♥Snow!!♥

Just Another Thing I'm Thankful for.........Snow! Our first snow in the 2012-13 winter!!! And....I've finally had an opportunity to try Pic Monkey! I agree.... IT'S AWESOME! I'm 'addicted' after just one picture!

Trail to Heaven...And the other part of our Thanksgiving

.....Sometimes the way is tough....

 

 

....Sometimes it's like coasting down a hill...

 

 

......But once you get there, it's soooo worth it!

 

 

 

 

But...the real story:

 

We went on a hike up to the Turkey Hill windmills with our family for Thanksgiving. The adults had been there before, a while ago. But some things had been changed, we went up the wrong way...that's what the first picture is. We came to a grassy hill...the second picture. Finally we got to the top! And saw the beautiful sunset! We met up with some people at the top and found out then we had gone the wrong way...No wonder it was so rough!! But it gave me the idea for this post.

Berries

Windmill

The landfill! (framed!)

Cousins! (♥Me, Amber, and my sister Erika♥)

 

 

PS I missed my thankful things again:( But we were at our other cousins in Ohio for Thanksgiving! I'll get it next Friday!

 

 

Thanksgiving is just around the corner!

Thanksgiving is just around the corner! My family still has two Thanksgiving meals yet but I thought I'd blog about some of my Thanksgiving doings so far.

 

For Thanksgiving we did Anne Voscamp's Thanksgiving Tree where there are leaves (to cut out) with verses on them and you do one a day and write your thankful thing/things for that day. You hang your leaves on a branch/tree.

 

Our Tree

The Label :)

 

At Bright Lights on Saturday we finished the process of making centerpieces for the Thankgiving meal at Water Street Rescue Mission. A part of the centerpiece was a paper pumpkin or two. I made an extra one to bring home!

 

My Pumpkin!

 

Thankful Things

I know I'm a little late but...


My Thankful Things: (starting with the most recent)

~Getting together with housechurch for Thankgiving!

~Visiting my cousins

~Helping Bright Lights make Thanksgiving centerpieces for Water Street Rescue Mission

~Watching a broadway music concert, and seeing a lot of friends

~Dance and my awesome dance teacher

~Mini Lights- click here to see more

~Having a mother's helper job and playing with the kids!

~Watching Soul Surfer

~Literature class- because I like reading:)

~Playing parcheesi

~our co-op

~Biking! We biked to my great grandparents today and I observed closely so I could write these few sentences!

A good day biking = The sun on your face, but with a breeze blowing through your hair. Going over tiny bumps with pleasure, and the awesome feeling of conquering the hill! Seeing your shadow and other shadows. Saying HI when other bikers pass! Gorging your eyes on the beauty...The fields, the trees, the nice houses. Seeing the sun set.

Camping!

My other thankful thing:(Sorry this time my thankful things our devided into two posts)

On Friday night my family and I camped out in our back yard. We had a campfire and slept in the tent. It was really cold (at least my feet were really cold) but if you asked my sister or brother they would say it wasn't cold.

Hot dogs

Smores!

My dad and sister snuggling

Velvet, our cat, licking her lips!

This is how high our campfire got!

 

 

That Pet Place/Bowling/Thankful list

I know I missed my thankful list friday! So these are my thankful things! (Along with my post that is coming soon about our campout friday night)

I didn't have my camera along on the fieldtrip so I don't have pictures:(. But I thought I might post about it anyway. On Friday we went to a pet store. The tour guide showed us around and got out some pets.
Animals I saw/touched:
~Fish (Are you kidding? I wouldn't stick my hand in the fish tanks:)
I saw some very colorful fish!
~Ferret
I love ferrets! They are so cute! Not the white ones, just the brownish greyish white ones:)
~Guinea Pig
~Hairless Rat (disgusting but smart)
~Snakes
~Scorpian (can you guess? i didn't touch this:)
~Dog(didn't touch this)
~Cat(didn't touch this)
~Birds (didn't touch these either)
They were so beautiful, especially one that had red, blue, yellow, green and white on it!

After that we went bowling. My high score was 95! and I got a strike and a couple spares! I was happy!

I'm not sure what day I took this picture but this is a shadow on the wall in our house that is from our hanging lights that I thought was really cool!

Other news this week is that I got a mother's helper job! I'm really enjoying it!

 

 

Oil Painting Finished!

This picture is my finally finished oil painting (As of Friday at art class) of my sister and brother on the beach in Florida. (We went to Florida in January). I did it from a photo.

Soccer

Soccer season has ended! I'm the one in the blue pants.

Thankful Things

I am going to TRY to post every Friday with a list of my thankful things of that week.

Blessings:

~Visiting my iraqy friends again after a long time, and seeing there progress in school.(they are   around ages 2, 4 and 7) 
~A great school week
~A not busy week because of hurricane Sandy
~Being past half way through my amount of time with braces.
~Waxing leaves for a future Bright Lights project(shown below).

~It was really fun, easy, and amazing! They got so shiny! I did a lot because I had extra wax and I even got to do it with my neighbor Georgiann who lives alone.~

~I got this thankful list idea from my mom who read One Thousand Gifts.~