I guess I have some filling-in to do...

So I just turned 12! On my birthday I:

Had breakfase in bed. Crepes! With marscepone, raspberries, fresh fresh peaches, and chocolate sauce.

Opened presents, in bed! From parents, 'My Neighbor Totoro,' a new watch; from Abigail, earrings; from grandma Judy, a PHONE!; from grandma Linny, notebooks and money; from aunt Julie, fingernail polish and giftcards; from the other Hodges, a Swiss Army Knife and Swiss Army Flashlight (I almost blinded myself!); from the Mumfords, bananagrams; from aunt Pam, a bag and a book; from Paige a KLUTZ book (I love those!). 

The reason I do that is because people always ask me what I got for my birthday, and I really don't like answering that question.

THEN we went to P. F. Changs for dinner.  I had Crispy Honey Chicken, mom and Abigail shared some kind of shrimp, and my dad ate whatever nobody else did.  It was awesome!

I had a kickbutt birthday and I wanna thank you all.  :)

Bananagrams

It's a game that I got for my birthday. I love it!

Perhaps the greatest hand of bananagrams ever played. At least by me!

Can't Believe It

Tomorrow is my birthday!  I'm so excited.

I guess we've kinda had both kinds of extreme weather this year, haven't we? A c-c-c-oooooollldd winter and an, "iAy, caramba, tengo calor!" summer! (That lower-case 'i' there is the up-side down exclamation point.)

IT IS HOT OUTSIDE!!!

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Hi

I don't have much to say.  I. Am. Excited. For. My. Birthday.

Happy 100th Post!!!

And I can't believe my birthday is in 4 days!!!

It's gonna be totally awesome!

Officially a TOTAL Dork

1. Glasses (wire-rimmed)

2. I have a scientific calculator...

3. Braces. Three words: my. Teeth. Hurt.

Hi

The fish fry was awesome.  The slide was HUGE!  IT.  WAS.  HUGE.  NOT.  KIDDING.

And we had fun even though we got sunburnt.

VBS Fish Fry

I'll give you more details later, but here's the basic, well, layout.

We do a program and sing our VBS songs.

Everyone goes out side.

There's a giant blow-up slide and stuff for kids.

There's a big tent where the grownups sit and talk.

Around noon they start frying fish from the Fish Man!

It's the best fish ever.

Here a handful of chips equals a veggie, gravy is a condiment, and Jell-O is a salad.

VBS

Perhaps my favorite thing.

It's so fun!  Even if I am only a helper this year, I still love it.