My life since July... :)

Wow, I bet yaal are surpised to hear from me!!! Actually you're prolly not, since i prolly have no readers since I haven't updated in....a long time...lol...

My mom told me that my dad wanted to see my blog so she showed him even though she said i haven't updated..she said i needed to put new pics up, so here I am.. although she didn't specify a new post decided to anyway!...

Well.... Last summer was incredible! I have never appreciated summer as much as last summer... i didn't do a whole lot, i didn't have a summer job...helped w/ the kids... furiously read as many books as i could cram into summer :) lol.. In August i think we went on a mini vacation up to Cambridge, OH w/ Jess & Bill & the kids (& mom and dad of course)...it was only 2 days or so, so not a real vacation, but all we had... we went to a couple malls... a life of Christ outdoor drama... the "Wilds" a place where you take a safari type ride and see lotsa wild animals... that's about it..

Sedona turned 6 in August, and I turned 20...Sedona started 1st grade at GBS/ACA in August... she's growin up! *sniff* School for me started in August after our annual (well 2nd and last for me) school boatride, lunch, whatever...kinda glad it's the last for me cuz after 1...it's kinda boring.... I started NUR 200 & Ethics.. i had heard mixed things about 200..some people said it was really hard some said it was easy...It's the Maternity/Pediatrics/Women's Health Semester...The stuff itself wasn't that hard but there was just TONS of busywork..plus one of our teachers was new and did NOT know how to teach! the first half of clinicals for me was women's health medsurg.. it really wasn't a "women's health" focus.. cuz we even had guy patients! Besides that my instructor HATED me & i'm not exagerrating.. she picks people she doesn't like and makes their life miserable... i could write lots more but i won't here... just glad i made it through.. (btw just so you know 2nd half, she got one guy kicked out of the whole school, several ppl kicked off the floor for the day, and at the end of the semester they removed her as a 200 clinical instructor, so it wasn't just me)... 2nd half i had OB and Peds.. Peds was great... it was at children's i was on the cancer floor, but i liked it! My instructor was GREAT! so nice & funny!! Ob was cool too.. i went to women's health OR one day... boring.. you've seen one OR you've seem em all!...i had a day in Labor & delivery, got to watch a c section and got to watch a baby born vaginally (a AWESOME experience to watch!)..we also had 2 postpartum days, kinda boring but another experience i guess... all in all the semester was really hard and stressful, i seriously thought i wasn't gonna pass, but thank God, final grades came out and i PASSED with a B!!!

In September, Cam started preschool (at the school Sedona went to preschool & kindergarten)... also Sept 24 we had a new addition to the family, Shane Craig Lambeth was born! I think he was 7 lb 5 oz but can't remember now! lol... I have lotsa pics on my Facebook if you haven't seen...

the rest of fall was pretty uneventful, my life was school and family and that's it, no joke...

Christmas break came & it was the most i've ever been ready for break, let me tell you! I read TONS of books and spent lots of relaxing time!!!

In January, I started my last big nursing class, NUR 201...i was VERY nervous, becuase 1- my awful experience in 200 and 2-i've heard that it's a horribly hard class.... i was sooo scared starting! I found out though the teachers are INCREDIBLE! They are an AWESOME team.... you feel like they want you to pass, whereas in 200 it felt like they were trying to fail us! Clinical wise, i had medsurg for 10 weeks, week 10 was last week... I had a AWESOME instructor! she was SOO nice and didn't make us feel nervous at all..our clinical group was great! We all bonded, felt like family almost.... This week i started psych clinicals..kinda nervous, the place is really nice, Linder Center, in Mason....

I have REALLY been enjoying this springier weather lately! I got SOOO sick of snow/cold! I'll just be glad when it gets even warmer & stays that way for a while!

Shane is really growing! He's really sweet! he gives kisses, has 2 teeth, rolls over, smiles & laughs a lot! He's a great baby.. He's almost 6 months old now!

