I'm officially done with training!!

Last Thursday and Friday I finally had my Phase IV for fire dispatch training. Which means I had a different trainer sit with me and evaluate my performance and make sure I am ready to be on my own. I passed with flying colors and was released with about 4 hours of my shift left. So I sat "Fire 1" for four hours on my own...which actually got somewhat busy. I then had Saturday off and started my new shift Sunday morning at 2 am. Unfortunately I had a rough start to this shift when my alarm didn't go off...Andy woke up at 1:50 and I hopped out of bed, threw on my clothes and was out the door! Unfortunately I was still about 15 minutes late..but not too bad considering when I woke up!

After work I went to bed for a couple hours to try to re-energize for our Halloween Party that night. I woke up around 4 and Andy and I got all dressed up to go out! :) Our costumes turned out great! He was the Tinman and I was Dorothy. We went over to my friend Tara's house and had a good time with a group of co-workers singing Karaoke, playing Beer Pong and just hanging out! And everyone had some pretty good costumes as well!!

Monday and Tuesday I spent over at Brad and Katie's babysitting their girls and hanging out with Katie. Monday I decided to get some cookie dough and cookie cutters and we made Halloween cookies, I think they had a lot of fun doing something different (and eating the cookie dough!) Andy went with me Monday as well and he had a lot of fun with the kids too..plus they love it when he's there with me!

Now it's off to 'enjoy' the rest of my 'weekend' by working out, cleaning and running errands..I guess I better quit procrastinating and get started! Until next time...enjoy some pics!!

A little bit of excitement

Well, my fire dispatch training is nearing it's end..which is exciting since I'll be done with all my training at Valley Com, but not so exciting at the same time since I have to go to my crappy new shift (2am-noon) and won't have weekends off anymore :( My 'Phase 4' is scheduled for October 23rd and 24th from 14-24...so keep me in your thoughts those days that I pass with flying colors and get released on my own!!

I also enjoyed one of my last weekends..we had a BBQ on Saturday with a lot of friends, which turned out to be pretty fun..it's always good to see people since I don't get to very often with my job! The BBQ was going great and we were all having fun chatting and hanging out until we heard a blood-curdling scream from the garage where Andy, Dan and Brad and Katie's daughter's Avery and Maddy were. It turned out that Maddy had jumped off Andy's dirtbike that she was sitting on and caught her leg on the peg slicing it open from the knee down to the ankle. The boys carried her in and as soon as I looked at it, I knew she was going to need stiches. So we called Brad at work and he left to meet us up at Good Sam. We took her up there and they got her in pretty quickly. After a couple hours she came out with 35 stiches :( I felt soooo bad that it happened at our house...but as everyone says 'Kids will be kids' and 'accidents happen.' We went and saw her Sunday and then babysat again on Monday and she seems to be doing pretty good now which is good :)

So in the last post I mentioned that I finally got added to Andy's insurance...we were so excited and thought this meant we could finally get started on some treatments...unfortunately we found out that my coverage won't actually begin until January 2009...so we have to wait a few more months again. I am so frustrated and sick of waiting, but I just need to remember this is not in my hands and God has a plan for me and Andy and our marriage and family. I just need to be at peace that children is not in our immediate future and pray and hope that it will be somewhere down the road.

One last request from anyone reading this who is a Christian.. my friend Brie who is pregnant with twins and has been on bed rest with complications started having a lot of bleeding today and had to go into the hospital. She is only 24 weeks along and although she did have steroid shots to help with the development of the babies' lungs, they would still be very fragile if they were born at this time. Please keep Brie, her husband Mike and their 2 precious babies in your thoughts and prayers in this difficult time in their lives.

Started the next step in my Valley Com Career!

Monday/labor day, Andy and I both had the day off, so we took to opportunity to finally get back up to Mount Rainier for some hiking!! We drove up to sunrise then hiked around near the glaciers and a lake, the scenery was beautiful and I can't wait to do it again!! We are supposed to head up there again to camp with Katie and Phil next weekend, so that should be fun!

Another week gone by..and a busy one it was!! I started fire dispatch training last Tuesday (9/2/08) and it's going really well so far. We are doing a different format for training in the past where we mix in on the floor training and classroom training. So far I like it, it's just a lot of new info and different procedures, but it will definitely be a good change from police dispatch when I need it! So Tues-Friday was busy with work/training, then I got my first real 'weekend' off since police dispatch training!!

Saturday was a busy day, I got up and went to the gym and ran some errands while Andy was at work, then he got home and we got ready for my dad and sisters to come over for dinner. We had a good night eating some tasty dinner with them and playing the Wii/visiting. Sunday we slept in, then walked over to the Puyallup fair!! We walked around the booths, then went to the Rodeo where we saw the semi-finals, which was pretty fun...although I didn't realize how cruel to the animals they are...I didn't like seeing them hurting them by tying them up, etc. After the rodeo we met up with my friends Brad and Katie and their 3 daughters. We walked around and looked at some of the animals with them, then we went on a few rides. After we were done with rides they came over to our house where we had pizza for dinner and hung out for a bit. Overall it was a very fun day and fun to spend it with good friends! :)

Monday I just wanted to relax from my busy weekend...but I had a full day planned of running errands..it started with a dr. appointment at 9:45, I went straight from there to the gym, then home to shower before my massage. After my massage I headed up to Brad and Katie's in Federal Way where I went with Brad to learn how to pick up the girls from school and their afternoon routine because i will start that next week! I left Brad and Katie's and ran to the store, then came home and had tacos with my mom and Steve who came by to visit for a bit. It was good to see him since he hasn't been around much lately! That's my week in a nutshell...I'm tired from another long day of training and I have 3 more days ahead of me, so I'm off to get some rest!!