Happy Halloween

This past week we had some fun with some festive Fall/Halloween activities. Last week I bought Maverick's costume (a shark) and of course had to dress him up in it right away, which he hated!! (but he was just soo cute!!)

Andy and I also decided to visit the pumpkin patch in Orting-Spooner Farms- where we got a pumpkin and some gourds, we didn't do any of the other 'activities' but it was still a fun thing to do, I always want to go to the pumpkin patch and we never end up going.

Tuesday night we had dinner with my mom and Dean since my mom had been gone in Vegas for the past 3 weeks taking care of her dad that was sick :( It was so nice to have her home and have a family dinner. After we ate we decided to carve our pumpkins. Although most of ours didn't turn out how we had hoped, we still had a lot of fun doing it!

And a quick pregnancy update--we hit the 18 week mark Wednesday and had our monthly checkup. Everything was normal, the doctor answered a couple questions I had, we heard the baby's heartbeat (at a nice steady 140bpm) then I was given the h1n1 vaccine and had some blood drawn for the Quad screen. I can't believe only 2 more weeks till we find out boy or girl and the pregnancy is half over!! Time is already flying and I'm sure it's just going to go faster through the holidays.

I hope everyone has a safe and fun Halloween, I will be at work dispatching all the 'fun' calls I'm sure we'll get... :)

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!!