What's happening in my little corner of the world. My name is Serenity. My birthday is November 24th. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pioneergirl/ en-us Homeschool Blogger Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:53:00 -0600 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:53:00 -0600 My birthday is today!! I am now 12 years old.   This is me when I was a baby. Serenity http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pioneergirl/747265/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:53:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pioneergirl/747265/ Hello Everyone!! I posted a while ago about a tea party I hosted in the spirit of Anne of Green Gables, but I didn't tell you that I started a Tea Party Club.  Every two months one of the girls host their own tea party.  It has been a lot of fun!  I also started a scapbook.  Whoever is hosting the tea party gets to do three pages in the scrapbook.  It is looking great already!  The tea party we had in September was hosted by The Williams.  It was an Arthurian Tea Party! A group shot. My sister Audrey is the one in the pink dress. ;)  The girl in the blue dress hosted the tea party.  And this is Lydia; she made the dress she is wearing. They even had a sword in the cake and I got to pull it out. Very cute idea! At the end we all recited poems. Now the next tea party that we had last Saturday...............   The Scotts hosted this Tea Party. It was a Little Women Masquerade Tea Party. A group shot with our masks on.  They really made us look diffrent. :) In the living room there was a table with the gifts that Meg, Joe, Beth and Amy gave to their mother.  That was a cute idea!  Everybody got a bag of goodies too. :) They also gave everybody a dollar and then two girls at a time went into the store where with our dollar we could buy two things.  The hostesses. I am wearing the green dress. What fun we had at these two tea parties. So long,   http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pioneergirl/745549/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:26:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pioneergirl/745549/ You may be wondering why I have not posted for 12 days (at least I think it's that many days).  Well it's because we went on a trip to Ohio for a Youth Camp.  It was awesome.  We took a van load of people in a fifteen passenger van.  I am wearing the camo skirt. My brother Seth was asked to be in a wedding so he is in Ohio right now and going to stay there until the wedding to work.  I'll miss him terribly.  He had to buy a truck to take up there.  So he found a truck for $2,000.  I will tell you what happened on the way up there.  The truck that he thought was a totally AWESOME truck turned out to be not quite what he thought it was.  While he was driving, his transmission went out so he only had 4th gear to drive in.  Then his fuel pump went out, so he had no power.  We had a cargo trailer the van was pulling so we towed him and put the trailer behind him. When we got to a town we found an Auto Zone and worked in their parking lot.  It was very hot so the rest of us did not just want to sit in the heat so we went to a Walmart and stayed there for about an hour and a half. When we came back we saw his truck could turn into a dump truck.  Thankfully he was still happy with his truck. The boys had to push it some times too. I will write later.  Pioneergirl http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pioneergirl/706595/ Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:19:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pioneergirl/706595/ Yea, that was really fun! :)  Me and my friend who was staying at our house at the time went down to Phoenix to go swimming.  It was a lot of fun!  I got to spend the night too. ;)  I just can't wait till the next time. This is us; I'm in the middle. We went to a Bible study while we were there. Afterwards we played volleyball. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pioneergirl/701077/ Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:58:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pioneergirl/701077/ Sorry, it's been a while.  Tonight company is coming over.  They are staying for five days and the fourth day that they are here we are having something at our house.  It's a craft day for a homeschooling event.  I just wanted to tell you, "I'm still here".   I won't be able to post this week. Pioneergirl http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pioneergirl/699196/ Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:43:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pioneergirl/699196/ I hosted a tea party this past week; it was in the spirit of Anne of Green Gables.  I gave a lot of my friends invitations .  They had a picture of Anne on the front and on the last part of the invitation it said, "Don't be scared off this time.  I know it's Raspberry Cordial."  Whoever has seen the video's or read the book will know what I am talking about. :) The tea party was Wednesday.  My friend spent the night Tuesday.  She was a BIG help. :) Kaitlyn and me. :) Here we are making Fruit Kabobs for the tea party. Time to decorate.  Yea!!  My brother was so kind as to use wood burning tools to make the sign. :) You can't guess what happened.  Me and Kaitlyn had it all set up when there was a huge wind that almost blew the tents away.  It was raining too. We had the table set and everything, so we had to take everything inside.  We prayed for it to stop and finally it did. ;)  We set it back up just as the guests arrived. Time for some food, Raspberry Cordial and Lemonade. :) Here are all the ladies. Here's me!  I found this dress at Goodwill for $5. A tarantula came to visit our tea party!  