updates

Life is busy....very busy. Thomas is finally home, I passed firearms, we celebrated our 4 year wedding anniversary, and Thomas is already starting his pre-deployment stuff. It's been crazy around here.

If I'm not sleeping I'm either at school or studying for a test. I'm in the 7th week, so only 5 to go.

Thomas has been home for a couple weeks now and it's been wonderful. He's been getting off early and helping out SOOO much around the house. He made dinner for our anniversary and it was delicious.

It's been four years already. How can that be possible? It feels like just yesterday that I was living at home and going to Green River.

Boy am I glad to be done with firearms though. My hands and right arm were so sore by day 3. We were out there for over a week. I have a heck of a farmer's tan and a few blisters on my right hand, but it was fun. This week is defensive tactics. Oh ya, and Friday is when we get pepper sprayed. Needless to say.....I'm scared.

Normally I wouldn't have time to get on the computer on a work night, but Thomas just got called back to base. Apparently some equipment came up missing so they did a 100% recall of all the soldiers and no one can leave until the equipment is found. Last time this happened I heard soldiers were out there for TWO days!!! Hopefully it doesn't come to that. He was less than thrilled to get that text.

We are very excited to see everyone next month. I will send out an email about the specifics (to those coming) but I'll throw a few "warnings" out now. First of all, please don't wear shorts and flip flops to graduation. It's not a black tie event, but it is a professional setting. Slacks and a button up shirt/blouse will be fine. The ceremony is indoors so you don't have to worry about the heat. Second, it's already beyond hot....so bring COOL clothes. We plan on walking around downtown and on Tybee Island a lot, so if you can't walk in flip flops I would bring tennis shoes. Third, we plan to have a BBQ at the pool after graduation so if you want to swim bring a swimming suit! Those are the three big things that I can remember. If you have any specific questions just email or text us.

We have lots of new pictures from our trip to the beach this weekend but I'm too lazy to find the camera right now. I'll ask Thomas to download them so I can make another post.

EVOC

I passed EVOC! One big hurdle down. Evoc is the driving portion of the police academy. It was intense but I killed it. There is a written and three driving tests. You get four attempts at each driving event and I passed on the first go around :) We had to do skids, braking, and a cone course. For skids we had to get up speed and drive through a pad that had tons of sprinklers and then they locked the back brakes to induces skids and we had to recover. To pass you had to recover 8/10 skids. I got all 8 without skidding out once. For the brake portion you had a very short "runway" to get up to 35 miles per hour, then once you were THREE feet from the orange cones a red light would come on, you had to SLAM on the brakes like your life dependened on it, steer to the left around the cones and pull it back in and park in a parking spot. It was something straight out of a movie! I can now be a stunt driver ;) The cone course (which failed two people) was an insane obstacle course that had parking, backing down switch backs, figure eights, and all that junk. You had to do it between 2:45 and 3:45 minutes and you couldn't hit a single cone. I did it in about 3:15 and was the first one to pass (because I was the second person to go on each event). We lost one of our own yesterday from Metro :( He couldn't get the cone course down. It was a sad ride home. Two additional people failed the written so the class is slowly getting smaller. Monday we start firearms. I'm WAY more nervous for that then I was for EVOC. We did a lot more at EVOC but I have to get to class so I'll write about that later.

MY HUBBY COMES HOME TODAY. He'll be home when I get home from class. Ana and I are SUPER excited!!!!

P.S. My spell checker is snoozing right now, so please excuse the mistakes. Thanks she says.

leaving.....

I sure do miss this sexy man. He is supposed to come home on the 6th!

I leave for EVOC tomorrow. I have to kennel Ana, which is going to be really sad. I won't be back until Wednesday night, so I probably won't be able to pick her up until Thursday after class. EVOC is the driving portion of the academy. We have to pass skids/spin outs, breaking, a cone course, and a written test. If you fail....you're done. We stay in dorms because the training facility we use is a few hours from here. It's on a prison campus so everything is done by prisoners. They clean the dorms (we have a locker for our stuff), they pick up the cones we knock over, they do the cooking/cleaning, and all the other crappy jobs. It should be pretty interesting.

Thomas got his phone back last night so we've been texting like usual this morning :)

So far I've passed 2/8 written tests and 1/8 practical tests. The practical test was yesterday and we had to process a crime scene. I won't get into detail about that....but our crime scene just so happened to be a sexual assault scene...which was a little gross.

Well, I better get going. I have a lot to do today. Cleaning, laundry, packing, cleaning Thomas' car for him, and everything else that needs to get done before he comes home.

20 days until our 4 year wedding anniversary!