Sweet Ashlyn

A little collage of our little photoshoot. How sweet is she?

Friends

Liam loves his friends, Allison and Ethan. This weekend they came over and they ran and ran and ran nonstop! Alli and Liam stopped for about a minute to snap this cute photo, but then they were up and running again. Liam begs to see them everyday. This week he continually asks to "go see Allison, Ethan and Baby Ashlyn and go to pukin catch(pumpkin patch) on Saturday?" As you can tell, he's a bit excited to go to the pumpkin patch with them on Satuday. I'm sure we'll have lots of fun pictures from that. I'm so glad we have good friends-- I think Liam is, too!

Some Videos.

So this is going to be a big video post! The first is of our little smarty britches counting in Spanish--something we didn't even know he knew how to do until he did it himself one day. Guss Dora's a pretty good teacher, huh? Now we're working on German. We're parental failures in the German department because he didn't learn German first! haha.


The next might be offensive to some, but they are NOT intended to be that way. I'm sure many of your have heard of Sarah Palin(the VP candidate)'s interview this past week with Katie Couric. It didn't go so well for her. One of my patient's said her first problem was letting Katie Couric interview her. This video is just one of the parts of the interview. The only reason I'm posting this is for comparison to the next video. The next video is a skit from Saturday Night Live with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. It is beyond hilarious. They also have skits of the Presidential debate, but I think Tina Fey by far did the best job. Regardless of whether or not you like Sarah Palin, I think you'll find this funny. I especially love the line where she was disheartened with all the foreign workers at the UN and how she wants to bring jobs back to America. I thought someone may find it as funny as I did. :) To understand all of the jokes, you have to watch all four parts of the original interview so you can understand the finger licking and the lifeline jokes, but you can find the other parts on youtube. Tina Fey just looks so much like her and she has that accent nailed! Enjoy!
Here is the one part of the original interview with Katie Couric.




Ok, so I can't get the SNL skit to embed, but here is the link. Just Click. :)
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/couric-palin-open/704042/

Ashlyn

I did a little photoshoot of my friend Erica's new little girl, Ashlyn. I tried a few new things and got some really cute shots. I haven't had time to play with all of them, but here's a little preview. I was really happy how the editing on this turned out. What do you think? The ring is there to show how tiny her feet are and I like that Erica's ring has three stones and that she has three kids. More to come... Here's your little preview too, Erica.

My Wordle

This is a fun little thing that I found on a friend's blog. It makes a word cloud from your blog of your most commonly used words. Click on it to see mine and make your own.

Fall is on it's way!

I LOVE Fall. I love things about every season, but when fall rolls around each year, I'm always happy and excited about it. I love the crisp, cool air and the beautiful colors. My mom came to Reno this weekend while Wes was gone hunting to help me out with Liam so I could get some homework and studying done. I don't know if any of you have tried these, but these gel window clings are the best! They are so fun and you can get them at Wal-Mart for like $1. They had their Halloween stuff out at the store already(I know, it's a bit early), so we had to get some. Liam loves to put them up and practice his way of spelling. They are just fun and festive. I love decorating for Fall as well. I got some of my stuff up this week. Liam's Halloween costume is on it's way from Oma as well. :) We can't wait!

Nana also had to get Liam a treat while we were out and about, and since we were on our way home, I said ok to a sugar-free chocolate covered pretzel. We were laughing hysterically at Liam's seriously chocolately face. The funny thing is that by the time we took this photo, he had somehow licked off a large majority of what was on his face. So this is him in good shape!

I also wish I had my camera at church today. Today was our ward's primary program and Liam was thrilled to hear the kids sing and speak. They did a fabulous job and he loved singing along with them to the songs that he knew. I truly think music will be this child's calling. He was 'conducting' and had so much enthusiasm and often times was right on with the tune and melody. I love the Spirit that music and children combined bring. It was beautiful.

First Real Day of Clinical

I survived my first real day of clinical: changing lots of bed pans and all. And, the best part is, I REALLY enjoyed it. It was wonderful working with and caring for patients, even though we didn't really get to do much 'big time' stuff, you have to start somewhere. So we got to help feed a patient, change bed pans, watch a removal of a foley, fun things like that! I really love the unit we're on, but that could just be because we got a really cool RN to shadow and help us. He was awesome. The only killer? I am DEAD tired. We have to be there at 6:30 and, although we're only there until 2:15, I'm really going to have to adjust to being on my feet all day, especially after just having adjusted to sitting through three hour lectures. haha. Good thing I have some time to get used to it before I'm working 12 hour shifts. haha. So, Liam and I took a little snooze on the couch and watched Dora when we got home. Even though I'm overwhelmed by all the duties of the nurse, I'm really excited to get into the nitty gritty of it all. :)