Happy Birthday!

I will just combine the post for the 2 birthdays in the 2 days!

Happy Birthday mom and dad! YAY! I hope you had a good "vacation" in Moab. I hope you took me up on the offer of the breakfast this morning. I am so glad you guys are my parents! I love you guys so much! I will try to keep my "elderly jokes" to a minimum! :) because I know it is hard on you mom! LOL but just know it is all out of love! The older you get, the older I get. Thanks for everything you guys do for me! You guys are wonderful parents, I wish I could do more to help you guys out!



Happy Birthday!!!







I know the picture is a little old, but it is all I have of the 2 of you together (I know pretty sad huh) but at least it is with all your grandkids!

Happy Birthday Lexi

I know your birthday was yesterday! But I got to spend the weekend with you! I hope you had a good birthday! I know you liked your birthday party! You made me an aunt! You are growing up so much! I can't believe you are 8 and you are able to be baptised! I remember the day you were born (your dad made fun of me almost all day because my shoe broke, but I remember waiting so impatiently to see my new niece). You have grown up to be such a pretty girl! You are such a big help to your parents, and Kayden and Koy just love you! I was just laughing when Kayden wanted to play with you on Saturday and you went into your room and he was sitting outside the room and he kept saying "but I want to come in!" We all love you so much!! I am here at work so I dont have a picture to put up of you, so I will do that when I get home. I love you so much! I am glad you just love your Hannah Montana stuff I got you! :)

Happy Birthday and I love you!!!

Love Aunt Nicky

Happy Birthday Josh

I know this is kinda late in the day, but just wanted to say ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSH!! You've been in the family for almost a decade, that's a long time! :) Sorry it is late, but I have been busy with work... Hope the rest of the day is good!

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Chantel! I haven't been able to get a birthday card out to you yet.. But I will get it to you, I promise! I hope you have a good birthday and the kids don't bother you too much (or Barrett) :)

Now you're in the know! :)

I know it's been a while since I have posted! I have been so busy with work...



I had such a good Easter! I was able to go down to EC and spend time with the family. Barrett and Chantel were so nice and picked me up on their way through and let me ride down with them. I worked that day (Good Friday) so I was SOO tired and I was so glad that I didn't have to drive down so I thought I would be able to sleep all the way down but Morgan let me know that was NOT going to happen! I fell asleep not long after we were on the road and I started waking up and she said "Nicky, you can't sleep on the ride down!" But I was able to sneak a nap in here and there. But I sure did get Max and Morgan laughing so hard when I started stealing their blankies. Being the coolest Aunt Nicky around, I colored Easter eggs with the kids (I tried to keep Koy from drinking the dye). We had some pretty colorful eggs (we had pink, purple, green, green, green and anything Max could reach). Saturday was our annual desert day! :) If you are from EC, you know all about being on the desert the Saturday before Easter. We rolled our easter eggs and played in the dirt. It was a lot of fun! I got a REALLY good microdermabrasion clean when I got home :) little sand covering my face and a good shower... Cheapest facial I'll ever have!



My parents bought the grandkids kites. We went down to the school to fly them after the desert and the kids loved them! Even though they were the cheap kites and 2 of them broke, it was really fun to watch the kids fly the kites (even though the "big kids" enjoyed them too).



At work, I have been given the opportunity (if that is what you want to call it) to have more responsibility. I can now help resolve the superviser questions (discrepancies in our queue) and I have been asked to do some training. AND, I got a big cubicle! Ok, I actually GOT a cubicle! :) WITH WALLS!!!! So I have pics of all the nieces and nephews in the cubicle now.. I also was asked to do a project for our SOP (our "bible" as we refer to it) on the cancers that we refer to frequently. These responsibilities really have been an eye opening to me and have really given me a lot to look at with my job. I LOVE MY JOB! I love the whole concept of my job. If you don't know about my job, PLEASE look at the website.. http://www.myriad.com/ My job keeps me busy, but I just love it! Yes I have my complaints, but I just love my job!



