Spring Gala

The past few weeks at work have been very crazy and busy. Riverside (where I work) has a school of health careers. They graduate a few classes a year and working in recruiting, my department throws a "gala" for them... It's more like a job fair. We invite a bunch of managers from different riverside facilities to come and talk to the soon to be graduates about where they would want to work and what different departments might be like. This particular class was 33 RNs. Here are a few pictures of all the hard work the recruitment assistants did for this special event! Did I mention in moving positions from nursing assistant to clinical assistant that i will be the main person planning these in the future?! Not sure if I am super excited about that but it will be good experience I suppose!

Home is where...

Found this on pinterest... I think it is so true!

yard renovation

yard renovation weekend!!

so we decided that we were going to tackle the smallest part of the yard that needs work, so that we could see what we were getting ourselves into and so that we could hopefully have a victory our first try at something!

so i decided to take pictures of the progress...

so we were starting out with some dirt, wet clay below the dirt, a stupid green utility box, a drain that doesn't drain correctly and trash from the construction workers

tubing

burying the tube

weed prevention

wood chips

notice our "yard" compared to our neighbors...  looks pretty nice if i do say!

so we got all this done on saturday... then sunday morning it decided to rain... and it has rained all day long.  good thing it rained so we could see how the drain was working!

it ended up being clogged so chris got up on the roof to clean the gutters... in the rain.  I told him he was only allowed to do this while I was home incase he fell...

 

Georgia noticed when the drain started working :)

yey us for being productive this weekend!

From our hard drive: Keith

So as you all know, Chris's oldest brother Keith passed away on April 9th 2012 after a long 3 year battle with cancer.  We both got to go out to Chicago to visit with him before he passed.  Everything seems to have been a whirlwind lately.  Before we went back for the funeral, Chris asked me to look through our external hard drive to see what pictures we could contribute to the memorial and to "Keith's celebration" at their house afterwards.  Here are some I found...

From his secret service days with Air Force One

I think this one is all of our favorite...

Chris said this kid was asking him out being in/getting into the secret service :) the kid looks very interested!

Keith with Sierra when she was a little one

rock climbing

keith and michelle's wedding day

john and his three sons all in their polish shirts on!

shootin'

Chris's graduation from language school in CA

all the rafacz boys

more shootin

keith and little addy

another graduation pic

During the whole week we were in Chicago for Keith I took pictures of everything.  So many people put hours of hard work into making the memorial really special.  I will be posting those pictures soon.

We miss you Keith