On the first day of christmas

Here is my REAL Christmas tree. I had never had a real Christmas tree till I married Andrew and he was absolutely appalled that I had never had a real tree. He is from Oregon and has never had anything but a real Christmas tree. So we went to the christmas tree lot and picked one out. This one called out to me. We tied it onto the top of our car(luckily we have a rack) and brought it home. I love it, it smells great, and misses me when I go to work. Not only that, it has 1000 lights on it. Yes, thats right 1000. I know, you are all jealous. I love Christmas.

UTES!

As most of you know I am a die hard Ute football fan. Since I graduated I have not been able to get football tickets. However, the BYU-Utah game was a different story. We camped out and waited in line all night to get standing room only tickets at the top of the stadium. I then had to sneak in the stadium, pretending I was a student. It makes the noses bleed section look like prime real estate. It was sooo worth it though. I would like to throw out a thanks to Max Hall(BYU quarterback) for helping us win the game with all the interceptions he threw. I would also like to nominate him for MVP of the game for the 5 interceptions he threw. It was a lot of fun and I am glad that I forced andrew to give me his student ticket. : ) Thanks to April who camped out while I was working till 3am.

The BYU cougar hanging from the pole in a nuse.
No one even waited till the end of the game to rush the field. Ya. It was that good. 48-24

Andrew and I have moved into Nate's basement but before we did we had to do some much needed painting. The whole living room/kitchen was in this awesome wood paneling....as much as I love wood paneling, it had to go. This was my first experience painting and I have to say that it kinda sucks. Its not just like you can just paint a wall. No, you have to first paint primer a couple of times and then the actual paint a couple of times. So you end up painting the same thing like 5 times. However once it was done it looks really good. I am so excited for nate and di to come see it and tell me how awesome I am. Anywho, check out the pics.


Before we painted....
After we painted....it looks so much better
added some lights and decorated!

Happy Halloween

this is how we do halloween in the ER....


No comment necessary.


Gauze anyone?(Its an ER...we have a plethora)


My killer costume...I know you're jealous of my silver pants.


So I have been getting crap from Cassi for not updating my blogg but I had a serious Iphone malfunction and all my pictures are on it. The top half of my screen stopped working. The things at the top of my screen are such things as my calender, text, and photos. This may be all and well besides the fact that my phone is hacked so I can't just take it into the apple store to get it fixed(they look down on the hackers) I have to unhack it and play dumb then rehack the new phone. So needless to say...it's a process. So I am sorry for my "lameness" and will try to be better.

The "dudes"

After LOTOJA we went and stayed with our friend Jane in Star Valley. She has horses and was nice enough to take us out and let us ride them. They are so fun and we had a blast. Andrews horse kept trying to eat along the way and Andrew couldn't stop him. Jane called us dudes but I still had fun. Thanks Jane! Jane's mom cooked for us a delightful meal with the most amazing potatoes that I have ever had. I snuck some out of the fridge later that day and they were awesome. mmmm potatoes.

LOTOJA

Here is Andrew's race pictures. I know a little late... Anywho he did amazing! 208 miles of pure fun...just ask him. I am so proud of him because I could never do that and I think he is crazy but he did and he is awesome! So go ANDREW!

Spelling Bee

I went to my girlfriends baby shower the other day and this was her cake. The kicker is she had two cakes both of which were spelled the same. REALLY! REALLY!

Mr. Kangaroo

Alright, I know that I need to blog about Andrew's race and a few other things but I am at work and I don't have the pictures so I will blog about other things. How many people get to hold a baby kangaroo? Well I did and it was quite possibly the cutest thing that I have ever seen. It was really soft and really cuddly. It even hopped around and was really cute. This one is actually used as a therapy pet in a nursing home and was just visiting the ER for a few hours. I know you are all turning green with envy.
She even wears a little diaper!
And she likes to eat my hair.

Boating

So I am a little behind on my blogging, sorry. I will start with our boating trip to Jordanelle with April and Brandon. It was really fun...just ask Andrew. He loves boating. I, however, had tons of fun and have posted some lovely pictures for you lovely folks. I was a little sore the next day but it was worth it.