Brice, how can i leave him out? he's the sweetest kid ever, kinda surprising since he's 2 but he's the best! SO cute too! he has 7 BIG boxes in his room waiting for his birthday and he's soo xcited abotu his boxes!! (he doesn't know what it is, but he loves his boxes!, it's just one big item btw not 7 little items)..him and Cam play in there.. well one day Sedona & cam were at school so it was just Brice & Mommy home... Jess heard a noise or something and went up to check on him, and i guess Brice had been playing on top of the boxes, in the process he knocked a picture off the wall or something... he had gotten a hammer and was nailing a nail into the wall to hang the picture back up, at 2 years old!!! I guess when he saw Jess he said "I fix it! I Bob the Builder!"...LOL....

Sedona informs you now that she is NOT 6, she is 6 1/2!! at school the summer b-day kids get to celebrate their half b-days at school, so ever since then she proudly announces she's 6 1/2... Cam is turned 5 next week... hard to believe he's growing up so fast too... well he's still tiny, but getting older so fast! lol...

Guess that's about it... hope you've enjoyed this post, cuz who knows when I'll post again.... I onlyl put a few pics on here (below) but i have tons on FB, so go look there..

Please pray for me with school if you think about it... have about 5 weeks (counting finals) left this semester, so pray that i'll pass & all that good stuff!

Cameron, 4 1/2, and Sedona 6 1/2
Brice was sleepy! 2 1/2 yrs

cam

I LOVED this outfit Brice had on, thought he looked adorable.

My one & only niece! i get her from school on Wednesdays and one warm day we went down to the park...

And this is the little guy! i saw the st pats hats at kroger monday and couldn't resist, trying them on shane (the rest of the pics are on FB)

Well, that's all folks! :)

A UPDATE, FINALLY

Well, HI Y'all! It sure has been a while on my part, and I'm sorry, if i have any readers left :)... TONS has happened since I last posted... I promised pics of Brice's party & never got them to you... maybe if they r still on mom's camera I'll post them sometime later...

Well, the last few weeks of summer semester were CRAZY busy!!! We had tons of papers & projects to do in those last few weeks, I thought I was gonna die & never get it done... plus we had finals on top of papers... But w/ God's help, I made it.... got it all done, did great on finals, and got all A's (in all 2 of my classes! lol) .. I am in NO way taking credit for the A's... w/o God i definately couldn't have done it!!! Just for the record, they weren't nursing classes, just gen ed.. Fine Arts & Microbiology (w/ lab)....

2 weekends before school let out my great friend Lalia came over for the weekend (bcuz it was the last she could come b4 school was out, the nxt wknd was West Virginia for us)... She came over and we had a fun time :) .. that Saturday I had to go to the Art Museum w/ my Arts class & to pick out a painting for our paper for that class (that I had a week to do, not procrastination on my part, he just posted the guidelines then 4 the paper)... after that we ate at Sonic & met some of my family at the mall.... Actually we met mom & tonya who had sedona w/ them... we hung out w/ sedona :-)...then other random stuff for that weekend...

In the mall, Sedona saw this jumpy ride thing & had to ride it.. so i paid and she rode it, but I think this smile on her face made it worth the 4 or 6 dollars or whatever I paid...
That next weekend before school let out was our weekend to go to West Virginia... on the way home I noticed the BEAUTIFUL sky & mom snapped some pics.. the pics def don't do it justice, but WOW what an amazing God we serve!!!

Anyways, Finally school let out for summer... a surreal feeling let me tell you and i am/was OFFICIALLY halfway DONE w/ nursing school.... so now i admit i am PROUD of the fact that I am a 2nd year! I'm looking forward to the beginning of school cruise where this year I'll be a 2nd year & know a lotta stuff, whereas just last year i was this scared 1st year who didn't know anything!... did that sound really immature?? i hope not! lol...

Summer hasn't been TOO eventful! A lot of relaxing & reading books & etc! My first week off however, my brother in law, Bill, had to go on a trip for work & my sister, jess needed my help w/ the kiddies... So of course i went and stayed the week w/ her... i didn't go insane like i originially thought I would (as much as i love those kids)... and i learned a LOT about raising kids! lol.. I didn't take many pics... but i took a few... On the Wednesday of that week we took the kids to the Cincy Museum Center (Kids museum & science museum) I did snap a few pics on that day...

