Yay for big sisters!!!!!!!

Now I know some of you are saying wait I thought Shelli was an only child! Well I am but 10 years ago I met my long time friend Ali who took me under her wing as her little sister! So this past weekend Ali and I went up to Flagstaff with her friend Tarah and Tarah's friend Genaro! Ali and Tarah graduated from NAU so they showed me around campus and town.  I learned all the cool spots to party at hang out at haha! We also went to the Grand Canyon!!! It was so pretty all covered in snow! Here are some pictures from the weekend!

 From right to left: Me, Genaro, Ali, and Tarah.  At the Grand Canyon! It was free this weekend too! So if you want to go to the Grand Canyon and get in for free I suggest on MLK weekend haha and you'll see some snow!  Actually it's probably most holidays!

 Work it girl!!!!!!

 Me and Ali, big sis and lil sis!

 We saw two deer and took like 100 pictures just of them, I'll only put one though!

 Me and Tarah with the infamous french fries at South Campus!

 Me, Tarah, Ali, and Genaro at Old Main on north campus

I had so much fun, I was jumping for joy haha! It was such a fun weekend! I am glad I got to spend it with three wonderful people, I couldn't have had a better time!  Flagstaff is such a beautiful part of our state and I can't wait to live there in 8 months! Oh and here is kind of a hint hint nudge nudge, I think I would love to have visitors!!!!!! It's only 2 1/2 hours away and Flagstaff has some good restaurants that would make your stay there quite enjoyable!  :) I hope you had a great 3 day weekend also!

Banner Simulation Center (Coolest place on earth)!

So last Saturday, I went with a group that I volunteer with for the Cardon Children's Medical Center, to the Banner Simulation Center at the old Banner Mesa Hospital at Country Club and Brown.  I volunteer for the hospital ( Cardons) with a program called the Cardon Compass Program.  We help with events for the hospital and in return for volunteering we get to shadow people who work in the hospital and go on cool field trips like the one this past weekend.  Our wonderful leader, Lindsay, arranged for the group to take a tour of the Simulation Center.  It was the coolest thing ever!

In the Simulation Center, Registered Nurses who are certified to run simulation mannequins, teach new nurses who are just hired by Banner hospitals how to do procedures how Banner specifically wants them done and also make sure the experienced nurses are on top of their game!  These Mannequins are both high-fidelity and low-fidelity.  High-fidelity means that the mannequins have a chest that rise and falls when they breath, and pulses that you can feel, they also blink (which is really freaky!).  Low-fidelity means that they still have breath sounds and a heart beat, but the chest does not rise and fall.  Both of them can talk (Which is also really freaky!)

So what did we learn while on this tour?   First we learned how to change a dressing for IV's and central lines.  I think putting on the sterile gloves were the hardest part of that part!

Then we got to take a tour of the center! Since the center was a hospital they have every part of the hospital exactly the way it was, like the intensive care unit, the emergency room, the operating rooms, and regular patient rooms.  Our first stop was the intensive care unit, or ICU, where each of our groups went through a scenario.  In my scenario my guy went into cardiac arrest, so we had to perform CPR.  Of course me being the only CPR certified person I started it off.  Then we took turns! Now I know that if I really had to do it, I could.  I knew it was ingrained in my head, but there was still doubt that I wouldn't be able to remember when my adrenaline was pumping.  Now I know that I can haha.

I know I shouldn't be smiling, but I was kinda freaking out and then Lindsay took the picture!

This is the computer they were running everything off of.

So all in all this was probably one of the coolest things I have ever done!!!!!!!!

Yay for 2011!

So a lot is planned for this year!!!!! In two weeks my friend Ali and I are going up to Flagstaff with her friend Tarah!!! They are both NAU Alumni so they are going to show me all the hip places to hang out at! Then on February 15th my application to the Athletic Training program is due, hopefully I will get an interview then a couple days after my interview I will hopefully hear if I made it into the program! Keep your fingers crossed!!!! I am also applying for a promotion for my job.  I want to go into management at the pools, so I will be filling out my application in a few days! Then in the fall I will be moving out! Ok well moving into a dorm at NAU, but still I will be living on me own!!!! So this year looks like it is going to make up for 2010, and boy do I hope it does!  I hope everyone had an awesome and safe new years celebration!  Make the most of the year, after all life is short!