Engineer Promotion

 

For the last 4+ years Steve has worked in Azusa at station 32. He has been working hard as a paramedic. This last week we found out that he had been promoted to engineer. That means he will be driving the Fire engine. 

 

We came to eat dinner and spend the evening with him on his last night. S was excited to take a ride in the fire engine around the neighborhood.

Steve's current fire station crew.

Spraying the fire hose.

 

We were happy to see Grandma Judy and Grandpa Donnie.

 

One of the best parts of Steve's fire station was the slide. It goes from the dorms upstairs to the engine below. 

These monkeys could have stayed on the slide all night long. Steve and I played on the fire pole. One of the last of its kind.

 

Good bye Station 32, Hello Station 11 in Alta Dena.

Temecula Balloon and Wine Festival

  Every once in a while we step outside our house and there is a hot air balloon floating close or on the horizon. Sometimes there are many hot air balloons, and they always make me happy. One day I think I want to ride one. It is on my bucket list. Well every year there is a Balloon and Wine festival in the town near ours and Steve and I have been saying we were going to go to it for years. This year we actually did. You can watch the balloons be released and return, there are many venders selling all sorts of things, and several concerts.

We planned to wake up early to see the balloons return, but it was such a foggy morning the balloons were not released close to us. Instead we enjoyed walking around and spinning the wheels to win free stuff (lots of key chains and junk) and looking at all the vendors. Later that afternoon we went back to meet Steve's work friends and watch the concert.

 

 I had mentioned to my friend Annie that we were thinking of going to the festival and she suggested we stay to watch them light up the balloons. Since we hadn't seen them in the morning, we decided to stay out late and watch the balloons light up. I am so glad we did. 

This is my favorite pictures. Steve took it on his phone.

I think we found a fun yearly tradition.

Sisters

I love my girls, and I love that they love each other.

I love this picture. I did not mean to take the picture, but the smirk on her face is so cute I thought I would post the picture.

Birthday Party

After a day of fun swimming we went back to Grandma Judy and Grandpa Donnie's house. Grandma Judy and S have birthdays two days apart so we celebrated together. We had a pizza dinner and opened presents, and then ate delicious ice cream cake.

S asked for an ice cream cake. It was cookies and cream with chocolate cake.

Uncle Jerry played a trick on J that resulted in frosting on her nose. . .

but, she got him back.

Thanks for celebrating with us everyone.

It was a fun night and S is excited to be 5.

Birthday Swim

We celebrated S's birthday last weekend with family at Tami and Scott's pool.

Tami's new puppy

 Someone likes to keep warm! She could lay out on her towel all day.

S loves to swim, and she is so proud of the fact that she does not need floaties. She was being so brave this weekend by jumping off the waterfall all by herself.

S and J had lots of fun with their cousins.

 

The Popsicles we had after swimming were very tasty.  Happy Birthday to my baby girl.