Yesterday

Yesterday was Gavin's funeral and it was very moving. Some of the nurses from work, Carol the GI PA, and I went. The family looked wonderful even though their loss is so great. It gave me great comfort to know that Gavin is up there with our Father in Heaven and that he was born into the covenant and that he is sitting up there dazzling everyone with his smile and waiting to be reunited with his family that is still here. And to know that he is perfect and not in anymore pain. I cried a lot because even thinking all that it is still sad and even though I know the plan of salvation crying about a loss helps to deal with it better.

I'm so thankful I got to know Gavin the little bit he was here and that he could touch so many by his story or just seeing him. I thank the Lord for this and that is why I do what I do so I can touch families lives but honestly it is them that end up touching and moving me and making me a better person. And all I can say is thank you for that.

I will never forget him or his story and again I thank his family for sharing their little guy with us!

Breaking Dawn

Wednesday I finished the final book of the Twilight series Breaking Dawn!! I stayed up until eleven to finish it even though I had to work the next day. It is a totally awesome book and it ties with Twilight (the first book) for my favorite in the series! I really hope that they make a movie out of the last three since they are already making the first one and if they do then the movie for this book will be the one that I truly can not wait to see!! I just started the Host which is another Stephenie Meyer book and when I'm done with that I think I'm going to reread the Twilight series again because it was that awesome!! Sorry that it is such a bad picture!!

Fish bowl cupcakes

Like I said in my last post that I was making cupcakes to help me with the mourning of the little boy that passed away. So I find this design and threw myself into it to help me not think about that. It has more detail in it then my sunflower cupcakes and they did kinda help but not too much. Sorry if the pictures are a little blurry.

Here is one half of the 36 cupcakes I made.

A shot looking down on the fish bowl.

The whole fish bowl. Isn't it cute!!

Broken heart

I found out today that a little sweet boy named Gavin that we took care of at work passed away on Monday night. I haven't lost a patient I helped take care and was close to them and their family since I worked at Phoenix Children's and I forgot how hard it is to handle. My heart aches so bad and I'm still kinda numb and waiting for the full onset of tears to start. This is the one and only thing about my job that I hate!

Please keep this family in your prayers as they are mourning now and bless that they will have peace and the Lord's comforting hand watching over them. I know the Lord works in ways we don't understand but I just wish it didn't have to be so hard.

So now I'm going to go and do my version of mourning or dealing with things. I'm going to go make cupcakes and try not to cry while doing it.

Eclipse

Well I finished the 3rd book Eclipse of the Twilight series on Wednesday but have been too busy and way into the 4th and final book to post about it.

The 3rd book was awesome and a lot better then the 2nd one!! It totally makes you want to jump into the 4th book!!

Mmmmmm soda!!

So this morning I had one of these........................................

And it was a guilty pleasure!!

Because of my hernia I have to watch what I eat and drink very closely and I haven't had one in almost a week and it was only half of one. And before that I went over two weeks with out one. But I worked a 16 hour shift yesterday from 7am-11:30pm and I didn't think that they would call me in today since someone was on before me. But that is what I get for thinking. So after maybe 3 1/2 hours of sleep I was up and getting ready for work at 5:40am!! So when I got to work I had that I didn't get enough sleep headache so I took three Ibuprofen and had a coke and now I feel better. But I promise not to have another one for at least another two weeks or so or maybe even longer!!

Sunflower cupcakes!!

My mom bought me this new book on decorating cupcakes because I love cupcakes!!! So I decided that I would go ahead and try one of the things in the book and take it to work tomorrow to see what my coworkers think of them. I picked out a design that wasn't going to be hard or very time consuming.

First you make your favorite type of cupcakes (mine happen to be confetti!!)

Then you take half a thing of frosting of your choice and dye it green to look like grass like so.

Then place an Oreo cookie in the middle. You can do two cookies on each cupcake if you like but I figured I would start slow.

With the other half of the frosting dye it sunflower yellow and with a piping bag with a leaf tip or a zip lock baggie filled with frosting and a leaf tip cut at the end start making leafs in the middle of the cookie and go all the way around it.

Then do the same around the top of the cookie and this is what it will look like when you are done!!

Here is a picture of all 18 sunflower cupcakes that I made today and it only took me a hour from the start of cupcake mixing to the final product!!

