Eliza's Party

A few days ago I went to one of my friends birthday party. It was very fun. I arrived and we hung out for some time, then we had a water balloon fight, in which I was had probably eight water balloons pop all over me. Thankfully everybody was in their bathing suits. After we had dried off some, we walked to the pool and played Marco Polo for half an hour to forty-five minutes. Their community pool is a little bit deeper than ours, which was great.

For lunch, which was next, we had pizza and soda with fruit. Most of the girls ate on the trampoline, that is until we discovered a massive wasp or something. Must have been one or two inches. Somebody finally plucked up the courage to kill it.

One of the funnest things we did was divide into teams of three and make clothes on a model in half an hour out of newspaper and duct tape. I was on a team with a girl named Sara and one named Kristina. Unfortunately our model was Kristina and she ripped the dress we made, but I could always make it again. Four pieces over lapped to make the skirt, and two were folded in half for the bodice, which was lined in duct tape and had a bow. The dress had really wide duct tape middle. We didn't win but I personally liked ors the best. The people who did win had a dress with a shirt of ruffles with a belt and a halter style neck holder- upper. The other team made their dress out of one newspaper and had a large flower on the belt.

We had a good chocolate and strawberry cake with ice cream, then we opened presents and got some gifts in return. Mine was a monkey puppet which 'Mander, my dog, chewed some. Luckily there from the dollar store. I then played some ninja with my friends, Eliza, Sara, and Shavonne.
Altogether an enjoyable party.


Tomorrow my family and the zion kids are going to camp Grady Spruce, and I'm sure I'm going to have lots of fun!

Summer Days

Summer has pretty much been great so far.We had the Dollars arrive from Colorado and spend a few days with us. Every evening we went swimming in the neighborhood pool; that was one of the best parts. We played 500, Football throw, Sharks and Minnows, and Shark attack. The older kids plus Jessica played Risk twice, Justin got a world domination and Aaron basically won. (We all were sick of rolling the dice, and he was wiping us all out.) Justin and I also played a game of chess, also won by him. He was good, or at least better than I.

In the mornings there was usually a wonderful breakfast, one day, we had donuts and another, kolaches.

Sunday was fun, church was a little wilder than usual, and Ignited, my junior high group, gave out special Proverbs journals.

We also celebrated Sam's birthday that Monday with bowing, cake, and more.

They left on Tuesday, sadly.

A regular day is kind of boring. Wake up and get out of bed later, lounge, read, play computer, swim, watch movies, sometimes walk the dogs, the usual. But shopping for a duffel bag and sleeping bag was fun.

My family is going on a Zion kids camp for about thee days and then a day later going on a month trip in California, visiting Disneyland, the beach, Yosemite, family and friends. I can't wait.
But while I wait, I'm lounging, cleaning, playing, and sometimes doing my homework. I have a project to do for Enhanced English for eighth grade. It's not too bad, I have to read and annotate The Giver by Lois Lowery. Then I have to find at least thirty literacy devices and make a journal with them, identifying the term and how it's used. The book is pretty good, but a little sad too, since the people are structured and have lost all the pains and pleasures of life. I'm still working on it and have quite a bit to finish. Luckily I did it last year with a different book and know better how it works.

Second Blog

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