Tra la la!!! The End of Our Summer!

So this week wraps up our Strange ... But True? Summer Reading Club 2012, yesterday we went out with a bang at the Montrose Park! We had a bouncy castle and carnival games from BV Tool Rentals, a refreshing water park for the kids to frolic in, our tie-dye-ing station all set up, and I had my camera at the ready!

I'll be posting my official post later this week or at the start of next week! I still have to post about our Monster Week with the Little Einsteins and Young Professors and Guest Wednesday with Les Anderson. And plus, I took about 250 pictures at the party! So it's going to take me a while to go through them all, pick out the good ones, and edit them! So please bear (pun! .... get it? no probably not, but Les Anderson talked a bit about bears during his Guest Wednesday visit, no? not funny? ok) - bare with me!

Until then here's a teaser picture from our Party from yesterday! This is a shot of some of the kids in the water park. Just before we started our water balloon fight we got a group picture, here the kids threw the water balloons up high and screamed as they were bombarded by rogue balloons!

Anyways, I just wanted to thank all the kids, Rhonda, the Beaver Valley Public Library, all our fantastic Guests for out Guest Wednesdays, the Trail Daily Times (for putting up with my constant emails and for sending the lovely Breanne Massey to the party to take some pictures and ask questions for the paper!), parents, and everyone for making this such a fun job for me! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

Happy Reading! 

What's Happening This Week? PARTY!

PA-PA-PAR-PAR-PARTY!!! (P.S. this picture was featured on the second page in the Trail Daily Times today! Much better in colour, though, no?)

So, from all of us at the Beaver Valley Public Library, you are invited to ...

Our Flyer for the Event!

Yay! I'm so excited, yet also a little sad, since this marks our last week of the Summer Reading Club and therefore drawing to a close my time this summer at the Beaver Valley Public Library! :(

Sara, Zoe, Michael and Sam are getting excited for our party this Thursday!

In the meantime though, I am looking forward to the bouncy castle!!!, the tie-dye-ing!!!, and games and just EVERYTHING coming up for the party at the Montrose Park this week! I hope to see you there!

Today, Susan and Stephanie joined me to practise some tie-dye-ing at my house, since we are planning to have a section at the party this Thursday devoted to tie-dye-ing capes! We shall indeed be assembling some super heroes at the party!

Our materials and finished product!

Here's some pictures of us assembling our capes! Although I did screw up my iron-on logo on my cape! Whoops!

Our twist-tied, tie-dye-ed abominations!

Me posing with Stephanie's super Twist-tied cape!

Ta da! Susan with her cape!

We definitely had a blast making our capes! So fun and easy with this spray kit Rhonda had in the craft room of the Library! It only came with 3 colours: purple, black, and gray - and really I saw no difference between the gray and black, so 2 colours really!

Super Susan! To the rescue!

I'm thinking that tomorrow, or rather today, at work that I'll be doing some further embellishing on our capes! If only we had a be-dazzler at the library! ... maybe Rhonda has one!

Anyways, these capes were fun, they'll make a hero out of all of us, definite superheroes!

BANANANANNANANANANAAAASUSAN!

Happy Reading guys! Hope to see you at the library this week, or if not there at the Montrose Park this Thursday for some games, a picnic, fun, bouncy castle, prizes, just everything really! It's going to be sooooo fun!