Ada Fire cadet

I finally started editing like mad.  Ada had her fire equipment at home for just a bit, so we took a minute to do an "in the dark" photoshoot.  One day I want to add fire to the background of a couple.  It might be a fun cheesy thing. 

 

Fire Prevention Night

Ada, Seth and I went to the Fire Prevention night.  We hit the tail end of it, but we did get to experience a "car crash", the helicopter taking off (the neatest thing), checked out the ambulance and played at the kids favorite park ever.  We used to go almost daily while we waited for kids at clubs. 

 

Ada Fire Cadet graduation

This girl is so cute.  We were running late (as we do) and made it to her fire cadet graduation in time for her to give a speech that she hadn't told us that she was making.  She did an amazing job. I love the good things she's working towards.

The graduates

 

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.

 

Ada's Birthday

My Fire Cadet is 17 years old.  I couldn't be more proud of her and the woman she's becoming.  She's working hard and getting to do things that most people don't. So as a celebration of her.... here's a couple of the things that 17-year-old her is up to....

She LOVES FBLA.  She and her friend, Alexx, are co-presidents of the club.  She's learning managerial skills as well as all the professionalism that the business world demands.  She cares about the quality of the work attached to her name and isn't afraid to learn new things to help her with her goals.  Along with organizing and completing presentations, service projects, concessions at sports games, and the school store, she and Alexx will also be running a kids finance club after school at Seth's school.

She's taking guitar, welding, Seminary, her internship, Calculus BC (which is really hard and she's putting in a lot of work), financial literacy, and AP Language.  Her internship and two AP classes take up most of her time.  

She works for my cousin, Tiffany, a couple days a week.  She picks up her 6th grader and hangs out with the 6th and 8th graders until Tiff gets home from work.  Sometimes they play games, sometimes they do homework, but they all love each other and I'm actually kind of excited about the next Bear Lake week we have together.  She also is licensed to be my daycare assistant on school breaks when needed.  

Ada got released as the YW's class president, which is nice while she's so busy, but she's still working on the Family History and Temple committee.  Sometimes she joins us to sing in choir and the choir director loves having a nice strong soprano with us. He's had her sing a couple of solos to accompany the choir too.  It's fun because he never asks me about it.... her just talks to her and arranges it with her (I'm the pianist).  That's when I know that she's getting on her own merits.

I love hearing Ada's more mature singing and piano.  She doesn't have a lot a time for them, but she's come into her mature voice.

She's loving her internship and I have a separate post about that.

Her best friends are Alexx, Rachel, Eleanor, Aubrey, Devin, Jimmy, Brenton, Donnovan, and of course far away cousins and friends like Rachel, Anya, Grace, Mariah, Hannah, Sage, Maisy and Wesley.

So, the Tarkington family came to town for their Fall Break.  Eli had his 17th birthday on the way out, and it was Aubrey Bingham's birthday too.... so, we got together for cake and Marg suggested that we go The Wild Robot movie.  It was very sweet, and I was in tears. We basically had the theater to ourselves, and it was fun.

Cute Cadet

Fire prevention activity with the city.

Ada's marvelous YW's leader (Rachel Libutti) asked if she could decorate "Ada's" car for her birthday.  It was so cute and I'm grateful for wonderful women like her that show their love for their neighbors. (I will serve her in turn... Her older daughter has recently decided that she likes singing time in Primary and says hi to me every time she's out walking her dog.)

I asked her if anyone honked at her.  She said that no one was out when she went to early morning seminary with Sam and Alexx, and because she had an FBLA meeting after school she missed most of the traffic.... but one person honked at her and scared Alexx to death on the way home from school.