Weekend Recap

This weekend was incredibly busy, but quite fun. After class on Friday, Linnea and I went to Ace Hardware to pick up some fertilizer for our winter vegetable patch. Granted, this is mostly Linnea's project, but it's still fun to spend some time outside and learn more about proper fertilization and gardening techniques!

I also managed to snag a ton of paint samples for a little Pinterest project I've been thinking about. 

Our garden, which we affectionately refer to as "The Dirt Patch" 

Saturday started bright and early! Every October the California-Nevada-Hawaii district of Circle K International has two massive fundraisers for the Pediatric Trauma Program. Did you know that 90% of accidents involving children are preventable? This program works to provide training for doctors treating children who have experienced some kind of traumatic accident, and also provides safety equipment and training to help keep as many kids safe as possible. The way the fundraiser works is that members from around the district sign up in teams of six to compete in a series of relay type activities and compete for a spot in the finals. Each team pays a registration fee and all the funds go to supporting PTP. We call it Crazy Kompetition for Infants, a.k.a. CKI North/South.

About 1/3 of the attendees. This is my division, Sunset, and Central Coast division! 

This year I was one of the judges and got to help out at the jump rope station. People don't realize how physically demanding jump roping! Two members of each team are responsible for turning the rope and the other four must jump. The first person must make three jumps before the next team member can join them and we don't start counting jumps until all four members are jumping. It's intense! The highest scoring team made 152 jumps as a team of four in just five minutes! Bonus: My friend's team, The Sexy Six, has competed together for the last three years and they took first place in the finals this year!

Some of my friends who were also judging jump rope wanted to give it a go... It's harder than it looks but they managed 195 jumps in 5 minutes! :) 

I love this event because it brings together a lot of people that I only get to see a few times a year. Plus we usually wind up getting food afterwards and it's so fun to catch up. By the time I got home though, I was totally wiped. I wound up going to bed at 9:30pm and sleeping for almost twelve hours. It was glorious!

Sunday was supposed to be my relaxation/ homework catch up day, but there was far more relaxing involved than there was studying... Oops! Linnea and I went back to the apple orchard and walked away with a complimentary jar of apple butter from the owners in addition to our next ten pound stash of apples!

So many yummy fall treats!

We ran a few errands on the way home, and I walked away from Target with the best purchase I think I've ever made. I have never owned a pair of patterned pants, but I could not leave them behind after trying them on and feeling how soft and comfy they were. I wore them all afternoon yesterday and I didn't want to take them off!

Please ignore the dirty mirror and my lack of a face (I was pretty sunburnt from Saturday)

Overall it was a great weekend, but I'm seriously wishing I had done more homework. I have about 500 pages of reading to finish before Wednesday, so we'll see how that goes. Wish me luck!