Three-Pack Tuesdays: So Long September, Hello Fall

Plano held their fall festival on Friday night. I wanted to snap some pictures of Karson all dressed up for the Royal Court. Isn't she just a beauty! We headed over to the school around 5:30. I quickly realized that Karson has become too cool to play the classroom games. She had no desire to participate this year. SO, I guess this will be the last year I buy her an armband. The boys, however, were READY.TO.PLAY! We hit all the classrooms fast and furious. I snapped a handful of pictures on the camera but later learned my memory card had gone bad (but I'll talk about that later). I'm fairly certain there were at least 1,000 people in the school. It was super crowded. Our night was hectic. Matt's parents came for a little while, and we, somehow, got split up in the primary wing. I was reunited with Karson with a 'page' to the library. Once we were all back together, we started making our way to the gym. It was around 7 by this time, and I was hopeful the Royal Court was soon. We really needed to get home by 7:30 because we needed to get Karson changed and ready for her volleyball game at 8. We made our way to the gym when Isaac noticed his iPod was missing. GREAT! Like I said, there was zillions of people there, and we had been ALL over the school. Where in the world did he lose it?!? Matt and I split up, he went one way and I went the other. We just started retracing the classrooms we'd been in. The second room Matt went in, he was told they'd just found one and turned it into the office. Hooray! Isaac's life is on that iPod. He can't let his You Tube followers down. Once we located to iPod, we headed back to the gym for the 2nd time. Around this time, the silent auction was wrapping up, and the royal court was about to start. Our STLP raised $3500 with this event. The nominations moved quickly, and I was fairly certain Karson would not be winning especially when I saw a 6th grade nominee walking around with a bouquet of flowers all night. Coincidence? Maybe? Not sure. BUT, this nominee ended up winning. Karson wasn't disappointed and held her head high. She raised quite a bit of money and was picked by her classmates which is honorable. I snapped a cute picture of all the 5th graders on court and was anxious to get all my fun fall festival pictures downloaded. When I went to download them the next morning, I noticed all these file errors on my camera. Boo! I wasn't sure if my camera was going bad or just the memory card. I called Sony. Let me just say that Sony has great customer service! That's hard to find. The operator I spoke with suggested I try a few things to check. My camera and memory card are at least 10 years old. I had a good feeling it was my memory card. I went to Best Buy on Saturday and got a replacement. My camera is back in full working order thanks to the gentleman below.

Thanks Best Buy employee for helping me with my camera.
You can tell he wasn't interested in having his picture taken.

Lots of projects taking place in the Deaton home. Both Karson and Miles came home with projects last week. Miles had to work on a zoo poster, and Karson had to work on a project for Native Americans. Miles's poster was simply the cutest. Miles LOVES homework and was anxious to get started on his project. It quickly fizzled around day 2 and more so on day 3. We finished it up and took it to school on Friday We formed the poster board into a squid. He wrote all over the poster and attached underwater stickers all over the tentacles. I took a picture, but it was on the bad memory card =(. I'll make sure to snap one when it's returned home. We are still working on Karson's project which is due this week. She originally selected a diorama, but I squashed those dreams immediately and convinced her to do a travel brochure. Don't get me wrong, I love dioramas. However, they are LOTS of work and require more work than a simple poster or brochure. She's never done a brochure so it will be a learning experience and something different. My creative juices are somewhat limited this time of the year.

Much of my creative energy is spent on birthday planning this time of the year. I've been working on planning for Miles's 7th birthday. We've agreed to do it at Chaney's Dairy Barn this year. Hopefully, his allergies will be under control later this month. He had to take a sick day on Thursday. His breathing starts acting up this time of the year. I'm sure all the ragweed amplifies it. I give him cocktails of Zyrtec, Ibuprofen and Delsym. We also have a rescue inhaler, but Dr. Paul put him on an inhaler which is steroid based that is supposed to be taken for a week or two.

Isaac's been spending his creative energy decorating his bookshelf with knickknacks. He's my lil' hoarder.

Shannon hosted her annual pumpkin painting party at her house last night. I already had an idea of what I wanted to do--minions. Matt picked up some pumpkins from a local farmer out by SWHS. I asked him to pick some up for us because I would much rather give my business to a local, than $5.99 to Kroger. I bought our pumpkins last year from this farmer and thought he was so sweet! The best part about holiday parties is the FOOD. I made some yummy snacks and ate most them before they even made it the party. Good think I also had chips and dip to take too.