HOT Summer Day!!

 

Man, talk about hot! Today was hot but the few days before have been terrifying. I was great full that today was only 90 degrees. My brother, Mitch, his girlfriend, Beth, and I went to the pool today. The pool was practicly ours. No one was there except this one family that left a few minutes after we got there. I read a few pages from my book then, jumped in the pool and played with Mitch and Beth. After swimming for fun ended I needed my 60 minutes of exercise so I did a few laps arcoss the pool! I said goodbye to the cold pool water and said hello to the unbarable heat!Story of my Life!!!

The Graduation Party

                                                                   
                                                                             

                                          Mia and me

                                                                       

Hi, It's me again back with my Seattle trip. This is JoEllens graduation party. I made many mew friends but thats during the party. In a week advance we were scambiling to get everything ready. Food was the main focus. In the picture below I only show you the dessert. Their was drinks, dinner, and more. It was hard work that easily paid off not just by taste. When the day of the paarty arrived everything was ready. The graduation girl was ready including the decorations, food, and (purple) flowers. When everyone arrivied I didn't know them but, at the end of the day I knew all of them including a small fluffy guest. I met one of my new friends Mia and her parents along with Boygirl. You may be thinking who is Boygirl. Well, it was my small fluffy friend. It was my small fluffy friend, but it was a cat that would roam my Anut Lori's back yard through the ten days I stayed there. Mia and I named it Boygirl because we didn't know if it was a boy or girl. JoEllen had a great time and I enjoyed metting all my new friends. I even got invited to go over to Mia's house later that week.

4th of July

Ok,  Ok I know I haven't blogged in a while and it's a little late to blog for 4th of July but I thought that you guys would enjoy a 4th of July blog post. For 4th of July my brothers and my dad and me went out and bought a whole lot of fireworks. We spent $250 witch was pretty good for how many fireworks we got. After we bought all of our fireworks we went back home to show our collection to our mom. The day before at my swim practice I saw my friend Kendals nails. She had foreworks! She told me how to do them and that night I went home to do them. You pick three colors and with your first color you put a dot of nail polish on your nail. You take a tooth pick and put your tooth pick in the middle of the dot of polish and them drag the tooth pick outside the dot. Do that every way leading out of the dot. Then add your next color and repeat. Do the same with the last layer. Check out my picture to help you figure out what I mean. I f you've read mostly any of my blog posts you'll find my grandma Bergfalk. Every summer we go to her house in Minnesota. She lives on Lake Vermillion. that's where we shot off our fireworks! It turned ou tot be one great 4th of July.

The Ivy Cutting

 Left: Leah Middle: Me (Judiann) Right: JoEllen

The Ivy Cutting

 Left: Leah Middle: Kayla Right:JoEllen

 Coffee Sculpsures

 JoEllen and her boyfriend

Making the fun tissue paper crafts

On day four of my wonderful journey in Seattle I had to wake up at 6:00 in the morning after I had went to bed at about 12:00! Can you guess why I had to wake up so early? The title and pictures will give you a clue. Well,  you probably guessed the second thing we did, the Ivy Cutting, but first we went to my cousins friends art desplay. She mayjored in graphic arts. We went to this little building where other kids art was desplayed including Leah's, JoEllen's, my cousins, friend. After we took a look at Leah's work we went on to the second part of my day the Ivy Cutting! You may have no idea what I mean by this, but some of you might. The Ivy Cutting was a seromny that was done for the seniors at SPU (Seattle Pacfic University) every year. When each person gets their ivy cut it repersents you leaving and taking your seprate journey. A parade came by while we were wating for the president of the college to cut everyones ivy. Once all the ivy was cut we went to go get some food at the tabels near by full of fruits, vegabals, and cookies! JoEllens friends left and we went to this coffee shop that JoEllen had made a sculpsure for! I got some hot choclate at the coffee shop and imired that sculpsure! She made the sculpsure out of balls and coffee filters. Another hour drive! Fanlly when we got home we started working on the decorations for the graduation party. My cousin Amanda told us about an easy, colorful, cute decortions to make from tissue paper. First, you buy the tissue paper. You take eight sheets of the paper and fold them like a fan or accordian style. Then you get some wire and twist it around the middle of the tissue paper after being folded like a  fan. When those few steps are done you take sissors and cut the ends of the tissue paper in a curve or spike. Start carefully pulling each layer of tissue paper apart from then fan until it's nice and fluffy and looks like the examples above. After each of us made a couple of those we went to bed. Anotheer long day goes by.

Mount St. Helens!!!!!!!

Hello again! This is day 3 of my Seattle adventure. By the way I didn't post day two because we just stayed home and rested while all the cousins were at school and Aunt Lori and Uncle Brent were both at work. Well on the 3rd day Aunt Lori had to go to work till 1:00 and them came home. Until 1:00 me and grandma went on a walk to enjoy the nice day! There were beautiful flowers all over the place! Our walk was really pretty and a little freaky because you never know when that deer is going to pop out and scare you even though their harmless.When Aunt Lori got home we took a long trip down to a Mount st. Helens resort! When we got there we went through the museum and then watched a video about it. It was so interesting!!!!! After we were finished there we drove another hour to our next destination even closer to the volcano. We were almost looking inside the volcano. My Aunt told me she watched the hole explosion before they went to church that morning. She had some great stories. They had lived in Westland, Oregon. They could see the volcano from the kitchen window and ash was spread all over their yard covering the land in a thick, white blanket. We drove all the way home and by that time we had dinner and went to bed. It was a long trip. My Aunt had told me that everything was at least an hour away! I was suprisingly, if thats how you spell it, ready to go to bed!

Seattle Trip

 Where is Aunt Lori

 We're here

 It smells but looks tasty once it's cooked

 It smells GREAT finally

 YUM!

 Bye market!

 Can I have some?

 Lets cuddle

 Curious????

Looking out from Red Robin

Hey everyone, I told you that I was going to post abouts my trip.  It took my Aunt Lori a while to get to the airport because she lives in Chahalis and the airport was in Seattle witch is 60 minutes away. After we finally got picked up we went to the market. I love markets. Going to the market was one of the first things I blogged about. Their were fish, cookies, flowers, jewlery, and much, much more. When we were finished with the market we went to the Curiosity Shop witch is CRAZY! I even saw two old mummies that I didn't get a picture of. After we read about the mummies and shriken heads we went to dinner. We went to dinner at Red Robin. Just your standard resturant, but we were looking out on Puget Sound if thats how you spell it. Finally we grabbed some starbucks and went home to Aunt Lori's house. I visted with my Uncle and cousins. then at about 10 o'clock I went to bed with my grandma.

Fathers Day

Happy Fathers Day! Today as we all know was Fathers Day but, it was also the best day of my Fathers life and will always be. For Fathers Day I gave my dad the traditional kiss and hug but, I also gave him a hammock and a watch. Don't tell him but, tomorrow I think I'll give him bed in breakfast since today was a Sunday and he had to get up really early for church this morning. To find more about are church go to restorecc.org. I tried my hardest to give my dad the best Fathers day ever. What did you give to your fathers for Fathers Day? Comment on my blog so I can hear all your great presents for your dads.