Good day...!

Have you had a day where you picture everything to turn out bad.. but then it ends up really good!!! Thats how my day was.

It started off with class today. We were getting major tests back that we took and i thought I did pretty bad ... and the teachers stated there where very upset with our class as a whole on the test scores. I was really nervous... and felt as the teachers were talking directly to me... So me.. of course not quiet at all in the back row.. announces.. "ahh I don't want my test.. I did SO SO SO bad. "

Then my teacher gets to me ... I take a deep breath as she exclaims " Little Miss quiet back her did really well on her test! " I was SO shocked!!! I only missed two! Then the rest of the class hated me.. oh well!

Then!!! I got another job maybe...I am going to start being a part time receptionist at the hospital Physical therapy place that I am doing my clinical at!!! It is just a foot in the door working with PT.... but the thing that really stinks is that I am not going to stay here in order to possibly try to get a job at the hospital!!


Also... what else is new? What is up with EVERYONE wanting to hook me up???? Am I getting that OLD??? There is this one man at work who wants to hook me up with his co business owner and then a couple other people want to hook me up with some of their friends. Just scares me though.. because I did go on a blind date with this one guy and a couple of dates after.. but I ended up calling it off when he asked me to be his girlfriend ( heart breaker I know). I just can't be in a relationship right now... but then I think.. what happens if I turn down a opportunity that could have worked???


Alright.. thats enough, I will be quiet. Ohhh one more thing!!! With all my bday money I bought a Ipod nano! A new fitness place is coming opening in Sioux Center and I can't wait to get a membership and whip this body into shape, but the Ipod was just a start in the preparation stage of working out..


Alright.. good night and have a good weekend!

"Life is not counted by the amount of breaths you take.. but by the times life takes your breath away"

WOw, I am truly blessed. From all the nice emails, comments, and mail that I received this week for my bday.. I could not help but feel the love from all my friends and family. Thank you everyone for the bday wishes!

So I was reflecting on my 22nd year of life. There have been a LOT of good times.. and man.. a lot of stuff I regret!!!!! I did a lot of growing up.. and have a lot of that to do yet. SO.. I guess pictures are worth a million words.. so here are some to sum up this crazy year!! Thank you to EVERYONE who played a part in my life. God has really blessed me and made me realize how much I have been given. My heart overflows in thankfulness and love because of this.

Now here are the pictures!



My 22nd birthday! So happy to spend it with all my friends!A cold winter.. had a HUGE storm! I will never forget.. me and Josh just took off to Walmart in the middle of the storm and barely made it there! Then they next day?? We went to Lincoln with his parents and we saw more than 100 cars in the ditch and it took a LONG time to get there. However, it was really fun and such a good memory.
Spring break Josh and I went to Washington where he got to meet Patrick and Sammy! There we we were the first to find out about Ethan! What an exciting time!
This was one of my favorite because the background with Patrick :)
I got to meet Josh's really adorable nephew Caleb. It was really fun getting to know his family and go to Lincoln to meet his brother Kyle and Lori ( and Caleb of course! )

I worked at the day care in Sioux Center. I loved every min of it. I still go by and see the kids who don't remember me anymore!
Camping.. I JUST LOVE IT! I finally got to sleep in my new tent. It was good times with my girls at Dordt.
Going out with the girls. This time we were celebrating Jill's engagement.. but I have no idea where she was in this pic. This was also a big day.. My dad called me right before that pictures was taken and told me he wanted to come home for a while during that summer... which was a really hard decision to make. However, I did go home for that summer.. which was really good.
My girls and I took some nice photos before we graduated. This is my favorite. I really hope to blow it up and frame it someday. It's weird to think that we all have moved on and probably will ever all be all together again.
Bowling. I did A LOT OF THAT. I never got any better either!!!! I took a bowling class and bowled quite a bit. I guess it never was my thing.. but I did always have a good time while doing it!

