Well it's a new year and I only updated my blog a few times last year. Ooops! I am sure it is because at work I am typing all day long and then don't feel up for it later on, and Saskatoon was pretty boring last year! Since we have so many new things going on I have decided try again for the sake of keeping track of time and memories! :) Here are a few things that are new with Jared and I...
We are having a baby GIRL at the end of April! We cannot wait to meet her and start our family! She is due right around the same time as Jared's final exams for his first year in dental so I guess we can only hope for the best timing :) I am getting another ultrasound on February 3 to see her again and see if she is still developing at a good rate. When we went last time I was just under 20 weeks so they wanted me to come back again a few months later, which I will not complain about because I get to see her(if it still is a she). She is moving around soo much, especially lately. I will be 28 weeks on Monday! :) She is for sure keeping Mom awake at night but I guess it is just better preparing me for motherhood. :)
We are loving Saskatoon! Getting to know more people and making new friends. Jared loves his dental class. They are all SOOO NICE! It hasn't even been that cold here for the past few weeks which has been wonderful! I am teaching Primary ages 8 and 9 and I love them! They know so much about the gospel and I am learning so much from them. We have an amazing ward out here. It feels like a little family. Jared is teaching Elder's quorum and just got called as the first counselor in the Sunday school.
We just got new carpet in our house so we have been busy busy moving things back and forth...which has pretty much just been Jared since I am little to no help with the heavy lifting :)
EXCITING NEWS!
We just found out yesterday that Jared got accepted into the Canadian Army in the Dental Officer Training Program!!!!!!!! We don't know too many details about it yet but that he is "starting" in the next couple of weeks and gets sworn into the Canadian Army next week! Basically what we mostly know is that Jared will get his dentistry schooling paid for fully from here on out (3 years) and he will be getting paid a monthly wage on top of that, which is a major blessing and will be super helpful for starting our new family. We have yet to find out if he has to go for basic training this summer for 8 weeks. YAYYYY! I am so proud of him. He has worked so hard and is such a smarty! So we will see what happens with everything.
We are moving home again to Alberta for the summer in 3 months! This school year has gone by so fast!
I am still keeping busy working at the RUH Hospital doing transcription for Pediatric Neurology and love it. The physician I work for (Dr. Hasal) is a dream and super sweet. I basically work my own hours whenever I want and how long I want, which has been super nice during this pregnancy and working around going home to visit. Still working a lot though! If I stay at home during the day I go crazy in the winter :) I have been super sick with migraines and have had to do a lot of prenatal testing, but everything has worked out great. Jared has been such a great help, especially with how busy he has been with school.
We are really looking forward to the summer and baby getting here! My belly is growing growing! I will have to do a belly bump picture soon! That's all for now! ;)
Friday 30 January 2015
Tuesday 1 April 2014
MOVING HOME!!!!!
It has been quite a few crazy months! I have had no time to blog apparently.
Some big things that have happened recently are...
- We are moving to Cardston for the summer!!! YAY! I am so excited to be close to family!
- My last day of working at the Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon on April 17 then we are packing up our house and putting it into storage for the summer.
- Jared had his MMI dental school interview in Edmonton at the U of A last month and we do not hear whether he got accepted or not until June! Fingers crossed!
- On April 5 (Jared's birthday) Jared has the MMI dental interview for the University of Saskatchewan - also don't hear back until June.
- Corbin gets home from his mission APRIL 30th - the same day we are moving home from Saskatoon. I CANNOT wait to see him!!!
- I start working at the Lethbridge Regional Hospital May 5. I am so lucky to have been able to keep my job as a transcriptionist and that they have been keeping that position open for me because they knew we would be back in the summer.
- It is our 1-year ANNIVERSARY on May 4th! Cannot believe it has been a year. :)))
- We are getting sealed in the temple this summer!
