Jeremy~Krista~Braxton

Almost 7 months old!!!

2010-08-25T19:32:00.000-07:00

I know that every time I finally put up a new post I say that I'm way behind and I'm going to try harder. Well this time I'm just going to say lets face it, I'm not very good at keeping up on my blogging. As a child I was never able to keep a journal going longer than 2 or 3 days. I don't know why I thought I would be any better at this.
I guess I can honestly say my health has improved a ton since my last post, but not as much as I would have liked to have been able to say. I'm still having some small complications from when I had Braxton, and still I will say they are all worth it. I never imagined how much love Jeremy and I would have for our little boy!!!
Braxton is now a few days shy of 7 months old! He is getting so big and he is so much fun! He's already passed a few of the milestones that I have neglected to blog about. He's been rolling both ways since he was 4 months old, he got his first 2 teeth around 5 months, has recently started sitting up on his own, and he's ready to crawl any day now. He's mastered crawling backwards, however he's not crawling forward yet. He still manages to get where he wants to go though. He lays on his stomach and pulls himself forward. Despite the fact that he's not crawling just yet doesn't mean he's not in to everything! I'm slowly baby proofing the house as needed. There are things I never thought would be a problem, I was so wrong!! He's in to everything. I'm seriously considering getting a baby gate so he can't go in to the kitchen. My only hesitation is that I'm not really known for being too graceful, and I'm kind of concerned it might do more harm than good. I can only imagine what Jeremy would say if I called and told him I needed to go to the hospital because I tripped over the baby gate and broke something!!!
I can't believe how fast the last 7 months have went by and how fast my little boy is growing up. He is starting to jabber a ton and say things like da da, ma ma, and ba ba. I'm not sure if he's actually trying to say those things or if they just sound similar and he's really just jabbering, but for the sake of making myself feel loved I'm just going to say he's intentionally saying ma ma for sure!!!
Right now Jeremy is working a ton as usual. I guess in this economy I should just be greatful for the 14 hour days he works. Braxton and I miss him like crazy and we're so excited to see him when he gets home from work. The huge smile Braxton gets when he realizes daddy's voice is coming from the front door and not from my cell phone is priceless! He gets so excited to see Jeremy and can hardly control himself. He starts laughing(which is the sweetest sound), kicking his legs, and his hands start shaking. He loves his daddy so much and I'm pretty sure he's got Jeremy wrapped around his finger! I love watching them play, its so cute. Jeremy doesn't get much of a break on his days off because I'm usually working and he's watching Braxton. I never get any complaints about it though.
Jeremy and I really love being parents and can't imagine our lives without Braxton! He's been such a great baby and I couldn't ask for anything more!!!

Braxton at 6 months

2010-08-25T16:01:00.001-07:00

Braxton

2010-03-10T02:10:00.000-08:00

I'm finaly getting around to updating the blog. Things have been crazy the last 5 weeks and my spare time has seemed to disappear. Our baby boy finaly arrived on February 2!! I was admitted to the hospital on Feb. 1 to be induced. After 33 hours of labor and not dilating past a 3 for over 24 hours I decided it was time to get the baby here and had a C-section. Braxton J Mitchell was born Feb. 2 at 5:47 pm. He weighed 7lbs 6oz and was 19 1/2 inches long. We were so excited to finaly meet him, he definately made up for the long labor!! We were both released from the hospital 3 days later and finaly got to go home and start our new adventure. Unfortunately we only got to stay home for a few days before we were back at the hospital. My incision from the C-section got infected and I had to go back in to surgery wed. night and have it reopened and cleaned. That landed me a hospital stay for 4 more days and 6 long weeks of recovery. I was lucky enough to be able to keep Braxton at the hospital with me through my stay. I was so happy to be released from the hospital. I think we all(me, Jeremy, Braxton, my mom, and Jeremy's mom) were more than ready to be at home and not see a hospital room for a very long time!!

