Baby Molly

Here is a video of Molly! She is really cute!

Shoe Steps

It's something everyone tries to do, walk in somebody else's shoes. See from somebody else's point of view. It solves all your problems!, everybody thinks. Really though, thinking in someone else's shoes isn't quite different than actually walking in someone else's shoes. For those times you're going to do something quick, like grab something out of the car or turn of the garage light, and all you really need is something to cover your feet, you usually slip on the first shoes you see. They usually aren't your own, your mothers sneakers, your dads business shoes, or your little sisters boots. And when you put them on and are walking, maybe for only a few steps, it feels odd, different than what you are used to. They are too big or too small, and you have to walk extra slow to make sure you don't trip over your own two feet. It is like this when you look at somebody else's perspective. The world is shaken. It's dizzying. Suddenly, all the times something looked not as pleasant from other shoes beside your own come back to mind. You have to walk slower so you don't trip over your own two feet. But, your never quite sure if you are actually walking in someone else's shoes either, because people are different than what they seem. Is it better to stick to your own shoes? Maybe so.

Picture via Flickr

The Great Dragon Dilemma

This is a movie that me, my sisters, and cousins made. It is called the Great Dragon Dilemma!

Laughter is Good!!!

So I think we all need a laugh so here are some funny videos!!! So watch these!!! Potter Puppet pals makes me laugh! :)

Hahahahahahahaaa!!!!

Hahahahahahahaaa!!!! That one is funny too!!!

And this one is funny as well!

The Colors of the Earth

Yellow is the color that sprays down from the sky,

Of sunshine, smiling, happiness, and cheerful childhood song.

Blue is the color of hope,

Of the long-rolling ocean and sky.

Green is the color of the grass, stems, and leaves,

Things as They Should Be.

Brown is the source of everything,

The color of the earth, the dirt, and the trees.

Red is the color of the love we share,

Purple is the color that dares to be different.

White is the snow, the clouds, and the breaking waves so pure,

Black is the night winter magic.

The Earth is such a world of color,

From the leaves to the sky to the trees,

It would not be such a wonderful world,

Without the color we see.

A Soul on a Journey

Here you go Kate-

(This is an essay I wrote for school)

You’re scanning the hallway, looking for someone. All you have is a vague description. A girl, shortish with light hair swept into a ponytail. “That could be anyone!” you think. The truth is at Parker, and many other schools, its not hard to blend in. Parker doesn’t look much different than every other school, and its students don’t either. Without a second glance, people can dismiss Parker as “just another middle school.” But those who know Parker understand that though we may be similar in someways, every student at Parker has a unique personality. So who is this girl on the inside? There is more to her than you know.
She’s not just another student. She’s a kind, energetic, wonderfully fantastic, everything but the kitchen sink kind of girl, there is always more to learn. Let’s start with learning her name, Kate. Over a hundred kids go to school with Kate every day, but more than half of them have never stopped to really get to know her. The #1 thing you should know about Kate is that she is going to do something in this world because she is always helping people, and really cares.
Just this summer Kate got a puppy named Kneeli. Even though Kneeli can be trouble, Kate loves her. A puppy can be lots of work, but Kate never slacks off. She works her hardest to make sure others have the best time they can, even if it means giving up some comfort of her own. I hope Kneeli knows she is a lucky puppy! Kate always wanted to be part of the world, even when she was young. When she was a baby, she screamed a lot. (I bet her parents and her brother Drew can back me up on this.) Even when she was in Elementary School she was involved. She was on Student Council in third grade. Even though she was eight, she wanted to show the older kids that she could still help the school. She has always wanted to help.
Now, Kate is just as involved as ever. She is a peer leader, and never misses a chance to help someone, anywhere. Today, Kate even volunteered to wash of the lunch table, a job no one ever wants to do. The small things add up. In October, there is a walk for A.L.S. The school hopes to take 40+ kids to the walk as “Team Parker” to represent Mrs. Peach, out old cafeteria manager, who was recently diagnosed with A.L.S. And of course, it was all and completely Kate’s idea. She never misses a chance to make a difference.
Kate’s ideals don’t come from nowhere, she has a very involved family. Every summer her dad organizes the Take the Lake 5k, a charity race to benefit breast cancer charities, and Kate always helps out. Her mom is a nurse manager, and to be a nurse you need to take care of people. Kate likes that her mom can always take care of them when they are sick. She wants to be a nurse manager too when she grows up, following in the footsteps of your mom, taking care of people.
There are so many more sides to Kate, and unfortunately I can’t tell you them all here, because I don’t even know them all, and I bet Kate doesn’t either. Remember, when you think you know it all, you always learn some more. But I can teach you one more thing about Kate, she is modest. If you congratulate her on something she’s done that you learned from this paper, she will say that I exaggerated. But I didn’t. Kate is more than just a normal girl. She is a unique personality, a girl on a mission, and a soul on a path to change.

The Spontaneous Combustion of the Anticipation

The first days of school when I were little were almost magical. You'd be so excited with your brand new school supplies. Squeaky new pencils, crayons with sharp tips, shiny new notebooks, it was like an exciting world of replenishments. It seemed as if the school year would be filled with perpetual happiness. The magic always wore away, but I never minded much because I never minded school, I was an eager learner. But this year for reasons unknown (to even me) school didn't start like this. I started with boredom. The day that was supposed to be a new start, a new beginning was monotonous, irksome, like any Tuesday out of the middle of March, or some time like that. It wasn't like the first day of school! What happened to the excitement??? What happened to all the anticipation??? I don't know, it probably fell in a black hole or got flushed down a toilet or spontaneously combusted on the way to my house. Just my luck. Not even the next weeks brought me any remote feeling of beginning of the year-ness. It was this year I needed the anticipation the most. I was overwhelmed in the monotonous, befuddling world all the end of last year and the feeling never really went away in the summer so I needed change to shake me up a bit and put me down with a whole new perspective. I guess this wasn't the change I was looking for. Oh well, there's always tomorrow.