fires

Utah is literally on fire this week.  There's been new fires every day.  One day was 16 new fires.  So far 3 firefighter deaths, and thousands of acres of damage.  Fireworks have been banned for the holidays. There was ash falling from the sky, so we went down to help clean debris off of Grandma and Grandpa's roof to keep it safer from possible fires.  

Syl defending her piece of cardboard.

The girls got off to YW's camp.  This is Ada's last year.  She's a YCL this year and did a great job with her lesson and her group. I'm grateful for our wonderful YW's leaders and my spectacular girls.

Seth got his bottom braces on today and will be getting his top ones on next time.  He was having a hard time with them but now that they're on, he's not noticing.

Grandma invited us to watch the new Persephone movie with everyone last night.  It was cute and well done.  The teenage girls (Maisy, Evelyn and Millie were all giggling in the corner and Sam, Cy, Jer and Seth kept laughing any time that they got really excited about a kissing scene.)

 

Fire Prevention Night

Part of Ada's cadet experience was helping out with the Fire Prevention night for the city.  She had a lot of fun and we went along to support her.  We've never been to one before. It was pretty fun.

The Cadets and instructors

First Aid

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Learning the jaws of life

Seth liked the life flight

Ada helping take off the car door to demonstrate the jaws of life

Teaching fire extinguishers

Teaching extinguishing oil fires.

Grandma and Grandpa Robertson stopped by before Aubrey's birthday party.

Seat belt awareness

Seth got a little football from the ball drop.  They had a net full of balls that they dropped from the fire truck's ladder.  The net wouldn't open so the firefighter pulled out a pocketknife and had to cut it.

 

Fires

 With the 500 fires in California and Nevada and the fires in Colorado and the three fires in Utah, we have had absolutely horrible air quality.  Every time we leave the house we're coughing and throats itching.  The closest fire to us was a small one caused by campers up Battle Creek.  My autistic young woman texted me for over an hour about it.  She LOVES fires.  She tracks them and loves the beautiful flames and the process of putting them out.  I kept getting questions like:

"How far are you from the fire?"

"Did you see the planes circling it?" 

"Are you going to be evacuated?"

"What time did it start so I can report it to the fire service."

Sam and I seem to do the worst with the poor air quality, but most of my day is inside right now anyways.  We still haven't been able to get rid of the wasps in the backyard.  I let me kids go out and play because they know to leave them alone and just don't bother them.  The daycare kids on the other hand are not so nice to bugs.  5 of the 8 of them like to find spiders, worms, earwigs and potato bugs in my yard and either squish them or carry them around until they die.  I don't think that being out by wasps would be a good idea for them.

fires

We have had two major fires this week.  One up behind Draper and one across the lake at Saratoga Springs.  Both were terrible, and neither of them burned any houses.  I have friends in both areas and they have all said what a miracle it was.  The 60 mile an hour wind suddenly shifting to the opposite direction, the melting of a fence and nothing else, hotels providing emergency sheltering because local schools and church are unavailable because of COVID-19 laws.... I love God's mercy for my brothers and sisters!  Besides smoky air, it made for a really pretty sunset for us.  

                                                  

Ada saw pictures on pinterest using hair to make shapes.  She wanted to play.... so we did.

Sam coaxed Lucy to lay down on Ada's hair and pin her to the ground.  It was pretty funny.

I was on my way inside and saw these cute people swinging and talking together.  I love it.