National Night Out 2011!!

Day 38-
On day 38, Tuesday, my morning started with Kelly services giving me my final training and "activating" me in the system.  Activation means that Duval school board has approved me as a sub, all background checks came in and I am ready to roll.  That went fine and I headed home about 11.  Jasper was to have his shots at 2 but when we got there we were informed that he was supposed to go to their other office up on Kinglsey, ten minutes away, the scheduler had put us in the wrong place.  I did not want to go to that office or that side of town so I asked if we could stay here and reschedule.  This office is less than a minutes from our house...and is beautiful and in a beautiful neighborhood!  She was so accommodating and kind and put us in as the first appointment of the day for today (Wednesday).  I decided on the way home to call the CDC to find out the status of the kids on the wait list.  It was then I became very discouraged to find out the kids have been moved down even further on the wait list.  A large group of military just came in and a lot were single parents which take priority of course.  Ahh well, at least Linda got that job right!?  Speaking of Linda we had quite a great time at NNO last night.
So here is some background on National night out if your interested in reading. 
is National Night Out?
It's America's Night Out Against Crime!
The "28th Annual National Night Out" (NNO), a unique crime/drug prevention event sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch (NATW), has been scheduled for Tuesday, August 2, 2011 (Texas will celebrate on October 4th, 2011). We cordially invite you and your community to be a part of our NIGHT OUT 2011 team.
Last year's National Night Out campaign involved citizens, law enforcement agencies, civic groups, businesses, neighborhood organizations and local officials from over 15,000 communities from all 50 states, U.S. territories, Canadian cities and military bases worldwide. In all, over 37 million people participated in National Night Out 2010.
NATIONAL NIGHT OUT is designed to:

• Heighten crime and drug prevention awareness;
• Generate support for, and participation in, local anticrime programs;
• Strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships; and
• Send a message to criminals letting them know that neighborhoods are organized and fighting back.

OK so there you go taken from the source and no one is grading this paper but should I cite my source anyway?   It is from,  http://nno.org/nno/about.html

So apart from a great night of swimming in the pool on base later than normal, there was free food (excellent too!) music, the crime dog whom my children adore and the opportunity to meet all the NAS JAX police and mingle with other military and DOD families.  It was so great to hang out with my husband and have Linda there to help with the kids and just be awesome company!  I have to say the highlight for myself and both girls, was all the attention they received while getting fingerprinted and their photos taken for the national data base.  They now have a CD each with all their info pictures fingerprints,  and a DNA kit on the way to the government!  I have an ID card to print for each.  Jasper was especially funny with his tiny little fingers.  We only did his thumbs.   Part of me feels like they have been violated and I pray they don't do anything wrong as teens because Big brother has you under his thumb now kiddos!  The men that ran this are free masons and were just so kind.  They all commented how amazingly gorgeous Pip's picture came out...she is looking slightly to the left ( a little Mitch Hedburg quote there for ya).  We swam, we ate, we mingled, we played bounce house, we went home and passed out!  I am pretty sure Linda got hit on by a single (Tiger Woodsy lookin) father with his 4 year old.  Advances were ignored however, but hey you can't help but feel flattered right?  GO Linda! :)  Girls had a great time seeing daddy in his uniform and meeting his work buddies.  And apparently daddy knew who was in the McGruff crime dog costume and encouraged the girls to tackle and harass him....and of course they always listen to daddy!

Colors

Bay enthralled with the fingerprinter

Taking a pic for her ID

Pip's turn!

So pretty

Daddy to the rescue

Attack!

I see DADDY!

Krysten knew a friend there!

Linda supervising chow time

Kudos to the chef!

Daddy feeding Jas in his uniform!

So shots attempt #2 for Jasper on Wednesday!  Nothing else planned.  Waiting for the school year to start...and the work to start rolling in, until then, Happy Summer.