Saturday, March 15

Computer Problems

We have been experience major "slowness" with our computer for the last week or so. We think it might be a virus. Anyway, we will probably not have a computer for just a little while b/c we're needing it to be worked or something. The post below that I just posted took about 5 hours...no I didn't sit in front of the computer the whole time, but it took that long for everything to be loaded and all the pics......... Anyway, hope to be running along "highspeed" like again soon!

The Countdown Is On

Five more days till graduation and only two more days of the academy (Mon and Tues)! We have been busy. David's parents came in on Wed and stayed until this weekend...they will be back on Tues. But they wanted to come early because last night was Family Night at the Fire Academy. All of the cadet's families came to the academy to see where they have been studying and training for the last 6 months. We had hamburgers and then the graduating class put on a "demonstration" for us. See car. See disassembled car. First they tore a car apart using the "jaws of life" and other tools to demo how they free people who are stuck in their car after a car wreck.

Car fire. Now you can't see car due to smoke from the fire being put out! Structure fire. This got hot! But the "after" pic looks like it was taken 30 mins later b/c the sun was setting but it was really like 7 sec. There was so much smoke.
A few pics of some of David's cadet buddies.
Joe....Avery's "boyfriend".
Mercado. Who David car pooled with for the last 6 months.

Fernandez. Two class clowns.

Monday, March 10

My Friend Joe

Meet Joe. Joe is my new best friend.... I've always taken an interest in older guys anyway. Originally, Joe was Daddy's friend and fellow cadet from the academy, but now I call dibs every time Joe is around! Joe has been coming over lately to study with Daddy after eating supper with us. I LOVE to stare at Joe and make comments about his body. And I love to ask Joe questions one after another sometimes even before getting an answer to the previous question that I just asked. Joe LOVES to play in my room and see all my toys and clothes. Joe knows how to play the guitar and sing.... here he is singing some songs to me ...I just can't take my eyes of him and how his hands move on the guitar. Joe played and sang to me the song playing on the blog right now "Better Together" and I thought he was singing about us. I told Mommy this morning when I heard the song again that "Hey, that's Joe's song that he sang for me. Ahh, it's better when we are together!"

Tuesday, March 4

Tower of the Americas

The last Saturday, David's fire cadet class had to run up the Tower of the Americas... a 750 ft. climb. I brought Avery with me, the event was actually open to the public if pre-registered so there were lots of people there with one goal in mind. Make it to the top! There were even working firefighters that volunteered to climb with all of their gear and everything. (Notice the axe).

These pics are of the guys getting ready to make the climb. The navy shirts are David's current class (they are the senior class so they got to wear their class shirts) and the gray shirts are the new class in the academy.
Whoo-hoo, David was the second cadet out of all these guys who made it up to the top the fastest! All glory goes to Jesus, David's Strong Tower, who abundantly gives him strength, endurance, health and determination. Only 2 weeks until graduation!!!!!!