She changed her mind.

She changed her mind- I put in an epidural.

At Work

I am sitting here at work writing this instead of writing my presentation. More about that later. There is a patient here who is in labor but wants to go natural. Why - I don't know but I am forced to stay here in case she changes her mind. There was a girl her Tuesday when I worked who wanted to go natural and she did change her mind but too late and screamed so loud for so long I had to go hide in my call room. You should have seen the faces of the families of other patients. I have to work two 24hr shifts this week - two of the guys I work with are out of town- plus Friday morning I am working at Rocky Mountain OB and then Saturday I have a Utah Nurse Anesthestist Association meeting to attend. Tuesday was one of the 24hr shifts and today is the other. Yesterday (Wednesday) - I had to do dinner club when I got home from work and do my stuff for YW's that night. I usually cook Mondays but the Wednesday lady needed to switch because she had to go to a funeral. Anyway, so Wednesday night at 5:00pm while I am delivering meals, checking homeworks, shuttling kids here and there, and listening to kids reading a coworker calls and says he needs a big favor. He also went on to say that instead of driving to SLC on Saturday and paying for the meeting- how would I like to get paid an honorium and have my $175 fee refunded? I said it sounded good. He said I just had to give a 45 minute presentation on Pregnancy induced hypertension. No problem said I as I ran around doing other stuff - good said he and hung up. I have since thought about it more and I am an idiot. This was 5:00pm wednesday night - we had dinner and FHE after that (kids have piano now on Mondays - Jared taught the lesson on the Plan of Salvation and did awesome) - then I had YW's. Today I have been at work all day - did 3 c-sections and as mentioned I have to work tomorrow in the am at an office- then I have an eye appt for contacts after that. That leaves Friday night to prepare this presentation. I am stressed. All well. It is only 45 minutes in front of all the CRNA's in Utah!! I guess I should go work on it. I am getting up. I am leaving. Adios.

This the night we went to see the Christmas lights in SLC. THis is Danica's camera - I met everyone in SLC after I got off work so of course I forgot my camera. We had a good time. I dont'know where Lynnaea is - she wasn't in the one I had LindsayAnn take of just my kids and me either - (which I didn't notice until I was posting it on myfamily. What a terrible mom I am!!!

Brynne and Kiersten the night we went to see the temple lights wearing the cute hats Amy had .

Anders with Christmas Presents

Anders in his new Scooby Doo underpants - he stayed dry all day today and yesterday - he is doing great! I am sooo sad he is turning THREE on Sunday. I may have a breakdown.

Here is the sign I made for my presentation on the new value - not quite up to Kami's standards but it will work for me! On another note, I let my kids have friends over tonight (friday night) and as I was driving the friends home (I left my kids home to clean up the mess) - I hit a deer. I love my Suburan - it's like driving a tank - and luckily I was not going very fast so no damage to my burban but the deer I am not sure it is undamaged. I think the kids I had with me may be traumatized for life though!

Virtue Handout

Andrea (mom, dad, Andrea and I went to the temple today - it was great except mom's stomach was growling so loud I couldn't even hear the temple ceremony!!) was harassing me at the temple(of all places) about not blogging - I do have good intentions of blogging but somehow it never happens but anyway, here are some going ons in my life. I worked Tuesday a 24hr shift and it was busy as it has been lately. Then Wednesday I was in charge on the YW Personal Progress Progressive dinner. I made chicken tortilla soup and finished my mini lesson on patriarchal blessings and got the salad ready for the other house, cleaned my living room and stuff like that. Wednesday night I had all the YW divide into three groups and then each group went to a different house. One house was dessert, one was salad and mine was the soup. We did a mini lesson on a value experience and then ate then each group rotated. It was fun I think. I feel like saying "buehler, buehler?" because the YW do not participate at all. Yesterday, I made bread in the morning and did laundry and then after Lynnaea left for Kindergarten I ran into to town - I needed to go to Deseret Book and Michaels to get stuff for the new virtue value. So, thanks to Kayli for reminding me of the scripture that says a virteous women is more valuable than rubies - that is what I used for this handout. It is a gold favor bag from Michaels (gold is the color for the new value virtue) and it is full of little red rocks AKA rubies. It has the scripture attached Proverbs 31:10 in case you were wondering and the quote from Sister Elaine Dalton "I believe one virtueos women, led by the Spirit, can change the world." I am pretty happy with how it turned out. I am going to pass them out after I do my little presentation on virtue. I decided to buy a people magazine to flip through as a visual for what the world wants us to think is okay to dress and act. I jogged 4 miles today adn yesterday - and now my knee is killing me. Danica has a basketball game at 8:00am tomorrow - that is just brutal and then Myles, Jared and her are going to the Jazz game at 7:00pm. The kids got tickets throught the JrJazz program.
Here is something that Lynnaea said yesterday that I don't know if I should think it is funny or if I should be disturbed:
Lynnaea "here are some things that are different between dad and you. Dad likes to play and you like to clean."