Get To Go To My Friends House And Have a Sleepover!!

I get to go to my friend's house the Garzas, and have a sleepover!! I haven't seen the Garzas for so long! It's been about 2 months or so since I have seen them! So that was actually way before Christmas since I last saw them! 

The reason why I haven't seen them in a while is that they moved away from our street to Red Bluff which is about a half hour away. And they moved to a ranch area so it is even longer to get to that part of Red Bluff. I miss them so much since I last saw them! I used to go to their house every day basically. But now it's like going to be every two or three months. Well, it wouldn't be actually if I did choir this semester but as I said in my other blog post, I am not going to be doing choir but only at Christmas times because I really wanted to go back to ballet and see how it feels again. But I miss my friends at choir. I love doing ballet though too!

Oh, and the reason why we are having a sleepover is that my parents are going to Alabama and seeing our brother Gideon for four days and then coming back. We are totally fine by ourselves at home but I really wanted to go to someone's house and have a sleepover while our parents were gone so my mom asked if Sophie and I could go over there for a sleepover!! And Mrs.Garza said that's totally fine! And we could even stay for two nights too if the first night works out. Two weeks until we actually have the sleepover though. But I am so happy we can even have one and see the Garzas!! We haven't even seen their house yet so that's going to be fun seeing the house!!

I have had three sleepovers in my entire life. Two with the Garzas and one with our other friends, the Phillips. I say that is a lot of sleepovers to have!

The Garzas are probably reading this right now actually! Hi if you are!

So excited to have a sleepover!!

I Got a Phone Case And a Phone Holder With Wallet!

Yesterday I got a phone case and a phone/wallet in the mail! I picked a galaxy color for both. I don't actually need a phone case because I already have one on my phone, but I just loved the galaxy color so I got it and the phone/wallet case too!

Here are some pictures!

Also, I don't have an iPhone but I have an iPod touch. So my phone is super tiny compared to like regular iPhones. But I love just it! It looks so cute in the phone/wallet case! Both things I bought were really cheap but work amazingly! The phone/wallet case has stuff so you can put your credit cards or money, or your ID card, and it has a phone case inside of it that is stuck on it so you can also have your phone too inside of the wallet basically! Oh, and it also works as a phone stand so if your watching a show or something, it holds it up for you so you don't have to put something behind the phone to hold it up!

The phone case is great too! It has two layers to the case so if you drop it, the phone itself wont touch the ground. Which is awsome! I love both of the things I got!!

Tell me if you like it! Bye! :)

I Crocheted a Jellyfish!

I crocheted a jellyfish. Well, it was actually just nothing, so then I realized I guess I could try and make one out of the nothingness, and well, it does look like a jellyfish, so I am happy with it. And Sophie plays with it when she is playing with toys, so that's something! I put a mouth and some eyes, but it just looked creepy and weird with it, so I took it off, and now it looks way better without it.

Here is a picture of it:

Let me know if you like it or not. I still have to put on more tentacles.

 Oh, and also, I have been taking crocheting lessons with my friend Abby. She wants to learn how, so she and I go over to this lady's house that is right next to the lake club, and we go there to learn how to make a coster or something easy to start off with. The lady has a really nice house and is a very good crocheter! I learned how to hold the crocheting hook right and how to hold the yarn with my other hand. It was nice learning how to hold the yarn and hook correctly. I need to buy wool yarn because I have a whole bunch of acrylic that isn't the right type to make some stuff. Acrylic is super soft, so when you try to make a coaster, it will be very wobbly and starts to turn and stuff, but the wool yarn is different, and it works for crocheting a coster or something and holding its shape. Also, when Abby and I went to the lady's house, we learned how to crochet a coaster. Ok, well, my coaster didn't turn out well at all. It was doing all kinds of things, so I turned it into a jellyfish. :) And I did use wool yarn, so it should have worked! I think the problem was that I kept it tight and not loose, so I think the tightness will make it turn and stuff.

Well, I hope you liked the jellyfish! :)



Science Behind Baking!

I have always wanted to learn the science behind baking and why cake or cookies rise. I do love to bake! I have watched a video about why baking soda or baking powder makes stuff rise. And other exciting stuff behind baking!

Here is the video!

