Did you know that April is National Organ Donor Awareness month? Are you on organ donor? And if you are, do your loved ones know that you are? If not but you want to be, it's easy... just let your loved ones know your wishes. There's also the option to have it placed on your driver's license when you renew. I urge all of you that aren't but would like to be to take those steps... there's many more children/adults waiting for a transplant than there are organ donors every year.

On another note, I will have the pleasure to work with children waiting for/receiving organs in a different way. I have worked with all types of transplant patients for the past 10 years on the surgical unit at Seattle Children's, both pre and post transplant. I have just accepted a transplant coordinator position with our transplant team. We have an amazing team of people that work with our patients and I'm so excited to work more closely with them! I will mostly be following liver/small intestine transplant patients. My first day at my new position is May 4th. Although I'm sad to be leaving the surgical unit after so much time spent there, I am excited to start this new journey in my life. My last scheduled day on the surgical unit is April 22nd. I am happy to say though that the wonderful nurses that I work with now I will see as I work on a different level with their patients. I know that new and great things are ahead of me!

Wedding plans in full swing!

Well, we've nailed down the date and place for our wedding! I will officially be a married woman the evening of Sept. 6th. That's less than 5 months away! Yikes! We're getting married at Sander's Mansion in Auburn, WA. It's on Washington's Historic Registry. It will be an outdoor ceremony as well as an outdoor reception... we're praying for nice weather! Our colors are hot pink/fuschia, dark orange and brown as an accent color. We have our caterer... she's quite a character but is really good at what she does. Our photographer is awesome and already took our engagement pics. She's a couple years into her own business and I highly recommend her! Her website is www.imprintsphoto.com I also bought my wedding dress last week! It's sooooo beautiful and I can't wait to wear it in full hair and makeup and have Dave see me in it for the first time! We still need to pick a DJ, a cake person and a florist. My bridesmaids have been with me to look at dresses and will soon pick one out... two of them are pregnant and one just had a baby. None will be pregnant at the wedding though, so they can embibe with us on our champagne toast! There's some decorations that I still need to get as well as favors but that will be easy enough. Things are coming along! I'll keep you all posted with updates!