"Drivin" Daddy's mower, while waiting on Mommy (to leave for the museum)



Cam in the van.. it was still parked in the garage btw I (or Jess) do not let the kids run around w/o seatbelts while driving like some people do that I see ...

"Riding" the bus at the children's museum...

Science Museum... I'm not sure if these mounds were made to be climbed on .. but there wasn't a rope or a sign...soooo....

And since Big Sister climbed on these mounds of COURSE our little copy-cat, Brice had to too....

But how could I resist sucha cutie??

All 3 kiddies watching the "puter" about dinosaurs.. Sedona LOVES dinosaurs! I took this pic bcuz i thought it was cute, the 3 lil "stairsteps"

That next week on Tuesday evening we babysat the kids so Jess n Bill could go out ALONE for supper! I decided to do a "photoshoot" (and i use that term loosely i do NOT claim to be one of those aspiring photographers that we have soo many of now, i simply mean grab my camera & take some pics of the kids in places i tell them to stand, sit etc)... Anyways when i got the brilliant idea, i was gonna take pics of sedona but by the time i got my camera and came back outside she didn't wanna take pics so Cam was there and willing... and Brice is always ready to say "cheese"...

The first place Cam wanted a pic was this swing... not exactly the place i had in mind, but hey gotta make the kid happy...

By the way, I did take other pics but I just included the best ones on here...Most of them are on my FB if you wanna see more...

I LOVE this pic & thanks soo much to Lorna for helpin me edit it a little :) i LOVE how it turned out!

Despite Cam's expression I like this pic of the boys.. Brice in the background but lookin right at the camera....

My 2 favorite men! :-)

This is not a pose, the boys just looked down on their own.. trust me I am NOT brilliant enough to think of great poses.. however i LOVE this pic, how they both were lookin at the same thing!!!!!!

Awww.... my little cutie!

Sedona finally decided to cooperate w/ me & i tried to take a group pic.. this is the first of 4 attempts...

The only pic w/ all 3 looking at me... i know it's not centered esp w/ where the boys r sitting and it does bug me (lol) but kids are kids & at least they looked & smiled...

Haha..i thought this was great... how he looked away w/ his eyes just as i took the pic.. so funny

And now w/ him looking at me...

Again .. NOT a pose, but i thought it turned out good how he looked away..

Sedona & Brice or "Baby" as he is known by- Cam wouldn't cooperate 4 this one... I have 2 pics of these 2 together & had a hard time deciding which one to post (the other is on FB if you wanna see)

Brice was tryin to pick up a bug....literally he was chasin it.. boys will be boys... one time i told him to pick up a worm and he did.. then i told him to give it to Mama (my mom) and he did! HA..

So, back to my summer... one other week Bill was gone just one night, so i spent the night again.... we have to do 360 NCLEX (big state board test we have to pass after grad to be RNs) style questions and get an 80% or above this summer before we can start next year (no, we never get a true total "break")...i started these one day and got 2 REALLY horrible scores! i began thinking what if i can't pass these??? later that week I prayed before starting, and made it my goal just to pass 100... and PRAISE GOD he helped me get an 81%!!! I tried more today and got a bad grade on some, but then got an 81% on 100 more! So 200 down, 160 to go :-)...

Well, that's pretty much it.... summer's goin great, can't believe i've been off school a month already!!!

I'll try to post pics of Brice's party sometime.. even though they are WAY late they still r cute...

oh, and i'm sure you all know this already but I'm gonna be an aunt again in September... It's a boy.... But it's by Tonya & Craig this time (finally) so that's exciting :-)

Well, that's all for now.... hope you enjoyed

Happy Birthday, Brice!!!

Soooo I kinda missed Brice's Birthday! Well, I didn't miss it, but.. anyways Brice turned 2 a week ago today! But we are not celebrating his birthday till tomorrow! So, Happy Birthday, Buddy. Your the cutest lil guy ever & such a joy to be around!

An update on my life!

Hey All,
I realized I haven't blogged in 5 weeks and thought "I really need to blog", so here I am. Unfortunately I am at school, in a break between classes, so I cannot post pics....

