Wine & Food Festival

On Sunday we went to a wine and food festival in Austin. It was a really long drive. Saturday night we had camp-out in the play room. We had to wake up really early so we could have enough time to get there before it started. We woke up at 6:30 in the morning. Dad had music playing on Itunes. We got ready to go and then Gram and Pappy picked us up. First we went to Hillsboro to drop Kannon and Faith of at Miss Melinei's granny's house. It is right by a farm! We dropped them off there because they coudn't come with us. Then we went the rest of the way there. And even that was interesting. We saw some weird stuff. I had brought my camera there, too, so I took lots of pictures. We stopped for breakfast at Ihop. I got the silver five with bacon and scrambled eggs. Maverick got the same with hash browns insted of eggs. Then we got back in the car. Gram gave us her Ipod Touch. We watched a video about blue whales and then we played Touch Pysicys. Then we played Blocked. Then we gave it to Gram. After awhile Maverick threw up. Poor guy. :( I didn't throw up though! :) Then we got there. I took some pictures. There were a lot of tents. They had food places and wine tasting places in them. One was a cooking deminstration. One was were you went to hear the music. They had live bands there! First we went potty in the port-a-pottys. Then we went to a tent. There was: wine, wine, and more wine! There was a little food, and it was pretty good. Gram said that the festival should have been called the Wine & Food And Wine Festival! After we went through the tents we went to a place were there were some small food booths. There was a place that had chicken stuff and a place that had tacos and another place. I tryed one of the tacos, but I didn't like it. To get to the food booths you had to go over a muddy field. There were boards that you could walk over so you wouldn't get muddy. Then we went to a place that we could run around in. Then we went potty again. Then we ran around a little more, and then we went to the cooking deminstration tent. On the chairs were some bags. They were checkerd with a green stripe near the top. The words in the green stripe said, "I used to be a plastic bottle." On some of them the checkers were two shades of green. On the others they were colored. We kept one of each. It took too long for the deminstratoin to start so we went out of the tent. We went with Pappy to the field again. He counted how long it took for us to run to the fence and back. I got 14 and 13 seconds. Maverick got 17,16,and 15 seconds. Then we went to the music. I took some pictures and even some video. Then we found the others. Then we went home. When we stopped at the farm I took some pictures. There was a dog there and a cat. We petted them both. There were also some cows behind the fence. I took pictures of them. I took pictures of the barn, the tractor, and a pothole. Then we went home. It felt great to be home! A good time was had by all!

Happy Easter!

.....a bit late. I hope all of you had a wonderful Easter! On Friday we colored eggs. I made a Jesus egg and a sports egg and a puffy sticker egg and a flower egg. I even made one that looked like it was cracked! It really wasn't. On Saturday we went to the church picnic on the grounds. My friends Elizabeth, Margaret, and Mia were there. Mom and Dad couldn't be there because they both had to work. There was a bounce house and 3 Easter egg hunts. First was the one Maverick was in, then the one Faith and Kannon was in, and last was the one I was in. We all got LOTS of candy! On Easter we went to the church service. I stayed for the last one because I was going to help Gram set up the hospitality suite. Well, more clean up. There was still some donuts and stuff left over. I ate some. :) Then we went to our house to pick up Daddy. Then we went to Gram and Pappy's house. When we got there we ate lunch. For lunch we had ham and cheese sandwiches. Then we went to Pappy's office while Mom and Gram and Dad hid the eggs. Then after they hid the eggs we did our baskets. We got lots of cool stuff! Then we did the egg hunt. I found a lot of eggs! Then we went home and had dinner. We had pizza for dinner. I am a weird kid: I don't like pizza! I am so thankful that Jesus died on the cross for us and rose 3 days later!

Maverick's Post!!!!

Maverick wanted to put a post on my blog, but he can't type so I had to type for him. It is about when we played Super Heroes. I will say though, he may get distracted sometimes!

"Super Heroes is when we pretend we are super heroes. Today in this game of Super Heroes we had to catch a fox because the fox was eating people. That fox was fast! It took almost an hour to catch it! The fox ran all over the place. First we had to go into a tunnel to catch it. The fox kept going into tunnels that were lower and lower! Then we went out of the tunnels into nowhere. And then we walked along and went into an elevator. The elevator took us to the 99th floor. Then we spotted the fox! We chased it everywhere! Then it disappeared and we had to use our radar to find it. We chased it to the playroom and found his assistant. We killed him. Then we went on another elevator. It was small and dark and only 2 people could fit in it, so Kannon had to wait. The elevator took us to a place with a toilet. There was a hippo guarding the next elevator. It was a good guy hippo so it let us past. The elevator took us to the 101th floor. Then we went into an elevator that took us to the 800th floor. Then we went into an elevator that was only for super heroes. It took us to the 900th floor. Then we chased the fox again and then we went to an elevator that you had to bounce on to make it work. Then we saw the fox again! We chased it to another elevator. Then when we went to the bottom of the elevator, we saw the fox! We killed it. We had lots of fun!"