It has been the best and happiest year of my life and I am so grateful to have such a kind, humble, loving, and smart husband by my side. He truly brings out the best in me! I can hardly wait for April to be over so we can be close to family for a short while again! I miss my siblings - Especially my nephew as well as Jared's family and all the babies in their family! I have loved Saskatoon and it has been so cold as well as a huge growing experience. Looking forward to the future! :)
Monday 16 December 2013
Monday funDay
Well it's Monday and almost Friday! Ha! We are going home to Alberta this weekend and I couldn't be more excited! We haven't been home since thanksgiving but it feels like a lifetime! I sure am going to miss my primary kids while we are away. There is this one 5-year-old kid that says "well...anyway..." After you ask him any question and just rambles on about something random. He is the smartest 5-year-old I have ever met though. Like...genius. Those kids are the best. I forgot that primary singing time takes up about 45 minutes of the class. That's the best! Singing primary songs for that long. It's amazing how the songs come back to you after all these years. Anyways...Jared CRASHED when we got home from school and work today. Which I am soooo happy about because that boy could stay awake all night and study. He had been so hard-working for the past two weeks it's not even funny. I haven't seen him sleep in a while. It's great to just see him crash and relax. So I'm sitting here watching honey boo boo and doing the dishes. This is probably a boring post but I have missed blogging! Mostly these posts are just for me so I can keep track of how fast life is moving. Hopefully this week goes by fast! I work for the only pediatric hematologist in Saskatchewan and she is keeping me busy enough for months to come! Looking forward to two weeks off!
Ps. I can't stop watching "The Holiday" it has been on TV every day for the past week! Could never get sick of it!
Saturday 14 December 2013
Weekend
This is usually what nighttime looks like for us during finals week! Watching the NFR and hockey. I actually went out Christmas shopping today while Jared studied. We of course made time for a date night too! ;) love this smarty pants!
Friday 13 December 2013
FRIDAY!
Who doesn't love Fridays? Jared probably doesn't this weekend. He has a final tonight and 2 more on Monday. But It is sleep in time for me! My mornings during the week consist of waking up at 6:30AM and seriously not even getting ready. Same old messy bun and lulu pants that I try and pull off as scrubs with a hoodie to work. Sometimes I wear scrubs. There have been a few times where I get to work and either my pants or shirt is inside out. I get dressed in the dark. I am actually a morning person and am super happy in the morning even though I'd rather still be in bed. Sometimes I get strange looks from other people at work and they are probably wondering how much effort I put into getting ready but I don't really care. Ha. It's winter and walking to the bus in the dark in the -30 degree weather is not ideal for wearing tights and a dress top. Anyways, back to loving the fact that it is Friday! and a WEEK AWAY from going home for Christmas! So exciting. I am pretty sure this weekend will consist of me and Jared staying in with our Christmas decorations while I quiz him on biochemistry. I might as well be in school and taking Biochem because I am learning as much as he is as his study partner. It helps him out so much when I quiz him so I am more than happy to go through amino acids and mitochondrial things and so forth to assist Jared in studying. We have also been doing some hardcore Insanity workouts so I'm sure that will get us through the weekend too! Sometimes I like to pretend I am all crafty and all I do when I get home from work is Christmas baking and festival-like things...But I don't. I would like to, but I am just way too warn out from work by the time I get home after 5 pm..then there is Ellen, Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, and Diners Drive ins and Dives to watch of course! Jokes we don't do that EVERY day. haha but most days. ITS winter and it makes us happy. haha we are already that old couple that watches Jeopardy and I love it! Happy Friday everyone!
This is the view from my crammed up office for a bit! There is construction going on because there is a leak in the roof coming from the labor and delivery rooms. There are 5 people that work in this office plus 8 difference doctors who come in and out. :)
This is the view from my crammed up office for a bit! There is construction going on because there is a leak in the roof coming from the labor and delivery rooms. There are 5 people that work in this office plus 8 difference doctors who come in and out. :)
Thursday 12 December 2013
Fresh Start
I decided it was time to restart a brand new blog. I used to love it before I started ACTUALLY living my awesome life. In a lifetime that seems like it was not even mine. A time that I honestly work at every day to block the pain out of my mind. You could say Joshua Radin has inspired me. He has kept me company at work while I type and listen to reports from my doctors. MUSIC makes such a big difference. I have realized my time spent listening to music disappeared for a while. I realize how much of a softy I am for the emo beats and piano emotional rock lullaby songs and how it just makes me think and reflect. Seriously Joshua Radin will put you in a mood whether its happy, lovey, sad, and especially GRATEFUL for the love in your life.
