Spirit Week – Hall Decorations

The hall decoration theme for Spirit Week was board games.  The staff wan’t assigned a game (we think the students knew we would win and were running scared), so we chose to decorate using Chutes & Ladders.  Mr. Bense and Mr. Matz our administrators made the ladders, slides, and squares.  I used a few digital images [...]

Cinderella Story

In case you hadn’t seen any of my messages or heard some other way, the Irrigon High School Lady Knights Softball Team won the 2A/1A State Championship Game yesterday, beating Union High School Lady Cats 1-0!  Our whole family traveled to Corvallis to watch Breena in her very last high school softball game, and we [...]

Gaston . . .

40 7th through 12th Grade Students
3 Chaperones
2 Yellow School Buses
14 hours (11 of which were driving)
1 Softball Game
2 Teams
1 Dream Season
1 Broken Down Bus
2.5 Hours Stranded

Yesterday was the IHS Softball Team’s Semifinal Game against Gaston, and they won 3-1!  The Lady Knights rocked it out again, and they are on their way to play at [...]

More From The Game

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Jessica made an awesome catch, but I was so excited watching the game I didn’t get my camera up in time and I cut off her head!

Kim waiting for a throw for the final out to win the game.  Look at that smile on her face – she’s [...]

IHS Softball Kicks Some Butt!

Today the Irrigon High School Softball Team played Enterprise in a State Softball Playoff Quarterfinal Game.  Enterprise was ranked #1 in the state, and Irrigon entered the game as a huge underdog.  Our girls were up to the challenge, though, and they played the game of their lives!  Irrigon defeated Enterprise 6-2, and now they play [...]

A Week (Or Two) In Review

Spring activities have consumed the TOD Household.  We haven’t been home before 7:00 p.m. any weeknight over the past two weeks.  It’s okay, though – we’re having a BLAST!  All three little girlies are busy busy busy with softball (Katelyn & Harley) and coach pitch baseball (Reagan).  They are having a great time, working hard, [...]

Connections

For the past day and a  half, I have been at a conference in Bend with several co-workers.  We are part of a great program called GEAR UP.  It is an acronym meaning Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs.  Our school is finishing the first year of the six-year-program, and we are working [...]

For Laughs

 
Someone sent me a picture of me playing Donkey Baksetball.  You can\’t tell very well in this picture, but I was pulling as hard as I could on the reins trying to get my donkey to move.  Fun times.

An Eventful Thursday

Aaron had surgery on his eyes Thursday.  He’s been wanting to have LASIK surgery for many many years, and we were finally able to have it done.  Unfortunately, Aaron didn’t have enough corneal tissue to have a second surgery if it were required if he were to have LASIK surgery, so he had a procedure called PRK [...]

This Week (Sort Of)

This past week was very busy for our family.  Not only was it a shorter week than normal because of the President’s Day Holiday, but I had to work both Friday and Saturday at our district wrestling tournament hosted by IHS this year.  A short week and an even shorter weekend.
Three of the Irrigon wrestlers [...]