The race was awesome and I hope that I can do it again with Lesley and Amy next year. But also doing my first race has made me want to find another race to sign up for and to run the next one.
Monday, June 25, 2012
My first 5K.
Saturday was my first ever 5k we opted to do the walk instead of the run which was fine and I am honestly glad we did. Doing the walk we were able to interact with other walkers see the sights and enjoy our time. Not to mention it was almost 90 before the race started at 9! We were walking for my friends mom who is battleing breast cancer for the second time. They had signs you could put on your shirt that said you were walking for and we saw one couple who were in their 70's walking and the back of her shirt said walking for me 47 year survivor. We saw several walking that were survivors and several who were walking in memory of a loved one it was very emotional to say the least.
There were people as far as you could see ahead of us and behind us. I had never seen so many people in one place at one time. But with all the people there was no pushing shoving everyone was friendly.
During our walk we saw a resturant who was selling hotdogs on the sidwalk so Amy (on the left) and I had to stop and have us a city hot dog Lesley (middle) laughed at us but we wanted a good city expierence so a hotdog on the street hey why not. Not to mention it was the first thing we had to eat that day and it was already halfway thru the race.
I saw a pink fire truck on our way to the race that morning and I told the girls I wanted to go find it again and get a picture.
Then I found one of the fire fighters and he had pink gear and well I was in love. I told him I think I needed to get a job there just to wear my favorite color daily! He wasn't very friendly or I would have asked him if I could try on his coat and helmet and get a picture.
The race was awesome and I hope that I can do it again with Lesley and Amy next year. But also doing my first race has made me want to find another race to sign up for and to run the next one.
The race was awesome and I hope that I can do it again with Lesley and Amy next year. But also doing my first race has made me want to find another race to sign up for and to run the next one.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
A misc. post
I have way to many things running around in my head to focus on one topic for one post. So I will just do one post with a lot of little things....
Update on School its done and over :( Last Thursday was the last day and she gave us our certificate of completion, I got a perfect attendance award and we got our final grades. I knew as of last Monday what my grade was but seeing it on paper well that was awesome. I graduated highest grade in class of a 99.9 I really figured that the girl who sat next to me would tie with me but I ended up being a bit higher than her. I worked my tail off for the last 20 weeks and put in over 176 hours of ambulance time. Which I also took the cake for most ambulance hours out of the whole class.
Last weekend was the first weekend since March 12 that I wasn't on an ambulance at some point during a weekend and it really bothered me a lot. I liked being home to sleep in and spend time with Nathan (Blake was at my mom's farming) but I felt heart broke that I wasn't going to be on an ambulance doing what I loved anytime in the near future.
I took my practical skills test on June 8th and passed and once we completed class I was able to go in and pay and schedule for my written computerized test... Logged in today and picked a date and I can say I felt like throwing up clicking the date time and then accept. I go to Columbia on July 7 at 4pm to take the final step in becoming an EMT. So now its time to kick back in study mode and study my tail off to be ready. Our teacher told us that all of the students that passed the written first time thru she would pay for their Missouri State license for the first year. Which I thought was pretty cool of her to offer plus once we are all done testing we are going to get together and have a big celebratory bbq.
This weekend I am driving to see one of my best friends it will be my first ever solo trip to St. Louis and past to her home in Belleville Ill. I am driving up Friday after work and spending the night with her and her sister. Then up early the next morning to meet the rest of the group to travel on in to downtown St. Louis to do the Susan G. Koman Breast Cancer 5k. Its my first ever race and I cant think of a better friend to do it with and for a better reason. We are walking for her and her sisters mom who is battling breast cancer for the second time within two years. I have a feeling it will be a very emotional day seeing all the survivors there and those who are battling it and all the teams who came together to show support for such a great cause. Hope to have lots of pictures of our team and race to blog about first part of the week.
Our house is almost complete! We installed the stove and microwave over the weekend and the kitchen is completely done! All that is really left is paint interior doors which we took down Sunday and a friend is coming to paint them later in the week and then laying carpet. I went yesterday to a carpet store that was recommended to me and I was really pleased with how nice and friendly they were. I found a carpet I really liked and they are going to come out and measure and give us a price. I would much much rather go local thru this place than Lowes. The owner of the store was the one talking to me yesterday and he also is one of the installers so to go to one store and meet who is going to be working at the house laying the carpet is nice. Way better than Lowe's or Home Depot where you have no clue who will be coming and never get the same person twice in the department.