Well, there you have it. Thank you, Maverick!

Random Thoughts

Here are some random thoughts.....

.....my fish tank lights are both out. This proves to be a source of great annoyance to me.

.....like writing in my notebook but can't think of anything to write about

.....am hungry right now. I am hungry most of the time.

.....really like playing outside, but my great fear of bees and wasps makes it nearly impossible in the summer or spring when it's sunny. Weird fear, I know!

.....really like blogging

.....maverick is annoying me by trying to get my attention on Moter Storm

....really want to read the next Harry Potter book. Daddy is being very slow reading it. :)

....don't like dance class

.....don't want to do recital. It's okay when I'm not on a stage, but if I am, (like on recital), I freak out!

.....don't like school

.....can't wait till Easter

.....can't wait till Friday

.....can't wait till Saturday

.....really like whales. Absolutely LOVE them!

.....been kinda tired lately. Don't want to be.

....Maverick and the rest of them have been very funny lately


Well, that's it . What are your random thoughts? : ) :) :)

Sleepover

Last Friday I had a sleepover at my friend Lucy's grandmother's house. Lucy's grandmother's name is Miss Joye. Someof you may know her though blogging or have met her. So now for the sleepover story. Before Lucy and her grandmother came to pick me up I was a bit nervous. But that went away fast! I brought my camera to the sleepover and I took a lot of pictures! After Lucy and her grandmother picked me up we had to decide where to go to get dinner. First Lucy suggested pizza, but I told her that I don't like pizza. Finally we dicided on Mama's Dauter's Diner. I had never been there before. It was very cold outside and I was freezing! It was nice and warm inside,though. We ate in a booth. The menus had these things on them: the daily special, chicken fingers, and I can't remember what else. I got the daily special, which turned out to be a lot of things. You could get a cheeseburger, and I can't remember what else. I got the cheeseburger, and so did Lucy. I had to go to the bathroom. They had pretty good bathrooms, and the biggest roll of tolit paper I have ever seen! I could fit my whole fist into the thing that holds the tolit paper! When we left me and Lucy got one York patty each. They were good! After we left we went to a Wal-Mart for candy. After we left we went to Miss Joye's house. There was a tennis ball hanging on a string which was on a hook which was on the celing of the garage. Miss Joye said that was there so she would know where to park. She also said that she had a dog named Sanders. When we got inside we saw Sanders. He is an old dog,12 years old. He is gray, and he has a tumor in his mouth from when another dog butted him and knocked out his tooth. When we got inside we turned on Bolt. We painted some Plaster of Paris statues we got from Wal-Mart. After we were done painting we moved into the living room to watch the rest of Bolt. Miss Joye put a table out so that we could put our drinks on it. Bolt turned out to be a really good movie. After Bolt was over we wactched Beverly Hills Chiwawia. It was a good movie, too. We were going to watch Sleeping Beauty afterwards, but we decided to watch videos on the TV in the Indiain room. We watched Inspector Gadget and Rocket Man. We stayed up til 3:00 IN THE MORNING! The next day we slept in til 9:30. We had Ihop for breakfast, and then we went to the Highland Village Wal-Mart for shirts to paint in. I saw Mommy a Wal-Mart because she works there. When we got back we painted some boxes to be a clubhouse. Before we actully painted the boxes, Miss Joye had to cut holes in them so that we could go in them.We played with the tennis ball and took pictures on Pastor Mike's motercycle. After we painted for a while we played with bubbels. We used the long, kinda skinny ones that blow big bubbles. I spilled my bubbles on aciddent and had to get new ones. After we played with bubbles we finesed painting. Then we went inside and played Wii. First we played bowling and I won, then we played diving game. Then Lucy and Miss Joye went to the store and I stayed there and played diving game. When they got home Miss Joye took me to Gram and Pappy's house because there was overlap. I think it was an AWSOME sleepover party! Thank you, Lucy and Miss Joye!

