Fridays!

Our ME family in The Love Circle where the weekend is discussed, lots of laughter is shared and of course, lots of love!!!
Our amazing and beautiful Step parents: Russ and Kanae Quinn!
Our amazing ME family!!!!

It is officially Friday afternoon, my kids are watching a Veggie Tale movie and I have only one Phonics paper to grade - so I thought, what a good time to update the blog!

Today we had a field trip to the Fire Station. 23 kids, 7 parents plus 1 baby! What a great trip. I think every fireman on Saipan was at the station today because they had their Fireman Testing which made the kids even more excited! They showed us two trucks and the ambulance. They let the kids blow the siren and climb on the stretcher. Just as we were leaving they invited us to come watch their tests. So we went to Micro Beach with them and the kids cheered on the firemen. The test consists of putting on their full gear, running on the main hose and then running on the connecting hose, running back to the air tank, getting that set up properly, getting the ax and knocking down the fake door, crawling to the dummy, and pulling the dummy out of the fire. They have to do all of this in 7 minutes or less. The kids were SO excited and cheered them on yelling: "Faster, faster" or "Hurry Up". It was so fun!

At the end they sprayed the water from the hoses towards the kids - which they thought was even better. What a great trip.

This week has been good. It's gone very fast which Jake and I both love.

The bike race on Sunday went really well for one of us. We both started out great and got about 30 minutes into it and Jake's tire broke. It was worse than a flat and so he couldn't even fix it, he was very disappointed. My goal was to finish the race in less than 3 hours and when I crossed the line I had finished the whole 50k in 2 hours and 17 minutes! How awesome and what an exciting feeling. Made me even more excited and ready for the bike part of the Rota Triathlon which we leave for in less than a month - Nov 14th!!!! :)

I guess all the working out and losing weight and being healthy really does do good! :)

Jake and I started Steeper Steps this week. Last year we did Marriage Encounters and this is an extra program coming from that. We did Steps in March and April and have finally been able to get Steeper Steps together. It's so great to be back with our Steps family again. Last night was an amazing night and Jake and I are growing so much closer in communication and forgiveness and love. We are so thankful for Rex and Clarie who are facilitating, for Russ and Kanae for their beautiful relationship and insight and house, and the Abe's and Tomokane's for their relationships and sharing. You all are a true family to us and we can't thank and love you enough!

We love ME so much that we are the next Facilities Coordinators for the Spring Weekend - we can't wait!!!

This weekend is busy again with more Marriage Encounters, watching a good friend in his paddling competition, a church picnic, our friend David's 21st birthday (and I thought we were the youngest ones out here), church and the Friends of the Arts play that Isaac ( our fellow teacher/friend) is in. It's gonna be busy but so great!

We are blessed and thankful!

Love you all!

Love

J & J