What we've been up to...

That serious William face :)







We have been keeping busy! It's amazing how fast time flies, I can't believe it's February already! I have worked one week on my own at my new job. I have to admit, I was somewhat stressed but it went very smoothly. It seems silly to be stressed out about it as I've been doing this for more than five years at a different hospital. That's just it though, it was a different hospital, with different doctors and nurses, and Mayo just does alot of things differently. Everyone there is very friendly and really work as a team which makes it alot less intimidating. The girls I started orientating with won't be done for a few more weeks as they had experience that wasn't in the PICU.

We had a good weekend off last weekend. We did some icefishing, or at least tried. We didn't catch anything but we got some nibbles & saw lots of fish under the water but it must not have been feeding time :) William likes to icefish, he likes to scoop the ice out of the holes, play with the lines, pick up minnows and set them free, it never ends. The best was when he got Jeremy's pole too close to the heater so the line melted (NOT the first time he's done that. So Jeremy was improvising and getting the line tied to something & Will was playing with the remaining pole and dropped it into his hole. Lucky for us the line was still in the water and "caught" the falling pole, Jeremy was relieved as it's his best pole of course :). Will likeds to run around on the ice & play in the snow. Saturday was perfect, as it was warm and the snow stuck together. We made our first snowman. He didn't know what to think about that. We also made a trip to House of Bounce which is where parents take their kids to run their energy out of them, it works. Will likes the slides but it's hard to get good photos on them.

Jeremy's doing well too. They had a get together at Pepsi two weeks ago, so I got to meet some of his co-workers. His boss "told on him", and told me Jeremy's hardly wearing a coat this winter. If you know him that's not suprising as he's always so warm blooded :) Not to mention it's way warmer here than back in North Dakota!!

Thanks to everyone for keeping us and Julie in their thoughts, things are going OK and everyone's back at daycare. I think that's the best thing for everyone right now.

Hope you enjoy the pictures, sorry it's been so long. Hugs from Rochester,
~ Annette, Jeremy & Will