Penguin Nails

Today when my mom was on the computer she found a nail tutorial web site!!!  I love to paint my nails!  So while I was looking at all the different nails I saw penguin nails!  One of my friends and I have this thing where we are penguin sisters so when ever I see penguin stuff I think of her.  We both kind of collect penguin things now.  These nails were a lot easier to do then I thought they would be.  I think they ended up quite nice and actually look like penguins.  I hate when I see really cool nails and I can't do them because they are obviously professionally done!

1.  Start with a plain nail.

2.  Paint your nail blue.

3.  With white paint a round nail shape but leave some blue on the side. (the white is the tummy)

4. Use orange for the feet and beak and black for the eyes(I do not have black so I used purple).  To paint the feet get almost all of the polish off the brush and do little swipes.  For the beak just do a little dot and try and make it longish so it looks like a beak.  For the eyes do two dots.                                      

Baby goats!!!!!!!!!!!

Last Wednesday Calliope had babies!! She had a boy and a girl. The boy who was born firsts name is Giles. He is white with some blackish-brown spots. He had a harder birth because only one of his legs was forward when he was born. The girl was born second. Her name is La la Lola ( it is like that so it is four syllables long). She had both feet forward so she had a very easy birth. Lola is a light brown with a dark strip down her back, with a white and black head. She also has white legs with black knee pads on her front legs. They were small but are getting bigger and eating a lot and soon I probably won't be able to pick them up. They are very cute!!

Feather extension!!!!!

I got a feather extension!!! A couple of weeks ago at the grocery store the girl who checked us out had a feather extension. Then last week, when we went to get my mom's glasses adjusted, we saw a display for them and though they were even cooler. On Saturday we saw the girl again and asked her about it. I just got mine yesterday and it's so cool!! It's a strip of purple hair with a pink feather and three long white and brown ones. You could pick from a clip-on one or you could get one glued on. I got mine glued on because I knew that if I got a clip on one I would not wear it very much. You can wash it and every thing because it is real hair and the feathers can get wet because they are for fly fishing. If any one is thinking of getting one you should because they are so cool and look great!!!! I have a friend who I think will probly get one because I got one.

Sewing camp!!!!!

Sewing camp!!! Friday night and Saturday was our county's sewing camp. On Friday night we made potato bags for a community service project. You would think sewing a potato bag would be easy right? Wrong! I had to rip out a lot be cause I sewed it the wrong way the first couple of times. They didn't have a lot of potato bag fabric cut out so some people made wheelchair caddies for the people in the nursing homes to sit on. Saturday was the day you made what ever you signed up to make. This year made a messenger bag and my brother made a quilted pillow. My brother cut his finger on the rottery cutter when he was cutting his squares for his pillow. He has been kinda sick all week so he was sniffing and coughing all day. When we were leaving he started coughing except this time he threw up. We had just finished talking to someone from our club so she got us a Ziploc bag for us.

My Birthday!!!

Friday was my golden birthday! I got two boxes of presents. In one box was a Webkinz fox from my brother. I named her Silky Nicole. The other box was a box of smaller gifts from my Mom and Dad. In that box was nail polish, a peel off face mask, Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box DS game, sunglasses, a punch needle of a cow jumping over the moon, a hoop for the punch needle, and a Bert's Bees lip balm. We went to Pizza Ranch with Grandma Pat. She got me a ceramic birthday girl and a "Are you smarter than a 5Th grader" game. There were no movies that I wanted to see in theaters so we went and bought four! I got all three of the Pirates of the Caribbean and another one. The weekend Pirates marathon is over and there is still one movie left to watch. We watched the last Pirates one yesterday. I got a cheese cake for my birthday because I really like them and we don't have it often. We have two birthdays in a row at our house. It's my birthday, then Mom's so we have a lot of excitement!

Puppy Bear

Hi, I'm Puppy Bear. Mom left the computer so I'm going to write a post. I'm the boss of the bed what I says goes. I'm the best kid on the bed out of all of them. Bilbo is my little buddy that I take care of and look after. I like to play Iron chef Bed Stadium against Bilbo. I sneak out and bring snacks back to the bed. Things I do to annoy Mom are bouncing up and down saying "Sheboygan" over and over, frowning, and other things. I'm planning a fundraiser to get a new smock for Sly. His is old and saggy so he needs a new one and because I can't have shabby dressed people on my bed.

