Fire and Finals

And let the games begin! It was graduation week for the Fire Academy and it was full of fun events. On Monday family and friends were invited to watch the firefighters do some drills. They lit things on fire and saved mannequins from burning cars and buildings. Max is on the far right.

It was pretty cool seeing them put out a real fire...

(Max is the one carrying a ladder up the ladder.)

Then they cut a hole in the roof.

Then they lit a car on fire.

that's my cute husband

Then on wednesday the day class and evening class had a little competition. They competed in things like push ups, races for putting on their gear, pulling big tires, and sumo wrestling. I got a good video of Max doing about a billion pull ups but I'll just keep that for my own enjoyment. Mmmm

Then later wednesday evening they had their graduation ceremony and recieved all their fire fighter certifications. This was their class plaque they made.

Then we tried to take cool pictures on the fire engines.

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And that's that! Max is a certified firefighter. And he is amazing!

Happy Holidays!!

So this post has been in the works for several weeks now! I finally finished my final project and I wanted to take a break before a took a stab at studying for my finals.

So, I think this last Thanksgiving was one of my favorites. I got to spend 6 days straight with my amazing husband. It was wonderful, we had just finished some busy and stressful weeks at school and a long cozy break was very welcome. We started our break with an early bird trip to the movie theater to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!! And let me tell you...we weren't disappointed! We went to the gym a couple times and swam and ran. I love working out with Max, his very motivating and a patient trainer!

We made a delicious meal just for two, actually we made enough for a small army.

We ate a bunch and enjoyed ourselves thoroughly!
After dinner we decided we needed to move our bodies a little bit before eating our homemade apple pie. so we put up Christmas lights. We are really proud of our simple decorations. We feel so festive.
I don't really remember why he's dressed up here. ??
On Black Friday we got more Christmas lights and decorated a little more

At the end of the break we had a little blizzard. Here's my husband working hard on a Sunday morning to clear our driveway.

We also got a fake Christmas tree on black Friday. We got a steal of a deal. I know it's somewhat blasphemous for two born and raised Oregonians to have a fake tree but we just figured we will use it until we finish our college years then when we're back in Oregon we will get a real one. Besides, we're not even going to be here for Christmas.

Happy Holidays!

An aspiring Actress

This is better than many Sunday school lessons. It's complete with voices!

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I don't know why it posted twice.