Katelynne Delilah Jerome

Our goddaughter is here!! Katelynne Delilah Jerome was born on December 12 and of course she had to come when we were out of town. She was 8 lbs 9 oz and 21 inches long. She is beautiful and perfect. We are so excited to start spoiling her.

Josh's Shield Dinner/No More Probation

This post is super late, but a very important one, so better late than never. Josh is done with probation at the fire department. Yay!! It has been one long year but it is finally over and well worth it. Tradition is that on the day you are off probation, you have to cook dinner for the entire station and your family, give a speech, and then you receive your shield (all rookies have a small black shield and when your done with probation you get your big red shield). It was a great night. We are so proud of our Firefighter DeWall!!

Josh and my dad checking the steaks.

Josh giving his speech up on the table

Receiving his shield

Morgan's 30th Birthday in Vegas

My cousin, Morgan, turned 30 this year, so we headed to Vegas for a surprise birthday weekend. Everybody got in Friday night and headed over to the House of Blues for the Gary Allen concert. It was amazing. Saturday Kristen, Morgan's wife, threw a James Bond themed party that we all got dressed up for. We decorated a suite with James Bond decorations and they even put together a scavenger hunt in the casino. I am proud to say that Josh and I won. Both nights ended with Josh and I and all of my cousins walking to Buffalo Bill's casino to play $5 blackjack till 4 am. We even were able to meet up with Josh's aunt and uncle before they left to go back to South Dakota.

Kristen and Lynn trying on hats before the concert

Limo ride back from the concert

Us in the limo

Lynn, me, and Kristen

Me and Josh

Chris, Josh, and Chris

Chris and Morgan playing with paper guns.

Morgan, Mick, and Chris playing some more with paper guns.

Thanksgiving

Josh had to work this Thanksgiving so I headed up to his fire station for a big Thanksgiving feast. It was really fun. Since he is at a task force station, there are 15 guys working on one shift, so with everybody's families, there was about 50 people for dinner. We had such a huge spread of food. Josh was on the truck that day, so he was lucky to only get one call the whole time I was there. After dinner, they got out the air rescue cushion and let the kids jump of the roof onto it. Josh even jumped off the hose tower and nearly gave me a heart attack. It was a great Thanksgiving. 

The truck and engine taking off for their automatic alarm call. Josh's shoulder is pictured above.

The huge spread of food. I think there were 2 or 3 turkeys, a ham, and tons of sides. 

Josh demonstrating for the kids how to properly jump into the air rescue cushion.

Josh waiting to jump off the hose tower, I think it's 5 stories. Crazy!

The end of the night before I headed for the trek home. 

Updates Coming Soon!!!

I promise I will post updates on everything we have done lately. It has been quite busy around here since Thanksgiving, but I do have a lot of things to post, so bear with me for a little while longer.