These are one of my favorite things! My running shoes. These shoes have run hundreds of miles with me. I have had these shoes way longer than you should keep a pair of running shoes. I have had good intentions of buying a new pair, in fact I have tried several on, I just can't seem to find any that I love quite as much as this pair. Each time I put these shoes on, they bring back a lot of memories...But it is reallt time to retire them .

Healthcare Worker vs Mother

I am tired. I am always tired!...No I am not pregnant! My work schedule is such that I work every Saturday and Sunday night. It works great for my family and I just get my days over with and am home during the week. However, during those 2 days of work I usually get a combined 6-8 hours of sleep. I then go back to my regular sleeping schedule. I am always so tired that I never have had a hard time switching schedules, whenever my head hits the pillow I fall asleep, no matter what time of day it is, but that is just the problem. If I am sitting at home on the couch, I fall asleep, if I try reading a book, I fall asleep. If I try to enjoy a movie~whether on video or at the movie theatre~ I fall asleep. It is quite a miserable feeling. It is interesting that just a couple days like that will screw me up so bad! The other interesting thing is how dang fast the days off go. It seems like just when I am getting back to normal and feeling a little better it is time to go again.

Oh well, as hard as it can be, I really enjoy my job. ~Even if it is CRAZY busy this time of year with all the RSV and fun going around. I am grateful especially, that I have this job. Especially in this economy. It is nice to have a job that I can work as much or as little as I like. I get such satisfaction in helping, especially the kids I take care of.

I had an interesting thing happen this week.. Brought things into perspective for me. It is an interesting difference~ The life between a healthcare worker and a mother. I deal with sick kids on a weekly basis. Kids who are sick and need IV's, kids who need blood drawn for tests, kids that have to get catheters put in them, spinal taps, C paps, all kinds of medication....and heaven forbid, kids that just aren't doing to well have to be transported to a higher level of care. As a healthcare worker, I have sympathy for the parent sitting, watching their child be tortured. However, I also understand the things that are being done are necessary in order for this child to get better. Honestly, it is not my favorite thing to give a newborn baby a scalp IV, but I know that it is necessary, so I do it..I don't really think about it.

I have been pretty lucky. My kids are relatively healthy. None if my children have ever had to be admitted to the hospital. Shelby had been sick for over a week and I finally decided to take her to the doctor. She had strep (I thought so) The Dr asked me if I wanted to give her a 10 day treatment of an oral antibiotic, or a S.H.O.T-spelled out of course. I told him the second one. Shelby had absolutely NO idea what was coming. It did not help when the nurse came in and I told her she would be getting a shot, Joquelle screamed and freaked her out even more.. Shelby got the shot right in her hip.. She screamed and cried and looked at me like "mom, how could you" my kids have had shots before, but in that moment..My heart really went out to all the mothers of the kids I have had to take care of. It is a HARD thing to watch your child go through pain and believe me....I have had to do much worse to many kids.. To all of the children I have ever had to be mean to, I am sorry~ To the mothers....I feel for you and I am REALLY sorry..

Valentines Day.....Bah Humbug!!!!

This post might seem kind of weird. I have to admit that maybe it is... Today is Valentines Day...Today is also the day that Jared and I decided would be the last Valentines Day that we celebrate...I don't know what it is, but Valentines Day NEVER seems to work out for us. It seems that every time we make plans to go out, something comes up..This year, Shelby has been sicker than a dog..Jared had made plans to take me out..He always does, however, they had to be cancelled. I am fine with that, believe me there are worse things in life to worry about. We can always go out another day. Now for the real reason for this post......Its going to get pretty sappy now, those who don't like sappy may want to log off now....

I don't need Valentines Day. I don't need a day where my husband can bring me some flowers and tell me he loves me. I am the luckiest girl in the world because he tells me he loves me

EVERYDAY. Not just once., not just twice....most days probably 20 times (this really is no exaggeration) Not only does he tell me he loves me he compliments me WAY more than I should be. I would really love to find someone in this world that knows her husband loves her more than I know mine loves me!!! I try to give my husband the same kind of love..In this, I know I fall short. I have the best husband in the world and he truly is my BEST BEST friend!!! I could not be more grateful for him....With that said, good-bye stinkin Valentines Day!!! We don't need you! No more worries about whether we will be able to go out, or get each other the right gifts...I LOVE YOU JARED!!

Ms. Shelby.....a little jealous...

So its safe to say that my little 4 year old is a little jealous. What is she jealous of you ask? That would be the fact that my husband loves me. She doesn't like it when we hug or kiss. When Jared gives me a hug you can bet that Shelby will be hugging us both at our knees. When he kisses me she needs a kiss as well. Last week when Jared told me how beautiful he thought I was, Shelby started to cry and say "dad doesn't think I am beautiful." Jared had to reassure her that he thinks she is and to never think any different! This has been an issue that seems to be progressively getting more and more intense..

