Well I think you all know about me and my career choise by now joining the navy. Well this is my last week as a civilian for what i am hoping to be 20 years.  I have been getting a lot of good luck adn one main question asked to me that is are you nervous? in answer to all you who have not asked me that wuestion. not i am not nervous, I see this as another job just like  any other.  I am excited to move on with my life and make something of it.  I Am Starting A Career I am so excited I can hardly believe it and it still hasn't really hit me that i am leaving, except the bare bed room that used to be full of posters and pictures and dolphins is now empty. I will no longer have an email address for about 2 months I do plan on getting a computer to school so I can have one when I get out of boot camp. I wil surely have to write on here to keep you all updated when I get out, a whole lot more than I have been writing the last month.
Well I will end this last blog for a time being and  say good bye to all my friends

With Christ's Love

Your Friend and Brother

Brandon Axmaker

Well, I know I have not written much for a while, what have I beeen up to? same old same old. working when not at work at home studying for the navy. I got good news, I get to lead my last d.e.p. meeting, (delayed entry program) I am excited for even though I am not sure how to lead it, I know what to say and all. but putting it together is different. Have I had second thoughts about the navy? well I had my first one today after doing taxes ( yeah I know I am a bit behind) My mom got off the phone with Barrett later today and he said that the air force gets a bit more pay, she said there were four things that they get we don't, all four fall under what is called hazard pay. first one she said is the base he is on, is hosting some air force crews, the get hazard pay for being on that base. why? because there are marines on there LOL LOL LOL that about made me hurt my stomache from laughin so hard.  the other one she said is the get pay for going to alaska, why? because they are going across seas, why doesn't the navy get any of that, one marines are apart of the navy. and two going across seas is our job. I won't tell you my oppinion of the air force.  oh yeah and i also got time off, I am goingto salem on the 30th and the 1st of may. yeah one lst time to see my friends. and half of them are probbly going to be gone.

Ok so my BRITHDAY wasn't that great of a day but the weeks deffinatly made up for it. started on sunday going out to dinner with the family. Cowboy dinner tree, if you ever visit central oregon, you must go there, or if you live in bend they don't like to go there because it is a two hour drive for them but i tell you... it is worth it.  monday work. tuesday I had a phone call from my brother saying that he passed the physical test for eod. (explosives ordinance disposal) which is a big deal, then one of his freinds got shipped to boot camp three months early. bought a cd player for my car from birthday money. wednesday was bible study, and even though it is like normal it was good as always. the weekend my family went to chicago to see my brothers graduation from boot camp. they had a blast and have everything all planed out for their next trip in four months when they get to go and see me. 60 more days :) :)  my weekend I spent taking a motorcycle safty classs that my parents paid for, and I thought that i might take it and learn something i didn't know and find a different bike that I like and not a crotch rocket that i fell in love with. I was wrong after this course I want it even more. I am thinking the first time I go on leave right after A school in september, then i can take it to western and show it off LOL, ok so not many people will really be thrilled i am sure they would rather I didn't I think.  but i loved that classs and I had a compliment and was told by the instructor the first day out of the two that I would probably do a great job in thier expert class. yeah i was pleased to hear that. oh and i got a 100% on the writen test and missed two things on the physical test riding the bike. I didn't stop fast enough and I went out side the line when turning by an inch.  I went in monday and eediatly got my morotcycle endorsment and I can now leagaly  ride a motorcycle on the streets. so what did I do I brought home a pamflet of street bike and have been drooling over them. some how in my twisted mind. thinking maybe i can convinse my parents to buy a bike not nessisarily the street bike I want but a cheeper one. but wow it was a fun filled week and weekend for my family.

