoy it. So we went out then and off and on a few more times during the months. More latter as it is time to eat.
Well so then May 3rd Floyds parents came up to help him get his car out of a snow drift and take him out for supper for his birthday. Well actually his post happened a little before that where he and Jim went out for supper and left me by myself. But he did take me out for lunch the next day so that was okay. Anyway his parents were here and I was working but got 45 minuets off for supper as I was pulling a long shift. Anyway I kinda figured maybe he thought something of me as his parents were in town and he wanted me to come to supper with them. So lets see we had the birthday supper and then Sunday was a potluck/birthday party in Kimble that I couldn't go to as I had to work. So he said he was going to stay home from that to spend the day with me. Wow now I am really getting suspicious.
So anyway I guess we started dating the 5th of May after me saying I didn't really think I would date because I didn't really have time and my grandmother saying that sometimes we just have to make the time or not turn down thoughts because of little time.
Then we had the cherry tree.

Picture

2008-05-27T16:54:00.000-07:00

Okay here is a picture for all you curious folks out there. Taken at the restaurant in Denver on Monday. JR Oh right maybe I should elaborate that is Floyd and I. I'm not to bad at holding the camera out in front to take a picture. Don't even have to zoom in as my arms aren't that long.

Wonderful Day

2008-05-26T22:04:00.000-07:00

Well I had a wonderful Memorial Day. I had to work so couldn't go very far but then decided I hadn't had a holiday off yet so decided to take M day off. I was going to take the girls up to Antioch but then Floyd asked if I would go to CO with him to his parents. Well sure, or not about going I jumped right in and changed things around so I could take the kids Wed instead. So we drove down to his folks about an 1 1/2 of here. Then we went into Denver for lunch and this Mexican place with a big waterfall and dinner entertainment. Very interesting even if you are not a kid and I love watching diving. We got good seats overlooking the waterfall and afterward wondered around inside for a while and then went to some mall. Can't tell you which one as I was totally turned around but it was a big one and fun to wander around for a while. Then we headed back home and me to work. All for tonight, JR

Facial hair

2008-05-22T07:33:00.000-07:00

Lol don't you love the title. Okay I have to admit the reason I don't already have a picture of Floyd and I up on my blog. About a week after we started dating he got the bright Idea to shave to see if I liked how he looked better that way. ON the day I was going to have Lynisha take a picture as the tree in front of his house looked absolutely awesome at the time. It is a hanging cherry tree which escaped the cold and was totally covered in white blossoms. So he comes over to pick me up for meeting and gives me a hug and I look up and see his face. Well he knew right then that I didn't like him clean shaven. I just have to admit some guys do look better with facial hair and he is one of them. Lucky it grows back pretty fast so now I can look at him at convention without wincing. Oh yes, I can also take a picture without harming the camera.

School

2008-05-20T15:20:00.000-07:00

We got our final grades for school today. I got an A in Nutrition and Diet Therapy and a B in Microbiology. YEAH ME. I will have to tell you a little about my classes. Nutrition and Diet we were told at the beginning of the class that we would have to write a 4 page paper on a topic so I chose nutrition in the elderly as I know something about that. Well then I sat down and wrote everything I could think of that I knew at that moment on elderly nutrition and titled it Elderly nutrition paper/notes, and forgot about it. That was clear back the beginning of Feb. So May comes around and I have this paper to write so I get a bunch of books from the library and very carefully write a 4 page paper on elderly nutrition. Then on the day it is to be submitted I submit my notes!! This I don't realize until I am checking my outgoing mail and see the attachment. Well I thought I was really going to flub that class up and was thankful I had a 98 in it as the paper was worth a third of the class as well as the final. So I am thinking if I totally messed up at least I would get a C and not have to retake the class. So last week I get my graded paper back from my teacher who gave me a 89 with a comment very simple but nice paper and you might want to use elderly instead of we. Well needless to say I was very shocked at such a good grade from random thoughts of the top of my head.

Microbiology I really enjoyed the lab class and didn't much enjoy the lecture part. So my good grad in that comes from the Lab part. For are final in lab we were given a tube of unkown microbes that we had to plate and figure out what they were by gram staining. We had gram stained everything that might be in our tube and each tube had 3-4 microbes in it. We had to find and identify at least 2 and hopefully three. Well at the begining of this process our teacher told us that the 3rd microbe she could not get to grow so we would probably only be able to get 2 at best. Well first I discovered that the third microbe that the teacher could not get to grow was growing quite well on my plate so that was one bonus and the second bonus was that I actually had a 4th microbe in my tube. Well cool a bunch of bonus points so out of a 150 page paper that most students were only going to get 125 points out of because of the microbes not growing I got 175 because mine grew and I figured out what they were plus identifying one we had not studied. So that really helped on that grade. All for today.

