I've joined the blogging ranks

Hello girls,
I'm not sure how many of you still check this but I wanted to let you know that I now have a blog. It is a private one so if you would like to read it send me your email and I'll add you to the list. It is mostly about the adventures Shaun and I are having here in Prague. The address is www.kimandshaun.blogspot.com
Anyway, hope you are all well and happy.
Take Care,
Kim Swain Price

UDA Convention 2010

Hey ladies! I was just wondering if anyone is going to the UDA Convention this year (for those who live in Utah). It would be fun if we could meet for lunch or something! Hope to see some of you there!

Kristin

I'm Baaaack! :) (with a song in my voice)

Why howdy dude-y everyone!!!

I've missed you all and can't even believe all of the things I am hearing about your lives. Congrats to Kim S. getting married, Jennie getting married, Tammy getting married, Cheryl adopting another cute baby, Lacey having a baby, Andrea getting married and having a baby, Christi having a baby, Marie getting engaged,... man... the list just doesn't end. I can't even believe it. I am happy for you all.

I have about a bajillion questions about how to be a hygienist. I've forgotten everything and am scared to death, but alas... The job search begins. I will be going to the UDA convention in Feb. and I want to see everyone and go to some classes with ya'll. Please let me know... carpools and all are great too. :) Can't wait to see ya.

Loves, Lisa

Reunion BBQ?

Hey girls!
Kim Swain here. So I have been missing you all terribly and have decided that we need to get together sometime soon. If i didn't live in an apartment I would offer to have the bbq here but since I do it' s not really possible. So anyone willing to host? I think we should do it soon before everyone gets too busy with summer activities. Maybe a Saturday at the end of June. What does everyone think?? Ok, I hope all is well with everyone and that we will catch up soon. :)

Big Changes!!!

Hey all you lovely ladies!!! I have some great news...... I'm engaged!!!...... ha ha, jk. I'm not really. One of my good friends here in Price said that "someone is going to have to be dang special to want to stay with us for eternity!" I thought it was funny.

I am moving though! I was able to find a full time position up in Logan! I will be moving there right after I get back from Hong Kong to pick up my little brother from his mission! I am so excited, and wanted to let you all know! I will be working, and finishing my Bachelor's. I am then planning to go to grad school. Wow, I am a nerd :) I miss you all and hope all is well for each of you. You are all gorgeous, and the ones with the little babies are beautiful moms!!! I can't believe how big those little tikes are getting! Take care chicka's and I look forward to meeting up with you all agian soon...... So Kim W's eh? Sounds like a crazy party to me :) Love you!
Love,
Marie

I love being Mommy!

Thought you all would want some updated pictures. Kylee's doing well. I've been calling her "Smiley Kylee" (I know it's corny) because she's been so giggly lately. Ray & I have been adjusting well. I think we're starting to get the hang of it. I've been back to work for a few weeks and I seriously can't believe how much being pregnant had slowed me down. I'm literally twice as fast as I was in January. It's awesome! I'm surprised at how energetic I can be with only 4 hours of sleep! :) She's worth it!

A Year Already?!

So the other day while at the gym, I ran into one of the "seniors" from the hygiene program at UVSC. I asked her how things were going and how studying for boards is coming along...needless to say I am SO glad that that part of my life is over. I look back and honestly wonder how I survived and kept my sanity! I can't believe that it's already been a year since I was in hell. Anyway...just feeling nostalgic I guess and wanted to post how happy I am to be done and making money!

-Kim H.

P.S. Ryan and I just bought a condo in Pleasant Grove and the next hygiene party will have to be at my place...obviously when it's all fixed up! :) Miss you all!

YAY!!

Good news everyone! Todd got into pharmacy at Pacific University in Oregon! So we'll probably be moving to Oregon in August! I hope we're both done with school someday! Now that I'm done it seems like he has forever left, but there's hope now. Only 3 1/2 years left!
Andrea Bucher

Does anyone know details about Heather and Christi? I feel like they both should have babies by now??????
Andrea Bucher

UDA Convention

Hey girls! I was just wondering if anyone is planning on attending the UDA Convention in February. It is on a Thursday and Friday (I think the 19 and 20th) I think it would be fun if we could meet for lunch or something! Just leave a post if you are planning on going and maybe we could meet or even go to a class together!

Kristin
(Yes, I am planning on going, and yes I am bored so I thought I would change up our blog!)

The Showers!

I was just curious who is going to make it to the showers? I hope to see you all soon and miss the good times talking to you all! Hope all is well and that I get to see or talk to all of you soon:)
Marie

Jobs?

Hey all! I'm coming back to Provo at the beginning of January. I've got my Utah license in my hot-lil-hands. Now I just need to find a job. I'll only be there till April though. If anyone knows of any openings available, put in a good word for me? Thanks. Love ya bunches.

Lacey

TWILIGHT
Hey Girls! Kim M and I (S) were thinking it would be fun to have a girls' night and go see the Twilight movie with whoever wants to. It might be too late to go opening weekend but maybe the next weekend or whenever everyone can. Leave a comment on here or give either one of us a call to let us know if you want to come. We think it would be a fun way to get together because we miss you all so so much! Hope everyone is doing well and that we will see each other soon.

Peanut Butter Bars!

