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!!