School activities

This year Kayda took photography and had a really good time.  They actually use an app on their phone for some of the editing.  She had to submit a photo to the art show.  This is the picture she took.  We are enamored with the fields around us (and of course the view of the mountain).  She took off into the pasture and took this picture.  I wish the grass was longer.  Maybe it will grow in tall and beautiful in the spring.  

Dillon ended up in choir.  The students either sign up for band for the full year as their elective or they choose the "rotation" which is a random selection that changes each quarter.  He didn't enjoy choir but ended up singing the same solo as Kayda did last year.  

Carson had his 3rd grade concert.  The concerts he has been able to do have been much more elaborate than the ones Kayda and Dillon ever had the opportunity to do.  They dance, wear costumes, play instruments... Kayda and Dillon got to stand in place and do arm movements, and play instruments.  Of course, Kayda and Dillon also ended up singing a lot of songs in other languages.  Carson's group never really did that.  

Flooding!

There was rain...so much rain.  It was filling the rivers to the point they sent kids home early from school.  It kept coming.  We ended up having school cancelled for a couple of days.  The creek east of Orting flooded so badly the highway was shut down.  You had to drive up out of the valley and come down from the other side (adds about 45 minutes of driving for those people).  They uploaded drone footage and you couldn't even see where the road was for a lot of it.  The river closest to us got up so high it was almost touching the bridge and came up to the very top of the levee.  It was running high and fast.  You can see the bridge WAY in the back of this picture.

Daddy and I decided we wanted to check out the river so we were just going to grab McDonald's real quick.  I heard they cancelled school so I let Kayda know on the drive.  She was very nervous so we couldn't resist messing with her. 

She didn't appreciate the joke.  

We were never worried since we're tucked back away from the river and our house is actually built above the 100 year flood plain.  It was really fun to watch.  There were all kinds of cool pictures.  A coworker actually went onto one of the walking bridges on the other river and the water was going up and over their feet....on top of the bridge.  

It was actually really cool to see, we probably won't see anything like that again for a LONG time.  They're now working on repairing the levee where the water got to the top.  It was significantly eroded.