Christmas Eve Choir

 

Our children's choir sang at the Christmas Eve mass.  This is my friend Amelia sitting next to me.

And this is everybody being silly!

The first graders did the nativity play just like we did last year.  Last year I was an angel in the play.  This year I was in the choir. 

Flat Stanley

I had an assignment for school where I made Flat Stanley.  We had to have Stanley go somewhere around the world and take pictures.  Then we had to share with the class.  Mommy's Uncle Jim took my Flat Stanley to China!  Half way around the world!  Stanley got to ride on airplanes to California and then to China.

It looks like he had fun.  He saw all kinds of things in China.  Like buildings and a factory where they make clothes.  He even met a Chinese police man.  My Flat Stanley went further than anyone else in 2nd grade.  Thanks Uncle Jim!

First Reconciliation

 

 

I made my first reconciliation today.  I was a little nervous so Mommy waited with me in line. But it went fine when I got up to the priest.  It wasn't Father Eric though. It was another priest from another church who came to help.  Daddy joked that I didn't take long enough to tell my sins.  That wasn't nice! But I didn't have to tell every little thing.  Just the main things.  You do it so God will give you a second chance because he knows that we are not perfect. 

 

Now that is over.  I make my first communion in April.

Queen of the Hay Mountain

We went to the farm to get pumpkins today.  And in the back of the barn they had a huge mountain of hay.  It was so big.  We climbed up and Mommy took our picture.  I will admit it was kinda scary up there.  And the funnest part was that we jumped off the hay mountain and Daddy caught us.

Waaaay Up High

When we were in Chicago we went to a building where you go way up on the 100 something floor.  I think it was 103 floors or something like that.  But anyways, they have glass all around and you can look down on the other buildings.  It is way high and it is a long way down.  It was cool.  I just got Samantha so I took her with us.

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We were trying to take pictures in the glass floor box but Julian was throwing a fit.  He kept screaming and crying.  So they weren't good pictures.  He wasn't scared but he was made because Daddy wouldn't let him take a baseball from the store.  But it was really cool to look all the way down.  Cars looked really small.  Like ants.  And you could see soooo far...

My American Girl

I finally got to go to the American Girl store.  It is an awesome place.  It is so big and they have so many dolls and so much stuff.  I kinda wanted to get the Samantha doll just like Mommy had when she was a girl.  I looked around at the other dolls and I decided to get Samantha.

I picked a couple of outfits for her.  And we picked hairstyles.  They fix their hair right there is a little like hair salon place. It was so cool.  

Samantha is from a long time ago.  Her time period is like 19 hundred something.  I'm so excited to have her!  Thank you Mommy and Daddy!

2nd Grade School Picture

Riley the big 2nd grader

Wedding In A Barn

 

 

 Mommy's cousin got married and the wedding was in a barn.  It was pretty but it was really hot that day so we stayed in the shade.

I liked it because we got to see some cousins like Madeline and Carly.  They are not close cousins like Landon but kinda far away cousins.  We had fun.

 

 

Then after the wedding we went back to the hotel and swam in the pool and karaoke with the whole family.  Poppy was singing songs and Mommy sang some songs.  Daddy didn't sing because he is not silly fun like that.  It was fun and we stayed up late.  Then we saw everybody for breakfast in the morning before we drove home. Family weddings are fun.

Colonial Girl

We went to Williamsburg for vacation this year.  They have a town where people dress up like it is a long, long time ago. Do you like this picture with my colonial mom and dad?  Hahaha!

They have old houses and streets.  There are no cars and they have horses walking on the streets. And the horses poop right on the street and you have to walk around it!

The girls wore a lot of clothes.  It was too hot to wear that much clothes but I liked the hats.  So Mommy and Daddy bought me a hat.  We went in some of the houses and saw how they cooked and washed clothes.

 

 

The only bad part was that Daddy put me and Luci in the jail thing.  They just lock you up on the street.  I really could have got out because it doesn't fit kids' arms. 

 



Seacat Again

I swam on the Seacats team again this summer.  I did a lot of morning swim practices.  Gram picked me up a lot of the time.  The meets are more fun because you get to have a break.  We usually sit in a tent with Mommy's friend Alicia and her family.  Gram and Grandma both came to one of my meets too.  I got a lot of medals.  Some were 1st and some were 2nd and some 3rd place too.  And sometimes I just got a participation ribbon.  Those are rainbows and they are prettiest.

 

I swam the butterfly this year.  It is the hardest stroke.  I did pretty good with my freestyle and my freestyle relay team was good.

 

 

I got to the do the championships this year before we went on vacation.  There were a lot of kids there.  A LOT.  They don't give out ribbons but only medals.  I got 3 medals and the Seacats won the championship!

 

We dressed up as superheroes and Mommy made costumes for all 3 of us.  We had our letters on our capes.  We went on vacation right after the championship.

 

Say Cheese

We did family pictures.  A girl came to our house to take them.  We did pictures of just the kids and as a whole family.

And we did some silly pictures too.  Julian didn't know how to make a silly face.

B Dubs

B Dubs is our favorite restaurant for two reasons.  The first reason is they have the best chicken wings.  The second reason is that you get to play games on tablet while you are waiting for your food.  B Dubs is so awesome for kids.

My Mommy

I wrote about my mom for Mother's Day.  She is the best mom in the universe.  I drew her with a crown so she could be the queen.

We made a trail of things with purple in it to lead her to the breakfast that we made.  Purple is her favorite color.  The breakfast was blueberry pancakes and M&M pancakes.

Happy Easter

It was a little bit cold when we went to church.

Filling up the basket with eggs.  I like boiled eggs.  Yummy.

Another Snow Day

We got more snow and didn't have school today.  So we sat around and watched movies and then... we went sledding!

My friend Lyric met us at the snow hill.  We had fun and we were sledding until it was dark.  We got a new camera that you can wear it on your head.  I got to wear it. Check out me going backwards down the hill.

Then we had hot chocolate at home.  That was way better than school.  But I think that I have to go back tomorrow.   Mommy doesn't have school tomorrow though.  She is mad about that.
 

Dr Seuss Birthday

Today is Dr Seuss' Birthday.  We got to have a reading party in the gym.  Daddy came to read with me.  He forgot to pack my blanket so we had to share my sleeping bag.  We read a couple of books and then we played games.  We played bingo and made cat in the hat hats.  And I ate some green eggs and ham...with sprinkles.  Yummy!

(It wasn't really green eggs - it was green pudding.  And the ham was really a vanilla wafer)  

New Year Resolution

I had to write down my plans for 2015 at school. I said that I would be nice and kind.  And that I will be nice to my parents.  I didn't write about being nice to Luci though.  But I guess that I should be nice to her even if I didn't write it down.

Trying Soccer

 

 

Daddy has tried to get me to play soccer before but I haven't wanted to play. Providence is having a soccer clinics for girls and I decided to try it.  It has been pretty good.  There are a lot of girls there and I know some of them from Our Lady. We do different soccer games in the gym.

 

Daddy took me once and Mommy took me once. It is early in the Saturday morning and both times they took me out for breakfast afterwards.  :-) And I went swimming with Mommy and her friends one time too.

 

So far I like it.  You do a lot of running in soccer so it is good exercise    Maybe I will play outside soccer too.  We'll see.

Aced Spelling

I studied hard this week and I got all of my spelling words right. I even got my sentence all right.  Last time I forgot to put a period at the end of my sentence and I only got 19 out of 20. This time I got all 20 points.