I have been fortunate enough to have a ton of help which has made my recovery as good as possible. My mom and Jeremy's mom were both able to come and stay with us and offer some much appreciated help. I was a little nervous when it came time for Braxton and I to try things out on our own. It went a lot smoother than expected!! I was starting to get cabin fever by the third week of being home so thanks to my sister in law, Trisha, I was able to get out of the house for a few hours a couple different days and go spend some time with their family.

Even though things got off to a rough start for us we are so excited to have Braxton here and to be starting this new chapter of our life. He is such a good baby, I couldn't ask for more!!

Our new view

2009-11-30T17:48:00.000-08:00

These aren't very good pictures, I really need to get a new camera. Its been a long time since I have been able to look out the back window and see deer! Its been nice to be away from all of the houses and traffic.

Baby Update

2009-11-21T13:59:00.000-08:00

We went and got my 3D ultrasound this week. Jeremy and I were really excited to get to see more pictures of him!! Now we just need to get started on everything else we have to do before he comes. We haven't even started to get his room ready and we still need to go buy a crib. I guess 12 weeks might go by faster than we think and I need to get stuff done while I still can!! I'm starting to find that there are a lot of things that are starting to become a challenge for me to do. I decided the other day I needed to write them down before I forget so here are some of the challenges and changes I'm experiencing.

Putting on my compression socks and regular socks in the morning is rather entertaining, Jer will just sit there and laugh until I'm completely exhausted and frustrated that I want to give up and then he does it for me. He thinks its funny to watch!!

Trying to get off the couch, out of bed, and in and out of the car is seeming like in another month its going to be impossible!!!

No matter what I eat I get heartburn, I'm becoming great friends with Prilosec and Tums!!

My clothing selection is becoming very slim, 2 pairs of pants I can still wear and 8 shirts. I think its time to buy some maternity clothes.

Sleeping is starting to become a problem. Waking up 5 times in the night just to use the bathroom is starting to become annoying. I take forever to get back to sleep. Maybe if I stop drinking liquids at noon I'll be able to control that better.

I have become strangely motivated to do things around the house. Jeremy tells me I have OCD but I think vacuuming everyday to keep the carpet looking like its going in the same direction and asking him to avoid standing on the rugs in the kitchen so they don't have footprints in them is just trying to keep things clean. I think I surprise Jer everyday with something new I've become obsessed with. I'm pretty sure he thought it would all blow over but its yet to stop. I've had some people tell me I'm nesting, so I'm hoping for a happy medium to level out at or I think I'm going to drive Jeremy crazy following him around cleaning up after him and picking up his clothes as soon as they hit the floor to wash them. I always wondered what I'd do with my spare time when I went from working 60-70 hours a week to 35 hours a week, I guess now I know.

I have to say I'm so grateful for Jeremy and all he does. I guess I never realized how much he was working while I was working that much as well. I truly have a great appreciation for what he does now. I always look forward to him coming home to see what kind of comment he'll make that day. He says things so matter of fact without considering he's talking to an emotional pregnant woman and then acts so innocent when he gets that look of , you might want to run, did you really just say that out loud to me? For example he walked in the door the other night, changed out of his work clothes, and walked up to me and said "Wow I think your stomach got a lot bigger overnight!". He keeps me laughing with his comments and is always so supportive when I'm having a meltdown over my many insecurities with pregnancy. I love you Jer!!

Enough about the pregnancy...

I'm going to try making Thanksgiving dinner this year. Jeremy will be working so by the time he gets off we wouldn't make it to Oakley for anything so I thought I'd try to make dinner. It could get interesting, but for the sake of the others that will be eating with us I hope it all works out!!!! The next couple months are going to be rather busy with Thanksgiving, Jeremy's birthday, Christmas, and baby stuff. I guess we better get busy so everything will be ready!!!

Family Pics

2009-10-16T16:50:00.000-07:00

We went to Oakley the end of September and got family pictures with Jeremy's brother and sister's. Last picture before we have one more person to add to it!!! We also went to Jeremy's grandma and grandpa's Christmas party. We had a really good time, it was fun to see everyone. We're really glad they had it early. Come Christmas we have to be picky about what party's we go to. Its too far to travel in the snow to make it to all of them. Hopefully this year will turn out better than last Christmas.

