be informed

You guys. I feel so strongly that it is extremely important for us to be informed! I have never been good at following politics, but I am doing my best! This presidential election is vital and I think it is our duty as Christians to be informed, inform others, and vote!


This is FANTASTIC! Please read!

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/o/Huntley-Brown-Obama.htm



my sweet love, neice Susanna turned ONE!!!!! isn't she beautiful?

sleep talking

so we've had a couple funny nights lately. a couple nights ago i was totally laughing in my sleep. jordan woke up and thought maybe he was talking in his sleep and i was laughing at him! but no, he woke me up saying, "what are you laughing at? . . . . what's so funny???" he was actually starting to get a little irritated cuz he still thought i was laughing at him, when really i just was still asleep laughing at my funny dream! so i told him! it was a really silly dream about his mom, believe it or not!!! ha!

then last night i woke up really confused . . . i woke up to jordan's voice, but he wasn't in bed with me anymore. he was out in the living room or something. aparently he couldn't sleep after a while and left the room. he thought i woke up calling for him or something, but i guess i was talking in my sleep and really HE woke ME up!

that's not the first episode of him waking up to me laughing either. he says, "i guess you're just a really happy person when you sleep." ha. but truly sleeping does make me really happy. :)

what i love lately

perfect temperature days (not hot or cold, just inbetween)

cool evenings and nights sleeping with the windows open and all the covers up, cuddled up to my hubby!

our kitten, mel, who is the only left of 3. the other brothers/sisters died. but mel is so fun and sweet. so lovey

the excitement of getting a new puppy! we pick him up sunday or monday! i've been wanting a puppy for so long! i'll post pics when we have him. any good name ideas for a male?

coffee dates! i'm meeting up with a friend to get some coffee and take her kids to the park.

being home when jordan comes home for lunch or just to pick something up.

seeing the smile on jordan's face when he realizes i'm baking his favorite cookies.

my sweet neices and nephews. all the cutest kids ever! and they live so far. i'm going through withdrawls.

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i'm really missing my siblings lately. julia and her family are up in wisconsin. naomi is in colorado. and dave is in germany - soon to be iraq!

been a while

hey blog world! its been a while, huh? do you guys all have "my space" too?
so jordan and just got back from a long weekend with my fam! we left thursday afternoon. stopped at walmart and picked up a bunch of take-and-bake pizza's, stuff for rootbeer floats, shells and stuff to shoot blue rock, and a birthday present for my neice since we left the original one at home!
my brother, david, and sister, naomi, her husband and 2 kids all met us at my parents house. it was a weekend of fun, relaxing, entertaining and being entertained by kids, lots of food (too much), lots of swinging in the hammock, church, listening to my dad preach, baby dedication for 5.5 month old chub-scout nephew, lots and lots of hugs and kisses. . . etc.
what a blessing and a refreshing weekend to be together. we really missed julia, her hubby and 2 kids who are in wisconsin. they have a busy week closing on their house and moving next saturday out of their 2-bedroom apartment! yay! i'm so excited for them! i don't think they'll know what to do with all the rooms and space at first!

my brother has this week in colorado then flies to Germany. so it was a really sad goodbye. i'm proud that he's in the army. but its also really scary to me. to all of us. please pray for him.

hey did you guys see a few days ago, Rick Warren (who wrote Purpose Driven Life) interviewed OBama and McCain at his chuch - Saddleback Church in California. My mom taped it so i have McCain's yet to watch. Interesting. That's all I'm gonna say.

hopefully i'll get a few pics up soon!

a cherished trip to see family

happy 4th of july! - independance day!
its been a while, i know. i got back a week ago from a long trip with my parents up north. sadly, jordan wasn't able to go with me. he had to be a responsible farmer and stay home. we drove up to minnesota and spent a day with my grandparents whom i rarely get to see anymore; then we headed up to wisconsin as i was in my cousin, brianna's wedding and my dad helped officiate it. fun times! i love brianna dearly and miss my fam up there so it was a great time! beautiful wedding! my sister julia and her 2 kids, story and susanna, met us up there for the wedding (they live in SW wisconsin). then we all drove down to LaCrosse and spend a day with Scott, Julia, and the kids. my parents then left to head back to my grandparents while i got a few more days with my sis and sweet neice and nephew! this was such a highlight! its really hard living so close to family you love so much. we had so much fun playing with the kids, taking them out to do fun things, going for walks, to the park. then i got to babysit one night so they could have a nice date and celebrate their anniversary! the kids are growing and just are more beautiful every time i see them! i could not believe susanna! the cutest thing ever! she flashes you this huge, shy grin! priceless!
sidenote - i LOVE it up there! i grew up in the northwoods and being back up there made me wish i lived there! its so beautiful! i love being surrounded by trees and driving on hilly roads! mmm - triggers some nostalgia.
it was so sad to say goodbye after a few days. i met up with my parents and spent another day/night with my grandparents. mom and i got to take gram out to some stores and just hang out. it was really sad to leave them too. i grew up 5 hours from them and we saw them several times a year. it had been 2 years since i'd seen them!