However, I AM still alive!!! I survived last semester (Spring Semester of nursing school)... it was tough & needless to say I was VERY VERY VERY SICK of Anatomy & physiology by the time I finished, but I did finish! I survived finals week & actually passed all my finals I think! I am very glad this semester is over!

After this semester ended, we had a week off... this was more than we had off ALL semester, so it was VERY nice! Our spring break was a Friday & Monday off (and I already had Fridays off)... my very great friend Lalia came home with me for part of break (bcuz her parents are in Florida & she couldn't go home, and I didn't want her to have to stay in GBS dorm all break)... so we had SO much fun! :) relaxing... goofing off.. getting in trouble *wink*...

One of our "getting in trouble" parts was on Saturday we wanted to work outside, so we were told to pick up branches in the treeline... well we got EVERYTHING pretty much & wanted to move on to another area... well dad had told me to tell him & he would move the truck... I'm like .. "why can't i move the truck, i've driven it before??" ... well, dad & craig was down at a neighbor's & we didn't know when they would be back... so i decided to move the truck.. mind you this is not a nice new truck... rather an OLD (1979) brown chevy...but it's still fun to drive *wink* ...so i slowly drove it.. so as not to hit the "play house" or electric line in the side yard where it was... well i got kinda in between the playhouse & line so i wouldn't hit either one & got to the ditch.. umm....well.. i couldn't move.... i tried goin forward & it spun... i tried movin backwards & spun.. i tried this for a while & gave up.. Me & lalia walked over to where Tonya & mom were... well, I came to find out .. craig got his truck stuck back in our neighbor's field... i was SOOO excited... and when i told lalia she was SOO excited.. cuz we thought we were in so much trouble & we're like YAY we can't get in trouble now... when dad came back somehow we got the truck right out... obviously i don't know anything about getting trucks un-stuck... and craig's truck needed a little more help ... :)

Anyways, that was one of our adventures... we also got shots for school, i got a TB test (a yearly thing for people in the medical profession)... went shopping... read a LOT of books for fun... went "walmart" shopping twice with mom & jess & the kids... and ... lots more..i got a lot accomplished & had so much fun!

School started for summer semester this week, Monday... I don't have monday classes.. and my Tuesday class was canceled cuz the teacher wasn't here... so i didn't start till Wednesday 2 days ago... i have 2 classes... Fine Arts & Microbiology (and lab)... I think they're going to be pretty interesting.. although the way i hear it Micro is really hard!....

Well, that's about it for now! I'll post later with pics when I can!

Busy, Busy- Cam's B-day, Gaither concert, etc

Well, I promised to write about Cam's birthday outing but i've been BUSY!!! Friday of course was his b-day outing & that night his party. Saturday afternoon/evening/night I was gone to a Gaither Homecoming Concert at NKU, Sunday was church, Monday i was studying all day for a test, Tuesday-School (test), piano lesson, clinical prep homework, so TODAY i got out of clinicals at noon, actually earlier, and we're not supposed to get out till 3:30, so that was pretty incredible... so no more tests this week or next... I just love the "calm before the storm" before finals.... so i have a few days to relax a little and try to get caught up on the homework/quizzes I'm behind in.... So, i figured since I had extra time I'd blog... Happy April Fools Day, by the way...

So, Friday I went in to my sister, Jessicas house to get Cam... I got there a little before 11:20 becuase she had to leave to get Sedona from school at 11:30... Anyways, Brice got a "little" upset that I was taking Cam and not him.... he went out the front door with us (cuz Jess said he should it might help him be less upset) but we got to playing in the yard... he would run down the yard then i would run after him.... anyways he was NOT happy when his mommy took him he reached for me... then when I took Cam and went 2 my car he started crying (Later, I found out he had cried ALL the way to Sedona's school, about drove Jess crazy)... Anyways, I let Cam choose the restauraunt and he chose Chick-Fil-A... so we went there, got him a kids meal... he wanted to play in the little play area and i took him in there, but he's more quiet, intimidated by people like me and Jess and there was way too many kids in there, so he didn't play... so, on to Toys R Us.. we walked in circles around this one aisle for a while... he was leading the way.... eventually we looked thru a lot of the store... he chose some "Cars" cars that he didn't have..... then we went 2 Walmart... there was a single little toy gun laying on a shelf Tuesday when Jess and mom and the kids were in Walmart ... Well cam played with it and wanted it and thought mom was getting it for him for his bday and she wasn't so she told me be sure to go get it for him... he had to have that certain gun cuz it's like some kid in their neighborhood that they play withs gun... anyways we got that, I bought some candy (baby bottle pops) for the other 2 kids and headed back 2 Jess's house... Brice was SOOO happy to see me :) ... i wanted to take some pics of him and he saw my camera and headed straight for the fireplace...he thinks all pictures should be taken in front of the fireplace & a lot of times just goes sits there and wants pictures taken.... cam's party was Friday night, I'll write about it later, when/if I post pics (from mom's camera)...

