About two weeks ago Andy joined the Waverly Volunteer Fire Department and so far he loves it. They've only had two calls both of which were while he was at work but he was able to participate in a controlled burn (house) and a waterball tournament. Saturday was a gloomy day but it was the Waverly Community Fair and 4 local departments competed in a waterball tournament. Basically they have teams of three people and you aim your water at a can in the air and try to get it over a line, kind of like tug of war. In the picture above Andy is on the team to the left, he was in the middle. His team was out in the second round but he really enjoyed doing it and I finally got to meet some of the guys on the department that he is always talking about.Andy has been keeping himself super busy lately. After 6 months at home with Kaitlyn he is now busy about 90% of his time. He is back working 40+ hours a week in landscaping and this week he will finish his EMR (emergency medical responder) training. He enjoyed the class so much that he decided to continue on and become an EMT. Last week he began his EMT classes, right now he is gone Mon-Thur at classes at the Red Cross in Minneapolis. Once he gets licensed he will be the 4th EMT on the fire department and will respond to the medical calls. This winter he will be put through 100+ hours of firefighter training, at that time he can officially enter a burning building, until then he just gets to ride along for any fires.
In addition to getting his education Andy is also looking for part time work, last week he interviewed with Canterbury downs, the horse track in Shakopee, as a security guard/EMT. If that works out then he will work weekends at the track so he can get experience and build his resume. He's excited about all of it and it's fun to see him finally find something he loves. He thinks he's going to deliver this baby because he took one day of training on child birth, that is SO not going to happen!
Kaitlyn and are I having fun "reconnecting" after I had a busy winter and didn't get to see her much. I think she misses all her fun times with Andy but we know that all this hard work will pay off eventually. His classes end in August and we're hoping that he'll be able to miss a few days in July for the baby.
