Snow?! What!?!?

What is up with the snow?! It is the end of May, for cryin' out loud!

Bring on the summer!!!! I am DONE with school!

Really? Huh... Weird!

So I was looking on the web for something to blog about and I found two CRAZY stories(and I mean really crazy).

EXTINCT WHALES?
Saturday, some ocean experts saw a gray whale swimming in the Mediterranean Sea off Israel. This find was equivalent of finding a dinosaur in your backyard. This particular species of whale has been believed to have been extinct for about THREE HUNDRED YEARS! And now it has been seen, and it is definitely NOT extinct! IMPOSSIBLE STAR
Some scientists' space telescope caught the beginning of a big star! and I mean really, really big! So enormous, it would block our our sun. Even as a baby star it is already eight to ten times larger than our sun. The star is set to be one of the biggest and brightest stars in our galaxy within the next few hundred thousand years - which means, that this star won't even be part of our lives. So, we'll let scientists in the future worry about it.

Now I know exactly what all of you are thinking, 'Really? Huh...Weird! Am I right? I think that you'll agree with me, that these stories are CRAZY! I mean seriously who gets to see an extinct whale swimming in the Mediterranean sea? or a star that will block out the sun in a few hundred thousand years? Pretty cool.

Crazy May Holidays!

May 1- National Scrap booking day
2- World Laughter day (ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha)
3- Two different colored shoes day
4- Star wars day
5- National chipottle day (look it up)
6-No Homework day (Even though I did have homework)

7- World Asthma day (yay for Asthma!)
8- No socks day
9- Stay up all night day (My parents won't like that)
10- Wind mill day
11- Eat what you want day (totally!)
12- National nutty fudge day (mmmmmmmmm)
13- National frog jumping day
14- National chicken dance day
15- Straw hat day
16- National Sea monkey day
17- Victoria day
18- Visit your relatives day
19- Boys club day
20- Weights and measures day (I'm just as confused as you are)
21- Bike to work day (try it)
22- National Wig out day
23- World turtle day
24- Brother's day
25- Cookie monster's birthday
26- National senior health and fitness day

27-Baily's Birthday!!!!!
28- Nothing special day
29- International Jazz day

30- Hug your cat day (awwwww, look out celery!)

31- World no tobacco day

Help me celebrate these CRAZY holidays!

The Christmas Sweater

The other day I was out of things to read, so I explored my mom's collection of books. I found Glenn becks 'The Christmas Sweater.' I thought it might be a little out of season but who cares right? Anyway I started reading that night and I finished the next night! I couldn't put it down! My first opinion of the main character was 'What a BRAT.' Well, once I finished the book I absolutely LOVED the book! It's about a boy who's dad died when he was 9, so he lives with his mom and is struggling with their finances. The mom couldn't afford the bike that her son wanted so badly. His mom made him a sweater instead, hoping that he would understand. Instead when he got it he threw a fit! Then it all goes downhill for him. If he hadn't thrown a fit many things wouldn't have happened to him! If you want to know what happens you'll have to read the book! I hope you love it as much as I do. Try to FINISH the book because the ending is the best part!

JOKES AND RIDDLES!

One of my favorite things is to LAUGH!!!!!! I also love to tell jokes and make other people LAUGH!!! So, here are a few jokes that I LAUGHED at!!!

Q: Why are frogs so happy?
A: They eat whatever BUGS them!!!!!

Q: If a rooster lays an egg on top of a pointed building which way will it roll?
A: Roosters don't lay eggs!!!

Q: What do teachers put on their pizza's?
A: Graded Cheese!!!!

Q: Where did the spaghetti go dance?
A: At the meatball!!!

Q: Who was the first underwater spy?
A: James Pond!!!

Q: What do you use to fix a tuba?
A: A tuba glue!!!

Q: What kind of phones do turtles use?
A: Shell phones!!!

Q: What did batman say to Robin before he got in the car?
A: "Get in the car!"

Q: Where do you find ancient cows?
A: In a moo-seum!!!

Q: What do you call a police cheif's daughter?
A: misCHEIF!

Q: What do cats put in their drinks?
A: Mice cubes!!!!!

Q: What is a seven letter word, that has hundreds of letters in it?
A: A mailbox!!!!