Afterwards we played some games. Time for a group shot. :) Then we were off to the White Sands Hotel (our living room). :) We had a sign on the front door that said White Sands Hotel. My mother, Marilla. We had tea and desserts at the White Sands Hotel, while we watched the girls recite poems.   Hope you liked the pictures. :)   http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pioneergirl/693611/ Thu, 28 May 2009 18:14:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pioneergirl/693611/ After church Sunday (Mothers Day) we came home and packed a picnic lunch.  We borrowed a quad from someone at our church and also used one of our own quad.  We went up into a canyon by our house way up on Big Bug Mesa.  It was tons of fun!  Of course it was for Mothers Day.  My mom said since my dad took her on a quad ride for Mothers Day then she would take my dad shopping for Fathers Day. :) LOL!! I have lots of pictures to show you so let's get started. :) Well, first at church we made a Mothers Day gift in Sunday School. The poem reads. My Handprint Sometimes you get discouraged Because I'm so small And always leave my fingerprints on furniture and walls But everyday I'm growing big And soon I'll be very tall Then all my little handprints Will be hard to recall So, here's a special handprint Just so that you can say This is how my fingers looked When I placed them here today Also, two of my brothers gave my mother roses. She was delighted. One of the roses broke off.   Then we got the food ready and checked the quads. Now we are on our way. :) One quad, and the crazy boys quad. :) That is where we are going - all the way to the top. If you look at the mountain from our house it looks way further.  It was sooooo steep. When we got up there we found the perfect picnic spot after some time of searching. LOL  We pulled out the Martinelli's apple cider.  Yum!  Since I am a girl I got the second cup.  Mmmm it tasted good. :) When we were finished eating, out came the Popsicles. :) When we were finished my mom pulled out a book and started reading. Okay, this is not how I always look. LOL!! :)  While my mom was reading, me and my younger brother and only sister went and made some funny videos. Audrey is kissing and hugging the tree. :) Audrey's gun. Now it's time to leave. :( On the way back we saw a rock outcropping that we saw on the way in and thought it looked pretty neat so we stopped and climbed it.  The three boys are up there. It looks like he is on the tree. :) Me trying to climb.  I could not have done it on this side without my brother and dad.  Okay, I really need to climb rocks more. Audrey's hiding at the top. :) My dad and only sister. Isn't that cute. :) A nice view. HEY MOM!! We made it. LOL! At the bottom there are some cabin ruins.  We think they're from a cowboy even though its pretty much only one corner. I think it's neat imagining that a cowboy once lived there. My brother said that these rocks were once the chimney.  You can see a old hook laying there. At our house we never see cacti with flowers; they are so pretty. These are fun.  They are so light. :) We are finally on our way home. Yea! Were home. Hope you like the pictures. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pioneergirl/688123/ Thu, 14 May 2009 22:58:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pioneergirl/688123/ These glasses with the huge nose and bushy eyebrows make you look very different. :)  The first picture is of my brother, then my sister, and then my dad, and the last two are of me. That's it for today. pioneergirl     http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pioneergirl/687052/ Thu, 4 Jun 2009 20:49:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pioneergirl/687052/ Have you ever been to "Prince Edward Island"?  I want to go there so bad.  If you have been there before please leave a comment and tell me about it, what you can do there, etc.  I heard that they will take you to the different places and will act out the video for you.  Is that true?  Make sure you leave a comment!  Please! :) That's all for today, pioneergirl http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pioneergirl/684556/ Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:46:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pioneergirl/684556/ 4-H is in two days.   I saw on my blog I had posted about 4-H in 2008.  Wow,  a year has gone by already.  I get to show my animal Thursday and sell it Saturday.  We will be taking our travel trailer and staying there Wednesday - Saturday. :)  It is going to be pretty fun although pretty scary. :) That's all for today. Serenity I never got to posting the above and now the 4-H EXPO is over.  It ended yesterday. :( We did stay there all week in our travel trailer. I won Grand Champion for Confirmation in lamb and Reserve Grand Champion in Showmanship. I won the ribbons a belt buckle, a garment bag and a plaque. :)  Both girls are my friends. The one to the right is Ruby.  She won Reserve Grand Champion for Confirmation in lamb. Her awards were a blanket and of course a ribbon.  The one to the left of me is Mindy.  She won two blue ribbons.  I did not have a belt for the belt buckle that I won but Ruby's mom was sooo sweet to go and get me a belt and Ruby some boots.  It was a surprise. :) Seth, my oldest brother, won Grand Champion for Confirmation and Reserve Grand Champion for Showmanship. :)  This is his last year so he was verrryyy pleased. :)  I am sooo happy we did so well. Again, my friend Ruby and Mindy and the girl to the right is another friend whose name is Liz.  We were just about to show. I was soooo scared. Saturday was the sale.  I got $5.75 a pound. :)  Fann Contracting bought my animal. :)  Okay, hope you liked the pictures. :) pioneergirl   http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pioneergirl/680896/ Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:13:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/pioneergirl/680896/