I Love my Journeyman Lineman!

Rett took his journeyman test on Saturday and passed!!! Yeah! This is a three and a half year program that he's been in. There's been book work and tests all along. And the final journeyman tests cover everything! That's worse than college, because you have finals that cover the semester only, but not the whole four years of classes and work! The last couple of months he's been studying like crazy! Going into work early all the time to study book work and going up to the pole yard after work to practice pole work. It was a lot of stress on him, took a lot of unpaid time away from the family, and was a little stressful for me too. He got 100% on both his written tests and did really well on his pole test! I was so happy and proud of him!



So now, we just wait and see where we end up. Ideally, I think we would like to stay here for a few more years. It would be nice to stay on a dock where there's the opportunity for overtime and save a little money. Rett has dreams of moving to Southern Idaho and buying a place with five acres or so. And I'm just happy wherever I am as long as I can be home with the boys. And some land would be awesome too! My little wild cowboys need a place to run around without disturbing others! Hopefully whenever we do get the chance to move, it will be a better time to sell a home and it'll be before Crew starts school.



This is the cake I made for Rett. It's so small because I was going to be making Drake's birthday cake too and if it's here, I'll eat it, so I figured it was better to just not have as much around the house. Anyway, I love watching "Cake Boss" and "Ace of Cakes" and "Ultimate Cake Off" and have dreams of making amazing cakes, but as you can tell, they are a little less awesome. But I still think it's cute!



Congrats Rett on passing your test! I am so proud of you and all you've done! I am so grateful for your hard work for our family! You really are the hardest working man I know! I love you!