Jeff and I will hopefully get to go down to see him in a couple weeks. That is, if Derek and Melissa aren't sick of having people come over yet! I am already so much in love with him, and cannot wait to hold him in my arms...and spoil him rotten! :)
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Grady Michael Stephens...
...the cutest nephew ever!
Jeff and I will hopefully get to go down to see him in a couple weeks. That is, if Derek and Melissa aren't sick of having people come over yet! I am already so much in love with him, and cannot wait to hold him in my arms...and spoil him rotten! :)
Jeff and I will hopefully get to go down to see him in a couple weeks. That is, if Derek and Melissa aren't sick of having people come over yet! I am already so much in love with him, and cannot wait to hold him in my arms...and spoil him rotten! :)
Monday, March 30, 2009
Grady update
Here's an email I got from Jeff's mom:
Grady was born Sunday, March 29 at 6:46 p.m. He weighed 6 pounds and 15 oz. He has lots of hair, blue eyes and will definitely need sunscreen out in the sun. He is beautiful. Melissa was in labor for 16 hours, two hours of hard labor. I was able to be in the room with her and Derek and they both did a terrific job. No wonder they call it labor.
Way to go Melissa! Can't wait to meet my little nephew! :)
Grady was born Sunday, March 29 at 6:46 p.m. He weighed 6 pounds and 15 oz. He has lots of hair, blue eyes and will definitely need sunscreen out in the sun. He is beautiful. Melissa was in labor for 16 hours, two hours of hard labor. I was able to be in the room with her and Derek and they both did a terrific job. No wonder they call it labor.
Way to go Melissa! Can't wait to meet my little nephew! :)
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Grady's here!
Grady arrived around 6:45pm tonight. I don't have any stats because Jeff didn't write them down, but he's here safe and sound. And I'm an AUNT! YAY! :) Congrats Melissa and Derek!
nephew on the way...
I just received word that Grady is on his way! Melissa headed into the hospital around 4 this morning. I will update once the little guy is here! :)
Saturday, March 28, 2009
one more thing...
Oh yes, and I was getting tired of the design of my blog, and decided to give it a new look that reflected the feeling of spring that is in the air. Not sure if I entirely like this one either. I'll keep playing around with it for a while, but let me know what you think. Who knows, it might just end up back the way it was... :)
a weird week...
It's been an interesting week, filled with highs and lows. We had our solo ortho practical on Tuesday, which I totally kicked butt on and got 100%. Sweet! I walked into that bugger feeling 150% prepared, ready to perform any skill asked of me. Quite a nice feeling, but then again, hard work generally does pay off. Then that night we had our group presentations in ethics....another 100%! Really, it wasn't that hard to get a perfect score. If you followed the directions and he could understand you, you got 100%. But I'll take it nonetheless. Then Wednesday we had a night lab at a near-by hospital where we got to play around with a bunch of their equipment. It was fun and interesting. Nothing like walking on a treadmill in a harness with other people moving your legs for you...now that's my kind of exercise! :)
So on Thursday we come in to class ready to do our first round of group practicals for ortho. First we get yelled at by our class president that our neuro professor was disappointed in us from the night before. Apparently she felt we were not "professional" enough and that we were not taking it seriously. I guess she had asked our president to "control the class" several times. Mind you, none of us were aware of the fact that we were being rude or unprofessional, so this came as quite the surprise to all of us. My whole thing is, if she asked our president to control us, she sure didn't try to since none of us knew we were out of control. So maybe this is more of a problem of our president not communicating with the class because she doesn't like confrontation. Sorry, but I'm not about to take the entire blame if we were not even warned. A lot of the responsibility lands on our president's shoulders, and I don't think it's entirely fair to get yelled at for it.
Anyway, so then we're filling out the class evaluation forms, and our ortho professor along with our clinical coordinator come in to talk to us. Apparently it was brought to their attention that people were coming out of the practical on Tuesday talking about what they had drawn on their cards, which they consider to be cheating. They had specific names, and they had had a meeting and were prepared to expel people if need be. We were being given the chance to come talk to them by the end of the day and fess up to anything that we had said or heard. Then they would decide on Friday if we all had to take the practical over again since they feel it has been compromised. So then we took our group practicals, and my group kicked butt (awesome!) but everyone was just in a crappy mood after being yelled at twice in the span of 10 minutes.
