Yipee!

I got an AmericanGirl doll for reading 100 chapter books. I named her Ashlei Noele.

Aren't her shoes cute!?

This is a closeup of her pajamas.

Mom even peirced Ashlei's ears! One of her holes is in a funny place! (See picture above.) These are all of Ashlei's earrings. (I lost the picture of her heart dangles!)

These earrings are the ones she came in.

This one I wouldn't call the cutest. SO sorry! I just LOST the rest of the pictures of Ashlei's "hair-dos" ! (There's some more pictures of her hair in this post.)

This one, too.

Cute huh?

Sunday?!?! All of Ashlei's dresses.

A(nother) Sunday dress!

Another one of her cute Sunday dresses.

Ashlei's " native dress" . She wears this when she travels out of the United States.( Sorry part of her head's cut off!!!)

Ashlei's " Easter dress" .( So cute!)

Ashlei's "spring dress" .

Ashlei's ADORABLE Christmas dress!

This is Ashlei's "traveling dress" that she wears when she travels far away from home.

Aren't these dresses all so cute!?

I put this thing on her head when she "sleeps" to keep her hair nice. (It really does work!!!!!!!!!!!)

Night-night, Ashlei!

3 four star recipies!

These are some yummy four star recipies of mine. Please try them and enjoy them!

Shells and cheese
sauce
4 tablespoons of butter
4 tablespoons of flour
1 teaspoon of salt
2 cups of half and half
5 handfulls of cheese

Boil 2/3 of a box of small shells until soft. Drain. melt the butter. Stir the flour and salt into the butter . Add half and half. Stir until thick. add the cheese. stir. Mix shells and sauce together. Bake at 350 f for 25 minutes. serves 7-8



raspberry ice.


20 raspberries
1 ice cube tray

Put water in the ice cube tray. put one raspberry in each ice cube place. freeze for 3 hours. tastes great in lemonade! makes 20




crunchy corndogs

put corndogs in microwave for 1 min. then preheat oven to 350 f and cook for 5min. eat when hot. Very delicious!

Repeat! Fun with K.J., Hope, and Sarah!

K.J., Hope, Sarah, and I have so much fun together! K.J. and I love to play Loncoln Logs. This is the fanciest of the three cowboy houses. ( I did have a picture of the cow's house, but it didn't show up on here for some weird reason!)

This is just the front of my gigantic, amazing, horse dream house!

Sarah loves to kick baskets! It's adorable!

Hope loves to be "blind"! It's so cute how she says," I a bind girl!" ( I did her hair up all pretty in this picture, you just can't see it very well!

Look at Miss Adorable and her big sister! Sarah loves piggy-back rides. So cute!

We put pretzel sticks in our mouths. We are the pretzel kids!

Hope and Sarah are so cute! They put my devil horns on their noses and are now rhinos!

fun with K.J., Hope and Sarah

This post is going to be about all the fun I have with K.J., Hope, and Sarah. Most of these pictures are funny pictures, so feel free to laugh! My pleasure! When you comment, tell me which picture you liked best! So, hold onto your sides, here comes funniness! ( and cuteness!)

Hope is so cute! She loves it when I do her hair up all pretty, and when we have " madovers". She is so patient about everything, and oh so sweet! After I get her all dressed up, she always says, " piddure peas?". She is so precious!

Here I am. I painted my face, and I am now a pirate! ( Mom got really mad!)

So funny! I meant to take a picture of me, but I must of turned the camera the wrong way, and taken a picture of Sarah! Soon I am going to post a post about Sarah, and all the fun we have together!

Hope wanted me to take a picture of her running, so I did! She is so funny! Soon, I will post a post about Hope and all the fun "just us," as she calls it , have together!

Funny K.J.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Soon I an going to post a post called " Fun With K.J.", so be waiting!

L.O.L.!!!!!!!!!!!!!! K.J. dressed up as a girl! " Kajina " even had lipstick! Feel free to laugh!

K.J. and I went on a date with dad not too long ago. We went horseback riding up a mountain. It was my first time horseback riding. It's a lot easier than I thought. I'm pretty good at it. This picture was of me and K.J. with our horses before the ride. My horse's name was Beaver. K.J.'s was named Bambi. Dad's horse's name was Rhino.

This picture is of me on Beaver before the ride. Beaver was a troublemaker and was pretty hard to ride, but I managed it okay. Bambi, K.J.'s horse was just gentle and sweet. Dad's horse, Rhino wasn't too friendly.

This is a picture of K.J. standing beside Bambi before the ride. Bambi was a little bit bigger than Beaver, so for the first time in his life, K.J. was taller than me! Bambi was prettier too. Dad's horse was the prettiest though, and the biggest. Dad's horse was humongous! Dad's horse was black and a Clyde'sdail.

This picture is of me and K.J. riding up the mountain on our horses. You have to lean forward and put your feet backward while going uphill and lean backward and put your feet forward while going downhill. This will balance the horse and keep it from stumbling.

This is a picture of me stopping my horse. you are supposed to lean back and pull up on the reins.

This is a picture of me and K.J. standing outside before the ride. I love horseback riding. It is lots of fun. So, thank you dad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

New class pet.

We got a new class pet. Our new pet is a lizard. His name is Edgar.
Dad cought Edgar today at work. I will put a picture of Edgar lon my blog later. I love Edgar.

My ears

I got my ears pierced in April, the last day of our family vacation. As you can see, I got little pink flowers with a little tiny white diamond in the middle. It didn't hurt, it just felt like a hard pinch. But anyway, now I have my ears pierced and I'm glad I chose to do so!

bonus post for kids age 3mos. - 6

STORY

Once upon a time, there was a giraffe named Geraldine. Geraldine had a lot of big brown spots, and one very tiny one, her lucky spot. Geraldine was short for a giraffe, nobody knew why, she just was.

One summer Geraldine decided that she wanted to go on vacation. But, she didn't know where to go. She looked at last years summer travel report for advice.

After searching frantically for hours, Geraldine found out that Salt Lake City, Utah was a wonderful place!

But there was another problem. Geraldine lived in Mississippi! Luckily Geraldine had enough money for a plane ticket, so she rode on an airplane to Salt Lake City and had a wonderful time!

POEM

Bears are big.

Bears are strong.

Bears sleep all night long.

Bears are scary.

Bears are hairy.

And that is all for now!

ALLITERATION

Bonnie borrows big, better than best books. Well, Drew, Mary, Tessa, Greta, Joslyn, Jazlyn, Liberty, Jonas, and Keni did you like it? I made it just for you!

Mesa Verde

For our family vacation in April, we went to Mesa Verde. This post tells about the neat stuff I learned there. We had to drive fifteen miles up the mountain to get there. Travel back 1,500 years with me, and let's explore the world of the Anasazi! ( pronounced ona-sauzie)

There were often passages like these two pictures next to kivas. ( you'll learn about kivas later in this post.) The rangers didn't tell us what they were for. I think they were used to get in and out of the kiva. When you comment, tell me what you think they were used for.

Tower. Room at the top. When a new baby was born, the parents would cut off the umbilical cord, and hang it from a window in a tower, like this one. If the baby died, they believed that the baby became part of the ceiling in that room.

Ceiling of a room. Not very safe. I bet the rain got right in!

Sorry it's blurry! Inside of a room. There is a passage that leads to another room. I bet you can see it , it's at the back of the room.

These two pictures are pictures of kivas. Kivas are kitchens or places where the indians had family reuinions. Kiva means "Room underneath."

I liked Mesa Verde. It was lots of fun! Fun Fact: Some of the trees in Mesa Verde are over 1,000 years old!