Turkey Tops

These are some of the awesome girls I work with! One night I found these adorable turkey scrub tops online for pretty cheep, so a bunch of us decided to buy them. Then Jen, our extremely organized charge nurse (see "this is my munchkin land" blog and you'll see what I mean by organized) called each of us and told us to wear our turkey tops, obviously we had to get pictures!!

From the left me, Jennilee, Trinity, Steffany, Jen, Ashley and Dr Fine (and yes that's his real name, not a nick name we gave him!)
Kelly our surgical tech has to wear the hospital scrubs so we forced her to wear the turkey hat for a picture. Dr Fine wanted to wear the hat for the picture, he even wore it into one of the deliveries!! Have I mentioned before that I love my job?!

6 Months Old

Well since we haven't had kids yet my blog entries are about our dog! She is six months old now and we have her in an obedience class. She's doing pretty well so far. This was her first experience with snow. She couldn't really fully enjoy it do to the fact that she got fixed 2 days before. All she wanted to do was run around and eat snow, but we had to prevent that because she wasn't supposed get her incision wet or be too active. But she was really cute!!



Here's a shot of her incision. We felt so bad for her when she came out of the vet's office, she could hardly stand up straight because of the anesthesia! She doing much better now though.

Getting ready for Winter

Wes spent Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning cutting wood in preparation for the long cold winter, what a man!

The Portland Marathon

Wes and I ran our first Marathon in Portland on October 4th. It was a great 1st time marathon to run there were aide stations every couple miles and there was so much support from spectators! I was really nervous for it because I only made it up to 16 miles in my training and I was supposed to get up to 20 miles. It went pretty well though, I was able to jog all 26.2 miles, I knew if I started to walk I wouldn't be able to start running again! My time was 4 hrs and 13 minutes, which was better than I thought I would do. I was pretty sore for the next couple days, but I think I would do it again. I think the training sucked more than the actual marathon! If there is a next time I really need a training partner!

Both these pictures were taken in the middle of mile 25 we were pretty excited to be done!!

My New Nephew!

I think he looks a lot like Savanah when she was a baby!

Drake Christian Russell was born Sept 15th, 2009 at 11:44, he weighed 7 lbs 4 oz. Unfortunately Christian was in Chicago and couldn't get back until this morning, so he didn't get to the delivery. My mom, Emy and Heather's friend Jen were there to support her! Both Heather and Drake are doing great!

My job

Well it finally happened I got a regular shift on the maternity floor!! I'm going to have 30 hours a week scheduled all the time now, and I'll get health benefits, sick time payed vacation and all the wonderful things that come with an actual position instead of being supplemental. I just wanted to mention how much I love my job. I love helping deliver babies!! Some nights when I have patients that I really bond with it doesn't even feel like work!! Over the last month I've actually delivered 3 babies before the doctor even got to the room! The patient tells me they are having some pressure and I go to check them and the baby is crowning!! A few nights ago my patient couldn't feel anything at all, she was complete, but didn't feel where to push so we turned off the epidural to let it wear off. I kept checking under the sheet to make sure the baby wasn't crowning! Sure enough my patient still couldn't feel pressure, but I looked under the sheet and... there was the baby's head! The doctor made it for after the head was out, but he just let me finish delivering the baby anyway. Really I think I have the best job in the world!!

A High Mountain Lake

Wes finally had 2 days off in a row so he wanted to make the most of it. We went to a high mountain lake near Kellog Idaho and camped for a night. Wes was in Heaven! He caught a rainbow trout on his second cast!! He was so excited, he got another really small one, but after that he just got bites. In the middle of the night we heard a moose wondering around our camp and in the water next to us. I was really freaked out, so Mitsy and I got in the car. We figured out that Mitsy isn't going to be the best watch dog, because she didn't make a peep!! The next day we saw the moose pretty close up, and again I was looking at it from the car, but Wes was out getting pictures of it!

Wes in his element

This is how much Wes loves our little Mitsy!!



A proud fisherman!
For the most part I was taking the pictures so thats why they are all of Wes!