Bigger and Better Things

No go on the Sierra West job. By the time his background check got in they had already hired someone else. So ridiculous! Anyway, that happened and then a couple of days later he finds out that he has lost his medical because the FAA didn't get all the info they wanted and all the letters they've been sending go to his parents and blah blah, they didn't get to us on time. So he can't fly until they review his case and mail him another one. He called his boss in JAX and was pretty nervous about what they would say, maybe something like "you're fired" but the only thing he said was "alright. let me know when you get it straightened out." That was a relief to hear until we found out why he had been so nice. They stopped his pay as of the day he called. Now mind you, he can't fly but he still runs the whole office and has been doing ground lessons and proctoring exams. So that's crappy. To add to the mess and frustration our car needed some costly repairs, our camera is broken to never be fixed again, out DVD player crapped out and my cell phone has decided that it doesn't want to charge itself anymore, ever. Is the world combining against us? Why yes, yes I think it is.

The Waiting Game

Cameron had a job interview in Oakdale, CA last week for Sierra West Airlines. This is a charter operations that do a variety of different things from transporting cargo, to people, to prisoners (yeah, I know). It's strictly "on-call". When he first went he thought he would be interviewing for a metro
This would be really awesome because it's a turbo-prop aircraft and that time of time in aircraft is really valuable at this point in his career. When he got there they asked him if he knew what kind of airplane he was applying for. Just for the sake of things he said he wasn't really sure. Turns out he was interviewing for one of these:

It's a Lear Jet 35. Uh. yes. I said jet! How great would that be? Um, REALLY GREAT! So, anyway, the interview went pretty well, we think. He already filled out paperwork for a background check and did a drug test. I guess the background check is taking longer then expected, so we're told, and they're still waiting on that to make a decision. So we're playing the waiting game, still. The job would move us to El Paso, TX, if they extended it to him, for 18 months. I've been waiting to post this because I don't want to jinx it. If anything, interviewing for this job has made him get everything in order for future job interviews. We'll keep you all posted and let you know anything as soon as we know it.

As for other matters. I'm starting the process to get Breanne signed up for preschool this fall, if we're still in the Riverside area. She's very excited about starting school and I think this will be a great experience for her.
Breanne has also started swimming all on her own. She jumps in with daddy, into the deep end, and backwards. She's becoming quite the fish. Kaitlyn sees her swimming without her floaty and automatically thinks that she can do it to. She's gotten quite a shock a couple of times as she figured this out. I would put up pictures of all of this but our camera went crazy a few weeks ago and I haven't taken it in to get fixed yet

Happy Birthday Father's Day!

My birthday falls right next to Mother's Day and Cameron's birthday is right near Father's Day! I think this is great. Keeps the party going a couple extra days and who doesn't like that?
Cameron has been working like a crazy person this last week, in fact I think we had him home for dinner only once. That was Monday...or was it Tuesday? What ever it was it wasn't very much. THEN, I found out that he was going to have to work the night of his birthday too. So, to make up for it we picked him up for lunch and took him away from his second home, AKA: the airport. I also had a softball game that night and Kaity was looking like she wasn't going to feel good enough to go spend an entire evening outside. I made arrangements for Kaity to have someone here with her until Cam was able to get home but to my surprise Cameron walks in the door at 6 pm when he wasn't suppose to be home until more like 8! YAY! And to top it all off Kaity seemed to be doing pretty well so we all got to go to my game and see my team get slaughter....yea, wasn't pretty. Before we left though Cam got to blow out his candles and make a wish, I hope it was a good one :)

Saturday we went to a graduation party for a friend here. Kaity still had a snotty nose but that seemed to be the extent of it. I thought I may have even escaped getting this little bug but later that evening my throat started to get scratchy...and then it started. Cameron got the WHOLE Sunday off, which in the last 4 weeks or so was unheard of. He hadn't been able to go to church in 3 weeks. And this was the perfect weekend to go because Breanne was going to be singing in the primary and she had been practicing her song for about 2 weeks. Sunday morning comes and I'm not feeling all that great but I get up at 6 am to make our traditional Father's Day cinnamon rolls. Kaitlyn isn't 100% and Breanne started to get a little worse. I'm determined to go to church because Cam hasn't been able to go in a long time but finally after persuading me to sit down on the couch I succumb to the sickness and realize that we shouldn't go and contaminate everyone else. We had a fun day of just hanging around the house in our jammies and playing games and watching movies. It would have been REALLY nice if all us girls hadn't been sick, but we're glad that we got to spend the day with our favorite guy. Breanne got to sing her song for Daddy even though we didn't go to church. It goes a little something like this:

"I'm so glad when Daddy comes home. As glad as I can be.
Clap my hand and shout hurray! and climb upon his knee.
Put my arms around his neck. Hug him tight like this.
Pat his cheek and give him what? A great big kiss!"

That song really does describe the joy that happens when Daddy comes home. Even Mommy can relate to that. We love him so much for the hard work he puts in and all the stuff that he puts up with. So from all your girls, WE LOVE YOU DAD!!