Look at what Mom and Dad put under the tree just to annoy M, K and I...

Gifts! and we can't open them for 15 days!

Here is our Christmas Tree. Its more like half a tree, we had to use the top half of it and put it on a table so Nancy can't get to the gifts and the ornaments.

Here is Santa, his head is hitting the ceiling.

A couple of days ago Nancy found a stick outside and brought it inside.
And over the course of the day she chewed it to pieces...

Book review: Uglies

I recently began the Uglies trilogy By Scott Westerfield. Uglies takes place in the future where at the age of of 16 you get an operation to make you beautiful and you get to move to a place called new Prettie Town where you party all night and sleep all day. Before you get the operation you live Uglieville and are called an Uglie.

Uglies is about an almost 16 year old girl named Tally Youngblood whose friends are all pretty and she can't wait to become pretty until she meets a girl named Shay who's thinking about running away to a place called the Smoke before she has to get the operation. The Smoke is where all the Uglies who don't want the operation run away to.

Shay asks Tally to go to the Smoke with her but Tally decides to stay and get the operation. So Shay runs away leaving instructions for Tally if she decides to run away. Tally goes to get the operation, but before she can Special Circumstances (the secret police) take her to their headquarters and tell her that unless she takes a tracker with her, goes to the smoke and tells Special Circumstances where the Smoke is, she can't get the operation.

I would recommend this book. There are 3 more books, 2 of which I have read. The 3rd as far as I can tell is not about Tally.

When Mom's not home & Dad's in charge...

Kaman gets a penny up his nose...

Book Review: Inkspell by Cornelia Funke

Inkspell is the second book in the Inkheart trilogy, the first book was Inkheart. Inkspell is about the same characters just one year later. I really like the story. It would be hard to tell the story to you because you didn't read the first one. The 3rd book hasn't come out in English yet. I would recommend this trilogy. Something I think is interesting about these books is they are written in German and translated into English.

Tie-Dye

We Tie-Dyed shirts yesterday and washed the extra dye out this afternoon. Here are some pictures. Mom didn't get pictures of her shirts but I will post pictures of her wearing them later.

Washing the extra Dye out of my shirts

One of my three shirts

Two of my three shirts

My last shirt

Nancy stepped in the dye and got blue paws!

This is my new fave picture of K, he was washing the extra dye out of his shirt

K's turned out really cool!

K's second one

M's shirt

Halloween pictures

I'm a Witch!

Look at all the Candy I got!

M the Pet Vet

Her Candy!

K as Luke Skywalker!

The Lightsaber was an early birthday present.

I Think he used the force to get people to

give him more candy!

Halloween

Tonight I am dressing up as a Witch & taking M & K out Trick or Treating. M is being a Vet.
K is being Luke Skywalker. I will post pics of us in our costumes later.

M started read the Harry Potter series earlier this year and started the 7th recently! Of course she went to back and read the 19 years later chapter first. She is now on chapter 5. She has read the first 6 books all by her self. I know she is planning to do the same for the 7th.

Some pictures I photoshopped

This is the original picture.

After I photoshopped it.

The original picture.

After I photoshopped it.

That's all I have for now.

A new dog!

Unless someone claims her we get to keep her. Look at my mom's blog for how we found her!

She likes to sleep.

She and Naisey get along OK sometimes, but most of the time they don't. Once they get to know each other it should be ok. The cat kinda freaked out when she saw the new dog and she still prefers watching the dog from above or from a distance instead of being next to her. We Named her Nancy.

4 posts in one

Movie review: Happy Feet

This movie is cute and funny. It is about a penguin named Mumble who when he's happy he dances, and he is outcast by his group because the older Penguins think that he is offending the great 'gwean (The Penguin god) by dancing so the great 'gwean is casing the fish shortage. So he has to find out were the fish are. It is a good movie I recommend it for kids and adults.


M's 9th birthday

She is 9! We brought cupcakes to and went swimming at a friend's house yesterday then we gave her presents that night, we all had fun. I will let her blog about what we gave her.