So when you put cake or cookies in the oven, it rises because when you put baking soda with water, and vinegar, or any type of acid together, boom!

This is what happens!
It has a big reaction and starts to rise a lot! And that is what causes a cake to have air bubbles. It's crazy that it has that reaction! And interesting too!

He makes biscuits, a cake, and bread in the video. Yeast makes the bread rise because you can use yeast to make the carbon dioxide (which is basically the air), and then it stretches the gluten through tiny air pockets and basically makes it a nice and sort of spongy texture. And basically, the same thing happens with the cake, but you don't, of course, use yeast, but you do use baking powder, and that also makes it a pleasant and spongy texture to it! It's just so interesting and amazing that all of those little things can really change it in all of these different ways!

Well, see you next time! Bye!

What I Did Two Days Ago!! Very Interesting!!

So last Tuesday, my mom and I went to the gym around 4:30 in the morning like we do every Tuesday and worked out there. My mom showed me more different types of weights, and it felt very nice doing them! And Ezra, my brother, of course, goes every day to the gym with my parents since he's fourteen and doesn't need to have somebody with him in the same room. Well, the last Tuesdays, he hasn't been there because he sleeps in, or my dad sleeps in and doesn't go. But he finally came, and he and I played racket ball! Racketball is so much fun to play there! It is in a huge room and very echoey. I had never tried playing it before, so he showed me how to play! It was easy learning how to play, but I kept hitting the ceiling when I was supposed to be hitting the wall. Now the ceiling is super tall! Way taller than our house ceiling! And our house ceiling is pretty tall so just imagine that ceiling! And Ezra never hits the ceiling! But only once did he do it when we were playing. He actually hit one of the lights on the ceiling, and it really made a big sound, but nothing happened, thankfully! :) After we played, my mom and I had to leave to go to M's house and take care of Mrs.M. Now, if you didn't see my other blog post about how we helped somebody, I will tell you why I say Mrs.M and not their name full name. The reason why is because of their privacy. :) Also, this lady has dementia, and she is in her 70's.

Well, we went over to Mr. and Mrs. Ms's house, and Noelle also wanted to come and help out and see what it was like, so she was also there to help out. She had to leave around 7:50 AM because she had to get to work. But that was totally fine because we got to M's house around 6:30 in the morning, and Mr.M left to go to bible study as usual and comes back around 8:30 in the morning. So Noelle would be there the whole time but missing about fifteen more minutes or so.

I made Mrs.M her breakfast and gave it to her, and she started to eat it and after she ate, we put on her favorite song, " How Great Thou Art," and all began to sing to it! She also sang to it too! It was so sweet! After we sang the song, we put on other songs, and after we played those, my mom said to Mrs.M, " Do you want to dust off some stuff? "She said that because Mrs.M, before she got her dementia, always used to clean a lot around the house and always made it spotless and loved to clean! So Mrs.M said sure. So we got some rags, and my mom and I moved some stuff off that we thought she couldn't hold so she could wipe off all the dust with her wet rag. We could tell she enjoyed it very much! Last Tuesday, we did that, and she kept telling my mom how thankful she was for letting her clean around the house and saying this is so good for me! We were both surprised she said that because you know she has dementia and can't think straight and doesn't really know what she is saying. So it was just so sweet to hear that!

After we cleaned, my mom read her " The Wind in The Willows " book.  Mrs.M listened, but I don't think she was really listening because my mom said to her, " what is the mole looking at? " She answered and said the clouds or something completely different from what the mole was looking at and from the picture. And by the way, the picture was a mole in a sort of swamp where you can't see any clouds or anything, and the mole was, I think, looking at a water rat which is in the picture. Sometimes when we read some of Sophie's little bible stories that we got her, and when we read them to Mrs.M, she would actually listen to them and say, " That is a beautiful picture." Or " Oh no, that lame is lost!". Or something like that when my mom reads to her. We love to take care of her when Mr.M goes to bible study! And after Mr.M got back from bible study, we left and went to Starbucks and started to work on our computers there!

I love to go to Starbucks after the gym and take care of Mrs.M! So I am always looking forward to doing all of these things on Tuesdays!! I got to have the caramel frappuccino at Starbucks! I know it has a lot of sugar in it, so that's why I do like two pumps less of everything.

See you next time!! And thanks for reading my blog post!!