what a blessing family is. i am so thankful for mine!

neices & nephews & long talks with great friends!

so i was in castle rock a couple weeks ago to visit my sis and 2 little lovies! it was such a great time snuggling, rocking, feeding, burping, playing outside, getting in and out of carseats several times, laughing, tickling, making coffee and cookies and chatting with my sis, seeing my brother in-law play in the worship band, . . . man, i love these kiddos!







oh i just love that little smile!

my other 2 little loves are Story and Susanna, my sister Julia's kids who all live in wisconsin! so do you think i ever get to see them anymore??? i miss them like crazy! and i miss my sister so much! what a blessing great sisters are! but it just plain sucks when we are so far apart!





doesn't this one just crack you up? she is just beyond cuteness!


you know what just absolutely made my day yesterday - i got to have a great talk with my dear friend who is in egypt for 2 years! what a blessing and encouragement.

happy thursday!

Rock On!

so i've never watched a whole lot of american idol. just a bit here and there. this year i was die hard! but it was SUCH a fun group and season to watch! i loved basically the top 8 with a few favorites.



here's my favorites.

David Cook - loved his voice since the very begining! definitely my style of music



Michael Johns - just amazing. really missed hearing his songs in the last weeks. the songs he chose completely rocked for him!




Jason Castro - such a unique sound. his album would be an amazing easy listening, along with john meyer




David Archuletta also just had a really amazing voice


can't forget Karly

ok so its been a while. sorry
thursday afternoon i drove down to my parents. spent the night. then dad and i drove out here - colorado. dad flew out to north carolina for a few days and i'm staying with my sis, brother in-law and neice and nephew!
they were playing outside when we walked up to their apartment. zadie came running to me with her arms out and gave me lots of hugs! how sweet! it's so fun to be here, see my sis, and spend time with the little rugrats! nick is 2.5 months old and is so cute! he is such a little chunk! and such a sweet baby! ~ tonight brett and naomi are gonna get to go on a date while i babysit. i can't complain!
i'm so flexible for my wonderful husband and my flexible job that i can come visit like this.
today jordan's planting corn on our land! they're super busy and i think he's getting a little burned out and maybe even getting sick. i hope not!
we're so glad to be living in our own place! we still have a lot to do. i haven't done any decorating yet, have nothing in the guestroom yet. need to paint another coat on the bathroom and paint our dresser. jordan has flooring to put in the entry room. but its nice and we're enjoying it!

ok.... anybody have an opinion?
dish network or direcTV? they're both satelite, can they really be that different? but we have no tv channels yet cuz we don't know which one to get.

hey - just a quick note.
tomorrow i will get to admit my first own patient to home health and will be their primary nurse.

we're getting lots of crazy rain, big storms, warm days then waking up to a little ground covering of snow! craziness!

i started painting my kitchen last night and was super excited about the color . . . until i saw it on the wall! it looked like neon green! now i would have loved that color, in fact i would have worn it every day when i was in grade school! ha. but not quite what i was going for. so..... i made a color i really like mixing it with a little of one of our grays. sounds weird, but we'll see.

jordan's busy farming and being all tan and sun burned already! he likes holding his arm up to mine. the other night, he was gathering the eggs in grampa's chicken house and this skunk walked in! so he shot it in the head...... then it sprayed and left the chicken house in an awful stench! shooooeeeee!

time for bed. night night!

paint, paint, paint, paint. . .

I LOVE THESE KIDS!

just a quick update. on sunday, the lady living in the place we bought called and said they were heading out and needed to give us the keys! ha! we had no idea when she was leaving! so we have our little house! and i have most of my paint picked out for every single wall to be covered! my mom is here to help me paint all day today and i think all day tomorrow! we should be able to get a lot done. the thing is - we have to prime i think everything!
we also picked out carpeting and flooring as it is all 20-something years old!!! lots of furniture and stuff that was left in the house that we need to take care of. it will be fun to see the transformation into "our" home. we'll be taking lots of pictures so i'll post them sometime when this is all finished! hope you all have a great weekend!

happy belated birthday to my fabulous sister and friend, naomi! her birthday was on the 16th!

home health and hospice

sorry its been a while. i started orienting to my new job last wed and have been working since (besides the weekend) i'll be orienting about 3 days a week, pretty much until i feel ready to be on my own. it has been great! i work with some amazing people and they all LOVE their jobs! they're so encouraging and helpful. the orientation isn't very organized..... but its home health and hospice so i just go with the other nurses and experience everything they do. some of the hospice stuff is hard, but you get so close to the families and they really grow to love and trust you! and with the home health, i've seen all kinds of patients from a week old baby with spina bifida, to old men with diabetes and foot wounds with wound vacs on. i've actually seen a lot of those wound vacs and did a whole wound vac dressing change on my own yesterday. it'll take a little while to get used to all the paperwork and the different forms. but this is amazing compared to orienting to bryan - the hospital. of course i was just out of college and orienting to all of nursing there, besides the fact it was so fast-paced and stressful. jordan is so excited because he sees that this is a great fit for me! so i just keep thanking the Lord. because it was completely all Him! these kind of positions don't come open very often and i happened to be just in time! the Lord is really taking care of us!