Update on School its done and over :( Last Thursday was the last day and she gave us our certificate of completion, I got a perfect attendance award and we got our final grades. I knew as of last Monday what my grade was but seeing it on paper well that was awesome. I graduated highest grade in class of a 99.9 I really figured that the girl who sat next to me would tie with me but I ended up being a bit higher than her. I worked my tail off for the last 20 weeks and put in over 176 hours of ambulance time. Which I also took the cake for most ambulance hours out of the whole class.
Last weekend was the first weekend since March 12 that I wasn't on an ambulance at some point during a weekend and it really bothered me a lot. I liked being home to sleep in and spend time with Nathan (Blake was at my mom's farming) but I felt heart broke that I wasn't going to be on an ambulance doing what I loved anytime in the near future.
I took my practical skills test on June 8th and passed and once we completed class I was able to go in and pay and schedule for my written computerized test... Logged in today and picked a date and I can say I felt like throwing up clicking the date time and then accept. I go to Columbia on July 7 at 4pm to take the final step in becoming an EMT. So now its time to kick back in study mode and study my tail off to be ready. Our teacher told us that all of the students that passed the written first time thru she would pay for their Missouri State license for the first year. Which I thought was pretty cool of her to offer plus once we are all done testing we are going to get together and have a big celebratory bbq.
This weekend I am driving to see one of my best friends it will be my first ever solo trip to St. Louis and past to her home in Belleville Ill. I am driving up Friday after work and spending the night with her and her sister. Then up early the next morning to meet the rest of the group to travel on in to downtown St. Louis to do the Susan G. Koman Breast Cancer 5k. Its my first ever race and I cant think of a better friend to do it with and for a better reason. We are walking for her and her sisters mom who is battling breast cancer for the second time within two years. I have a feeling it will be a very emotional day seeing all the survivors there and those who are battling it and all the teams who came together to show support for such a great cause. Hope to have lots of pictures of our team and race to blog about first part of the week.
Our house is almost complete! We installed the stove and microwave over the weekend and the kitchen is completely done! All that is really left is paint interior doors which we took down Sunday and a friend is coming to paint them later in the week and then laying carpet. I went yesterday to a carpet store that was recommended to me and I was really pleased with how nice and friendly they were. I found a carpet I really liked and they are going to come out and measure and give us a price. I would much much rather go local thru this place than Lowes. The owner of the store was the one talking to me yesterday and he also is one of the installers so to go to one store and meet who is going to be working at the house laying the carpet is nice. Way better than Lowe's or Home Depot where you have no clue who will be coming and never get the same person twice in the department.
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Catch up and a couple photos....
Wow way behind in posting not sure where time is going or where this week has gone. This will be a lot of random things all piled in to one post. I will start with a couple pictures from Monday night. We decided to do our class pictures at school Monday.
Yes that would be me strapped to the backboard laying sideways on the bench and yes I was a bit nervous that the two behind me would drop me on my face... We wanted to do an awesome class picture that was way cooler than years past and I think we achieved it. Hard to think that beginning of semester we had 20+ people and now we are down to this small group and I bet that the group will be smaller of the ones of us who end up going on to national testing.
Here is another picture from the same night.
This was one that another girl got with her camera I think when its not cropped you can see that both Nicci and I are suspended off the ground just hanging around.
I have been so busy with ambulance time studying for my practical skills test that is tomorrow that I totally forgot I need to be training for a5k that is June 23! Lucky for me I found out our team is walking most of it so I am not to worried. I am worried about it being my first ever solo trip to St. Louis and first ever race but excited to do it with one of my close dear friends and we are doing the race in honor of her mom who is battling breast cancer for the second time in two years.
Tomorrow is a huge day I go test for National Registry Level for practical skills and as I am trying not to be nervous I have eagles soaring in my stomach! I know that I know the material I just have to keep my nerves in check. After my test if I can get back to St. James in time I am going to spend the rest of the day at the ambulance base and hope for some good calls!!!!
Blake played in his first ever baseball game last Friday I will upload pics and do a post on it soon, he plays again tomorrow night and is excited that it's picture night. Maybe I can talk one of the ambulance crews in to going over there during his game so I can watch him play some.
Here is another picture from the same night.
