Abbee Becomes Auntie Abbee In Alaska!!!

I AM FINALLY AN AUNTIE OF A BEAUTIFUL BABY GIRL!!!!! As of July 21, 2012 Jhi Jules Nishikawa was born weighing in at 8lbs 5oz and 21 inches long!! Auidee!! I can't believe that big of a baby fit in my beautiful sisters cute prego belly!!! Birth is seriously a miracle! I am very sad that I didn't get to be there for my sister Haulee at this time! I will be three weeks late! I was so excited all day yesterday cause I got a text from my Mother and she said "Baby Jhi is coming!!" And I got it right before I got off work! I got to call and talk with my Mom and Haulee before she delivered! It was so nice to hear their voices! I miss them all back home so much! I work nights so I usually sleep during the day, but yesterday I just tossed and turned and couldn't really get well rested!! I was getting updates from my Mom on what was happening... I was just so excited that my sister was going to be a Mommy!! Right before I left for work I got the text that said "8lbs 5oz and 21 inches long, all is good!" That was it!! That was it!!! I was freakin'! I want to know who she looks like and if she has lots of hair or was she a baldie, was her skin dark like Dad's or white like Mom's?!?! And how Haul was doing.. any complications with either of them or was everything okay!!?? Ha ha! I was just so happy Jhi was finally here... I asked all those questions and slowly got answers!! When I got to work I told EVERYONE that my sister just had her baby!!! (PS Haul... Everyone from work says Congrats!!!) I was just sitting at work trying to do my time sheet and  I got a text from my Mom saying that they e-mailed me some pics!! I jumped right out of my chair and literally ran to the computer and logged on to my e-mail to look!! I was so excited to see what she looked like! I opened the pictures and started to cry!! Ha! Yupp that's right I am a sap!! (I am even crying right now writing about it!... Such a cry baby!) Don't judge me!! My co-worker came over to see if I was okay and I showed him the pictures as well! (Already starting to brag about her!... It's my job right!?)  I just sat there and stared at them for at least 10 minutes before moving and having to go get some work done! I am so excited to meet her! My sister Haulee is such an amazing women! Jhi is going to have the best parents any girl could ask for (except for mine of course!) She will make a wonderful Mom! I am so excited to see her move on to this part of her life!! I am so glad that she had a baby, it will help give me my baby fix!!! I'll just steal her babe! Jhi is beautiful just like her Mom!!  Haul I am sorry I wasn't there but I will be there everyday I can when I get back when you need help... Kay!? And let's not forget her AMAZING Daddy that Jhi will have to look up to!! Shane you are going to be such an awesome father!! You are such and amazing guy and will be just fine with a baby girl of your own! You can teach her by the wonderful example you are to everyone! I look up to you both so much and I am so grateful that you two are in my life and that we are as close as we are. I know I haven't been around much the last.. what?... 3 years ish!? And we aren't as close as we should be do to that, but I do love you both and am so proud of you guys! I can't wait to see you all when I get home in three weeks!! LOVE YOU ALL!!! 19 Days!!! ( I have to stop with this wonderfully amazing topic cause I am just bawling like a baby over here!)

Okay well... Just a short update about Alaska!! Um.... The last time I wrote was my last day off almost 2 weeks ago!! Wow!! Well not much has happened!! I just sleep and work!!! Work has been awesome!! I work with wonderful people and love them all so much!!! We all get along so well! I love this job! I love all my natives that I take care of! Funny story real quick while we were getting one of my residents up for the day... My co-worker that with me was black and he was standing by the bed and we turned on the lights and then my resident said "WOW! YOU GOT BLACKER!!"  Ha ha!! It was to funny!! I love my residents!! I have plenty of stories for when I get back if you would like to hear them just hit me up... kay!!!??  Um... Oh our company/hospital had a BBQ and whoever wanted to come could come! So as a night shift we all decided to go! It was delish!!! There was hamburgers, hotdogs, smoked salmon, grilled salmon, chips, potato salad, macaroni salad, watermelon, corn on the cob, baked beans, juice, water, ice cream, and chocolate cake! It was SO yummy!! Tank coo Manillaq!!! (That is how you say thanks in Eskimo!) It was loads of fun chatting with everyone and taking pictures of course! That's really the only thing other than sleep and work that I have done! I got my first paycheck today as well!! Finally!! Yay!!! I am going shopping on Friday! Not a lot of shopping to do here but to get gifts for the fam and of course myself! Oh last week at church we had people call us from elsewhere in Alaska and talk over a speaker from their cell phones while they were at home!! Crazy eh!? It was quite the experience but wonderful talks were given!! I also talked with both sets of Grandparents and can't wait to see and talk with them again!! Um.... My time here has gone crazy fast!! Only three more weeks here and I am in Utah again! Also working nights you get your days all screwed up... all my days run together... cause you work 2 different days and get all your sleep in one day... its super weird!! Well that is basically all that has happened here.... Super sorry for the Worlds Longest Post Ever!!! But I got the BEST NEWS EVER and HAD to share!! See ya'll soon!!!

