The Sun Shines In December.

  During the week of christmas I had the oppertunity to visit my best friends family, and for an afternoon snack we went to Ruby's for milkshakes and fries. The walk there was soooo lovely, I had to take pictures, and of course I had to share them with you, I hope you enjoy them.

Oh the joy to read a book!

      For Christmas this year I got a Kindle Touch, I an super excited to use it. If you know me you know how much I love to read and how much I do read. I have however a problem, I havent finished some books that I have to read. And I can't start new books until I finish the old ones, and right now I dont want to read the old books, but being the good girl I am I picked up The Real George Washington and I decided I would finish it by New Year's Eve, I found that I had 300 pages left. I can read that many pages in a day or two, but for some reason this book has been so hard for me to read. I figgured out why that was.

     The last book I read in this collection was about a great Thomas Jefferson, who if you dont know, was a key particapant in the creation of the Constituion and the creater of the Declaration of Independenc. He to me is one of the greatest membors of the Constituional Convention.
When he was 15 he spent up to 15 hours reading, and would rather read then go out and party. I love to read and would like to read as many books as I can before I die.

     The book I am currently reading is about George Washington. Who I love too, I just dont relate with him very much. his acts of virtue are estounding and I love how he lead this county with  hope and faith in Heavenly Father that they would make it through the war. But as far as I have read its been all about the war. Dont get me wrong I love some of the stories and the adventure behind all of it. I just dont really like to read about war tacktis, I like to read about gardening and reading. So it has been hard for me to trasition.

     I have noticed that the more offten I read about George Washington and the longer I read also, its gets easier and more enjoyable, I have learned to like the book.

The books are called:
The Real George Washington
The Real Thomas Jefferson
The Real Benjamin Franklin

     I have yet to read the last one. But I would recomend these books to anyone who is looking for a book to read.

     I love both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson so much, they were great/wonderful/awesome men who set a standerd to live by.

     I think one of the sadst things about this area of youth ande teenagers is they dont know/arent tought the characters of the Founding Fathers, there are so many things you can learn, I also bet that half the youth can't name five men who were in the Constitual Convention.

     Needs les to say I did not finish the book in time, but I want to finish it by the begining of the second week of January.

     I am excited to finish this book and go to the next one, I have a very long semester ahead of me, and this is the only way to get it started.

(sigh) Its over!

     My first semester of college is over, and even though it was just community college. I loved one of my teachers, and the other one I dont think liked me that much. but she was good non the less. I took an English class and Jazz dance. Since I have been Homeschooled my whole life this was my first glimps at what school is like. It was very interesting, I made a lot of friends, had a lot of laughs. I was sad to see it go, but at the same time I am excited for the next chapter in my life.

    I have thought about it and I dont want to spend my whole life being stuck at a community college for the rest of my life, I feel like I have more to offer the world and just having a cumminity college education isnt going to cut it for me, I need more work, and I need to challenge myself. I dont want anyone to think that a community college education is bad, its very good, I just think its not right for me.

    I have decided that I will forgo going to college this next semester, I'm going to study and take the ACT. I feel that that is the most importent thing for me to do. I'm going to continue my learning by reading and writing, and of course studying. I'm really excited to get started. I'm excited to learn.

    I want to go to BYU-Provo, my brother was accepted to BYU and I want to join him. My father has been teasing me that I just can't take the test that I accutally need to get a good score to get in. Of course I will try my hardest on the test. I'm not one to give my second best. I always try to give my best.

    I'm excited to get started on the college life. This next semester I also want to try and get a job, I love to work, and I'm willing to do anything, except cleaning up elephent poo. That I wont do.

I am excited to see what the new year will bring!

Had lots of turned heads, pictures taken, and a lot of fingers pointed. I guess thats what happends when you have a 12 foot tree on the top of a van.

     Every year for Christmas we get a 7-8 foot tree, but this year we wanted to splurg a little and get a 12 foot tree, so we went on over to my friend tree farm and picked out a beautiful talll tree. When we cut the tree down we cut three feet up because the tree was to tall. We loaded this tree onto the top of our 12 foot van and cut the rest of the truncks branchs off to use around the house and such.


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Getting the tree down after a long car ride home. To get it on in the first place I stood on the roof of the van with a rope while my dad, brother, and two friends helped push it up. Its heavy and very big, but so worth it.



     We got that sucker in the house, we went to put it up and it was to tall! So my dad cut a foot of thinking it would fit, and it still doesnt, so we are going to put it in a new spot and just hope everything fits, because we dont want to have to cut it again. It will take a ladder to decorate it, as you can see how short my dads 6' ladder is compared to the tree. If only we were wizards, that would make it so much easier.

 

Our 11' foot tree in the middle of the music room, we will move it so it is up against the right wall. But it sure takes up a lot of room non the less. It will also take a heck of a long time to decorate it.

Agricultur

  "The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. They are more: they are the best basis of public liberty, and tge strongest bulwak of puplic safty. It follows, that the greater the proportion of this class to the whole society, the more free, the more independent, and the more happy must be the society itself."

-James Madison

"Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if He ever had a chosen people."

-Thomas Jefferson

"Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuouse, and they are the ties to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests be the most lasting bands. As long therefore as they can find empolyment in this line, I would not convert them into mariners, artisans, or any thing else. But our citizens will find emploiment in this line till their number, and of course the productions, become too great for the demand both internal and foreign."

- Thomas Jefferson

 The above quotes really emphasize what I think and believe Agricultur is. Its not only growing things, but its taking care of your country and yourself. As the coming years look grimmer and grimmer, with gas prices going up, food becoming more expensive, and the country growing more dept, how do you think this world will become?
  I have met so many people who dont know what a honeydue is, or how to cut it. How independent is that person?

  If you are Agriculturie Independent that mean you dont have to rely on the groery store for food, it means you only have to worry about the price of seeds going up. It means you can grow a wheat feild and grind your own wheat for flour.

  Agriculter is the act of gardening and farming.

I love gardening, I have a small yard and I'm not able to to have chickens and goats like I would like, but I am able to do my part by growing and keeping a garden.

A lot of poeple think its really hard to have a garden and there is no point to it. Well I can tell you it is importent in ever way.

Here are some pictures from my garden and I will tell what it has been like to grow it. I will also show you pictures from my last harvest and how wonderful that was.

You have seen this picture before. But I have to tell you how happy and hopeful I was when I planted these seeds. All of which are my favorite foods.
Last year I bought all my plants, but this year i'm trying all seeds no plants. Last year when I tried seeds they all died right after planting, and this year I am being more careful as to wear and when I plant them.

When you see the first sprouting of your seeds you feel soo happy, I felt happy, I was excited, I felt like a proud parent. (even though these arent my kids, nor do I have any kids)
You feel a sence of accomplishment knowing you did something right to grow a plant.

This is what part of my garden lookedf like last year, I got sooo much produce from it. My squash plant (bottom righthand cornerish) gave me 20-30 individual squash. I Got a LOT of tomatos. 10-15 Jalapenos a week. And one or two green pepers. I was so happy, and the best upside is that I didnt have to drive anywhere, I just had to walk out my back door.

This is my prized Jalapeno plant that I called "my baby." When you grow and take care of a garden you get attached to it. You become sad and mad when I bug makes its home on or in one of your plants. You feel the need to take care of your garden.

It is somewhat easy to care for a garden, you just have to remember to water it everday, because if you dont your plants don't like you very much. I can't wait for my garden to become bright and big again, where I can go out ans take peas and green beans right off the vine and eat them.

This is what agricultur means to me. I hope you try and make it meaningful too.