The teacher liked this one because you could see that I was suspended several inches off the ground and well I can say that I had some bruising below my knees and below something else... But it was an awesome picture and some close friends of mine couldn't believe that I finally got the courage up to do this for a class picture guess it was time to step out of my comfort zone.
This was one that another girl got with her camera I think when its not cropped you can see that both Nicci and I are suspended off the ground just hanging around.
I have been so busy with ambulance time studying for my practical skills test that is tomorrow that I totally forgot I need to be training for a5k that is June 23! Lucky for me I found out our team is walking most of it so I am not to worried. I am worried about it being my first ever solo trip to St. Louis and first ever race but excited to do it with one of my close dear friends and we are doing the race in honor of her mom who is battling breast cancer for the second time in two years.
Tomorrow is a huge day I go test for National Registry Level for practical skills and as I am trying not to be nervous I have eagles soaring in my stomach! I know that I know the material I just have to keep my nerves in check. After my test if I can get back to St. James in time I am going to spend the rest of the day at the ambulance base and hope for some good calls!!!!
Blake played in his first ever baseball game last Friday I will upload pics and do a post on it soon, he plays again tomorrow night and is excited that it's picture night. Maybe I can talk one of the ambulance crews in to going over there during his game so I can watch him play some.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Mother's Day
Mother's day this year was pretty special. I had scheduled to work on the ambulance in St. James the 12 and 13 never realized that the 13 was Mother's Day. But I went ahead and kept my word to show up and decided I would just leave at 5pm and go home to Kenny and the boys. They were still sleeping when I left that morning.
When I pulled in the driveway Nathan greeted me with a huge hug and smile and told me he wear unner wear today (with many many accidents I heard) and he wore his tennis shoes and runned super fast (the child has only wanted to wear cowboys boots for the last year). It was so great to come home to the kids being happy to see me!
I took Nathan with me to do some grocery shopping and when we got home we grilled steaks, brats, hotdogs and hamburgers and had a nice dinner. After the kids were in bed Kenny went outside to clean up some tools and came back in and told me he had something for me. He took my hand and then handed me this:::::
I was in total shock and couldn't think of anything to say! It is two rings the wedding band is flat so I can wear it while on the ambulance which is so nice. I hated not being able to wear my rings makes me feel naked. He had told me a while back that I would have to wait until our 10 year anniversary for a new wedding set. I loved that he picked it out himself, considering that my first set I picked out because he was scared to get something I didn't like. Also means so much to me that he found a set that I could wear just the band while working on the ambulance. Made me really feel like he finally supported me in this journey which means the world to me.
When I pulled in the driveway Nathan greeted me with a huge hug and smile and told me he wear unner wear today (with many many accidents I heard) and he wore his tennis shoes and runned super fast (the child has only wanted to wear cowboys boots for the last year). It was so great to come home to the kids being happy to see me!
I took Nathan with me to do some grocery shopping and when we got home we grilled steaks, brats, hotdogs and hamburgers and had a nice dinner. After the kids were in bed Kenny went outside to clean up some tools and came back in and told me he had something for me. He took my hand and then handed me this:::::
I now have a second grader... where did the time go...
Today was Blake's last day of first grade, I can remember him starting his first day of preschool!!! Where has the time went????
Yesterday he had his awards assembly and while I was off work I was going to be doing clinical time on the ambulance in St. James. He asked me several times to come and I really wanted to I knew he would get an award for having perfect attendance all year and that he was the only one in his room to get it. I didn't feel right going in and asking to either leave and go to his assembly or to get one of the crews to go over there. So I texted Ashley to see if she would mind getting a picture of him for me, being the awesome person she is she said yes!
Well in talking with one of the EMT's yesterday morning I mentioned his awards thing and she said we will go over there.. I was floored a lady I had only met once was saying it was no problem to take the ambulance over and watch his assembly. Honestly I was blown away so 12:30 came and we headed to the school. Nancy and I went in while the Paramedic stayed in the ambulance. I went up and tapped Blake on the shoulder to tell him I was there and he had the biggest grin ever. Of course we hadn't had a call the whole day and we both knew that we would get one while there. And sure enough right before his class went up there we got a page. He heard the pager go off and he looked over and gave me a big smile and wave as we ran out the door. Last night he told me he was happy I came and then thought it was cool when he found out we drove the ambulance over to his school just to watch him.
