Welcome June Calder!

We welcomed June Josephine Calder into our home on October 7th (she surprised us by coming 2 weeks early).  I was actually out of town for business when my water broke--luckily my husband had been invited to part of the trip so he was there too. We were only an hour or so away from home, but it made things exciting!

I've been updating our blog with the story of labor/delivery and the first days of her life.

We are still living in Geneva, Switzerland and loving it. I was working for a medical device company (TriVascular) providing training to physicians and employees for our AAA endovascular stent graft. I miss nursing, but this job just fell into my lap and has been an amazing international medical/business opportunity. 

For now, I'm a mom. Swiss government mandates 14 weeks of maternity leave (awesome!). After that's over I'll probably work a few hours per week from home.

Hope you are all well!
Allison (Curt & June)

McDaniel update

Hi Friends,

I miss you all and I hope you are all doing well! This is my update. After nursing school I worked pediatrics for Timpanogos Hospital, but when my husband Josh got into law school at UCLA-we took off for Los Angeles. I haven't worked since, but am quite busy as the Relief Society President in my ward getting called all of the time to look at all of the kid's ear infections, rashs, you name it! Los Angeles is awesome, but we are very busy. Somehow we still find time to make it to Disneyland pretty often. Josh got a job downtown at a firm called Munger Tolles and Olsen, so when he graduates this year he will start there in the Fall. Caden is now 2 1/2 years old and just started preschool! He's getting so big. Brielle is 10 months old.

Update...

Hey everyone,
    Just thought I'd give a little shout out and say hi to all of you and give you a little update.  Where to start... I don't think I've written on this for ages...
First things first, I got hitched to Tyler Bradshaw in January of 2010... nursing wise, I was working at my DREAM job on the Immunocompromised Unit at Primary Children's Hospital... I miss it, so much!

Then we moved to Wisconsin for my husband to go the University of Wisconsin to get his PhD in Medical Physics... Nursing wise... I have a job at an adult oncology clinic being a chemo and triage RN (love the clinic life), and I also work part-time at one of the hospitals here as a float nurse... don't love this as much but its a job right? (below a pic of us in Chicago, its about 2 1/2 hours from Madison)

And now we are expecting our first little lady in November (this picture was taken at 24 weeks, I'm now about 32 weeks), and nursing wise I will be nursing a baby!... dumb joke... but seriously, thats what i'll be doing and working 2 shifts a week or so ...

So that is about it from us... we are just living up the student life for the next 4-5 years and so far we've really enjoyed our time here in Wisconsin.  We are so so so excited to have this little girl, I can't wait to meet her. And that's a wrap (we also have a blog that anyone is welcome to look at, I update this MUCH more often: etbradshaw.blogspot.com) Take care everyone!