An Idea

So a child I have helped to care for is getting treatment at St. Jude's Children's Hospital in Tennessee. This is one amazing place. Children's hospitals are probably one of the greatest places on Earth. We get to change a child's and families life forever. Children are such a joy to take care of.  At this hospital they have a wall with the letters A-Z on them. Children at the hospital get to pick a letter and what the letter stands for. I decided I would do my own version of this on here today.

A: Amazing- Life is amazing if you think about it. God orchistrates everything. 

B: Beautiful- Spring in Texas, flowers, children's laughter, a new baby sleeping

C: Courageous- seeing children face illness and treatment with smiles on their faces is a true sign of courage

D: Death- we fight it each and every day and we usually win. Another doctor once said "there are things in this world that are worse than death"

E: Earnest- our efforts in making children's lives better

F: FUN- what we try to have everyday at work! I have the greatest job in the world cause I get to play with kids all day.

G: GOD- He is the one that knows everything before we do and created these wonderful children that we have the gift of caring for.

H: Home & Hugs- there is no place like being home or hugs from a child

I: Impossible- to save everyone. It's heartbreaking but it's the truth of life. 

J: Joy- what children always seem to have

K: Kids- the reason I love my job

L: Life- something I have the privelage to impact daily

M: Mom- I love both of mine and something I hope to be some day

N: Naps- I love nap time, especially on my post call days where I didn't get enough sleep the night before

O: Opportunity- We all have the opportunity to change someone's live by being kind

P: Prayers- God really does listen 

Q: Quilts- I love to make them for other people

R: Rain- spring rain is so wonderful to listen to

S: Spring- New life 

T: Texas- my home and I love it here!

U: Unseen- We can't see the future but our God can. He knows the unseen and unknown to us.

V: Violets- one of my favorite flowers

W: Wonderful- my life, my Husband, my job

X: x-rays: something I'm getting really good at reading

Z: Zonked- not sure if it's actually a word but it's how I feel after working a 30 hour shift

That's it for now!

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Understanding

When did I become so synical? I used to believe in the best in people first and think the worst last. That is no longer the case. Now most of the time I think the worst and then convince myself to think the best. Maybe it's because I have seen so much in the past 9 months. There is so much meanness in the world. I can't fathom how people can hurt children. I also can't fathom how people can be so stupid. They think that lying will cover up their story but all it does is make us more suspicious of them. 

Have you seen the beauty that is spring yet? I know some of you live in farther north parts of the country but it is Spring in Texas! Yesterday we had a good ole Texas thunderstorm. One with Hail and wind and lots of rain! The kind where the temp drops about 20 degrees in 10 minutes when it arrives and where everyone talks about how nasty it is outside. I love Texas Thunderstorms!

We are helping my parents move into their house this weekend! I'm ready for them to be out of our house. I'm glad they are moving here though. It has been nice having mom here to talk to. I can't wait to be pregnant and be able to tell them we are having a baby! Hopefully in the next year we will be able to become parents. 

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

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Spring is Here!

I'm not very good at keeping this thing updated. I met Jonathan's Mom, she is really nice. The wedding shower and wedding went great. I decided that making the wedding cake was more stressful than running a Code Blue. The weekend of the wedding was exhausting but so much fun. I felt like Duff from Ace of Cakes when we were delivering the cake to the reception site right before the wedding. The wedding was in the country down lots of bumpy roads and when we got there the icing had begun to slide off of the cake. I had to fix the icing and get ready for the wedding in less than an hour, whew! The cake turned out beautiful and it tasted great! Since then I have been just working. We are planning on going to California in July to see his mom, fun! Mom and Dad are living with us for one more week, then they are moving into their own house. I'm ready to have my house back. Jonathan and I are doing well and loving life. We have been married almost 3 years now. How crazy is that? Jonathan's best friend Matt is getting married this summer and we are making his Groom's cake, it should be lots of fun. I love making cakes that look like something else! I am also currently working on a quilt for my sister and I need to finish mine that I started last year. So busy, so busy.

