My First Day of School

Well like every year when we start school we take pictures.. Since I didn't start when everyone else did I had to take mine a few days ago because that's when I officially started.. So here is my first day of school pictures for everyone to see..

New Year

Well another year has come and gone. A lot has happened this year that has changed a lot. The biggest thing that happened to me and my family this year was me moving to England to live with my Aunt Marsha and Uncle Jason. I gotta say it is nice to be with them since I haven't seen them for a while before I came here. School is going to start soon for me and I cant wait. I should have been in it at the start of the new school year but moving here changed a lot of things for me so it took longer to get into school. I will be starting on the 26th of January for the start of second semester. I also have been told that I will still be able to graduate with my class of '09 which I am so happy about. Being able to graduate on time has been such a relief for me; I was really worried if I would be able too so it a good to be able to hear that I could if I worked hard enough. I have been told that my Mom and Dad will be coming down for my graduation and then staying a week after it too. It will be so nice to see them again. I have missed them so much. Its not home without my parents being here. I miss everything that I had back home. Like waking up to a movie Briana was playing in our room, Tyler playing with me or asking me for help on his games, and Jeff just being Jeff, and I miss the dogs, I miss hanging out with my family. The time I have spent here I cant replace with anything I have had so much fun here. The kids are the best and I have missed them and will miss the times we have spent together when I leave. Marsha is the best and offered for me to come live with her for a while and it has been fun even tho I miss home I still get to talk to my family every once in a while on the phone and we send emails regularly too. Being able to graduate here will be so cool and I am looking forward to it. Unless things have changed since I heard last but I was told that the graduation is going to be in the Cathedral here in Ely. Which is cool. New Years Eve was the closing to 2008 and the start of 2009 and the start of a new and mysterious year that we have ahead of us. I hope everyone has had a great New Years Eve and looks forward to the New Year I know I am. I want everyone to know that I love them all very much and I miss you all a lot.

I Know It's Late

OK, well I know I have been slacking on my blogging and these pictures are from Thanksgiving. I made some pies for Thanksgiving so here are some pictures.. I made a Apple Pie with a criss cross pattern on top.. and then I made a Banana Cream Pie.

OK so the first picture you can see we are using a measuring tape to cut out the strips for the top.. The nexted picture I got the crust into the pan.

The third picture I am putting the strips onto the top in the pattern that it is supposed to go in.. and the fourth picture is how it look before it went into the oven to cook.

The finished product.

This is how my Banana Cream Pie looked..

So this was our dessert for Thanksgiving we also had a Pumpkin Roll that Marsha made.

SNOW!!!

So I woke up yesterday morning to a little kids joyful cry of delight; I look out my window and I noticed it was snowing just like Jason said it was going too... So I grabbed my camera and went and took some pictures.. The kids went outside and played in the snow for a lil bit while I took pictures from my window lol. I know Jason updated his blog with pictures too so here are my pictures..

We had fun while it lasted.. Didn't last for very long because it started to rain. We are hoping for more snow soon but not sure.

My Best Pumpkin Ever!!

Well I decided to carve a pumpkin this year with Kaylee and Calvin and Jordan. So I picked one out and carved it tonight while they were carving theirs. I was shocked to see that they were frozen inside but they were really easy to carve out because they are frozen lol. I decided to do something easy this year because they always never turn out right. So I decided to do a ghost and a shadow of three ghosts on the back. Here is some pictures of my pumpkin when it is lit and not lit. I am very happy with how my pumpkin turned out this year. Then there is a picture of all of our pumpkins when they are not lit.

Here is the pictures of my pumpkin when it is not lit. The first is the front the second is the back.
Here is the pictures of my pumpkin when it is lit. It looks really cool when it is sitting on the table and the shadow is facing the wall because instead of three ghosts it shows like ten of them and it looks like they are flying around because the candles flicker around.

Here is all our of our pumpkins. We are all very proud of them.

Pumpkin Carving Time!!!

We carved our pumpkins tonight.. The kids were so excited. When we cut open the pumpkins you can see frost inside it lol they were frozen. Kaylee and Calvin both did a bat and Jordan did a skeleton with a shadow of a mummy and I did a ghost with a shadow of three ghosts on the back. Here is some pictures of the kids pumpkins when they are all lit up.

This is Calvin's Bat

This is Kaylee's Bat
The first picture is the front of Jordan's pumpkin and the second is the back of his pumpkin.

Dinner Time

Well Marsha has been cooking alot and I thought I should make dinner one night so I did. It was a few weeks ago and i haven't updated my blog lately so I'm doing it now lol... Anyways I made Taco Salad for dinner.. Then for dessert I made a Cream Cheesecake from scratch. Everybody loved it.. The kids really liked it and are always asking for it now. Here is some pictures that I took of the food before we ate.