Antelope Island

Today we went to Antelope Island with the Looslis. I got lots of other pictures but I just want to link it to my mom's blog so here it is. 

Awards

The second to the last day of school we had an awards assembly and I got four awards. 

The first award was for the Math Kangaroo contest that I took a test for in March. I won second in the STATE of every second grader that participated! 

The second award is for not necessarily achievement but for being a good student and being nice to my classmates. Me and this other boy got the same one.

The third award is for being in Student Council. Our teachers choose the people to be in Student Council.

 The fourth award is for obviously what it says.

Lucy was kind of sad that she didn't get any awards at the assembly. So when she was in the shower I had my mom hurry and help me make an award for her. It was called THE BEST SISTER EVER award. I really do have a good sister.

The Funeral

Today was my grandpa's brother's funeral. He served in the military so we got to see some of the military members shoot the guns. (The last funeral we went to was my grandpa's other brother and he was in the military too so we got to see them do it twice.)

When we were at the viewing last night my cousin Jake got hit by a car. His head cracked the windshield. And if he would have been on his little bike he would have gone under the car and could have died. 

Marathon

I finished the marathon in 5 hours 28 minutes. Just kidding! I ran the Kids K. But I did run the end of the marathon twice. We ran with my mom's cousin named Julie. And my old babysitter's dad. It was so fun and people in the crowd kept yelling when we were running with Julie "Good job helping your mom!" Because they thought that she was our mom.  

After that Julie took us rock climbing for letting her stay in my room. But she took Lucy too. We had five visitors in our house the night before the marathon. Julie slept in my room. Kate slept in Lucy's room. Megan and Lucy and me slept in Kaleigh's room. Jess and Alexandria slept in the living room on a air mattress.

That night we went to our friend Riley's house. We made a diorama and I got a plank of wood and decorated it with cloths. We also did lots of art drawings. Her mom and dad ran the marathon and Riley and her brother Jack ran the Kids K too. 

The best Thursday ever

Today I had lunch with the mayor. It was sooooo fun. But I cannot type well enough to write it all so I am just going to give you a link to my mom's blog because she did it.

After school we went to a meeting on historic preservation with Mindy Swain. On Tuesday I went with her and Jed Platt to finish the scavenger hunt paper for the historic homes in Ogden. You had to give the address and the name of the building if it had one. I turned in the paper and everyone who got a hundred percent got to be in a drawing. I won and got a certificate for a gift card to pretty much anywhere on 25th Street. And the food there was super good. It was at the Ogden High School library I think.

Lucy's Birthday

For Lucy's birthday I woke up early and decorated her room with confetti and streamers. She was so surprised. My grandma and Rebecca and Sydney and Talmage came over and we gave her presents. I gave her a certificate to USA Gymnastics and she can do gymnastics, tumbling, or cheerleading for one month. I am going to do it too. Then we went to Salt Lake for her dance recital. My mom had a handicapped parking pass so we got to park right up front. We went to Paradise Bakery for dinner and to Spoon Me for dessert. It was awesome. 

Giant Check, Clovers, Ice Cream

We got to skip school on Monday to go to Oasis Community Garden where the newspaper took our pictures and a guy from the commercial place came to film us. My mom wrote a grant for Oasis and so that's what the giant check is for. It was raining and we had to wait a while for the people to come. So we looked for four-leaf clovers and we found about maybe twenty of them. We found three five-leafed ones too.

Rebecca took us to Farr's Fresh to get ice cream for Lucy's birthday after we went to lunch at Sonora Grill. It was super super good. 

I won!!!

I wrote a book for the Love Your Library contest at my school and I won!!!!! I got first place for 2nd grade AND first place non fiction for the WHOLE school!

I won second place last year and first place the year before. Last year I wrote a book about Lucy called As Quiet as a Mouse. I did it because she is the complete opposite of quiet. My first book was called The Worst Mom. I did it because my mom is NOT the worst mom. She is best.

Here is my book about mung beans.

Flying

Last Saturday the Looslis came over and I played with Eliza and we were jumping of our big dirt pile in my dads old work shirts and went skydiving! (We actually just jumped of our swings.)