First baby stuff

2009-10-05T11:11:00.001-07:00

Last weekend Jer and I bought some clothes for the baby. We were shopping for us and Jer seen the blue shirt and had to buy a few things. Its a good thing he works so much and doesn't make it out, I think he's going to be worse than I am!! It was exciting for us to get our first pair of clothes together though!! Jer also talked me into posting my baby belly. I was just going to keep the picture to myself (not loving the big belly thing), and he convinced me its normal and I should keep it posted if I want to remember it. We just went to the Dr. on Wed. He's told me the compression stalkings are a go all the time from now on, I was getting away with them just during the day. I guess its for my own benefit! He's thinking the swelling isn't a good sign but I'm hoping that he's just scaring me into being good. Working in the medical field I know they do that more than not!!! I was really loving red meat for a long time (that's when Trisha was feeding us everyday), but now the smell is in my house and I have to touch it I'm having some issues with it. Maybe I should just talk Trisha into cooking for me the rest of the pregnancy, I love food when i don't have to touch it!! I don't think I'd have to talk too hard either she's really good to us!! I'm loving being in the new house, room to move a ton has been really nice! Not loving the increase in heart burn, constant compression stalkings, and huge belly. Guess its a small price to pay!! I've just started to feel him move recently, to be honest it kind of freaked me out at first!! I'm getting ready to send Jer off for the week to go hunting and I'll be on my way to Oakley!

IT'S A BOY!!!

2009-09-16T14:18:00.000-07:00

Jeremy and I went and got my Ultrasound today and we're having a BOY!!!! We're both really excited. Jeremy especially is a very proud dad right now! We got to see some really cool things. All of his measurements look good and we also got to see his blood flow to his heart and that looks good as well. They changed my due date from Feb. 8th to Feb. 12th so not much of a difference. My ultrasound tech, Cody, said he was moving a lot and it made some of the views difficult to find, but she found all of them. He is a very active baby right now! I'm surprised after seeing how much he moves, that I can't feel it. Now I guess its time to start looking at names!

Denver Pictures

2009-08-18T13:50:00.001-07:00

Me, Betsy, and Kara

Chrissy, Kara, and Betsy

Betsy and I boating

Heather, Chrissy, and Kara

Bryan

July and August

2009-08-18T12:42:00.000-07:00

Many of you probably already know this but Jeremy went to Clearfield, Pennsylvania from July 5th to August 1st for work. I think that July was probably the longest month of my life. I was so excited to have Jeremy home. He would never admit it but I know he was ready to come home(at least I tell myself he missed me!) In all reality he was probably relieved to have been away from the pregnant lady that looks like his wife but is having some serious mood swings!! We moved out of the old place we were renting and Jeremy is working on a new house we are going to rent as soon as we get it ready. We kind of got set back with Jeremy going out of town for a month but it will hopefully be ready soon. Right now we have a camper at Jeremy and Trisha's which turned out to be a really good thing. I had somewhere to go for company, air conditioning, and home cooked meals!!! Thanks to Jeremy, Trisha, and the girls I ended up doing pretty well with Jeremy being gone, but especially thanks to Trisha, I don't know what I would have done without you, she was there for every craving I had, to help supply me with things that I didn't realize until 11pm that I was out of, and making sure I didn't get lonely!! You guys are the best!!

A week after Jeremy got home I flew out with Betsy to Denver. We went for a 4 day vacation to relax and shop. Her sister lives in Littleton so we stayed with them and had a great time. We went shopping, boating and the rest of the time we just relaxed. Betsy was a sport. This was only the second time I've flown and the first time I flew I was highly medicated. Betsy was very patient and supportive of all of my off the wall exaggerations of what was going to happen to us on the flight. The flight home was much better. I think that's probably a vacation we'll be taking again.

The posts are probably not going to get any better any time soon considering it would be extremely hard to fit the computer in the camper. I'll try my best but no promises.

