September Photo Bomb

September: back to school, Coldplay concert (!!!!), and making grape juice

Time has seriously flown by! This year is my fifth year teaching, which seems totally unbelievable! My first year I taught fourth grade at Reagan Academy in Springville, UT. Since then, I have been teaching fifth grade at Dorothy Fox Elementary in Camas, WA. 

year 5!

Like I mentioned in the previous post, there were fires in the Columbia River Gorge during the first week of school. This meant that nearby areas were filled with ash and smoke. Some homes were even ordered to be evacuated! As a precaution, our school had to keep all outdoor exits closed and students were not allowed out for recess. That made for a pretty crazy first week! Students were more hyper and restless than ever. You also saw crazy people like me wearing masks when outside to protect against smoke inhalation. 

Brodie made fun of me for this haha

 Near the end of the month we went to Seattle to visit my parents and go with them to the Coldplay concert. This was Brodie's first Coldplay experience, and even though it wasn't the first for me, it was still mind blowing. Nothing can compare!

Seattle at night

waiting for the concert to start

Thank you so much Mom & Dad for taking us! It was definitely one of the highlights of our year! 

Before leaving Seattle, we helped my parents pick grapes in their backyard. We didn't realize how many grapes there were until we started picking. We picked over 100 pounds of grapes, which we then turned into grape juice!

Brodie stood on the ladder and stuck his head way up into the vines to get the good grapes :) 

some bunches were as big as my face!

buckets and buckets of grapes - both green and purple ones

we filled 4 bags, each weighing about 25 pounds

 we then washed the grapes . . . 

. . . heated them on the stove in a juicer 

. . . and turned them into juice!

Thanks Mom and Dad Fish for teaching us how to make juice!