SPRING BREAK!

Well, as you all know this week was spring break. I just want to tell you about some of the things that I did over the break. To start the week my family woke up Saturday morning and the Easter bunny had come!!! After we had opened the eggs the bunny left, we decided to color REAL eggs for Easter dinner the next day. This is one that I did. It is a face with curly hair.

Here are a few that the family made. (Can you find the egg that I showed you first?)

Here are ALL the eggs the family did. We turned our eggs into deviled eggs which we took to our grandma's house for Easter dinner. We played a fun game at our grandparents house, where if we rolled doubles we got to choose a prize from the basket in the middle of the table.

Later that week my family went to 'color me mine'. Where we went to paint a piece of pottery. (It's a fun spring break tradition.)

This is the cereal bowl I made this year. I'll show you the finished product when I get it back in a few days. (After it has been fired.)

This is the bowl my mom made.

After we had finished painting our pottery we went to the old spaghetti factory. (Ha Ha, my uncle is making silly faces.) My little brother insisted he sit next to uncle Mason!

On Friday my friend, Kayla, and I went to my house and made necklaces. This is us making them.

This is us with our finished jewelry! Sadly, spring break has come to an end. But I made it worth while!

April fools day

So, every year my mom plays this big, elaborate trick on my grandpa for April fools day. This year we went to Leatherby's. My grandpa thought he was just coming to meet his sister because she said she was having problems she wanted to talk about.

So, when he got there we said 'Yay, it's a nice April fools day!' Not!

When our food came my grandpa's food wasn't what he had asked. We had talked to the waiter before he came. We asked him if he wouldn't do whatever substitutions grandpa asked for. When his food came he said pointing to his food 'uh oh! uh oh! uh oh!' when the waiter came back and asked if everything was OK, grandpa said no. he said that he asked for this, this, and this which he didn't get. My mom asked for the same thing and she got what she wanted. When the waiter said that they couldn't give sub's grandpa asked to see the manager.

This is grandpa talking to my mom about what had happened. It was funny because he didn't even notice all the pictures being taken of him.

This is him complaining to the manager. She said that they couldn't do substitutions and that she was sorry, and that she would see what she could do.

This is him right after she told him 'Happy April fools day sir!' She had to explain that it was a joke. After that he was quite embarrassed.

This is him laughing and STILL eating the ice cream he didn't want.

This is my mom showing with her fingers that this is year eleven that she has gotten him. Wouldn't you think that after eleven years he would be careful during April fools day?

Celery! (The cat not the food)

This is my cat, her name is Celery! I got her when I was three. I've had her for about 10 years, so she is apart of the family! Some things that I love about her is that she doesn't bite or scratch very hard, and when she does she doesn't do it very hard. Another thing is that she can understand me when I want her to get off my bed or me. Lately I have been wheezing and been a little more snotty. So yesterday I went to the allergist to see what if I was allergic to anything. The nurse scratched different 42 different things onto my back to see if I would break out. Ranging from dust mites to cats and dogs. They rate each break our from 0-5. 5 being the worst 0 the least bad. Guess what I'm allergic to? They were rated 5. Yeah, you probably figured it out because of the picture I put up. Cats and dogs! Sad huh? The doctor prescribed TONS of medication for me. I'm not kidding! Sometimes when I get near the cat I break out into splotches, but last night (after I had taken the medication) she came and slept with me. I could breath, and I didn't wake up with splotches. This is a picture of her on top of my bed. For some reason she doesn't like to sleep on the pink thing. We bought that so she wouldn't get fur all over the bed.(and it looked good too!)

This is a picture of her begging me for my water.

Well, instead of getting rid of her we decided to just take the medication for now!

Easter Egg Hunt

Easter will be here before you know it! I've already been on an Easter egg hunt! My family and I went to our grandparents house for our annual Easter egg hunt! I got about 9 dollars! I also got a glittery baton and lip gloss! Here is what the eggs looked like. Here is my family before we went on the hunt! Everyone is super excited!

Here is my grandpa watching us look for our 10 colored eggs and 1 silver or gold egg!

Here is my dad and I. I look like I'm mad, but trust me I'm not!

