On a Wednesday long long ago.

Well not really, but I’m beginning to feel like I’m that behind on blogging our events.

Anyhow on Wednesday March 31st Cade had Award’s Day.

.  .  .  . and I had Girl’s Night Out with these ladies

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What a crazy and emotional weekend.

I started off doing a photography session that brought me to tears.

The next day we said our goodbye’s to our friends “The Petersheims”.

I posted this first photo on my photography blog but decided I should probably put it here as well for those of you who don’t follow the other blog.

You see Brittneigh’s Mama has cancer and we’re not sure how much longer she’ll be with us so My Christopher asked me to take photos of the two of them together.  Their very dear friends came along with them that day so we got a few shots of the four of them together.  I loved this one because everyone seems so carefree and happy.  They just don’t have many of these moments lately and I’m so happy I captured it for them.

The next photos are of a little gathering my work girlies (and a few spouses & kiddos) had for our dear friend Angie and her hubby Merlin.

They’re moving to Idaho this week.

It’s been a blessing for all of us in NICU to work with such an awesome nurse.

We will miss her dearly.

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Seriously I can’t believe I forgot to do a post about our “girl’s night” to see New Moon.

I mean this is “the one”, you know the one we’d been waiting for all year long.

See our “girl’s night’s” originated with “Twilight”.

We all had read the books and decided to get together for the movie opening.

We had such a good time that it continued as a monthly event from that point on.

Only this one included a few guys.

Even they like the books.

Or. . . . . they liked the idea of going out with us women that night.

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Okay so maybe the title is just slightly exaggerated.  There was no dancing on the tables, at least not this time, and only because Wendy (who said she would dance if I brought my camera) is pregnant.  Much to the dismay of Merlin (Angie’s husband) whom I promised to tuck a few dollars for if indeed there was any dancing.

These are my work buddies, my homey’s, my other family.  A great group of ladies nonetheless.

. . . . .and this was “girls night”.

Michele (pregnant friend #3).  She’s having a girl folks.

Wendy (pregnant friend #1) is also having a girl.

Angie (wife of Merlin) crazy girlfriend who hates for me to post her photo.

Heather (the usually sick one) is not feeling quite as bad as the last “girls night” so her photo turned out much better this time.

After our dinner out at Ted’s we had some time to kill before our movie so we spent it doing a little shopping.  The blue sweater you see on Heather hasn’t actually been purchased yet.  She was freezing (as usual) and didn’t want to take it off.  She’s crazy like that.

Pregnant belly #1

Pregnant belly #3 (she’s the third in line to give birth of all the pregnant ladies in our NICU, that is if the babies behave themselves)

Aren’t they just cute?   BTW that is not Wendy’s belly button you see there.  That is her belly button ring that she can’t get out at the moment.  Not because she hasn’t tried, matter of fact I’ve tried too.  It just isn’t coming out.

The girls waiting for the movie.  Yes a little blurry.  I promise I only had 1 glass of wine at dinner.

Finally our movie starts.  What did we see?

None other than:

. . . .Confessions of a Shopaholic

Hosted by Cecily and MamaGeek

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Thursday night my group of friends from work and I met up at Chili’s for cocktails and dinner prior to the Twilight premier.

All of us have been reading the books and were so excited to go to this midnight showing of the movie.

Since we all work the night shift at the hospital it was absolutely no biggie whatsoever to go to a movie at this crazy hour.

Wendy (the pregnant one on the left) hasn’t quite finished the book yet but was definitely up for the movie. She’s our newest groupie as she has been a travel nurse and recently returned home to Indiana. Though not up for the coctails this evening she asked me and I was happy to oblige her by having that second drink on her behalf. Hey I did have to limit myself since I drive over an hour to hook up for these events.

Michelle (The La Push Cliff Diving Team girl) is 1 of 2 that is the most obsessed with Edward in the group. There isn’t anything this girl doesn’t know about the book, the movie, the author, but mostly Edward.

Angie (the one who looks like she’s ignoring the fact I’m taking her photo) is my home girl (not really as no one lives close to me, I live in the middle of the sticks). The lady has been running on “no” sleep most of the week. She just got a new puppy over the weekend and now has a sick little girl at home needing breathing treatments. She is absolutely a hoot both at and away from work. She’s one of those people who can make any topic hilarious and always has us in stitches.

We asked our wonderful waitress to take this photo of us so we could all be in the photo.

Michelle again. I’m sure she was really wanting a photo with Edward, but alas he was a no show and she had to settle with the poster instead.

Jeannie (the only blonde in our group) is obsessed lady number 2. These two together crack me up. They talk of Edward as if he is a personal acquaintance and not a fictional character.

Heather wasn’t able to meet us at Chili’s prior to the movie, but met up with us at the theater. Poor thing has been battling sickness for the past week or so. You can see she doesn’t feel well at all in this photo. We’re so happy she was able to make it out with us (note: I said make IT out, not make out, we don’t swing that way – we’re all Edward lovers, and most of us like our husbands/boyfriends).

Yes, the three of us ordered t-shirts for our night out. I love pink and you can’t really tell, but I even had on pink long-johns because goodness sakes it’s freezing outside and movie theaters to me are usually freezing cold, much the same as our hospital at 3am. Lynn (pretty lady on the right) barely got hers in time, not quite the kind of trouble Michele had with her order though (whole other story). It just took a little longer than anticipated.

Carol (the lady loves brown) is one of those people who is just as beautiful on the inside as she is on the outside. I’m quite surprised she even has time to read, let alone finish this book, (she’s very very busy) but she did and I’m so happy she was able to finish prior to this outing.

Mike (our friend in white) got sucked into this Twilight madness before he knew what hit him. He did in fact finish the book and is ready to start number 2 this weekend. He is our favorite security guard at work and we were so happy to have him join us.

Lorraine, we missed you tonight. So sorry you couldn’t make it. There will definitely be a next time.

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