Thunder rolling in the Big Sky!

The Annual In-State Rivalry

 VS

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Tailgate party put on by the Alumni Association 
(even got a free Alumni shirt and a SUU banner to hang in my classroom!)
Burgers, Hot Dogs, Pizza, Chips... the boys were loving it!

My cute dates for the evening.

The bestest Ball-Boy!

It was like a "Where's Waldo" for the boys, the entire game they kept looking for dad/grandpa & got super excited whenever they did see him.

This guy was awesome!

 Jaxson wanted his own photo

After a few close calls, and several SUU interceptions of WSU passes...

 SUU was victorious!

2015: 44-0 W

2014: 31-28 W

2013: 27-21 W

2012: 22-24 L

2011: 35-28 W

SUU moves up into the Big Sky Conference..

Such a great night! The boys had so much fun! 
And I LOVED seeing my T-Birds in action again!
And a few other alumni who claimed they recognized me but I had no clue who they were...
it was awkward...

78.5%

2015 Library Bag Book Sale Finds:

Books I gave to Bonnie:

Books for me and my friend..

I also found some books for JeNae's kids (Madi even came with and helped.  She found lots of books for Ellie), and for Derek.

American Gods (American Gods #1) by Neil Gaiman
Pgs. 656

Tyler really likes this book, and when I started reading it, it wasn't anything like how I thought it was going to be.  I enjoyed the theory behind it all and it was interesting how the author took old folklore Gods and tied things to them, however the ending was very disappointing.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4407.American_Gods

****

Ransom by Lois Duncan
Pgs. 176

One of the English teachers at NDJH suggested we read this book as a class to start off with. The premise of the book I thought the kids would enjoy, it's an interesting story, but the kids struggled reading and following along with it.  It was sad to me that these 8th & 9th graders couldn't make connections between the information given throughout the book. The Lexile score is a 750...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47748.Ransom

***

The Body Toxic by Nena Baker

Pgs. 288

From the 2015 library bag book sale.  If someone wasn't aware of all the chemicals around us, this book is very informative, but if you already stay up to date on those kinds of things, this book is VERY boring. 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2277026.The_Body_Toxic

**

The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner #2) by James Dashner

Pgs. 368

I've read this book before, but when I saw a movie trailer for this book I decided to read it again.  It's not as good as the first book, but it's still enjoyable.  I even caught myself getting "emotional" along with the main character. 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7631105-the-scorch-trials

***

The Death Cure (The Maze Runner #3) by James Dashner

Pgs. 325

The most boring and drawn out of the 3 thus far.  Felt like things were going around in circles and what little new information you gain about the main story line could have been added in book #2.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7864437-the-death-cure

***

We Are All Weird: The Myth of Mass and The End of Compliance by Seth Godin

Pgs. 112

From the 2015 library bag book sale.  The title is what sold me on testing this book out.

Not worth keeping. I liked the idea behind the author's main idea, however there's only so much repetitiveness I can take...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25857185-we-are-all-weird

**

21,642 + 1,925= 23,567 Total Pages/30,000

59 + 6= 65 Total Books

Incomplete Books : 1

78.5%

9 out of 12

The Month of September...

Started my hiking stick project..

Ragnar did such a good job supervising...

Kris & I painted away our horrid first week at new schools..

 Clegg soccer games...
Ellie loves helping with the dog

Jaxson just loves this dog period.

Jordan "being cool"

Ragnar got sprayed by a sunk for the 2nd time, this time in the face and really bad.

 Fun times with BXC...

 We finally started working on the new floor...

This part is going to take the longest

BXC FINALLY brought back the Torch Run!

Look at that cute face!!!! 

Hiking Dates!

 Dinner with my dad 

 Swig with the Clegg kids.. I drove the minivan because Ellie wanted to come.  It was so cute how when I first walked into the house & she ran to get her shoes on.  
How can you tell her no?

Super Blood Moon & Cheesecake!

#SLCC15

So I went to Comic Con...

Tyler hooked me up with a VIP pass & a photo op with Chris Evans..

For FREEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

How could anyone say no to that?!!!

Met up with Kristy and her family to ride the train down together!

SUU representing!

Anthony Daniels aka C3PO... 

apparently this man likes to wonder around and go shopping without any security or comic con volunteers... 

 For Addy..

For my cousin Cami...

The view of Celebrity Row

 The View of Artist's Row

Derek: Avatar?

Me: *Ugh*

Best Iron Man for my buddy Max!

Of course I had to, for my mom...

Found each other again!

The Black Knight Always triumphs! 

And then I died... 
I went all fan-girl (it didn't help that the girl in front of us was freaking out, so that made me freak out as well).

Totally could have had a hugging shot, but that would've been rude to Tyler and Derek.  Chris was super nice! He was talking to us when they snapped the photo. 

Oh and he smelled very nice too...
He also leaned up on his toes for this shot, I guess he had to be the taller one.

Oh man, the stories that Tyler can tell about working this event! And he always has these random run-in's with the celebrities, interesting people, and if someone gets arrested (which someone was, the story was crazy!).

Definitely a day I'll always treasure, but I'm ok with not going to another comic con.  I was done after the first hour of being there.