Then I graduated from Dordt! Whoo HOO!!
WE all made it :)
Then I came home to Washington... it was weird being home but it was nice to be back for such a long time. There is never a dull moment in the Feucht household!
I worked at a Urology and my dad's office. I love it there, the people where fun and the work was also somewhat interesting. If anything.. learned A LOT about urology ( more than I really wanted to know!!) And it was really nice to see my dad a whole lot!! I also got to see him preform a surgery for the first time~
Then something serious happened. My dad had some heart problems and really made me realize that my parents are not as invincible as I had previously thought. It really made me thankful for my parents even more than I had already been. I am really glad my father is doing well and sounds like it was a wake up call for him and now he is in good health!!!
I saw my last grandparent for the last time. My crazy little Grandma Feucht, I really loved her and she is missed.
She passed away while I was at my friend Jill's wedding. I was honored to be one of her bridesmaids. She was a beautiful bride and it was a lovely wedding.. even though I cried through it ..don't know why weddings do that to me!
Then on the other hand, my wedding money was spent on a car :) My little Lucy.... ain't she a beauty ??? An NO ACCIDENTS OR TICKETS! ( Hopefully that goes for a couple more years !! ;) )
Then I traveled to Edmonton, Canada for Shannon's wedding! It was really fun being there for a week before the wedding.. getting to be part of her family. I also got to stay with her husband's family ( Brian Bouma ) for a couple weeks before the wedding, so I was not homeless in Sioux Center! It was such a good time that would be cherished forever!
Then Nov. 1 a little blessing came into our lives! Ethan Andrew Flanagan was born :) I love the little guy and I can't wait to see him grow up!
My little sister was also in Iowa for the first part of the year. I love her so much and I am sad she is in Germany:( LOVE YOU DIANE!!!
I also still have friends in IoWA! WOW! I have fun hang out with old friends as well as making new friends!
Old friends have came to visit me! I love it... and I am so glad that we all have still kept in contact!
I also love work! This is Kathy.. not a good pic.. but I love hanging out with her so much! We have the best times together! I also love working at the nursing home.. it is making me realize that maybe someday I would want to specialize in geriatrics?????
And Iowa is still a cold icebox. This is my neighborhood... which tends to be a lot more snowy and more drifts than the rest of the town. I hope the rest of Sioux Center is thankful for this because we take the grunt of the wind to protect them from it!!!
However, I am still a little crazy and love to have a good time. :)
Hopefully, 23 will be a good year!!!


Anyways.. it is getting really late and I did not get much sleep this weekend. I hope everyone is doing well! I will post pictures of the weekend up later! And again.. thank you everyone who has played a part in my life!!

So tired

Wow,,, the last week has been so BUSY it seems as if I can't stop to take a breath! This weekend one of my bestest friends, PAM, from college came over from canada to visit! WE did a lot of stuff... like bowling, hanging out, went to my friends Dave's sweet house, went to a neat church, we made a nice dinner together, and had a birthday party for me and Judy!

Tomorrow I have a HUGE test and I am SO nervous!! I guess it is worst because I feel like I have not studied enough.. but there is SO much to know about the shoulder joint. Tomorrow is also my 23rd birthday.. I am getting too old. However a guy in my classs is going to bring a treat for me and the class! Lets see if he remembers!

Today I also did something stupid. I had clinicals today and I guess I was just ina hurry to get to them that I forgot to turn off my car lights!!!! SO then... one of the coldest days of the year (-20*). Good thing I am friends with a lot of men at work.. and they were all willing to jump my little Lucy for me.. however.. now I won't hear the end of it!

Anyways.. I also built a snow cave with Pam.. and I still have to work on it. Dad , are you proud of me??? :D

My Valentine

I had one of the best V- day dates ever! It first started off with a game of getting chased by the cops, then a romantic date of mac and cheese and apple slices, followed by a fancy dessert of delicious cookies, then we went and fed some hungry hungry hippos, then did some fishing! We cuddled together watching a movie then after that he told me HE LOVED ME! and got a big good night hug and kiss before bed. Then I got paid a lot of money and went home ;)!

( BTW if you can;t figure it out my little date was a 3 year old I babysat ;) )

Today!

Alright,, i might be a nerd but today was SO awesome!!! At school we have been learning about the rotator cuff and rehab of it. AND GUESS WHO THE FIRST PATIENT OF THE DAY WAS_ A ROTATOR CUFF REPAIR EVALUATION ( two weeks out of surgery... first day of PT) !! It was SO interesting... because with a rotator cuff right out of surgery you don't want to have the patient actively move the muscle... because that could lead to tears in the newly fixed muscles and ligaments. However, the PT or PTA has to do passive range of motion (moving the relaxed arm for the the patient) to help from getting a frozen shoulder. It was very interesting to read the patients surgery report and see what was repaired ( the supraspinantus and the bicipital tendon of the long head of the biceps) and trying to figure out which actions the PT should try to avoid to further harm the muscles ( in this case it was a couple different motions) .

