Sick dia

So today i didnt do much...a bit of laundry dishes and crock pot supper.

I am feeling exhausted and lots of sinus pressure so iam off to bed. Good night all.

Zoo adventures

Today a good friend and her kiddos picked me up and we went to the garden zoo...

The store at the zoo was closed for the winter so we drove thru, parked, and walked around.

We fed ducks and geese, took lots of pics with giraffes and saw lots of orher animals...andrea even got me to go into an exhibit that i usually wouldnt.

We got yummy coffee from patrick duggans in gc (fav of mine around here) and pigged out on pasta and cheesecake at napolis.

I soooo wanted to take a nap but was good and jogged/walked with a friend for bout an hour.

Today I enjoyed many simple pleasures and im very thankful for them...but still find myself feeling a bit guilty that ben worked all day while i played...

Groughy old ladies and cute babies

Today i had lunch with a friend and her adorable son and baby. While at lunch some older women were sitting near us and when baby m would get grouchy or laugh loud one of the ladies gave us a death glare. I get she was trying to eat lunch but she was talking louder than any noises coming from our table. We heard EVERYTHING she said!

We decided that when were her age were gonna be so friendly and happy to be aluve and happy when people r nice to us! =)

The wearher was so nice today...we got to take a nice long walk!

While driving around today i was rocking out to an "old school" cd and loving it! The year this cd was creates was an amazing year full of awesome road trips and fun times un college! To me the cd doesnt feel like it was created nearly ten years ago...but i was recently informed that music from ten years ago is old school! Lol.

Today im thankful for new and old friends, squealing babies and old ladies who remind me to slow down , enjoy life and to be fun and lighthearted as i get older!

Nothing like coming home to a home cooked meal...

Happy Sunday all!

Today was my last day working days for awhile, and boy oh boy was it a crazy day!  I don't think that I got to stop to pee until after 12pm, but the day went by quickly which was nice. It was a good busy day that enabled me to use alot of what I have learned and do alot on my own...and I think that it went okay.

Tonight I came home to a home cooked meal from sis and bro in law and hubby...steak, kelibasa, chicken, rice and greenbeans!  I felt very special and greatly appreciated the meal!

I hope that everyone had a great weekend, I am looking forward to a few days off from the hospital and spending some time with a good friend who is in town for the week.

driving thru construction zones

so today ben and i both are off!!! nice and kinda rare occasion around here.

we went to garden for lunch and ran some errands...nice afternoon...now hes watching football and im lounging on the couch.

last night we had supper at liz and ryans house and had fun reminising nout old times. ryans parents r in town so we had fun joking bout growing up =)

liz reminded me of one i though ud sare...once upon a time when i was. living in az and got off the fwy at a construction zone and didnt know u was...i sat at the light with cars parked in front of me for awhile honking and yelling cuz they werent going when the light turned green lol...then i realizeed the other cars were empty and i was sitting in a construction zone!!!

today im thankful for fun memories and rare impromtu saturdays with the hubby!

last night

countdown to Christmas

happy friday!

nothing much new and exciting going on in the world of the taylor household.

i cant believe christmas is 8 weeks and 5 days away! guess we should figure what were gonna do for christmas?!?!

i think i wanna book a vaca for ben and i and suprise him with if for christmas....were to go?!?!

i am hoping to attend a yoga class tonight if i find the proper motivation =) i hope everyone has a great weekend.

insomnia or hazards of the job???

so its past one am and ive slept a total of one hr!!! im hoping tom goes well and im awake enough for wk tom!

i hope everyone has a great thurs!

Wednesday

Happy Wednesday all!

I am off nights for a week, and at first I was excited about it, but now that I realize that i have to wake up at 5am tom, I am thinking that is going to be allot harder now than staying up all night!  

I feel like a zombie today! I worked on Monday night and then stayed at work from 830 to noonish for a training that I had and now I feel like a walking zombie today. I slept more than 12 hours, and I'm still exhausted, so I think that I'll go to bed early tonight in hopes that waking up at 5am tom won't be so hard. 

