Alyson's Place

That is right! For Christmas I got a Nintendo DS! That's a hand held game system. And a speaker for my iPOD that is really cute. Plus billions of new clothes. You cannot call this a bad Christmas! Alexis got a electric keyboard that I am kind of jealous of, but I would not be able to stand it if she had the DS and I had the piano. That really would not work out. Gavin got a Hermit Crab he named Hermy from Uncle Brandon. I am jealous of that too. He has a tiger shell. ( I will post pictures of all these thing later.) And last but not least Korynn got a WebkinzJR. That is a Webkinz but is bigger and for littler kids. Do NOT whatever you do tell Korynn I said she was little. She thinks she is older than all of us. Apparently Alexis is the littlest! I hope you all had a nice Christmas too. Merry Christmas!

I am now the fastest typer in the school. There are 7 days untill Christmas day. Did my Gresham Manor Choir preformance yesterday. Mrs. Kie is gone until I do not know when. I made a Gingerbread house in school today. Come over and see it and my fast typing skills.

Today is a very busy day. Mom has Young Women leader training. I have Laura's birthday party at Mt. Hood Lanes to go to. I also have to go to a stake Daddy Daughter swim party. Since dad is out hunting I am trying to get Uncle Brandon to go with me. He does not think he can. By the way, I have only been typing for two minutes, aren't I getting fast? Right now I am at my grandma's house until eleven. We have played Trouble and watched Annie on TV. And I almost forgot that I finished the Book fair poster for my school. Grandma helped me. I just asked Uncle Brandon. He cannot garuntee anything. But he might be able to take me for half an hour!

Does Phillip (The guy I have liked since 2nd grade) like me? Does Lexie like to mak me mad? Have I pulled away from Kallisa? ( I hope not!) Will my camera ever charge again? Will I pass the geography test tommorow? (geograpy is one of my least favorite subjects) Will mom put my book report book on hold for me? ( Monthly 5th grade book reports) Will I get better at soccer? Will I ever get a piano teacher again? Will mom and dad sign me up for soccer again next year when I am good enough and it's not for nothing? Will my mother ever find out that I hate science fiction books? (BLAH)

We did go bowling! It was so much fun! Here are the placings: Alexis was first, Korynn was second (which is unbelievable!) I came third and Gavin came last. Poor guy! Here is what I got: an Ipod Shuffle from mom and dad. You know those really tiny ones, they don't have screen. It is so cool, the color is green if you were wondering. I already started the list of what songs I want on it. Okay, and I also got a new wii game. It's called Popstar Guitar. I played it all morning! It is nothing like Guitar Hero though! If you want to know what it is I will post a video of me playing it. Or you can watch me in person. Alexis and Gavin got me two Cookies and Cream candy bar. That kind is my favorite! They can get so funny sometimes! Oh, don't forget the camera case. I was going to by myself a camera case at the beach. But I forgot to look. So I got one for my birthday! My friends are going to be so jealous of all the stuff I got for my birthday!!

TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is my tenth birthday today. I have no idea what I want, but Sister Roads (my church teacher) and the primary have spoiled me with sweets! I had 3 cupcakes yesterday and a Snickers bar today!!!!! And you can't forget about the cake later, now can we? The kids keep on saying that we are going bowling. If we do it will be soooooooo fun! I can't wait. Chloe Mathis went to the bowling alley for her 10th birthday. It was so much fun! And Laura Rizzo took me once. I am the only child in the family who has gone bowling before. I have not seen or talked to my best friend, Kallisa Gallahger in forever! Not since last day of school. I have tried 3 times now to call her home phone but I am pretty sure she is out of town. Luckily Makenna Gallagher gave me Kallisa's cell phone number (yes she and her sister have a cell phone). Sad thing is mom says I can't call it. If we are going bowling I would love to take her! If I take anyone now, it would de

Is Called TO Serve! The day we have all been waiting for! the day he was called.Okay, I have to remember this date. August 6, 2009! 11 days before my birthday! he is going to Guatamela South. when Uncle Brandon went on his mission I had this chart at grandma Howlges that said how many days it was until he came back. I hope to that with Uncle Ryan also. He goes in December. So we are going there the week that he leaves. December. How long do I have to wait to go there!