JEREMY'S PENNSYLVANIA PICTURES

This is mostly the kind of tanks they were hauling.

This is one of the locations they would go on.

This is an old church.

This is an old milk barn.

This is a bridge Jeremy would pass on his way to work in Pennsylvania, he thought it was cool because the whole thing is made out of concrete.

Jeremy's work truck

Memorial Day

2009-05-25T20:29:00.000-07:00

In honor of memorial day I thought I'd post a couple pictures I have of some great men that I have been blessed enough to have in my life and have passed away. There are many I wish I had pictures of but unfortunately I don't. Uncle Gary who treated me like his own granddaughter and I loved so much, Ty who passed away when we were kids but I know I missed some great times with him, Uncle Neal whom I never got to meet but I know was a great person from all the stories I've been told, and Jeremy's little brother Tyler who died when he was less than a month old, we would have loved to have known him.

There's Ed who I have only known for the short time I've been in Roosevelt but has made an impact on my life that would take most people a whole lifetime to make. He was always there for you no matter what you needed or what he had to drop to come help you. He was always willing to help whether it was his words of advice or washing the dishes while Elisha and I made chicken noodle soup when I had pneumonia. It never failed that he could always make you laugh or smile when you was down, he had a personality that radiated. I'll never forget going to the gym, the Vegas trip, or the times we spent with all of us just hanging out. I miss you and will always feel grateful that I met you.

Grandpa Jay reading to Wes

and I.

Then there's Grandpa Jay who taught us all so much and taught us to work hard. The summers we spent working with Grandpa Jay were great and I wouldn't have spent my summers any other way. He was always such a tease and even though I'd get mad I secretly loved all of the teasing and I can't forget him and grandma Bethel spoiling me!!! I miss and love you Grandpa.

Jeremy's wedding and Me, Dad, and Wes

I never thought the day would come that I'd have to live without my dad. But the longer that time passes the more I know he's still with me everyday helping me like always. He was a great example and very intelligent. It never failed that he made sure we had good horses to ride and practiced hard. He taught my brothers and I how to compete and be competitive and to do it gracefully. He was my best friend and most of all a great father who was always there with mom to support us in anything we'd do. I'm grateful for the time I had with you and can't thank you enough for all you did for me and taught me. We couldn't have had a better dad. I love and miss you more than anything.

I've truely been blessed to have some very special people in my life and I've spent this memorial day appreciating every one of them.

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Thanks for everything Ed. I'm so lucky to have had you in my life!! We'll miss ya!!

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Here's my ambulance I'm so proud of!!! Thanks again Jer!

April and May Updates

2009-05-24T10:34:00.000-07:00

I know I said I'd do better at not taking so long in between blogs, but..... well no excuses!! Haven't had anything too exciting to report. April was Birthday madness in my family. We only made it to Cameron's party but was able to see Isabelle and wish her Happy Birthday too. Cameron's party was so much fun. Jeremy got to go out with me and Cameron and Jeremy just love each other so it was fun. I was bluntly informed by Jeremy when I wasn't sure if I could get out of my ER shift that night or not that he'd be going with or WITHOUT me!!! I was so glad we was able to go. Then came my birthday and my mom was so sweet. She scheduled her hair appointment that day and came out. I only had to work a half a day so she took me to lunch before I went to work and then after took me, jer and my brother's family out to dinner. Thanks mom it was a great day. My friends at work are great(thanks especially to Elisha! Your the best.), when I got there they had flowers, balloons, and a magnet for my fridge that said "nurses make it all better"! Thanks to everyone for making it a great birthday. Jeremy gave me the cutest toy ambulance along with many other things but I have to say I'm very proud of my ambulance!!! Thanks Jer!!!

May has been kind of busy. We've been in Oakley the past 3 weekends. Mostly for classes and ambulance call. As most of you have probably heard my friend Jan is getting married and moving to Oklahoma so the last weekend we spent out there for goodbye parties. I'm going to miss you guys but I know you have great opportunities waiting for you there!! Good Luck.

