We went to the Iris Garden and Knight's Ferry for a homeschool field trip. Here is a picture of the Knight's Ferry bridge:

It is the longest covered bridge this side of the Mississippi river. The original bridge was washed away by a flood in 1862. Then in 1863, this bridge was bulit.

We went passed the battlefield where I died.... just kidding...I only died for about 10-15 min.

My family is planning to go to Pennsylvania in June..can't wait because we will be going to the Gettysburg

battlefield!!! To you non-Civil War geeks (including my dad) that was one of the most important battles of the war.

Can you guess what this is? Give up? It's a picture of stacked rifles!

 That's one big cannon unless that dog is just small...

I decided to start to take apart my old camera (it was broken anyway!) and was amazing at how many circuit boards, tiny screws, brackets, and other micro sized components were in a camera!

Here is a picture:

Can you see the little words on the circuit board?

After seeing that picture, you now know why you shouldn't drop these things!

I came up with this a few days ago,

Think of an actor or actoress's name then put in a sentence. If you're not getting it here's some examples:

Shirley was at the temple praying. (Shirley Temple)

Tom went on a cruise last week. (Tom Cruise)

Orlando's flowers bloom in Spring. (Orlando Bloom)

Johnny was deppressed yesterday. (Johnny Depp)

Now you try!! Here's some ideas: Hayden Christensen, James Earl Jones, Frank Oz, Christopher Lee

We found my tortoise dead in his house. He died of an unknown cause as of now until we figure out what it was that killed him. Nate Gardner said a few words of honor and we saluted and buried him on his estate. He was only 6 years old when he could have lived 60+ years.

 Here is Goliath at 4 or 5 years old:

I have made three new Lego movies recently and will be posting them on YouTube soon. Two of them are more Civil War movies and the last is: Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4!! Both of the Civil War ones have become my favorites very quickly!!

I am now a "paid member" of the ACWA (American Civil War Association) and will be at the Knights Ferry (March 29th & 30th), Nevadas City (Sept. 10th), and maybe Fresno (October sometime? Not sure.) reenactments. I can't wait....!!! I be a medic at Knights Ferry and a soldier at following events and I will be in the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Company G, Third Brigade, First Division, Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac. Try to say that three times fast!!!!

Here is some pictures of a dummy I made today:

 It took maybe 2 to 3 hours to make.

Can you see the hair?

I thought it would be funny to make a dummy that looked like my sister to see what my dad would do when he noticed. I had Kelsey hide in her closet until my dad noticed that it wasn't Kelsey but a dummy! I liked how it turned out. It's so real you have to look twice before you notice it's fake! 

I went to the Civil War reenactment on Saturday and it was the biggest reenactment I've ever been to!!! It was huge!!! I even got to go on the battlefield and be a medic in the battle. If you like the Civil War you should go next year. It's in Fresno at Kearney Park on October 18-19th. I will be going next year and will be one of the reenactors!!! I'm going to be in the 20th Maine, Company G. It was very fun and when you're on the battlefield you get the experience of what it was like being in a battle during the Civil War.

This is what I want to be able to do someday with my 3-D software:

I want to do this kind of stuff but in a Lego film not just a picture!

But its going to take a long time till I can do that because I started taking the lessons that come with the software and there is a lot of stuff to learn!!!

Going off subject for a little bit here is a picture of my dad's car:

First thing nobody was hurt!!!

The car in front of him blew a front tire and veered toward my dad's car and my dad turned a sharp left and drifted on the median then drove across the road and hit a hump on the side of the road then slowly started tipping over and rolled until he landed (see above).

I suggested using it for target practice for my .22 caliber rifle, but it didn't go over well!!

My new movie "Cars" was a great hit! Here is a link for it Cars. Sorry I could not add a new entry sooner, our Internet wasn't working for a week or so. I have drawn a storyboard for my next movie "Battle of Jabiim" It's a Star Wars movie about a battle during the Clone Wars. And that's all I can tell you!! Here is the website I upload all my movies to: http://www.youtube.com/  And the category to look in is Film & Animation for Lego Stop-Motion movies. Have fun watching all those Lego Movies and here is some I recommend: Battle of Bunker Hill-gmg5101 (this is the user), lego indiana jones-IndyJ21, The Pilgrims Turkey-CaptainBulldog.

I just made a new Lego short a few days ago and have just finished it yesterday. It is called "The Pole" and it is about this guy who trying to get a pole out of his backyard and does not succeed. So he ends up using it as a flag pole. It is really funny! Here is a link for it: The Pole  I am making another short, first it shows a 4x4 car driving though a rough terrain then it shows a street car racing toward a ramp. That's all I'm going to tell you because I don't want to give it away, then you would already know and my short wouldn't do so well! 

Sorry I have not posted anything for a while I went on vacation and the days after were very busy. I was looking though my Lego catalog and I found a contest for a Star Wars Lego movie that was coming soon. I thought I'd enter so I made a storyboard (usually I don't). Now for anyone who has Windows Movie Maker and is a beginner I'll tell you how to use it in my next entry.  But here is links for my two movies that I'm making that will come out next year: Gettysburg; Lego Star Wars.