My Guy

2008-05-16T13:17:00.000-07:00

Well I am dating now and I won't say finally because it's not like I had time to sit around a fill sorry for myself anytime in the past. So today you get to read my thoughts on dating or what ever happens to come off the tip of my fingers today.
When I first moved here we went to Union meeting down in CO and since Nish and Jim have a van I went with them and Floyd. Well someone down there that didn't take the time to find out that I was Nisha's sister and had just moved here called Floyd's mom after meeting and told her it was really nice that his girlfriend had come to meeting. So we sorta laughed about that but didn't really think to much of it though Jim kept telling me I should give him a chance and ask him out sometime. Honestly my thoughts on that where that he was a goofy kid that lived here in town and was always over at Nish and Jim's so if I wanted to spend time there then I would have to put up with him also.
So I put up with him which wasn't really to hard to do as we all spent time together and get along well. Then in Feb I was coming home from Kearney and still had 1/2 day off before I had to go to work the next day and everyone else was still out of town so I called him up and we spent the afternoon together. I was quite amazed that we got along so well on our own and had fun. So off and on through the next months we started hanging out more and more together. Then May 4th he was trying to get up the right words to ask me out which he rather stumbled around on and never quite got the words out so I go over to Nish and Jim's the next day and she tells me that Floyd told them we were now dating. Well good thing they are here. If I have any questions about what's going on in my life I can just ask them. LOL.
So last Sunday night before I get off of work I get a phone call from Floyd asking me if I can come over after work. This is 10 at night and he has to get up early to go to work but I stopped by anyway and he showed me what he had been doing that day. Thats when I found out he could be really romantic also. He has a hanging cherry tree in the front yard that has loads of white blossoms on it right now. He cleaned out from under the tree and put a bench there to sit on. It smelled beautiful under there.

Random thoughts from my day.

2008-05-07T12:40:00.001-07:00

So this will be just a jumble of thoughts like my mind at the moment. I just got out of or nursing program lunch where us new students for next year meet with our instructer and the students just finishing up the program. So now I am a big bit scared and stressed out. Basiclly I have everything done that I need to have done to start the program except my physical. BUT I asked how much I could resonable expect to work during the program and they told me maybe every other weekend. YIKES!! How am I going to manage that one???
I've also come to the conclusion that I am a work a holic, and can't say no to going into work. Then I was told that we will have no life. NO dating, time with families or having babys if we want to get into this program. So maybe I need to go tell Floyd this as we just started dating. Lets see "Sorry after 3 days of this dating thing I've been told by my nursing teacher that I can't date during the nursing program if I want to get through the program sucessfully, so I just have the summer in which I am going to be working every hour I possible can as I can't work during the nursing program either." Now what responce do you think I will get from that.
I've already desided that when I graduate Lynisha and Jim are going in my speach with a big Thankyou for supporting my nutritional needs during the year. I am so glad that I have relatives here in town and am not trying this entirely on my own and I only had two classes this semester. I keep telling myself it is only 9 months and I CAN do this.

April

2008-04-26T19:43:00.000-07:00

Well I haven't been on here in a while so decided to update my life some. Ha if only I could do that. More like update what I've been doing in the last several weeks. School has been going well and now I'm down to the last few weeks. In Micro we are doing unknown bugs now, which is very interesting to me. In Nutrition I am doing a report on diets in the elderly, both at home and in nursing home/hospitals. Also very interesting and filled with my last couple of years experience.
As far as work goes well I felt like the last few weeks that I was in that Psalm. Ye though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. We've had 5 people die in the last 2 weeks very unexpectedly for 3 of them and quite expected for 2 of them. So I was just thinking of the shadow of death. In the friends that I've been around that have died there seems to be light and rejoicing that they can go to a much better place although we will miss them. These deaths in the nursing home that I have been in the room during are all together different. A dark shadow and you can't begin to imagine how much darker it will be. So I was really thinking when we die to natural things, things in life we need to put to death, that just brings more light into our lives.

More spring break

2008-03-26T06:05:00.000-07:00

Well my younger brother and sisters came over for their spring break. Younger meaning those still liveing at home and going to school as they are all younger than me and seem to rotate in and out of mom and dads house with regularity. We had some nice spring weather as well as some cold windy winter snow. The four kids stayed at Nish and Jims until Tues night and then came and spent the night with me. I was in the middle of getting out all my spring/summer clothes and packing away me winter ones so now I have another mess to clean up but at least it is confined to one room.

