Monday, March 19, 2012

A Balancing Act





So, lately Hailey has been learning some new tricks! She has pretty much perfected sitting up on her own. Now she's on to bigger and better things (or so she thinks!). She can now successfully pull herself up into a standing position on all sorts of furniture: couch, table, tub, bed, crib, legs, heads... etc. She's going Pro! She also absolutely LOVES bath time! We've started encorporating a bath into the bedtime routine! So far, it seems to be working well. She really starts to calm down... after the bath that is. Bath time itself is play time! haha


Phlebotomy

So the other day in lab I had a very traumatic experience happen. I was drawing blood from a friend and all of the sudden, for no reason at all, her blood started squirting all over the place! It was crazy! I wasn't on a vein and I had the tourniquet tied! It was the weirdest thing! Scared the crap out of me! But at least it didn't hurt her! She had no idea what had happened until she looked and saw her blood all over her arm and my hand! phew- glad that day is over! I'm nervous to start looking and asking for an internship! To really apply what we've been learning to the real world! It's exciting- but so intimidating! At least I know I'll never leave bruises like this one.

(This is my friend Katelyn) Stupid Plasma Center- they don't even train the techs in phlebotomy! They have no freakin idea what they're doing!

QUACK!




So we had a nice warm weekend a few weekends back... and then BAM! Snow. It's not fair, really. It's the end of March for heavens sake! But at least we were able to get outside and enjoy the warm weather while it lasted- even if it was only for two days! Ryan and I took Hailey to Nature Park here in Rexburg where you can walk trails around ponds and such. It's pretty. There's one spot in particular where the ducks like to hang out and so we fed them some bread. I don't think Hailey knew what was going on! It was fun though! I like to think she enjoyed it! It was good to get out and get some fresh air... fresh air that DOESN'T freeze your lungs :)

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Attention Grabber


The last couple of weeks have been a little stressful. School is really getting old- good thing we're on our last semester! Senioritis is a real kicker in the pants. It demands all of our attention to get school work done. It's exhausting, especially when we have a 5 1/2 month old who also demands all of our attention (as seen in the above photo). We are also still waiting to here back about an internship. I'm really stressing about not knowing where we're moving to in just a month and a week! It's scary. I need to get ready, but get ready for what??? We still don't know! Sigh. Hopefully this week will bring good news! Keep us in your prayers please!