Sunday was the icing on the cake. Jared and I were sitting with the kids in Sacrament meeting. Jared was holding my hand during the sacrament. He had been holding it for a while when all of the sudden he whispers my name and nods his head down to our hands. Shelby, who was sitting between us had somehow slid her hand in between our hands so that we, in essence, were holding hers. We had not even noticed and we were laughing so hard.. She is such a funny girl..

Hawaii......Holy fun!!!.

I must say that Hawaii was so so much fun. We took so many pictures and so did my family. We all sent each other our pictures and it is fair to say I have way to many. I also posted way to many. I couldn't pick just a few because I want to document all the fun! I wouldn't anyone for logging off now..but I am saving me some memories, so here we go!

We hiked Diamond head. It has a fantastic view of Honolulu. This is a picture of me and Jared, my brother Daniel and my sister Andrea and her husband Aaron. It was beautiful. These pictures do not do justice!

Me and Jared in front of Hanuma bay. It is a very popular site to go snorkeling. Jared LOVES to snorkel. It is one of his favorite things in the world. Personally, I am not such a fan. I find myself closing my eyes because I do not want the fish to touch me. I am such a wimp, I know!

We had lunch at a Vietnamese place. We did this because my younger brother went on his mission to Cambodia and speaks Vietnamese. He loves to go and talk to the people and wanted to eat some food from the mission. The bowl below is a dish called Pho pronounced "Fu" is that awesome of what. I personally did not try Fu, but I did have another dish. I was so proud of myself. Generally I will not try anything new. It was pretty good.

We went whale watching. It was awesome. You can't get to close to the whales, there are laws against it, but we saw them fairly close.



Jared was spoiled. He got to golf at Turtle Bay not once, but twice. He also loves to golf so this was quite the treat for him. They have 2 courses there and he was able to golf both of them.

On the last day that we were there we went deep sea fishing. It was also fun~boy that word gets a little redundent! Me and Jared, Andrea and Aaron and Daniel all went out for 4 hours. We only got one smaller fish. The thing that stinks is that we had hooked a Marlin. We could see it jumping out of the water, but the dang thing got away. That was the one fish we were all hoping that we could catch. It was still a really cool experience. I would do it again in a heartbeat. Daniel got quite sick~I don't know that he would!

Below is a picture of the boat we rode in with the fishing poles attached.

These pictures are of Jared and I in front of the entrance to get into our hotel. We stayed at the Marriott Ko Olina Beach resort. This is actually part of my parents time share. It was an awesome place to stay. It was a little outside of Honolulu so it was not right down in all of the congestion. It has it's own private beach so it is far less crowded. Also, they are like little condos so you have a kitchen and everything. It was great.. I really liked staying there. One of my favorites!!


This picture below cracks me up. Jared says this is how I am every time he tries to kiss me. That is SO not true!

My sister took this pic of me and Jared at the Polynesian Cultural center.

Here are all of us also in front of the hotel.

More pictures of us fishing.

The one and only fish that we caught. Jared had the pleasure of reeling that baby in (above) lucky him!

Here we are in front of Pearl Harbor. We had been there before, but I had forgotten how tragic this was. My grandpa passed away this past year. He was a survivor of Pearl Harbor. I think maybe that is why it had a little more meaning to me. I really enjoyed it.

The whole crew... Left to right. Ryan, Colette (brother and sister-in-law) Nathan and Christina (brother and sister-in-law) Mom and dad. Andrea and Aaron, Jared and I and Daniel.

Me and Dan just chillin in the car.

Me Andrea and Dan at the Swap meet.

Me Dan and my mom at the Polynesian Cultural Center.

Jared and I the Polynesian Cultural Center.

At the swap meet Jared got his teeth whitened. Now if that does not look high tech I don't know what does. A lawn chair under a tarp, what more could you ask for? I am really praying they don't fall out.

Me and Dan once again, fishing before he got sick!

Pearl Harbor. I am sorry these pictures are all in a pretty random order. One of the most eventful parts of our trip was the flight home. Our flight went out at 11:40 Friday night. About an hour into our flight they came over the intercom and announced that there was a problem with the fuel gage and that they did not feel comfortable flying over the Pacific Ocean and they would have to turn around. We went back to Honolulu and they cancelled our flight. They gave us each one hundred dollar vouchers and put us up in a hotel. We got to spend an additional day. To be honest with you I was pretty ready to go back at that point. I missed my kids!!! We were so happy to see them when we finally got back.