Today I'm kinda in a funky mood, not sure if it is being sleepy and change of schedule or just a blah day. I have alot on my mind and I'm kinda frustrated bout a few things, but not sure how to handle it.  Most of me just wants to say blah to it and not deal with it, but the other part of me wants to take control and deal with it...problem is I'm not sure quite how to deal with this one or how to take control of it. 

I'm sure that all sounds kinda crazy and would be alot easier to understand if I wasn't so vague, but I have to be vague in this situation.  Prayers would be nice for patience for me and for some light to be shed on this situation. 

A number of friends have posted on FB about a family who gave birth to a little boy the other day named Colin who was born with anecephaly and who passed away.  I did not know this family personally, but I know many people who did and I know that it has affected all of them and I can't even begin to imagine how it has affected the family involved.  http://www.carryingcolin.com/ is a link to a website about the family.  Prayer is an amazing gift that has been given to us, please take the time to pray for this family today!

Today I amazed at the power of prayer!

Slacker again

Sorry I've been slacking so much to blogging, I try to do it from work each night, but blogger.com won't always work on my phone or I've been to busy to do so. 

Enough excuses back on track today! =)

Yesteray I got called off due to lack of pt's, so I slept fomr 8am to 5 pm and then midnight til eleven today, guess I was a bit tired! I got to enjoy supper with Ben and Ryan & Liz...steak, ribs and mashed potatoes! No complaints here!

The weather was so nice this weekend and will be almost 90 for part of this ewek and THEN jump down to the 50's....not looking fowrad to the 50's, but def can't complain b/c at least it isn't freezing weather!

Working in general has definitly changed things between Ben and I, but working nights has changed it even more. I don't mean that it has changed us in a bad way, more of a good way. Of course I miss him, but it has def made us spend more quality time together the nights/days we are together. I am nervous about being on the floor with less people as I won't be "training" as much, but kind of excited for it so we can get on a more regular schedule. 

Ben has been cooking more, doing dishes and helping around the house more...but since neither one of us are home for very many waking hours these days, there haven't been alot of dishes or mess around the house! I usualy have been putting stuff in the crock pot, and we eat that for a few days.

 At Sam's on Friday I picked up some Olive Garden salad dressing....although it is pretty high in fat (like most italian dressings) if used sparingly it is plenty and so delicious!

Tonight I am thankful for a helpful hubby, ribs for leftover to eat prob at 2 am and Olive garden salad dressing!

im a slacker

well apparently i am a huge slacker and havent posted in a few days...worked a few nights in a row was supposed to be off yesterday but watched a friends babe and eneded up working last night so i got sidetracked and so here i am finally posting today...

yesterday i ventured to sams club and target by myself with a almost 4 month old babe...fun adventure we had. he was a good boy and only had a lil meltdown in tacobell drive thru but then he had his bottle and i had my taco and we were both happy campers!   it was a fun day and he was a good boy so the company made the day even better.

hopefully ill make it thru the naxt couple nights of working.

today im thankful for fun days with borrowed babes and for moms who make it look so easy to tote babes around!

Apparently I can't do basic math anymore!

So although I have graduated from college a couple of different times, I am learning tonight/this am that it doesn't mean that I know how to add or subtract! I think that I have added and subtracted wrong at least 3 times tonight at work...thank God not for extremely important stuff and for a good co-worker who keeps catching and giggling at my mistakes! =)

I was shocked to see over 800 views tonight when I logged on, way exciting!

This weekend will be my first weekend working, and I am looking forward to it and hope that all goes well.  I am excited that I get to work a few days in the next week or two so that I can get some normal sleep...but then again what is normal now. I am surprised that I have been doing okay so far on nights, well see in a few weeks when exhaustion sets in.

Today I'm thankful for sleep and 2 days off!

blogging on fone for first time

well tonight im blogging from my fone for the first time ever...weird but nice to be able to do so!!! tonight im working my second overnight and so far so good! im quickly learning its not a good idea to watch the clock =).

its hard to believe that tonight is allready the 16th of oct! time sure flies bye sometimes!

today was a wacky day filled with lots of blonde moments its hard to believe im still functioning properly!

today im thankful for a job!!!