giant (not very) shark. we went to the aquarium yesterday it was so fun!! this is one of the many pictures I took. since it only lets you have so many pictures on one post I'll post some more in another post. check out that 6-gill shark! Yaquima Bay lighthouse was being worked on when were there. remodled. inside ( yeah there were tons of people there) we looked at roped-off bedrooms . it was a historical trip! look at how deep I can dig all by myself during a half an hour! water deep! it was getting wet, then there was water now that I think of it when you are walking on sand your walking on water! Pixie Kitchen. Who is laughing now? we spent sunday monday tuesday and half of wednesday at the beach. it was sooooooooooooo fun. check out the pictures. Mom woke me up at 7:00 a.m. to go to the tidepools. I was the only kid who got to go. for mom and grandma(grandma went too) it was pretty much a jog. we walked around the block to the beach. when we hit the beach we jogged all the

this is how my day has gone by: wake up, watch lex play wii, fold 2 loads of laundry with practically no help. watch White Fang while folding laundry. play wii, Jordan and Ashley Tracy come over, play more wii. play piano, Jordan steels lexie's plush puppy, try to read to Rin and Ashley when they ask me to. They just run away. Gavin and Jordan break mom's yarn that she is making Korynn a hat with. the hat will probably not ever get done. gavin knocks the family picture off the mantle. I offer to give my mom one of my frames because I have 9. she just says no, i want you to all go to BED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so i went in my room, my clean room. IT'S NOT CLEAN ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so i start crying. I had my room just the way I liked. Jordan was the first person who came to mind. then I looked on my wall that is full of constelations. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! half of one of my constelations is GONE! G-O-N-E! I look on my desk. I found the constelation stick

so, this morning it was my groups turn to clean the church. the only people who showed up were my family and Sister Draper. Nice,right. Gavin was sleeping over at the Tracy's house so there was only 6 people cleaning the church. that took 2 1/2 hours. very unevetful and boring! pick gavin up, go home. dad goes on a bike ride and about 45 minutes later we get phone call saying that my dad crashed his bike. so we go and get him down in some place, like 15 minutes away. when we get there both their bikes were leaned against a moutain. and yes my dad was injured minorly. his hand was beat up. his thumb was gross! and some other fingers were scraped up a bit also. he thought about going to Urgent Care. he changed his mind and we had Grandma Arnold check it out. then he took his bike in. now his bike is broken. poor dad! he is not having a good day. maybe pizza will cheer him up a bit! here is something my mom put on her blog: think of a memory of you and me together. then write it down

did you look out your window last night and see the space station? If you did not I was a witness. it was s oooooooooooooooo cool. I mean if your a space-lover it is. and I just happen to love space! I mean getting stay up so that I could go outside and see it is a privlege. here is the story: i was watching the news. On the news it said that at 9:28 a space station would flying over Portland, Oregon. Which is not where live. But I live close to Portland so we just went with that city name. so, i was outside and was trying to figure which way north-east is. then dad came out and showed mom where north-east was just on time. without Super Dad we would not have seen the station.

This is a stueguon (sp?) . we went to the fish hatchery and the art walk last week so I thought it would be fun to show my friends and family some huge fish! and to show you what lexi's grand outfit looked like when we went to the art walk. oh, and if you want me to add more pictures just say so on the comment thing. because these are not all the cool pictures I took. I am seriouos! This is what I call a 10 foot stergoun! I still can not beleive that I saw a 10 foot fish! you should to the fish hatchery some- time! it's down by the dam. the big dam that is. Bonneville dam. did I spell that right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this, I think was salmon. yes, i'm sure of it now. and isn't ther a ton! my mom wished that she had a quarter to buy fish food for us kids. that is us inside the guard house. look at lexies socks! pulling them up to her knee is the latest cool look! at least it is for her! by the way, this was taken outside a house by the dam. did you know that

I lost my camera about a week ago. Can you beleive it! I didn't bother to tell my mom until last night. And guess where we found it. In my purple with white flowers home-made bag! It's the most obvious places (or hard) I need to learn to look in. Speaking of lost, Alexis lost her MP3 player! Can you believe it! She lost that and it doesn't even bother her a bit! I was so worried about my camera. When I thought about it I almost cried! I would like to inform you all that I am not a wimp or a baby