The Bluebonnets have started to bloom! They are by far my favorite flower and I love when they are blooming all along the highway and in fields. They are more abundant down here than in the Dallas area. Bluebonnets are a sign that Spring has arrived in Texas, even if it hasn't quite arrived elsewhere.

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It's Been A While!

Wow, 

It's been over a month since I last posted. Life can be so incredibly busy. Do you ever wish we could just stop time and enjoy it? I was thinking the other day that the real reason I think I loved fishing and hunting so much was that it was a few days away from TV, cell phones, radio and society in general. A few days to spend quality time with family/friends, playing games, talking, enjoying God's creation. Maybe one day this spring Jonathan and I can go camping or at least spend a day outside, doing nothing but hanging out together. 

I love my job, pretty sure I have mentioned that before, but it will be nice to have a break. As a resident it means that we work lots of hours. This is good cause it gives us so many opportunities to learn but bad cause it means that it is many hours away from our families. 

I will be meeting Jonathan's Mom for the first time next weekend. I'm really nervous about meeting her and I hope she likes me. I will also be making my first wedding cake ever in March for Jonathan's sister. It is taking a lot of planning for me to be able to figure out how I'm going to do this and to do my best to make it look beautiful. It's the biggest day of her life and it needs to be gorgeous. 

I miss my nieces! Haven't seen them since Christmas and that is too long. Hopefully we can go to their house in Feb. and spend time with them, my brother and my sister-in-law. It would be so much fun to hang out with them for the weekend. 

Ok, all random. That's all for now.

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A Very Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas! Jonathan and I plan on going to a Christmas Eve service tonight then eating dinner at home while watching a movie and then opening presents to each other. I will be working tomorrow until Friday morning and then we will be headed to Dallas for Christmas with the family. I hope everyone has a great Christmas and enjoys time with their families. Please keep all the little ones and their families that are spending Christmas in the hospital in your thoughts and prayers. Merry Christmas everyone!

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Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone has a very Happy Thanksgiving and enjoys the time with family! Today Jonathan and I are spending Thanksgiving with just the two of us. We celebrated last Sunday with my family and enjoyed the time there. I have to work a lot this week so we didn't really have time to drive to Dallas for today. It's kinda nice to be at home with just the two of us. We are going to decorate for Christmas, watch the Cowboy game, eat snack food, and just hang out together. It seems the last few months we haven't got to spend much time with each other so it's nice when a few days come along where both of us don't have to work. I'm loving my job but I'm ready for intern year to be over so I don't have to work as many nights/weekends. I know Jonathan is ready for that too. I feel really bad for him having to stay home by himself and the fact that we haven't really made friends here yet, nor have we found a church home. Ok, now for the things I'm thankful for this year:
1) Jonathan is in Temple with me
2) I have today off
3) My mom is healthy again
4) God has provided so many things for us this year
5) we are trying to start a family
6) Jonathan still has a job

Happy Thanksgiving!
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Life is Full and Busy!

Life has been so busy lately it's not even funny. The month of November I am working the night shift in the ER which means I have to be at work at 6:55pm and get off at 7am. One of the major problems with this is that Jonathan doesn't get home from work until 6 or a little after. This leaves just enough time to eat dinner together and me to leave for work. Bummer. On Thursday Jonathan had 2 wisdom teeth removed and had off work on Friday. My mom and grandma came to visit on Saturday and stayed the night, they left this morning. It was nice to spend time with them. The last time I saw my mom she was still in the hospital about to be discharged. It was so nice to spend time with her like we used to. Shopping, cooking, talking, planning. I shared with her something that Jonathan are excited about but don't want to share with everyone yet. It's so great to be able to tell her secrets again, listen to her talk, and just know she is ok. One of the hardest parts of her being in the hospital and on the ventilator was that she couldn't talk. When she was on the ventilator it was almost like she wasn't even there. I could see her, but she couldn't talk, couldn't smile, couldn't laugh, couldn't acknowledge that we were there or that we had just told her we love her. Today I got to hug her, make her laugh, have real converstaions, and enjoy being with my mom. She is truly an amazing women. Life this week is going to be just as busy as last week.

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