Homecoming weekend

Thursday.
Parade during school hours down to the elementary school (not the one Jasmine attends.) This is when some of the problems I talked about in the last post happened.
Friday. Home made shirts for school spirit day.




Ready to march at the football game. We lost. Jessica says we lost by 12 inches.

Homecoming & typical teen drama

It's homecoming week at the high school. They dressed Hawaiian, worn Greek togas (twin size bed sheets), had sombrero/hat day and today is school spirit day. I don't have pictures because most days they took the outfits with and changed at school. The only pictures I have are from yesterday.






I thought they were both cute. Ty's friends thought his get up was cool. I actually got that serape in Mexico when I went down with friends in a pick up truck when I was 16. The one Jessica is wearing is from either Brazil or Peru and my uncle (Terry Bowers, father of Jim Bowers who was shot down over Peru and his wife and baby killed)brought it back and gave it to my grandmother and it was passed to me. But a bunch of Jessica's "friends" made fun of her and called her some rude things. When she tried to ignore them or act like it didn't matter they called her a bi---. Aren't kids charming?? Some things don't change over the years. She came home in a horrible mood and started taking it out on us and got sent to her room to cool down and adjust the attitude. That's all it really takes with her. She can get a real attitude but self adjusts. The only thing I ever have to do with her is take her iPod for a day or two.

Tonight is the homecoming game and Jessica is marching with the band. There was a homecoming parade at school yesterday and they marched down by one of the local elementary schools and threw candy. I think that's part of what set Jessica off. She hasn't had as much experience as the others due to being in a Christian school with no band until we transferred to public two weeks into the year last year. She is still learning the steps and routines and the kids can be vicious.

Tomorrow is the home coming dance. It's not just a guy-girl type dance. They do limbo, line dancing and all sorts of fun stuff. Jessica isn't going because she doesn't have a fancy smancy dress. So much pressure in high school. And no one asked her. The guy she went to the fair with turned out to have no belief in God so that relationship is going nowhere.

Tyler is going alone. He was too late in asking the girl he wanted to ask. A girl asked him but he decided to go alone and meet up with friends.

So that's the drama of our week.

More Dance

This is the lady who is here from the Moscow ballet. She looked a little scandalized at what Jasmine was wearing but I told her Jasmine had hip hop today not ballet. I'm not sure if she understood.
Jasmine in hip hop.


















I forgot to post these Monday. We had the day off school and played our usual games and then decided to take advantage of the perfect weather and go to the driving range. I like it because you can get a bucket of balls for $2 so we can turn the kids loose with their own buckets without going broke.









My lefty hamming it up. She only has one golf club which we got used at a sport's store. She was suppose to ask her Aunt Lou for her lefty clubs this summer while we were up in Indiana and forgot.
Jasmine has her own little club we got at the same place.





This deer was in no danger from us!

Ballet and misc

I didn't comment more about the church situation this weekend because we found out that the church we were planning to visit wasn't having their 8:45 contemporary service due to some special thing they were doing and we wanted to see a typical Sunday. The other church is just starting a building campaign and we've been going through this with our current church practically since we joined four years ago. We plan to visit the 8:45 service at the one church this coming Sunday.


Today a lady from the Moscow ballet was at our dance studio. They do Nutcracker here (and a bunch of other places) each year and they use local dancers for snowflakes, party goers and some other parts. Anyone from any dance studio can try out and the try out studio changes each year. I saw the sign for the audition and encouraged Jasmine to try out. If you've been following this blog any amount of time, you know she has some special challenges. But we decided we'd just go and have fun trying out and if she made it great, if not, it would be a good experience.









Right before auditions she started crying because her neck hurt. Some of the incision has pulled open. Since the hospital is five hours away I am going to e-mail them this picture tomorrow and see what they say. They may just say that it has to heal naturally. She did not have stitches. They glued the incision. It seems like a really big incision to glue but I am not a plastic surgeon so he would know better than I would how to do things.











The audition was not at all what I expected. About 20 or so girls 7-10 years old were crammed together in a line. The moscow ballerina did some movements and then they did them. I'm not even sure if Jasmine did them because she was so crowded. I thought they'd call the girls out a few at a time and have them do some of their moves. But she did about three moves with the girls and then took four of them out of the line. Jasmine was in that group. They did about four more things and a bunch mroe were removed from the line (these were all snowflakes). Only the last few got to do much dancing. They were all dance company girls. The lady didn't know that but of course these are the girls who devote the most time to dance.






The good thing is that everyone got a part. Most of the girls Jasmine's size are snowflakes. A few of the taller ones have special parts. The Moscow troup brings all the costumes with them so part of the decision has to do with who will fit the costume. The snowflakes costumes are the smallest ones.

But Jasmine is NOT a snowflake. They called the girls out by # to tell them right away after only about ten minutes total what their part was. They called Jasmine (#9) first and said they had a special part for her. She would appear with the troup on the stage and wear a beautiful dress (Which I believe we supply, it's not one of the costumes). It is not a dancing part. She will either be carried by a ballet guy or ride in a sleigh. She is happy with that.

I asked our studio owner if they just made that up for her so she wouldn't be left out and she said that someone has that part every year. But I don't know how they pick that person. I know she could have been a snowflake but she was also really upset about her neck so the lady may not have thought she could do it. Or maybe there weren't enough costumes her size or it could just be they thought she'd be cute in the sleigh. It was a fairly small turn out. If there had been a large turn out, some girls would have been left out and I hate that. I am NOT a competive person. I hate when kids get their feelings hurt because they are slowest or left off a team or don't get a part.

Since Jasmine's part is not a dancing part we won't be going to all the rehearsals. At the same time, she won't gain the experience of dancing in it. But she will be a part of it and she plans to try out again next year. And she is happy with her part for this year.

Weekend

Checking out the costumes.



All sorts of combinations.
We have a box of old outfits from school dress up days (Career, Disney),pilot for the day, etc. When we lived in England the kids had to wear a peasant outfit for one of their field trip so they couldn't have anything with butons or any dye they wouldn't have had. Adam is wearing the shirts and hat two pictures up with the pirates' pants.


Cinderella and the ugly stepsisters.

Yum
Princess on break
Pirate break
I don't think pink is his color.
I used the left over meat from the kabobs (earlier post) to make stew.