Saturday, July 27, 2013

The Fair - July 27

The fair started a week ago and ends on Sunday. There is a 4-h club that raises animals (pigs, sheep, cows, bunnies, chickens etc.) and an auction for some of the animals. It is pretty neat. There are also the rides. I got to go on the zipper (the caged ride that goes upside-down) and some other really intense rides. I got to hang out with Cole and his friends. I had a blast! Kylie entered two of her pictures and she got a blue ribbon for both. Kylie entered in the pig wrestling competition. She won the Best Dressed in her league. She almost got second place in the actual competition. She would have won a lot of money, but instead she got a big trophy with a pig on top. We all are glad she got the trophy (it was the first trophy she won).

Kylie July 27










Monday, July 22, 2013

River Rafting #2

Yesterday we were invited to go river rafting by our neighbors across the street. All of our family (including grandma) went plus another family of three. We were doing the same stretch I did with Cole's family. The only thing that was different was the raft. It was a one-person-paddle raft. We were on either end of the raft with our paddler-steerer in the middle.  His name was Paul (our neighbor).  He had been a professional rafting guide earlier in his career, so he knew a lot about the river.  He was a great guide.  Since the river was lower than the last time I was there the rapids were bigger.  We went through lots of rapids but the biggest were the Big Kahuna rapids and the Lunch Counter rapids. Look up "Big Kahuna/Lunch Counter rapids Jackson WY" for amazing pictures and videos. We all had a blast!

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Kylie July 16







A New Camp

I finished my robot camp last Friday. This week I am doing an outdoors camp. I am also going to learn how to fly fish. On Monday we learned about water chemistry. Today we went on a hike to a lake. On the way back we had a run in with a black bear. We were walking down the trail when some people in front of us stopped. There was a black bear on the trail in front of us! Our teacher got out the bear spray and we waited for it to move on. Then it started walking down the trail at us! We moved back until it stopped moving. When it was tired of us it walked back into the woods. It was so cool! Today my grandma is coming to town for the first time. We are going out to dinner after we pick her up from the airport. She is staying for a week. Tomorrow we are going canoeing on a lake. It will be fun!

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Kylie July 10









Robots

On Monday I started in a summer robotics class. There are only five kids my age there. I start at nine am and finish at twelve pm. It ends Friday. We get to build a basic Lego Mindstorm robot and then add on to them. My robot has tank treads with a working scoop in the front. We do different challenges with our robots. We tell it what we want it to do on a computer then we download it to our robots. We can make them talk, move and show pictures on the screen. On Friday we have our final challenge with our robots. We have to start out on a line, drive several feet to a ball bin, and move the plastic balls back to the line to get points. My robot is built like a bull dozer, so I will probably win. I love robots!

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Kylie July 7








Rafting

Two days ago it was my friend, Cole's, birthday. We had a huge airsoft war with two other of his friends in an overgrown valley. Then we all had a sleepover at his house. We slept in a tent, on his front yard. The next morning we had blueberry pancakes. Then we all went rafting. Cole's parents rented a raft. His dad steered, while everyone else paddled. We went through class two rapids and everyone got dunked. I had a blast! When we got back to his house we got to jump on his trampoline. It was raining so we got to bounce super high. Then it started to hail. It was painful and fun! I went home after we had an epic Nerf war. I stayed home and watched Percy Jackson and the Olympians while the rest of my family went out to dinner.

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Kylie July 4





HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!

Today we went into town to watch the Fourth of July parade. We went with a family in our neighborhood that are good friends with us. It started at ten thirty and ended at twelve. It was long! I was just sad that we couldn't ride on our fire truck this year. We got a lot of candy and the floats were awesome! When it was over we went home and played for two hours. Around two we went to our neighbor's (the Boomers) house and had dinner-lunch with them. For dessert we had key lime pie and meringues with fruit. It was delicious! We went back home around four. We might go see the fireworks at ten tonight if we are still awake. Happy Fourth of July, and to all a good night!