YAY HD!!!

The other day HD came home from work with a big envelope in his hands and he didn't look grumpy so I thought to myself "It must be good news!" and got excited. He handed the envelope to me and I looked inside and there was a certificate stating that HD is know off of probation and is a certified correctional officer. The reason why this was a surprise for me was because they have a pretty firm rule that you can't be taken off of probation until you've been an officer for at least a year, and HD was more than 3 months away from that.

I guess what had happened was that he was called in earlier that day to the work camp (he had been out in the middle of nowhere with inmates doing work for Idaho Fish and Game) and when he got there there were a bunch of people in the conference room including the warden, the Director of the Idaho Department of Corrections and many others, and HD asked Lieutenant Nagel (who had asked for him) what he wanted and he said "We all want to see you Harvey, come on in." He walked into the conference room (covered in mud to his waist) and they said, "Congratulations Harvey, you've completed all of the requirements and are now off probation" (or something to that extent). HD then said, "Um, I haven't completed 1 year yet. I'm still about 3 months out." and then the Director said, "There are ways around that Harvey."

So apparently they really like HD over there and they don't want him to be laid off, because once he's off of probation he can't be laid off anymore. I was SO excited and proud of my husband. So now instead of being a correctional officer (C.O.) now HD is a C.O. II. With his promotion he also gets a 10% raise, which is surprising because the state had previously said that they were not allowed to give any raises to state employees because of the recession. So all of HD's hard work is paying off! Congratulations HD! I'm so proud.

Birthday Date

Yesterday HD took me out on a date for my birthday! Well it was two days early but some friends of ours voulenteered to babysit for us yesterday because that's when they had some free time and so HD thought that it would be a good opportunity for a birthday date. It was really nice going out with just HD. We usually go on "dates" with the girls.
First we went to Bajio's and had some mexican food. We both got some tacos but when we went to pay, their system wasn't working for some reason so they guy said, "Well I'm not sure if we charged you for that or not, but don't worry about it." Well I checked our account this morning and they hadn't charged us. Well I guess it's pretty cool getting free food but I feel bad about it. I hope that guy didn't get in trouble or anything with his boss.
Oh, all yesterday my hip was just completely out! All I could do is was hobble around extremely slowly and painfully, so I'm pretty sure that for the entire date I looked like I was handicapped. Great timing huh? Nothing like being a gimp on my birthday date! Oh well :)
Next we went to see that Disney movie UP. It was pretty good. I'm not gonna lie though, I cried more than once on yet another Disney movie... oh well. Luckily I don't think HD noticed. It was a pretty creative movie and made me laugh a lot, but I think it might have been a little better to take kids to than for a date. Well I don't know. I liked it but I don't think HD did. He seemed kind of bored, almost grumpy, but I found out after the movie that some kid had thrown a straw at the back of HD's head so that explains that. After that we drove around a bit, but couldn't think of anything else to do because of my stinkin hip, so we went home and hung out with our friends for a while before they went home. HD was pretty darn tired so right after they left we went to bed. There you go.
Overall I was just happy to be able to go on a real date with HD so I didn't care what we did, I just wish that my hip didn't hurt so bad. Oh well! I called the doctor today and he's going to try to figure out what's going on with it next week. Hopefully this won't be a problem that I have for the rest of my life because I already feel like I'm 90 and that's a LONG time to feel that old!

The Camas High School Papermakers (no joke)

So my younger brother Nathan did this for his senior project. He painted a huge mural for our high school of our mascot, The Mean Machine (a paper making machine) and also of the old mascot from like the 1950s or something of Joe Papermaker. The originals of these two characters aren't nearly as cool. The mean machine is kind of boxy with a toilet paper looking cape, and Joe Papermaker is a little, scrawny character that looks like he should be in Popeye the Sailor Man. Needless to say I think this take on our pretty ridiculous mascots is a lot cooler. Go Papermakers! On the bottom of the mural it says "Meet Your Makers" which is also something Nathan made up. I though it was pretty cool.

Now who does this really happen to?

So I was sitting here tonight dinken around on the computer when I see these pictures pop up on facebook. I saw that one of my friends/co-worker had posted them and said that he was looking at this house burning. So britany gave him a call to see what was up. Now this is the cool part. He had just pulled 3 people out of the house. Now who really gets the opportunity to pull people from a burning building? What a stud. He said that it was two little girls 6 and 9 and an older man. The crappy thing is, he said there was an Idaho Falls city cop that just stood there the entire time and watched Tyler and his two friends pulling these people out. And when they asked him to help he took off after a drunk driver. I for one am glad that there are still good people out there who will put themselves in harms way to help others.

Not a nice puppy.

So last night I was going though doing all my checks at about 11:00 at night. I went outside to walk around the facility doing stuff like checking all the locks, and seeing if all the cars had been locked up for the night. I was at the north side of the camp and had just finished checking all the cars when I heard a dog bark. I turned around to see a 90lb pitbull running at me from the main road growling. No joke the dog was huge! For a moment I thought that I should try and get in the gates some how so I ran over to the closest one. But then realized it would take to long to unlock the gate and get the gate shut. So I did the next thing that came to my mind and sprinted over to the nearest truck that was about 30 yards away as the dog was circling a school bus. I jumped into the truck bed head first (Chevy 2500 fire truck) right as the dog got a hold of my foot. Luckily we were both moving too fast for the dog to hold on. So the dog slammed into the truck bed letting my shoe go, and I was able to stand up and call it into the control center. The dog at that time sat there and growled at me for a bit until it finally took off. Control then called the local cops to take care of the dog. I guess the local cop knew who the owner of the dog was, and went over to their house. When he got there, he later reported to us that he was standing on the front steps of the owners house when the Pitbull attacked him. The officer was able to pull out his taser gun and hit the dog with a good shock before any serious damage was done. At that point the dog got away. But later that morning they found the dog I am thinking because I heard the gun shot. I guess from what I was told the dog was used as a bear hunting dog. It would attack the bear so the hunter could shoot it. I am a bit smaller than a bear. And I guess I have never been HUNTED before. So I guess that is a new one for me.

big girl.

Baylee fit into this just a few months ago. She is already in her 6-9 month stuff.

what we have been up to.

The new dog. Baylee loves dogs so a friend of ours gave her to us. All she does is sleep and i love it.

Baylee found a way to make a hammer out of blocks. I'm so proud.

The first project, a pillow case. I picked the camo, britany picked butterfly's. Then we compromised on butterfly camo.

Baylee ripped into it, and then Britany couldn't wait. Sorry mom. Maybe you need to teach her though. It isn't hard for me to do but I am not good at explaining.

We found out that Baylee hate bubble baths. She spends the hole time frantically trying to get them off.