Hockey Game in DC, KS

Sorry didn't blog yesterday, we were without internet for most of the day for some reason.

Anyhow, last night we went to a hockey game in Dodge City, KS and it was pretty fun. Last year we went to one that had a bit more action to it, but we had some fun people sitting near us. The boys (ben and ryan) made friends with the couple next to us, and it was fun to see the 3 of them feed off of one another!

I have been to a # of hockey games, but I think that Liz has only been to a few.  The boys sure were "nice" to let us know when we were using the wrong termonology...for example the puck was taken over by the other team while passing it to a team member and liz yelled "interception" which she got teased for cuz that is only in football, and I was trying to explain to liz that the cheerleaders that we saw runing around perform in between periods, but I said at half time and boy did that get them all rilled up too!  

It was a fun night full of lots of banter, and way way way too much food! We had burgers at our casa before we left and mashed potatoes w/broccoli. Then we (me and ryan mainly) shared a BUCKET of popcorn, hot dog and nachos. Then somehow Ryan talked us all into going and getting mexican food after the game and of course Ryan and I were the only ones to pig out!   Needless to say, I have had indigestion through this morning still! 

Well now I gotta take a quick shower and head off to meet a friend. 

Today I am thankful for rare fun activities in Dodge City, KS, for yummy food no matter how much indigestion I get and for friends & Fam!

My Love for the Beach

Not sure what it is, but every show or movie that I watch today seems to have the ocean in it..and it is making me homesick!

Most of you reading this know me well enough to know that I have a great love for water, especially the beach.

The beach has always been a place of peace for me and a place that is full of so many of lives wonderful memories. 

Today I am feeling a bit suffocated and land locked, and in desperate need for the beach & ocean. 

So, in honor of that, I am going to talk a bit more about the beach in hopes that I might not feel so homesick...
 
The beach is a place where I have continually found a sense of peace and amazement at your creation.  If I have ever been in need of feeling God's hand in my life or needing to feel in awe of God, the beach has been where I have found it.

I have been blessed to have been to a number of different beaches in my lifetime...the Atlantic ocean during summer visits to Rhode Island, the Pacific ocean growing up in California and again the Pacific during my visits to Hawaii and the Gulf of Mexico in Florida. 

I remember the Atlantic ocean as a kid, eating Del's lemonade and playing with cousins and aunts and uncles.  I remember going out pretty far in the waves with mom and her promising me that I would be okay and not get knocked over b/c the waves "roll" on the east coast and don't crash as much as they do in the west, and she was right! It picked me up and put me right back down where I started. 

I remember the Pacific ocean as being a staple part of my childhood and adulthood. I remember sunday visits to the beach after church and eating alot of fried chicken at those visits (thus my love for the ocean and fried chicken as I got older),  boogie boarding with my dad watching us to make sure we didn't drown, eating at The Original Pizza with friends in high school and for years to come after high school, eating chocolate covered bananas and walking and talking for hours with Lisa, renting bikes with friends, going down to Venice with friends in high school while we were supposed to be at Disneyland or other places, laying in the sand for the entire day (from like 9 or 10 am on) until it was dark and having long and fun bonfires, eating good food and watching friends get tatoos...I remember going to Hawaii for the first time with Heather to visit Natalie and our crazy adventures there and all of the other times that I have gotten to go to Hawaii with groups of friends and with Ben. 

I love the warmth of the sand in between my toes, the feel of the warm sun on my skin, reading a million books while on vacation lying on the beach and how bronze my skin gets as my freckles decide to pop up.

It amazes me that I have lived in KS for over 4 years now and that I have survived this long without the ocean, besides the quick visit each time I head to southern cali.  HOpefully some day soon I'll get to spend more than a quick moment at the beach and rejuvenate my need for the ocean!  Until then here are a few fun photos for you to enjoy!

