Bradford Woods! (Finally) Well, this was my bed! Our cabin was called "Carlson" and it has air conditioning, sinks, bathrooms, closets, (mine is the one with the tweety towel)

and a day room. (the second one to the right on the bottom)

This was a HUGE stump that grew on our back porch. This bottom picture was taken on our history hike where we learned that Bradford Woods was sold for 50 dollars, and it was a sand mine. I think this piece is a crane. This other bottom picture is of our trail group leaders. The second to last on on the right was our trail group (which was called the "Bison") leader.

(More later. Things don't turn out right with too many pictures)

A little bird (saying no names)(*cough cough*Aunt *cough*Donna) told me that I still had some fans out there! I don't have any new pictures, but I will get my Bradford Woods pictures when my mom shows me how! I will hopefully post alot until my mom helps me get those pictures up. I'll see you guys later! (Those of you in Florida, good luck next time!) -Hallie

We went to Dr. Henson's house today! (Dr. Henson is dads friend) Here is the GIGANTIC train!

actually, it's a model train set, so the trains are actually really tiny. But they're really cool. the whole thing looks like this:

we also got to ride a tractor, and drive it. This is me driving it:

it was so cool! My mom wanted to take a picture of all of us, and she and my dad took a picture of us, so this was one that was "defective": she was making a silly face and I thought that it was cute, so I picked it. Well, we are all wathching Big Fat Lier on TV, So I'll see you! Bye! Hallie

I just want to say to everybody that my moms blog is HUGEMONGOUS!!!!!!! You might need.... like.... 15 cups of coffee!!! So I would need a lot of time on my hands to read all of that information. anyway, I proboly won't do morning blogs because i'm usually rushed, so that doesn't help, and my aunt is coming the day before I go to Bradford Woods, and on my dads birthday, so that's cool. She will be staying for 10 days. My cousin will be driving soon, so that's awesome too because he will get to drive us everywhere down in Florida. Have a great day! Hallie

Hi everybody! today is WEDNASDAY!!!! It's one of my favorite days because we have art today!!! Hooray!!!! Well, let's get caught up on things...... this is me in a portrait with Furby, Cobra isn't mine, so I didn't take a picture with him. The book is Anne of Green Gables (witch I loved) I proboly should get going to eat breakfast, but here are a few more pictures.......

According to some people, comments aren't supposed to be long, That is WRONG! You can comment me as long as you want, and I won't make fun of you!!! We went to open house, and they had a Bradford Woods presentation, for those of you who don't know, Bradford Woods is a place where 5Th and 6Th graders go to spend the night (without parents) for 3 days and 2 nights. I can't wait!!! It will be awesome!! Here is the update for right now, (back by popular demand) Dad is checking email, Mom is helping everyone into bed, Carlie (that threw up in our school lobby at open house) is going to bed, Zack and Brock are eating their snack, and I am, well, blogging. Have a good nights rest for...... WEDNESDAY!!!! Bye. Hallie

hi everybody! we have open house tonight, so I can't wait for that, and picture day is tomorrow, and Brock had his open house yesterday, and post comments because I do truly read them, so do that please, and the gerbils are doing fine, Brock's having a great time at kindergarten, and Carlie is fast asleep on the futon! I miss you all ( if your down in Florida) and everybody else, have a great day!!!! Bye! Hallie

Hi everyone! Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo extremely sorry that I haven't been blogging! I've been so busy with my kind of new email address.... anyway I make a soleom oath to try to blog everyday. well, love 'ya and see you later!

Hi everyone! I want to say something fast before I have to go to school. (Before I go on, I want to say to someone (not saying any names, Aunt Liz!) that I am only down to 2 dollars to pay off furbykins, so you don't have to donate any money, but thanks very much anyway!) (but seriously, you can give my money anyway!) Okay. Down to the most important part, let's see, it happened oh... About 3 days ago. I was at Art Club, at the end Zack came in and was carrying a box that said Pets Mart on it. Can you guess what it was!?!?!? It....Was....A....GERBIL!!!!!! Yes, Zack got a gerbil. There will be pictures later. (but 1 thing real quick, it's a lot smaller than Furby) Well, better go. We are going to drive to school in a few minutes, so luv ya, and see ya. Bye!!!!!! ;-)

This is the amazing furbykins!

She is a gerbil and I got her one night when we went to look at animals at Pet Smart.

I looked at the gerbils and I asked dad, "do you think I can get one sometime" and dad said, "maybe." And I asked when...and dad said...maybe now.

And I said really...and so I had to pay for it, but we finally got furbykins. I picked her because she was the first one I saw (they were all in the igloo and she first popped her head out).

You probably can't see it now but she has a spot on her tail.

I'm giving you her characteristics.