I also started my summer classes and poor Jeremy has had to suffer as far as dinner goes. The two nights a week I go he's really good about breaking out the frozen food. It's almost half way over though so I'm excited about that, then we can start enjoying our summer!!!

On May 12th Jeremy and I lost a friend of ours in Roosevelt. Ed was a great guy who would do anything for us. He was always there to listen and help. Thanks Ed for being such a great person, you touched many people and your going to be greatly missed. I'll never forget all the great times we all had together!!

Hopefully the next time I'm posting I can say we've been enjoying the great weather! Hope everyone's summer is starting off well!!

This is for my bro's!!

2009-04-21T15:55:00.000-07:00

I found this cute decoration I'm giving to my mom at the gift shop in the Hospital I work at. I can give this to her without hesitation right now because I don't have any kids. I thought it was so cute!! I'm sure this will still be there when I have kids. For right now I'll settle with having the cutest and best nieces and nephews ever! I just couldn't resist. So this is for my GREAT brothers and sister in laws!!! Love ya all!!

February and March(I know I'm behind!)

2009-04-02T15:40:00.000-07:00

I know I've really been slacking on the blogging. To be honest I really don't have an excuse other than does work and being exhausted count? I know I have it pretty easy compared to all my friends and family with kids!! I was planning on doing a February blog, but now I've let it go so long I guess I'll do a February and a March one together. February was pretty eventful for us. It started with me coming to Oakley the first weekend to get my hair done and spend some time with family and friends. I decided since Jer was working and Jade was going to have her baby anytime I better get out there. I came out on Friday and Jade did my hair, then I spent time with my mom and Saturday night I went and hung out with Jan and Betsy. It had been so long since we all hung out together and we had a lot of fun! On Sunday it was Jade's baby shower so I was glad I was able to get a few things done while I was out there. Jade's shower was so fun. Tasia and Ashley and whoever else helped decorate did a great job. It all looked so cute. Unfortunately because the weather was looking bad towards Roosevelt I was only able to stay for a while. I missed the best part, her opening all of her cute presents. I'm still glad I got to at least be there for a while and say hi to everyone.

