FINAL.....LY

Today I took my Patho and Pharm final! Thank goodness those classes are over! I have my Acute Nursing final Wednesday and then I'm done for the summer! YAHOO!!! I'm so ready for a break. On May 31st my niece Raina got married. It was a really nice wedding. The bride and groom were happy. It was fun to hang out with my sisters. Here are a few pictures from the wedding.
Lucy and Raina. Raina was a beautiful bride!

Raina and Becky.
Me, Jodi, my mom, Becky and Robyn.
Raina and Adam. They were so nice with the cake :)
Jodi and Riley

Newest memeber of our family

Lucy had been asking me if we could get another kitty. Apparently one of her friends had a litter that needed home and she wanted me to go look at them with her. I said NO WAY! Well... she brought one home. She said she would take it back if I didn't want it. Could you look at that face and say no you didn't want it? I couldn't either. So this is the newest member of our family. Little Bubbles! Haley and her are already great friends. Hug Muffin hates her and won't be in the same room with her. I'm hoping she'll get over that soon.

3 more weeks

Three more weeks of school for me! I'm counting down the days :) I got my first paper turned in on time and I have one more due in a a week and a half. I got an A on my last patho test. I have to start studying for the final which will be on 3 new units and everything else from the whole quarter. I hope everyone had a good mother's day. I hosted a brunch for my mom and then I studied! This is me and Alex on Mother's Day. credits: French Country by Julia Makotinsky. Happy by Julia Makotinsky,Love Mom by Metalmama Designs


Here is my little Lucy. We're having a hard time lately. She seems to always be in trouble. I'm hoping this summer will bring some maturity to her so she will get to do the things she wants to do. This page is all items from ChaosLounge.
Here's a page I did from the picture of Zak and Wynter. All weedsandwildflowers, except the tall bird, it's from I love birds by Carolina Pessoa.
This page is my little Hug Muffin. She's now an only cat and seems to love it! She is a brat though. Last night I didn't sleep well because she didn't come home until 3:15am! The weather has been summer like and she wants to play on the mountain all night. Unfortunately there are critters who will eat her up there! I try to keep her in from late afternoon on but she loves it up there. The way she acts right now I think she's a teenager! Kit is Happy Garden by weedsandwildflowers.

Half way there :)

Today is the end of week 5. That means we are half way through this quarter :) The time is flying by. We're back in the hospital and doing much more hands on patient care. Today I passed meds to my patient, changed out his IV tubing, assessed, charted and I passed my foley sign off. I love being in the hospital :) I also got an A on my Pharmacology test and a B on my Patho test this week. Now if the weather would just get back to spring so I can get my garden going. I have managed to scrap a few pages this week. This a picture of Audrey. I used the Happy Garden get by Gina Marie Huff @ weedsandwildflowerdesigns.


I did this page tonight with different parts of the Hullabaloo collaborative kit that was given away at Little Dreamers.
I did this page for a challenge at Weeds and Wildflowers a couple weeks ago. That's Wynnie when she was about 1 and 1/2

Spring Snow

Well it's supposed to spring and this morning, a bit before 7am, Haley insisted I get up and follow her out to the living room. Seems she wanted to go out and play in the snow! So I put my boots on over my pj's and out we went :) If I study long enough today and do all my readings for tomorrow I'm going to scrap a page of pictures tonight. Last weekend it was in the 70's here. This weekend we've had a good amount of snow for us. Look at my tulips!



At first I stood on the deck and threw the ball for Haley. That is a tennis ball in her mouth, not a snowball!
After a bit we went up the hill to throw the ball. Now we're back in and I'm having coffee and Haley is pouting because she thinks we should be back out in the snow.
This week we get back in the hospital with patients! Very exciting! We are able to do much more care now. We learned Foley's and NG tubes this week. I'm good on the dummies in the lab, but I need real patients to practice on. I can't find anyone at home to let me practice on them and I've noticed even the animals are starting to sleep with one eye open! Monday I get to go over my Patho exam and see if I can make a case to get any points back. I've heard many students talking about how low their scores were on this test and the Patho teacher say this was the hardest test of the year. I heard from several people the Pharm teacher thinks that the Patho test was too hard for us and we should make a case that those questions were out of scope for 1st year students. If I can get credit for 2 questions back I'll be back in the B's and will feel better, but mostly I want to see what I missed. I really felt like I had a good handle on understanding the subject matter, most of which dealt with fluid balance and shifts.

Oye Fey!

OMG! I suck! I got a C on my Patho test! Now the pressure is on to do really well on the next test, which is in only 2 weeks! I got a B on my Pharm test. It surprises me that I have consistently gotten better scores on my Pharm tests then my Patho tests. When I think about it I think Pharm seems harder then Patho, but since I score higher on Pharm I spent more time studying Patho and I still got a C. It's so annoying. We will have a test meeting next Monday and I will get to see my test and if I think my answer is correct I can make my argument. I have actually gotten points back before this way, but I don't like having to "hope" I can get some points back this way. Tomorrow I will start studying my brains out for the next test. I am so ready for summer break. I need to grow veggies! I'm upset too that one of my cats hasn't come home in almost a week. I live in such a great spot, but there is wild live foothills I live in. I've had several cats disappear and I don't know if something gets them, or sometimes I wonder if the people across the street get them. They don't like cats :(

I did this picture of me, zak when he was 6 weeks old, my mom, grandma lola and great grandma emma ( who died shortly after this picture was taken) tonight. We all look so young :)

In December the choir had their Winter Concert. Lucy loves singing in the choir and I love going to see her sing!

In the swing...

Well I'm back in the swing of school. I can't believe 2 weeks have gone by already! Tomorrow is our first tests in Patho and Pharm. Notice I'm blogging instead of studying :) I'm already counting down the weeks until this quarter is over too. Spring quarter is always the hardest for me to stay focused. The weather is getting nicer and I want to do spring cleaning and play in the yard, get my garden beds ready for planting and all that fun stuff. This year I'm going to do a big garden with my mom at her house too. She has room for a HUGE garden and I want to grow lot's of veggies for fresh over the summer and freezing and canning for next year.

The last 2 weeks have been great in school. I passed my dosage comp test for IV solutions and my IV tubing start test. I can now hang IV's in the hospital. This week we'll be learning Cath and NG insertions! I find this so cool. I've noticed that some people are getting a little nervous about hanging out with me though :)

Lucy had a party for her 15th birthday friday night. I had several teenage girls playing Guitar Hero 3 and watching scary movies all night at my house. I really have to get my butt in gear and study today! I'll post pictures of her party when I get them from her.

This is a page I did with pics of Alex when he was a little guy. Long before he got speeding tickets that he will have to pay himself!!!!! He was so cute :) The kit is by KimB.

I did this page last night after I studied some. I was cruising the freebie sites and downloaded a template to make a sliced picture, but it was for a photoshop program and I couldn't get it to work with my PSP sooooo I decided to figure out how to make my own sliced photo :) I used frames by Misty Cato and the papers are from Amber Clegg Designs, flowers and splat by sunflowers at hotspotscraps and the cute little birds are from feifeistuff. The picture is me last summer on the coast.
And this is my clincial group from last quarter. We went to lunch after our last clinical day. I've had great groups and instructures this year.