A little Woo Pig Sooie and some night fishing

Today was the first Razorback game of the season. Can I get a WOOO PIG SOOIE?!? We had a wonderful time celebrating the game in our new home with friends. We had several families over and LOTS of food. The weather was so wonderful the kids played outside even after it was dark. I love having a big enough house to have people over in.

All of us in our Razorback gear!

After the game Jay's dad, Dennis, was here and they decided to do a little night fishing. Of course, Jayci wanted to go which meant that I had to follow with the camera!

Jayci and Papaw
Papaw showing everyone how to put "catfish bait" on the hook. By catfish bait I mean hot dogs marinated in dry strawberry kool-aid mix, minced garlic, and water. Doesn't it just sound yummy?!?


The only thing that was caught last night.....a bag of ROCKS

Jayci casting it out by herself. All she wanted to was cast it and reel it in but it was cute watching her!

Hope each of you had a wonderful Saturday! I have another post coming soon of something else we did this weekend!!!

Sweet Pictures

So I blogged a while back about the new camera I bought. I LOVE it. Taking ppictures can be so fun and so can editing. Anyway, just thought I would share a few pictures I have taken recently.

My sweet Jayci girl

My niece Isabella Grace. Her momma can be found here.
Jayci and Kirsten. Kirsten is Bella's big sister and our other niece. Jayci and her are "best buddies."

Confidence

As a woman I know what it is like to go through times of little self confidence. I was looking through pictures of Jayci today and thought what it must be like to be 4-years-old and not have a care in this world. As she is getting older I am seeing that she is becoming more aware of what other people think of her. I just can't help but have this protective side that wants to save her from all the words that can and probably will hurt her at some point in her life. I pray everyday that I can raise her in a way to have poise and enough self confidence where words of others won't get to her. But for today here are a few pictures I took on Sunday of my care free full of confidence 4-year-old little girl.

Definitely a model and nobody can tell her any different at this point.

"Hey Mommy get my good side" she states....Promise those are her words not mine!

Spinning in the grass. Life is GREAT!

Trying to see me through the lens...Maybe not really sure?!?

HOUSEWARMING

Here are some recent pictures from our housewarming party we had today. My aunt, step mom, and 2 friends from church hosted the FABULOUS event. I am sooo thankful to have great family and friends. Jay and I just laid on our bed afterward and talked about how blessed we truly are. And not just because people bought us a bunch of stuff. But that we have so many people to share our new home with. All of our "stuff" would be just stuff without people to enjoy it with. So with our further ado.

This is not a gift but I just wanted to post a picture of the bedding I picked out for the guest bedroom. I still want to add some stuff to it but I LOVE the bedding. And thanks to my wonderful MIL that has a great job that allows her to get us all kinds of good furniture!!

The BEAUTIFUL things are my new dinnerware. I absolutely LOVE them!!! I opened the bowls first and was like awe crud now I HAVE to go buy the plates. But I have such great friends that coordinated and bought us the set.

Can you say DINNER PARTY???

This is the cake my aunt made. Isn't it just wonderful. It tasted delicious too!

And here is a collage of all of the great gifts we received. There was also a plethora of gift cards that are just calling my name to be spent!

Lastly, here are two tea sets Jayci has now. The cream and green one she received as a gift today from my Aunt Gigi. She was so excited about getting her own gift. Both of these tea sets my grandmother bought before she passed away. They are so sweet and incredibly special to me.

Dancing Queen

Jayci has turned into a little "Dancing Queen" here recently. Tonight was no exception the only thing different was is that she wanted to throw a "dance party." She wanted the whole sh'bang; food, decorations, and music. So for a decoration we made this banner out of construction paper, glue, and twine to hang it with. It was done in like 5 minutes but she loved having it put up. For snacks, I was at a loss. However, Jayci came up with setting some fruit snacks out on the table. She was so funny. To top it off we found a Nickelodeon music channel on the T.V. to listen to. Here is a video of her dancing....

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

All I have to say is it's a good thing we signed her up for dance lessons today.

