Special Olympics Bowling

It's that time of the year for Special Olympic bowling.  At 8:10 Saturday morning we left the house to head to Sportsworld Bowling Alley. Canyon and his team were set up on lane 16.  He found a gold ball in his size and soon the games were about to begin.

I sneaked over to the side to get a shot of him in action, but lighting is pretty dull so they all turned out blurry.  

He made a couple Spares as you can see in the picture above.  

Awesome job Canyon!

1st PLACE WINNERS!!!

The team: Chance, Shawn, Canyon, and Tyler

Pancho, our neighbor and Canyon's bud in the Jr. High, got his medal for Individual Bowling.

Another happy kid.

Everyone awarded and just in time for lunch at Ihop.

Way to Go Canyon!!

So this is how I work now....

 Online threats keep 70 percent of Russellville Middle School students at home

Police do a 6 am locker search before school on Tuesday.

Update:

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RUSSELLVILLE (KATV) - Two students were arrested Wednesday after death threats were made against other students at Russellville Middle School through the online message board Ask.FM.
More than half the student body stayed home Wednesday. More than 70 percent didn't show up for classes on Tuesday.
Thursday may be a different story, though, thanks to those arrests.
Police arrested the first suspect Wednesday morning as part of a separate investigation. She originally went on the same site asking how to make a bomb, according to police, and was charged with falsely communicating a terroristic threat.

• Online threats keep 70 percent of Russellville Middle School students at home
  

The second female suspect was interviewed and arrested Wednesday afternoon, directly connected to the Ask.FMdeath threats.
Police emphasized that while both girls were arrested for activity on the same site, they were not working together and their alleged crimes are in no way connected.
The case took major steps Wednesday morning thanks, in part, to help from federal law enforcement agencies that were able to ping the IP address from the chatroom.

Neither suspect has been identified because of their ages.

Evening visitors

I took these pictures from inside my house. They were about 50 feet from the patio. We've never had them come so close before (that we know of anyway). 

Christmas came early

Even though we worked really hard a couple weeks ago to make a make-shift loft bed for Canyon, I decided to order him a real one for Christmas. I ordered it on Thursday and it arrived on Saturday. I was shocked. I was told estimated time of arrival would be mid November. Well, we couldn't just let it sit there for 2 months so we dug in. 

All the parts and pieces were accounted for even though it appeared that the box had been opened and retaped. Maybe it was delivered to someone else but was the wrong color. It came in black, white and grey. 

It took Sahara and I a little over 2 hours to get it put together. 

Finally! It's one bolt short because the hole wasn't bored out correctly to allow the bolt to fit in (wasn't a major needed part) and 5 of the 44 slat fasteners broke when we tried to get them on. They also weren't super needed because there were other components in place to keep them secure. 

His insanely thick mattress is taller then the guard rails!

 I'm not excited that the ladder can only be placed on this side because it means he has to crawl over pillows to get up and down. He likes his pillows by the wall. But it's just tall enough to get 1 of his 2 dressers underneath which was exactly what I was hoping for. Going to Lowes tomorrow for pipe insulation for the rungs. Because they are round they are hard on the feet. 

(After these pictures were taken, we flipped to the window wall and now he climbs in and out at the foot of the bed)

Merry early Christmas Canyon. 

There everywhere!

Wow!  Look what's growing in the yard. I heard some shots outside so I went to investigate. Didn't find the source of the gun fire, but found mushrooms everywhere.  

The first picture has a resident perched on top. Yikes!!

Some are nearly as big around as my hand fingers and all. The underneath is pretty cool looking. 

This is Halloween

Our night was not scary. We got to head out right at dusk after getting some pictures. 

We walked the hood for a little over an hour. This was one of the last houses. My kind of people!

Then we hit a fire station. They all pass out candy and let the kids check out the trucks. 

Then to the HardBack Cafe for grasshopper Frapps!  Yum. 

School tomorrow and Malaki out in the truck, so we headed home at 8:30. It was a good night. Not too hot, not too cold, breezy but not pouring like the weather has been telling us for the last week. Canyons bucket is 3/4 full and he had a good time and was excited. 

Pumpkin Carving

Canyon played sick yesterday and I picked him up from school at 11. He did take a 2 hour nap when we got home. Congested. Today I got a call at 8:45 that he was running fever. I couldn't take off work again so I picked him up and he went with me. He played on the iPad, read books, and built with Legos. He ate all his lunch and seemed fine. I canceled horse therapy because he was tired. 

He was in good spirits though so we hit the pumpkins. 

Canyon was really good about cleaning out all the guts. Then he took off with my phone to listen to music and I carved his pumpkin. He did give me instruction on what he wanted: 2 eyes, round nose, happy smile, 4 teeth. 

Then mom got busy on hers!

Sahara and Brittany took their time and were not into the gut removal. 

Sahara told me in the future, her kids will be coming to my house for pumpkin carving. I told her she will get faster every year. As she was starting to think of a face for hers, I had both Canyon's and mine done. 

Brittany hard at work with hers. 

Canyon's finished product. 

Mom's pumpkin. 

Brittany's happy pumpkin. 

And Sahara's design. 

Canyon's PowerPoint

Canyon has been making PowerPoints at school.  This one says '10' on it and it is the 10th week of school, so I guess he has one a week to work on.  For him, it would take awhile.  He gets 5 new vocabulary words (words he will never use, but it's exposure and that's how things go) - he is exposed to the words, the technology, typing, image search, workings of a PowerPoint, etc.  

This one is about his favorite; FIRETRUCKS !

His aide spells the word to him and he does all the typing.  He is pretty good at typing.  You can say "The, capital T, h, e, space f, i, r, ....." and he will be able to follow along and capitalize and space where needed.  He looks for images on Google and has help placing them where they go on the slide.  

Good Job Canyon!!