Tonight, I am thankful for the time that I have had with Ben this weekend, for the memories that I have been so blessed to have w/the beach and friends & family and for the amazing creation God has given us with the beach.

Fri night movie night

Happy Friday!

Well, I survived my first night shift! I was pretty awake until 4am, then the time slowed down alot, but it was a good night!

Now that it is 930 at night I am def a little bit tired after only 5 hours of sleep today, so I am glad that I don't work tomorrow. :)

Sorry so short tonight gonna watch a movie with Ben, a rare occasion in this house! :)

I'm becoming a night person whether I'm ready or not!

Well whether I am ready for it or not today has come and tonight is quickly approaching. I slept in until almost 10 and I plan to take a nap, so hopefully I'll be wide awake for most of the night. Perhaps I am making a bigger deal of this than I should be, but for the last couple of years I have been the sort of person to go to bed by 9 or 10 at the latest, and staying up on a weekend night til midnight was unheard of! =) Perhaps I'm just a wimp since most of the people that I have graduated with have been pulling nights for months....hopefully tomorrow I'll say oh gosh I was making a big deal and I'll be just fine!

Going through nursing school I said multiple times that I only wanted to work as a school nurse or in a doctor's office, but I was wrong, I LOVE working at a hospital. I think that I would of been too bored at a Dr office, maybe not as bored as a school nurse.  Perhaps I wouldn't like it as much if I was working at a larger hospital, but working at a smaller one where we still get to see a huge variety of stuff, I really like it.

I am hoping that I'll find a good balance of work, friends, cooking and working out soon. I keep having these big "plans" on working out and cooking, but when that day comes I seem to find an easy excuse as to why not to work out or just be too darn tired.  I miss cooking, but seem to struggle to only Cook once or twice a week and we eat allot of those leftovers for a few days, or frozen pizza. Heck Ben has cooked a bit more than me lately! =)  

Today, I am thankful for a good job, a hubby who is more than willing to help pick up the slack, good friends and fam, microwaveable food and for dark bedrooms that make it easy to sleep in!

Yummy steaks

Well today  was a busy day at work, but a good one.  I am really enjoying the job so far, and have gotten to do alot more stuff than what I did in clinicals.

Tonight I came home to some steaks on the grill and enjoyed a yummy supper with Benjamin...and he did the dishes too! 

I am very thankful for him and for his help with me adjusting to this new schedule.

Have a good night!

TV watching & Nail painting kind of day!

Well, today was not much of a productive days as I had planned for. I woke up ate breakfast, did not run AGAIN, did a bit of laundry, sat on my fanny watched TV shows on the DVR while painting my nails, showered and went to work for a few hours + ran a few errands on the way to work.

It was just one of those days, where I could not get motivated. 

Tonight Ben got home right at the same time that I did, a rare situation in  this house these days, so it will be nice to sit around and watch Big Bang Theory with him this evening and eat frozen pizza! 

I am hoping that I get plenty of sleep tonight and tomorrow night as I work two day shifts and then switch to nights on Thrusday night, hopefully I am cut out for nights!   Keep me and ben in your prayers if you think about it as we transition into me being gone three or four nights a week. I think he'll have a harder time with it then me! I don't think he'll know what to do with himself with so much time alone! 

Have a good week all!

Happy Sunday

Happy Sunday!

This week is going to be a long one! I work days Tues and Wed and switch to nights on Thursday! Yikes! I am surei n a few weeks  I'll be able to handle it, but I'm a lil nervous about how tired I'll be at the end of this week.

Today we went to a diff church here in town with one of Ben's co-workers, followed by a bbq at church that was suposed to be in the park, but b/c of crazy cold weather the bbq was at the church.

After Sam's club we enjoyed a nice day at home and supper at Liz and Ryan's house.

Hope everyone had a good weekend!  

Bday week

This last week sure has kicked me in the rear pretty good! I definitely am feeling a bit older =)

I was so tired on Thursday am that I grabbed a bottle that I thought was the creamer to put in the coffee and it ended up being KETCHUP!  Gross, so I dumped out the cup, washed it and made some coffee with creamer this time!

