Christmas

For Christmas my mom's whole family came. There is twenty people in all except my Grandparents couldn't come because they are not doing very well. So there were 18 people.

Christmas Eve night I slept in my parents closet with Ryan, Emily and Megan and we tried to get to sleep really fast because the next day would be Christmas. Later I woke up and my mom walked in the room to get something because some people were still wrapping presents. I thought it was Christmas morning but it wasn't. I went back to sleep and the next time I woke up my parents and Ryan were getting ready. I was so excited. Later we were all ready and sitting on the bed. Starting with Ryan my Dad took us up stairs to wait with everyone. We took a picture with eachother on the stairs and then walked into the family room. I saw that Santa had brought me an American Girl Concession Stand. Emily and Megan got twin Bitty Babies. Luke got a little basketball hoop and Ryan got a big soccer goal and a soccer Wii game. It was cool. All the little girls climbed in it because they thought it was a fort.

My two favorite presents were my American Girl Concession Stand from Santa and my new desk from my parents. Some other presents I got were a Fairy book from Ryan, a red Christmas dress for my American Girl, (Kit looks cute in it.) a blue sweater, a brown turtleneck and a cute brown and pink plaid skirt. I also opened up a present and I found a little horse figurine with a paper that said, "You will be starting Horseback Riding lessons on January 15th." I was very excited about that. I got the Kit movie and the Samantha movie. We watched both of them already and they are very good. Amy gave us 'Newsies' but we haven't watched it yet but I want to watch it.

I am the babysitter of my family. Everyday I babysat my two little sisters... Emily (6), Megan (3 1/2), my three little cousins... Annie (4), Leah (almost 2), and Molly (2) and I also take care of Luke (1) and baby Foster (4 months).

Some of the fun things we did while they were all here were...
-We went to a field to run, exercise and play.
-We went to Flat Rock Park a couple times to hike and play on the playground.
-We celebrated Emily's 6th birthday and all the little girls dressed up like princesses.
-We went to the Coke Factory in Atlanta.
-We went to Callaway Gardens to have a picnic and go through the Butterfly house.
-Almost my whole family jumped on the trampoline together.
-We played the chimes with everyone on Christmas Eve.
-We made snowman sugar cookies on Christmas Eve. We ate some ourselves and gave some to Santa. He left half a cookie and a cookie that he took one bite of.
-We went to the River walk and sled down the hill on cardboard boxes. (Annie said it was better than Disneyland.)
-We watched Kung Fu Panda together and The Christmas Story. (At the store we saw the lamp that is in the Christmas Story movie.)
-We talked to my Grandma and Grandpa on the webcam. It was fun. They watched us when we were opening presents and Molly kept on getting in the way and looking at them.

My Rock Project

At school we were assigned to do a rock project. It was fun working on it with my mom. I think mine was the best because of the scrapbook paper. Almost everybody elses had marker all over it. We went to Flat Rock Park to collect all the rocks for my project. My brothers and sisters helped me find good ones. We made a Rock Talk Book. I had to draw a picture of my rock, tell what shape it was, tell if it reflected light, tell about the texture, and I had to see if a penny, my fingernail or a nail could scratch it (and none of them could scratch it -- my rock was really hard.) I got a 100 on my project!