Well, first of all, I like to take pictures (a lot). I like to let a picture come to me. Most of the time I don't hunt for pictures. Sometimes I see a glance of something and I know I should take a picture of it.
I have a 13, in a couple months 14 year old sister, named Hannah. She is funny and creative. One day she came up behind me with a magazine clipping that I had cut out of two eyes and held it up to her face. When I turned around I was so surprised. Hannah is the best little sister ever.
At my old house in Waterloo and my current home we have had a Magnolia tree in our yard. At our old house, my sister and I would always want to climb the tree, but mom said it was too old and fragile for us to climb on it. I love that I can have something that connects my two homes together.
My Grandpa Steve, who is my mom's dad, has helped us a lot with both of our houses. When I was in second grade, we redid our kitchen in our old house. He helped my parents with the kitchen. When we moved to our new house he was there almost everyday when I came home after school in the beginning of the year. Last week he helped us put in our new front door.
I only have one cousin on my dad's side of the family. Her name is Gwendolyn (Gwen), and she my only 1st cousin who lives in Iowa. I get to see her once or twice a month. She can be very sweet, and also not so sweet sometimes. I was very lucky to get such a cute picture of her. I also have 7 other cousins : Collin, Tyler, Austin, Josiah, Savannah, Elijah, and Kelsey, who all live out of state and are from my mom's side of the family.
I have a lot of friends from school, and all of them are great. They do funny things and cool things. Anything that sounds fun, they will do it. Together the lot of us will do things that others would find very strange, just looking at us. We enjoy to swing on free days in gym, and play king of the (dirt) hill. I have captured a fun thing that they did. At the top of a hill they were running down, I was taking a picture at the bottom hoping not to get run over by my friends.
Rachel and I have been best friends since 2nd grade. For the past 8 years we have done a lot together. In 5th grade, we went to state for Invention Convention. I can not list all the things that we have done together, but it has been fun. She always can make a face or do something that can make anyone laugh.
Every summer my mom plants a garden, and every year I get to help weed the garden. We plant a lot vegetables in the garden; from onions, asparagus, and bell peppers and more. Every year we plant a couple squash seeds, and it seems that we always have an over flow of squash, and always end up eating squash throughout summer and well into the fall. The garden is really a big part of my summer, and that is okay with me.
My sister and I walk to school every day. It is a great time to be outside; before and after school. We often have to dodge things that are on the side walk that fall from trees. When it rains, everything is all wet, which is not fun to walk on. When there is no snow on the ground, and there is a small amount of snow falling from the sky, it is so beautiful. Hannah and I usually talk on the way to and from school. We sometimes even make up a story or sing on the way.
This year I was a part of Cyber Defense. We did really well at our competition, and the team that I was on got 1st in the Cyber Defense competition, which was a part of a large IT OLYMPICS competition which also had game design and robotics. The other team from our school got 2nd place, which is really cool. It was a really fun bonding experience with my friends. We really learned a lot at this competition; well, at least I did. I did not know very much at all when I came into this, and now I know a lot more, which I will probably have to re-learn next year.
Speech is always something that I am involved in every year, and it takes up most of my winter months. One of the best parts of a Large Group Speech competition, is that you are with a lot of people, and you get to have fun when it isn't your group's turn or anyone else you may know. It feels so good to be with people that you are friends with while working together toward one common goal; and it is fun to act and be silly! Individual Speech is somewhat different, where you are just alone, but all your schoolmates are with you watching, only if they don't have a time slot at the same time (Individual speech is kind of hectic the way scheduling goes...). So, that is most of my life, with pictures...
Thank-you, and have a great day!
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