Cam in my car
He found my sunglasses & proceeded to try them on

riding with bert & ernie at Toys R us

One of Brice's pics in front of the fireplace (with his baby bottle pop).. he's such a little cutie...

Me & Brice :)

Well, Saturday was the Gaither Homecoming concert at the Bank of Kentucky center at NKU, i went with a small group of people... it was the most INCREDIBLE experience... I wasn't sure how well i was going to like it with all the 1000's of people, I was thinking I won't get to meet the singer people... Anyway it was the most surreal experience to see Bill gaither in person, in the same room as me! Anyways the concert started out with Bill, Kevin Williams, Ben Speer, Ivan Parker, Gordon Mote, Janet Paschel, Russ Taff, Lynda Randle, (not necessarily in that order) THEN finally they called out the big dogs....lol.. Signature Sound came next and sang several songs then...... the crowd's favorite! Gaither vocal band!!! the lights were out and the guys were up there (but you couldn't really see who they were) and they just started the music and the crowd started SCREAMIN!!! GVB was definitely the crowds favorite, mainlly I think becuase of the new group... 2 of their singers left, so they revamped the group into a 5 member group (except sadly Mark Lowry wasn't there), and brought back Mark Lowry, David Phelps, and Michael english.. the 2 favs were David & Michael... After intermission, they kinda did the whole "friend" singing thing... GVB and Signature Sound sang together & the other people sang some all kinda mixed in.. A guy who used to play football for the Colts & now plays for the Bengals was there.. he's a Christian guy who likes working with kids in this spare time.. he's putting out a cd this year, he sang "Amazing grace" a capella...

It's hard to describe a Gaither concert, if you've never been to one, this was my first. But if you like Southern Gospel music they're incredible... there was 8,000 people there (according to Bill gaither) but the Spirit of God was there in such a real way... it was awesome 8000 people of different churches, different religions probably, but all they're banded together worshipping the same God... it was a awesome experience....

I got pics with some of the singers at intermission & afterwards... of course Bill & Gloria Gaither didn't ever come out... and I didn't see David Phelps either...

Oh, other cool thing about the concert... the people on stage would be singing then the screen would go to a video of the people who have passed away like George Youce, Jake Hess, etc singing that same song, just like they were there with us.. it was so sweet and sad... i'm glad they are keeping their legacy alive...another touching moment was when Ben Speer was singing and they had on one half of the screen a video of his dad singing with him....

Me & Ben Speer.. He's such a sweet guy... I just had to get a pic with him...one thing I appreciate about him is he doesn't change.. he doesn't 'modernize' to keep up with the times, he's the same, and still sings the good-ole-songs..

I was thinking about not gettin a pic with Russ Taff (above), but decided to. He sang a very moving song ... it talks about "i believe" that Jesus was born in the manger, taught in the temple, died on the cross, was buried in the tomb, but the clencher was that he didn't stay any of those places and isn't there now... It had a totally incredible part where Russ like did a recitation about how he could have been resurrected while he was on the cross and all... hard to describe but it was just a awesome song!!

Me & Ernie Haase, the guy over Signature Sound (my fav group)...i have a pic of me & ernie from the 1st concert i went to.... i guess almost 6 years ago... back when signature sound was a new group and not all that popular, so I wanted an updated pic, i didn't get pics with the other guys, cuz i just got pics with them, like a year ago.... Ernie does a great (and funny) Elvis impersonation....