I have had such a hard time figuring out how I even feel about anything these days. I have felt just numb. I blame it on PMS but it feels like I am using that excuse for the past few hundred days straight. Pretty sure it is just full-time work and the stresses of it and waking up at 6:30AM every morning. Listening to doctors and residents dictate all day in a crammed up office I am sure helps too!
Jared and I have been married for 7 months now! It is very safe to say that he is definitely the best thing that has ever happened to me. He was the last thing that I saw coming into my life at such a hard and painful time. He seriously saved my life in ways that I could never put in words. I really do not want to brag (and I do not even appreciate it as much as I should) but, he is the most patient, kind, loving, hard-working man I have ever met. I can be a brat sometimes and he is just so good to me. He brings out the best in me. When I am a spaz and get irritated easily he just laughs at me and then I am quick to realize that I am a spaz and we just burst out laughing together. This sums up a lot of how our relationship is and how it goes most days. Jared is very easy going and always happy. Seriously, he is like a little kid and always singing, moving, dancing or bursting out with random noises. He loves to play. Most importantly he knows when to be serious. He is very smart and has such a good memory. I just have to shake my head at him because he is so full of knowledge. Okay I will leave more of the bragging for later...
We have been living in Saskatoon since September and we love it here! Jared is going to school at the University of Saskatchewan taking pre-dental courses and is applying for Dental school this year. It is very competative so we are hoping he gets in!
We have loved it out here! It is like a home away from home. We love the ward that we are in and we teach Primary ages 4 and 5. We love it. I love being able to teach together and it is a lot funner than relief society! haha The kids are so fun. I am working full time at the Royal University Hospital as an administrative assistant/medical transcriptionist and work for 4 different pediatricians. Three of them are pediatric neurologists and one of them is a pediatric hematologist/oncologist. It definitely keeps me busy and I feel like I have accomplished a lot at the end of the day. It is great because I work one-on-one with the doctors and get to talk to them every day about reports and their patients and prepare them for clinics.
We definitely miss our family back home! Going to Sunday dinner at the Anderson's to just the two of us is quite an adjustment. We cannot wait to go back home for Christmas! It has been good out here for me and Jared to be on our own though. We have grown so much and it is a great learning experience. We have had a lot of time to spend together and getting to know each other even better. Even though sometimes all I do is work, come home, we make dinner together, watch some t.v. and go to bed early. I must say I love getting to sleep in the same bed as someone every night. Having Jared there is such a comfort...even though I snore loudly apparently and he is usually trying to plug my nose and roll me over so I stop. I think I don't sleep very well so this is a comfort to me knowing that I don't even wake up or remember waking up! Jared and I have so much fun together! I know I can be grumpy sometimes so he really is a gem! I am trying more to be positive and just to be happy and not let my tiredness get to me.
I was really sad/PMS-ing last week and broke down into tears to Jared a few times because we did not have a Christmas tree or lights or anything Christmassy in our house. It was the coming in to the second week of December and I thought we were the worst and saddest people because we did not even have a tree and it was our first year as a married couple! I am sure I overreacted a few times - well I know I did - haha. But I just wanted to get into the Christmas spirit and I was being selfish. Jared has been crazy busy studying for his final exams and all I could think about was that we didn't have a tree. Well on Monday after all of my whining...When I came home from work Jared had surprised me with a TREE! Along with some twinkle lights around our cute little fireplace and a poinsettia and a stuffed baby penguin. I WAS THE HAPPIEST! This was a BIG deal because if you know Jared, he is not very cheesy/flowering me with gifts every second, which I am totally okay with since when you get them you just LOVE IT and appreciate it so much! And he does way cuter things like clean the house, laundry, and cook! ha I was so happy when I saw te tree I cried! He seriously is the cutest and I was a brat haha. Now we are set all thanks to Jared. Our first Christmas together is looking pretty great! I am so happy I get to spend it with him in my arms this year. CHEESY but true. I am so happy we have each other. I could not have asked for greater in-laws. I feel so lucky to be part of such a loving family. Can't wait to see them! Alright I feel better now that I wrote some feelings down - ha ha.
