Octopus!

Hello! Today I am going to write about one of my favorite things. Octopuses! Did you know it is my favorite animal? Well, it is, no matter how crazy it sounds. Go to youtube.com and look up octopuses, and I guarantee you will be amazed, or at lest, I guarantee you will see why it could be my favorite animal. Ok, I've got to go! Bye!

Pancakes.

Do you want to know a very strange fact about me? That fact is that I hate pancakes! Yes, this is true. I hate them, because they are not filling, and not very yummy. And the rest of my family loves them. So, alas, I must eat pancakes on days like today. OK, I won't say any more.

Seed Id Results!

I got 6th place! I also got a check for a bit of money! I didn't even know you got a check for 6th place! Well, I had fun. While there I got a couple of cows to be my models, and read, and drew some more, and read some more and drew... Ok, you get the idea. But it was fun!

Sick.

Oh, we're sick. We've gotten the flu. I feel rotten. Well, actually, I felt rotten yesterday, and today I feel as though someone scraped the rotten part out, and left a tiny rotten part still in. Oh, well. And guess what, the fair ends in two days, and we still haven't gone. I really want us all to get better SOON!

Well...

The seed ID is today! I wish myself luck!


Also, I learned that although St. Bernadette died a LONG time ago, her body remains uncorrupted. Weird! Freaky! A miracle!


Homework: Find out what year she died.

Fair!

Hey, the fair is this week starting... Today! I'm going to enter Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies, for the recipe click here. Well, I'm also entering a paper doll collection, a painting of St. Benedict and St. Scholastica (I don't think I spelled it right, but she's St. Benedict's sister.) Pretzels, that will be in the Sunshiny Cookbook soon, and some other items. I'm also doing a huge seed ID thing that I was in last year, (I won 3rd place in about 150 people, not exaggerating!), and our 4-H group put up a booth about Childhood Cancer. Getting ready has NOT been easy, though.

School!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know this may sound crazy, but I can't wait for school! I love school so much! (except for math.) This year I'm in 7th Grade, and I'm going to be learning world history and stuff like that. Oh, I just can't wait!

Back.

Well, were back from our totally awesome, incredibly sweet, amazingly fun trip to North Carolina/Virginia Vacation! I miss everybody so much! Well, I guess I can't say it isn't pretty nice to be back home... no place like home!





But I still miss good ol' Virginia.

Trip!!!!

This week... in fact tomorrow, we are starting on our vacation trip! We've packed all our stuff! (well, toys...) and us kids are ready to go! There will be lots of cousins and dogs and that equals fun! Well, goodbye for now! Oh, and my summer fun list is:



Swimming.
playing with sand.
playing with family.

oh, and

playing with dogs.

oh, and... ugh! there's so much to do in summer, I can't write it all down!




And on lazy Sunday afternoons read The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall and The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright. They're really good! Have a good summer vacation!

New link

My friend "Old Woman" made a blog! She's only got a handful of stories, but they are very good. So go see what (might!) have happened when she was young.

ps. it's called Stories From the Lighthouse.

An Ode to Poppy

I love you very, very much,
You mean the world to me,
I love your gentle touch,
So here's to you, Poppy!

-By your loving daughter

map

This is my visited states map now.


This was it several years ago. Look carefully, NOTHING'S DIFFERENT!!!!!!!!!




create your own visited states map
or check out these Google Hacks.

Sunday?

This sounds really silly, but I thought that today was Sunday! I woke up and got my dress already, ate breakfast, and took a bath. But, as I was hopping out of the tub, I thought, wow, how time flies! It seems like yesterday was Wednesday! Then, I realized yesterday WAS Wednesday! So that is why I wore a dress today.


(Hehe)

Happy Mothers Day, Mommy!

My new blog

Hey, guess what? I've got a new blog! It's called The Sunshiny Cookbook. Click here to see it.

My Birthday List of things about me

1. I love to read.
2. I like to make and drink coffee.
3. My favorite Christmas song is "Angels we have Heard on High."
4. I enjoy swimming.
5. I'm very social.
6. I love Chicago.
7. I like to go camping.
8. My favorite movie is "The Princess Bride." (It's my Mommy's favorite, too!)
9. It may seem strange, but my favorite animal is an octopus!!!
10.I'm the only kid in my family that doesn't have a nickname that is used frequently.
11.My best friend is named Charlotte and we live in different states.
12.I cannot stand my room being messy.

Today is my Birthday!!!

Today is my birthday. Thank you Poppy for making me a wonderful breakfast!

Cute

Poppy showed me this and it is absolutely adorable.

Warmer weather

I love this warm weather. I love to run outside and play games with my sisters. I have a new longing now, though. I want it to be summer so we can play in the pool and go to Virginia. It's strange how that works, isn't it? All winter I couldn't wait for spring, and now that it's here I can't wait for it to be summer!

Thank goodness for grandpa shoes

Click here for a funny movie made by my aunts!

That's hilarious! Thanks for the video, Aunt J and Aunt A!