Long shifts

Hey everyone,
sorry it has been awhile, I honesty have been to lazy to post anything. So I guess a quick recap on life, Our friend Steph got married, I have been working long shifts(a 30hr one this weekend), Kadee has done very very well so far in Mary Kay and, we had one free sat to do nothing!!!!! This next week is going to bee a long week as we have the 4-H youth fair in St Johns, ill be doing medical stand By for it along with my normal 24 and 18 hour shifts, then next week we have the Mint Festival. These make for long weeks of over time, but I cant complain because I am making money to help our family.(yea) Even though the shifts are long, i like be able to work 2 days a week and being done. It gives me time to still be at home and do house work and run more calls with Bath Fire. Well Kadee and I have some big plans that we have been praying about, so if you all could pray with us we would be very thankful. that's it for now.

Pics from Big Tcicket

Matt setting up our tent
Ayeshia Woods with us
33 miles
Warren Barfield
David Crowder and us

Whats New!

Not much has happened since the last post,
we are just working and enjoying life, this past weekend Matt and I took a long weekend and went up to the Big Ticket Festival. Oh my goodness was it amazing!!!! This will be something that we will do again, how awesome it was to be rocking all weekend for God!
New to us is that I (Kadee) have just signed up for Mary Kay and I am enjoying it so far. I signed up on Monday and I have been trying to talk to as many people as possible and trying to get as many orders as I can for my first order that I am placing after my debut party this Sunday! If anyone can make it my first party is June 29, 2008 at 2pm at the Fairlane Professional Building in Lansing. Please feel free to visit my website which is www.marykay.com/kkidd right now the pay with credit card option is down until hopefully sometime next week, but feel free to drop me a line and I will honor any deal that is on my website. Feel free to ask me any questions about anything, I will do my best to help you in any way that I can. You can e-mail me at kkidd@marykay.com Please be praying for Matt and I as this is a new adventure in our lives and I am praying for great sucess at my debut party as well as in the future!!!
Love, Matt and Kadee

Wonderful weekend

I have been keeping myself busy between work and work. I have a new hobby that I have working on and its been finished. I have been working on a blanket it was something that I bought all together with a friend when we went shopping, it was a complete package that I had to cut to correct size and then had to sew together. My mom wanted to see the finished product so I have taken a couple pictures to show you all. My sister has already placed her request for one thats bigger and with ducks and silk. So I guess I will be busy making blankets. This to me is a plus now that Matt has a job this will be something that I can work on while he is gone.

I can't tell you how proud of Matt I am, he passed his test and I am so thankful that he did so well. God is so awesome that right after Matt passed his test a day or two later he was given a job!!!! Wow God is so amazing, words can not tell how thankful that I am for the work that God has done in ou life as well as what he has planned for the future!!!

Great News all around!!!!!

Hey everyone,
well I hope ounce again that your week has been as BLESSED as ours has been. To start off, as i talked about last week, I am going to loose some weight. Well today was the day and the scale said..................232lbs, that would be 11lbs lighter than last week. Yea now I am very sure that all weeks will not be as good as this one but, ill keep on keeping. Now our next good news will blow your sock off, I got a job!!!!! I took my Boards on Mon of this week and Tue morn found out that I passed. Then Wed I took a trip up to St.Johns to grab an App. from a friend who Hired me on the spot, Dude isnt God oh so Good! I can put as many hrs as I want this summer and they are going to work around my college classes next year man I am still on cloud nine. I believe that I will start my 120 hrs or orientation this next week and will go full time when it is done. The shift run from 6hr, 12hr, or 24hrs so I should be able to knock out a huge chunk this week with some 24's, then it is off to making my own Hrs, could I ask for a better Job. Well that is it for now, not like anything went on this week. see ya

Big Weekend

Hey everyone I hope your weekend was as fun as the Kidd's. This weekend we had what was to start the parents and Pastor Ron over, but that turned in to 20 more people coming over for a cook out at our place. I must say that even with the gigantic number of people, it was nice to have the space to have them over.As you can see below, we grilled, baked and, eat out in the back yard. With baby full and moms and dads ready for a nap we all said our good-byes and called it a night. With the holiday being here that means it is time for the pool to be opened which , is where the Mercers and we went. Now I dont consider myself to be a baby, but dude was the pool almost freezing!!!!!!!! I myself have a pretty good amount of pudgy on me and I was COLD!!!! So we didnt stay in long, then headed back and watched Juno and had ice cream.(right I know) Other than that not much else has gone on around here, im not going to be able to run in our 1st 5k this year. As I continue to run here at home I just cant justify taking the risk of my ankle. It is better, but is only 70% or so. Im going to still lightly train and hope top do the next one in 20 days. The weight loss is slow, after realizing that my 2 biggest problems are portion control and laziness I have really taken to heart trying to not let them master me any more. After talking with my Doctor he brought to my attention the need to do "preventive maintenance". I must say as dumb as that sounded it really made sense to me, shock here, im not getting younger in life. The thing I use to be able to do, or the crap I use to eat isnt lost at the same rate it ounce was. so why put in a ton of crap when I can only get rid of a half a ton, the math doesn't lie. On top of that it is not like I do not have a stressful job, and I new that going in to it that is no excuse. The number one killer in fire fighter deaths on and off, yes off the job is Cardiac Arrest, so you better believe that I am going to do all I can to assure as much as in my hands that I am going to be around for my grand kids, and retirement, all by a little preventative maintenance. My goal is to take my Body Mass Index from a 33 to a 25, and my weight down from 243 to 185ish. I know i am shooting for the sky, but I know I can do it. I have great friends and family that are always here for me. Wish me well and I will take all the prayers in the world to help out as well, thanks in advance. see ya

Cook out