Traditions

I love the traditions that we do in my family for Christmas and Christmas Eve. So for dinner in Christmas Eve, we have this soup from Mexico called Pozole. Then after we eat the soup, we open one present from Santa and it is always pajamas. We wear them to bed and all the kids pick a room that we want to build our fort in and we get all the blankets in the house and put them in a pile and sleep on it. On Christmas morning we go wake up our parents and we line up in their bedroom, youngest to oldest and walk down the stairs. Santa always leaves our presents out unwrapped so that we can just walk down and see them. And after we have looked at our presents from Santa, we move on to the presents from our family. We used to buy a gift for everybody for five dollars but it got hard to do that because we're older now and its hard to buy under five dollars. And so now we just buy gifts for the three people that were younger than you for ten dollars. Anyways, we open one at a time from oldest to youngest. And once we are all done, we just do what ever we want the whole day, besides play with friends. We don't even get a big breakfast, Santa brings us our favorite kind of cereal and we just eat that. I don't think we even have a dinner, but that's all right because we are having to much fun to come and eat dinner!

Setting up the Christmas Tree and Yearly Measuring

Christmas is coming! I can't believe that it's December! So this is what we do at the beginning of the Christmas month.

Set up the tree!

And at times get a little wild....

Do I need to explain?

And then we break out the "measuring tools". My dad calls these a level (to make sure it is just right so that no one is taller than him) and also a ruler.

And here is our little dance for you!

Friends

It's always nice to have good friends, especially if they are true friends. I have these friendship quotes that I email to all of my friends and one of my favorites is by Albert Camus, a journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957: Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; don't walk behind me, I may not lead; just walk beside me and be my friend. Another one that I think is really cute is by Winne the Pooh: If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred, minus one day, so I never have to live without you. I could go on and on, listing the ones that I like, but I'll spare you the time.

Success!

The Cider Festival was indeed a great success! I was only there for part of it, but the part I was at was sure fun. I was at my soccer game, that we won for the first time of the season seven to one and I scored, and didn't get back until about 4:30. I came back to my house and went on a couple hay rides, talked to a couple friends, ate a couple donuts, and then rushed off to a Halloween party with my friends. I would have some pictures to show but my mom didn't take any. It was very fun and the cider was really good. The donuts were also very delicious.

My soccer game was a success also, as you can see, and I scored! Usually I'm a defender, but my coach put me up in the midfield. It was the first win of the season for my team and the score was seven to one! In the other games the turn out was quite different, the average was about six to zero, us being on the lower side. So this was very exiting for us. That morning my coach had held a team breakfast and that really helped us. Two things in one day, success!

Cider Festival

Guess what? We are having the Cider Festival that we have every year, but didn't have last year! It is going to be on the 17th of October from 4pm to 6pm.
Here are some pictures of the festival from years past.

2006

2005

2003

Soccer

Yesterday, I refereed my first games. They were U6 and U8 games. I was only supposed to ref. one game, but the girl that was supposed to do the other game wasn't there so I got to do it for her. It was a lot of fun. I got a new watch and I absolutely love it. Anyways, I also played my own game and we lost six to three but it was an awsome game. I don't know why it was awsome but it was.