M

Book review

On the way to our grandparents house I read Following My Own Footsteps by Mary Downing Hahn. It is the sequel to Stepping on the Cracks, a book we read for book club a while ago that I liked. I would recommend Following My Own Footsteps but to be clear on the story you shold read Stepping on the Cracks first.

We have a bath tub

With jets! We have all been enjoying bubble baths for the past week.

We rented the first Lord of the Rings movie recently and we all really enjoyed it. I want to get the next one soon.

This is my version of Galadriel's (from The Lord of the Rings movies) hair:

I think it looks good on M.

Galadriel.

Theater Camp

I went to theater camp last week. It was fun. We did a play called The Great Kapok Tree. We made the set and costumes. I was one of the narrators.

4-H Dog Show

Naisey did good! We both got tired after three and a half hours! But it was fun.

4-H Fair

I entered 2 Pictures (That's all you can take) one was computer manipulated which I got a champion because no one else does computer manipulated and the other one was two Swans. I also took a Scrapbook, Yogurt Breakfast Bread and Butterscotch Cookies, it was funny when the judge tasted the cookies she rolled her eyes and said "Oh these are good, you can't go by with out tasting these" and she meade her assistants try some!

My Yogurt bread on the left, cookies on the right.

Champion!

Mine is the one with two Swans and M's has one swan.

I like this one of M's.

M's spice muffins.

M's poster for Foods.

Two days 759 pages

I just finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, I kept having to wake myself up last night or I would have tried to finish it. Not that it is a snooze! I was tired after the dog show yesterday. And I agree with my Mom there were some really funny parts.

The Harry Potter party

Was good, The Sweet Granada had all kinds chocolate! Dementor's Chocolate (Big chunks in a Little bag), Chocolate Bugs, Chocolate Frogs, Chocolate Rats, some others and then they had Blood Lollipops (They had a trvia game and we got blue ones) , Chocolate Owl Lollipops, Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, and something else that turned out to be Pop Rocks. They also had fresh squeezed lemonade, I had the things highlighted in red. And there were prize drawings. My friend won and got a Harry Potter hat, a Hagrid figurine, a box of every flavor beans and Dumbledore's wand.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie

I think they left out some important stuff, they didn't mention Sirius's brother which I think is going to be important in the last movie, but they might still come up with a way to put that into the story if it's important in the books. They also left out Ron getting on the Quidditch team which is something that he gets on in the 6th book too, so I don't know of they are going to ignore Quidditch in the 6th movie too or what.

I was kind of disappointed in the movie.

Quizs

You Are: 40% Dog, 60% Cat

You and cats have a lot in common. You're both smart and in charge - with a good amount of attitude. However, you do have a very playful side that occasionally comes out!

Are You More Cat or Dog?

You Are Not Scary

Everyone loves you. Isn't that sweet?

How Scary Are You?

You Are Strawberry Ice Cream

A bit shy and sensitive, you are sweet to the core. You often find yourself on the outside looking in. Insightful and pensive, you really understand how the world works. You are most compatible with chocolate chip ice cream.

What Flavor Ice Cream Are You?

You Are Cameo

You are understanding and very empathetic. You don't tend to have acquaintances. Everyone is your friend. And all of your friends tend to be friends. You have a knack for bringing very different people together.

What Color Orange Are You?

You Are a German Shepherd Puppy

Intelligent, quick witted, and a bit aggressive. You've got the jaw power to take a bite out of anyone you choose.

What Breed of Puppy Are You?

Earrings

I made some earrings today here are some pics:

Here is a pic of the earrings I made M, they were the 2ed pair I made.

Here is a close up of M's earrings.

This is the pair I made for myself.

Here is a close up of the earrings I made for myself, they were the first pair I made.

This is the pair I made for my mom.

A couple of weeks ago-

When M and K were at Pirate camp mom and I gave the dog and cat a bath!

Poor Kitty

Poor Puppy

Sooterkin wouldn't let go of the edge!

And now we're going to give the cat a bath, and then the dog again!