And just a close up of some of them! Aren't they just the cutest!!

Dylan the Birthday Boy!!

Today is Dylan Mashlan 1st birthday! He is one of our family friends only baby and is one of the cutest things ever!! I get to see him almost everyday because my mom watches him but I had to post something about the birthday boy!!

In one of his favorite places, the high chair! Which means it's time to eat!!

Where's the food?!?!?!?

The really cute cupcakes that his mom made for his birthday!

A formal picture that his mom sent us. Isn't he just the cutest little cowboy ever!!

And lastly my favorite formal picture of him!! Hehehehehehe!!! He is just too cute!!

New Moon

Last night I stayed up to almost midnight even though their was a chance that I would get called into work bright and early to finish New Moon. The second book in the Twilight series that I am hooked to like a drug! It took me a little under two days or more like a day and a half to read and I already have the last two waiting and I can't wait to start them!! I heard mixed reviews on the second one but I liked it and it just makes me hungry for the next two!!

Oh and what do you guys think of my new hair do?

Finally it's done!!

I did it!! I finally finished my blanket that I was making for myself!! It is awesome and I can't wait to curl up under it and watch tv!! It's a electric blue and a bright yellow. It's my Cornelia Marie blanket for Deadliest Catch season since it's the colors of that boat. So I had to post some thing about it and show you guys by first and awesome blanket that I made!!!

As you can see it is as wide as my parents King size bed which I didn't mean it to be but all well. It also is a little over half the length of their bed too!

Here is a close up of the awesome colors!!

And this picture is just too cute! Before I was done I laid it on the floor to see how big it was and then I went off to my room to get more yellow yarn. When I came back Rayvn had made herself all nice and comfortable on my not yet finished blanket. So at least I know I'm the not the only one that will enjoy it!!

Karli's birthday dinner

Friday was Karli's 15th birthday so that night we went out to eat to whatever place she wanted to go to. She picked Joe's Farm Grill in Gilbert that has been on Food Network's Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives.

The food is really awesome there as you can tell!

Karli had the veggie pizza. Oh course she even gets the healthiest meal even on her birthday!

After we ate we got Karli a vanilla shake as her birthday cake and then we opened gifts!!

Mine was first! Isn't that the cutest bag ever!!

I found this Elvis card that when you opened it the King said "I would be nothing but a hound dog if I didn't wish you a happy birthday" It is a totally Karli card!!

From me she got $15 dollars, a cd of classical Mozart strings music, and a Madeline cartoon DVD.

Next was mom, dad, and the boys' gift. Look at the big box!!

Instead of tearing the paper off like a normal person would she carefully and slower unwrapped it!

She got a ton of gum and a lot of really cute and colorful socks. We all know Karli and her crazy socks!!

She also got an awesome pet rock!!

Her she is at the end of the night in front of her dinner choice with her birthday shake! She said it was a lot of fun and that she had a great time!!

Okay, okay I'm hooked!!

So earlier this week I got my Twilight book back from my Aunt Cary who I let borrow when her and I went to New York earlier this year. I sat it by my bed and thought I will get to it sooner or later and thought about letting my mom have it to read so she could pick up when she left off in February when I loaned it out. Yesterday I was getting ready for work and decided that I had to take something to do in my down time since the last day I worked I had nothing to do. I was going to take my blanket that I am so close to finishing but then I remembered that it wasn't a baby blanket so it was a lot larger and would be a lot harder to work on at the desk then a baby blanket would. I saw the book sitting there and thought why not. I may not even get a chance to start it today but at least I would have something

I get to work and start the day and since it is a Saturday it means doctors won't be in until a little bit later then normal. So by eight o'clock I had done all the things I normally do to start out the day and had already had an admit and was done with that. Also all the nurses and aids that I could chatter with were doing vitals or assessments so I was alone at the desk. So I pulled the booked out of my bag and open it thinking I would get busy and have to put it aside before the first chapter was over and before I could get into the book.

Boy was I wrong. I didn't get busy until closer to ten so I was able to read two chapters in between small little interruptions like call lights and the phone ringing. So I was already getting into the book. As I got busy and had to put it aside on my desk it sat there quietly waiting and in a way calling me to read more. So throughout the day I read when it wasn't busy and the more I read the more I didn't want to stop. I was able to read six chapters which is unheard of for a day shift not up in overflow.

