Things I Like

1. dance
2. baking
3. Ripstik
4. sea foam green (colour)
5. side walk chalk 
6. Peepers 
7. Slurpee's
8. The Hunger Games 
9. pinterest (elliejoypenner)
10. my new skullcandy headphones 
11. Once Upon A Time (best show ever)
12. vanilla chai tea gelato
13. mermaids (yes, I believe in mermaids)
14. Australia
15. H2O Just Add Water
16. shopping 
17. Christmas
18. Playmobile 
19. the beach
20. Dance Academy 

And those are a few thing I like.

Peepers

I have a collection of peepers. I have 15 of them. I got my first peeper in grade 1, my dad got me Gazoo the elephant  on a work trip and brought it home for me. after that I kept getting more. Every peeper comes with a name. My friend Grace and I both have a lot of peepers.

Here are all my peepers together 

Here are all the sea creatures

Here are all the forrest animals 

Here are all the jungle/desert animals 

Here are all the household pets 

I hope I keep getting more peepers through the years, but peepers are hard to find now. My favourite peepers are Spike the hedgehog, Shelly the turtle, and Gazoo the elephant. I love to have peepers!

My Tail:)

I love mermaids. My love for mermaids started because of the show H2O, Just Add Water, its a show about 3 girls who become mermaids when they are stranded on Mako Island, and they cant tell anyone! Its really good and rated TV-PG, but one of the best things is its Australian!!!!! I ordered a fin fun mermaid tail from  finfunmermaid.com. I got a orange tail and a orange bikini top and bottom. Shipping is $30 and it comes in10-20 days. I hope mine comes soon because my family and I are going to Ontario soon and we are staying with friends who have a pool, so I can use it there.

C is for Cookie thats Good Enough for Me!

This week I made chocolate chocolate cookies. My mom said I needed to bake by myself, so I found a bunch of recipes to try. I started with these chocolate cookies because they seemed really easy to make. The cookies taste like brownies and smell so good. :) My sisters really liked them, they said that their good because their soft and chewy on the inside. I found the recipe on pinterest . I love to bake on my own, but I hate taking things out of the oven, its so hot on my face! 

INGREDIENTS

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 3/4 cups white sugar
• 3/4 cups brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2/3 cup cocoa powder
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. In large bowl, beat butter, sugars, eggs, and vanilla until light and fluffy. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt; stir into the butter mixture until well blended. Mix in the chocolate chips. 
3. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.
4. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or just until set. Cool slightly on the cookie sheets before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.

I Love Camp!

Last week I went to Winkler Bible Camp.  I was in Charity cabin.  I went from August 6th to August 10th.  I went with my friend Abby.  My counsellors names were Marissa and Chelsea.  My favourite activities were ropes, climbing wall and horses.  At horses, I rode Dolly.  My favourite cat was Leo.  Leo is white.  My favourite dog was Buckles.  My favourite pony was Acorn.  At the climbing wall, I did 3 walls and I made it to the top every time!  I hope I can go with Abby again next year.

Crazy Things I've Learned this Summer

1.   Some sea stars break off their own arms when frightened.
2.   You can buy buy fake eyebrows and eyelashes made out of real hair.
3.   Salt has been used as money.
4.   There are more pets in Japan than children.
5.   Ancient Greeks used hula hoops.
6.   A goldfish will turn grey if kept in the dark for a long time.
7.   You can buy soap that smells like bacon frying.  (Sasha loves bacon.  She'd like that soap.)
8.   Dogs pant up to 300 times a minute.
9.   A man in Canada can balance 17 spoons on his face at once.
10. A canary can sing two different songs at the same time.
11. Some fish eggs hatch in the dad's mouth.  (Gross)
12. Honey bees have hair on their eyeballs.
13. A man once made 956 pancakes in one hour.
14. Birds don't sweat.
15. Kid's fingerprints disappear from surfaces faster than adults' do.
16. An inventor created edible dinner plates. (I guess then I wouldn't have to clear the table.)
17. Mexico City has sunk 26 feet in the last 100 years.
18. If you are 12 years old on Earth, you'd be about 6 on Mars.
19. Male seahorses give birth.
20. Tiny bugs live in your eyebrows. (Gross)
21. Apples float but pears sink. (Why is this?)
22. Bat hair has been used as money. (I saw a sleeping bat in a cave this summer in Montana.)
23. You can buy bat droppings for $10 a pound.  (Bat droppings are used to make makeup.  Gross.)
24. You can shine your shoes with a banana peel.
25. Almonds belong to the rose family.
26. Babies' cries sound different in different languages.
27. A traffic jam in China lasted more than a week. (Imagine if you had to get to school!)
28. You can buy worms from a vending machine in Japan. (My favourite vending machine treat is white    cheddar popcorn.)
29. Half of the world's oxygen is made in the ocean.
30. You are more likely to be in a bad mood on Thursdays, according to a recent study.
31. Lachanophobia is the fear of vegetables.   (I have a fear of cooked cabbage.  Gross.)
32. There are mushrooms that glow in the dark.
33. Rotten eggs float in water.
34. Harmless microscopic shrimp may live in your drinking water. (My cousin Myles would like that.)
35. Some turtles breath through their rear ends.
36. Lemons have more sugar than strawberries.
37. Elephants can run faster than humans.
38. You lose up to 100 hairs a day.
39. Seeing the colour red can make your heart beat faster.
40. A woman's heart usually beats faster than a man's heart.
41. Four-thousand year old popcorn was found in a cave in New Mexico.  (That would be stale!)
42. In Italy, you can buy fresh pizza from a vending machine. (Pepperoni is my favourite kind.)
43. A cat has about 20 muscles in each ear.
44. The corpse flower grows up to 12 feet tall and smells like rotting meat.  (Gross. That's worse than cooked cabbage!)
45. A ripe cranberry will bounce.

What crazy things did you learn this summer?

(Source - National Geographic Kids Weird But True 3)

I'm Going to Camp

I am going to camp in a week with my friend Abby. Hannah is going the same week.  I love going to camp!  My favourite parts of camp are horses and ropes.  There is a lake at camp but it's like a giant puddle.  I'm never homesick.  I'm actually sad when they come to pick me up because I like camp so much.