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Saturday, August 2, 2014

Celebrating my 40th

With back to back weekly excursions, (The Trek and Scout Camp) we celebrated my birthday a week late. My mom had taken me to dinner on my actual birthday, but I of course wanted everyone together to celebrate my birthday.

My mom planned a wonderful afternoon! It was AMAZING!

This little beauty picked me up at work.




















I guess if you can, lie down on the floor?


As we drove around Tahoe, our fabulous driver kept stopping to let us get out and look.











 



Taking pictures from the car


We stopped at Emerald Bay




















The Viking Castle












My birthday cake on the road! There were so many choices! YUM!






Apparently while we were just over the mountain the clouds had opened up in town and it was POURING rain! We got to the the rainbow, but missed the rain.













Back at work, we took a few pictures with our fabulous driver! 




A perfect way to enter my 40's.... a great time with family!




Saturday, July 26, 2014

Pioneer Trek

Every four years our church youth has the amazing opportunity to attend reenact the "Pioneer Trek" into the Salt Lake Valley. It is for youth ages 14-18 as well as "Ma's and Pa's" from each ward.  Each stake does things a little differently, our stake chose to provide amazing meals throughout the trek. (I've heard many stakes use the "hard tak" and dried fruit, etc trying to make it as authentic as possible.) Out Stake also chose real families from their genealogy that actually made the trek to portray. (Michael lost more than 1/2 of his family, including his Ma and Pa...)

Hearing about it made for a very emotional experience. The youth that explained it to me were also very emotional telling me about the actors along the trail. (Young children without parents or only one parent stood beside makeshift graves, weeping over them, etc)

I borrowed the following pictures from friends who were "Ma's and Pa's" on the trek.






















I picked up Michael from the church, he and his friends were both exhausted and spiritually uplifted.






What an amazing experience they must have had! It was both a grueling but very powerful experience they will never forget.


Saturday, July 19, 2014

A New Opportunity

A few months ago I was presented with a new opportunity. In my opinion, the opportunity of a lifetime! Ever since I was a teenager I have been volunteering in retirement homes, nursing homes, hospitals, etc. A few years ago, I began working full-time in an Assisted Living Community (One of the places I had been volunteering at)after working in a Preschool until Cai Lynn headed off to second grade. 

The former administrator at that building after taking some time off, was hired at a brand new community specifically geared toward Alzheimer's/Dementia. I am now the new Program Director. It has been so much fun watching the building go up. (It's just down the street from my house.)

The big day had finally come, and a few weeks ago we had our install. The company has done this so many times, they has each truck loaded with very specific things, times each truck was to arrive was like clockwork.




LOL my office in the making...


We were all very much involved with the unloading and organizing.






Over the next few days we did all of the finishing touches.




A wonderful friend of mine is an amazing photographer. She came in and took a few pictures of our entire team. 


Jennefer- Program Director


Lisa- Community Recourse Director


Michael- Health Services Director


Suzanne- Business Office Manager


Wendy- Administrator


Brooke- Food Services Director


Daniel- Maintenance Director


It's looking so beautiful! We have been inspected by the State Fire Department, but now we are waiting for our last survey! It is SOOO hard to wait!



The biography boards will be outside each resident's room. I had to a few fake ones for our model rooms. LOL (Duncan Hines, Judy Garland, Issac Singer, James Casey, Betsy Ross, and Sarah Winnemucca.)



I have a beautiful view of the courtyard from my office window. (It was POURING that day!)


The front of our building


Duncan is ready to work.



There will be lots of pictures to come... This was just an update over the last couple of months.