Wed night Kyrie came over and spent the night with us. I don't have any pictures though as I bought a car instead of a camera. But to paint a picture Kyrie was going to sleep with Shayla and Kaela and then desided that aunt Jeannes bed would be a better place to sleep which would have been fine except that Kara was already in it. So she climbed up in the middle and proceeded through the night to move herself sideways. Which just about pushed me off the bed. Don't know still how that works that someone so little can move someone much bigger but it does. Kara then got squashed so she cureled up in a ball right in the middle of the bed somewhere at Kyries back so then I could not move Kyrie over because Kara was blocking the way.

Thur we all packed up and went back over to Lynisha's house. I got some art projects from Walmart that looked like fun and left them there. Not very nice of me realy because then they could make a mess at her house instead of mine. But she very nicely put up with that in the middle of her dinningroom and they didn't get to messy except for the bead watches which kept falling off of the table onto the floor.

We went to the park a few times which was fun as I hadn't been to the park with Trey before and he hadn't been since he learned how to walk so it was like his first time. He has no fear except for the slids and loves the marry-go-round. He stood up on the marry-go-round while it was going and would walk back and forth across it. Then he kept trying to get on while it was going or hold on while Kyrie was pushing. They had some little hills in the park that he must have thought looked like moutains. He struggled to climb them and then clapped his hands when he got to the top. Then he looked down and had to walk sideways down one step at a time and would turn around and do it again. The kids left with Cindy on Sat to go back to Kearney.

Spring break

2008-03-13T18:01:00.000-07:00

Well we are taking a break from school or from spring? Not sure why they call it spring break because I don't really think it is spring yet although right now the weather would beg to differ. I just finished up midterms at school and got my grades and I am passing in both my classes. Thankgoodness I am good at writing papers off of the top of my head because that is how I am getting the best grades in Micro. I am actually supprising myself in that class. Went into school today to take my last test before break and after going into work at 4am I actually remembered a lot for my test. Not going to try that one again though. Nutrition and Diet Therapy I have an A in. Now if I just put to use in my life what I learned in class I would have it made.

I have had some company to my little place the last few days. Our workers came over for lunch on Wed on their way through and I actually cooked an edible meal. Lol I had to call up Lynisha and ask her how do I cook chicken breast real fast in the microwave? Is that even possible? Yes it is so I didn't have undercooked pieces of chicken on the top of my casserole after all. Thank goodness for sisters. Then I also had to figure out how to get the lid off of my casserole dish after it had bubbled over and stuck to the dish. I didn't ask Lynisha about that one. So I am standing in my little kitchen while the workers are in the living room trying to make a quite phone call and at the same time figure out how do I get this lid off. Well thin forks come in handy. I was thinking all kind of strange things like maybe I could stick it in the sink and wash around the outside and that would unstuck (don't you think unstick would work better here? but the dictonary doesn't know what I'm taking about) it but then I thought that might suction it on worse. Then after we were done with lunch my aunt Elaine stopped by on her way through. So my apartment actually got a spring cleaning real fast in the middle of midterm week. Something I thought would be impossible but I made it through.

Feb 2008

2008-02-07T11:06:00.000-08:00

Well lets see since the last time I wrote a lot has happened. I now have a fully furnished appartment. First some nurses I worked with that are travelers finished up their contract and went on to their next jobs. So who do you suppose they thought of when it was time to empty out their appartments but me. SO I got a brand new bed, with sheets, some pillows and lots of odds and ends that you don't think of unless you have nothing. Also my grandmother came to visist on her way to south america and brought me dishes and some pictures. Then my mom and dad came up for christmas and brought me a coutch and table and some dishes. I did have dishes left in my cupboard but they are missed matched leftovers from the last people that lived there. Then the guys in the appartment across from me moved out and left everything so I got two lamps, an end table and some car stuff for Morgen.
Now all I am really missing are some chairs for my table and a clock. You would think I would have a clock but all I have is a phone and when there is nothing else in your house that tells time well then you keep a pretty close hold on that.
Speaking of my phone it hasn't rang in 4 days so I must be caught up at work and plan to keep it off this weekend so I don't get any calls from work. I have worked the last 14 days and picked up 14 hours of over time last week so am looking forward to a wonderfull weekend off in Kearney. Still have a 2 page paper to write for school but seem to be able to just pour those out and get good grades so not to worried about that. all for today.

Jan 2008

2008-01-16T17:21:00.000-08:00

Well I was waiting for pictures to start my blog but can't seem to get my hands on any so this will just have to be a boring me writing blog for the time being. Actually my year has started out as anything but boring so far. The first of Nov I moved to Sidney, NE. The next day I started my new job at the hospital here in the Long Term Care section most commonly known as a nursing home. Around the 15th of November with my sisters help as I was spending most of my week days at work I found a nice little garden level apartment, cleaned it and moved in. No furniture except an air mattress and a chair. I had to borrow some sheets from her and a pillow.

2007-10-02T11:51:00.000-07:00

Fire works at the Nebraska state games opening ceremony's in July 2007