She has just recently made a hole in the top right corner of shavings for her bed. She's constantly behind her wheel and at night I hear this big noise and it's her on her big wheel. I was afraid of her before but now I can pick her up (as you can see in one of these pictures). She likes to get her picture taken I think because she was really still when I put her in my hand and in the other two pictures.

She also keeps eating her food bowl...so last night mom got her a hard little cheesecake treat thing.

I paid, and I still have to pay $10, $42 for the cage, the gerbil, the bedding, the food, the ball, and the chewing sticks (the orange thing in the picture).

That's all for now. I'll probably have more by tomorrow. See you later.

Love you...bye

This fish is the first one I caught on a fishing trip with Dad, Zack, and Brock. They didn't catch fish...but they did catch a really big fish type thingy!!! I think it's called a log...it also broke their hook off.

We had to put this fish back in the water though. This picture was also before we found out my fishing pole was broken.

In the next blog will be the amazing furby.

This is what we call a frown. You turn the sides of your mouth down...and there you have it...a frown. Hey, I just made a poem. Cool.

We are actually at the Indiana University football game against another team I really can't remember. And I just decided to take this picture because I thought it would be cool on my blog.

I'm still getting to furby...it's getting closer.

This is me on a ride at the Indiana State Fair with Annaliese, Andrew, Kiersti, Nathan, Ethan (no, not Ethan), Aunt Margaret, Uncle Phillip, Grandma Estes, Papa Estes, Mom, Dad, Zack, Brock, and Carlie (but they're not actually on the ride, except Zack).

I went on another gigantic ride with Aunt Liz which was freaky (the ride I mean, not Aunt Liz).

I also had a lot of fun there. And I'm still getting to furby...so hold on.

This is at Zack's football game where we were just coming back - Carlie and I - from playing at the park and I was getting money for watching her.

She got really hot so I came back to mom and dad and decided to give her a drink. And the money is being used to pay off for getting furbykins...I'm not there yet, so wait up.

These two picture are from the day after the Chicago Fire soccer game. These two pictures are from the Children's Museum from two different parts in it.


The first one is our beautiful house (on the Prarie...hahaha). We constructed it ourselves (with the help of Brock and Zack...but not too much help they did...I did most of it)










The next one is where we got to catch butterflies on our hands and head (again, ha ha ha). We're actually behind a screen and those butterflies are computer generated. Even though they are computer generated, when you have your shadow on the screen they land on your hands and head as though the butterflies are real.

Sorry about this. I was supposed to put this on the last blog. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks for cooperating.

This picture is us looking at dad when we were supposed to be watching the soccer game.

This top picture is of me, the queen of the freezing, extremely cold pool. Whoa...go me!

<- This picture is of me, the first one to get in the extremely freezing, really cold, really cold pool. We were relaxing after watching a Chicago Fire against Colorado Rapids soccer game. This pool is in the hotel that we went to to stay during the night that we spent in Chicago.

--------------------------> This picture, I really don't know what I'm doing here. I'm doing a weird dive.

Carmen, Heidi, and Chris are here.

The first picture is of me shooting a basketball when Heidi, Carmen, Chris, Zack and I were playing a basketball game.











The next picture is of us at an Indiana Fever basketball game where I won the "Loudest Fan" (but I don't think I really was). For being the loudest fan I got a prize pack that included McDonald's flip flops, cars of the NASCAR people, a Fever pedometer, a pen, a notepad that had Indiana Wesleyan University on it, and other stuff.








The next one I'm by the biggest ball in the world - just kidding. It's a blow up ball that was in the building at the entrance and we thought it would be cool to get a picture there.










The fourth picture is where we snuck into the football stadium so that Heidi, Chris, and Carmen could see it once.











The last one is of me by the naked lady fountain. And the little black spot on my lap is a boxer puppet that I got at a garage sale (with Heidi, Chris, Carmen...it was the only good thing, besides a troll doll).

Ceramics

The mask I made at the Latest Glaze art camp. Everybody got to pick out an animal or person, make the details (add noses, cut out the eyes, etc.). I picked a tiger design because I think they're cut and cool.

The picture of me by my stuff is all the things I did there. One part is like Build-a-Bear where you get to stuff the animal, put a heart in it, and pick out its clothes. Overall it was just a great art camp.

In the future, though, I don't plan on becoming an artist. I plan to become veterinarian (but I will not be a doctor for worms...they are so extremely nasty).

Trick Games

This is when Papa was here. We were just sitting around the living room one day and Papa decided to tell us a few tricks he had up his sleeve. Some of them I got and some of them he got me on.

The day before we had just gotten home from camp. Great Grandma Smith was there and I heard a lot of interesting stories about the day that she got here. One of the stories is that she kept telling Brock things that he would normally do - like stacking the puzzle boxes on top of each other. So, basically she was bossing Brock around like a mom. But she still is sweet.