Caribou Sighting!

O MY GOSH!! Okay I know I haven't udated for awhile but that is because I haven't really been up to anything!! Viv was in Anchorage all weekend so all I did was work and sleep and repeat!! I did go to chruch this weekend!! And I didn't have to go alone!! One of my co-workers came with me!! Yay! The branch experience is amazing!! We only do one hour of church, just sacrament!! And they only have to use one slice of bread! Crazy! This week there was a total of 8 people there!! We also don't have enough people to speak in sacrament meeting to fill up the time, so therefore we watch conference talks! Kinda weird! When I get back to Utah it will be hard to go to all three hours of church again!! Well life here is getting better!!! I love it here! I am getting to know a lot more people! I love all of my co-workers! They are all so wonderful! We do breakfast or lunch dates all the time!!! I also play for Vivian's families slow pitch softball team, when I don't have to work! I usually have one day off a week!! And usually on my day off Viv has to work!! But yesterday was my day off and Viv got off early!! I stayed at work for two extra hours cause one of the day CNA's didn't show up! So I stayed there until she did! Then I got home and showered and got ready and then went back to the hospital and had lunch with Vivian! Then she got off at two (instead of six) Yay!! So when she got home she changed and we walked over to her aunts house and borrowed their four wheeler!!! Then we drove out across the airport and then out to a place on the beach called Cape Blossom!!! It was so pretty!! We also saw a small heard of Caribou!!!! Yay!! I was so freakin' excited! That was the first Caribou I have ever seen in real life!!! Holy cow!!!! It was so fun!! We drove the four wheeler right by the Caribou!! We were basically running with them! It was such an AMAZING experience!! O and as soon as we got out to the beach my freakin' camera died!!! It was so lame!!! But it was still so fun!! When we got farther down the beach this single one Caribou jumped out us and almost attacked us!! Ha ha! We both had a heart attack!! When we were there we also saw Crane! They are a freakin' HUGE bird!!! It was so fun to get out of the house and actually see some amazing animals! O we also saw a lot of dead seals! That was really sad and creepy! I wish that I could have seen a real live one!! But o well!! When we got back into town we were going to go out to eat but guess what!! The WHOLE town was having a power outage!! That is so crazy that the whole town can be out of power!! It was out for a little over an hour before I fell asleep! Well... I am back to work tonight! And my sleep schedule is totally screwed up!! Cause of yesterday I didn't sleep at all during the day like I usually do! When we got home from our adventure I was so exhausted I fell asleep at 5 PM! Whoops!! Well... I only have one more month here!! Which is bitter sweet! It ALWAYS is when I move! I feel so excited to move to where ever I am going but so sad for leaving my adventure that I am having! But I guess that is how it will always be! You always miss something! :(  But I can't wait to get home!! Cause when I get home I will be an Auntie to a beautiful baby girl, and a new cousin to a handsome baby boy, and one of my best friends will be back from his mission!! And for all of that I am SO excited to move back to Utah! But I will definately miss all of the amazing people that I have met here! I have learned so much from them! And I am greatful for Viv and her family for putting up with me while I am here! Well.. That is enough for now! I will try to update next week on my day off!! :) I would love to put some pictures up! But... The internet connection here isn't that wonderful! Sorry!!

Working In Alaska!!!

Hey y'all!!! :) Guess what!! I started work a couple days ago!! I work in the hospital here in Alaska!! It is so much fun! I work in the long term care unit and so its basically like a nursing home. But we only have 16 residents! I work nights!! They are 12 hour shifts! I like those so much better than the 8 hour shifts I was doing at The Lob in The Geezy!! :) Yay! Well... all of my residents are Native and they still use some of their Native language! It is super cool, and I have already learned quite a few words from them! They are just so darn cute! I already have my schedule for my whole time of being here and I basically work every night. So therefore the rest of my time here will be spent like so... Work from 7P-7A and then come home shower and sleep till about 5P and get up and ready and start all over again! :) Ha! Unless Viv and her family have something outrageously fun to be doing during the day then this will be my life for the next six weeks!! :) Um... Let's see... all the people I work with CNA's and Nurses included are traveling CNA's and Nurses!! I have never heard of such a thing... so therefore I will explain it to you just in case you haven't either... A traveling CNA/Nurse works 13 weeks in some place and then goes home for 1 week and then to a different place for 13 weeks! Kind of fun cause you get to travel and see other places!! But it would be hard cause just as you get attached to the residents you would have to leave again! But they do get paid bank though! Well.. it's about that time again... gotta start walking to work!! Bye!!