Playing with friends -- by Ashton

I like to play outside with you guys. I like to be outside. I wish my friends will come over another day and play with you another day. I like the slide.







Thank you to my friends for playing with me and I wish I could play with you another day. I was being steady and I was the Mom for you guys and I am glad that I didn't fall. We played strollers and babies. Good bye.

the play--by nathan

Before the play we had to write the words for the play. It took a long time to write it. After we wrote it we played it. Daniel was the oxen, Aston was the mom, I was the dad, and Craig was the director. The play was about the pioneers travailing across the great plains. First we had to make the wagon then we packed it with food and water and then we set off into the wilderness. Somewhere out in the wild we stumbled upon sum boulders and I had to push it aside. Finlay we made it to the salt lake Vally.

After the play we sang a song, and had a cookie and said a prayer.

peter pan books...by craig

I once had a friend named Bubba he was my best friend ever and one day his mom started a book club and I was in it after we finish the book she showed us what next they should read. It was the peter pan and the Star catchers it is about how Wendy's mom molly she meats peter and it gets into a story about how who captain hook comes in and how peter can fly. there is 4 book star catchers,shadow of thieves, secret of rundoon, and the sword of Mercy. that is all so I hope you read it bye.

My talk -- by Daniel

On Sunday I had a talk during sacrament. It was about How to Bring the Spirit Into the Home. I was never nervous. I mean, I have done a play with about 5x more people. I've also have done a talk in payson with about 3x more people. I think there was nearly 100+ people there. I just wasn't never nervous.

Making my talk was exhausting. I didn't know that it took that many steps to make a talk. I kind of like it better dad's way, but I won't. First my mom researched about my topic. Then I had to come up with things without looking at what my mom got out of the Internet. Then I expanded what I came up with. After that we put all of the things I made up and the stuff out of the Internet together. Then we printed it. It was a nice talk. When I told my talk to my family, It took 6 mins.

These are the 13 things I talked about.
1. Being willing to go and being helpful in Family home evenings.
2. Scripture Study by our self and as a family.
3. Pray as a family and by yourself.
4. eat dinner as a family
5. Do activities as a family.
6. Keep the sabbath day holy.
7. go to church meeting, firesides, and activities
8. Obey your parents.
9. Treat people nicely and don't fight with each other.
10. Serve your family and others often.
11. Cheerfully do your chores.
12. Be supportive of you family
13. Spend time with family members.

I expanded a lot of them. I even put in stores and my life experiences in this talk as well. I had a great time telling my talk to all of them.

Niagara Falls -- by Craig

One day our family went to Niagara falls it was a blast. We got a magnet because our family is doing a magnet collection we have only a bit of magnets. When we got to Niagara falls we each got a quarter and we looked in a observation station we could look right at the water fall it was awsome.

When we where walking we saw a lot of cool things and a really cool views of the water falls. I think there were two water falls when we where passing by I was so excited to get on the boat the only bad thing there is the line.

When we got on the boat we went to the front of it cause that is were you get the most water. the boat ride was awsome the waves would splash your face and the water falls would get you soaked.

The Sacred Grove -- by Ashton

I like the picture and I love it so much. I like all of the different rocks and different leaves. I feel good there.

I love it and I like to pick the leaves. I love my Daddy so much to give me a piggy back ride there.

joseph smith's home-- by Nathan

Joseph Smith's home was very interesting I think this was where Joseph smith had surgery when he was seven. In there little home there was a room upstairs and three downstairs, in the room upstairs were two beds in each bed were three boys. In a room downstairs they only had one bed and two girls slept in another one was a baby and in the last one was the mom and dad.

It was cool being in the room where he hid the golden plates were once. We couldn't go downstairs or upstairs we could only be on the main floor.

Joseph smith means a lot to me he restored the Gospel. In his home you can feel the spirit.

The hill cumoria -- by Daniel

For this little vacation that my family and me went on was first the hill cumoria, second, Joseph smith home, and lastly Niagara Falls. I'm going to tell you about the hill cumoria.

First we had to drive forever of miles. 30 mins from my house during the drive we passed the Basketball hall of fame. It was really cool looking. There was a ball on on side that was shaped as a basketball. The rest was a square building. Years later we were here. We went first to the visitor center. The visitor center was smaller than I am used to but is was really nice one. Part of it was glass wall,but most of it was white stone. After we went through there it started to pour really hard. You could have stood there for a few seconds and you would be soaked. Mom decide we should still go up on the hill. We went up the hill. The path was worn down weeds with rocks. Since it was raining it was also a mud path. My mom had to hold on to somebody just to walk. She had flip flops on.

We were there for the hill cumoria pangent. The pangent was really good. While we sat waiting for it to start, all of the people from the play came out and talked to everyone. Mom took a picture of me next to one of the 3 wise men.

The pangent was about the book of Mormon manly. It started from lehi to Joesph Smith.
It was a great experience even if we were soaked. Some of the cool parts was the place falling apart and the waterfall. When the place fell apart it was exploded into the sky and then lova shot out. The water fall was really cool to look like a it made a little pool. It really did look like a water fall. I felt the spirt very strong through the whole play.

