It's official, I'm a graduate of Paramedicine! YEAH!

Here we are the graduating class of 2008 Paramedicine. It has been the hardest thing I have ever done. I couldn't have pulled it off without my Heavenly Father, Lynn and my kids all supporting me and helping me thru some really tough times of frustration, tears, joy and tons of homework. What a feeling accomplishment I have but with alot of help :)

The Pipes and Drums band from the Idaho Falls Fire Department opened our ceremony. They are soooo awesome. It was an honor to have them at our pinning ceremony.

Lynn did me the honors of pinning my badge on my shirt, I think he deserves that and much, much more. What a trooper he has been thru this year of Hell and back.

Here we are with our new, shiny badges. Don't we look official;)

An update on the fam

It has been a very busy, crazy time in our lives. Lynn just changed jobs, after 12 years with the State of Idaho, he now is a supervisor for a PSR company in Rigby and loves the change of pace and the new people that he works with, it has been a very good thing for him. I will be finished with the class part of the Paramedic program on the 10th of December. I then leave for Great Falls MT. for 2 months for an internship, (I still don't know how I'm going to leave my family for that long) on the 15th of December. We will all be sooooo happy when mom is finally done and life can go back to semi normal, whatever normal is:).

Chris, Jordan and Teagen are back from Florida YEAH!! Chris is working for Taylor Cheverolet here in Rexburg as a salesman. In the first week and a half he was there he was the top salesman they have, Go figure. Jordan is a stay at home mommy with Teagen who just turned one a week ago.

Nick just returned home from Florida YEAH!! where he was working as an installer for APX alarm company. He now is working for a window and door installation shop here in Rexburg. He turns 20 on the 29th of this month and I can hardly believe how fast the time flies by, you blink and they are grown up:(

Shelby is a very busy senior, who was just made shift manager at Subway. She is a hard worker and is the manager over college students and people much older than her. We have set her jaw surgery for February 3rd and she is very excited but scared. It will be a very trying time for us all.

Chelsea just had a birthday and has now entered teenagerdom. She is, for the most part, a very pleasant teenager, and loves her 7th grade teacher Mr. Mitchell. Most of her time is spent watching McKadee for mom, which she will be very glad to be done with:)

Micah just started the second trimester in the 6th grade. He is doing very well in school and has some awesome teachers and friends. He is looking forward to playing basketball in January and loves to play his Nintendo DS.

McKadee is 21/2 and full of energy and mischief! She is so smart she scares me sometimes. She knows most of her ABC's by sight, counts to 12, knows her colors and shapes. Most of her conversations sound like she is an adult thanks to growing up with alot of older people in the house.

Teagen's first birthday

So, Teagen turned one on Sunday the 16th. What a bittersweet moment. Time goes soooo fast. It just seems like yesterday he was born and now he's one, the next thing you know he will be in Kindergarten, then baptized, then a teenager. Life flies by whether we are with it or not. Teagen really wasn't too excited about all the attention and got a little overwhelmed with all the people and chaos, but he got some really fun gifts that I am sure he will love once all the hub bub dies down.

So, how many people does it take to put a ride-on lion together? After many people took turn trying to get it right, Teagen finally got to ride his lion:)

When it was time for the cake, Teagen was not going to have anything to do with it:) He didn't want to touch it, eat it, or even look at it. He just wanted Daddy.

Chelsea's 13th birthday

You've had a birthday, Shout Hooray. Chelsea is now a teenager. She celebrated her 13th birthday on the 26th of October. She is such a beautiful young lady.

Chelsea wanted a cell phone worse than anything in the world, so we got her a pay as you go phone. No overages on minutes or texting. Gotta love it. Birthday dinner at Applebee's was so much fun! Teagen and Daddy share a french fry. Cutest thing I've seen in a very long time :)

Make a wish and blow out all the candles, which she did with a little help from her biggest brother. ha ha ha

The Fireman's Ball and yes I'm the firefighter:)

This is me and my handsome hubby getting home from the Fireman's Ball. I wanted to make it a romantic night out so I bought a ball gown and had Lynn fitted for a tux. We had a wonderful dinner of Filet mignon, then a dance which it's been forever since we danced. Soooo much fun! When the photographer asked who the firefighter was and I told him it was me, he looked at me like I was kidding, then realized I wasn't, he was a little amazed.

Halloween

So here we have our kitty, vampire, and a very beautiful she devil with her angel kitty. They had sooo much fun at the Trunk or Treat in our church parking lot. Kadee wasn't so sure at first with all the scary ghosts and goblins, but she soon found that if you are really cute and say trick or treat you get candy:) She had a ball.

And here we have the cutest little sailor man ever. Teagen, was such a cute little guy and loved all the attention that he got. After trunk or treating we went to my house and Chris decided to dress him in Kadee's kitty costume. Isn't he the cutest you've ever seen:)

Our crazy lives, this is just the weekend:0

This is the T-shirts we had made up for the game. VERY COOL!!

We had our Hoses vs Guns barbecue and softball game on Saturday. Which translates into the firefighters vs the cops. It turned out to be the firefighters vs the firefighters cause none of the cops showed up. They knew they would be defeated.

This is our new Chief, on the right hitting the ball. He started the first of Sept. and we really have liked him and his leadership. He gets things done and quickly. His name is Corey Child.

McKadee just plays on the swings and enjoys life thru all the chaos.

Then we have Micah playing football, he is number 27 on the red team for Madison, he practices 3 nights a week and has a game every Saturday.

Chelsea is on the JV team for Madison, as I mentioned before, and she plays once a week and practices twice a week. This is her game in Idaho Falls. She is the one running, in red, closest to the goal.