Marching Band Festival
Tyler’s marching band competed in 2 competitions yesterday. He says his legs feel like Jell-O!
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(Center- a little to the left)
Reassignment to Los Angeles California!
For those who don’t know, Marisa’s Visa still hasn’t arrived, so she has been reassigned to Los Angeles, California and Torrance (where we lived for 5 years) is in the mission! She is very excited about it all and we are excited for her. (We are especially glad we don’t have to send warm clothes!)
She also had the privilege of singing in the LDS Women’s broadcast from the tabernacle in Salt Lake City. Special thanks to Nina for getting a picture!
Guess who got asked to Homecoming?
Kayla got asked to Homecoming by Barak (a boy in our stake). I got a picture of the card but not the cute brownie cake that went along with it. Thank goodness she found a dress the 1st night of shopping! She has been working almost 30 hours a week so we never see her and she doesn’t have much time for dress shopping. Hopefully it will be a very fun night for her!
Dogs and Viola
After much debate, Alayna quit viola. I guess she felt the need to concentrate on homework, sports, and choir. She also spent the weekend watching the neighbor’s dogs again. They just put up their house for sale. I guess they are buying a new one about an hour away.
Apples
We picked the apples off the golden delicious trees and literally filled 16 boxes! Crazy! We hope to get a press and make apple juice and some other assorted fun things next weekend.
Library Stuff
The 1st exciting news is that my awesome brother got an autographed picture of Snake Eyes for me at Comic-Con! I almost passed out! It’s sad though how many people don’t know who he is. He is awesomeness, that’s who he is!
Some incredible things have been going on in the libraries again this week! I hope some of you are following the blog as that gives you almost daily updates on what I am up to.
1. I am creating a murder mystery for the high school students to come do using the resources in the library. (Made a scavenger hunt for middle school).
2. Had a teacher come say she had tons and tons and tons of boxes of books in her basement and do I want them? Yes I do!!
3. Last year in September, only 57 books got checked out, this year we have already crossed over 300!!! That is 6x the checkouts from last year.
4. On Friday, a lady came in looking for the Media Specialist and I told her that was me. She runs the public library in Anamosa and said, “I just HAD To come meet you!! Everyone is talking about you and what an incredible difference you are making in both schools! They said you have gotten all these new books and have so much enthusiasm and you inspire them to check out!” I was so excited!!
5. A student came in and said they had 1 cookie left from their FCS class and he wanted to give it to me (he is the same one from weeks ago who hadn’t read a book since 4th grade til I got him hooked on Ashfall.) I was touched.
6. My blog has had almost 1,500 page views!
So, all is well and better than I could have hoped for.
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