This guy is one of my favs... Kevin Williams... he is a REALLY good guitar player and is just a FUNNY guy...makes the show really funny & entertaining...

This is my fav pic from the night... me & Michael English, one of the new old gaither vocal band members... :-)

Well, that's all for now... I need to go do some homework & laundry & my friend Lalia is coming over for supper tonight & to do some homework together so i should get working...Hope you've enjoyed this post....

Happy Birthday!

Well, I missed some birthdays. My brother in law Bill's - February 14. My brother in law Craig's - March 8 and my dad March 10. But I can't miss this one. Tomorrow, March 27 is the birthday of a very special little guy!!! 4 years ago tomorrow, it was Easter. Sunday morning my sister hadn't been feelin too well (past her due date) so they missed church. Sunday afternoon it became obvious someone was ready to join the outside world and Sunday evening Cameron Mark was born. At first I was "jealous" cuz I NEVER got to hold him!!! Someone else always had him!! Sedona was already a major "Mama's girl" and I wanted one of the kids to like me best. I know I probably shouldn't have felt or thought that way! Anyway as time passed it became obvious that Cam did prefer me over most everyone else! He would cry if mom or anyone (besides his mom and dad or course) held him. And I have to admit it made me feel pretty good. Now he's 4 years old (as of tomorrow) and we're still good buddies. He's a big brother now, but that doesn't take away from our relationship. Even though his little brother (and big sister) are pretty special too. Last year I was on gbs bandtour on Cam's birthday, so I took him out later just me and him. To Toys R Us, Sonic, Mall, etc. I think he had a lot of fun and enjoyed having time with just me away from Sedona and Brice. Tomorrow I'm going in and taking Cam out to lunch and to Toys R Us and lettin him pick out his own birthday present (since I haven't bought one yet). Then tomorrow night is his party. I'll post pics sometime of our outing and his party :-) so be looking for them!!!

Update on Zach!!!

For those of you who have prayed/been praying for Zach..THANK YOU!!!! Some of you heard this in church, but this is for the rest of you....

The doctor's told Zach he had lymphoma...like I said in my last post.... apparently sometime later on they said well... he MIGHT have lymphoma but he might also have this other disease called "sarcoidosis".... which is not curable but is treatable...they had to run a ton of tests .... they couldn't rule out cancer (lymphoma) for 2 weeks till all the tests were back.... well last Friday was the day they went and saw the surgeon...my aunt called on Saturday I think....she said that he has the sarcoidosis NOT LYMPHOMA!!!! she thanked us for all the prayers..... I was soo glad to hear this, I was having such a hard time dealing with this, and i really can't explain why...... anyways, the sarcoidosis is (according to one of my textbooks) "a chronic multisystem granulomatous disease of unknown cause that primarily affects the lungs"..... anyways hard to explain but it's a better diagnosis than lymphoma for sure.... THANK YOU ALL sooo much for praying for Zach & chrissy and please continue to pray for them.....he still is not feeling well, is tired & weak.... and of course now they have a rather large (i imagine) hospital bill to pay for. He was supposed to start on the treatment today i believe. The treatment for this disease is steroids...if they don't work (after a year i think) he'll have to have chemo. So, please keep them in your prayers! Thank God for hearing & answering prayers!!!

There is tons more i could say.... school is okay...i'm surviving.... barely...lol... my life is pretty much school..... They made all of us 1st year students change to a different parking garage (rather than the Christ Hospital employee garage)..it's the Baldwin garage way down Dorchester across the road from Eden park....it's not that far but it's kinda out of the way for me.... we started parking there today, my friend lalia rode with me since it was the first day and all.... I think it's a nuisance but we only have to put up with it till June ... cuz then we will be 2nd year and the new 1st years will have to park there next year!!!

Dad & Craig both celebrated birthdays last week (the 8th and 10th, respectively).... My uncle Pat's birthday is tomorrow (st. patrick's day)....

There were some videos from my camera I wanted to post from our last trip to West Virginia.....I never got around to it but hopefully i will sometime....

Well, that's all for now...this was meant to be an update on zach and nothing else, which is why it doesn't really update anything else much.... oh well...have a great week & great st. patrick's day...