Raspberries, pink hair, and a squishy helmet

Raspberry heaven

I keep forgetting to share our raspberry success. We have had them coming out of our ears and absolutely love it! We make this amazing chocolate raspberry pie, raspberry syrup (for crepes), and we freeze the rest to have with cereal or chocolate ice cream. The crop is almost done and I didn’t take any pictures, but I’m already looking forward to the spring crop in April.

Pink Hair

Was anyone “dyeing” to know why I am dying my hair pink? Well…our school had a magazine fundraiser to raise money for all the clubs and sports we have. Several of us teachers agreed that we would dye our hair pink if the 6^th graders made their goal of $7000. We knew they wouldn’t make it since they haven’t the past few years. Not only did they make their goal, but they tripled it!! So, we are dying our hair pink (although I only agreed to streak mine). We are using the stuff that should wash out in a week. I’m gonna look like a geek this week, but whatever…(will include pics next week)

Book Review

Dairy Queen- I just finished this week and it was awesome! The author is brilliant and it is such a funny book. So, if you are looking for an easy read, this is a great one.

I’m almost done with Life as we knew it which is also a great book. Its about what life would be like if the moon was knocked out of its orbit. Very thought provoking.

Busy Saturday

We went out to a trail to go bike riding while the girls went up for the Stake Activity all day in Cedar Falls. The trail was so fun and the weather couldn’t have been lovelier. As we were backing out to go home, we heard this loud crashing sound. I thought Bob ran over a bike. Instead, we found out that Bob had run over his helmet with the car! Here it is….

Misc

Marisa auditioned and made 6th chair in the 1st violins of the symphony orchestra. She is very excited. She also made chamber again. She also qualified to attend all state auditions (you have to pre-qualify at your school 1^st) and will audition Oct 23.

Kayla auditioned on her clarinet and made 9^th chair. She was very happy. I think her 1^st concert for concert band is next month.

Tyler had a tennis meet on Tuesday. They play til a team wins 6 games. It was 0-5 and then they made an AMAZING comeback. Soon, I was 5-5 and then went to a tiebreaker. The other team won by 2 points! It was so close!! Then, they won their meet Thursday 4-0!

We found out how Marisa feels about buttering waffles.

Alayna also made a “train house” out of the dominoes and trains.  So cute!