Catching up...again

I need to be better about blogging. I'm a total slacker. Anyway, let's see...
Josh finished the academy, YAY, so today was his first day on shift. He says all these numbers, like 28 and 13s and 11s. I think that means District 28 stations 13 and 11. I think. He is far away from home, but he seems to be happy so once again we are transitioning. As a result of Josh's new job, me working in Gladeville, and church being there, I think we are going to try to sell our house and move in a little closer. Gladeville seems to be where we are focused now, but we will see. I think the plan for now is to get through the holidays then in January and February get the house ready to sell. Maybe in March when the sun starts shining a little and the weather gets a little warmer we can put it on the market. We will see though. This is all in God's timing. We are just trying to be patient so we make sure we make all the right decisions.

In other news, Josh's battalion had a family night where all of the families of the recruits could come and see the academy. We were able to walk through the classroom and the fire towers, we rode on the fire trucks and watched them do a flashover fire. It was really fun to be there and to see where Josh has been for the past 13 weeks. As a firefighters wife it is hard to feel like you are a part of that part of your spouse's life ( I will blog that later) so it  was really neat to see Josh fight a fire and to meet his 'brothers'.  Here are a few pictures of that fun night:

This is probably one my all time favorite pictures of these two. Like Ever!

 Wearing Daddy's mask. It has a cool speaker that he loves!

 Going through the wire tunnel

 Right after dinner the tones sounded which meant they had to hurry, hurry, HURRY to get their gear on and run outside. It was a fake, of course, but we got to see what happens when the tones sound all of the sudden. (like we didn't already know what that was like) :)

 Major wanted a pic when Daddy got back in

 Family

 Josh and one of his Captains

 The flashover. It is 1200 degrees in there and Josh was in the front. Crazy.

It was a really fun night and I am so glad that we were able to experience it as a family. I am so proud of Josh for accomplishing all that he has. He really is my hero.


This past weekend Josh had planned on camping in the backyard with Major. It had rained a little bit and the forecast called for scattered showers over night, so we just moved the camping inside. We made smores, watched Rio on demand, let Major stay up late and sleep in his tent. It was a fun night that we all needed.

 About to make smores on a stick

 The tent camping got moved to his room which he was so happy about!

I love that as Major gets a little older, we can do really fun things as a family and he actually enjoys and notices them. So fun to do those things with our sweet boy.
Ok, so that catches me up a little. :)