With Hope

The past week at work has been really hard for me. We lost a little girl on Friday that had been in and out of the hospital since she was born. I was always so excited to go to work when I knew I got to spend the day taking care of her...Although she was really sick, she always had a smile on her face and just wanted to be loved. She was only 8 years old and she taught everyone around her about hope and strength. She was strong. She was a fighter. Even when she was very sick and felt horrible, she still managed to give me a smile about something (I had to try pretty hard). I only wish I could be half as strong as her. I can't help but wonder why God planned for this to happen....I wish I did not doubt my God, but in times like this, I can't help it. All I know is that right now she is in heaven running, dancing, twirling. She is singing Hannah Montana songs, and she is free from pain. Rest in peace Gianna.

And never have I known
Anything so hard to understand
And never have I questioned more
The wisdom of God's plan
But through the cloud of tears
I see the Father's smile and say well done
And I imagine you
Where you wanted most to be
Seeing all your dreams come true
'Cause now you're home
And now you're free, and ...

We have this hope as an anchor
'Cause we believe that everything
God promised us is true, so ...

So we can cry with hope
And say goodbye with hope

We wait with hope
And we ache with hope
We hold on with hope
We let go with hope
-Steven Curtis Chapman

How lucky I am!

Last night I got home from a long weekend of work to find my sweet husband making this:

He made one of my favorite dinners...grilled pork tenderloin with pico de gallo and rice! It was so good:) For dessert he made chocolate souffle's topped with strawberries. I am so lucky to have such a wonderful husband!

Caught me!...I will just smile and look cute.

I found this picture of Erica and I while I was going through some old boxes in the closet....(Yes, still unpacking from moving 7 months ago) Here we are at Grandma DB's house playing with some toys. I laughed so hard when I saw this because I know Erica so well....and I know she was doing something she was probably not supposed to be doing by the look on her face! I am not sure what she just did or what she was thinking of doing...But I do know that the little pretend smile on her face was because she was about to do something to me! Hahaha it just cracks me up looking at this picture!

CHRISTMAS!!!

Last night Derek and I bought our tickets to go back to Cincinnati for Christmas!!! Originally we did not think we would be able to go as I had to work on Christmas. Thanks to an amazing nurse I work with, I was able to switch holidays with her! Now I will have the Christmas holiday AND the weekend right after Christmas off! Derek is off work the whole week of the holidays so it works out perfect! I am so so so excited to see everyone!!! I just hope baby G has not grown too much since I last saw him:)

The Present

More like home

While Mom and Dad were here we did a LOT of shopping for our house! Here are some pictures of the new artwork we got...We also got new end tables, chairs and coffee tables....those pictures will come when the house decorating is a little closer to being finished! Thank you Mom and Dad!!!

Stanford

On Monday afternoon I took Mom and Dad to Lucile Packard Children's Hospital to see where I work. We took a tour of the hospital and unit that I work on. After that we went to see some of Stanford's campus. Here are a few of Stanford's Memorial Church.


The church was built in the early 1900s by Jane Lathrop Stanford in memory of her husband, Leland Stanford Sr., who founded the university.