Sticky Fingers

I love my job. People are always coming up with new and interesting ways to entertain me. A recent visitor to the ER was discharged. She decided that she didn't want to carry her backpack around so she hid it under a car in the parking lot. She later returned for it and could not find it. She was frantic and called security and they were helping her look for it. Well, security found it first and opened it up to find 2 full bags of hospital supplies that she had stolen. Ya Ya everyone steals from the hospital; it is a daily occurace. However the supplies that she stole made me laugh for about 45 minutes. I am not sure what you are going to use these for but here is a picture of the most interesting things. I have included a list of the stolen items for your reading pleasure and I will leave it up to your imagination what she is going to do with these things.(most of these useless outside of the hospital)
Catheter kit
EKG pads
blood culture bottles(have live bacteria in them and smell like rotten eggs if accidentally broken)
blood tubes
Christmas tree(for the oxygen, hooks canula to wall O2
roll of tube gauze
blood arm band(used to identify pt recieving blood)
IV connector
Bottle of saline
stinky smell spray
label maker refill(makes sticker copy of wristband)
mouth swab
Hibacleanse(soap)
assorted first aid supplies(not shown)
She was arrested and taken to jail on 2 prior warrants for theft. I sure want to know where I can find a black market cath kit.

Havasupai Flood!

Before the flood...

and after the flood!

My favorite place in Havasupai was flooded and everyone had to be evacuated by helicopter. I am sad but am really glad that I got to go there before it flooded. It is such a beautiful place; we were planning on returning next summer but I don't know if that will be possible now. : (

why we should ban smoking

Working in the ER I have the blessed opportunity to see and meet all the....colorful...people of the world. My most recent experience was a fellow who was drunk enough to kill me three or four times over. This is the first problem. My little friend now gets me to babysit him because he is so drunk. He can't stand up without stumbling and has a black eye, previous stitches, many lacs so on and so forth. Lets just say that this isn't this guys first rodeo. About every 5 minutes this guy wants to go smoke a cigarrette and the fact that he can't walk is only one of many factors of why we won't let him, death is real high up there too. He also doesn't seem to remember 5 min ago when i told him no. After about an hour an a half of this he gets up and goes into the corner. Being that its happened more than once I think that he is peeing on the floor. So I go in there and he is not peeing but he is unrolling the cigarretes in his pocket and has a handful of tobacco in his hand. "What are you going to do with that I ask?" "I am gonna chew it!" Has it really come to this point that if you are not allowed to smoke for and hour you are going to put the cigarrete with all the toxins into your mouth. This seems like a good idea. And does that even work!!!! I slapped his hand and all the carcinogenic tobacco fell to the floor and our 5min routine began again. All though this is bad it doesn't compare to the guy at LDS who was in a C-collar, on a backboard(strapped down), with oxygen and a nasal cannula who lit up inside the emergency room because he needed his hit. Maybe we need to get the word out that OXYGEN IS FLAMMIBLE! And many have tried and burned their faces off because of this addiction. It is a sad but true fact that it has come to this point. This is why we should ban smoking, for my sanity.

the wedding

the start of us.

Havasupai Falls

Yellowstone

Andrew's bike race!

Ow ow! Look at those sexy shorts. So ya its been a while sorry but i am really going to keep up on this now. So here is the skinny. Here is Andrews first road bike race. It was the Tour de Park City; a 106 mile bike race. Me being the good wife that I am(and not knowing how long it was going to take) stayed the whole time. I figured hey, I will go to the feed stations ahead of him and take his picture. I know how kind. Anywho, that didn't turn out as well as I thought. I drove along the same route as the bikers because they didn't close any of the roads but I really felt out of place being the only car on the road and all. I then proceeded to miss the turn off and get lost for the next hour. Awesome so I missed the first feed station. By the time i figured out where the hell I was it had been about 31/2 hours. I would just go and eat and go to the finish line and wait. That should be long enough right....wrong. So I am sitting at the end and no one is coming....ya. I give a call to my loving brother and he tells me it takes about 6-7 hours so I'm a little early. I will go wait at the last feed station. So i go and chat it up with the old folks manning the apples and goo. 4 hours later...nothing...no Andrew.....I am a little worried at this point that he might have died somewhere. I give him a little ring a ding ding and he answered. I am almost there he said..5 miles. 4o min later i get a phone call..."I'm at the finish line." How did you get past me! Turns out he was following the racers who had a different route and bypassed me all together. So this is the only picture that I have of his race. Yaaa! Go me!

tour

We are losing our blogging virginity....be gentle.

We're going to give this a try. We are both students at the U. Steph graduates this spring and has applied to nursing school and hopefully starts this summer. I graduate sometime in the distant future. Along with school Steph and I both work for Intermountain Healthcare. Steph spends most of her time working in the ER where she sticks people with needles and watches homeless men pee on the floor. I work in Same Day Surgery during the week. We both work in the OR at different hospitals where we deal in blood and guts. Steph likes to travel A LOT. She snowboards and loves sushi. I enjoy soccer, snowshoeing, biking, and most things outdoors. We rarely have time for any of these things. You might hear more from us and you might not. Time will tell.