Tuesday, June 24, 2008
my littlest baby will be 4 months old on saturday ... can you believe it!! time is flying by, and she is growing so much. my oldest baby will be 6 on the fourth of july ... she is getting so tall, and so smart, and is such a help with josh & jovie.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
so...
brian got a huge packet of forms to fill out from the u.s. border patrol, which he had to have filled out & returned within one week, including three sets of fingerprints, over 150 pages of documentation, and three sets of his college transcripts. so that was all sent out yesterday before he spent the day up at mis with his dad & brother. in the packet he received was a lot more information, including a workout regimen (the physical agility tests they have to take are insane), info on the 5 month training site (in artesia, nm), etc. it's supposed to take between 4-6 months to complete the background investigations and everything before they would decide to hire him. they usually hire 1 out of 30 people who undergo the selection process. then the training is 5 months long and after graduation, they assign you to your post - which can be anywhere along the mexican/u.s. border (and you are usually alone on duty). so we definitely need a lot of prayer. it would be very, very difficult for him to be away from us for so long, and it's a big deal to move so far away, and such a huge career change for him.
it's been a week of sadness, as we are mourning the death of my mother's best friend - a woman i've admired my whole life, and the death of another longtime family friend.
also a week of insanity, as it seems like josh has turned into the spawn of satan. no joke.
on the upside, we bought a 10'x 30" pool the other day and we're looking forward to playing around with the kids in it this summer. we're trying to get them into swimming lessons, but i don't think josh will go for it. kayla & jovie are already water bugs - kayla loves pools & swimming in the lake, and jovie adores taking showers. they are definitely their daddy's little girls!!
more later...
it's been a week of sadness, as we are mourning the death of my mother's best friend - a woman i've admired my whole life, and the death of another longtime family friend.
also a week of insanity, as it seems like josh has turned into the spawn of satan. no joke.
on the upside, we bought a 10'x 30" pool the other day and we're looking forward to playing around with the kids in it this summer. we're trying to get them into swimming lessons, but i don't think josh will go for it. kayla & jovie are already water bugs - kayla loves pools & swimming in the lake, and jovie adores taking showers. they are definitely their daddy's little girls!!
more later...
