update

Work is good. I am for sure going to be a full time scheduler. Which is GREAT for the "regular" hours (Mon-Fri 8-5). The thing I won't like is not being able to get up for a second and walk around. The phones ring non-stop! I think they are going to want me "on my own" next week, which scares the crap out of me. I'm sure I'll be fine. People will just have to sit on hold for a minute (or 10) till i figure out what the heck is going on. LOL.

We had a great Christmas. On Christmas Eve we went to Jeff & Barbara's for Pizza, games, and family time. It was nice because Jeff didn't get off work till five, so by the time they would have gotten out there it would have easily been 6:30. We stayed MUCH longer then i thought we would. We left probably about 12:15AM. Kevin & I then had to go to our place, grab all our stuff and then drive out to Doug & Linda's, which is about 40 mins away. So we got there at about 1:30-ish. We were totally exhausted. I atleast slept the entire way out to Kevin's parent's house.

Christmas morning. We opened stockings and then ate breakfast and then opened gifts. I was SO excited because i got Kevin this game "Pirateer" which our good friend's the Mazuran's had in CA that we played all the time and he LOVED it. So that is one of the first things i had Kevin open. Well he was excited and then started laughing! So he gets up and hands me a gift to open. WE GOT EACH OTHER THE SAME GAME!! What are the odds of that? We haven't talked about getting the game or anything. It was a totally "spur of the moment" thing for both of us. we also got each other another game called "Ticket to Ride". So now we have two games we will "re-gift" at some point. lol.

Kevin also got me Singstar & Dance Dance Revolution! I am WAY excited. Lynn & Shauna (Kevin's brother & his wife) introduced us to it. When ever they come up from UT they always bring Singstar. Now we have it. WOO HOO!!!!

I made Kevin a scarf for Christmas. My friend Courtney showed me how when i was stilling living in Rexburg. I'll have to take a picture of it. It turned out great!

Well i really need to get ready for work.

TGIF!!!! Working for the weekend! :)

finally!

I finally have gotten some pictures of my sister Carolyn's kids! I don't think I've seen pictures of them since April! These look like they were taken in "the Fall". But they were taken yesterday! Gotta love CA weather.

Alec (13yr)

Alec on the slide

Miss Madison (9yr)

Madison
Derek (7yr)

Derek

Playing in the (December almost January) leaves.

AREN'T THEY A BEAUTIFUL FAMILY?!?! Thanks Carolyn for sending some pics!!!

flu shot = get sick

I usually never get sick and i never get the flu shot. But it was highly recommended since i now working in "the medical field" with tons of sick people. Well i got the shot and now i am sick! I'm not getting it next year no matter how much they "recommended" it. I know the flu shot doesn't actually make you sick, but i wonder if it weakens your immune system some how. I hate being sick and especially at Christmas. I kept Kevin from falling back to sleep last night because i was snoring. :(

Long time no post...

Kevin's mom did the 12 Days of Christmas for all of us for the second Christmas. She gets all these bags and such ready and then gives them to us and each day we get to open a little inexpensive something. It's quite fun. These were part of our gift yesterday.

Cute huh?! They are little tiles that are about 3x3-ish with vinyl lettering on them. I love them!

Things are good here. Just been busy getting back into the rhythm of working full time again. 5 weeks off really gets you out of whack! LOL. The one thing i miss about not working is being able to go to the gym in the morning. I haven't been going the last 2 weeks and i can TOTALLY FEEL A DIFFERENCE! I need to get it worked back into my routine! I need to get in shape.

I am loving my new job! It's ALOT to learn and quite confusing and times, but it's good. The Ladies i work with are great. I am training to be a scheduler in the back with the nurses and so I've been just listening for about 3-4 days to how answer the calls, book appointments and such. Well Friday i was actually put on the phones with Ellen there listening into the conversation. I have NO IDEA how to help these people! By the time i left for lunch my head was spinning! So i happen to see Lori and she was the one training me in the front area and she asked how it was going. I said it's crazy! Then i looked at her with a straight face and said "where do i turn in my resignation?" Lori just looked at me like "what?! You can't leave!" Then i just started laughing and told her i was just kidding. I don't think she found it that funny. LOL.

I can't believe it's Christmas in 2 days! WOW! Seems like it takes forever getting here and then goes by so quickly! Kevin is actually DONE with my shopping BEFORE Christmas Eve! GOOD JOB LOVE!

i was worried we weren't going to have a White Christmas. We haven't had snow in a while. We got maybe an inch or so last night. Looks like we might get a little more. But i just don't know if it will stick around for Tuesday. Lets all pray we get more snow!! Being up here in Idaho it just doesn't feel like Christmas without snow.

In CA Kevin & I started a little tradition of going to the Beach on Christmas morning and playing some wiffle ball! I do miss those times. We need to get back to CA and visit. I am hoping next year!

Thank you ALL for those that have sent Christmas Cards & E-mail Christmas Cards! I love them! I hope to get on the bandwagon and at least get out an Email Christmas Card before Tuesday. Wish me luck. LOL.

getting a bath...

This is our cookie jar...

...Mr. Potato head.

He needed washed out, so here he is, all vulnerable in his bath.