Wow!! I almost don't dare to post on the blog after the ridiculous intrusion on the last one! However, I promised Kristin and I think a couple other people I would post the recipe of these delightful...

Peanut Butter Bars!
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 cup peanut butter
2 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups quick oats
2 cups flour

Cream butter and sugars, blend in eggs, peanut butter and then dry ingredients. (will be sticky).
Press into a greased jelly-roll pan and bake at 350 for 15 minutes. Than sprinkle with chocolate chips and let them melt the nspread. After they cool a little put on the frosting.

FROSTING:
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
4-8 T. evaporated milk.
Mix well then drizzle over the chocolate chips!
Then you have heaven!

Fluoride = Poison?

Kim Swain here and I have an experience to share.
I am always amazed at the astounding ignorance of Utah County citizens when it comes to the subject of water fluoridation. So I was at church this morning and one of the ladies in my ward told me that she can no longer fill her prescription for fluoride supplement tablets for her children at the pharmacy. Why?? Because almost every other area of the country except Utah County has fluoridated water and the extra supplements are no longer being produced.
I just find it ironic that the place with the highest concentration of Mormons in the entire world, the nucleus of super-moms is so ignorant and backwards on the subject of oral health. We are supposed to take care of childrens' physical well-being, right? And we have more kids here than almost anywhere. Yet, it's a government conspiracy and unsafe to add Fluoride to our public water sources. Even though it is the most cost effective cavity prevention and reaches the at risk population the best out of any method available. It is toxic and unnatural and they don't want it.
We all hear stories all the time about moms taking their kids to the dentist and finding out his teeth are rotting out of his head and the traumatic dental experiences that follow. Of course, putting fluoride in the water isn't a cure all but we all know many of those horrible experiences could be avoided if people here would just realize what the rest of the country has already figured out.
Ok, obviously this is a sore subject for me and gets me very irate and I just wanted to rate to people who understand what I'm talking about.

Funny

So... I usually wind down by reading my friends' blogs on my Google Reader. After watching The Office tonight, I thought I would do just that. Then I got to thinking: I wonder if there are hygienists out there blogging about their calculus-filled lives. So I googled "dental hygiene blog."

Judging by the links I found, I think Weber must require their students to blog about EVERY clinic experience! Man, I would've thrown a fit. Talk about pointless. As if we didn't have to document enough on a mountain of paperwork. I'm glad they didn't make us write about our feelings on a public network. Man oh man.

Here is a link that supplies an inside look into Weber hygiene alumni. Mostly boring, but there are some interesting tid-bits. One girl had to retake the NBDHE because she and another girl had too similar of wrong answers. Talk about bad karma.

~Lacey

Pictures!

Hello everyone! Hope you're all working and happy!
I've meant to put an ultrasound picture up for awhile, and now I finally remembered! This is the little squirt that keeps kicking and punching me. In fact she just did it again right this moment. I like to mess with her when she does by flexing my tummy muscles. She usually kicks me after. Apparently she's as fiesty as I am!




I swear my belly has doubled in the last month! And I really don't have that much of a double chin...Ray was on the floor when he took that!






Aren't these the cutest little shoes! I had to buy them! I figure she'll be born in January and we don't want her feet to get cold, right?

TAG EVERYONE!

So I saw this tag on my friends blog and thought it would be fun for all of us to do. So be cool and play along. :)
Kim S.
4 Random Things I Like About My Husband:
He will make me laugh
He will love to be outside and we will go on cool trips together
I will think he is ridiculously good looking
He will be very sweet and caring
4 Movies That I Can Watch More Than Once:
Tommy Boy
Pride and Prejudice BBC version
Gladiator
10 Things I Hate About You
4 TV Shows That I Watch:
The Office
Heroes
Weeds
Entourage
4 Places I've Been:
Ghana
Alaska
New Mexico
Washington DC
4 People Who Email Me Regularly:And I email back?
My Sealants for Smiles boss
My brother on his mission (mostly he emails us)
Kristen Mecham recently
Out N'Back dirt cheap emails
I guess I don't email that many people.
4 Favorite Foods:
Anything Mexican
Pizza
Fresh peaches
Bread and Cheese
4 Places I Would Like To Visit:
All of western Europe
The United Kingdom
Brazil
Iceland
4 Things I'm Looking Forward To In The Next Year:
Getting my own apartment (hopefully much sooner than in a year)
Watching my debt decrease instead of increase
Getting back into shape
Having my brother come home
4 People I Tag:
All of you reading this!

Funny Blog Post

I just happened along this blog last night. She wrote a funny post about taking her 4 year old daughter to the dentist for a prophy. Anyway, there is some language in it, but I thought it was funny.

Anyway, it is funny to catch a personal glimpse into our profession from the patients viewpoint. I'm sure we have all worked with children like this.

~Lacey

It's a Girl!!

I had to wait until there were some votes! It's a girl...and there's only one! But don't worry, we're gonna make her tough enough to play with the boys. Nobody's allowed to baby her just cuz she's a girl. She can pick herself up and dust herself off when she falls down just like any boy! :) Plus, she's already been fourwheeling with me. Ray says she'll be able to shoot and take someone to the ground long before she starts dating too. :) He's in so much trouble! He's already practicing the phrase "go ask your mother."

Anyway, that's the exciting news! Hope to see you all at the BBQ!



Heather