He got a certificate with his picture on it that he has requested we frame and hang in his new room! This morning all the Elementary students who had perfect attendance got to go to a special breakfast with the principals and counselors.
I am really proud of him and glad that the school year is over it was a long one and had lots of rough patches. Hope that he has an awesome teacher next year and that things go smoothly.
Yesterday he had his awards assembly and while I was off work I was going to be doing clinical time on the ambulance in St. James. He asked me several times to come and I really wanted to I knew he would get an award for having perfect attendance all year and that he was the only one in his room to get it. I didn't feel right going in and asking to either leave and go to his assembly or to get one of the crews to go over there. So I texted Ashley to see if she would mind getting a picture of him for me, being the awesome person she is she said yes!
Well in talking with one of the EMT's yesterday morning I mentioned his awards thing and she said we will go over there.. I was floored a lady I had only met once was saying it was no problem to take the ambulance over and watch his assembly. Honestly I was blown away so 12:30 came and we headed to the school. Nancy and I went in while the Paramedic stayed in the ambulance. I went up and tapped Blake on the shoulder to tell him I was there and he had the biggest grin ever. Of course we hadn't had a call the whole day and we both knew that we would get one while there. And sure enough right before his class went up there we got a page. He heard the pager go off and he looked over and gave me a big smile and wave as we ran out the door. Last night he told me he was happy I came and then thought it was cool when he found out we drove the ambulance over to his school just to watch him.
He got a certificate with his picture on it that he has requested we frame and hang in his new room! This morning all the Elementary students who had perfect attendance got to go to a special breakfast with the principals and counselors.
I am really proud of him and glad that the school year is over it was a long one and had lots of rough patches. Hope that he has an awesome teacher next year and that things go smoothly.
My Birthday gift
Yes I am aware my birthday was almost a month ago and I am way behind on posting. But life is crazy busy and time got away from me. Anyway I was pleasantly surprised by the gift that Kenny and the kids got me. Kenny had dropped a few hints and I really thought I was getting a new wedding set. He had even took my current ring and put it on to see the size etc. I had told April the day of my birthday that I thought I would get new rings at our lunch date or that night. Well he kept me in suspense all day and part of the evening and then brought out my gift a new pink pistol. I had joked before about wanting a pink pistol and well I got one. He drove all the way to a gun store in Illinois to buy it one weekend when I was working at an auction. Needless to say I was like a kid on Christmas and couldn't wait to go out and shoot it!!!!
Now if only I can find some free time to get to play with it a bit more, I did learn you want to watch where you put your hands because the slide comes back when it fires and it don't feel good!
Friday, May 4, 2012
Some Pictures from EMT-B Class
Really need to catch up on posting however I will do a picture post now and hope to have time later to do more.
Our teacher gave us watermelons and cantaloupe to use as a head and we could cut and make wounds and practice bandaging.
Me using a sharp knife that's scary at least I didn't stab myself or cut myself....
The group I was with last night and our finished patients.
Then we went out and used the teachers car as a "wrecked" vehicle and one girl was in drivers seat and I was in back passenger seat. I was a little worried Josh and Levi would drop me I know there are more pictures of me in the car but I don't have them on my computer yet.
The KED is one of the most uncomfortable pieces of equipment out there and if your a guy well its way more uncomfortable in the thigh region.
Found this picture on my phone not sure who took it but my face is a bit on the red side.
I was warned by other fellow EMT's not to let them strap me to the backboard because they would turn me upside down.. Well being in a group of three I didn't get much of a choice on being patient. Well then they decided to "stand" me up... My feet were still at least 2 foot off the ground and I had a death grip on the guy on my right. Not to mention the straps don't make your bad areas look very flattering.... And today I have bruises where the bottom strap was.
But last night by far was one of my favorite classes she split us in groups and there was 6 in my group and we all worked together very well and we are all wanting to learn because each of us wants to do this as a job. The two helpers who were in there with us assisting gave us lots of great tips for state and national testing as well as what works good out in the field as opposed to what we learn in the book.
But last night by far was one of my favorite classes she split us in groups and there was 6 in my group and we all worked together very well and we are all wanting to learn because each of us wants to do this as a job. The two helpers who were in there with us assisting gave us lots of great tips for state and national testing as well as what works good out in the field as opposed to what we learn in the book.
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