The next weekend Jeremy and I loaded up and headed to Heber to pick up my mom from my brothers house and from there headed to St. George to watch my niece rodeo. The weather wasn't the best going down but Jeremy got us there. I was really looking forward to some time in the sun so when we got down there and Grandpa Doug informed me the weather wasn't going to be the best I was rather upset. To make up for the weather loss my grandparents just live down the road from a tanning salon so before the rodeo on Friday I decided to go tanning. BIG MISTAKE!!! I was so miserable. I only tanned for ten minutes but I was totally fried. I was so miserable the whole weekend. I couldn't sleep because every time I moved I would wake up. I ended up in the bathtub taking a Vinegar bath most of the time. Of course Jer doesn't understand so all he could do was laugh and point at my bright red body. I don't think I've ever burnt so bad. I guess that'll teach me to complain about the weather. After having a really fun weekend in St. George we headed home after Sunday dinner with Grandpa Doug and Grandma Betty. Grandma always spoils us. She's the best cook so we got turkey for Sunday dinner and when we got there on Thursday night she had homemade chicken noodle soup waiting for us. She knows its my favorite and since I didn't make it out for Christmas she had it waiting for me in St. George. Thanks Grandma, your the best!!!! The ride home was good. Mom and I read most of the way and Jer drove and listened to the i-pod(apparently he's not so into books!) When we got home I drove Jer out to Roosevelt and headed back to Heber. Ben and Lara decided to go on a vacation and I don't know what they were thinking but they decided to let me babysit for a couple of days! I had so much fun with the kids. It was presidents day so they didn't have school so we went bowling and watched movies and bought toys. We had so much fun! I was so sad when mom and I decided I had to leave before Will got out of school, due to the weather. Everyone made fun of me for this but I was looking forward to picking up him and his friends from school. Unfortunately mom had to pick up the slack. The rest of the month was filled with the normal stuff, work, work, and more work. Jer's a trooper though. He didn't mind my frozen dinners on the nights I didn't want to cook or cooking for himself on the days I worked 24 hr shifts.
The first weekend of March I came out for a super quick visit when Billy got blessed. I was late due to a bad ambulance call I had to go on before I left and so I could get home before dark I left early. It was well worth it though. I was able to see most of my family and I always love when I get to see my nieces and nephews. They're all so cute!! I love Wes and Jody's new house so it was fun to get to hang out there for a while. Jer was working so he couldn't come with me. I think we'll both be glad when he gets more vacation time and can start coming out to Oakley with me more often. As usual I got home and got ready for the next work week. However that following Friday wasn't the best. Jer got home and was so tired he hit the couch and was out cold. I was kind of glad cause all day something had been off I just wasn't feeling good. We both fell asleep on the couch until I woke up and felt terrible. I took my temp and it was 103.6! I know adults get fevers but its really unusual for adults to get them that high. I just medicated myself and slept it off. I woke up the next morning and didn't feel the best but I felt better. I started to clean the house and I went and spent some time with Trisha and the kids and just kind of wrote it of as some kind of 24 hr bug. Sunday night I had to work in the ER so I went to work and was fine but by 6 Monday morning I was really wishing I didn't have to be back to work by 8. I ended up going home getting ready and coming back to work but by 10 I couldn't take it anymore and had called in a PRN nurse to fill in the rest of the day. I decided I'd go home and rest and be better the next day but to play it safe see if the other nurse could work Tuesday if I needed him to. I woke up Tuesday and felt even worse. I called the other nurse to work for me and called and made an appointment with the doctor. When I got done seeing the dr. he ended up telling me I had pneumonia. Yes PNEUMONIA for the 2nd time since October. I couldn't believe it. He told me I couldn't return to work until my symptoms were gone and that he'd talk to my dr. I work for to get me off the hook and write notes to get me out of working my ER and ambulance shifts that week. I ended up being down until Saturday. Poor Jeremy again was neglected as far as dinner goes. He had to try and take care of me, work, and cook for himself. He was good about it though.
I finally feel better and decide to return to work on Monday. You'd think enough had already happened, guess again. I was cleaning a room after a patient was done and I was taking a blade off of a blade holder and my finger slipped and cut my thumb. I ended up walking down to the ER for stitches and getting 9 stitches in my thumb. Just some advice your the is probably the most inconvenient place to be cut cause your always hitting it on things and its always in the way! I guess maybe this is a sign I should get out of the medical field cause the last three weeks haven't been the best. I got my stitches out today and so far all is going well but I guess I shouldn't open my mouth too soon.
This past Sunday it was Jeremy's first day off out of his two for the week so him and a few of his coworkers decided to get their families together and have a BBQ. I had a lot of fun! He works with some great people and they're wife and kids are awesome to be around!! I can't wait for the weather to get better so we can plan our next BBQ. We had to move this one in the garage cause the wind was so bad, but we still had a blast. I know this has been a really long blog, I'll do better to try and split up my months instead of doing two months in one blog!! I'm also going to post some pictures that go with this blog but I haven't gotten the whole picture thing down yet so don't laugh too hard!

ELISHA AND I ARE TWINS!!!!!

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So Elisha and I both have the same outfit and we knew this would eventually happen!! We're thinking we kind of look like inmates!!! I'll post a better blog for February later this week when I have more time. I know I'm a slacker!!

SURPRISE!!!!

2009-02-04T16:23:00.000-08:00

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 a story. It may be poetry or an article on properly cleaning your face before a masque. I may draw or paint something. 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!

2009-01-13T15:38:00.000-08:00

Here are a couple more pictures from Vegas.

Slacker!!!!

