Christmas

"Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!" I'm sure it's snowing somewhere...but not here, and I wish it was. We celebrated a sunny Southern California Christmas, and we had a lot of fun...even without the snow. For Christmas, I got Ipod speakers, clothes, a kayak (for Rincon), Wii Fit (from Uncle Johnny), pajamas, a new barbie doll and a barbie car. Later in the day, we were a little bored, so we went down to Hollywood and saw "A Christmas Carol" at the Disney El Capitan Theatre. We also saw a lot of interesting people. Hollywood is NOT my favorite place! Merry Christmas!

The Best Halloween Ever!

I know, I know...Halloween was more than two months ago... but I have been busy and am catching up. This year we spent a long weekend at the beach house, in Carpinteria, and celebrated Halloween with friends there. We played games, swam, went down to the tide pools, watched the sunset and then we went down to the edge of the water and told spooky stories. My crazy brothers, and their friends, wrapped themselves in foil and went trick or treating as robots. It was so funny! I didn't get to trick or treat this year, but I didn't even miss it. This was the best Halloween ever!

By the way... at our school Halloween parade, I won the award for "Most Original Costume" for my bunch of grapes! It was a lot of fun!

Student Council President!

On Friday, we had elections for student council president and I ran... and I won! My friend Jake is the vice president and we will find out about secretary and treasurer next week.

Also, my school just received the National Blue Ribbon Award. The Blue Ribbon Schools Program is a United State government program created to honor schools. The Blue Ribbon award is considered the highest honor an American school can achieve. Go Huskies!

Avocado Festival...by accident.

Today we were driving down to Carpinteria to go to a fabric store. As we got close to the exit, there was really bad traffic, and then we realized it was the first weekend in October... time for the Avocado Festival! They had a lot of tents set up everywhere and parts of Linden street closed off, so it took us a lot longer than we had planned, and we didn't have time for the beach because dad and the boys had to get home for conference. We did have time for our traditional stop at Robitailles (the best candy store ever), and we got to eat tri-tip and guacamole sandwiches from the Rotary Club stand. Mine was minus the guacamole, though.

I can't wait to go back for New Year's Eve camping...or hopefully, sooner!

I Have My Own Blog!!!

I am so excited to have my own blog! My friend Cheyenne told me about her blog, this week, so my mom and brother helped me put one together.

My blog is called "The Girl With Her Nose in a Book" because I love to read so much. I will be sure and tell you about all the books I read, in case you think you might like them too.