On another note...Because she got so excited about this little impromptu "party." I thought about doing a something special next week. If you have kids and watch TV at all you probably know that next Sunday is Dora's 10th birthday. Well I thought about throwing a little party for that at our house. Jayci has become a HUGE Dora fan. Only thing is that the Dora Birthday show doesn't come on until 7:00 pm on Sunday. I think we could get a few friends over and it could be done cheaply. Would you do such a thing for your child? It would be something very small with a few of her friends and a small cake and snacks. I can't decide. That is why I'm asking your opinion!!!

Mistakes

Today is the worst day I have had so far as a RN so I'm going to write my day so I can look back on it in a year and go oh I learned a lot that day! At least that is what I hope I think. So for starters I am a nights person I don't really like days. Being up at 4am is just not for me and all the people that are on the floor....UGH they get on my nerves! It's funny how I loved the ED in the evenings when it was the busiest but I really don't like days on the floor when it is the busiest. Not sure why but it's just very over stimulating for me.

Anyway, I've been on nights for the last month and just started on days on Monday and worked 3 12hour shifts in a row. On night shift I was taking 4 patients by myself with little help from my preceptor but on days we decided the first week I will start with 3 patients and work my way up.

So my 3rd day I get to work and they tell me I have 4 patients. Which frazzles me a little but I'm like it's my last day I can totally do this. Plus, 2 of my patients didn't have any scheduled meds so I thought that's a plus.

The day got started I felt busy but I was doing assessments and getting things done. Then I went to give a patient a med (not a real important one, Enzymes to be specific) and the pharmacy had put the wrong label on the wrong bottle and there were 2 different kind of pills in one bottle. It really wasn't that big of a deal b/c I knew what the patient was supposed to have but dad was standing right there and I was at a total loss for words. Even though it wasn't my fault at all b/c someone else had put them in the room it still had me kind of on edge. But pharmacy was called and it was all good.

Then the big thing that totally threw me through a loop happened. An order was written by a doctor with questionable handwriting and pharmacy misread it and long story short they sent me a liquid sedative instead of a diuretic. Well I looked at it and thought it was different the name the liquid part (yesterday was a pill) but I didn't stop to look at the order or look it up on Lexi comp. Went to give it to the patient and it asked me for co-signer. I then really started to question the med and asked another nurse why I needed a co-signer and he informed me of what I was giving. Well I DID NOT give the med and found my preceptor and just cried. I felt like I was totally incompetent. I just wanted to go home. She was very reassuring that it was all OK and that I didn't give the med and mistakes happen. Yada yada yada. It still just put me in a funk for the rest of the day. Which both of these incidences happened before LUNCH!

Plus, there were just little things that happened through out the day that should have been easy and simple and were anything but easy and simple.

I know mistakes happen and I knew they would happen to me. I just felt so bad that I was that close to a med error. By the way the sedative wouldn't have hurt the patient it would have just made the patient sleepy but it definitely would not have made her pee! Anyway, I just thought I would share. I learned A LOT today! There is always time to slow down and go with you gut.

OK well I hope this post does not make you think A) hospitals are horrible or B) I should not be working with other peoples kids. Because all my patients were fine at the end of the day and none of them got the wrong meds or even knew anything was wrong with me. I love my patients and I completely understand I am taking care of someone else's child like they are my own (except I don't get to spake them when they are ugly to me).

Anyway, that was my day. I made it through my first week on days and am ready to relax over the weekend. Hope you all have a good rest of the week and enjoy your weekend.

L is for the way you Look Tonight

Today we went to a wedding of one of my very good friends from Nursing school. I was a bridesmaid and Jayci was the flower girl. It was such a nice beautiful wedding. Here are a few pictures from the day.

Stephanie & Clint

Jayci after the ceremony playing outside.

My family

Me with the bride, Stephanie. Can you find the hiding Jayci? It's like a Where's Waldo?

Me and my sweet girl

Oh and I cannot forget to mention yesterday we drove to Memphis (about 3 hours away) to meet our new niece.

Introducing Isabella Grace

Proud Uncle and Cousin

The sweetest picture. She loved her baby cousin

Jayci and I with Isabella

She's already a Razorback fan! Just sayin'

Needless to say we have had a very busy weekend. Tomorrow I think we are just going to clean around the house and just relax. I hope all of you have had a wonderful weekend as well!