Wii party

For Christmas my brother got Wii Party. I really, really, really like that game. We have played it every day so far since Christmas. Mine and my Mom's favorite game on there is Balance Boat. I really like that one because it is fun to try and figure out how to put the people on so the boat doesn't tip over and I like all the mini games. I also like the Board Game Island. I just beat my brother at it! Of the mini games I like the one where you spin the platform for the sheep to get across, the one where you run through the sheep to the end, and the one where you try to land on the moon first. I can never figure out how to get the the mine cart to work. I think the hardest mini games are the tilty maze where you each run on a side and the one where you stand on the button to close the floor so you can walk. We are already getting better at all the games which makes it more fun to play but getting good at the games is the fun part any way.

Christmas gifts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As far as Christmas goes... It was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! From Santa some of the gifts I got were... slippers, clay face mask stuff, two pack of silly putty, pink slippers, Doodleicius, Carmel coffee flavoring, a tin of gum, and a candy cane with Hershey kisses in it. From Mom and Dad I got two pairs of sweat pants one orange and one blue, a striped orange and gray long sleeve shirt, camera, purple fuzzy slippers (yes I got two pairs of slippers!!), note pads, Charlie St, Cloud DVD, 5 lb weight, find a word book, bath gels, and turtle earrings. From my brother I got a pair of pants and a sweat shirt. My Mom and I both got the same kind of slippers as me but her are white and mine are purple. My brother got Wii Party so we have been playing that a lot this weekend. My brother has a Lil' kinz black bear named Bilbo. He made him a stocking and Bilbo got kisses in it from Santa. My favorite gift thing from Santa was the clay face mask stuff. My favorite gifts from Mom and Dad is the word find book, orange sweat pants, Charlie St.Cloud DVD, and camera. I think the orange paints and the purple slippers go really good together. Nikki even got a stocking full of presents.

Bert the Senegal parrot

Bert is a Senegal parrot that I got for Christmas. He is green with an orange vest and a gray head. Bert is about 14 years old. He says Good night, Good morning, What are you doing?, Pretty Bert or pretty pretty pretty Bert, Come here, Merry Christmas, shhh, coughs, laughs, beeps like an alarm clock and look at me. He is so loud you can hear him when you take the dog out. He is the size of a 20 oz pop bottle. He is not a good flier and has only flowing for us twice. Once out of his house and on to my back and to the bed (he is in my brother's room) and then back to his house. If you are talking, he will some times repeat what you said. One time Mom was yelling for Kacheekers and Bert yelled out Kacheekers. Bert also loves attention and being petted. If you sit in the bedroom and play with Lego's, or don't look at him, after a couple of minutes he will start talking to get your attention. He likes to listen to the radio so we play it for him.

Monday

Yesterday, as we all know was Monday. It was snowy, it was icy it, and it was cold. I had a headache yesterday morning till about 12:30. My Mom and brother went to see some friends for lunch. We bowl on Mondays from 2:00 till 3:30. Since it was icy my Dad and I left at 1:00 P.M. so we would have enough time to get there. We only slid once on the way to town and the rest of the way in we were behind a snow plow so it was slow going. I did pretty good at bowling. I got a strike and a couple spares! We then went to the library and picked out some books and a couple DVDs. It is now about 5:00 so we were all hungry so we went Bonanza for dinner. Bonanza has really good tuna salad! It has just the right a mount of everything! For desert I always have apple crisp with vanilla ice cream and a piece of bread pudding.

Snow

Snow! It snowed on Friday till Saturday at our house. There is just enough to make everything white. We even had to shovel the drive way and put the car in the garage. We had to get out Nikki's' winter coat to put on her when we take her outside. We were going to put her booties on her but we could not find them. When Eeyore went out on Friday he looked like he was very confused by the snow and why he didn't have any grass to eat. We had just finished putting up the plastic on the porch for the winter, what perfect timing! Some bad things about the snow are the goat and rabbit waters are frozen and Nikki does not like going out in the cold. Some good things about the snow is that it means Christmas is getting closer. I like winter because it is not boiling hot out, but I also do not like it because it is really cold and waters freeze.

Lilly

Lilly is one of our neighbor's cows. She is easy to find because she brown with a white face and legs and her ears are super fluffy. Where they usually graze is along the road so when ever we drive by we yell out "hi Lilly" and she will almost always look. One day this summer when we were walking along this cow followed us all the way to the end of the fence. On our way back home we decided to call her Lilly. I wonder what the neighbors would think if they knew we named their cow. Her and two other cows are out early in the morning when we go to Phys.Ed. on Friday mornings. If we have the camera with she is almost always behind a tree or really far back in the pen. If we don't have the camera she is up to the fence. But today my Dad got a pretty good picture of her. I think if she lived at our house she would get candy and be very spoiled. Here is the picture of Lilly.