I thought the day of your Birthday was suposed to be a good day not the day after, but you know today I had the best birthday ever :)  started out with a seemingly boring morning and just before i go to Bend my mom calls from work. saying that Barrett just called from boot camp (whom by the way is graduating friday and my family is going to see him) well not sure if prayers were answered in our favor or not but either way i am excited for him HE MADE E.O.D. ( Explosive ordinance disposal) if you real need need the lame mans terms like i did he dismatals bombs. it is something I have been praying for because he wants it bad but at the same time i often think nice knowing you Barrett. ok so that started my day off, then i got $150 in the mail from two of my grandparents so I bought a cd player for my car. my interior is all dark grey with green lights at night on the consols, well now I have a sliver cd player with red lights, good I needed a little contrast. Went to the recruiters and I almost got to leave tomorrow but it wasn't a job i wanted but on of my brothers and step brothers friends who leaves in july got to take it, good for him he needed to go before he got into more trubble, and i think that Brian was getting a little annoyed with him. I missed bible study tonight because I was waarn out from having an exciting day full of great news, awesome news and swimming. but allis good. I wasn't too sure i wanted to go today this morning I had a feeling I shouldn't go. now whether it was me or God saying something I don't know,  but I still had a great day and the lord was most deffinatly part of it. and this weekend I get to get my motorcycle permitt, ( that is if I Pass the class, which shouldn't be that hard considering i have been riding since i was five) but you never know, better not get cocky or i know I won't God has a way with dealling with cockyness :) and my parents leave tomorrow for chicago wow it has been two months already exciting new for Barrett.

That is the song I have been singing all day to keep me sain alday, it is my 21st birhtday today, I started it out with a early day at work. to get off work my mom at school, for the evening, I get home go to my room and almost fall asleep. then at 7 gotto my step brothers' girlfriend's house and watch donnie darko. where i quickly realized we should not have been there, we should have been at my place, they just moved and their house is still a mess... so yeah pretty boring day but you know more power to me ... I have no Idea where i got that but itsounds good. and 70 more days till navy

p.s. I don't like wine.

I have been having a very melloncally week,  it has been beuatiful last couple of days, but if I am not at work i have been at home on my tv, computer, or ps2.  I need to get out and do something. Today I was going to go swimming with this chick and my recruiter, we get there and they don't have lap swim today becasue there was no school for the younger kids. yeah that was a waist of 70 miles of gas. 6 more days though and i am 21 Yeah, 76 till i am in the navy, and not this weekend but next I am taking my motorcycle endorsment class. yeah i can now ride a Bike on the streets ( Leagaly) :)
other than that i have done absolutly nothing even though I should be reading and memorizing my navy stuff, two more month. if I memorize it I get a pay raise before i even join how great is that and what a motive and it is a couple hundred dollar pay raise.  I am hoping to go to Western Baptist College to visit some time in the end of may, (hopefully I get an invitation to graduation s oI can say good by to all my friends who are graduating)  but as longas I get down there one more time I will be happy and I hope they will too.

Ever since i was in 6th grade timing in my relationships has been a big bummer for me. I grew up with a girl that i became friends with in 1st grade well 6th grade I went back to private school and was accually attracted to her. I just though it be best to keep a friendship nothing more. plus i new my parents would never approve. well 7th grade came and there was a new kid and those two started "dating" I wasn't too happy my best friend found someone else :( 8th grade came he was no longer there scott megan and i were all great friends, but i could not draw up the courage to say anything except to my younger brother then my nossy mom LOL I love her though for it. highschool started scott went to barlow and I went to Sandy with Megan, but i knew Scott like her so I did nothing. and they did start going out after I moved. so life goes on and I accually get the courage to ask a girl out she says yes, but we never talked or did anyhting together, then she went off to school three months later. i never new till a couple weeks after she left from her cousin. so yeah that wasn't much of a relationship. life goes on more and i am at western. I meet a wonderful Girl and asked her out with in a week of meeting her, we had our ups and our downs but it eventually came to a hault. well it has been over two years since that relationship which was my only relationship, and I have been thinking a lot the last six months, about one person. I start praying about it, she is older than me by a couple years and has a great career job. another wonderful person, praying and praying finnally about the week i get the courage to ask her to dinner, I go to bible study where she starts talking about her trip to see where her brother was killed and meet people who were part of his life. and she meet s a guy her face just lit up so much when she got to that part I couldn't ask her our after that. and yeah there are doing a long distant relationship now. plus what was I thinking I am going into the navy in 84  days, no way that would work... but my ultimate fear is that God wants me to stay a bachlor for my life, and i will have to learn to be content with that if that is the case but right now i hate that idea.

