I got sick early, early this morning, and I haven't done much but sleep today. The last most impressive thing I did was take a shower.

I got three books at the library yesterday: two books about knitting (one is especially on socks, I can't wait to start one!), and one that was about the life of a dog named Genevieve who wrote it herself. It's pretty funny.

Fifteen out of thirty-one presents done!!!!!

We went to Chili's for lunch on Saturday. I had chicken fajitas. They were delicious!!!!!

I don't know what else to say...oh yeah, the Baffas stayed at our house yesterday from lunch to right before supper. It was a lot of fun. We played in the field by our house, and pretended we were orphans.

Katherine and I both finished our aprons today. It was a lot of fun to make them.

Katherine and I stayed over at the hotel with Grandma and Grandpa last night. For breakfast this morning, I had a waffle, Fruit Loops, and a blueberry muffin.

Stephen just made some peach ice cream, and I want it so, goodbye.

Schoolwork is going well.

Grandma and Grandpa are here.

I can't think of much to write.

I knit a row or to today on the present I'm working on.

Today, in the mail, I got a postcard from Locks of Love, thanking me for giving my hair to them.

This was the second week of co-op, and it went well again.

We all have our own wax tablets that Mr. Short made for us for history; I think they are pretty cool. Mrs. Short was telling us to NOT leave it in the car, because we would have melted-purple-crayon-wax all over our car and our parents would kill us. :)

I had a headache after biology, but it's better now.

Grandma and Grandpa are coming tomorrow!!!!!!!! I have to make sure I do my homework before they come.

I haven't knit today, but there is still several hours left.

Josiah has a really cool game on his iPod. It's a piano-playing app and it's a lot of fun. I told Josiah I played it with three thumbs (instead of what I meant, two thumbs) :), and he said, "No wonder you're so bad at it."

I've still been looking at the Crown Bindery shop on Etsy. I'm crazy about it. I look at the feedback, read all the blog, and check every single time I go on Etsy, to see if someone's bought something from then recently or if the lady listed anything new. I also 'heart' a lot of things from there. If you look at her blog, it seems very likely (by what she writes) that she's a Christian, which makes me want to buy from her more. But I don't have any money. :(

We watched the final episode of Design Star last night. We all shouted when Emily won.
I can't (and nobody else in our family) wait til her newest show comes out.

I've gotten fairly far along on the Christmas present, maybe halfway?

I made MORE cookie dough today. This time we didn't have brown sugar, so I had to use all white sugar.

Josiah and I made more cookie dough and meringue today.

We are babysitting Cameron, Kaitlyn, and Jacob (our cousins) because Uncle Chris and Aunt Tonya (and Grandma B) are going to the Cubs game for Uncle Chris' birthday.

I've knitted fairly far on a Christmas present.

I've gotten all my homework done for the week (including Monday's and Tuesday's) except for the work I have questions about, and that's only two or three things. I am going to do some of next week's work on Monday and Tuesday so I won't have to do as much homework when Grandma and Grandpa are here next week.

I finished casting on a present and knit one row, yesterday, right before I went to bed. Today I knit two more rows.

I got my work done today, again.

Josiah made meringue last night. It was delicious and it tasted even more delicious with my cookie dough ;).

Crown Bindery Etsy Shop

Today went well with schoolwork; I got all my work done.

I made some cookie dough today. I haven't been eating it as much as I usually do because I've been looking at this awesome Etsy shop, click title.

I haven't knitted or crocheted today, either.

I've decided I'm going to write at night on most days :) to make sure I have enough time early in the day to do my school and housework.

Co-op went really well!!! All the assignments for this week are pretty easy, I think. (Ok, I didn't look at exactly what I have to do for biology, but what I heard in class that I was supposed to do seemed pretty easy.)

I had a lot of fun, and I can't wait til next Wednesday. I think the days will go fast, though, with the work to do.

Co-op starts today!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Shorts are picking us up at 7:30. Very soon!!!!

It's been a LOT of fun to pack our book bags and backpacks, and to get a bunch of new stuff!!!

I haven't knitted or crocheted since Monday, I've been too busy.


See you later.

Kristian's Birthday!!!

Kristian turns 3 today. He's really cute and smart.

Co-op starts tomorrow. I think it's a lot of fun to get school supplies, we have colored pencils, different colored sharpies, index cards, index cards, and index cards, rings for some of our index cards. We're learning Bible, biology, history, and writing.

Last night (and this morning) Mom, Katherine, and I were painting the schoolroom. It was a lot of fun. There was once when I got off the stool I was on, and stepped right in the roller pan. I got paint, ALL OVER my foot; but it was still funny.

Fourteen out of thirty-one presents done.

Co-op starts in two days, and I can't wait. Last week, when I thought about it being in a week I said "Augh!!!!!!!!". But now that it's two days away the hours don't go by fast enough. :)

I do want to have a poll or quiz on here, but I haven't thought of anything yet. Any of your ideas (Comments!!! :) would be welcome.