Gingerbread...House House House

Kevin and i thought it would be fun this year to build a gingerbread house. I don't recall ever making one, so this would be my FIRST! Kevin's parents bought this kit for us at Costco yesterday. Here are some pictures!

working girl...

...but not on the streets, you know what i mean. LOL. There are two of us that are new and being trained for the same office. So Monday was training at a different building. We were so overwhelmed with information. By 3pm i think Becky and I had this glazed look because it didn't seem like much sank in after that. Tuesday we were at our office and just "shadowed" this lady Lori. She is so nice & so knowledgeable! She explained where things were and who people are and such. We watched her check in people for their appointments all day, helping where we could. It was another day filled with LOTS of information. Today we had a 7am meeting! I don't mind the early-ness of it, it's just that it ended up being only a 15 minute meeting. SO NOT WORTH HAVING!! But oh well. We got to leave early today since we were in early. WOO HOO! :) This morning we watched Lori do more check-in's and then it was our turn. So she asked us who wanted to go first and Becky keeps saying how she is such a hands on person so i figured she would go first, but no. Becky practically pushed me in to the chair. Sure i was nervous but I'm going to have to do it sooner or later, more sooner then later, so might as well get going on it. Becky doesn't give herself enough credit. She ALWAYS talks about how scared she is, how nervous, and how she doesn't want to screw up. Well i think the same things, but i just THINK them and she SAYS them. I think it makes a difference in the way they see us. But i really like it and i think it's going to be really good. YEAH!!!

Sorry, no more pictures to post. I haven't taken the time to mess with them yet. So hopefully by the weekend I'll have them up.

Sunday Outing

There is a little waterfall kind of by our place here in Twin. A few weeks ago when we were on a walk we saw TONS of HUGE icicles by it. We meant to take pictures but we never got around to it. Well today after Church we decided we go over to it and see if they were still there. We took our camera this time. Well, the HUGE icicles from before were gone but we did take a few pictures. Here are two for now and then I'll put some other ones up tomorrow...AFTER I GO TO WORK!!!! WOO HOO! I'll let you know how that goes too.

Here is Kevin by the waterfall. I took another one when we got down closer to it, but i liked this one a bit better. :)

Here I am in front of the Bridge (over the Snake River) we have to cross to get into Twin from the Highway. People bungee jump and base jump off it too. Um...no thanks!
People have died doing that.

Saturday Night Babysitting

So last night we watched our nephew Karter so Jeff & Barbara could go to Jeff's work Christmas Party (they took baby Karson with them). Here are just a few photos from our time babysitting.

Karter snuggling with Kevin. Karter is getting 4 teeth right now so while i was making dinner he just started crying "for no reason". So i tried to console him, but he wanted Kevin. So i sat him with Kevin and he immediately stopped crying and then about 3-5 mins later he was asleep! This is about 6pm, so not good to be sleeping right now. So we let him sleep for a bit and then woke him up. Karter loves Kevin. They were roommates for about 2.5 months while Kevin started his new job before i moved down.

Kevin & Karter doing some coloring. Well Karter is coloring and Kevin is helping him with the markers (taking off the lids). I don't know where our crayons are so THANK GOODNESS for washable markers! He LOVED the markers. By the end of their coloring he was able to get some of the lids off and put them back on. I hope we just didn't teach him a bad thing. LOL.

Kevin spared

Kevin is lucky! He decided he wanted the other night to do the exercises that go along with my exercise ball. So i told him they don't seem to difficult when you are doing them, but you will feel it the next day. IT WAS SO FUNNY! He has having a hard time keeping his balance, etc. I took a few pictures and he said "THOSE ARE NOT GOING ON YOUR BLOG!" I said "OH YES THEY ARE!" Well, he lucked out. They weren't very good pictures so to deleted them and not post them. Maybe another time. :)

2 jobs in 1 day

So i had my first day on the job at CSI on Monday. I got there at 9am and had an enjoyable 3.5 hours of going through a HUGE mound of purged paper from my new desk to see what needed to be shredded and what could just to be recycled. joy of joys. Then the other 30 mins of my part-time day was spent filling out some papers and taking them over to HR.

Monday late afternoon at 4:30pm i got another phone call. Here is how our conversation went...

"Hi this is Jessica at the hospital"
"Oh, hello" (totally shocked but trying to hide it)
"I am calling to let you know that we would like to extend an offer to you for the position at receptionist"
"Oh great."
Then she goes on to tell me about pay, benefits, etc.
"Well thank you so much, can i talk to my husband tonight and give you a call in the morning?"
"Sure, here is my number"
"Great thanks."
We hang up.

(me out loud) "OH MY GOSH I KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN!" So i immediately called Kevin and told him. He said we'd talk about it when he got home.

Well after much thought and talking i accepted the position! So Tuesday morning i had to go pick up some paperwork and then go do some drug screening/background testing. Luckily i wasn't going to CSI until 10am. I had called Rose from CSI at 8:30am Tuesday and left her a message and she never called me back. So i called again at about 9:40am. I luckily got a hold of her (she was heading out to a meeting) and told her the situation. She understood but was sad to loose me already. So i worked a whole 2 days for CSI. LOL.

This morning (Friday) I went and did my final paperwork at the Hospital, got a few shots, my new ID badge (my picture is bad. yuck. lol.) and was on my way. I start first thing Monday morning.

I am WAY excited!