Ok..I am sorrry.. my inner-nerd is coming out but I just LOVE IT!! I love seeing in action what I am learning and I think this is the most awesome field in the world. God has been SO good to me to help me find something that I love!!!!!!!


Also .. tomorrow I get to spend v-day with a very adorable boy. I will tell you all about it tomorrow or someday soon :)

WOW

Alright.. before bed I have three pieces of random info

1. School is getting HARD!! The teachers say that we should think of this school as our job.. and every moment we get we should be studying. At first I thought this did not include me.. but now i realize I have to study a lot. We are learning SO much and it is overwhelming. However, it is fun... and it is often easy to find people to palpate... and practice on.

2. I start clinicals tomorrow!! They will be just 4 hours every Wed. starting in Sioux Center, then in 5 weeks they will then be in Worthington, MN.. which is a little further away ;) I am excited.. and I hope I can start doing more stuff... but we'll see. I know the PT very well that I am under so it won't be that bad. However... we'll see what tomorrow brings!!

3. PAM IS COMING FROM CANADA TO VISIT THIS WEEKEND!!! I am so excited to see her!!! I feel bad that I am going to be really busy when she is here but it will be good to see her!



Well .. there is much more I can say but that's enough for now... I gotta get my beauty sleep ;)

The most sad face Ever

Alright, here is the movie I promised long ago! IT is so cute.. and right before this picture was taken Ethan was giving us HUGE smiles!




Also here are the pics of my new bed sheets with the three pictures I need to hang above the wall.. not the best picture. The other picture is of my angel collection ( which Shannon just gave me the one on the right!)





Also, if you look at the pictures behind my angels you may think that since there are 5 different pictures of Patrick and no pictures of my other two nephew, that Patrick is my favorite. However, yesterday I realized they were all of Patrick so I printed off a cute pictures of all my nephews and put them in each of those three frames!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Dear Mother, I hope you have a wonderful birthday!! I love you so much and I am so thankful for you! I will call you after school today :)

Weekend fun!

My weekend was SO much fun! It was great to see Shannon again and get away from this small town! WE did a bunch of things, like visit wit Brian's sisters, hang out in her apartments, went swimming in her apartment, went to go see what a huge casino by her house was like, and went to Ikea!

Here are a couple pictures!

This bed at Ikea is AMAZING!! It is a round sultan bed.. and I just fell in love with it!

Oh wow.. what hot beach babes? OR NOT!! WE got to enjoy the sauna at her apartment complex and it felt soooo good!!
We had to have our girl time and kick Brian out ( expect to take this picture!) It was nice to catch up and find out new things about each other!
Me and Ashley relaxing!
Oh the pool again! We went a little crazy??? Thats what happens when you have goggles and the whole pool to yourself!
Walking home was cold though.. the few mins in the freezing weather really got to us.. so we just made some turbans for ourselves. Ashely was really colorful!
Rachels little sheep.. haha.. a sheep skin sold at Ikea! IT was SO soft.. but a little creepy.




Also! At Ikea I got a new cover for my down conforter and new sheets for my bed! I have to take a picture of my room to show everyone.. but first I am going to hang some pictures up and clean up my mess! It is SO pretty now and I am so excited for my "new" bed!!

Gotta get out of this old town!

I am going to Minneapolis today to visit Shannon! I can't wait to see her and Brian.. then I am going to look to see if she has any physical therapy places that accept student PTA for clinicals. WE have to do a one week clinical at one place and I thought it would be fun to do it somewhere else! If anyone else out there wants me to stay with them for a week tell me and maybe I can do them where you live!!

Anyways, hope everyone is having a great day and good weekend! Love you all LOTS!

FROZEN IN IOWA

Today the wind chill was about -50*!!!!!!

So this morning my carpool buddy sent me a text message on my phone:
Traci: Want me to drive today?
Me: Is it icy?
Traci: I dont think so, but it does look really scary out there!
Me: Ok you can drive!


What a good person to carpool with.. or maybe she was just scared for her life with me driving in the VERY windy 0 visibility weather ( due to blowing snow!!)

