Hopefully most of you have heard by now that Thomas is still here! He found out about a week before he was scheduled to that he was one of the lucky few selected to stay behind because they had too many people deploying. He's on standby so he could deploy at any time during the next year, but hopefully it doesn't come to that.

I have two more weeks of patrol school and then I hit the streets. After I find out where I'll be working we plan on looking for a house to buy!!! Our lease is up this November and we would LOVE to be out of here by Christmas. We'll see if we can get things done that fast. When I sit down and think about it that's not much time to find, buy, and move into a house.

I hope everyone is enjoying their summer.