2009-01-08T12:58:00.000-08:00

So I knew it would be hard for me to keep up on my blog!! Sorry! I still don't have many pictures and these ones aren't very good, but hopefully they'll work for now. We had a really good Thanksgiving and was able to spend the entire weekend in Oakley. It was really fun and gave us time to catch up on some needed rest. Before we knew it Jer and I was panicking to get to Salt Lake to go Christmas shopping. I'm not a big fan of shopping so I'm proud to say I did it all in 1 day! Then the Christmas parties came and I was so happy that my whole family got to be together. It's been a while since we all spent time together. Christmas was a little different this year. Jeremy ended up working, which was ok cause it didn't sound like the weather was traveling weather anyways, so I ended up spending most of the day with my brother and his family out here. I had a good Christmas, but I missed seeing my family. Poor Jer didn't get home until 3am the next day so he had a long Christmas. With New Years coming and knowing that Jeremy again would be working I decided to go to Las Vegas to pick up my friend Elisha. I posted a couple of pictures of us in Vegas but you can't see very well. Tiff, Elisha and I had a blast New Years Eve!!!! We walked the strip and went to Casino's it was fun!! Jeremy has been working out of town in Rangely a lot and sure enough as soon as I got home from Vegas Jer told me he was leaving to work out of town for the next three days. Go figure. I guess it was a good thing that I had someone coming out to stay with me for the weekend. Jan came out and stayed from Friday to Sunday. It was fun to show her my house and a little about where I live now. I had a fun weekend. On Friday I also got to go watch my 3 cousins play basketball in Altamont so I was able to see some of my family there. Anyway kind of a random blog but that's kind of the scoop on what's been going on. I'll really try better for the New Year!!!!

Early Riser

2008-11-21T08:38:00.000-08:00

For the past 4 weeks on tuesdays and thursdays I get up and go play basketball at 5:45am. I play with a group of girls its random on who shows up everytime. The way I got started doing it was the doctor I work for, his wife Jaclynn invited me to play with them. It's been really fun. in 31/2 months its the first thing I've done with other people out here. The first morning I got up to go play Jeremy just sat down on the couch and started laughing. I asked what he was laughing at and he said"Its just so funny your up at quarter after five and your getting up to go play basketball." Jeremy didn't think I'd make it this long. He thought I'd quit after two weeks but I'm still going! Its been fun to have something to look forward to!

I had Visitors!!!

2008-11-17T14:50:00.000-08:00

So this might be a little harder than I thought. I know it seems ridiculous that I don't have time to sit down and write a short message!! I was so excited last weekend. I had my first visitors to my house in Roosevelt. My friend Kat and her little boy Ike stayed with me for the weekend. It was so much fun to play with Ike and catch up with Kat. I enjoyed the company. And to make things better my Aunt Roma and her family came out to pheasant hunt, Jeremy and I was able to go to dinner with all of them Saturday night. I had a lot of fun talking with my cousins and seeing their kids. Wow they grow fast, I didn't think it had been that long since I had seen them. Aunt Roma, Myndi, Jason, and Adi came over and seen my house on Sunday morning. I know its lame but I get so excited to have visitors!! It gets lonely!! This past week Jeremy and I have been passing some stomach bug back and forth, we both feel better now but it was miserable for a couple days(especially when I was on call for the ambulance and had to take a patient to the Vernal airport. It was a toss up as to who was going to need the barf bag first, me or the patient!!!) Luckily we are doing better and we're getting really excited to go back to Oakley this coming weekend and see all our friends and family. I'll get some pictures up hopefully soon, I need to figure out how to do it first! I'll try and stay on top of my blogs better than the last couple weeks.

Getting Started!!!

2008-11-03T13:13:00.000-08:00

I'm new at this whole blogging thing, but decided after looking at Jody's and Myndi's all the time it would be a good way to keep in touch. Now that I've moved to Roosevelt I'm finding it hard with work to call everyone, so I'll see how this goes. I usually have a couple hours while I'm at work to mess around on my computer so hopefully I can stay on top of this!! Shortly I'll be putting pictures of my new home up so everyone can see where I live, and see the truley
gheto(sp?) neighborhood I live in. Well I'll hopefully be able to keep up with this, we'll see how it goes!!!!!