He's a SURVIVOR!

We went to see Nick's Oncologist today for his 5 year follow-up appointment.  Dr Clark gave Nick a clean bill of health and declared him cured 

Nick is officially

CANCER FREE!!

BEST. NEWS. EVER.

I looked out the window...

and what did I see?

SPRING has finally arrived!

I have welcomed the warm(er) weather with open arms

This is how I spent my Easter weekend:

I got to work Saturday and Sunday 

We did have an AMAZING potluck lunch on Sunday

Honeybaked ham, funeral potatoes, pasta salad, jello salad, 

green salad, rolls and I made a super yummy 

STRAWBERRY-LEMON TRIFLE 

it was DELICIOUS! Here is the link for the recipe:

http://www.recipegirl.com/2010/04/01/layered-strawberry-trifle-celebrating-the-debut-of-spring/

This is how Nick spent his weekend

Poor guy had a math final this morning at 7 AM- YUCK!

He did have some candy to munch on over the weekend though

 I made him an Easter basket. 

 They're basketball Easter eggs! 

You know you're a nurse if...

Hehe some of these are sad but oh so very true
You know you're a nurse if...

You believe every patient needs TLC: Thorazine, Lorazepam and Compazine. 
You would like to meet the inventor of the call light in a dark alley one night. 
You believe not all patients are annoying ... some are unconscious. 
Your sense of humor seems to get more "warped" each year. 
You know the phone numbers of every late night food delivery place in town by heart. 
You can only tell time with a 24 hour clock. 
Almost everything can seem humorous ... eventually. 
When asked, "What color is the patient's diarrhea?", you show them your shoes. 
Every time you walk, you make a rattling noise because of all the scissors and clamps in your pockets. 
You can tell the pharmacist more about the medicines he is dispensing than he can. 
You carry "spare" meds in your pocket rather than wait for pharmacy to deliver. 
You check the caller ID when the phone rings on your day off to see if someone from the hospital is trying to call to ask you to work. 
You've been telling stories in a restaurant and had someone at another table throw up. 
You notice that you use more four letter words now than before you became a nurse. 
Every time someone asks you for a pen, you can find at least three of them on you. 
You can intubate your friends at parties. 
You don't get excited about blood loss ... unless it's your own. 
You live by the motto, "To be right is only half the battle, to convince the physician is more difficult." 
You've told a confused patient your name was that of your coworker and to HOLLER if they need help. 
Eating microwave popcorn out a clean bedpan is perfectly natural. 
Your bladder can expand to the same size as a Winnebago's water tank. 
When checking the level of orientation of a patient, you aren't sure of the answer. 
You find yourself checking out other customer's arm veins in grocery waiting lines. 
You avoid unhealthy looking shoppers in the mall for fear that they'll drop near you and you'll have to do CPR on your day off. 
You've sworn you're going to have "NO CODE" tattooed on your chest.

How SWEET it is!

This past weekend was like Christmas+Birthday+Christmas for Nick

WHY?.....

because of this kid

and BYU making it into the SWEET 16!

It's JIMMER-MANIA

at the Whiting house.

Last week was Spring Break the start of MARCH MADNESS and we celebrated our anniversary (Nick assures me that is what really made this weekend the best ever.......right)

 Nick played a little ball back in his younger years. 

Yep, that's my stud muffin. After his mission he played ball for CEU and then was recruited to play for Cal State.  Needless to say, Nick is a bit of a college basketball fan and it's rubbing off on me :)  I even filled out a bracket this year, the first time in my entire life. The madness is in full force at our house.  The question: 

Can BYU pull off a win against Florida? 

and 

Who's bracket will emerge victorious?

Stay tuned....

2 years down and an ETERNITY to GO!

MARCH 14 2009

Nick is my best friend and the perfect husband for me.  I'm so incredibly grateful for our eternal marriage and the blessing that it has been in my life. Together we've laughed and cried.  We have been trying to get pregnant for a while and enduring this trial has been really really really hard.  Infertility is not something we ever saw coming in our "happily ever after".  Nick has been my support and strength as I have struggled with this trial, his testimony and faith gives me peace and hope.   I have realized how much Nick and I are meant for each other.  Even though I don't understand why Heavenly Father has given me this burden, I am grateful that He has given me someone to help me carry it.  I'm also grateful for the "tender mercies" the Lord has put in my path that have helped me get through those tough days.
Nick, I love you and I know that together we can get through ANYTHING!

High Rollers

Nick's sister invited us to the Jazz game last night.  Her in-laws have AWESOME season tickets. We got to sit court side for the entire game-SWEET!  My Mom and sister kept texting me that they could see us on TV.  It was a really good game and we had a blast, sadly though the Jazz lost by 2 :(    7 game loosing streak AT HOME! C'MON!  

$1800 for a game-pish

We roll like that :)

 We had a semi-obstructed view

 

 Nick got to hold the ball during one of the time outs 

then had to give it back to Andrei Kirilenko

See that big gash over his eye?

city league basketball game got a little intense the night before

Good thing he married a nurse :)

 Denver's Bird man, he a freak of nature

It's been a less than stellar year for Utah sports.  Nick's been having a rough time, he was super grumpy Tuesday night when he found out Brandon Davies got kicked off BYU's basketball team.  Our first born will no longer be name Deron but Jimmer is in the running :)

Cupcakes by Cupid

I had to work all weekend and yesterday wasn't the best day, it was a pretty crappy day-literally. 
2 different patients both max assist + kayexalate= a very poopy day.  If you don't know what kayexalate is consider yourself very lucky.  

You might be thinking at this point "Wow! What a great Valentine's Day post, I feel all warm and fuzzy inside."  Don't worry I'm getting to the warm fuzzy part.  

I told Nick not to spend any money for V-day this year.  He's not bringing home any $$ from his internship (yet) and our anniversary is next month.  Well, bless his sweet heart, he still really wanted to do something for me.  I came home from work last night to find this:

Nick made (from scratch) chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting! Like a good husband he has been watching waaaay too much food network with me and knows that I love the show cupcake wars.  Like many others, I have jumped on the cupcake bandwagon- Who doesn't LOVE a cupcake?!  These cupcakes were DELICIOUS and choice above all other cupcakes :) 
AND he had the kitchen all cleaned up (any other ladies out there ever had to clean up after their husband cook?)  He printed flowers off the computer (since I wouldn't let him buy any) and made me a card:

Ok, this is the warm fuzzy part where you say awwwe  

I married a good man.  I feel so so blessed to have him as my husband and I love him so so much!  Exactly one month till our anniversary-- 2 years down and an eternity to go!