Four days without dad

Today dad left for a business conference in Dallas. He will be gone for four long days.
I guess that we are a bit spoiled because dad hardly ever has to leave so when he does have to
go is seems like a long time before he comes home, though my mom tries to make the time go faster by doing fun things we still really miss dad.

Birds Nest

Today the boys were playing outside and found a birds nest!
We think that the baby birds are probably mocking birds because we saw the mother and she looks like a mocking bird. I got a few pictures so I hope that you can see the nest in them.

Happy Birthday Alva

Happy Birthday Alva.
Today is Alva's 5th birthday.
We are having a special dinner that she
chose and my dad got cupcakes and ice cream so I will try and get some pics.

What I have been doing

Well it has been about a week since I last posted, so I will tell you what I have
been doing. Last Saturday I made 21 jars of pickles! We don't know how
they taste yet because pickles have to cure so I'm hoping that they are
good.( This is the first time that I have made pickles by my self.) Then this
pasted week I have been working on a paint by numbers that my parents gave me for christmas two years ago. I had allready started it but had not finished.
The painting is three horses at a stream the picture on the box is really
pretty and I think that when I am done it will look nice. I am really trying to
finish the painting because when I first got it I repainted my room to match
it and the room has now been done for about a year and a half and the insperation for it is about 3/4 of the way done. Any way I allso found a really cool blog with FREE templates (the link on my side bar will bring you to it)
so I changed my template. Well from now on I am going to try to keep up with my blogging this is a lot of typing and my fingers are geting tired!

I CAN DRIVE!

Even though I am not yet 15 I found out today that legally I can
learn to drive! My Uncle and I talked to a Police officer and he said that I can
even legally drive on the road for short periods of time, but that I shouldn't
because if some one was recklessly driving and hit me I could some how be at fault because I don't have my permit, so I should drive on private property.

Worth Dying For Concert

On Sunday we went to the "Worth Dying For" concert in Jackson MS.
It was allot of fun. Since it was a three hour drive we had to leave
at about 2:30p.m to get to the concert at 6:00p.m, and then we had a three hour drive home, I did not get home until 1:15a.m! So we had a really fun time and we got to get our picture taken with the band!

Here is a link to their website: www.worthdyingfor.com

Co-op class

We had a co-op class at our house today.
We did logic and public specking, for logic we did some
exercises from "The thinking tool box" and for public
specking every one had to do a presentation or any thing
that you might preform in public. I played 'The Star Spangled Banner"on the
piano.

Beach and 4th pics

Here are some of the pics that I took at the beach and on the fourth.

The Beach

We went to the beach yesterday with my cousin.
it was fun we got to swim and we had lunch, and then
went and met some friends at their hotel and went swimming
some, more but we had to get out of the water because we saw allot of
jelly fish and Laural got stung. So we went swimming in the pool instead. I got allot of pic's and I will try to post them latter.