Couple months ago I got a nice surprise from my fire chief at St. James Fire he sent me a pic of my name plate for the back of my bunker coat. I was shocked and surprised usually people don't get those until they have been there a long time. So I was excited and drove to St. James on my lunch break and put it on my coat then I had to take a picture. Not sure why it excited me so much but it did.
The weekend before Easter I helped with practical testing for the Fire 1 and 2 class we are doing at the station and after we had lunch it was mentioned climbing the ladder on the truck. I mentioned I had never been up that ladder and that I didn't think I wanted to. I am not a fan of heights. However they talked me in to it and I climbed most of the way up. I probably shouldn't have been climbing the ladder and kept that I did it on the down low. I wasn't technically fully healed from surgery a few days prior but still wanted to over come a fear or at least attempt to over come it.
Easter weekend this year was quite different than years past. I didn't do a big family dinner just planned to do whatever or nothing didn't want to make plans just to be disappointed when no one showed up for dinner. My grandma offered to take us and my mother in law out to lunch on Sunday. Saturday Grandma and I went to Rolla shopping it had been a while since we went shopping together and it was nice to spend time with her. We arrived home and the boys had been hauling branches from our yard with the four wheelers over to her brush pile and were burning it.
Sunday the Easter bunny was very good to the boys. They got the muck boots they had been asking for as well as some pants candy and a few little things. They had fun hunting in the house for the baskets that the Easter bunny hid. We went to lunch early with Grandma but the place was still packed. Came back home and the boys finished up their job from the day before. I think they stretched it out extra long so they could drive the four wheelers more.
Wasn't quite the Easter I wanted but it was still nice kids were in good moods played well together and no stress of trying to cook and worrying that no one would show up.
I bought myself some new running shoes over the weekend and can't wait to try them out my old ones were going on 3 years old this month and starting to make my feet ache if I walked or wore them to much.