I was such a blonde on Thursday, it was pretty hilarious.  Then Friday I ran a bunch of errands, got hair done after over a year of coloring it, worked and went to dinner & hung out with friends.

It was a good week, but a busy one. 

I intend on writing back to everyone on FB and texts, just been a little busy to do so.  Hopefully I'll get to that tomorrow!

On Wednesday when I got home from work, Ben got home shortly after me, took a shower and than gave me my bday gift and cute card. After that he went to the market (at like 845 at night) and got some fresh ground beef and came home and made us burgers. I was so tired, but the meal was great and I really appreciated the simplicity and sweetness of all the the effort he went to for me to have a good birthday! 

Last night I had borrowed some lip color from Liz while we were on our way to dinner, and it smelt funny and I didn't want it on my lips, so I was searching in her purse for some paper or napkin to wipe it off with and found a yellow pad of paper. Once Liz saw what I had in my hand and she grabbed it from me, then I knew whatever was written on that paper was a secret....being the awesome big sis I am, I started to tease her and said what is it, I already know now you have to tell me, and she caved right in and shared that she and some close girlfriends were surprising me with a wonderful weekend in Denver in Nov!  I am so stoked, now I just have to get the weekend off from work! 

I am posting a few pics from a friends phone from last night, not everyone who came to dinner were in the pics, but here are a few cute ones!

 

Opps oldtimers is kicking in!

So, first day after turning 30 and I slack off and forget to blog! I was so exhausted from work, it completely slipped my mind.

Now, I am up early on my day off cuz I am used to waking up, and next week I switch to nights...gonna be a long couple of weeks I think!

Today I get to get my hair did, buy a new outfit,  and go to dinner with friends and fam to celebrate...so looking forward to it, but wish other friends and fam were there too!

So on a sadder note, last night we were looking at the weather forecast and supposedly there is a chance for SNOW SHOWERS on sat night b/c there is a 20% chance of rain and it will be so cold! Umm so not cool! :(

I have an appointment to get to right now, but I'll blog more later today. 

30

30...today I am 30!

I thought I would feel different, honestly just feels like another day! :)

Thank you everyone for all of the wonderful phone calls, texts and FB messages! 

Here's to another 30 years...wonder if it will fly by just as fast!

The Eve of Turning 30!!!

Well folks, the countdown to 30 will end tomorrow! Crazy how time has flown bye!

Ben is making me supper tonight...nice pasta supper, shower and bed time for this old lady!

If you would of asked me a few weeks ago how I felt about turning 30 I was honestly pretty terrified, but tonight I feel okay about it. Besides its just another # right?!?! :)  

Have a good evening all!

Best Coffee Cup

It amazes me that with the 1 million different type of coffee cups that are out there, how hard it is to find a good one!

I want one that is light weight, fits in all cup holders (most of them at least), can go in microwave and dishwasher, cleans easy and most of all DOESN'T leak!

Well, after many years of searching and with a cabinet full of at least 20 different ones, I think that I have found my favorite one so far, and it is only $5.00...go figure!  When I was at my sister-in-law Katie's baby shower last spring, we had gotten some Silverbridge coffee to give as prize gifts for the shower.  Well, I loved the coffee so much, that I ordered some on the Internet, had my mother-in-law bring some out when she was here this summer, and have gotten my bro-in-law here in KS hooked on it too! So, we placed another order two weeks ago, and if we spent a few more bucks got free shipping, I saw that they had a coffee cup on there for $5.00 and I said hey order it....well, I have to say that I LOVE IT!!!

It is light weight, dishwasher/microwave safe, fits in all cup holders and DOESN'T leak!!! Go figure, the one that I have ever paid the least for, is my fav!

Next time we order coffee I'm getting some extra cups too! 

I'm sure this is a lame post for some today, but had to share about my newest find and how much I love it.

http://silverbridgecoffee.com/silver-bridge-logo-travel-cup-p-106.html here is the link to the coffee cup for those interested! :)