I have had such a hard time figuring out how I even feel about anything these days. I have felt just numb. I blame it on PMS but it feels like I am using that excuse for the past few hundred days straight. Pretty sure it is just full-time work and the stresses of it and waking up at 6:30AM every morning. Listening to doctors and residents dictate all day in a crammed up office I am sure helps too!
Jared and I have been married for 7 months now! It is very safe to say that he is definitely the best thing that has ever happened to me. He was the last thing that I saw coming into my life at such a hard and painful time. He seriously saved my life in ways that I could never put in words. I really do not want to brag (and I do not even appreciate it as much as I should) but, he is the most patient, kind, loving, hard-working man I have ever met. I can be a brat sometimes and he is just so good to me. He brings out the best in me. When I am a spaz and get irritated easily he just laughs at me and then I am quick to realize that I am a spaz and we just burst out laughing together. This sums up a lot of how our relationship is and how it goes most days. Jared is very easy going and always happy. Seriously, he is like a little kid and always singing, moving, dancing or bursting out with random noises. He loves to play. Most importantly he knows when to be serious. He is very smart and has such a good memory. I just have to shake my head at him because he is so full of knowledge. Okay I will leave more of the bragging for later...
We have been living in Saskatoon since September and we love it here! Jared is going to school at the University of Saskatchewan taking pre-dental courses and is applying for Dental school this year. It is very competative so we are hoping he gets in!
We have loved it out here! It is like a home away from home. We love the ward that we are in and we teach Primary ages 4 and 5. We love it. I love being able to teach together and it is a lot funner than relief society! haha The kids are so fun. I am working full time at the Royal University Hospital as an administrative assistant/medical transcriptionist and work for 4 different pediatricians. Three of them are pediatric neurologists and one of them is a pediatric hematologist/oncologist. It definitely keeps me busy and I feel like I have accomplished a lot at the end of the day. It is great because I work one-on-one with the doctors and get to talk to them every day about reports and their patients and prepare them for clinics.
We definitely miss our family back home! Going to Sunday dinner at the Anderson's to just the two of us is quite an adjustment. We cannot wait to go back home for Christmas! It has been good out here for me and Jared to be on our own though. We have grown so much and it is a great learning experience. We have had a lot of time to spend together and getting to know each other even better. Even though sometimes all I do is work, come home, we make dinner together, watch some t.v. and go to bed early. I must say I love getting to sleep in the same bed as someone every night. Having Jared there is such a comfort...even though I snore loudly apparently and he is usually trying to plug my nose and roll me over so I stop. I think I don't sleep very well so this is a comfort to me knowing that I don't even wake up or remember waking up! Jared and I have so much fun together! I know I can be grumpy sometimes so he really is a gem! I am trying more to be positive and just to be happy and not let my tiredness get to me.
I was really sad/PMS-ing last week and broke down into tears to Jared a few times because we did not have a Christmas tree or lights or anything Christmassy in our house. It was the coming in to the second week of December and I thought we were the worst and saddest people because we did not even have a tree and it was our first year as a married couple! I am sure I overreacted a few times - well I know I did - haha. But I just wanted to get into the Christmas spirit and I was being selfish. Jared has been crazy busy studying for his final exams and all I could think about was that we didn't have a tree. Well on Monday after all of my whining...When I came home from work Jared had surprised me with a TREE! Along with some twinkle lights around our cute little fireplace and a poinsettia and a stuffed baby penguin. I WAS THE HAPPIEST! This was a BIG deal because if you know Jared, he is not very cheesy/flowering me with gifts every second, which I am totally okay with since when you get them you just LOVE IT and appreciate it so much! And he does way cuter things like clean the house, laundry, and cook! ha I was so happy when I saw te tree I cried! He seriously is the cutest and I was a brat haha. Now we are set all thanks to Jared. Our first Christmas together is looking pretty great! I am so happy I get to spend it with him in my arms this year. CHEESY but true. I am so happy we have each other. I could not have asked for greater in-laws. I feel so lucky to be part of such a loving family. Can't wait to see them! Alright I feel better now that I wrote some feelings down - ha ha.
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