What is more fun than dressing up to be a Firefighter? He looks a lot like Bob does when Bob wears the uniform. Travis wonders if they make midget fire gear.
Location, location, location. Globe willow next to the pond. We spent a week getting the house ready for drywall. The kids has plenty of scrap materials, screws and power tools at their disposal. So while I was worried about them missing school for a week they were busy measuring, cutting and creating something of their own. That week Cody spent a few hours every day in woodshop. He had the job of finishing one of the bathroom vanity cabinets. Travis kept pointing out that we needed a lever to get those nails out. What I am saying is that they were doing a lot of on-the-job training.
Cody built a cup holder and asked if he could bring some of his school books up there to read.
This is a shared fort. Homemade swing on one side, tree fort on the other. This was a combined effort. All three of them worked on it. The only problem was that any time I needed the ladder, they had run off with it. The screwdriver would walk off with the hammer occassionally. I finally started asking them first if they knew where the missing object was before I went searching and they usually did.
The recruits were given their station and shift assignments.
We did have to restrain ourselves during the Graduation when they spoke of the physical fitness trainers having "high expectations" and the guys met them. Travis leaned over to Jeannie Larsen and said something like, "Yeah, and they almost killed him!" My thoughts as well but he has the badge now and God worked everything out.
It sure is a pretty area for Fire Fighting. The Bookcliff Mountains look beautiful with the snow. Bob said they have had some deer walking 10-20 feet near them a few times in the last month. 
They had a few days of running in snowy conditions. These pictures just make me so glad that this is over. Bob is like a new man yesterday and today. Smiling, joking, and back to his old self. He has quite a challenge in the coming months of balancing his previous experience and this Dept.'s way of doing things but I think he is up for the challenge. Bob spoke at the Graduation on behalf of the recruits, he summed up the recruit's address by saying, "And most of all we would like to thank God that this is behind us!"
