Johanna Speaks

Now we have a lot more space where the Christmas tree was! Having all the Christmas decorations and our tree out feels much nicer! Our house looks almost all white and much cleaner than before. We had Christmas lights over our white railings and had them on our wall.

Last night we deep cleaned, getting all the Christmas stuff out and into boxes and taking down lights. It took work, but it wasn't actually long cleaning up. Simeon and Ezra carried the Christmas tree outside. There were so many pine needles from the tree everywhere after they took it out! So I got a broom and swept it into piles, then we got the vacuum cleaner out and sucked it all up. Then we did the carpet and sucked all the pine needles out. So now I am pretty sure the vacuum cleaner is full of pine needles!

And by now, the house was looking pretty nice!

We started cleaning around 7:00 PM. And finished cleaning around 8:30 PM. So it wasn't bad at all! After we cleaned, Simeon, Ezra, And I played Minecraft until 9:00 PM. 

Here are some pictures from when we cleaned up and when we had the Christmas lights:

Simeon, Ezra, french Jonathan, and I play in a Minecraft world together! Well, Gideon, Jonathan, and Nicholas can all play too, but we are the ones who play the most.

Simeon has a cool base he built. And a cool house inside of it he also created. And a farm too! And an iron farm too! Iron farms are hard to make. If you don't know what or how an iron farm works, here is how it works. So an Iron farm is where you keep getting iron, but you don't work at all to make the iron. You make the farm, then the iron flows in and keeps flowing in forever. Well, as long you have the farm, of course. You'll need villagers to take care of the farm and everything else. And villagers are just these dudes who have their village with farms they care for. To find them, you need to go and find a town, which is hard to do because you will probably have to travel a long way to try and find some. And zombies come at night, and you must eat every five minutes. So yeah, it's pretty hard to get them. But Simeon has a whole bunch! Since you can get two villagers and breed them to make more and more! But sometimes you might spond next to a village which would be great!

Anyways, our Minecraft world is pretty nice! I have a tree house that I live in with a fence all around to protect me from the zombies. I need to make an automatic door, so it opens up when you press a button! I want to build a farm too! I also have a wood shop! I get iron and diamonds for money basically, which is nice because I can make Iron armor or diamond armor. When you make armor and put it on yourself, when any zombies hit you, or you get shot by a skeleton, it protects you greatly! And you can also make shields out of iron. Now shields work amazingly when you fight!

Ezra has a base underwater! He had to drain some water for him to be able to make it. It looks really cool! And he is starting his own little farm down there!

Here is the video of me showing you all of the houses and stuff on Minecraft:

Our Christmas went great this year! Our whole family came!

Noelle, Cameron, Caleb, Risa, Gideon, Nicholas, Jonathan, and french Jonathan all came to our house for Christmas! I said french Jonathan because he is our friend from France named Jonathan, so we call him french Jonathan not to get mixed up with the other Jonathans in our family.

The day before Christmas, Noelle, Cameron, Gideon, Jonathan, Nicholas, and french Jonathan went to our house. We had soup and homemade bread for dinner and snacks and sang some carols, and Nicholas played his guitar. And we all talked for a while and played video games after midnight! I played Minecraft, and Jonathan, Nicholas, Gideon, Ezra, and french Jonathan all played a different game which I forgot what it was called.

Noelle and Cameron didn't play any video games because Cameron wasn't feeling well. And Noelle went with him to take care of him. They slept in a tiny little trailer that was in our front yard that they brought to sleep in. It was hooked up to their car. It's not like a small RV at all. It just has a bed because that's all you can fit in it. But that's just what it's for, to sleep in only. They said the bed is very comfortable to sleep on. And you can't stand in it fully up. But besides that, it's a great little trailer to sleep in. So that's what Noelle and Cameron used to sleep in that night in our front yard.

So we played video games, except for Cameron and Noelle, and stayed up until 12:15 AM. I fell asleep around 1:00 AM.

