great benefits!

so one of the best benefits of tmib's new career is the time off. 4 days in a row!!!! i mean, i think the last time he had 4 days off in a row was our honeymoon 6+ years ago! ya know, i used to try and explain it to people, 'he really does work 80 hours a week.....mon-sat, sometimes sun 6am-7pm'. and that was every week.....for 6 years!!! i don't think people truly ever got that.

that schedule was a big factor in his deciding to change careers (i do think the quintessential straw that broke the camels back was the, you-need-to-be-home-more-or-else-we-may-not-be-here-someday speech i made after one especially frustrating week!) but i digress....

so the beauty of this whole 4 day off schedule is spontanaeity....one monday morning we woke up and tmib said, what do you want to do today? i said i really want to go to the ocean since we haven't done anything this summer! he said ok! so we packed up the truck with beach toys, snacks, dogs, kids, etc and headed off to ocean shores for a day trip. it was a beautiful day ....sunny and breezy. we had snacks on the beach, had a visit from ocean shores PD (apparently we missed the 15 gazillion signs that said no parking on this side of the beach!)

check out some higlights from the day.....