Update

So, again I have been remiss in my blogging...alot has been going on lately!

In the middle of March, I started in the Progressive Care Unit and THE Ohio State University Medical Center. I love it there. I am out of orientation (and thanks to all of you who listened to my whining about being in orientation) and back on nights where I belong.

Girlfriend is done with preschool and registered for Kindergarten. She cannot wait and is so looking forward to riding the bus. I, on the other hand, have mixed emotions. I know it'll be good for her, I do. She is enjoying 3 months off before school starts.

PD and I are getting married July 31 of this year. Yep, we've been together about a year and we'd talked about it several times, and then just decided to just do it. We are getting married on a Friday night at a park in Columbus with just immediate family and a few friends (25 ppl total including the 5 of us) and our friend who's a nurse with PD in the SICU just got his official license (last night at work, thank you) to marry us. How cool is that?!? We are both excited and the kiddos are all excited as well.

We are looking for a house and who knew how stressful that was going to be...I hate that I get so attached to these houses!!! Ah well, we will find our perfect house.

Anyway, that's what is going on with us! Hope you all are well!

And a shoutout to my birthday and stuff

Thanks to all those who hung with us...we have good friends! I love that all of our friends can hang together!

Shout out to the baby girl!

Here are some long overdue pictures of the baby girl! Some are from her birthday and some are from her blessing day last Sunday.

Shout out

Thanks to all of those who made my birthday awesome...I'll post pictures soon. Holla!!

I'm old...

yep, I just turned 30 years old 1 hour and 22 minutes ago...I'm at work saving lives tonight (ha!). PD called to wish me Happy Birthday and all of that stuff ;) right at midnight and I've gotten plenty of birthday wishes. Let the fun begin!!

I have been remiss...

in my blogging and my brother does not hesitate to tell me so. I apologize, time got away from me and I haven't jumped into the 21st century and gotten internet at home yet.

Anyway, let's see...in November I bought the car I have ALWAYS wanted...a Yukon Denali. It seats 7 (so it holds my posse comfortably...no one is touching anyone else), has a DVD player, leather, yada, yada...not bragging at all, I have just always wanted this car and thanks to dad's negotiation skills, I got a fantastic deal. We also had Thanksgiving and I spent it with PD, the kids and his family while girlfriend was with her dad's family.

In December, I took the girls to see "The Nutcracker" performed by Columbus BalletMet. I loved it and in spite of it being a little long, the girls enjoyed it as well. Christmas was good...the kids all loved what Santa brought and just couldn't believe he knew what they wanted! ;) We spent New Year's Eve with some friends and their kids at our friends' and it was a good time.

Now, we're over halfway through January and my first little niece is due any day now and if she doesn't come before Thursday morning at 9 am, her mama is going to be induced. Girlfriend is beyond excited! I can't wait...I've never had my "own" niece or nephew.

I would appreciate if any of you who regularly (or not so regularly because of my poor blogging skills) visit would leave your blog address as I have deleted many of them.

Hope you all are well!!

Actual Birthday

Taken at 9:01 pm...the exact moment she was born (although that was on Cali time). And her father and his wife were there to celebrate that moment, so that was nice. She and I celebrating her birthday again Tuesday night.

Girlfriend's birthday was on a Tuesday this year and that was the day of the week she was born...brought back alot of memories. I just love this kid. Girlfriend wanted a buttload (that's for you Unc) of stuff but REALLY wanted a Sleeping Beauty Talking Head Styling Vanity which I found days before her birthday...talk about luck. I did take on of she and I...I told her that it was about 5 years ago that time when we had our first picture taken together...I'll spare you the pictures (5 years ago and now). I think I look more worn out but definitely happier now! ;)