The Emporia Animal Shelter

I am hoping to volunteer at the animal shelter. I might be able to walk the dogs, play with the animals or clean the cages. I hope to find out tomorrow.

here is a link to their website: http://www.petfinder.com/shelteAnimals

Our Halloween

We had a Halloween party. It was fun. We didn't do much trick or treating this year. We mostly gave out candy to trick or treaters (we still got a lot of candy though). All in all, it was a good Halloween.

My top seven favorite books

The Thief and the Beanstalk by P.W.Catanese,

Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan,

The Amazing days of Abby Hayes by Anne Mazer,

The Wish Giver by Bill Brittain,

Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great by Judy Blume,

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling,

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis.

What is your favorite book or books?

Pics

Our tie dye Pics

Sorry!

I can't believe I haven't blogged in so long. I have gotten six Bettas and me and Kaman got five guppies and two snails. So far two guppies have died. My sister turned 8! Yesterday we went to a tie dye party. It was fun. I will post pictures of the shirts.

Day 2 with cat

Cat is still cuddley. It is a rainey day.

We got a Cat!!!!

Its name is Sooterkin. My mom got her as a early birthday present. She is cuddly and she and Naisey get along great.


our friend with Sooterkin.
Sooterkin taking a nap.

Glasses

I have to get glasses because I am near sighted. It's not that surprising considering both my mom and dad wear glasses. I am excited.

Surviving the Applewhites

This was the book we read for book club this month. It was good. It is about a boy called Jake he moves in with the Applewhites they are a weird family. I enjoyed the book.

Pic I took.

Pic I took.

My brother is learning to ride without training wheels. here are some pictures we took the first day.

Pic I took.

2 Days

Only 2 days till my birthday! I will be 10. Double digits!! Yay.

Visitors

My Dad took the bar so as a surprise my Uncle Derek, cousin Alex, and cousin Gabe came from Oregon. It was fun to see them. I had a lot of fun. We went to the zoo. Gabe is almost a year old. He is really cute and he likes to eat vanilla wafers and KIX cereal. Alex is 3 and a half and likes cars, superheroes and playing villan. He and my brother get along really well.

New Tomb Found

There was a new tomb found in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. I thought it was cool because the last tomb they found was King Tutankhamen and that was 84 years ago. They said that they haven't gotten in it yet, as far as I've heard, but they can see that there were five different coffins and lots of jars which they say they think might be food offerings.

You can read the article here.

The Fantasticks

We went to see a musical called "The Fantasticks." It was fantastic. I loved it.

It was about a girl and a boy who did the exact opposite of what their fathers told them. So the fathers faked a feud so the boy and the girl would fall in love but they couldn't think of a way for the feud to end so they hired a guy called El Gallo to kidnap the girl so the boy could rescue her. The girl's Father would be so grateful that the feud would end but it didn't workout the way they had planned. They annoyed each other so muh it turned in to a real feud. The boy and the girl ended up together and it worked out ok.

My mom and dad's friend, Cyprian, played El Gallo. He was great! He was funny and I liked his character. The best scene he did, I think, was when the boy stabbed him while rescuing the girl. El Gallo took like 10 minutes to die. He wandered around and half fainted on a woman in the audience. It was funny. El Gallo sang a lot of the songs and his voice was so deep. We tried to sing the songs in the car on the way home but none of us could get our voice as deep as his. My sister got pretty close though.

Hatchet: Book Review

We finished Hatchet. It was a good book. He ended up getting rescued. But first he had to learn a thing or two about taking care of himself in the wild. He had to learn how to make a bow and arrow. He had to make a shelter and start a fire using just his hatchet and sticks. He got attacked by a moose and he also met a bear.

I recently got Brian's Winter. It's the story of how he would have survived the winter if he hadn't gotten rescued. I haven't started it yet, but I plan on doing it today.

Zathura: Movie Review

I went to see Zathura. It was better than I thought it would be, much better.

It's about two brothers. The younger one finds a game called Zathura. He twisted a key, pressed a button, and a card popped out. It said, "Meteor Shower" but he couldn't read it so he brought it to his brother. Once his brother read it, a tiny little meteor burned through the card. They just sat there and watched the meteors come until they finally ran before one hit the chair. They were hiding in the fireplace when the meteor shower stopped. Then they peeked their heads out and the tv turned itself back on and then the last meteor, a huge one, destroyed it.

Once they started playing this game, they had to finish the game because everything that was on a card was happening to them. Their house was getting destroyed, but they became better brothers through all their adventures.

I would recommend this movie.

The book we are reading

We are reading HATCHET for book club. It is good but we haven't gotten very far in the book yet. It is about a boy whose parents are getting divorced and he is going to visit his dad but the pilot has a heart attack and the plane goes down somewhere in Canada and he knows a secret about something his mom did which caused the divorce. I can't wait to finish it. Then I'll write about the rest of it.