Johanna Speaks

I am writing about all of our names. And by all of our names, I mean what our name means in the bible. 

Here it is:

Sophie's name means " Wisdom ". 

Johanna's name means " God is Gracious ".

Ezra's name means " Help or Helper ". 

Simeon's name means " To Be Heard ".

Gideon's name means " One Who Cuts Down ".

Noelle's name means " The Lord's Birthday ".

Nicholas's name means " Victory Of The People ".

Caleb's name means " Whole Hearted ". 

Jonathan's name means " God Has Given ".

And my Dads name also means " God has Given ". And my mom's name means " Born Again ".

I am super thankful that my mom and dad named all of my siblings and me such wonderful names! (:

Thank you, mom and dad! I love you!! 

My Oma and Opa sent Sophie and I a letter. Sophie’s said to right a story about this naughty squirrel eating the bird feeder seeds. And my Oma drew a picture of it.

Here it is:

Here is my story that I wrote about the squirrel.

Once upon a time there lived a fat squirrel in a forest.

The reason why he was so fat is because he kept eating 

so much food every day and he was always hungry. He 

would not save some for the winter because he just

kept eating it. So one winter cold day he went out to 

look for food but he could not find any! Then he thought

maybe my friends would like to share some food with

me. So he went to his friends house. He asked if he 

can have some food because he had none for 

the winter. But they said “no way I am going to share 

with you because you always take our food and you

eat your food that is supposed to be saved for the winter. 

you are a selfish squirrel!”

“Fine said the squirrel I will find some other food to have then!”

So he started out again to find food! 

He did find food. And in the summer he was hungry again

and he asked his friends again and they told him “ No! You 

are a selfish squirrel! Then the squirrel again set out to find food 

he searched and searched and finally he found a bird feeder

then he hoped on top and grabbed a hole bunch of seeds 

and then ran away. Some animals where near by and 

was watching him and they said” when will he ever learn!”

The End. 

Yesterday was Palm Sunday! 

Before we went to church yesterday, my dad cut some palm leaves from our palm tree and brought it to church so all of the kids can wave it around! 

Why do we celebrate Palm Sunday? Good Question. The reason why is when Jesus and his disciples where at the mount of olives Jesus sent two disciples saying to them,

 “ Go into the village opposite of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied there and a colt with her; untie them, and bring them to me. “ and if anyone says something to you, you shall say, ‘ the lord has need of them, and immediately he will send them”. 

After they brought the donkey and the colt, the disciples put their garments for Jesus to sit on.  And most of the people spread their garments in the street and others were cutting branches from trees and also laying them in the street.  And the multitudes going before him, and those who followed after were crying out saying, “ Hosanna to the Son of David; Blessed is he who comes in the name of the lord; Hosanna in the highest!’ 

They shouted those words because just seing and being in the presents of Jesus is awesome and incredible and so many more words that I can not even think of! 

It is a wonderful story!

Here is the verse: Mathew chapter 21 - 11. 

And that is why they call it Palm Sunday! 

My baby tortoise’s are outside enjoying the sun and eating the nice delicious grass!

Here is a little video of them and a picture:

They are super cute! I love them very much! 

Here is a poem I wrote about them. 

Tortoises love to be underground!

 When they are finished hibernating 

they come out and are so big and round! 

They look all around themselves and are 

astound at all the grass. The End. 

We finished our pajama pants!! 

They are really comfortable and really nice to be in. The hardest thing about sewing the pants is putting the elastic in.  Sophie’s grandma and me were trying to put the elastic in and it was super hard! 

Watch the video if you want to know why it was really hard to put the elastic in:

And here is a video of the pajama pants all finished!:

Between sewing and cutting fabric I like sewing the best for sure! And like for some reason ripping and taking out threads.

The next project we are going to do is more pajama pants because the ones that we just finished are practiced ones so the next ones will be better because we know now how to do it more easily!

We had lots of fun sewing and cutting and had lots of problems but in the end it was definitely worth it!