AND DON'T FORGET..........

VALLEY SCHOOL IS DONE!!!!!!

No more big machinery at 5:00 AM

No more noise....

No more dust.......

No more garbage from the workers....

No more parking in our way.....

Just kids....lots and lots of kids...

Seriously, I don't even know they are there ,

I leave home before they come and get home after they leave..

sweeeeet!!!

Dedication Night:

Here is the reveal...

Principle Lee talks to the kids, VIP's, neighbors

and parents at the "Dedication/Back to School Night".

The kids were really excited!!

There was something "OLD"

The sign from the old "Valley Elementary in Huntsville.

[They also brought the old "Bull Dog" from the center of the old gym]

And something "NEW"

[Preschool Playground]

I must say that the Weber School District Administration, Principle Lee, and Wadman Construction were always considerate about our needs. Many thanks to them for being so sensitive to our situation!

And now, these pictures are for Mac:

This view is from our upstairs family room window.

Pretty close...Ha?

Front Angle picture from NE corner.

Front Entrance

Preschool Playground on North side.

Front view looking east.

View from back of school south west looking North.

Carly tries out the equipment...she's such a kid.

Taken from southwest corner looking NW towards Creager's.

Future grassy area.....

Back of school looking West.......and Finally....

The New playground on the SE corner of the lot.

And now Mac, you have seen it all.

THE END

What else is new?

LABOR DAY MEANS CORN DAY

Here is the Annual Wilson Corn day in pictures:

Doug does the picking [3 wheelbarrow's full]

Then the "shucking"

Everyone helps...

Then Robin washes...to get all the hairy stuff off.....

Campbell entertains herself...

and stays close to mom and Pooh...

Grandma "blanches" the corn...

First a "cold" bath...

and then an "ice" bath....

Time out for Grandpa as he takes the kids across the street...

to the new "school" playground...

Nik bags..........

....and samples

Then we freeze the bags and the "reward????

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A delicious vegetable lunch.....tomatoes.......watermelon......and of course

CORN

And another tradition.....Grandma's sloppy Joe's.

Thanks Grandma for a fun morning!!!!

The Final challenge....the BIG one.

This was not really the FINAL Challenge, but it was the BIG one.

The one that really tested your limits.

Take a peek....

The anticipation.....the butterfly's....the equipment...

The rope climb.....way up there...

The rope was pretty tricky...

Maureen makes it look easy....

Wendy braves the "walk"..

Nedra steps out of her comfort zone...

Lindsey......youth is a wonderful thing...

Our fearless leader.........

Sheri is almost to the zip line.....

Teresa makes it look easy.

Jenny gets help from her friends who haul her from the bottom...

to the top and then let her go.

Jenny tore her ACL just before the retreat.

Everyone made it...here she [Laura?] goes!!!!!!!!!!!

And my personal favorite:

See Tif

See Tif do the challenge

See Tif do a backward full pike, roundoff back handspring..

All the way down.

Weeeeeeeee!

RE Retreat

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You get the idea.

More RS challenges....and fun

We had 3 more challenges to do:

There was the swing to the island one.

This taught team work and taught us to just hold on to each other when things get tough.

Swing to the Island

Now how are all of us going to fit on that island?

Two more to go.....hold on tight!

Tah Dah!!!

The next challenge was a brain twister.

A Spider web with a hole for each participant to go thru.

Can't touch the web, and need help from both sides.

Some crawled thru

.... while others tried to figure it all out

Some went head first....

Some low-crawled...

Some went feet first..

Everyone helped it work..

Almost done.....

You can do it!!!!

It was all great fun!!!

And the lesson we learned is It takes a "Village" to keep the "Spiders" away.

It's a challenge...............RS Retreat

The second day of the retreat was spent on the challenge course.

Here is a look at a few of the challenges.

Be a good listener. Trust your partner. Focus only on your partners instructions. The moral here is that in life you will have many promptings to do good or bad. Learn to listen and decipher what is good. Focus on good things.

Challenge # 2

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Challenge #2

Trust/Teamwork/balance.

Object is to weave everyone off the log without knocking anyone off. It took a lot of hugs and teamwork but they did it.

Stay tuned for the next challenge: