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October 31, 2013

Happy Halloween, man.

Halloween was so much fun this year! To celebrate, I brought in doughnuts to school… but we added monster teeth to the middle of each doughnut to make it look like a monster! My friends loved the doughnuts :)

I was super exited to be a hippie and get my groove on! My costume had some super cool glasses, an awesome headband, and some pretty wild pants and shirt! My brother Carter decided to be the famous explorer, Indiana Jones! Everyone loved our costumes, we saw some pretty cool costumes around the neighborhood, and we scored a TON of candy. Oh yeah!

We also got tons of candy from Fairytale Town in Williamland Park, Sacramento. Fairytale Town does a safe Halloween event every year and this year’s theme was the Hobbit with Smaug The Dragon! They have almost 20 different candy stops around the park where you can trick-or-treat, and the best part is, you can stop at the same candy stop more than once!

Before Halloween we went to my cousins’ house for some Halloween pictures and pumpkin carving! Everybody got to decorate and carve their own pumpkin, even Chloe with her tiny little pumpkin! The pumpkins where all very scary looking! We had so much fun, but my mom didn’t enjoy the scooping out the goo part!

Wizard Of Oz In San Francisco

October 24, 2013

Me, my mom, my nana, and my grandma’s birthdays are all close together, so we decided we should see a show to celebrate. We all love The Wizard of Oz, and were so excited when we saw it was playing in San Francisco we thought we should make it a overnight girls trip!

We all wore red shoes just like Dorothy’s red ruby slippers in the movie. There were other people dressed up at the show, too! Me and my mom wore blue shirts and jeans so we were sort of like Dorothy, but no country dresses!

I thought the show was so exiting because there were awesome special effects that made some of scenes extra-terrific! I really enjoyed the scene where they get hit with a cyclone, because it was really well done and creative. The characters and costumes were so cool, especially the Wicked Witch of the West — she was a great actress. Oh, and they used a real dog for Toto, which was really silly.

Face Painting At The Pumpkin Patch

October 12, 2013

Picture perfect for the pumpkin patch.

Me, my brother, my mom, and my grandma all went to Bishop’s Pumpkin Patch together. We went down all the slides, the hay trampoline, and had our faces painted — but getting the pumpkins in the pumpkin patch was the most important part of the day!

I saw the face painting down by the train and I really wanted to do it. We looked at the different designs and I picked the half butterfly and Carter chose the mythical dragon. Carter went first and when he was done, the dragon was AWESOME! I couldn’t wait to see how mine would look. Once mine was done, I looked in the mirror and the butterfly was so cool and I really liked it.

Once we finished the face painting, we ate lunch had some dessert (YUM), rode the train, and then went to the pumpkin patch. We picked the perfect big pumpkin and took a picture with all of the together.

You May Now Kiss The Bride

October 6, 2013

I now pronounce You, husband and wife!

It was such a happy day for all of us! Today was the day my Aunt Kimberly and my Uncle Matt got married. I could tell that Kimberly and Matt were extra exited. I am so happy for them… and Uncle Matt is SUPER, SUPER fun to play with and hang out with.

I’m so happy that they are together now, and I could never stop saying that. The whole family was there to support them were so happy to celebrate their wedding.

The wedding was really cute and was at a really pretty destination… my nana and grandpa’s house! The scenery was really pretty and they did the ceremony in a little meadow area. The cake was really cute because it had two frogs doing yoga on it — and Aunt Kimberly and Uncle Matt love to do yoga together.

Now, about serving that cake, I heard it was supposed to be Carmel brownie…

The (Tiniest) Catch of the Day

September 22, 2013

Come one, come all to see the tiniest catch of the day!

My Grandpa and Grandma live on 5 acres in Newcastle, California and have a big pond in their Organic Mandarin Orchard. We LOVE to go fishing there, and this time when my family went fishing at my grandpa Steve’s house, I caught the tiniest of all fish!

My cousins Riley and Chloe came with us to go fishing. It was actually my Uncle Dustin’s first time going fishing — EVER! He had a lot of fun! Riley and Chloe liked the fish too, but Chloe mostly sat in the shade and watched.

We all liked touching the slimy fish bodies. I thought it was super funny that my brother Carter caught a fish with nothing but the scent of worms and no actual worms on his hook! Carter, with nothing but the scent, still caught a bigger fish than I did! I only caught the tiniest fish in the pond, while everyone else caught the bigger fish. Even Riley caught a bigger fish than I did!

Day At The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

June 14, 2013

“Come on, we gotta get to the ride!”

While we spent much of our camping trip enjoying nature, our day at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk was soooooo fun! I am so happy Xan came with us on the trip because we hung out and rode all the rides together. My family really doesn’t like fast rides and roller coasters. Xan and I went on tons of rides, like the Dinosaur Train, the Ferris Wheel, the Dragon Coaster, the Big Dipper, the pirate ship, and more.

The Dinosaur train was a slower, traditional ride that I loved when I was little. Inside the ride is a blast from the past. It’s all dinosaurs and cavemen, which my brother Carter loved! Xan and I also went on super fast roller coasters together. One was a dragon coaster that went super fast and had a lot of ups and downs. The other one was a music car ride that went in crazy fast circles, forward and backward, for a really long time. My mom did join Xan and I fir the big dipper, but she felt sick afterward!

I rode the Ferris Wheel with my Dad and from the top we could see the whole Santa Cruz beach. It was the prettiest view of the whole trip.

Our Day At The Beach

June 14, 2013

There’s nothing like playing on a beach on a sunny day in Santa Cruz, California.

Our camping trip to New Brighton State Beach was so much fun. We found a live crab on a morning walk, we made marshmallow sculptures, and we hung out at the beach.

The days we spent at the beach on our trip were my some of my favorite! One day, my Dad and brother built different sand creations like, a Darth Vader head and R2D2 — they turned out amazing! Another day we explored the rocky coast in Santa Cruz, climbing over big rocks, exploring huge rock tunnels, and enjoying the ocean. That day we saw some pretty awesome views.

My nana and grandpa, aunt and uncle, and cousins Riley and Chloe also joined us one day at the beach, too. I showed Riley the art of building a sand castle and played with her in the surf, showing her how to wait and let the waves come to you and cover your feet in water. Chloe slept, ate, and watched with my Aunt Julie on a beach towel in the shade.

My favorite part of the day was the Sand Fort!

Video: We Found A Live Crab!

June 13, 2013

We just got back from a magnificent and exiting vacation — camping at New Brighton State Beach in Santa Cruz!

Early one morning, we woke up early and decided to take a walk on the beach to look for seashells. It was so peaceful and beautiful. We thought it was going to be a normal walk along beach until… We found a living crab! It was alive and AWESOME!

Check out the video of the crab in action:

Marshmallow Sculpting (And Burning)

June 11, 2013

Our family loves to go on vacation and have adventures, especially at the beach!

On our recent camping trip at New Brighton State Beach in Santa Cruz (AMAZING!), we went through A LOT of MARSHMALLOWS! You see we just don’t toast marshmallows and eat them… we play with them! We build with them and burn them.

Before our vacation we stocked up on TONS of marshmallows! Everywhere we saw cool shapes, sizes, and colors of marshmallows, we bought them. Once we got packing we realized we probably over did it, but we didn’t care! We packed all of the marshmallows, toothpicks, wooden kabob skewers, and more building supplies.

Then after dinner, with the fire roaring, we spread out all the marshmallows and supplies on the picnic table and we create. Everyone builds there own unique creations out of marshmallows. Then when they were done (and they have a photo of it), we burn them! The burned sculptures grow and deform and stick to the logs. The gooey burning mess looked super icky.

Get That Gold: Empire Mine Tour

May 18, 2013

My school doesn’t do any field trips, so we do them as a family on the weekends.

On one of our historical family day trips, we drove to Empire Mine. Empire Mine was one of the richest hard-rock mines in California, making 5.8 million ounces of gold from 1850-1956! People estimate that this is only 20% of the gold in the park and that 80% of the gold still remains in mountains, old mines, and under the park!

George Roberts was the original owner and discoverer of the mine, but he sold his mine to William Bourn Sr. in 1869. The Bourn family had control of the mine until they sold it to Newmont Mining in 1956. The Bourn cottage grounds include extensive lawns with fountains, a reflection pool, and gardens with a greenhouse! The Bourn gardens have about 13 acres and the roses have been restored with more than 950 bushes of 56 types. We even got to meet one of the living descendents of William Bourn! The park includes tours of the Bourn Cottage, the mineyard and living history events.

We got to see all of the different tools used for mining gold! The park has different mining tools and machines that we got to see when the mine was in action. We also got to check out the old mine shafts and mine carts. Mules sometimes pulled the mine carts full of gold back up and through the mines.

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