We made it half way to school, where we met our other carpool buddies- and then had to make a tough decision: to go on or go home! I called up my professor then and asked her if it was alright if we did not come and she was like " Turn around, I don't want you to hurt yourself."

So we spent 15 mins in the parking lot trying to decide what we were going to do.. brave the weather and go to school or go home. I really wanted to go to school and we decided that we best not miss class.. so we made the final trek to school.

It was a good day and I am glad we went. When we came home at 3 today the weather was a bit windy, really cold, but we could actully see ahead of us!!

Anyways.. thought I would share the story with you all! It was weird because yesterday was really warm ( warm being 40*!) and now it is it SO cold!!!!

Hope you all are doing well... and if you can please keep my carpool buddy's mom in your prayers. She just found out she has a tumor the size of a football in her abdomen ( still unsure if it is cancer) and then she was just diagnosed with breast cancer this weekend. It is really hard on my friend... and her mom is younger, 51 y/o, with younger siblings.

It all works out in the end

Tonight roommate number two got engaged! It was really exciting because I had a bet that she was going to get engaged before Feb. 1 and sure enough they did!

It is so weird.. having all my friends getting engaged, married, and some are now even having babies. In my high school, my silly little plan for my life was that I was supposed to be married by the time I was 23 ( which will be next month!!) Don't get me wrong, I am SO glad how my life is now and I would not change it for anything, but its hard not to get jealous when you see the joy in the couples eyes as they excitingly tell us their story and see so much joy and excitement to spend the rest of their lives together. Then my other roommate is planning her wedding for June 14 and we like to talk about her wedding and her future plans with Matt. I just get envious of them... I know I should not ..but it's just hard when you are so submerged in it. However, I know that I am where God wants me to be in life and I am so thankful for my life and how God has planned it for me.

not much to write.

Hello everyone!!
I really have not posted so much but nothing much has been happening lately... well.. nothing that is too interesting!

Well, last week my co-worker set me up on a blind date with her friend... and we all went on a double date together. It was really fun.. very comfortable.. and then we hung out a could times after.. but when he asked me if I wanted to actually date him, I had to turn him down. School has been so busy already and I have to be married to it in order for me to get good grades and be the best PTA ever! I have no time for anything else but my work, homework, and the occasional times I hang out with friends. It was hard to turn the poor guy down ( especially after he went to see a very girly movie with me!!) but I have to have my priorities set!

Anyways.. talking about school... I was at school from 8:30 to 6 yesterday.. a LONG time!! We had to get orientated for a hospital in Sioux City, just so we can have clinicals there. There was about 100 people in this big lecture room and I was once of the last people to come in. As i was walking up the the stairs I was telling my friend that I was going to sit by her and then I full out tripped in front of everyone and it was SO embarrassing! It was really funny though.. made me... and all the other 100 people in there laugh too. However, there is a lesson to learn. You have to laugh at your mistakes... if not.. my day would have totally been ruined by embarrassment.

Anyways... thats about it for now.. I have to work all weekend so that won't be fun but oh well!!!

Hope everyone is doing well!

I could not stop laughing

Serious.. today I was in class from 9:30 - 3 and it was just so funny and fun today.

I won't go through the whole day and say what was funny but here is a story we had to write to help us learn some terms ... enjoy and hope you get it!

: rachel went on a blind date. It started with the boy extending his arm to her as she tightly flexed her fingers in his hand. She wanted to more more proximal to him but opted to remain distal for she had only known him for 10 mins. His radiance glowed from from his suerior to inferior aspects. As they arrived proximal to their destination she realized they where going to the bowling alley and she flexed her elbows and exclaimed "YES!"

After her first strike she fully abducted her shoulder followed by bilateral circumduction. The next frame did not go so well, she went for a running start, slipped on the greasy lane and found herself prone in the gutter. Her date ran to her side, flexed his trunk ( with proper mechanics.. using the power lift) picked her up into his elbow flexed arms. He took her home and laid her supine on her doorstep and abducted himself as far away as possible!"

I just thought that was really funny.. :) Sorry if you did not get it all!

Can't wait to start school!!

7 thick textbooks * ( 2 classes + my life savings) = SCHOOL IS STARTING AGAIN TOMORROW!!!!

