Day 3 and 4, August 2nd and 3rd 2010

I was so tired last night I forgot to post, so I'll do double today.  Geez...on top of all my classes through Empire, I was asked to take two FEMA classes, ICS (Incident Command System) 100 and 700, and after I'll be taking Scene Support through Jefferson Community College for the fire department I belong to.  My fiance is an EMT-B for our department, so I am going to become a firefighter, so when there is an ambulance call he can go and if there's a fire all I can go- that way my daughter will always be taken care of by someone.

So I passed one ICS class last night (they only take 3 hours to finish) and I did a 5 page paper for American Labor History.  I can't wait for that class to be done- in 3 more weeks!  Then I have 3 more I'm taking on top of scene support.  That makes 15 credit hours for me...on top of working full time, and my kid and future husband...that's a lot.  I'll manage to make it through- I always do.  I want to finish college (it means a $5.00 an hour pay raise when I do!) And I also want to actively participate in the fire department.  Plus one hand washes the other.  All my fire classes will count as electives toward my Community & Human Services degree, so I can't really complain.

So enough with that.  My mother called me yesterday- Hailey's necklace is in!  For our wedding ceremony, my mother will do a reading about the symbolism of the Guardian Angel for my daughter, then my wonderful future husband is going to present her with a guardian angel necklace.  My mother ordered it (a beautiful  round blue cameo surrounded by silver and it has 4 amethysts on each corner of the silver)- she said its even more beautiful in person that it is online!  Dan will be putting this on her, and saying some cute little vow to her about loving her and taking good care of her.

And of course, what would this pretty necklace be without this beautiful little girl to put it on?  This is my daughter Hailey.  She will be 6 in 3 weeks, almost 7 by time we get married.  Dan has been in her life since before she was potty trained! lol.  She is one of my 2 flower girls- my "fairy" girls actually.  We want to get them cute fairy costumes rather than flower girl dresses and sprinkle fairy dust down the aisle rather than flower petals- You know we just HAVE to be different!

All of my ideas for my wedding keep floating around in my mind.  As beautiful as the picture in my imagination is, I hope I can bring that picture to life on our wedding day!