Gavin got his first bee sting. we were in the toy aisle (sp?) looking at webkinz ( because I have to get another one soon or else my acount will expire). Gavin was looking forward ( he was in the "car cart"then he turned around and put his hand on the bar that you push a cart with. What he did not know was that there was a black jack. yes a black jack! It stung his "naughty finger" and so he started yelling a bee! a bee! Mom stomped on it. She was wandering why Gavin was still crying. then gavin said it stung him. we literly (sp?) ran to the toothpaste ( first mom called grandma and asked what to do). when we got there mom opened some tooth paste and well you get it! COUSINS TYLER, JAY AND NEW BABY CAMERON! Are visiting PLUS AUNT TIFFANY AND UNCLE KEVIN. uncle kevin was here. All us cousins are having s oooooooooooo much fun! even though Ty-Dye 1st grade next year I still like to play with him. Jay is about Korryn's age and is too funny to be true. We wrote a

My mom is running the Rock and Roll Seatle Marathon today. She left yesterdat and now us kids are at grandmas. I have been drawing alot and grandma is helping me. She has given me 4 drawing books. Two horse ones and dog one. Grandma Arnold gave me a bird one. Grandma Howlege has even given me a huge sketch book to use at her house. She wants me to start drawing bigger. So far I have finished a Thoroughbred and a Paint. I am working on a picture of two horses nose to nose. We just came back from a walk. We walked to the Gordon Russel Middle School track. The track is a quarter mile. I went around it once. I burst at the begging. Afterward grandma gave me advice. She said I should pace myself. And then when I have enough stamina I can start going for speed. Thanks Grandma! Go MOM! I can't believe it is 26 miles!

Here is a quick note for people who don't know how to comment. Look down. Do you see the blue letters that say a number and then comments? Click there. Than click on the comment box. You can leave a comment there. Go through my old posts and read them over. Then comment on them. Thank You!

Our family has a cool blue ray player. You can watch Netflix movies on the t.v. if you add them. and if you are a Netflix member. We are netflix members. The big shows went in this order: The A Team, Air Wolf, Emergency!, and now Charles in Charge. It is my favorite one yet! if you are close or older to my moms' age range you know how funny it is! Hey, what is the big deal about cartoons. They have to start putting some old shows back on!

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wahkeena Falls Last we went to ice scream. It was Dairy Queen. Sorry, this won't be in order! this is Wakeena Falls ( sp?). it was the first fall that we went to. We were hiking on the Multnomah Falls trail and came across this little cave! This is me looking down from the top of the Multnomah Falls Trail! We actually made it to the top! Mom had to carry someone almost the whole time. But it was worth it! I had never been past the bridge before! This calls for some leg aches!

Ever seen Th e Greenway Gifts? Of course you haven't! It is the news paper that I write! I didn't know that I was good at journalism until now. Today I started eavesdropping with Helen. While we were eavesdropping we came across two little bugs. So I made a story in the paper that is called Bugs In Business. Hey, Grandma are you having a good time in Colorado? I sure hope so! I have already drawn tons of horses out of that book! There goes Mr. Bigs! Yesterday I had to let him go. It was so sad to see my little baby go out into the world to fend for himself! My only tadpole that lived! I watched him swim away for two minutes! Good bye big buddy!

Latest news school's out! Quick year if you ask me! Fly up was cool. "I got Mrs.Young," I say. " Mrs. Ingle," A girl named Alexis says. " Mr . Ziesler," my best friend Kallisa complains. 5th graders are out of here faster than you can say abracadabra five times fast! And new students as well. We are saying good-bye to more than 5th graders. The principal- Ms.Capps was here as long as the 5th graders have. We say good-bye to them all at the same time. The long time music teacher- Ms. Bradstreet is leaving us also. Her reason is not the budget cuts. Lucky Ms.Bradstreet is getting married to a guy named Ryan. Sara and Ryan sitting in a tree. We must say good-bye to a teacher who was only teaching for one year. Ms.Sexton had a baby. And will be missed much by her students. Long time assistant Mrs. Carey will be gone. Tears will well up in many student's eyes. The former police officer is now a retired school helper. Field Trip Fun You got that right!

Pioneers. did you know that that is the main subject in 4th grade? First it was fun. Now it is terribly annoying! First Pioneer day. Than Pioneer Journals! And then the book Hattie's Journal! oh and did I ever mention a trip to Phillip Foster Farms? That is the home of Sam Barlow's partner! It seems like every single turn I turn the teachers are teaching something new about pioneers! HELP!

A is for Alyson, me! Is back! B is for 3 on 3 basket ball finals, which I lost 4-10. And some pretty good books! C is for cuddling in bed every night! D is for getting way better at Drawing. You should check it out I will post some close up pictures later. E is for Gavin's freind Jordan seeing the baby elephant named Sam. F is for Fun that school is almost over. 6 days! G is for Gavins room is messy and I cleaned a little for him. I am very proud of myself for that! H is for Happy I am blogging again. I is for tons of Ice Cream! J is for Jump ropeing is done for the year and may never come back. K is for Knowing a ton of stuff because 4th grade is almost over. Wah wah! L is for Lucy bit my neck last night and now it hurts all over. M is for studying Maps at school. N is for The N ose From Jupiter BY Richard Schrimger is a great book! Reccomended to all readers! O is for Oh we have some hot weather! P is for working on Publishing my fairy tale. it's part of my grade. Q is for I

Hey, I am finally here! Yeah, weekly blogging hasn't been doing to well. Well, I'm back on track! Carnival was first. We went to the carnival as a family event. It was so fun! first we ate dinner. I had a hot dog, cheetos, a juice. Everybody else had that, except for Korrynn. She had Lays. Then we played cake walk. Emily Jr. ( as my grandma Holwege calls her), won the first time. Because I pulled her number, of course! It was time for me to go jumprope. We were 1 minute late, so I didn't do single rope. I'm not the kind that would just burst into a wedding 5 minutes late. Even if people thought I had something special to do. Like a presentation of something. I waited for it to be over. Then it was double dutch. Because Kallisa really needed me to be part of her team mom said I could double ducth! She only had 2 people on her team: her and a boy named Haden. Kallisa jumped in first. Then Haden. Then I went. I tried something new and went super

You don't want to know, do you. But if you're reading this u have 2! On general conference weekend/ 2 weeks ago, we got a new t.v.! It's so cool. It hangs on the wall. Below it is the set that now includes a blue ray disc player. here's a picture: Sorry it's blury! I was in a rush. The first one wasn't better though. it's big, isn't it? the blue thing is the sign that you haven't pushed any buttens in a while sign for the blue ray player. I had a sleep over with grandma and grandpa last night. the kids spent the night too. we watched Beverly Hills Chuiuaua (sp?) together. Then Korryn and Gavin had to go to bed. Lexi and I got to watch Winky's Horse. We ended up going to bed at 10:oo! Tonight Dad is having a party. Gavin just had a t-ball game. I ran the track more then half the time. the track is a quarter mile, I did 2 laps. with only 3 breaks. 1 long. 2 short. During the party the kids and i will have a party at the tracys house. we will watch

The Idaho trip was so fun!! After all the things I did I think the top two were going to Boom Docks and going to a farm to see horses. The third best would probably the Dollar Tree trip we took. And I guess the last is going to the Discovery Center! The drive home! The dreaded drive home was worse then the first one! We didn't have to stop at the bathroom on the way to Idaho. But Alexis drank some water when mom told her not to! I did pretty much nothing the whole drive except look out the window and read my books. And one of the worst things about the trip home is that I missed school. We were suppose to come home on Sunday. But it snowed in the mountains and our main route home was closed. The welcoming home commitee ( which there is none!) was a meowing Lucy! Yes, after spending a week at a house with a dog, Lucy didn't even care about our smell! On Tuesday I returned to school with barely anything to catch up to except for measuring some sand. Wendsday was a fun day for me

I'm in Idaho now! After the not-so-bad 6 hour drive I was reunited with my family. The drive was the best 6 hour drive that ever happened to me! We ate sandwhiches before we left. And we made it all the way to Baker city without saying I am hungry! My cousin Jenna and I started making a story. I love to play with Jenna! The story is about a horse called Bueaty Natasha. In the beggining of the story Bueaty Natasha's mother dies. Boo Hoo. The kids and I get to sleep upstairs. Because of the one hour difference from Oregon I get to stay up until 10:00 Idaho time. Because the kids and I share one room I have to read downstairs. It's not so bad reading downstairs, except for the fact that nobody will be quiet when I say ssssssshhhhhhhh! My little cousin Everett is so funny I don't think my head will last the whole 6 days! And then there's Shay, the littlest one. She is sooooo cute! The reason I love to play with Jenna is because she is my age and we never get to see eac

That's right! Off to Idaho! And I didn't even know until this morning! And we are leaving in a little more than an hour! I can't and cannot wait. The drive will be horrible and the relatives will be great! The problem about the drive is the brothers and sisters screaming, crying, fighting and the drive is 6 hours long! Imagine that drive with 1 person. Now imagine it with 2 more! Gotta go help pack! Bye!

