It's a purdy sight!

Well, ain't this just the purdiest sight you've ever done see! It's Hillary on this here blog of hers.... rareness! =) Well, I'm not dead. Yay! I've had a good couple weeks. Went home the last two weekends, and then filling in the other days with work. This week has gotten slightly insane and I'm not even finished with it yet. I worked a 9-5 shift on Tuesday, a 24 on Wednesday, got asked to work today at 10 and then didn't get off till 6:30, I work tomorrow 7-3, and then another 24 on Saturday. I'll end up with over 30 hours of overtime which is pretty awesome. :) Today was crazy. We went through 3 trucks today... and no, I did not wreck them. That's the first thing you all thought, right? ;) Our first truck was leaking/pouring out fuel (never a good thing), and so we switched to a new truck. It proved to be a good one, except that we did end up switching out of it after our transport. Nobody bothered to tell me why... Finally, we got into the 3rd truck and we stuck with it. It had just come from the shop and so we figured we wouldn't have any issues with it. WRONG! Guess what didn't work? The sirens! We got a call right after switching into it and our sirens wouldn't turn on at all. Thankfully, one of our other trucks jumped the call for us so we could take the truck back to the shop. But, while heading there we got another call. We obviously didn't run hot to it and after we finished we were able to get over to the shop. Turns out it was an easy fix and in less than 5 minutes we were back on the road. Of course, we got a late call and were 30 minutes late getting off work. It is somewhat annoying to never have a set time that you get off. Oh well, life really does just keep going on whether you get off work on time or not. ;)

This is what I'm listening to at the moment: The Piano Guys. If you've never heard of the Piano Guys, you're really missing out! Jon Schmidt and Steven Sharp Nelson are awesome musicians and I love pretty much all their music. Listen to them. I promise you won't be disappointed. I have a hard time picking my favorite song as all of theirs are good. :) Oh, and if you like them on Facebook they will post every time they have a new song out. It's very handy. :)

Well, I seriously need to get to bed. It's already after 11 and I have to be at work by 7. Yuck!
Night all and sleep well!

Parasailing!

I loved the boat... a lot. :) It was almost as cool as going parasailing, but not quite. ;)

Well, you all know who he is. :)

So.... if you don't hold the leg straps when you go up you'll get a wedgie. Thankfully, they told us that before it happened. ;)

I look like I'm freaking out but really I'm just very excited and probably yelling something. ;)

Man.... I so want to do that again. It was such a blast. :)

We just look like a speck.. 

And we were dunked! That was definitely cool. :)

The guy in red shorts was yelling for us to stand when we came in....

and Nate missed it.... the camera was too fascinating to him. ;)

And it's Uncle Craig and Aunt B's turn!

They had just as much fun as we did. :)

Preparing for "launch"... ;)

Uncle Craig is already taking pictures... love it! :)

Obviously, the guy said something funny... I don't even remember what it was, so I guess it wasn't that funny. ;)

I love how high you get and how peaceful it is. 

I didn't get one of them actually hitting the water.. this is as they were coming up. 

Yeah, they liked it :)

I'm so glad we got to spend time with them. They were pretty fantastic. :)

 

 I really like this picture. They're so happy! :)

Group picture with our boat driver! :)

So, after all these pictures of parasailing, you're probably thinking how fun it would be to do....AND, YOU'RE RIGHT! ;) I know I've said it before, but I'll say it again, if you're at the beach it's a must! You won't be disappointed! Well, unless you're afraid of heights...cause then you'll just be freaking out and that is never fun. ;) 

Oh, and the pictures from our water-proof camera didn't copy over to my computer so I'll post them whenever I get them again. :)

More vacation pictures....we're still on the first day! lol

Ok, so back to the vacation pictures.... if you all are still interested. If not, just don't look at them. ;) I'm so helpful. =D

Waiting for our lunch to arrive. 

This was our view during lunch...absolutely beautiful!

 It was such a beautiful day and all my pictures turned out fantastic!

