E & J: December Update:

So I know that is has been quite awhile since I have posted a blog. Life has just been crazy with Party Planning, getting ready for Christmas, and work. Josh has managed to keep himself pretty busy as well.

ARMY HOLIDAY SOCIAL:

I was the head party planner for my Army Reserve unit's Holiday Social. It was a very stressful week before the event, just getting everything ready and planning all of the food and decorations. I took the Friday before the even off, so I would be able to run around like a chicken with my head cut off getting all the last minute items. Saturday during the day I had to do my P.T. test, which I did really good on. =) And then it was time to get the decorations ready and assign some more last minute tasks. We got to the Steilacoom Town Hall around 4PM and began putting up decorations and getting the food ready. We finished the decorations right at 6PM (the time everyone was arriving). So I went home and put on my 80's attire, made my hair poofy and hea

ded back to the Town Hall. I had to be 'fashionably late' to make my grand entrance. =)

Overall the party was a sucess, Melanie Tinsley did our pictures, Santa made an appearance, the food was good, and everybody who attended had a great time. We are going to start the planning in January for next years event, so hopefully it will run a bit smoother.

Next Event, STEILACOOM POLICE AND VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS HOLIDAY PARTY:

Once again, I was incharge of planning this event. Chaz was a great help with all the odds and ends that I just didn't have time to do. I was a bit smarter this time with the food... Or at least when I ordered the food, I thought it would be easier than the Costco food we had for the Army Social. Unfortunately, I was wrong. To put is short and simple, Turkeys take a whole lot longer to cook that I expected! I was suppose to start decorating for the event at 4PM, but didn't even leave my house until 5:45 to take the food to the Town Hall... needless to say, everything ended up being thrown together very quickly. Lesson Learned: I need to delegate the cook and preparing of food to a couple of people... Trying to do all of it myself just isn't the best way. After all of the stress of getting everything ready, once again it was pretty successful. Chief had a nice speech, awards were handed out, and the food was pretty delicious! I don't have any pictures of this event, but I will post some once MacFarlane puts them on the Steilacoom website. =)

So now that I have caught you up on what consumed the first two weeks of my December, let's get to what is currently going on...

I Finally completed my Christmas cards and mailed them.

The snow has been insane! Last night it took me 1 hour and 45 minutes to get home from work, which normally takes me 20 to 30 minutes.

It was Thursday, so I had EMS training at the station and it was my shift night, so I got home and changed and left to head to the station...

But I didn't make it too far when I went sliding down a hill near my house... I ended up in one of our neighbors bushes. He came out and was trying to break the ice that was behind my tires so I could get some traction and back myself out... until a van decided that it was going to try to make it up the hill and came sliding down into the Jeep. Thank goodness that the man who was helping me and I got out of the way and the two people in the van were OK. Josh was working and all of the Lakewood Officers were busy, so he and Whelan came and called for a tow. The first one that arrived didn't have chains on... Idiot! So he couldn't help us, the 2nd one, ended up hitting one of the cars parked on road, so he was out of commision... 3 tow trucks later and about 4 hours, Our Jeep was free and Josh made it home (I went home because I was absolutely freezing!). And Josh was a good boyfriend and stayed with the Jeep.