After the practical, everyone lined up outside his office and we all went in, one by one, to confess what we had said/heard. I think our entire class is guilty in one way or another from one of our practicals at some point. However, none of us have ever said anything with the motivation or intention of cheating. We do it more as a means of calming each other down, revealing that it really is stuff that we know how to do. I'm guilty, in both regards, but fortunately this time I didn't say anything. In the end, they were impressed by the integrity of our class, and decided that although we are all guilty of "cheating", and that even if you find out what someone else drew as their skill cards, if you haven't practiced the skills, it's not going to help you. We're just to never do it again, or they will kick us out, but we don't have to take the practical over again...thank goodness! I was really worried that I'd draw something that I'm not as good at and lose my 100%.
So then we had to take the 2nd round of group practicals, and my group got a TMJ case. Yep, I got to stick my hand in our professor's mouth. We were nervous because we never had a formal lab for TMJ, and were definitely not as prepared. However, he told us that we were perfect and that we should become TMJ specialists....no thank you! I didn't become a dentist for a reason!
Anyway, now I'm studying for finals, wishing I could be having fun outside in this beautiful weather! My finals schedule is as follows, for those of you who care (mom and dad):
Monday: Neuro written
Tuesday: Ethics
Wednesday: Neuro practical (unless she has jury duty, then it'll be Thursday)
Thursday: Ortho written
I can't believe how quickly this term has gone by, but I'm glad to see it gone. It's been nice not being as stressed, but I had a difficult time keeping myself motivated. I got too bored with the information because I had too much time to look at it...never thought I'd say that! Next term should be back to craziness, but I can't wait to be up in SLO with this kind of weather! :) No sign of Grady yet...maybe he's going to hold out until the 2nd so I win the pool after all! Even if I lose, it'll be worth it to have him here!
So on Thursday we come in to class ready to do our first round of group practicals for ortho. First we get yelled at by our class president that our neuro professor was disappointed in us from the night before. Apparently she felt we were not "professional" enough and that we were not taking it seriously. I guess she had asked our president to "control the class" several times. Mind you, none of us were aware of the fact that we were being rude or unprofessional, so this came as quite the surprise to all of us. My whole thing is, if she asked our president to control us, she sure didn't try to since none of us knew we were out of control. So maybe this is more of a problem of our president not communicating with the class because she doesn't like confrontation. Sorry, but I'm not about to take the entire blame if we were not even warned. A lot of the responsibility lands on our president's shoulders, and I don't think it's entirely fair to get yelled at for it.
Anyway, so then we're filling out the class evaluation forms, and our ortho professor along with our clinical coordinator come in to talk to us. Apparently it was brought to their attention that people were coming out of the practical on Tuesday talking about what they had drawn on their cards, which they consider to be cheating. They had specific names, and they had had a meeting and were prepared to expel people if need be. We were being given the chance to come talk to them by the end of the day and fess up to anything that we had said or heard. Then they would decide on Friday if we all had to take the practical over again since they feel it has been compromised. So then we took our group practicals, and my group kicked butt (awesome!) but everyone was just in a crappy mood after being yelled at twice in the span of 10 minutes.
After the practical, everyone lined up outside his office and we all went in, one by one, to confess what we had said/heard. I think our entire class is guilty in one way or another from one of our practicals at some point. However, none of us have ever said anything with the motivation or intention of cheating. We do it more as a means of calming each other down, revealing that it really is stuff that we know how to do. I'm guilty, in both regards, but fortunately this time I didn't say anything. In the end, they were impressed by the integrity of our class, and decided that although we are all guilty of "cheating", and that even if you find out what someone else drew as their skill cards, if you haven't practiced the skills, it's not going to help you. We're just to never do it again, or they will kick us out, but we don't have to take the practical over again...thank goodness! I was really worried that I'd draw something that I'm not as good at and lose my 100%.
