Wednesday, Oct. 23rd I re-scheduled all of my piano kids to other days (Ivy & Ellee came on Tuesday so I had them in addition to Hunter & Shilo--plus I have Kylie during the day since she is home-schooled. Londyn's mom had her baby on Tuesday so I just skipped her & I moved Bentlee to Thursday). The reason I re-scheduled is so I could go watch the volleyball games in Firth--it was for district champion. I also took Zane with me (we left about 3 so I could stop and shop first).
Although our girls lost both games, they played extremely well & I'm glad that I went.
Thursday was Emmalee's field trip to a corn maze. We left at 10:30 am. Grandpa picked Ben up from pre-school at 11:30 & kept him company while I was with Emmalee.
It was 3rd, 4th & 5th grades, so most of the kids had to sit 3 to a seat. Emmalee sat behind Rusty & me--yep! I got to sit with my hubby. Good thing, too, because that was the most I've seen him & been with him in the last few weeks ;)
On the way to the maze (which was not quite to Blackfoot--about 5 miles north), we stopped at the rest stop in the lava fields so we could eat lunch.
The restrooms/building is earth-bermed so the kids had a ton of fun on that hill. It was a beautiful, sunny day--couldn't ask for better weather for a field trip.
Most of the 3rd grade class.
The group of girls that I went through the maze with along with another mother, Marie Serrano.
Our group rode the barrel train to the pumpkin patch--most of the bigger ones were starting to rot, so we both chose a small pumpkin.
The kids had a blast--luckily, I got to ride in the front with the driver :)
The girls were all certain they knew where they were going in the maze, and quickly took off in front of the 2 adults. When we finally got them to stop, I had no idea where we were on the map. So when we found the "exit", the girls didn't want to go back in to find the rest of the clues, so we let them have fun on the bouncy toys.
It was quite warm just standing in the sun! The kids had a lot of time.
Emmalee & Shilo
Rusty--taking pictures of the 5th graders.
Emmalee's 3rd grade class--she actually has one of the bigger classes in all of K-12.
Their silly picture.
We got back to the school with just enough time for me to get home & get the piano stuff ready for my students (about 15 minutes before they got out of school). I taught piano & then had to get ready for Clark County Idol. I was one of the judges--and it was a lot of fun. I am glad that Mr. Germer had a great adjudication rubric so I knew exactly what to judge the contestants on. Lindsay Farr was easily the winner. 2nd and 3rd place were a littler harder to decide, but I am grateful that we had the rubric (list of qualities to judge) to follow. Maggie May took 2nd and Brayden Kerr was 3rd.
When the evening was over, I then had time to think about Spooktacular. This year was the first time I waited as long as I did to get things out for Spooktacular. But that's another post.
