I love reading. My favorite book series is Animorphs. A group of kids can change into different things like monsters, people, and animals. I like the adventure, mystery, and strategy.

My best friend's name is Amini. She watched my bird while our family went out of town.

October Days

Today, I wore a red skirt that my mother made for me. It had designs that looked like flowers. My mom said that she will make one for herself too so that we can be matching. I wore it to church. At church, I learned about Isaiah and some of the quotes he said about the millenium and what it will be like such as all the wildlife being calm and all of the wicked being burned.

At school, we had an award assembly. I got two awards: straight A's award (Gold Star Award) and Perfect Attendance. So I got two sonic medium slush coupons. My principal is Mr. Ogston and he is really funny. What we did with him was...He told us to stand up and dance to the music that was playing for about 5 minutes until all the grown ups came. My mom and dad couldn't come because they were working but my brothers, Josh and Darren, could because my friend Amini's mother brought them. Mrs. Brown made Josh and Darren wave at me. It made me smile.

My Grandpa Crandall came over for General Conference and he painted more on my wall. He painted another tree but still did not finish. It looks awesome! My grandpa brought birthday presents for Jay and my dad and it was called Ladder Ball. It looks like a ladder and you have two balls hooked together with a short rope that you throw at the ladder and try to get them to hang on the ladder. It is fun but hard.

I love animals!!!

Today I noticed that my lovebird, Sunny, is growing dark red feathers where there is pink on top of his head. He is going to be sooooo beautiful.

Yesterday, we looked at bunnies for 4-H. I think I am going to get a mini-rex because it has short fur and is easy to handle. We got 4 cages from a friend of my mom's whose kids used to do 4-H. There was two small cages, one medium, and one huge cage. I think we should use the big one so it has room to roam. I can't wait until I get my bunny! I have been waiting a long time. I thought we were going to get one yesterday but they were sold out. So we will have to wait a little longer which I am not happy about.

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.