Sworn In

Joe was sworn in today and received his badge. The ceremony was held at Maitland City Hall. It was a very nice ceremony, which included several speakers, the pinning of the badges and a video presentation. After the ceremony the new fire fighters received their shift assignments. Joe was assigned to "C" shift at station 47. His first day is Tuesday. Joe gave us a tour of station 45 and then the new hires took some pictures by the trucks. The veteran fire fighters pulled their first prank on the rookies at this time. They had the rookies pose in front of the truck while they hid on the roof of the station with buckets of water and the hose. All the photographers counted to 3 and on 3 the vets dropped all the water off the roof and onto the rookies. The guys were all soaked. Click here to view all the pictures of the day.

Babysitting

Every other Tuesday I babysit for one of the supervisor's at work while she attends meetings. This is her one year old, Samantha. We watched Shrek today and played with her new blocks. She has an older sister too that I watch sometimes when she doesn't have school. Next time Alexandra is home from school I'll snap a picture of her too.

Getting closer to the real thing

Friday is Joe's badge pinning ceremony and graduation from training but I got excited when I saw his name pin and I thought I would share it with everyone. I know it's a little blury, the pin is a mirror and the flash bounced off of it.



Joseph DiTore
Firefighter/EMT

Wine Room

Last friday we went to Wine Room in Winter Park to celebrate my birthday with our friends. We started the night out with some Sushi at our favorite place, Nagoya.


Nicole and Traci


Mike, Joey, and Joe


Renee and Traci

The group

Birthday/Wedding

So yesterday, 1/24/09 was my 26th birthday and we celebrated it by attending our friend, Leah Maybin's wedding. The day was wonderful from the ceremony, to the beautiful reception, to the good tasting food and drinks. Leah was gorgeous as well.


Anne was one of the bridesmaids


Ellla was a flower girl and ran down the isle just like she did at our wedding and once she saw her brother Tyler, she started yelling his name and ran towards him. Tyler was sitting right behind us


The happy bride and groom

Anne, Neal and Ella. Sorry the photo is blury

The girls

The beautiful cake made by the mother of the bride, Rose Maybin

Ella eating dessert. She ate 2 eclairs filled with ice cream and wedding cake. I'm shocked she didn't get sick with all the dancing she did.

Clark Obama

I totally stole this picture from the St. Louis DiTores blog. They took Clark to a place called Magic House in which they had this cool Oval Office setup for him to play president. He looks good in that chair.

Swiss Fondue

One of the places Joe and I visited on our Honeymoon was Switzerland. Switzerland is known for their cheese and fondue. While we were there our lovely hosts, Chris and Helen Zeltner sent us home with some real Swiss Fondue cheese to fix in our melting pot. My parents were in town this weekend to celebrate my birthday since I will be busy next weekend at a wedding and we decided to share the fondue with them. We served it with broccoli, french bread, apples, and potatoes. It was amazing.