So then we had to take the 2nd round of group practicals, and my group got a TMJ case. Yep, I got to stick my hand in our professor's mouth. We were nervous because we never had a formal lab for TMJ, and were definitely not as prepared. However, he told us that we were perfect and that we should become TMJ specialists....no thank you! I didn't become a dentist for a reason!
Anyway, now I'm studying for finals, wishing I could be having fun outside in this beautiful weather! My finals schedule is as follows, for those of you who care (mom and dad):
Monday: Neuro written
Tuesday: Ethics
Wednesday: Neuro practical (unless she has jury duty, then it'll be Thursday)
Thursday: Ortho written
I can't believe how quickly this term has gone by, but I'm glad to see it gone. It's been nice not being as stressed, but I had a difficult time keeping myself motivated. I got too bored with the information because I had too much time to look at it...never thought I'd say that! Next term should be back to craziness, but I can't wait to be up in SLO with this kind of weather! :) No sign of Grady yet...maybe he's going to hold out until the 2nd so I win the pool after all! Even if I lose, it'll be worth it to have him here!
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Jeff's visit :)
Last weekend Jeff came down for a visit. Although it wasn't the best timing for my schedule, it was a better weekend for him to come down to see the most of his family. Mind you, I worked my butt off all week in preparation for his visit and was exhausted because of it...but it was worth it! We were making up Valentine's Day (remember the whole never-ending cold saga), and what better way to make it up than by going to Disneyland?! It had been coming up on a whole year without me going, and that is far too long for my liking. The weather was less than perfect and it was crowded, but we still had fun anyway. It was just nice being able to spend the day with him and not have to worry about school. I truly love Disneyland, and I don't think I'll ever get sick of going there.
Thanks Suzie and Tom for getting us in! What a special treat!
The next morning Jeff's parents met with us early to have breakfast together. Then it was off to Suzie's house for the March/April birthday celebration party. We ate paninis and lots of great salads, and broke in Suzie's new chocolate fountain...YUM! Lots of great food and great people. We got to see Melissa one more time before she has Grady. I can't believe I'm going to have a nephew soon! How exciting! Hope you're hanging in there Melissa! I had a test the next day and Jeff had to drive home so we couldn't stay too late, but it was a fun time.
So, what have I been doing since then? Well, they (the faculty) have decided to take away all of our free time in the last few weeks of this term. We have been busy getting our check-offs done, writing papers, getting research finished, squeezing in night labs, taking tests and quizzes, having patient days, and fulfilling community service requirements. Why they couldn't spread it out a little more, I don't know. But, we're trudging along, and we've made it to the last week of class. On schedule for this week: all the ortho practicals, ethics presentation, neuro patient day, neuro night lab, check-offs, ortho research paper, community service write-ups, and the paperwork from all the patient days. Oh yes, and that little thing called studying for finals. HA! So if you've been wondering where I've disappeared to...there's your answer.
I'm looking forward to the break, and hoping for nice weather up in SLO. My fingers are crossed! Enjoy your spring breaks, those of you who get them, and for those of you who I will be seeing soon...can't wait! Melissa, keep me posted on Grady's arrival! I can't wait to meet him! :)
Sunday, March 8, 2009
quick trip home
Yesterday I went home to my parents' house for the day. We were celebrating my sister's birthday a week early since Jeff will be down here next weekend. Even though it was only for a little bit, it was really nice to get away from here. Not to mention, it's always good to see my family, grandparents included. :) Happy birthday Tori!
On my way out of town I stopped by my friend Jocelyn's place and I got to see little miss Abby!
I haven't visited them since just after Abby was born, and she is now 5 months old! I cannot believe how much bigger she is and how she is developing into a little person. She was fascinated by my bangs and glasses...Jocelyn, you might need to add bangs just to keep her entertained! 
They just got keys to their new house the other day and I am so excited for them. It's been a long time coming, and I know they are so happy to be moving out of their apartment and to be homeowners again! Do I hear a house-warming party coming on??? :) Congrats Jocelyn and Shaun!So now I'm back home and cleaning and getting homework done, trying to get ahead for next week since next weekend will be pretty full. Hope everyone remembered to change their clocks and are surviving without that hour of sleep!
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