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I lost in football this week. WAAAAAAAAAA!

Our first bad teacher!

So we are just now dealing with our first bad teacher. I'm thankful that we haven't had one before now, but I am at a loss as to what to do. She is Sidney's 5th grade teacher. I knew coming in that she is strict. That we can handle. But we have found ourselves having TWO hours of homework every night, and she is completely unfair when she grades. For example, Sid had a spelling assignment where she had to put her spelling words into ABC order. When she got the sheet back she had gotten 6 wrong! Not because they were spelled wrong! Not because they weren't in the right order! They were marked wrong because her cursive writing wasn't perfect. I'll be the first to admit that she doesn't have perfect handwriting. But they were legible! It's not like it was so sloppy you couldn't read the words! I was FURIOUS! This wasn't a handwriting assignment. This was a spelling assignment and she spelled everything correctly and put them in the correct order. Example #2... she has two vocabulary words every week that she has to write the definitions for and write meaningful sentences for each word. Chris helped her write her sentences last week and they were both marked wrong for not being meaningful. Isn't meaningful subjective? I can't believe how picky she is being on this work. I am totally fine with strict, but the fact that my daughter is stressed out over 5th grade is a little ridiculous to me! Doesn't 10 seem a little young to be this hard on them? On top of that she is just plain mean, snappy and rude. Sidney is scared to ask questions in class because she is scared to get a rude response. Chris and I have a meeting with her set up for Monday. I'm trying to think of a nice way to say to her to stop being so mean and picky. The last thing I need is to offend her and give her any reason to retaliate against Sidney. Any ideas???

It's football season!!!

I just need to get out of my system that I am so totally excited that football is officially ON! I play in a fantasy league that has been assembled from my family members, ward members, and friends and I hope that I cream each and every one of them. This is where my competitive side comes out BIG TIME!! I'm the only girl in the league and I want to beat all the guys for bragging rights alone! I feel like I've got a pretty good team built around Carson Palmer (the Bengals quarterback) and I only hope this is his year to come out strong and take some names!

My kid's first concert

Chris took the girls to their very first concert on Saturday. They saw the All American Rejects at the state fair. They love that band! Chris being the great husband he is bought 3 tickets instead of 4 because he knows I don't like that band for one, and so I could have the whole evening to scrapbook with no interruptions! The kids had a GREAT time and I got SO much done. What a night!

My husband's hair

So about a year ago we decided to invest in a pair of clippers so that I could start cutting Chris' hair. Usually about once a month I'll give him a trim. It never ceases to amaze me how much hair that man has on his head. I cut it last night and this was the pile of hair on my bathroom floor.
I know it's totally gross, but he has SO MUCH HAIR!!! Just thought I'd vent about it because I can! :)

The Balloon Classic

After living in Colorado for 2 1/2 years now we finally went to the Balloon Classic they have every Labor Day Weekend. It was actually my job that inspired me to go. The 3rd graders I work with were making paper mache balloons and the teacher was talking about the Balloon Classic and how cool it was. They start setting up at 6:00 am so I wasn't overly thrilled about dragging my butt out of bed. We actually got there late, but what a sight. So many hot air balloons you don't know what to do with yourself. There is a little lake in the park that the balloons will touch their baskets down in for luck. Totally cool!