Thoughts From a Frazzled Mind

We have a new granddaughter!   The most-anticipated day arrived with Shandra and Hayden heading to the hospital very early in the morning for her scheduled c-section.  Kalel spent the night with Kim and me.  He has been so excited for his new sister to arrive! Kalel jumping for joy on the way to the hospital to finally meet his new sister! We arrived at the hospital just minutes before Shandra, Hayden, and the baby arrived.  Kalel insisted that Kim and I close our eyes until he got a chance to see the baby because he wanted to be the 3rd one in the family to see her. Kalel is absolutely thrilled to have a little sister.  He said that he was even excited to have the job of changing her diaper!   Poor little Kiaya soon became our little Glow Bug.  Her bilirubin was high very early on, so she was put under the lights at only 8 hours old!   She ended up staying under the lights for a full week before she was decla...

This week I was fortunate to have not one - but two opportunities to get together with great friends I haven't seen for awhile. Kale, Brynanne and I met a Jeramiah's for lunch.  It never ceases to amaze me how strong my emotions are towards Kale and Brynanne.  No matter where life takes us, we will always have a strong bond which was formed in nursing school.  Kale was wounded again - another basketball injury - so he has been doing office work while he recovers.  He has also started back to school to get his BSN.  Brynanne has been able to scale her work to part-time which is nice for her to spend more time with her cute kiddos.  We laughed and visited and thoroughly enjoyed our lunch together. Later in the week Jody made dinner for Marlene and I.  It is crazy to think how much time we spent together playing volleyball over the years.  Those were really good times.  I miss the camaraderie we developed with our team as well as all of th...

Fun, fun, fun - and did I say fun - weekend!  Friday night I went down to Cyn's to play games with her family and her cousin, Ranae (I met Ranae at Island Park a couple of years ago).  Playing games with Cyn pretty much is at the top of my list of favorite things to do!  I spent the night there and then we left early the next morning to pick up Tasha from the airport. After getting Tasha, and meeting up with Brynanne, we headed to the new Salt Lake Mall, City Creek.  It is a very pretty, outdoor mall with a creek running right through it!  Happy day for Cyn and me - we found this wonderful game store!  We each chose a game to take back to the hotel to play.  Shandra met us at the hotel and we played our new fun games (Anomia and Furt) until it was time to get ready to get ready and eat dinner before the show. Playing Anomia Tasha demonstrating the proper way to give the correct answer! We got all beautified and headed to ...