so yeah i was so hypper this morning when my dad said to get ready we were going snowmobiling. I have been wanting this for so long but he never said yes or no this whole week, just we will see. We went up to Paulina and it was looking gloom fast, park was full and there wasn't much snow at the 6 mile park. but we delt with it and got up to were there was snow. oh yeah Brian and stacy went with us too it was cool, Brian is my step brother and stacy is his girlfriend. we got to the top of paulina peak. on a sunny clear day you can see into washington and california. it was somewhat cloudy today but an awesome veiw non the less. and it looked like there was a storm just a few days ago up top, on the trees it was awesome you could see snow sculptures. It is amazzing humans need hammer and chizzles to make creations out of ice, God uses wind and snow. and they looked like a perfected ice sculpture except with snow instead you could make out the animal or design so clearly with no question. I like to think i help one out though LOL. I didn't pay much attention to these before hand i was still watching the view and I bummped into a tree. my dad is all oh no you are messing it up because i knocked some of the snow off, he told me to step back and look what i did you stand back and you seee this monster like creature or a coiled serpant with its head up off the ground well the part i knocked off made it look like it was holding a sword it was so perfect. this afternoon elt like  weekend but it is just the middle of my week. yeah i get to work tomorrow and monday but this week has been great.

Oh my goodness, i just got home from a wonderful night out, I went to the newboys concert with a couple of friends from my wednesday night bible study, and met quite a few people I know there. can i just say the best part of the whole concert was the brekfast song and shine... That made the 43 dollars worth it right there.... awesome awesome awesome... I can not express it enough, and then we went out to dinner at jakes truck stop... odd place but great food. oh my goodness, a night of praise and worship, with jeremy camp R st. James and the newboys it was a blast, and tomorrow i ma praying that i get to go snowmobiling with my dad, I hope I hope, oh and this is the middle of my week not even my weekend, this was so awesome, I have not had this much fun praiseing and worshiping God, or being out with friends in a couple years.  I know this might sound concited or what not, but i needed it. I needed to get out with friends and do something. I don't do much but sit around alday and if i work that day which is every day but tuesday and wednesday I work then come home and sitt around doing nothing, so this week is like a break from home but I have not gone anywere. God is awesome and he has given Great talent to the newboys and others. it is 2 in the morning right now and I am just excited even though i should be sleeping. well i guess i better go and sleep if i plan on doing anything tomoorow

Ok So I don't have normal week days and weekends My week starts on thursday and ends on monday, my weekend starts on tusedays and ands on wednesday. That means my week just started well this weeks is like a vacation i guess, I took off friday and saturday and today felt like my most dreamt of friday, it started of today with work oh yeah :( after that went to the movie Passion. I would encourage every Christian to go see it, and every person that is just not sure about becoming a Christian, but has thought long and hard about it to go see it. If you are someone that really doesn't care about Christ it might be a bit much and over your head but still encourage you to go see it. Oh my goodness. this here is the most i have said all night fter watching it. I have not opened my mouth except to drink all night after watching it is so powerful and magnificent. though it is so graffic I still don't think you can grasp how much Christ went through. Can i say again WOW yeah i am pumped... and guess what tomorrow i took off work to go to the Newboys concert. the addoration worship tour with R St. James and Jeremy Camp. this will be awesome. I am going with friends from one of my bible studies. and then on saturday I took off as well, and I am praying my dad and i can go on a date to the mountains on our snowmobiles, i feel bad he has had a stressful winter and him and i have not really done all that much together and i would love to do this with him. then it is back to work on sunday and monday and I have another weekend coming. I think this week is about to be awesome and most deffinatly Christ centered... I can't wait and I am so pumped that i can not go to sleep right now. oh and 88 more days :) and 18 more days :)