What a day!

Today was such a fun slash hard clinic day. First, I have to say Happy 25th B-Day to my cute hubby yesterday! I suprised him with a pizza party with our families. Heath's mom, sister, and brother came all the way from Smithfield! It was so great enjoying everyone's company. The homemade German chocolate cake even turned out! Anyway, It was a fun day. Today at clinic was Super BUSY! We learned how to properly hold the instruments and different positions to sit around the patients head. It was kinda confusing and hard, but I am going to take my instruments home tonight so I can practice. Another successful day.... SO FAR SO GOOD... :)

Clinic Day #3

Today in clinic we learned how to set up and tear down. It was a very busy day and a lot to learn, but I'm so excited to start using our tools and working on each other. We got to practice air/water and suctioning on our partner and it was great! Happy Monday!

In Memory of Gage...

I haven't had the time or the energy to post for the past few months. There has been so much going on and it has been such a weird summer for me and every single member in my family. June 19th has always been a hard day for me and my siblings just becuase we have never had a Dad in our lives so that day is always an extremely hard day for me. Now, it will be much harder. June 19 2011 will be a day that we will never forget. This year for some reason we decided we would go to my mom's first since most of my siblings were going then we would go to Heath's parents house later that night. We arrived at my mom's house at 3:00pm and quickly went next door to my grandma's to eat. We hardly ever eat at my grandma's anymore since our family has grown so much but, for some reason we went over there this father's day. We ate, played outside, got the frisbee stuck in the tree and were jumping on the tramp. Heath, me, and my 2 nieces went over to my mom's to check our laundry.... the phone rang and my niece Shaylee answered it and hurried to give me the phone. It was my brother in law Brandon's sister crying and saying that my sister, her husband and 2 kids had gotten hit head on coming down Provo canyon and my 4 yr old nephew Gage didn't make it and that Jill and Brandon had been life-lighted to the U of U hospital. I cannot even begin to describe how I felt at that time, I repeated what she said and hung up. My Niece had heard what I had said and was already out the door to my grandparents next door. I made it over right after she had told everyone and repeated it again hoping that it wasn't real. Each family hopped in their cars and Heath, my mom and I jumped in ours and drove the hour long drive to Salt Lake not knowing if they were even alive and going to make it. We arrived as they were prepping Jill for surgery, she looked so awful, she had a huge laceration on her shoulder where she had lost alot of blood, she had an oxygen mask on, and I will never forget seeing her like that, but so glad she was okay. She had multiple breaks and fractures, her knee shattered into 50+pieces, she broke her shoulder, wrist finger all on one arm, and her ankle. Anyway, after a long few months with losing my sweet nephew gage, moving, and starting school it has been crazy. I miss Gage so much and wish I would've been a better aunt. I will never forget the last time I saw him on June 6th how cute he was. We colored for ever! He kept saying April I can't do it, I kept telling him how great at coloring he was. I love that little boy! He was always such a busy body and so much fun. He had the most contagious laugh that was so precious. Good thing I have such a strong testimony and knowledge of the gospel. I know that I will get to see Gage again and I also know that he is back home and in a better place than we are here. I can't wait for that day!

Wednesday Happenings

It is SO hot today! In clinic while we were sitting listening to our instructor and our presenter (Ann Arrington) my cute old neighbor and her cool Blue Boa thing-a-ma-jig, my back was wet from sweat! I know, to much information right? Anyway, back to my second day of clinic. It went well, I passed off my very first PE and you might want to sit down for when I tell you this.. I PASSED! Good thing it was just on the computer program which I would hope I know how to do after working as an assistant for so long. We also had a guest presenter like I mentioned earlier with this really great suction called the Blue Boa. Val would love this! Its a suction that you can have in your patients mouth while you use the ultra sonic, you don't have to hold it so you can still hold your mirror in your hand which would help you to see all surfaces of teeth without compromising your posture. Click here to watch the video. Hope you are all having a fantastic day, I'm off to the Box Elder County Fair tonight! :)

My very first clinic Day!

Today was our first day in clinic. It went alot better then I thought it was going to. I couldn't sleep last night because I kept dreaming that I was going to wake up late and that everything that could possibly go wrong would. Turns out I came prepared, got to school in time to find a parking spot and get everything ready. We learned the basics and put all of our instruments in our drawers. I think I am going to love it! Yay to the WSU- Dental Hygiene class of 2013!!