mMmm Muffins!

Who needs a microwave when you live in an oven...

Haha I got a muffin 'to go' from Paradise Bakery this morning and they didn't heat it up in the microwave for me :( No worries though! I used some quick thinking and realized that its really hot by 10 in the morning. So I just put it up on my dash while I ran into a store and problem solved. I had a nice warm muffin waiting for me when I got back in my smokin hot car :)

Hello summer!

Weather for Phoenix, AZ

108°F | °C Mon Tue Wed Thu Clear Wind: NW at 8 mph Humidity: 5% 107°F   110°F   112°F 112°F

I know you're jealous... NOT! Get me out of here!! Snowbirds know what they're doing people! Even if they do drive really slow and take up the entire parking lot at Costco!

Summer time and the livin's white... I mean easy :)

Bahaha! I couldn't resist posting this picture :) For Memorial Day weekend Jamie's good friend Nick (the one who was involved with the dune buggy accident here) came home from South Carolina. Don't worry... the Navy is teaching Nick how to NOT blow up nuclear reactors on a submarine... maybe I should show them that video. We had lots of fun relaxing in the pool, drinking ibc's and eating hamburgers! And if you're wondering why Jamie is wearing a pink sombrero it's because Nick's dad was being blinded by Jamie's whiteness and thought he needed something to shade the sun lol.

Top 10

Just so you all know....

Hanging up the laundry is at the top of my top 10 list of things that I do not feel like doing right now! And yes. I did take the time to make it look more presentable for a picture. And yes. I am spending more time whining about it then I probably will spend actually putting it away. This is how I feel about you laundry... : P

Just something to think about...

Many of us create to do lists to remind us of things we want to accomplish. But people rarely have to be lists. Why? To do’s are activities or events that can be checked off the list when done. To be, however, is never done. You can’t earn checkmarks with to be’s. I can take my wife out for a lovely evening this Friday, which is a to do. But being a good husband is not an event; it needs to be part of my nature—my character, or who I am.
Or as a parent, when can I check a child off my list as done? We are never done being good parents. And to be good parents, one of the most important things we can teach our children is how to be more like the Savior
-Lynn G. Robbins of the Seventy

Another cool quote I heard this week-

"When your child comes into the room does your face light up? Do they see in your eyes that you're glad they're there?"
-Some lady on the Oprah Show

One year ago today...

One year ago today was NOT a good day! I was scared to death and it was horrible! It was the worst day of my life hands down. I don't really feel like writing out the whole story but I think you get the picture... And Jamie gave me permission to put up these pictures!! (and yes, I really did ask)



Warning: some are kinda yucky!

                                                             



Just transferred from the ED and in his room in the neuro ICU at John c Lincoln. Laying flat because his T12 vertebre is shattered and a chip of bone is right next to his spinal cord



He's pale because he lost a ton of blood that's dumping into a massive hematoma on his right side- receiving blood transfusion. I'm pale because I feel like I'm about to pass out...



No picture of him after surgery to repair his shattered T12
(After we told him how horrible it was Jamie wanted to see a pic of this and asked why we didn't take a picture... I don't know maybe because you had a tube down your throat and we thought you were gonna die!!)



Morning after getting off the ventilator. He's not Asian, just puffy from getting pumped full of fluids after loosing so much blood during surgery. He was so swollen when he was on the ventilator that he made Derek look small when he was standing by his bed. Jamie's just happy he gets to drink water and watch the Suns game :)



Getting out of bed was NOT fun!!



 Ok, here come some yucky pics!



This makes me hurt :(

The first time I saw the incision site!! I was sooo scared! I had just assumed that it was gonna be some tiny laproscopic scar or something... I was wrong! That little stitch on top is from where the chest tube was!



First shower a couple weeks after being home from the hospital

The red marks on his back are from bruising, the only road rash he got was that tiny little red patch on his right elbow!! 





His souvenir he got to take home from the hospital! No, magnets don't stick to it and he doesn't beep when he goes through metal detectors... boring!!





I am SOO grateful that Jamie is alive and is not laying in a bed paralyzed! Jamie was so strong through the whole thing! You could tell that he was in A LOT of pain but he never complained even once. Believe me, if I had been the one in the hospital bed I would have been screaming, not to mention that if it had been me that I wouldn't be alive after being trown out of a car going 65 on the freeway!! I am also SOO grateful that hard things make us stronger! This brought Jamie and I closer than anything else ever could have a month and a half after getting married! I love my strong husband!

Party Time!!

I passed nursing school!!! Ahhhhhh! I can't even believe it! I have wanted to be a nurse for so long and now it's like really happening! It's so funny because this whole semester I was so stressed out that I was gonna fail but really I had nothing to worry about! Now I just don't know what I'm going to do with all of my extra free time since I don't have to always make myself feel bad for not studying. So now I just have my preceptorship at Banner Gateway OB on the postpartum unit, graduation is May 13th and the NCLEX! After all three of those things I will officially be a registered nurse! It's crazy to think about all that has changed within the last two years of nursing school and there will so much more change these next few months. I'm a little scared, but it's more of an excited scared so that's ok :) Wahoo!! I PASSED NURSING SCHOOL!! Happy dance.. happy dance!!

Grateful

I'm grateful for a lot of things in my life
but today I am especially grateful that I was raised in a safe home
that my parents loved me
that they protected me from a lot of scary things in the world
that they taught me wrong from right
that they raised me to be a good person
that they helped me to learn and grow just like every kid should be able to do.

I spent 12 hours on the adolescent unit of the psych hospital today.
I saw how detrimental it is for a child who does not have a safe home.
I found out a lot of evil things about the world today that make me feel sick.
It makes me feel even more sick to think that innocent little kids are affected by such evil.

I called my mom right after I got out of the hospital to say thank you.
She said she would've killed anybody that ever tried to hurt us.
I wish the kids that I met today would've had someone to stand up for them :'(