I like to be in Connecticut

I like vanilla with chocolate on it. My friends are the best. Man, they know what I am going to say!
Momma Mia, Fishing in the Dark, and The Lights go down on the city are songs that I like.
The carousal was fun. It was down and up and fun a lot. I like to ride bear, elephant, horses, the chair, and tigers, cats. That's all.
What play area? Oh yeah. There's not really a tunnel it is just rocks. Did you know that? But actually it is just a log and the log has a map on it. So it's not actually a tunnel. I was rowing to pirates land. You just run away from Nathan and Craig because Nathan and Craig are the pirates. I then I ride back home in the boat and then ride back to pirates piggy land. There was a boat and the pig's boat and pigs and they just said, "Run away from us 'cause were going to eat you for dinner and put you in the oven." I was too fast for them. Then I got safe with you guys 'cause the pirates didn't know where I was.
I learn how to swim and I always made it and dunk my head with my eyes open. I like to be high in the sky and I like to be with you. The boys throw me and then I went into the water. That is how I get high in the sky.
The slide! I like to play outside all the time. I slide. I like to eat outside. I am hungry all of the time. da da da
Model! I love to be a model. I love you taking pictures of me. I love to eat all of the time. That is all!

Going to Conneticet -- by Daniel

Going on the plane was a really boring. I manly read a book, sat, sat some more and that's all. It beet riding a car to Connecticut. We took two flights. One to Dallas second to Hartford.

While at there we stayed at a hotel(I forgot the name of it). There was a pool. It was okay. The deepest it could go was 4ft. We had alot of fun. My dad bought some things that we could play with in the pool. There was a little yellow ball. there was some other thing that I forgot it's name.

It was a great weekend

While here we ate out because of that we couldn't have normal dinners because of where we were. My favorite place is Freindly's. It's manly a ice cream place but there food is also really good. My favorite ice cream there was butter finger sundae. It is so good. It is a 3-scoops of vanila, with carmel topping with crushed up butter fingers. It's been fun here.

My Adventure -- by Craig

When the movers came I stayed at the Hullingers and we even got to sleep over. We jumped on the tramp and played soccer on it. At 12 noon we had a book party. We all got around in a circle and talked about the book. We read When you reach me. I like the book. My favorite thing was the time travel.
On Tuesday we went to see the truck. Jace had said it was huge! All of our friends were really impressed with the big truck. It was very cool that the truck was huge. It felt a little strange to see all of our stuff packed up.
I am going to miss my friends.
When we got in the airplane it was so cool because you had to walk through a tunnel. The pilot was really nice. The pilot walked around before we took off. He talked to me, Nathan, my Mom, and Ashton and told us how to get a good view. That we would see the mountains really clear. At the beginning when you took off and at the end it was cool. In the middle it was boring. We got to be in the clouds. A person on the plane had a dog and they let me pet it.

Once we got in Connecticut we didn't have the right room. So my Dad, Ashton, and me went on one floor. My Mom, Daniel, and Nathan went on another one. The next day we fixed the rooms and we were across the hallway. We have really close stores. It was really cool to feel the humidity.
The pool was really small only four feet but still very fun. We did a bunch of tricks like do handstands in the water. We swam around and played sports. My Dad bought a pool ball.

I rock!

After we stayed at the hotel for a week the movers brought everything in while we unpacked stuff. We got our room all ready and bought us a lamp. I share a room with Daniel.

I went to church and I am in a really nice class. There were 3 kids in my class today but I think there is suppose to be 7.

Moving to Connecticut -- by Nathan

Moving to Connecticut was fun and hard. It was sad. We had to leave a lot of friends and family. Although it was sad Connecticut was fun.
First we had to ride a plane to get there. at first it was scary but once we were high in the air was boring. It took all day to get there. One of the ladies on the plane told me to divide chip for six people. So I did. At first we flew to Dallas and then to Connecticut. Looking out the window was awesome. We saw big farm areas. We also saw these circle looking things that were so big. I think they were farms. I saw mountains and they looked like ant hills from up there. Except for a little snow.

In Dallas we got to ride a train to the next terminal. The train was fun. It was really fast! When it stopped I wasn't holding on to the bar so my face slammed into the window.

We are now in Connecticut and it is fun! We did a lot of stuff like swimming, playing at the little kids area at the mall, and eating out. My favorite place to eat is Friendlys. I like their chicken strips, waffle fries, and all of their ice cream. My favorite ice cream was the build your own volcano. You have two scoops of ice cream inside a bowl with an ice cream cone on top. The cone makes a volcano. They have whipped cream all around it. There are 3 sides chocolate, carmel, and sprinkles. You pour the chocolate and carmel on top of the cone to be lava and the sprinkles are ashes and rocks.
I was running after Ashton and I lost sight of her. Right by the rope area she scared me from behind and I tripped and fell into it. They have lots of food places at the mall. They also have a Friendlys there. At the kids area Craig and I were playing and we had to knock each other off of a treasure area with a tunnel. I was holding on it staying under it. He stepped on my fingers and I fell.

Swimming was fun. We all splashed around and would go under the water and swim around. We can't jump in because the pool is only 4 feet deep. If we did we would hurt ourselves. We would hit our head or our feet and get an injury.

We are at our house now and there is a park in our backyard. There is a toddler slide and a big slide. Me and Ashton go down the big slide. When I go down I go down fast!

There are tons of squirrels where I live. I saw a squirrel right on the tree right outside of our balcony. We took a picture of it. It was cute.

I hope I see you soon and have a fun time. I miss you guys so much.