Fourth of July and Longmont Summer Carnival

So sorry I forgot to do a Holiday Post for the Fourth of July! I've been so busy lately. But here's a picture of me and my doll at Sunset Golf Course waiting for the fireworks and my best friends, Zoe and Rebecca Ackerman, to arrive.

Yesterday night we went to the Longmont Summer Carnival! It was so much fun! Here's me on the Merry-Go-Round. 

Ginger and Ashley went on it too!

You know those carnival games with the squirt guns, and you get to pick a stuffed animal if you win? Well me and mom played it. My mom won, and she let me pick out a stuffed animal! I chose this unicorn and named her Sparkle Unibelle. 

We also went on the roller coaster, (twice, and the second time I had my hands up the whole time!) the ferris wheel, (actually just my mom and me, my dad doesn't like them) the ride where you get in pretend cars and they go quickly around in a circle about five times, (that was Ashley and Ginger's favorite ride) and the huge slide that you slide down in a sack. 

What have you been doing lately?

Having a bad day? Here's a list of books that'll crack you up!

1. The Hero's Guide To Saving Your Kingdom by Christopher Healy

2.  Asterix by Rene Goscinny

3. Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

4. Ramona The Pest by Beverly Cleary

5. Otis Spofford by Beverly Cleary

6. Judy Moody Around The World In Eight And A Half Days by Megan McDonald

7. Sugarplum Ballerinas by Whoopi Goldberg

8.  Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl

9. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

10. The BFG by Roald Dahl 

11. Falling Up by Shel Silverstein

12. The Sisters Club by Megan McDonald

13. Harry Potter by J.K.Rowling 

Tons of Recent Photos, Part One: Zoe B's Weekly Special

Each Tuesday from now on I'll be making dinner for me and my family. This week I made Breaded Chicken Fondue. Here's me cutting the chicken. 

Here's Ashley helping me bread the chicken. First we dipped the pieces into beaten egg yolks, then the breading. (Gluten and dairy free of course, because my mom and my sisters are allergic to gluten and dairy, and me and my dad are gluten and dairy intolerant.) 

                                             Here's me and Ashley taste-testing it. Ashley loves chicken!  

                                                             Ginger especially liked the sauce!  =)

                                                             Part Two of Tons of Recent Photos, coming up soon! 

Summer is almost here!

I loooooooooooooooooooove summer! I thought I'd tell you some of my favorite things to do in summer, while I work on doing a post with lots of recent photos in it. I can't post it yet, because there are so many photos and it will take a while. 


Run through the sprinkler. (Sometimes I play a game with my friends where you have to try to stand right next to it, and at the very last moment try to run away without getting wet.) 

Go to outdoor pools. (My absolute all time favorite one is Sunset Pool.)

Have a squirt gun fight with friends. (You can buy squirt guns at places like Michael's, Target, & Ross.)

Have a contest with friends to see who can stay under freezing cold hose water in a kitty pool the longest. 

Have a lemonade stand, a duct tape wallets and bracelets stand, or a stand where all the money you make goes to endangered species. (National Geographic is good.)

Make ice pops in flavors like lemonade, orange, strawberry, root beer, etc. and see which ice pops taste the best with your friends. 

Run around at the splash ground. 

Buy a pair of plain white flip-flops and decorate them with things like fake flowers, stick-on rhinestones, ribbons, buttons, beads, duct tape, etc.

Have races with friends.

Make a clubhouse in the backyard. (You can use a blanket over a table, a blanket over a tree, or just put your tent in the backyard.)

Have cookouts.

And guess what? This year on Animal Jam there's going to be a summer carnival! Can't wait for that!!!!!! www.animaljam.com

Home camping trip

Yearning for camping? But it's too cold? Guess what? You can have a camping trip in you're very own house!

What you will need: 
A sleeping bag
A lantern (optional)
Marshmallows (if you're mom wants you to eat something healthier, ask her to make these: http://urbanposer.blogspot.com/2011/11/home-made-honey-sweetened-marshmallows.html )
A blank scrapbook
A camera
A computer and printer
Crayons

How to: First, roll out you're sleeping bag on the couch or on the floor. Put the lantern next to it. Then, take a picture of you on you eating marshmallows on the sleeping bag. True, you can't roast them, but I think they taste good anyway, right? If you want, you can draw a picture of a campfire and pretend to roast them with you're dolls and stuffed animals. You can take a picture of that, too. 

Sometimes when I go camping, I buy postcards and mail them to friends. If you want, you can draw pictures of forests or lakes or campsites, and paste them into the scrapbook. You can even add magical forest creatures, like gnomes, phoenixes, dragons, and forest fairies. If you have a stuffed magical creature, (or a magical creature doll) you can place it in front of a drawn picture of the woods and take a photo. Or you can take a photo of a magical creature in the woods in a fairy tale book. (Make sure you can't see the words!) 

Finally, print out all the pictures you took and paste them into the scrapbook. (Glue sticks work best.) For extra decoration, draw things like leaves, mushrooms, flowers, etc. around them. Presto-wham-o! Not only was that fun, but you also made a really cool scrapbook, right? =)

How to make a duct tape bracelet

Step one: Choose some duct tape. =)

Step two: Take one long, piece of duct tape. Make sure it's long enough to fit around you're wrist and take off without having to cut it off. Then pull off the the same amount as before again. But keep it in one piece.

Step three: Cut it off. Then fold it together. Next, cut it down the middle so it's thinner. Then tape it together. 

Have fun!

Campout themed birthday party!

It's that time of year when lots of kids are having birthdays. Here is a party that you that I came up with that you might want to have for your party!

Campout themed party!

For invitations:  Draw tents on pieces of paper, Then write the party details inside. (You know, time, date, where, please bring, etc.)

Activities: When your friends get to your house, help them carry they're sleeping bags and pillows out to a big tent in your backyard. Then you can get the activities started! You can make glow-in-the-dark necklaces with glow-in-the-dark beads found out craft stores such as Michael's and Hobby Lobby. After that it will probably be dinner time, and you can have hamburgers or hotdogs, or whatever you usually eat when you go camping.

 Then you can have cake and open presents, and after that, you can roast marshmallows on your grill. (I just love roasted marshmallows, don't you?!) Then you can watch a movie in the tent, by watching a movie on you or your parents' computer, or slipping a DVD in it. You can even sleep in the tent when it's time to go to bed! Oh, and you can sign each other's pillow cases with permanent markers. Just make sure its okay with you and your friends' parents to do it first. 

For party favors: The glow-in-the-dark necklaces work as activities and party favors, but if you feel that's not enough, you can also hand out mini flashlights or trail-mix with candy in it before your friends leave.

For cake: You can have a log shaped cake, with things like flowers, frogs, birds, or even forest fairies on it made out of icing. 

Hope you have a great birthday!