.homecoming, day 1.

Today was the first day of Homecoming week. The theme is “Around the World in 4 Days.” There was a lot of excitement today – hall decorating contest, announcement of royalty, the first round of the Mr. CHS competition, and fun dress up costumes!

I’m an advisor for the sophomore class this year – and they did awesome on their hall decorations! Their theme was Central and South America. They had a big cruise ship, a jungle with a volcano, and a pirate area. So cool!

This is from the front door of the high school.

And down toward the sophomore/junior hall.

The pirate area – the pirates are Jennifer, Jessica, and Jan!

This is the cruise ship – it turned out so cute! It had these portholes with classmates’ pictures!

These pirates faces are the teachers!

 

Kaitlynn and Carly are two of the class officers who put in a lot of time and energy for the sophomore hall!

This is a little bit of the freshman hall. Their country to decorate was Austrailia, which was a little difficult, I’d think. Plus they have a HUGE hall and usually not too many helpers.

The seniors had Africa and they had these cute animals outside greeting everyone.

 

I liked this – the back end of a jeep. They decorated like a safari and did a great job!

      

The juniors had Antarctica. I liked what they did with the white and light blue.

This was a cute idea with snowballs spelling out Antarctica.

 

The judging was done this morning and the winners announced during the assembly. The sophomores came out on top, followed by the seniors, then juniors, then freshman.

My favorite part of today was seeing the costumes and everyone having fun dressed up. Today’s theme was “Back in Time in the U.S.A.”

The afro boys

 

Brittney, Carly, and Katlyn – a mix of 50’s and 80’s!

 

Hayleigh and Ashton

Kirston, Kyra, and McKenna

 

The cheerleaders led the school in the fight song and a class cheer.

    

Mrs. Olsen and I were called down as the best dressed for the staff! How fun!

  

Tried getting all the cheerleaders together for a picture after the assembly – but looks like a few were anxious to get to lunch. :)

 

 

Found some others before practice…

There were lots of cute poodle skirts around!

 

 

OH wow Jeff…. :)

Kayla wanted to try on my Lucy wig. I think she makes a cute Lucy. Maybe she should borrow it next year! :)

 

It was a fun first day. Looking forward to tomorrow!

.ROADtrip to Kelso!.

Kate, Kamryn, and I  roadtripped to Kelso this past weekend to visit Chris, Candace, Delt, and Libby Clark. It was a long trip, but so good to spend the weekend with them and see where their new home is.

We stayed up too late talking both nights we were there (1-1:30AM!!!) so we were pretty lazy in the mornings, which was so nice! We drank coffee, watched the kids play, and talked some more! Candace took us on a driving tour of Longview and Kelso. I’d never been in that area before so it was great to get to see it!

We went to Vancouver on Saturday evening to Costco! Just for Kate. :)

Candace didn’t have to twist our arm any to go to Costco, but when she said handmade gelato, we were on our way!! It was delicious!

These girls had a great time playing. Kamryn kept crouching down to Libby and holding her chin to give her kisses. Like Libby is so much smaller than Kamryn is – 1 whole month younger!!

 

We didn’t see much of Delt. He played Angry Birds on my phone most of the time. He’s loving kindergarten and hopefully he can read to us the next time we see him!

 

This is Chris’ new school – Huntington Middle School. It sounds like the adjustment has been tough, but hopefully he’s on the upward swing.

 

I took this picture just for Esther. Look at all those recycling bins!

 

Thanks so much for the hospitality, Chris and Candace. Hope it’s not too long before we get to see you again!

.pink night at Mabton.

I didn’t go to the Mabton football game – Melissa took them and apparently they were there real early because they got to have this super fun photo shoot!

We got these pink shirts for October Breast Cancer Awareness month!

 

Melissa wrote their last names on the back with puff paint.

I found them these pink shoelaces that say “Fight Like a Girl” in the $1 section at Target!

  

   

 

  

Melissa said they did great and the football team won, 49-7 (or something like that)!

.this week.

It’s been “just another week” full of randomness…

Melissa bought this purple and black fleece and gold blanket binding to make a football blanket. I agreed to sew it for her – which seemed easier than it actually was. I’d never sewn with the satin baby blanket binding before…and let’s just say, I probably will never use it again. YUCK!

So, the blanket didn’t turn out as nice as I would’ve liked it, but Melissa is trying to convince me that it’s fine!

She traced these footballs onto the fleece and then I sewed over the trace lines.

 

Hopefully it will keep her warm and cozy at the games!

 

At cheer practice the past few days, we’ve been talking about Homecoming costumes. I brought my loot of 80s accessories today and Sommer tried on every single one of them. Lookin’ mighty fine! :)

 

I cringed inside when I had to explain to them who “I Love Lucy” was and Violet from Saved by the Bell. Really?! Then, to get asked, “Why do you still watch those old shows?” I don’t regularly watch them now – but that’s what I grew up with!  These girls have been on a roll this week. Earlier one of them asked me if Arizona was by Mexico or Washington DC. Then, when she saw a map and asked all the other girls if they knew Washington DC was “all the way across the world?!” O.M.G.

 

Today, Facebook, Twitter, MSN, and every other form of media was blowing up with news of Steve Jobs’ passing and tributes to him. The world lost a really great mind yesterday. He changed our world in the form of technology and media. Every time I picked up my iPhone today, I thought about the man that urged us to “Think Different.” Such a huge loss to our world.

This is a screen shot from my Twitter feed today…

I’ve been looking forward to tomorrow for a few weeks now…

this little cutie pie,

 

  her momma, and I are road tripping to Kelso, WA to visit Chris and Candace Clark, Delt & Libby. I can’t wait!

.breaking records and taking names.

Friday night lights were on in Connell last night as the Eagles took on the Columbia Burbank Coyotes. We knew going into the that it wouldn’t be to exciting. The cheerleaders practiced different ways to change up the fight song (which is played after every touchdown) so that it didn’t get boring. :) We’re so spoiled by our great team!

We won 55-7. The exciting part of the game was that Matt Hadley broke two records in one touchdown. I had read in the newspaper yesterday that he was 5 touchdowns away from breaking Kirby Moore’s state record of 99 career touchdowns. Kirby Moore is a local football celeb from Prosser who’s now playing for Boise State. I saw an article online this week predicting that he might be Peyton Manning’s successor in the NFL. Pretty cool. So, when Matt made his 6th touchdown of the game, he broke Kirby’s state record and (according to Evan, the announcer) he also broke a school record of making 6 touchdowns in one game by a runningback. What a night!

Even though there was all that excitement in the actual game, as you know, we were really just watching the cheerleaders!

They had a dance prepared for half time and were pretty excited about it.

     

We talked them into bringing crowd members out to cheer with them for the “Ola Ola Ay” cheer – it looked like they were having a great time!

  

They rocked their dance! The video Karlye took for me is pretty far away and hard to see (she did the best she could using my iPhone!). Melissa said one of the moms recorded it, so hopefully we can get a copy.

Madi and her bases did a cool new “ball back” stunt into an extension…

 

…reload into another extension.
That’s right. :)

 

Oops – just missed this great toe touch basket toss from Kayla!

   

This basket toss, reload into an extension had a hard time getting up to an extension but no problem….no one else knew what was supposed to happen at the end!

         

2 bits! Everyone!

 

Shoulder stands for Eagle Power!

   

The girls did the cups in the fence again for the game. I love it!!
We got great responses from the crowd…I think it’s a keeper!

 

Who knows what we’ll spell for the next game!