Our Family Adventure.....: 5/8/11

So, I realized today that it had been over two years since I had blogged. It made me a little sad because, although I have taken a lot of pictures this last few years, I haven’t done any blogging about it to share with our friends and family. A lot has happened in the past two years so I’ll quickly update.

Tim is still working for Reno Fire Department. He is now a Battalion Chief, which was a nice promotion for him, but our city is in a bit of turmoil right now so it’s not an easy time and we’ve seen a lot of layoffs, etc. happen. He has also changed positions in the Air Guard after 25+ years and is now in Emergency Management Services.

Alyssa moved home from working at Hume Lake Christian Camps for a few months and then decided she wanted to move to Southern California to be closer to her boyfriend, Chad. She has been attending Massage Therapy school and graduates this weekend! Yay!!!! She is currently working at a spa at the front desk and is hoping when her license comes through to work as a massage therapist there. I, personally, can’t wait to benefit from her education.

Jenna spent the last two years at our local community college majoring in education. She recently has been been accepted into the university here and is changing her major to speech pathology....kind of taking after me, just a little. She’s working at a local clothes retailer and gets some nice discounts.

Sammy is finishing up her senior year of high school and will be graduating and going on to cosmetology school in the fall. She also is working at a clothes retailer and babysits all the time!!!

Tara is currently finishing up 3rd grade at our local elementary school and is in the Gifted and Talented program there. She is also very involved in a local competitive cheerleading team.

I am working part time/per diem as a speech pathologist at a local nursing home with a sub acute rehab wing. I really love it and it is super flexible to fit in my schedule.

So here are a few pictures to show you some of our activities since we have been MIA. I did get a new computer last year and none of my older pictures are on it (they are backed up on an external hard drive) so most of these pictures are less than a year old......

We took a trip to San Francisco. Tim’s grandmother’s house of about 65 years was being sold and we wanted to visit her and see the house one last time. This picture is from the slide behind her house.

This is the first day of school this year. Sammy takes Tara to school almost every day because I work early in the morning so she thought she would take pictures since I couldn’t be there.

Duncan had his 3rd birthday, complete with a dog food birthday cake.

Tim was again one of the fire chiefs at the Reno Air Races. I got to take a tour of all of the pylon areas and see the planes flying around from a different angle!

Tara had her 9th birthday and a party with her friends from school.

Alyssa, Jenna and Sammy all ran in Race for the Cure

We went to UNR’s homecoming game with my brother and his family and some other friends from college.

We drew pictures on our pantry chalkboard door.

We had lots of pizza parties so our pizza oven was put into good use.

Had Thanksgiving at my mom’s house with the fam....complete with games.

Had Christmas Eve dinner at the casino where my mom’s husband is the General Manager because we all had to work earlier in the day. It was really nice and he even made up a special menu for us!