My Little Cowboy!

Do you think Oliver loves his Toy Story cowboy boots?  Now that we are hopefully moving into summer we are going to have to figure out how to get him to give up the boots every day.  We are attempting this with Buzz Lightyear crocs, but there are still days that he insists on the boots.  He even wore them to bed a few nights ago.

Family Day at Shoshone Falls

This is the beautiful Shoshone Falls that aren't even a 10 minute drive from where we live.  Since it had been 2 years since we had last been down there, we decided to take the boys down for a look on Sunday.

Here are some pictures of the boys checking things out after we looked at the falls.

My Home Department - Learning Services

Learning Services, formerly known as the Education Department, is my home department in the new hospital as the Childbirth Education Coordinator.  The desk area you see in the pictures above is where Ryan, our meeting/class room scheduler sits.  Down the hallway is where you will find my office.

Here is my portion of the office I share with 3 others.  It is a very nice space and I am pretty much settled in.

Here is our new medical library.

Our new Oak room is where my childbirth classes will be and the three pictures above show the room set up for my first class in the new hospital last week.  What you see is only a 4 segments of the Oak room as it is one large room with a capacity for 200 that divides into 6 separate meeting/classrooms if needed.

Our New OB Unit

This is the main waiting room and entry to our new OB unit.  Our OB offices are located on this floor with their back hallway to Labor & Delivery so that the physicians have quick and easy access.

The Labor & Delivery waiting room.

A new Labor & Delivery room.

This is the armoire with our baby warmer units.

Labor & Delivery doctor's dictation area.

A postpartum room.

Postpartum nurses station.

A Look Inside

This is one of the treatment areas in the new cancer center.

Our new MRI machine.

One of eleven new operating rooms.

A nurse's station in the patient tower.

Post anesthesia recovery room.

Our new food court.

Our New Hospital - St. Lukes Magic Valley

Five years ago the hospital I work at, Magic Valley Regional Medical Center, went from being a county run facility to selling to the St. Lukes Health System.  As part of the agreement, St. Lukes committed to building our community a new facility on 40 acres they purchased.  Four years after breaking ground, we officially moved in on May 21 and are now known as St. Lukes Magic Valley. The first picture is the front of the new hospital, the next 2 pictures are of the main entrance, the fourth picture looks down onto the back where the cafeteria is on the lower level, and the bottom picture is of the helipad in front of Emergency.  The hospital is over 712 000 square feet and cost over $238 million to build!  This facility is absolutely amazing and it is incredible our community now has a facility like this.  When I moved here 12 years ago, I would have never envisioned us having a new hospital like this.  It is very exciting to say the least.

Moving On To Third Grade!

So it looks like Caleb will be moving on to 3rd grade!  He was the only one in his class to receive an award for perfect attendance!  He got straight A's the whole year, is reading 211 words per minute and testing at 96% for his understanding of what he is reading.  Here is what his teacher wrote on his report card: "Caleb was alot of fun to have in class.  He has a lot of personality and enjoys life and learning.  He is very curious about the world and he will no doubt continue to shine academically in the future".  Great job Caleb!

Rangers Ceremony

Here are a couple of pictures from Caleb and Elton's Rangers end of the year ceremony.