BOISE is fun

Boise is fun for many reasons. This little girl is one of them
Well, I guess my husband is always fun =)

My parents are fun... and cute little Ian.

And Mattie is so much fun (and all her family of course).

So there you have it. Boise is always fun. We don't get down there enough for sure, but when we do it's always a p-a-r-t-y!

2 Anniversaries

March 8th Sean and I celebrated our second anniversary. This is not a great picture, but it's all we had =)
Our car also celebrated its 1'st Anniversary. That is it's first anniversary with us as its owners.
2 anniversaries

Spring Break 2010

Here's our motley crew. Sean, Cailin, Dom, and myself went backpacking the last weekend of spring break. The weather was perfect, company great, in my opinion the food was great.
Sean is such a stud he could have carried me on his shoulders the whole way if he wanted to.

"Toasting" bagels over the fire for breakfast. mmmm mmmm good!

We went on a day hike to suicide point... tuna, cheese, crackers... and sardines. Don't worry, I didn't eat any sardines........sick! It was really windy so we tried to get out of the wind to eat with minimal luck.

Us, soaking in the view on Suicide Point.

Heating water for mush... it was really windy so Cailin and Sean were trying to block the wind
so it wouldn't blow the stove out.

Our first night we camped on a sandy beach along the Snake river. It was beautiful and a new experience for me. I'm glad we tied down our tents... the next morning it was windy!

This is my crazy/buff husband Sean. We had set out packs down while looking for a place to camp. After we had decided to camp on the beach Sean decided he would carry all 4 backpacks to our new campsite. .......

Loading up.

Kirkwood historic ranch.

I had a birthday.

Yes, sadly it is true. I had another birthday (last month). I don't like getting older, but a month after my birthday I have come to terms with the fact. So, despite the fact that I am older, I had a really great birthday. The weekend after John, Theresa, Cailin, MJ, and Evan came over and we ate some delicious Taco salad and opened presents.

Notice the clock in the background in this pic.... that is the new clock Sean got me for my birthday!

Elvin (and his family of course) came over the day before my birthday to help me celebrate.

It was SUPPER NICE OF THEM! Kassy made a wonderful cake, a card and flowers and a present.... man o man was I spoiled! After all the festivities we played Balderdash. Fun times!

Oh, and down in Boise a month early we celebrated my brother, sister, and my birthday with my parents. Here is Tess looking 24 (aka pretty).

We had yummy cheese and chocolate fondue for dinner!

Although it was a great birthday, I'm glad it's not going to come again for another year =)

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood!

You gotta love warmish spring days. We had fun getting on our bikes and hitting the trail a few Saturdays back. I knew I was out of shape (I haven't exercised for the last oh I don't know 6 months) but I didn't think I would be that out of shape! We ended up riding 13 miles... which really isn't that much, but I was dead! I guess that just means I need to get out there more =)

What do you say?

Life is something I know I take for granted. Life could be taken from me or someone I love any minute of any day. But I don't think of that very often.

Today at work I was going through my routine. I went out to the waiting room to get the next patient, we'll call him Jim. A little background; I've know Jim for about a year and a half (the amount of time I've been working there). I see him every two months when he comes into our office. I know little about his personal life, but I do know some. I know his wife and how many kids he has... I'm sure I've talked to him about books he reads, holiday traditions, weather etc more than I can remember. What I know most about him is how he is always smiling, happy, polite, and interested in me. Very few patients are this way. They just assume, that this is my job, and that's as deep as our relationship goes. Don't get me wrong, this is ok and probably how it should be... but you know it is nice to connect with some people on a personal level sometimes. I think everyone knows what I mean. So anyway... I'm babbling.

Jim is one of those who always asks questions about me. .... so today I took him back to a exam room and proceeded to "get him ready" for the doctor to come in. I said, "Jim, how are you doing?!"" "well, I've been better" he uncharacteristically replied. Kind of taken back I inquired a little more. He proceeded to tell me that 1 week earlier he had been diagnosed with a certain type of cancer which was untreatable... and the Doctor had said he had less than a year to live.
Bam!!!!!!! I wasn't expecting that, and I didn't know what to say. Trying to hold the tears back I eventually responded by asking more details about the kind of cancer he had, just unimportant things like that. What was I supplest to say. This is a "real" person to me, someone I "know" and love... not just someone I hear about who is dying.

And the day went on... the same menial tasks I do every day. Answering phones, taking x-rays, helping patients... stuff like that. But Jim stayed in my mind.

Life is precious, life is short, life is good. Why do I waste time wishing for what I don't have.

Carpe Diem.

Bangs are Back!

Well, at least for me Bangs are Back!

When I was in Boise a few weeks ago I had my mom cut bangs for me. The first thing she said to me after she cut them was... and I quote, " you look just like you did when you were in 5th grade!"

You be the judge.