Fire 21

well we have been dispatched to fire #21 for the season. We are leaving shortly for the day fire, it is the fire that is down near L.A. so you may have seen it on the news. It has burning for a while and continues to grow since the winds keep changing directions.

Good news is we are going to a fire
Bad news is that it is in posion oak country....oh well it was bound to happen

I still haven't had the chance to talk about my fire run to oregon or post pictures but I promise I will do is on the next days off. I have some good stories to share so I will do that when I get back

well off to do a few last minute things before we leave. Ill be back to posting in 14 days or sooner

More Birthday Photos

Birthday Fun!!

Andrew turned six last friday and he came over last night to celebrate his birthday with his Grandparents and Me. We had a good afternoon.... He has grown a ton since I have been gone...he is going to be taller than me before I know it. I got to pick him up from school and he looked all grown up carrying his backpack and lunchbox. The school where he goes has all day everyday kindergarden so he is full on in school mode.

The funiest thing is when he opens presents he knows when they are clothes. My mom got him a new outfit and well shakes it notices the it doesn't make any nosies..then before he touches the paper he says "is this clothes".
me: "open it and see"
he tears of the paper and notices that it is just a box......doesn't even open the box just pushes it aside. goes for the last present and sees it is a toy is super excited.

It was super funny!!

Blogger is being stupid and wont let me post other photos so there will be more to come. Hopefully

Big Changes for my little town

Wel So I am at home and of course my parents asked me if I could go to Walmart for them today and well on the drive there I noticed all these changes.

We have a new movie theater...so instead of the crappy 3 screen theater we now have a state of the art 8 screen theater with the nice seat according to my brother

The news Lowes is all done and ready....just needs to open to the public

According to my little bro they are going to build a wallgreens in town....boy are we advancing

and here is the best one of all
we use to have 2 hardees and one of them closed a few years ago and well someone bought the building and turned it into a liquor store...but they didn't change anything on the outside so it still looks like hardees complete with the drive through window and everything. I am curious to see what the inside looks like.

The leaves have started to change here and I love being able to see the leaves change again..even though it is only for a couple of days.

my nephew is coming over tonight and we are going to celebrate his Birthday. he turned 6 on the 15th. It has been raining all day and i am kind of wishing it would stop.

I really want to post some pictures but the internet at my parents house is so slow that I am scared to. But my mom has finally entered the modern age and is going away from dial up next week.

Time to frost the birthday cake

Well well well

Yes I am still alive. I just spent the last 20 days up in Oregon on a bunch of fires. It was a good run and I have lots to talk about but it may have to wait for a while. SInce we worked 21 days straight we have 4 days off unavailable for fires so I bought a plane ticket and flew home to MN for 4 days. SO yep I am in MN right now.

It is kind of weird being here but I am glad that I am here. Best part is that my dad has no clue that I came home. He has been hunting all weekend so when he gets home later today he will be a little suprised I think. Well I will write more about our fure run later just wanted to say that I am still alive and well