This YouTube video is hilarious. My mom was laughing her head of when she watched it. Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDPi4buduY0
It’s a spoof off the old Reese’s commercials, except this one is how the General Authorities eat their Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. The guy who imitates their voices does a fabulous job!
This Friday we had a daddy-daughter date, since we haven’t had one in a while. We did it with my Uncle Scott and my cousins, Megan and Jennie. We went golfing at Trafalga first. Then we went to Scott’s house and had taco’s for dinner. They were soooo good. After we were done, we sat around and played games and told Calvin and Hobbes jokes. Then we ate the chocolate cheesecake that I made earlier. It was really nice just to be together.
Yesterday I did swim practice in the morning for an hour, made a Christmas countdown chain, helped Abbie clean our room, and finished an essay for English.
For school this year, I am doing high honors again. High Honors is a 30 hour extra curricular project in a subject area of your choice. Last year I did a visual arts project. This year I am doing a foods project. My Aunt Rachel is going to be helping me because she is a chef and knows just about everything about food. Tomorrow I am going to job shadow her starting at 5 in the morning. She is a chef at the new MTC. I am also going to learn how to cook some basic foods, make meals for my family for a week (for practice), and make a cook book with all my favorites in it. It’s going to be fun!
Hope you all have an awesome week!
Instead of doing a trunk-or-treat, our ward does a fall party a few weeks before Halloween. This year I got to help with the face-painting. I also ate chili and scones, went on a hay ride, and played with kittens. After the party was over, I went over to my friend Sarah’s house with two of my other friends, Hailee and Camille. We watched the first Harry Potter movie. Halfway through, everyone fell asleep, including the dog, except for Camille and I. They didn’t wake up until the Bishop came over at 10:30 to pick up Camille. We had fun anyway. :) Then, on the way to drop me off, Sister Dangerfield’s car died. Her son and my dad came and tried to jump-start it, but it didn’t work. I finally got to bed at 11:30. I love the weekend!
Sorry it’s been so long since I posted. I don’t feel like retracing all the things we’ve done, so I’m just going to pick up with where we are. If you want to see what we’ve been doing before this, check out my Mom’s blog.
Ahh, Fall Break has been soooooo nice. On Thursday we cleaned up the basement and I had a sleepover with Rachel and Becca to help them get ready for their Harry Potter party.
On Friday we bottled a ton of pears.
Mark and I went to Rachel’s Harry Potter party that night. Someone *Mark* brought the camera and didn’t take any pictures, but Rachel has some, so I’ll have to get them from her. The party was soooo fun. She cooked all day and we had a start of term feast to start off the party. I had chicken, french fries, jello, mashed potatoes, a roll, apple pie, chocolate truffles, lots of jelly beans, and chocolate frogs.
It had the wizard card and a frog made of chocolate in it….. just like in the books!! Then we had a trivia game-which I totally rocked- and then talked the rest of the time. It was way awesome.
On Saturday we took a drive in the mountains. The leaves were so pretty.
We had a picnic up there, and then Mom, Dad, and Neil went to go get birthday pictures while the rest of us went to Rachel’s apartment and watched a movie. That night Abbie and I made masquerade masks and did makeovers. It was fun.
Hope you all have an excellent week !!
The Saturday before Spring Break, we loaded in the car and set out on a 16-hour drive to Washington to visit my Dad’s Grandpa. We drove and drove and drove some more. We had to get fast food for lunch, and let’s just say I was ready for some home made food for dinner. And I got it! Uncle Mark and his friend Oscar live in Oregon so we got to go to their apartment and then to the park for dinner. We had grilled chicken, mixed veggies, and cookies for dessert. It was delicious! Afterwards we got to play in the park. They had a bunch of seesaws, and Neil and Isaac thought they were so fun!
While we were in Washington, we got to go to the ocean. When we went to the sandy beach, we were wading in the water when Mark found a Sunflower Starfish. The only reason I knew what it was was because I’ve watched a Planet Earth nature show on it. It was pink on the top and bright orange and purple on the bottom. It was about the size of a dinner plate. We would have taken a picture of it, but we were way out on the beach, and the sand was so muddy that our shoes got stuck sometimes, so Dad stayed up at the top of the beach with the camera. While we were there, Mark also found a really cool crab.
We also got to go over to Seattle by ferry. It was really fun to go out on the back deck and see all the waves it was making.
We also went to the rocky beach and chucked rocks in the water. Well, the other kids did. I still had my flip-flops in the car trunk from going to the sandy beach a few days earlier, so I put them on and went looking for shells. Man, the ocean is cold in April!! Really cold!! After a while your feet get numb, and then it is a whole lot easier.
Fresh crab. Delicious!
Along with going to the beach and riding on the ferry, we also got to go to the temple and have an Easter egg hunt with Uncle Paul and Aunt Chris’s family. It was so much fun! I’m glad we got to go.
Have a great week, I’ll post again next Sunday.
Sorry it’s been so long since I posted. I‘ll be sure to do it more often.
Last year in our garden there was a little snake that lived behind the hedge, but when he finally came out of hibernation this year, he wasn’t so small anymore.
A few days after we rediscovered Squirmy, Mark and I went down to visit some horses that live down by the cow farm. I had a photography assignment to take some pictures of animals, so I took the little camera with us.
Mark and I were coming back from visiting the horses again the next day. We were riding our bikes up the street when this big doe ran across the road. Just then two cars started coming down the street, so the deer made this spectacular leap for the fence. She must have misjudged how big it was or something because she hit it instead of going over it. But the speed from her jump rolled her over the barbed wire and she landed on the other side. The doe kind of had this dumbfounded look on her face when she landed on the ground. It looked really funny. Then the deer just jumped up and kept running. It was pretty cool. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the camera with me.
Hope you guys have an awesome week, I’ll post again next Sunday.
Wow, its been a while since I wrote.
This year I am taking a calligraphy class. My teacher took over the class form the old teacher, and didn’t know tons about it, so my mom came and taught the class for three weeks. At the end, we had to write a quote in calligraphy with proper technique and sizing. I wrote “Hakuna Matata”. I’ll post pictures as soon as I get it back.
Thanks a bunch Mom! You are awesome!