Now who would ever want old beer. ;)

It's a bar for RA's! For those of who you don't know, Nate is an RA at CofO.

I really loved the palm trees. 

This was pretty in color, but I liked it in black and white too. :)

And another palm tree picture. :)

An update

Here's the update: I'm doing great, working hard, and being a bum when I'm not working hard. And that's really it. I could totally be done writing, but I'm sure it would be really odd to post an "update" with very little written. Seriously though, the above is really all that's been happening....especially the bum part. ;)
I really need to find something to do in my spare time as I really end up being the biggest bum ever and it drives me insane. Every day last week that I was off I wanted to bake cupcakes or something to make me busy. I didn't though as I would've spent a ton of money to buy all the baking stuff. Btw, I don't usually just make one batch of cupcakes. It usually ends up being 2 or 3 batches. Don't worry! I spread them out over a couple weeks so I don't kill myself. I usually can eat about 10 cupcakes a day....which means they don't really last a couple weeks. More like a few days. Oh wait, you wanna know the truth? Ok, I take them into work and only (usually) eat two. :) I made seventy some odd cupcakes and took them to the base and the ER. Let me just say that it is one incredible way to get everyone to like you. ;) Of course, then they never leave you alone and are constantly asking for more cupcakes, cinnamon rolls, cookies, etc. So ungrateful. But, I keep bringing them more because it's one way I can bake without having to eat them all myself. :) I came into work the other day and the first thing I got asked was: "Where's the cinnamon rolls?" Like I said, ungrateful. ;) 
Oh, the latest and greatest cupcakes at the moment are: Neapolitan Cupcakes with ice cream frosting. :) Sooo yummy! I made them for a church dinner and they were gone pretty quick. The Red Velvet Cupcakes are a close second though as everyone at work loves them. I like them too. :)
Next week is a big day! Yesterday, my partner and I decided that we were going to have a cake competition. Chocolate cake and chocolate frosting, all made from scratch. :) We work again next week and so will bring our cakes in to see who has the better one. His sounds pretty awesome, so I may have to steal his recipe. ;) I'll let you know how it goes and who had the better cake. =)
The best news of all though, is that I'm going home on Friday!! I have been waiting for this weekend to come for awhile and it's almost here! Even though it seems like everyday goes by incredibly slowly and I'm about to go insane from it. I'm excited to see everyone and I'll finally get to meet my adorable nephew! Who seems to be cuter in every picture I see of him. :)
Well, pretty sure it's time for me to sleep. I worked last night and I'm at it again tonight....have I said how much I hate working nights? Cause they pretty much make you feel really rotten. I don't think they would be as bad if I had a set schedule of working nights. It's the not sleeping during the day and then getting up at odd hours during the night that make you feel rotten. Ok, enough talk. It's after 10 and I am beat. Goodnight, little world and sleep well. :)

Btw, I did not read through this again, so please forgive any errors I made.

The Naval Museum

That is one huge, but very cool, poster. :) 

Nathan spent some time with these guys...not sure what his thoughts of them were. ;)

Its amazing how many planes they fit into this building. Cool thing is that all the planes have been flown at least once. :)

Very intent on something.... 

You can almost imagine that you're flying in one too. ;)

 Aren't we cute? ;)

I think Nate might have to fight the sailor for this girl. ;)

lol, I thought this sign was awesome. :)

Spitting was expensive back in the day.... ;)

I guess some people need shower rules... I mostly just take a shower whenever and however long I want. :)

Not sure what they call this room, but most of you have probably seen it from the movies and know what it is. :D

Do you know what this is? Again, I don't know the exact name but I do know that it's what they use on carriers to launch the jets. :)

The awesome 360 simulators!

That is...............well, that's my brother. ;)

 

Uncle Craig getting sucked up..... Nate, you need to work on staying away from people while you're taxiing. ;)

The only thing wrong with this picture is that we didn't fly. Maybe one day! :)