Charity's Day of Days!

Tuesday was a pretty hectic day, for the most part.  It was Charity's Constitution Bowl!  She had spent the last month or so, cramming 96ish (I think she only made it to 72, but still, wow!) questions and answers about the Constitution.  She had signed up to do this all on her own, completely optional, and was put in a team of about 6 kids her age.  This was an extra curricular thing, but happened to be during school hours, so that was pretty cool.  We had to go to Adelaide Elementary dressed in Sunday best.  I brought Jack with me, but left Erika and Noah home with Grandma Hatch for the day.  Signing in was a little stressful when we learned that half of her team were sitting in class 15 minutes before the thing was supposed to start.  We were afraid her team was going to have to forfeit and that was scary, but luckily they let us shuffle the teams around a little and then a lot of the kids actually showed up, so it all worked out.  The Bowl was pretty cool.  It was double elimination.  Charity's team struggled their first round with people not quite knowing how to buzz in, and they were up against a pretty tough team.  They lost that round and then lost their second round as well.  The second round was a lot closer and a bigger disappointment when they got out.  Some of those kids just knew their stuff SO WELL!!  They were able to buzz in two words into the question and get them right!  It was amazing.  I think our kids realized that they needed to have studied a little more, and luckily they will have another year, another shot at it next year, when they know more what to expect.  This was the first time our school has participated so nobody really knew what was going on, and they didn't get enough coaching or help from their teachers.  So now we know, and now we will be all set for next time!  I got to sit and talk with Tiffany Skelton through the whole thing, so that was fun for me :).  And Jack slept! until the last half hour or so.  So it was nice.  They got out so early on that we thought they would want to leave, but they liked missing school I think, and I figured they'd earned the morning off.  So we let them play on the playground and basically just do as they pleased for the last 2ish hours, until the awards were given at the end.  They got a participation certificate and cheered for the teams that won.  Hopefully they had fun.  I was overall, very proud of our kids, Charity especially.  She knew most of her stuff and had done so well in the competition.  It was a good experience.
We stopped at Wendy's to get the kids some lunch since they'd missed lunch time.  I bet they felt cool coming to school late, with fast food!  Good times.  Nice work Charity!  I hope she tries again next year.

So after that, we were able to rest a little, but not for long because I had had to make my dinners and deliver them.  Then it was time for Charity's next big thing, the SPELLING BEE!  We all headed on over to Bountiful High, yes,we took the whole to a district spelling bee, don't judge me like the people behind us did. Charity was pretty nervous but she did so great!  She lasted three rounds. Her first word was"podium" second word was "celebration" and her third word, the one she got out on, was "professional".  She gave it an extra "F".  We were so proud of her though and she was proud of herself as well.  Grandpa Hatch and Steve and Jauslin had come to watch and we all went out to Dairy Queen afterward to celebrate.  What a neat experience!