I am VERY excited to start school again tomorrow. I HATE sitting around doing nothing when I am not working or hanging out with friends. The last couple weeks I have been :

working a lot ( even got overtime last week.. whoo hooo! ) My co-workers are awesome
babysitting ( gotta love the kids)
catching up with old friends ( miss all you old Dordt friends :( ) ,
internet searching ( you can discover some interesting things with a couple clicks of the mouse)
reading ( Finding the Will of God is still the BEST BOOK EVER!)
changing my car oil ( more like paying someone to do it!) ,
Trying to get my friends to skip work and hang out with me ( which did not work really well)
making up new hairstyles ( that you would probably never see:S )

Thinking about my little nephews and family :(
sleeping a WHOLE lot (what else are you supposed to do in the morning??)
causing just a little bit of trouble ( which just for me to know and you not to find out!)
hanging out around town ( Sioux center is a really a fun place)
losing my drivers license and finding it in WALMART'S lost and found,
prune and prune juice drinking contest ( REALLY BAD IDEA!!),
seeing a couple of movies ( BUCKET LIST is a REALLY GOOD MOVIE and so is P.S I Love You)
rearranging my room ( cleaning out all the drawers and closets!!-- its so pretty now!!)
cleaning my house
meeting new people (some really interesting ones too.. :S )
had a roommate date to Sioux Falls
and finally.. HOPEFULLY this weekend I can go ice fishing!!!!!


Seriously.. I am now running out of things to do so it's nice school is about to start so then my list of of things to do will be Eat, sleep, study, work, and fun when I can fit it in!

Anyways..
thats about it for now I think!
Hope you have a good day!

A little girl stole my heart

One of my co-workers ( an older, widowed lady) just got two foster children ages 3 and 5. The little kids have been homeless, living on the streets with their druggie mother, and sexually and physically abused until July when they were placed into a foster home. However, the other home they were at could not take them anymore so they ended up here. Well my co worker had to work early on Sat. morning so I offered to watch the kids while she had to work. They are really cute kids ( a lot of energy!) but we had fun playing together.. especially since the weather was warmer ( 40*!!!!!) Then we came into eat and the little girl was eager to pray before we ate. I let her pray and she prayed for her mom and she said " Please help mommy to stop using drugs so we can go home" .. and it broke my heart. I asked her if she prayed for her a lot and she said that she often goes to her room alone and prays that her mom would stop using the drugs. It just breaks my heart.. Then I had to put the little boy down for a nap he started cry saying that he wanted to go home and that he wanted his mom. :( It just was so sad to me all the kids had to put up with for the first 5 and 3 years of life. It also made me so sad when the little girl told me that she wished that I could be her mom :( It makes me want to have foster kids someday so that I can help them and show them the love that they deserve.

Anyways, other than that my weekend has been good. I have an early morning tomorrow at 5:30 so that should be really fun :S ! I hope everyone is doing well !

wow.. 2008

Happy 2008! I feel like this is going to be a good year :) I just pray that this year everyone, including myself, can make their relationship with Christ stronger and keep pushing onward to the furthering of his glory and kingdom !


On another note... if anyone is bored.. or just interested in the life of Rachel Anne Feucht and her friends and family, you may look at the websites I made with a good selection of pictures. So far I have them sorted in Christmas, Summer and Senior year of college. http://gallery.mac.com/rfeucht

I hope you enjoy them.. :)

Wow...

Back to Iowa, Back to work.
Yesterday was my first day back to work.. and I was very sad to see in the list of patients was one of my FAVORITE men from the nursing home. He is one of the most "to it" patients there are.. so it is fun to have a conversation with him .. and he is just liked by everyone. I saw that he went into cardiac arrest and was in the CCU ( critical care unit) ... But as I walked by his room he was alert and was reading his news paper like he always did at the nursing home. So tonight while I was waiting for all the dishes, I decided to stop in and say hi. He was a little slow in talking but then he started telling me about when he passed out. He told me he saw a big staircase and he explained the stairs in great detail.. and how he saw Christ at the top.. and the light there was so bright and like no other light he has ever seen. It really gave me shivers... I know many people who where about to die have witnessed this .. but it was so weird hearing it from him. He is going back to the nursing home tomorrow.. so I guess he is good enough to go back :) I guess it is selfish but I am glad he is still living.. he was really a joy to me whenever I worked at the nursing home.

On another note: Iowa is cold. No big news I guess :) I took this picture of my car thermometer last night ! Never ever complain of 40* weather :)



And to end this post.. here are some funny pictures from my phone :)