Thankful

Since it is Thanksgiving month I will sprinkle in some posts of things I am thankful for.

I am thankful for:

My family because we do fun things together.

Facebook so I can see what my friends are doing and keep in touch with people I don't see. I can "like" stuff and see what events are going on.

Eeyore, E bebe, Bubby. My cool goat Eeyore. He is really sweet and cute and fun but sometimes he is a lot of work when he has fits. I saw today he is getting a beard.

Chocolate because it is super good.

Books. I love books. I love reading, I love reading books. I am talking about books I pick out at the library, not my math book.

Did I say chocolate, it is so yummy.

YMCA

Thursday is homeschool YMCA day! We go to the Y from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., it is a six week session with a two week break in between. The first half of the two hours is either swim lessons, free swim, or you can stay in the gym and play what ever game we are going to play. The first quarter of game time they teach skills and other things for that game. The last quarter you play the game. We have played football and soccer so far. We play each game for three weeks and do two different games per session. We learn skills the first part and play the game last for two weeks in a row then you play the game the full hour the last week. The second hour, kids 10 and older can go upstairs and use the treadmill, elliptical, and other exercise equipment. If you stay downstairs you play games like Car Lot, Color tag, and a bunch of other fun games. It goes really fast and is really fun.

Sugar Sprite Fairy

The sugar sprite fairy. She harvests sugar in the summer from flowers and other things of the likes. In the fall and winter, she has no flowers to get sugar from so, to help her out you can leave out some Halloween candy for her so she can have sugar in the winter. She will leave you a treat, some kind of toy, as a thanks. You're probably thinking yeah, ,right she's not really real. My brother looked up about the Sugar Sprite fairy last night and said some people have even gotten movie tickets. Well, my brother left a bag of candy on the front steps. When we got up this morning there was two little kinz, a Bullfrog and a regular frog, and also Lego airplane set. My brother wanted the Bullfrog, its name is Sprite, so I got the frog I have not named it yet. Tonight I'm going to leave a little bag of candy to say thanks.

Birthday lego shark

For my brothers birthday, he got a Lego set, a Slinky, Link shirt, guy necklace, and a Percy Harven Viking's jersey. He has worn the shirts quite a few times all ready. The Lego set makes three things: a shark, an alligator, and a dinosaur. After you make one of them, you have to take apart the one you just made to make another one because there is only enough pieces to make one at a time. We made the shark while we were waiting for breakfast. It was only half done when breakfast was ready so we stopped to eat. He has still only made the shark so far. He said he was going to make the dinosaur this weekend so we will see how it goes. Here is the picture of the shark that we worked on together.

Space Aliens

On Monday, it was my brother's birthday, we went to Space Aliens for dinner. We have only been there twice, once for my brother's birthday last year and now this year. I had a cheesy garlic pizza for dinner. It was so good and bigger than I thought so I ended up bringing three pieces home in a doggy box. I got 440 tickets from games. One of the games I played was Color-rama I got almost all my tickets off that game. Well, 490 if you count the 50 I forgot I put in my pocket. I put them in there because the table was full with the trays and so they wouldn't get dirty. When we got to the prize counter, I didn't have enough for the frog prize I wanted that was 600, so my brother gave me the tickets I needed. The signs outside weren't lit up when we got there, which is when this picture was taken, but they were when we left as it was just about dark out. I like it better when it is lit up.

Yeah! The new Taylor Swift CD!

Yesterday, we went to Wal-mart to get the new Taylor Swift CD "Speak Now." The thing we hate about going to Wal-mart is the round abouts because they are too small and people keep stopping instead of merging on to them. We didn't get a cart because all we went for was the CD. The CD was on the end cap of the shelf so you didn't have to look for it and could just grab it. On our way to check-out we stopped to look at belts for my brothers Halloween costume. He is going to be Link from the game Legend of Zelda. Then we checked-out and when we got in the car I couldn't get the stupid tape off the CD cover. I don't even know why they put the tape on those covers. Stupid tape.

Yeah!

Yesterday I went to the orthodontist and they said now I only need to wear my retainers 12 hours a day! He said wear then from like 6 to 6 or 7 to 7. Apparently he does not know when I usually get up. ( about 9:30 or 10:00 )