King Tut Exhibit

The day before yesterday I went to the King Tut exhibit with Margaret and her parents. It was awesome! We got audio tour thingies from a man when we were in line to get into the exhibit. It was really long! Thank goodness it moved faster than you might think! The sad thing was that they didn't allow pictures in the exhibit. But I still took lots of pictures! Just not in the exhibit. Speaking of the exhibit, there was in it a statue of a pharaoh and his mother. They their arms behind each others backs. It was really pretty. On the sides of the front and on the back were hieroglyphics. The ones on the back were prayers, I think. The other ones, I don't know what the other ones were for. The guy that did the audio tour had some kind of accent (I think it was Egyptian) and I couldn't understand some of what he was saying. In the exhibit, there was LOTS of stuff. Miss Margo (Margaret's mom) said we spent 2 AND A HALF HOURS in there! It was well worth it! In addition to the pharaoh and mom statue, there was a statue of someones head. It looked really weird because it had an elongated skull. There was also a really pretty scarab beetle. There was some screens that showed you things that they could not show you with displays. One showed you that the glass that the scarab beetle was made out of was only found in the Sharah Desart. The screen said that it was not made by man. Unfourtunetoy they didn't belive in God and the screen was saying things about 30 million years ago. Honestly, there wasen't even a 30 thousand years ago! But the scarab beetle was still really pretty. There was also a real coffin! All of the stuff was real! The coffin was really pretty. It had a tiny dot on it that when I first saw it, I thought that someone had put ink on it. But then I relized that it was a jewel. There was also a mummy mask. It was pretty, too. There were also 2 chairs. But they wern't regular chairs. They were beutiful chairs. One of them had a wickerwork seat and on the part were you rest your back was a picture of the princess who owned the chair. She was sitting both ways, with a sevent giving her a big necklace called a coller. After we left the exhibit we went to dinner. We walked to a place called the Spaggeti Warehouse. I took lots of pictures on the way. I even took a picture of a real ambulence! For dinner I had cheese sticks. So did Margaret. At the museum's souvenier shop I bought a book and a pencil. I had lots of fun with Margart!

Gram's St. Patrick's Day Bash

Yesterday was St. Patrick's day. We went over to G&P's house for a party. It was awsome! When we got there we saw hats, headbands, a necklace and a crown on the table. There was also some daffodils, my favorite kind of flower!:) The hats and stuff were to put on so we looked even more green. I alredy had on a green shirt, green pants, green hairties (I had braids), green shoes, green ring, green braclet, and a green necklace. Maverick had on his dinosaur shirt(the dinos were green), and green pants. Kannon had on his green truck shirt and some overalls that had green on them. Faith was the only one who diden't have green on. After we put on the hats we ate dinner. We had Baked Lays and some really yummy sandwhiches. I don't know what was in them. After dinner we had our after-dinner mints, and then we played our first game of the night. It was called Coin Toss. You had to toss gold coins into a black bucket. After you ran out of coins you counted how many you got in the bucket, and that was the number of prizes you got. Faith went first and I went last. After we played Coin Toss we played Shamrock Relay. What you had to do was this: each team had two big shamrocks, and when you played you had to put down a shamrock, and then you put down the other shamrock and stepped on it, then you reached behind and you took the first shamrock and put it in front, and so on and so on till you reached the table, then the other teamate took over and went back. My team won every time, and Kannon, Faith, and Maverick were all on my team in that order. They all helped me secure the Shamrock Relay victory. After we did that we played Hot Potato with a real potato! We did it to Irish music. At first we did it normal, but then we did it like this: when you got the potato you took it in both hands and raised it up in the air and then put it back down and gave it to the next person. Then we played Dance Around. We used the same shamrocks we used in Shamrock Relay. Gram wrote the numbers 1,2,3,and4 on the shhamrocks. She put them around the island. Pappy played Irish music, and you had to dance or walk or jump or whatever, and when the music stopped, you had to go to the nearest shamrock. Then Gram would take a number from the pill bottle and whichever number she called out, the person who was stanting on the shamrock with the matching number on it got an extra prize! It was alot of fun. Then we made our dessert. Gram put pudding mix, half and half, and green food coloring in some containers, then Pappy played more Irish music. We shook up the pudding to the music. I said "Shake it up high! Shake it down low! Wherever you go! Then I said,"Shake it side to side! Shake it up and down! Shake it diagnally!" When the pudding was all shaken up, we sat down at the table and ate it. Gram put St. Patrick's Day sprinkles on the pudding. It was so good, I ate the pudding off of the lid! Next, we had a scavenger hunt. While we ate our pudding, Pappy hid the gold coins that we had used for Coin Toss. He also hid some rectangle ones. Gram told us that if you found those, you got to get an extra prize! I said,"If we find 5 special coins, how many prizes do we get? Gram said, "5!" I said, "So if we find 20 special coins, we will get 20 extra prizes?" Gram said, "That's right." So we started the scavenger hunt. Gram had told us before we started that any coin you found under your wast you leave for the little ones. I found lots, but I left some for Maverick to find. I found 6 special coins, Maverick found 5, and Kannon and Faith both found 2. After we were done we got our extra prizes. Then we played Coin Toss again. I got 9 in the bucket, and Maverick got 13! After we played Coin Toss we played Hot Potato again. Then we played Dance Around again, and then we played Memory Match, St. Patrick's Day style! The cards had different colored shamrocks on them, and there was a special rainbow pair, and if you matched those, you got an extra prize. I won both times, and the first time Kannon got the rainbow, and the second time Maverick got the rainbow. After we were done playing Memory Match, it was time to go home I told Gram that her St. Patrick's Day party was the best one we had ever been to, out of the none we've been to! It was an awsome party. To Gram: I think you did even better than perfect at the party! I loved it! I hope everybody had a great St. Patrick's Day!