Last Football Game of the Season

Rusty and Ben riding to the game (Brienna turning around to watch them)

 Emmalee also rode her bike.

 The last game was Saturday, Oct. 26th against West Yellowstone.

 Brienna got to play with cute little Lucas.

Zane taking a knee when a player for the other team was injured. 

Zane started & played most of the game.  I video his games, so I don't get a lot of still pictures.  Pamela was there, so she took a lot of these.

 On the line.  This is the last 6-man game also.  Idaho tried to get a 6-man league going, and we thought that 6 teams committed to it, but in the end it was us and 1 other team (Camas Co.). 

 Since there were only 2 teams, we are petitioning to get back into our 8-man league for next year.

 Kick off after a touchdown.

 Getting ready to attempt a sack--he had about 5 super-close sacks.  Just another 1/8 of a second & he would have had it!  

 A week or so ago, he injured his hip joint so he favors his other leg a bit.  But the adrenaline kicks in so he plays hard!  He had an exceptional game--along with the rest of the team.

 On the side lines.

 During half time.

 It was a perfect day for football--sunny, gentle breeze (or no breeze) and in the high 50's.  Perfect!

 If I'm not mistaken, the score was 67-0.  We ended a quarter early because the other team didn't want any more injuries--we were playing with a running clock, but they called the game at the end of the 3rd quarter.

 So proud of #61 & the rest of the Bobcats.  It was a great season.

 Team huddle after the game.  

 I was able to sneak a hug in--but 

almost regretted it--he was pretty sweaty & stinky!  But a hug is a hug!

  Ethan had to work & didn't think he would be able to watch the whole thing, but since it was called early, he was able to see it all.

And one of my favorite views--watching the team walk back to the school after the game.

I went home and got the pan of brownies I had baked earlier in the morning for the community chili feed.  (I had also baked a double batch of pumpkin cookies since the oven was on.)

Spooktacular

Friday morning I took on the task of getting all the Spooktacular stuff out.  There is no storage at the school, so I keep some PTO stuff in the corner of the workshop.  So I dug that stuff out, and found the posters/signs/backdrops in my poster box.  

 At 10 am, I took a car load of stuff to start setting things up.  The rest of my kids (the older ones) got there about an hour later.  I put Brienna & Ethan in charge of the photo backdrop.

 Brienna ran the duck pond.  I had Zane clean out the pool & then we filled it with shredded paper  & the ducks.  (I have found that water & popcorn is way too messy).

 Our 1st grade teacher and Jenny put the fish pond together.

 Here is the pop toss & bean bag toss.

 Cupcake walk

 Concessions (we just sell hot dogs, chips & water--the kids can win pop, & get candy trick-or-treating & playing the games.

 As you come in the door.  We (PTO/Booster Club) run this as a free evening.  We would love to turn it into a carnival/fund-raiser, but that is a ton of work, and we don't have enough volunteers to do that!

 Callum (in the blue with a hat) helped out at a trick-or-treat station.

 Brienna is in the right corner helping with the duck pond.

 My cute scooby-doo (the costume is about 1 1/2 sizes too small, but he insisted!)  Zane was in charge of him during the night.

 Emmalee being a fairy--and a cute purple one at that!

She had a butterfly painted on her face by the cheerleaders.
We usually have enough people stay and help clean up, so we get home about an hour after we turn off most of the lights signalling the end of the evening.  So I was home by 8:30.  But I still haven't put everything away yet!  

Corn Maze Field Trip

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.