we are in a winter storm warning through tomorrow and its snowing like crazy! we're supposed to get 4-8 inches! yesterday after work jordan and i ran into northplatte - got some stuff at menards and stocked up on groceries at walmart! so atleast we have food while we're stuck in this snow storm.
we got paint supplies and looked at the flooring at menards! i think we'll be able start working on our house next week! i can't wait!!!! i'll have to be posting pictures in the next few weeks/month!

ok and guess what - we don't wear scrubs at work! we wear khakis and things like that that are dressy but easy to wash!

tractor riding

i got up with jordan this morning and went with him to work to ride in the tractor with him. it was all great until a disc broke and we had to haul everything back to their shop. it was fun while it lasted and i'll have plenty more opportunities to do that coming up with planting!

i just back last night from 3 days in kansas with my parents. my aunt and uncle and cousins from wisconsin were on vacation and stopped there to spend the night and hang out a little. it was fun to catch up with them! then my brother came and i got to spend some time with him on thursday before i left. it was a hard goodbye though, as he just joined the ARMY and flies out to kentucky on tuesday for basic training.

the time is getting closer and closer when we will get to move into our new place! we have some paint color and carpet decisions to make and a little work to do first. but i can't wait to have our own place! grampa's place is truly a blessing - but we had all those plumbing problems, the dryer quit working and now the washer, and there's only so much organizing you can do to make the place put-together when we're living here temporarily. so i'm excited!
oh and i start orientation at work next wed. - fri.

PRAYER AND PRAISE
thanks for your prayers, my little neice, zadie, is pretty much all better now and what a miracle, newborn pheonix didn't get sick!

please pray for my brother, dave, with the whole new Army thing
my other neice, susanna, is still having a horrible time sleeping @ night and its not easy on mom, julia, either. (susanna is 5.5 months old)
please pray for my friend, jamie, as she is in her last 6 months of a 2 year trip in the middle east.

thanks guys! hope you have a great weekend!!!

New Job!

so i just accepted a job doing home health and hospice! i'm excited about this and about working part time! the Lord has sure blessed me with this open door! this job will be much better paced than at the busy hospital, i'll get lots of time to spend with patients and their families. it will be neat to go into their homes and meet them in their world. this job is very flexible and i will be working with some amazing women! i can't see myself enjoying another job around here anymore than i think i will this one!
i'll still have a lot to learn - directions to all these places! insurance and managing the total care of my patients. drawing blood. . . i've started hundreds of IVs but we have phlebotomists to draw all the blood, RT's to do all the breathing treatments. . etc. but that won't be bad!

this is turning out to be a yucky week with allergies. i wake up sneezing and blowing my nose every morning. i'm so ready for spring, the warm warm sun!

yesterday i went to kearney - its over an hour away and you have to basically plan a whole day trip. i stocked up on groceries - lots of fresh produce! strawberries and pineapple!!! and got a few new shirts for work! had a hard time finding any good pants though.

ok i have tons of dishes to do. here there is no dishwasher. i am the dishwasher! and they never end! especially when i'm cooking so much!


listening to: david crowder band - remedy

poopy plumbing!

so the plumbing here at grampa ed's house started .... not working. let's just say we haven't been able to use the potty in the last 2 days. couldn't get a plumber to come out. so today, my brother, dave, and jordan rented a "snake" to thread down through the plumbing. first they did it outside from a point in the yard. then came in and took the toilet off and snaked from that site to unclog the pipes! now the whole house smells like a sewer! at least hopefully we can use our toilet, faucets, and do laundry soon!

they braved the poop!

a few more pics

leap year baby!

i got to spend a week in colorado with my sis and her family! my nephew, phoenix was born on february 29th! i got to spend a lot of time taking care of my 18 month old neice, zadie - waking up with her @ 6-6:30 every morning, having breakfast together, changing diapers, filling juice cups, visiting mommy, daddy, and baby brother in the hospital, playing and laughing! my brother and i completely cleaned their apartment while they were in the hospital so it was nice to come home to. it was so much fun to help out, hang out, and see my sweet neice and nephew! man i love those kids!!!!
here's a few pics of the precious ones!

one of my sis, naomi, and i!

for the first time

so this is my new blog. . . obviously. just trying it out for fun.
my newborn nephew is coming home with mommy and daddy today! my brother and i have been taking care of his big little sister, zadie and having so much fun with her! phoenix michael was born on feb. 29 ~ LEAP YEAR BABY!