White Artichoke Chicken Lasagna . . . as promised!

SO SO SO STINKIN TASTY!!!!! I made this for Sunday dinner this last week and let me tell yah . . . Heaven! Thanks for the recipe Beansie!!! If you want it, just let me know!

Turtle!

So, I came home from class last week and low and behold . . . We had a turtle!! Her name is Dakota, she is about 6 months old and she is my room mates. She got permission from the management, and so now she stays at our apartment! So fun!

New Room Mate!!

Amanda and I . . . next to Magness . . . Are already basically best friends! She is so stinkin fun! She is from Albuquerque, New Mexico and she Rocks!!! Here she is! And here is my half of the room! My favorite features: My desk I made, My quilt I made, The shower door I hung up on the wall for a white board, My pictures, And . . . I JUST LOVE IT!!!!

New Bike . . . to me at least.

So . . . My heart has been longing a bike for quite some time now. But, I didn't want it to cost to much, so, I set out for Deseret Industries last week with some pretty high hopes. When I got there, to my disappointment, there were no bikes in sight! AT ALL!!!! I was some what saddened and distraught! Nonetheless, I went throughout my day, and continued my search. While walking past my apartment complex dumpster, it was like sweet manna from heaven! Low and behold . . . shining like a black stallion . . . was the magna fitness pulse 180! The bike of my dreams!!! It was just sitting next to the dumpster, abandoned, helpless, afraid. I hopped on the rusty newfoundland pony, and I was so exited!!!! The chain kinda snaggled along, but, It was a beaut!!!! And quite the catch! So, at this very moment in time, I have taken my newly named bike . . . Magness . . . to new heights! I have so far purchased it a bike chain: $8.79 and two new tires and tubes $21.17 and given her a good old derustifying cleanse. And She looks simply ravishing and i am so exited to hit the pavement with my new road bike!!! MAGNESS AND I ARE GOING TO BE BEST FRIENDS!!!

FAMILY!!!

I went home over the weekend and it was SOOOOOO Nice to go home and be with family! Oh! So NICE!!!! I got to baby sit my niece and nephew while my sister and bro-in-law went on a date! And Seriously! I LOVE Those kids! Beansie . . . Seriously any time I am in town . . . I CALL DIBS ON YOUR CHILDREN!!! I had so much fun! They are so stinkin cute! Yazzi even wrote and sang me a sang on the Ukulele, It went a little something like this . . . I miss Dis-ney-land, with tinkebell, cinderella, and petey pan. So awesome! She is rhyming at age 3! My mom also acquired 8 baby chicks since I have been at school, and holy cow, talk about a stress reliever, seriously, go play with some baby chickens and all of your troubles just disappear. (to bad they magically appear when you come back to reality) The only down side is, I was quite unproductive in my studies this weekend and am at the moment avoiding three rather important on line tests, 48 pages of reading, and preparing the hour lesson I have to Instruct in class tomorrow. Oh well, As long as I and my viewers are pleased with my blog. So, I hope you enjoy this as much as I have. The grand finale to my weekend though . . . My parents came up to Rexburg last night, and were my patients for my ambulance operations class . . WHAT A HOOT AND A HALF!!!! It was so stinkin awesome! I got to pass off a bunch of skills as well with my dad as the 'patient' Like a blood draw, a 12-lead ECG and practicing assessments and stuff! It was so fun! And now, my teachers have to keep me in the program, because the director is totally hooked on what dad does for work. And we scored, cause dad bought everyone lunch! Cha-Ching! I have the best Family in the world!!!! QZPF865QU4/SdGN1qCLiLI/AAAAAAAAAXs/nsfmyTGIVOo/s1600-h/DSC_0769.JPG">

Soory about the way random pitctures, just thought you may want something to look at. The car one is my hub cap while in canada, Then me at the fire department show down basketball game with some of my new extended family, and then kerri and i last semester out at rigby lake catching some rays pocahauntus style. Fun stuff! I don't know about you, but I was getting kinda sick of the paramedic picture being the first one you see when you open my blog, but, I have no idea what to blog about, because not much has happened. I guess I will just throw some pictures on here for yah to look at! Well, I guess I have had stuff happen . . . I went to Canada two weeks ago to go to a friends wedding reception and saw my cousins and grandma, that was fun. I went on my first date in 7 months on Friday!! Yay! (a blind date though, so yah know) It was really fun though, we went bowling and went to a movie, of course I got the highest score, the only one to make it into the triple digits, and then we went to the movie Australia . . . I LOVED IT!!!! What an awesome movie! There are like 5 endings! Just be ye warned I guess. I am making banana bread right now, and it smells quite delicious, I had a 14 1/2 hour shift with Idaho Falls fire station yesterday. Had 3 critical patients, two of which were seizures and the other a heart attack, all lived . . . Success! And i learned a ton! On monday I had my bench mark test which is the test that if you don't pass you kinda get kicked out of the program, so it's sort of a big deal. But, I get an 87 percent! And i was way happy!!!!! Everyone else passed too, so no one got kicked out. One person was one question away from getting booted! I was way happy that they didn't, because the entire program is like my extended family now. Oh, my room mate also got appendicitis and it ruptured so, she had surgery last week and she got home from the hospital finally! And she is up and movin, what a trooper. Welp, I get to go play a game called curses with my relief society president now, who is so stinkin awesome! its not even funny, but then again, it is. . . because she is hilarious, she fell off of a horse yesterday I don't know what that really has to do with anything. But, I am way exited to go play!

Paramedic time!

So, yesterday was my first shift with the fire station, my first official call, and my first official patient, and my first call was a cardiac arrest! And I LOVED IT!!!!!!!! I got to do CPR, ventilate the patient, push drugs, watch him get shocked, watch him get a tube to help him breath, transport him to the hospital, and it was pretty neat! One of the medics and I almost head-butted going around a round about getting to the hospital while going lights and sirens with him doing CPR and me bagging the patient. It was Nuts! The doctor ended up calling the code, and he died. But even then I got to take out the IV, and take off the defibrillation pads. But, it was so neat to be on the call with my cardiology teacher, I was so impressed with him. He was so calm and collected, and I knew everything that was going on. there were no surprises, except for that the Emergency Room does the exact same thing that we do for Heart Attacks, except we are just not contained inside a facility. I was so impressed with the level of training that i have already. and how much i have already learned! One of the most interesting things that i found was that I felt total peace when we arrived on scene and I knew that he wasn't going to make it, I knew that he had had a great life, and that his time had come, and everything was going to work out with his family. Anyway, It was probably one of the neatest experiences of the week! Definitely a highlight!