We had a nice time at the zoo yesterday. We all liked the dolphin show.

We went to a wedding yesterday. I heard there was a tornado warning for the area during the wedding, and right before the wedding, a huge tree branch fell down outside the church. The wind roared and you could hear the church creak...for about a minute, then it stopped.

Here are pictures of the dolphins jumping.

Today we are going to the zoo for Kristian's birthday. We are going to see the dolphin show.

I have thirteen out of thirty-one presents done.

We are going to go soon, so I better stop.

I'm sitting on the computer typing away while everyone is running around the house getting ready...

Here is a picture of the Volkswagen van I talked about on Monday.

We had a fun time at Esther's Place yesterday. I made three tomatoes, and they are very
unique. :) They all have pink stripes. Here are pictures of them.

Well, I am going to Esther's Place for a needle-felting tomato class. (What do tomatoes have to do with needle-felting?; I am going to needle-felt pretend tomatoes)

In exactly a week is the first day of co-op (School for Stephen, Josiah, and I).

I'm excited but also a little bit nervous.

Josiah's afraid he won't have time to do anything once it starts.

Someday I am going to have a quiz or poll or something on here, so maybe I'll have more comments :)

Yesterday was the championship game for the softball team. We lost. :(:(:(:(
The same two teams in the championship game as last year. And last year it was really close, too. I was pretty upset, but I'm getting over it.

I didn't work on Christmas presents yesterday, and I didn't finish any presents while we were on vacation, even though we drove a lot, and I had some time to do it while we were just camping.

We went to The Fold-a yarn and fiber store-I bought eleven skeins of natural yarn for only $20 ($1 and $2 skeins, on sale at an e-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y good price).

Josiah bought a lot of fiber for a pretty good price there, too.

Tomorrow I am going to Esther's Place-another yarn and fiber store-for a needle-felting class for my birthday. Some of our friends are going to be there also.

We went on vacation last week, that's why I didn't write.

We left on Wednesday and got back on Saturday.

It was a lot of fun!! There was only one problem; the cause was small, the effect big; Can you guess? Mosquitoes. MOSQUITOES!!! I HATE them!!! I probably have 100 bites, and that's only a slight exaggeration.

We ate at The Machine Shed in Rockford (I think) for breakfast on Thursday. It was really delicious!! I had two pancakes, two scrambled eggs, and a piece of ham. Dad got a cinnamon roll for all of us. It was ginormous!!!!!! And delicious!!!!!

We did a lot of things. Too many to write about.

We saw a Volkswagen van at one of the campsites. It was cream and green. I took a picture of it.

On the way back home we ate some ice cream at a place called Alice's Place. I had a twist (chocolate-and-vanilla) cone.

We went to Milwaukee on Friday. We organized the food pantry at City on a Hill in the morning, and in the afternoon we met a friend of Mom's who lives in Milwaukee. We saw the lake, and skipped rocks into it.

Julia liked to sit on a big rock, really close to the water, and throw pebbles in the lake. She was upset when we took her off.

We climbed the big rocks (I think they're called breakwater rocks) next to the lake. It was extremely thrilling. Katherine was really freaked out that someone was going to fall in the lake or break the leg or hurt themselves on a rock. Nobody did. :)

Well, I am supposed to do some work so I better stop.

Twelve out of thirty-one presents done.

Cupcakes!!!

Eleven out of thirty-one presents done.

If you click on the title, it will go to a Treasury on Etsy that I made about cupcakes.
I think it's cute.

Well, goodbye.

I only have to 'sew a fine seam' to finish the eleventh out of thirty-one presents.

Today is Josiah's birthday!! He is 15!

We had a sleepover with our friend on Sunday:

We got to their house at about 3 o'clock, I think.

We put our swimsuits on and jumped on the trampoline with the hose spraying on us. It was a lot of fun!!!!!!

We also filled up water balloons. Right before we were supposed to stop we decided to intentionally pop them. We sat on them, laid on top of them, threw them against the trampoline, everything, they wouldn't pop!!! I, finally, laid on top of mine, and dug my fingernails in it, and POP!!

Our friend and Katherine stepped on theirs to get them to pop.

After that we made no-bake cookies and watched some Anne of Green Gables.

Then we made supper, and continued watching it while we ate.

We watched for a while, and then had cookies and ice cream for dessert. Yummy!!

We finished Anne of Green Gables, and wanted to watch Anne of Avonlea, but they didn't have it. Our friends' mom called some places to see if they had it. Nobody had it but the library, and they were closed.

So we went to bed.

The next day we ate German pancake for breakfast with real syrup.

After a while we started watching Anne of Avonlea, but we couldn't finish it before we had to leave.

Last night we went to Culver's for dessert. We all had pints; I had black forest: chocolate ice cream with brownie pieces and cherries. It was good!!