The next day was Christmas!! We didn't open presents yet. We would do that after lunch because everybody would be here by then. And also that day was Sunday! My mom and dad, and Gideon went to church. Cameron, Noelle, Ezra, Simeon, Sophie, and I didn't go to church because we had a slight cough, and my mom and dad didn't want to risk taking us to church because we might get people sick. Cameron didn't have a cough he just wasn't feeling well at all. And Noelle didn't have a cough and wasn't sick or anything, but she stayed with Cameron to help care for him. And the rest of us had a slight cough.

After my mom and dad and Gideon returned from church, Gideon, Ezra, and Sophie went to build legos. I was pretty tired and went on a chair next to them and watched and tried to fall asleep. And Noelle was with Cameron. And then Caleb and Risa came! And 10 mins later, Jonathan and Nicholas and french Jonathan came too! We all had lunch, got dessert, and started to open presents!! Everybody had a lot of gifts to open! We had a grand time opening and eating!

I got a microscope from Jonathan!! I put a piece of my hair under it, and it looked so creepy and cool at the same time!! Then Jonathan said I should get some blood and see what it looks like under the microscope! Noelle said it should be french Jonathan's blood because then we could see french blood! :^) So, french Jonathan said he would do it! And got a sharp pin and kept stabbing himself with it in the finger, but nothing came out, so he kept doing it, and finally, blood started to come out. So he quickly put some under the microscope, which was cool to look at! You could see the blood was moving a lot! I wish I had a picture to show you, but I have no idea how to do that when it's under a microscope. So I am very sorry for that. It was pretty cool, though!

I also got four books that are excellent stories to read that I am excited about reading, and I got a lovely journal that I needed, RGB LED Strip Lights that are really cool, really nice shoes, and nice smartwatch straps for my smartwatch that I have. Also, I forgot to write a blog post about that, so I'm sorry. And one more thing, a decorating baking tool. I think that's all! So yeah, we all got pretty cool stuff!

Here is a video of the lights I got for Christmas!

And Merry Christmas!

I had my choir performance on Dec 13. It went pretty well! I had lots of fun singing with the choir. Mrs.Dummer is such a great teacher for us! She is very kind and helps direct us when we are singing, so we know when to sing low or high. And she makes sure we sound good and loud! And helps us out if we sing a pitch too low or rise too high. I miss her and the choir now since we have a break for Christmas and will be doing the choir again around springtime.

We had a choir party the following week after the choir performance. But I didn't go because I was sick that day. I was really sad I couldn't go to the party. But it's ok. I still had fun at home.

On the performance day, Simeon and I went to the choir at 1:00. Usually, we had to be there around 2:00. But this time, we had to be early because we had to practice a lot and see where the choir is going to sit and all that. And also because we have another choir performance at 3:00 in the evening. So when we got there, we practiced our choir then the senior choir practiced theirs. And by the way, the senior choir is the teenagers singing, and Simeon is in that one. After we practiced ours, we got to go outside, and there was a snack table for all of the choirs to have when their choir was done practicing. There were oranges, pretzels, Christmas cookies, veggie sticks, carrots, tomatoes, etc. It was all delicious to eat!

After we ate some snacks, we had to get back inside and do the 3:00 performance. After we did that, everybody was supposed to go back home and get some rest and eat a bit and then come back for the last performance at night. So Simeon and I went to our sister Noelle's apartment, next to the place where we were going to perform. When we got there, Noelle was asleep on her couch. But woke up when she saw us. She already knew we were coming there. We watched a show and ate snacks there. I curled my hair, and it was time to go to the performance!! I was very excited but sad because this semester seemed to go by so fast! We did great, and after the performance, we went to panda express and ate dinner there with our siblings, that also came for the performance and the panda express! We had such a great time!

Here is the whole concert on youtube:

My friend Annie taught me how to crochet. I love doing it now! It takes time and patience, but I enjoy it. I bought yarn and hooks and got started making a scarf. It turned out pretty bad, but it was my first time, so yeah.

So I made a scarf and crocheted a blob of yarn that I did not know what it was supposed to be. And right now, I am making a baby blanket. 

Here is a picture of my two failed attempts to crochet something, and here is a picture of my baby blanket that I am still trying to crochet. My teacher, Annie, will be holding the items.    

She looks disappointed in the first picture! :)