I got home and ate and tried to watch some tv with my dad but all I could think about was reading more. So I happily pulled the book out when my parents went to Wal-Mart and that was all she wrote. Soon after they got home I escaped back to my room got in my pajamas and laid in bed reading. I only stopped at ten to have family prayer and then I didn't look at the clock until my eyes were burning with tiredness looming on my eyelids. I thought it had to be midnight at the latest. Oh no it was three in the morning! I quickly looked up at what chapter I was a page away from getting to and realized I only had five chapters left. I looked around and noticed my sister asleep curled up next to me on the bed and wondered when I missed her coming in and then noticed that the house was completely dark and quite except for my bed side light and me debating quietly in my head if I should stay up and finish the last five chapters of the book. I decided that I was going to until as I read the last page of the chapter I was on the words started to blur. So I sadly finished the chapter, turned off the light, and went to bed.

I was up at almost nine o'clock after not being able to sleep well because I was excited like a little child at Christmas and began reading again until my stomach growled angrily at me and my lack of feeding it. So I took a break to eat and then that was it and I sat there and read the pages, each one making me turn it at the end with eager for what was going to happen next. It was amazing to say the least. When I finished I sat it down without reading the first chapter of New Moon knowing it would drive me insane not to be able to read what is next!

So here I sit debating if I should go out and get it on a Sunday, I mean I did already skip church because of my lack of sleep! No matter what I will have it before I go to work tomorrow (if they call me in of course!) So sadly I admit that I am hook and I will have to see the movie at midnight on November 21st and I can't wait to read the next ones!!!

Karli Rachon!!

Today is Karli's 15th birthday!! So in honor of my awesome baby sister I have a few pictures to post and maybe even a story to tell of her!!

So first off is baby Karli in her blessing dress and her bald little head!

Here is Karli and I in the dresses that we wore for our Aunt Trina's wedding.

My favorite baby picture of hers. This is the only time she willingly would put a dress on!

Karli in 2nd grade and one of her best school pictures!!

Karli in Disneyland in 2006, sticking to her no more chocolate ever vow!

Easter Dune trip 2008!! Styling Karli in big sister Kassi's shades!

My taller but still little sister Karli and I at the Dune March of 2008!

So before I end this blog with my all-time favorite picture of Karli, I have to share a story about me and her.

One day we were driving down the road and we got talking about license plates and what we would want them to say. I got a stroke of funny brilliance and said I would want mine to say 7 ate 9. Karli looked at me funny and asked why? Do those numbers mean something? I glanced out her to see if she was joking and then said no it would be the number 7 the word ate you know A-T-E and then the number 9 you know like the joke. She sat there looking straight ahead at the road thinking deeply about what I had just said. Then a huge smile spread across her face and she said Oh!! and started laughing. I said it really isn't that funny, you have heard that joke a million times. She then through her giggles said in all her 11 or 12 years of hearing that joke she never got it but just laughed because everyone else was laughing. I started laughing so hard I cried and to this day every chance I get I bring up that story to her. She doesn't mind it seeing as she wrote it up in great detail for a English paper this year already!

Okay and the moment you have all been waiting for my favorite all-time picture of my Karli Rachon!!

I know my mom has posted this one before and that she is going to post it today for her Karli birthday blog but it is just so awesome that it deserves to be blogged as much as possible in my opinion!!

So happy birthday Baby!!! I love you!!!!

Crazy Kitty!!

This is Socks or A.K.A Fat Kitty (in a little coat! Hehehehe)

So this morning I got in my car to go to work and our cat Socks A.K.A Fat Kitty was lazing about on the top of my car, her favorite place to be. She watched me get in, take the sunshades down, plug in the ipod, put on the sunglasses, and get ready to go. I wasn't really thinking and I wasn't to worried because as soon as we get in the car she normally jumps off and runs off the the rocks or another car to lay on. So I started my car and began to drive down the road. I was no more then two houses away from my house when she jumps down onto the hood of my car. Of course it freaked me out so I slammed on my breaks. She just looked at me and walked in a circle or two and then jumped down and walked her little way to the sidewalk and as I was looking through the rear view mirror back to the house and on top of my mom's truck. I could have turned the car around and hung her from her tail from the tree. But since I didn't want to be late for work or for my sister to hate me forever I opted not to.