On monday, our second day of spring vacation my friend Laura played over. We made some vidoes. Isn't the video horrible! I loved taking it. video, rish. After we made videos we played wii fit. After we played wii fit we made a video of me. The second day of spring vacation was great!

Spring started yesterday, so I thought I'd better post. Let me tell you what the pictures above are about. The first one is a squirrel in a tree. You can see how this involves spring. I hope. In case you are wonering what the black thing is, it's a crow. The second picture is the flowers in my front yard. They were blooming, so I thought that blooming flowers would make a great spring picture! I think that the third one is obvious. It's Gavin riding his bike on the dirt! Gavin thought it was a nice day to open the shed. So he had opened the shed, took his bike out, put it in the perfect spot in the dirt and started pedeling a way. ( Okay, maybe not pedeling away , his bike was a tred bike) In case your wondering what the last one is. It's two things: Dafodills and a rain covered street. Along with spring comes some rain, of course I never paid any attention to that. The Dafodills were pretty so I took a picture of them. Go figure. Sping, sweet spring. This is what I h

Today at school I got to watch a hawk being released into the wild. Here is how it happened. Our school janitors were doing something outside. Then they found a hawk doing something. ( Sorry, I don't know the whole story) The hawk was injured. It's eye was swollen. So the janitors took the hawk to a bird vet place thing. The people at the place helped the bird for a few weeks. They found out that the bird was a female bird. Nobody knows how it got hurt. But they think that she had run into a window when she was chasing a bird. Today the people came to release the bird. First, the girl releasing the bird took her out of her carrier. Then the girl showed her to all of the people who wanted to watch the bird being releasd. After that the bird was released into the wild. It was really pretty when she flew. She flew straight up the side of a tree! Let's hope that the hawk's flying doesn't get too sloppy again. And let's hope that spring is going to turn up on the fir

When is it going to be spring!? I have been waiting and waiting! I am tired of the cold! Yesterday it rained hard, and then it hailed hard. The day before is the same story. Both days I just barely missed the rain and hail, walking home from the bus stop. Luckily, today was a different story. It is nice and sunny. Plus there are only a few clouds in the sky. But to make things at it's worse, I cannot ride my bike today. This is because Alexis decided to be sick today! And to make it worse, this means I can't play with freinds when a family member is sick! This morning I heard that it's already 85 degrees in Florida. That's not fair to the people who live here! We would be lucky if the tempuarture would stay up in the 60's everyday! Boy, would that be a blast. Well at least spring break starts in 2 days. It was suppose to start today, but we had too many snow days. That stinks and rocks at the same time. But I think I would like spring days. Not cold snow days!

In case you haven't heard, I have been drawing littlest pet shops. I have drawn 17 pictures! The first one I drew was a bull dog that I call Leeka. All the pictures of them that I have drawn are so cute! I might even aim for drawing 100 Littles pet shops! Drawing littlest pet shops started during stake conference. I was getting bored so looked in to the church bag and found the peices of paper I had put in there. It turned out that my sisters littlest pet shop coloring book was in there too. So I started drawing pictures out of the book. I drew a bull dog and a bunny. And by the way I was drawing not tracing!

Since this is my first post it might not be very good. Here I go. A couple days ago I had a sleep over with my grandma Howlwege. We scrap booked, and I had a blast! After we scrap booked I watched channel 43. In the morning I ate breakfast and played wii fit. Then we went shopping with my mom and the kids. When we were done shopping I had to go home. Wow, I can't beleive I have a blog! I'm having so much fun! ( Sorry, I probably wrote in my usual writing style.

Alyson has been asking for a blog for quite some time now. I finally set one up for her today.