Here is my little brothers, they are helping each other find their eggs! How cute!

Here I am helping Andrew find his silver egg that he wanted so bad!

Here I am again looking at my loot!

And here is the fam. hanging out after the hunt playing with their stuff! Grandpa is singing and playing the guitar. My cousins are dancing to the music, while the grown-ups are cleaning up! I had fun at the hunt and got a good amount of money too!

Banana Bread

So my mom and I made banana bread the other day and I just wanted to share the recipe with you!!! We already ate the first loaf! You have to understand that we doubled our recipe so yours might not look as big! (unless you double it of course!)

Banana Bread Recipe

1/2 cup margarine (butter works too)

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1 cup mashed, brown bananas

1/4 cup milk

1 teaspoon lemon juice

2 cups flour

1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup chopped nuts

Cream margarine and sugar. Add eggs and beat. Add mashed bananas, milk, and lemon juice. Add dry ingredients. Add nuts. Bake in well greased 8x4x3 loaf pan for 1 hour at 350 degrees.

*can (but don't have to) sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on top before baking!

This is the bread after it baked!

This is the dough in the *Well greased pans!

This is me adding the dry ingredients.

This is the dough with butter, sugar, and eggs.

This is the mashed brown bananas!

I had fun making this. I'll definitely make it again!

My Favorite Things

Well, to start with I like to act. About a year ago I took an acting class. I also like to read, write, and do art. One of my favorite books is 'Wings.' (but that's just one!) I like many books. There aren't very many that I don't like. I have written a book. I never seem to finish the ones I've started. I took an art class at school and made pottery, painted, did crafts, and many other things. I also like to play with my friends. A while back my friends and I went to lunch and shopping. We had some fun at all-a-dollar. I also like to cook. One of my specialties is brownies. YUM! I'm still experimenting with them. Sometimes I add chocolate chips. I'll have to put the recipe on my blog. My family is quite unique. I have a mom, dad, and two little brothers. Riley (11) and Andrew (5). Andrew is a little ball of energy and Riley likes to torture him. My idea of a perfect day is reading a book I'm really into, with a plate of warm chocolate chip cookies and milk during a rain storm. I have a cat named celery. She has been in our family most my life. She will turn 11 when I turn 14. I am hard-working and love to babysit. I have wonderful grandparents, lots of aunts and uncles, and hardly any cousins. My favorite food is white enchiladas. (My mom is amazing at those.) My favorite thing to do with my family is to play settlers. I like to play the Wii. My favorite game is Wii fit plus. Well, I could go on and on about my life, but I'll stop there.

A True Story!

My family watched a movie last night. The movie was called 'Hachi.' I bawled my eyes out! I looked around the room and my mom and uncle were crying too! The ending is quite emotional. This movie is about a man who finds a dog and brings him home. He decides to keep the dog. One day he goes to the train station to go to work and the dog followed him. Finally the man gets him to go home. Around 5:00 the dog (Hachi) goes and waits for the train to come home with the man. Every day Hachi would do that. Well, don't want to give away the ending so if you want to know what happens you should watch this movie. It's even better to watch with family. Hachi got really good reviews, so here is MY review. I would give it 3/4 stars. Hachi is a really good family movie and an amazing TRUE story! You could watch Hachi for family night or just because.

Why a blog?

Some of you may be asking "Why did she choose to do a blog?" Well, I'll tell you why.
I decided to do a blog because who has ever heard of a kid doing a blog?
I have opinions, ideas, recommendations and I wanted to share them with you! For example, last night I went to play dodge ball with my ward. We played with the Bishop, the leaders, and each other! Let me just say, the bishop has a great arm! Guess who got him out!? That's right! ME! He had two balls in his hands and he was preoccupied. So I just took my chance. I also got out one of the best girl players in our ward. I don't play sports very often and so it was quite exciting for me! So my first recommendation for you is to get all your friends and go play some dodge ball!

Meet........me!

It's me Amanda! This is my first blog post. So exciting! Well, a little bit about me. I love to read and write. (one of the main reasons I started a blog.) I love my friends. I don't dislike school but don't like it either, get what I'm saying? My family and I do a lot of things together and I think it would be fun to share my opinions, so keep your eye out for fun posts and ideas!