Thanksgiving 2008

My Thanksgiving was great. It was relaxing and nice. I got to see some friends and family. Dinner was great. I had stuffing and muffins and all kinds of things, except turkey.The best part about dinner is when you get to dessert. My family had pumpkin pie and dutch apple pie with home made vanilla whip cream. Today I went Black Friday shopping. My mom hates it but I love it so she took me with my sister. I thought it was fun. I went for 7 hours. We went to a mall. I got a lot of nice things. I also saved a lot of money.

Winter Camping

Over the weekend I went on a winter camping trip. I had to sleep in tents but I did get to go to the Gateway game. I got a ride there and then back. It was really cold. It never stopped snowing. When I would wake up it would be 12 degrees. One of the good things was that we were able to build a fire. We cooked all of our food in dutch ovens. I had to eat the side dishes most of the time because the entrees were meat, but there was a lot of side dishes. When everyone got all the food then I was allowed to get more side dishes. I got to shoot guns at targets on an indoor shooting range. We shot 22s. Usually I am against guns but it was ok because they were only paper targets. Also it was inside so there was no way you could hurt an animal by accident. There was a hill that at the bottom there were thorn bushes, trees, wooden poles, giant rocks, and a ditch that would make you flip. So me and three of my friends went sledding on it. We had so much fun. We were having so much fun that when we hit a tree or went into thorn bush then we just laughed at each other and kept going. We enjoyed watching each crash and sometimes we enjoyed crashing ourselves. That was probably the most fun out of the whole weekend.

Report Cards

Today I got my first nine weeks report card. I got As in all my classes except for english. I got a B in it though. I was very happy with my grades. In school for english right now we are doing another big project. We have to make a persuasive travel brochure. We have to choose a place we want to go to and then research it. Once we have a good bit of information then we start to write the paragraphs. We do that tomorrow. I chose to do Luxembourg. I always wanted to go to four places. They are Luxembourg, Latvia, Fiji, and New Zealand.At the top of my list is Luxembourg so I chose to do that one. The book I am reading has one of my vocab words in it so if I show my english teacher then I get a few bonus points. I plan on doing that tomorrow morning. I have been helping my teachers a lot lately, but I don't mind sometimes I ask if I can help.

Big Orders

Not a lot of exciting things happened over the weekend. On Saturday I went out to a few stores. It was kind of long. Then on Sunday my family had a football party. I got a order that was big and I have to finish it tonight so that I can have it for tomorrow. Today in school nothing really happened. It was just a normal day with the usual boring school work. Tomorrow in music class we get to start playing the key boards for our next lesson. I started to read a new series. The Golden Compass series. Most people I have talked to say it is good. Also that the movie is very different. I am on page 54 and it is already very different from the movie.

At the Zoo

Today I didn't have school and yesterday I had a half day. My neighbor up the street works at the zoo so she was able to take my family behind the scenes at one of the buildings at the zoo. It wasn't like one of the big enclosures. It was really cool. After we were done we walked around the zoo and saw all the animals. I was surprised how good some of my pictures were. Especially the ones in the aquarium. It was towards the end of the day so we got to see some of the animals eat. I took a video of the Sea Otters. Below are some of the best pictures I took. These are just with a regular camera. The only thing done to them were the lines were sharpened. Everything else is natural. At the zoo they had baby elephants. One of them was born on my birthday.There are pictures of them below.

Fun Weekend

Over the weekend I went with my sister to do her wedding registry. It took three hours. I was so bored. It was at Macy's. It wasn't a normal Macy's though. It was downtown and it was huge. It had 11 floors. Actually it had 12 but the top one was offices so I didn't really count it. I got a giant hedgehog. It is so soft. I named it Fred. While we were downtown I saw a smart car which is what I want as my first car. I took pictures because I thought it was cool. After we were done with the registry we went out to eat at a place called the Cheesecake Factory. It is a really nice restaurant. It is famous for its cheesecakes. It has so many different kinds plus a giant menu for dinner, lunch, and even breakfast. I got carrot cake cheesecake. It sounds like it would be bad but it was really good. For Halloween I got a giant gummy. It was shaped like a foot. Below is a picture of me eating part of it. I got some new things on my web site so check it out. To go to it click the return to my web site link at the top right hand corner or the web URL under the title Jake's Blog at the top of the page.

Halloween 2008

This year I went trick or treating. I got a lot of candy and I was Bob Marley. The pictures below are me in my costume. The next one is the pumpkin I carved. I used parts that I bought but I still carved some of it. Then there is me after I sorted my candy. After that one it is me sitting next to my reeses cups. They are my favorite. I got 56 of them! Then there are pictures of other things I have done. The plant is the one that was supposed to live in the pool but I am allowed to save it so I am trying. After that there is a random truck that I saw in the parking lot that I thought was cool. Then the final picture is of my family's Chinese Maple. It looked very pretty in that light so I took a picture.