I have still been getting my earaches in that right ear. I went to the dr yesterday and they can't find anything wrong. So they are sending me to an ENT. Since I have had this pain since January and I have been on and off antibiotics, the antibiotics have been causing a lot of stress on my body. I have had to go to a GI dr. On Tuesday, I have to go in and have a procedure done to try and get answers (if you know what I mean). So when I went into the dr yesterday, I told them NO ANTIBIOTICS!!! So I go to an ENT on the 21st of this month.. I just want answers!!! :)



I thought growing up was something that happened automatically as you got older. But it turns out it's something you have to choose to do. ~From the television show Scrubs

I thought that quote went really good with this picture. Here is Barrett out on the desert at easter. He put on the kid helmet because Morgan brought it to him. I looked over at him and his face was all squooshed. And when he took it off, he said he couldn't hear much! And this guy is supposed to be a dr and you want me to trust him? LOL... LOVE YA BARRETT!!!!

Now you are in the know with what I have been up to! :)

MY venting session

Many thoughts have gone into this post and I am just going to say it... I am sorry if I offend anyone!

I have my own problems right now that I am trying to deal with. I don't want to be the middle man of other peoples problems. I have tried to be there for SO many people, yet sometimes I feel like I when I need someone to lean on, nobody is there for me.

I don't want to be a babysitter for people when they are supposed to be adults. If you can take care of yourself, SHOW IT! I am tired of picking up after people! I tried to be an adult and bring something to your attention and all that I get is a slap in the face and disrespected. I try to give people respect, but respect is earned not just given.

I know that I haven't been feeling all that well the past few months (2 months). I am away from my family. I haven't been getting a whole lot of sleep. I am trying to give my body the rest that is deserves and that it needs to heal from the illness that it has had. WHATEVER this has been (besides strep throat and ear infections) has really just put a lot of wear and tear on my body and really just wore my body completely out! I just want people to understand that I am trying! I am trying as much as I can to do the best I can!

I know that everyone is not perfect.. I am not saying that I am perfect in ANY shape or form (believe me, I know I am far from it). There are just times that I want the friendship, respect and trust that I give others.

“Treat others as you want them to treat you because what goes around comes around”

Quick Update

Just a quick update before I head off to bed...

I am feeling SOO much better. That penicillin must have been what my body needed to get that infection out, because a few days after I started taking it I felt so much better. I still had the ear pain so I went back to the dr (what do dr's know anyway :) ) and he said that because I have been congested for so long, he thinks that it has backed up from my sinuses and went into my eustachian tube and that is why my ears have been in so much pain.. So once again, had me pick up Mucinex. So, I have been on MucinexD for almost 2 months (I don't know if that is healthy for you!). BUT, I have been feeling TONS better. He said if that doesn't clear it up, I may need to go to an ENT to get it checked out because that is something that a family dr can not see. Also, since I have been on antibiotics on and off for 2 months, it has caused a lot of wear and tear on my body. So I will be going to a gastroenterologist this Monday, March 10. I will spare the details on here! :) If you wanna know what is going on, ask me personally! But it has been enough to scare me enough to WANT to go to a specialist.

I applied for 1 of the 2 Data Entry Superviser positions at my work at Myriad. Unfortunately, I did not get the position. That has been really hard for me. Things came round about the wrong way and I was not even considered for the job. So that made it even harder. So I will just work harder so I get a good raise and raise time (July). I am also starting to look for a part time job to occupy my afternoon time. Since I did not get that position, I have been really depressed. In the Myriad HR policy handbook it says that to be offered a promotion, you have to be at Myriad for at least 12 months and they gave 1 of the positions to a person who has been there only for 4 months. So I am trying my hardest to keep an upbeat spirit about it, but it is hard. I am not holding any hard feelings toward this person at all, just the whole situation is hard for me to handle.

Other then that, everything is going fine. It is nice not to be so sick! I was starting to forget what it was like to not have ear or throat pain! I will try to be better at keeping up with this.

Well, I better head off to bed.. I can feel my medicine is kicking in so if none of this makes sense, lol, blame it on that! :)

Good night! Love you guys!!
Love,
Aunt Nicky