Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Thought of the Day

Every child is a different kind of little flower, and all together they make this world a beautiful garden...

Saturday, May 24, 2008

18,000 Men

This is amazing. My papa sent this to me and I had to share it. This incredible picture was taken in 1918. It is 18,000 men preparing for war in a training camp at CampDodgein Iowa. Eighteen thousand men!!! What a priceless gift from our grandfathers...

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Brianna


For the past 5 days, Brianna has been staying at our house while her parents were in NY. It has been a lot of laughs, coughing, and sniffles because we all got sick. We are better now though. We also went to Sea World because we all have passes. It was fun :)

Monday, May 12, 2008

Service


Today we went to the Temple for a youth activity. We were cleaning temple grounds. It was a wonderful experience. It was spiritual at times and fun in others. All in all, it was a really good day. I think we split into 2 or 3 groups. My group involved moving mulch with snow shovels. The people who were in my group were Nashua, Daniel, Dylan, and Bryce. Everyone had a blast...

Thursday, May 8, 2008

A whale of a day!

Today we went to Sea World for half of the day.
Jordan really wanted to go there before his mission, so my parents got us passes. It was only Kirstie, Jordan, my mom, and me. We didn't do everything, but we are going back soon. First we pet some sting rays. Then we went on Journey to Atlantis. We had so much fun the first time and it was only a 5 minute wait, so we decided to get soaked a second time. After that we went and saw the dolphins. Believe it or not, we actually got to pet one! It was so awesome. It was wet, squishy, and rubbery. I loved the dolphins. After that we went see the penguins and puffins. Those little guys had so much energy, it was hard to take a decent picture of them. They are speedy little things. Then we went to the shark encounter. After sharp teeth and gills, we went to see SHAMU! :) that was a lot of fun. We didn't sit in the soak zone, but we still enjoyed it. It was so amazing. Then we were off to the dolphin nusery. The sad part about this was that we couldn't pet them in this area, but the good part was that they come up close and jump in the water. We are deffinetly going again very soon ;) -megan

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

ITBS no more



Wednesday May 7, 2008













Megan and I have finished testing today!

Here is what my book looked like:



We are just so happy to be done with it :) see you later, kirstie

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

ITBS

Megan and I are taking the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. We do it every year at this lady's house, and it goes from Monday to Thursday. Everyday we leave at 8:00 and get there at about 9:00 and wait for the other people to get there and then we start testing. We take a break, eat, and play outside for about 20 minutes then go back inside and test some more. We get to play while we wait for our parents to get there. : )

Kirstie