Microburst

Last night, there was a big storm. It was raining sideways and hailing. The hail was about the size of a quarter. It was loud and the lightning was very bright. It lit up my whole room. I got my jacket on and went outside. We sat on the back patio watching the storm until my mom said it is getting too bad...maybe a microburst might happen so we went inside. It was kind of cool. I wouldn't say scary. It was exciting because when it lit up my room it was light blue.

My Lovebird

Someone in our ward named Becky Brear gave me a bird. I named it Sunny because when I first saw it, it was mostly yellow. I love it a lot. Every day I take it out for at least 5 minutes every day and hold it on my finger. Every now and then I'll sing to it. Usually it sits in the middle of its perch in its cage where there are fruit loops on a string. That is its favorite snack. I also feed it millet and Sister Brear's special mix of bird seed. I have had it for at least a week and I've noticed that it loves to sing back. I have a whistle. If I blow the whistle, it will copy the sounds it hears. It usually will use its claws and beak to hold onto the bars when I try to take him/her out of his cage.

Gila Valley Temple

We went to the Gila Valley Temple Open House. We went to look around the new temple. First we went to see a video about the temple. Then we went inside. My cousins (Melody, Savanna, Brooke, Eden, Bill, Laurel, Emily, Christian, Bailee) were there with me plus Poppy Crandall and Grandma and Grandpa Clark. We had to wear bags over our shoes so that the temple would stay clean. The temple was very clean with big sparkly chandeliers. There were paintings on the wall. My favorite one was of when Jesus taught the people the gospel.

There were also two big mirrors that reflected on each other so it looked like they went forever and never stopped. I remember that when I was in the temple, the baptismal font was kind of upstairs and downstairs. It was on top of 12 oxen. I remember that we walked past a door full of baptism clothes. I want to do baptisms there someday. I want to be married in the temple because if I do then I can have an eternal family.

We spent the whole weekend with our cousins. I had fun with Rebecca, Emi, and Liam because we played in the treehouse together, played rockets, watched movies, played at the park, played Skip-Bo and Pictionary. I had a great time with them.

22 March 2010

Just today, we started a thing that the whole school would do. Our teachers asked us to not bring your jump ropes, hula hoops, or anything for outside because the teachers said they would bring their own things and we would play with that. It's because lots of kids were left out. Just today we started it and there are bins that you can take stuff from. Today I played with a hula hoop and another time I played on the bars.

I am reading a book called "Socks" by Beverly Cleary. It's about a cat that used to get lots of attention then the owner had a baby so they paid more attention to the baby. Socks got lonely for most of the time. Their Nana did not like the cat so she tried to convince them to get rid of the cat. Then they thought Socks did something bad because her Nana said. So they put Socks outside and he had a fight with another older black cat. So when he came in, their owners were very sad and they finally paid more attention to Socks again for at least an hour.

Today is St. Patrick's Day. For breakfast, we had green milk and green frosting on our cinnamon rolls. Orange Cinnamon rolls are my favorite. We added food color to the orange frosting so it's still my favorite. Nobody at my school got pinched because our uniforms are green. There was a Book Fair at school. You could get books, glow-in-the dark markers, pens, pencils, smelly highlighters, a whole pack of Magic Treehouse Books and A-Z Mysteries which are my favorite books.

I just started reading "Tabby in the Tub" by Ben M. Baglio. Even though it sounds like there's a tub in it, I haven't read about it yet. It's kind of a caring book.

I had achivment days and the young women came in. we played a game called "do you love your neighbor"what you would do is you would make a circle then someone has to stay in the middle and then the person in the middle has to go up to someone and say"do you love your neighbor" if they don`t then he/she has to say "but,I do love people that have blue eyes or anything else. and people with blue eyes have to run to a different seat. and the person that was in the middle has to try and sit down before all the seats are taken. Then the last person not to have a chair is in the middle. Then it goes on forever

Abraham and Lot

We just got our report cards. I got straight A's and perfect attendance awards. I was shy standing in front of everyone.

Today it is raining a lot! In the morning, the streets were flooded up to about 2 feet deep. We were glad we were in our tall van. Later on, we had more rain that wasn't too bad but it started thundering really loud.

Today at church, I learned about Abraham and Lot. They wanted to be together because they were best brothers maybe cousins but there was not enough room so they had to move away from each other.

Lot had went to a city called Sodom. And years later, he got married and that time the city had gotten wickeder. Abraham knew it so he told Heavenly Father that if he could get Lot over to his city, then he would do something for Him. So he did. He told Lot and his family to go where Abraham was but to not look back. So Lot and his family went over to Abraham's house but while they were walking, Lot's wife missed being in Sodom so she looked back. She turned into a pillar of salt.

What this taught me was that I should not look back and want the things that are bad and look forward to the things that are good.

Valentines Weekend

Yesterday me and my family went to a parade called Silver Spur Rodeo. I counted 83 horses, 2 camels, and 7 dogs. One of them was pushing around a ball. I thought the dogs were cute. I counted 5 bands. One was from the Gila Ridge high school,and one was from Kofa high school. When I am older, I want to play the clarinet because it sounds beautiful.

My family thought that the people from the Quechan indian tribe were very funny. We think it is funny beacause people spray painted there belly`s then did a war dance.

When my dad was gone for a whole week, we moved furniture around. Now I have my own room. The crib was moved into the other room so now Josh and Darren share a room. I am glad because every night when my brother is crying, he's in a different room. When he was in my room, he would cry and it was hard to go to sleep.

A few days ago, we had the Valentine Box competition. I won 2nd place for my Valentine Factory. I was surprised and all day my tummy hurt because I was so scared that it wouldn't win. When Mrs. Sevier announced that Nicholas and Nikki won 2nd place, I smiled and just shyly walked to the front of the room. Nicholas made a box that looked like a shark. It's mouth opened to eat the valentines. Olivia and Gonzalo won 1st place. Gonzalo's was a robot. Olivia's had a heart on top and a box on bottom. There were circles on the heart that lit up. If you pressed a button, it would sing. And it had "Happy Valentines" written on it.