Chris should be getting paid for all his hard work on his day off!.....

As I was driving home from school today I noticed a light column of smoke coming from our neighborhood.  (much lighter than what you see in the first picture) Once I got through thae gates I drove to the house to check it out.. Sure enough, there was smoke coming from the roof of the garage.  I drove back home and got Chris and told him there was probably a garage fire up the street (only 4 houses away).  He ran up the street to go check it out, and confirmed a working garage fire was actually in progress.  We called the fire department, and Chris and his old crew at 32 worked hard to get the fire out very quickly. 
This was the first fire that the girls had seen close up (well, Maddie's second)... Lucy and Ava's favorite part of it all was jumping over the large 5" hose and playing in the water.