Nursing School

We have not been together as a group since graduation. Holly is expecting her first baby, Laura has had 3 babies, Mary has the one, Jolene has had two children since we have graduated. It was great to see how everyone has been doing. Laura and Mary have girls the same age. Jolene and Laura have boys the same age. All the children were well behaved and shared toys nicely. The celebration was held at Jolene's- very generous of her. She did the subs. 

Getting ready for Ragnar

We have decorated our van :) remaining decor tomorrow! Super excited and scared! We leave at 0400 tomorrow!

Backyard

Why is it I have waited this long to through a blanket on the grass and lay under the tree? Nate is playing in his sand box and Lauren is practicing her cartwheels for cheer! I am stretching and enjoying the sight of the children. Hollie is talking to her friend Alexa. 

Summer time

Loving my mommy time with the kids we spent the day getting Lauren's letterman jacket, I had lunch with Mary Capouya - she helped me get Hollie job interviews and we play softball together. I came home Nate woke and we built tracks out back - very relaxing :)

Work group

Picture of the group I worked with this last weekend. Picture was taken and sent to Yo who was out on medical leave. Bob is the newest member of the group and can make us laugh- great sense of humor. It was a fun weekend.

Britany and Krystal below. Above starting on the right Bob, Becky, Scott, Julie, Leah, Maria, and Robyn. Titles not added because we are a team:)

As the economy has turned and with health care going through many changes Multicare is cutting our benefits. We work very hard and have the worst health care coverage. We have a terrible retirement package and no pay raise. Co workers and I went out for informational strike.

Jen - little Cora and Courtney work with them in Ed

The last three months of babies with a set of twins. We have had a huge baby boom at multicare.

Becky with miss Lily on the way ! Worked with her in PACU and Ellie worked with on the floor.

Starting right Nicole wk with on the floor, Terri has wk at marybridge  x 32 yrs I worked with her on the union went to conference together and in the PACU, Amy I wk with on the floor. 

Hopefully we will get an ok contract.  

A difficult ten minutes

July 10th I get off work early as I slept horribly the night before. I had several stressful dreams and then got sucked in to an old movie. I took off early the next day from  work at 3pm. I took Lauren to soccer practice( very ready for her to have her license). Nate and I went to Safeway. I let Nate do a lot. He knows how to swipe my debit card and enter my pin. I give him the keys to the truck and let him unlock. We unload the groceries and watch the fireman who were in line behind us load up the fire truck and drive off. I go to put Nate in his car seat he drops the keys off to the side and they fall into his diaper bag. I buckle him in and normally would climb up and over him to retrieve the keys. Well I dug a big long hole the day before and so I decide to go around to the other door to get the keys of course shutting Nates door. If course the door is locked. I was calm but my heart rate was up it is a sumner day middle of July with no spare key. I called 911 those same guys came back with sirens ( even more humiliating) it took them a bit but they were able to get the car open. Nate remained calm throughout the entire event. He followed directions well. While we were waiting for the fire truck I had him unlatch his top part of the seatbelt and try to get the keys, of course he couldn't reach. When we got him out of the car he had beads of sweat but was otherwise fine. Of course will not ever let him have the keys again and I am pretty sure that I know lose the mother if the year award. I am pretty sure I will be nominated for the Darwin's award:( 

Moms day with the kids

Tuesday July 9th - took all the kids to Point Defiance Zoo. Nate and Hollie are both big animal lovers. The zoo for me gets transformed in to something magical when I see it through their eyes. I have had our membership about two years now and have never seen the main stage show. It was impressive. They had the volcher swoop close to our heads. All the animals came out but they were really actors in this play they have put together. Lauren and I both laughed and enjoyed it as much as the other two. At the end they asked for donations to a wildlife preserve. In turn you could get on stage and pet the animal. I am always telling the girls when you want to get something from me it is all in how you present your case and to always choose your words wisely. Selecting the wrong word or not thinking through how you phrase something may negatively impact what you want to accomplish. The way the zoo put on this show and the percentage of the audience that made donations was very impressive! 

Here are the kids Lauren 15 Nate 2 and Hollie 19   

We went home after the zoo, put Nate to bed and got on our work clothes. The side of the house has a spot that collects water. The girls and I put on 3 hours of hard manual labor. We dug a trench as pictured. We were very proud of this, it was back breaking work! We placed two inches of rock followed by a large French drain. We laid landscaping cloth over the drain and added dirt to level it out. To celebrate our accomplishment we went out for dinner and ice cream :)