Dork Diaries #1

     

Dork Diaries #1 

 by: Rachel Renée Russell     

 This is a great book. I recommend it to 9-13 year olds, yet almost any age can read it. It is a fun book about a girl, Nikki, who moved and gets a new school. It is hard for her to make new friends, but she gets a couple by the end. She is also bullied every day.

      It is girls’ version of Diary of a Wimpy Kid.  I LOVED it and I think you will to. I rate it at 5 stars. You can find it at Costco, the library, or almost any store/book store.

                                                   

                                                  Book report by: Allyson Mae Davey, 9  

Percy Jackson; Lightning Thief

review  by Matthew, 11

Percy Jackson

 And the lightning Thief

Percy is a lot like the average

Twelve year old kid or so he thought. Until he fought his

Pre algebra teacher  Mrs.dodds (one of three furies) and accidentally vaporizes her. (p.s. he’s a demigod.)

This book is great,

Full of suspense, humor, and adventure.

I recommend it to ages 10-20.

I give it two thumbs up.

And 5 stars.

Rapunzel’s Revenge by Shannon and Dean Hale

Review by Sarah, 8

Rapunzel’s Revenge

Is a great book because it is a comic strip book and it is easy, and fast to read. The characters are Jack, Rapunzel, and Mother Gothel. my favorite character is Jack because he was silly. I love that Rapunzel was a strong character and was a cowgirl. I am looking forward to reading Shannon Hales next book “Calamity Jack”.

Project Book Review!

As a summer assignment to the kids they are reading and righting book reviews. Each at their own level. Books of their choice.
This should be fun to follow!

All of our little helpers ripped down the first layer of wall paper. Man that is a huge wall. And a big mess from Christmas! We had 8 kids and 6 adults her for a couple of days with lots of wrappings and food so it was bound to look a little crazy.

Pluggin along

With new house comes new projects. Our house is great but it was a model home and the person who designed it liked yellow...alot! So we have yellow wallpaper in 7 rooms of the house some worse then others. So the day after Christmas with Mark and his family still here the guys started by ripping down the 10ft long shelf off the wall. Then came the ripping and scrapping of wall paper. With trial of the "best product" on the market and some great suggestions from a friend we got one wall of wallpaper down. The kitchen is next on the wallpaper removal list then on to the bathrooms. Once the wallpaper is down we are having someone come in to texture the walls. We have lots of paint swatches taped to the wall to help us pick out just the right color. I can't wait till I can start hanging pictures on the wall.

Welcome Home

I am just starting a blog and seeing that we are starting a new part of our lives it seems and appropriate time to. We are getting the keys to our first home today! :)
To back track on our year a little bit we have come a long way baby! At the start of the year we where living in a run down basement apartment and Jonathan was working on finishing his Bachelors and we were hunting for jobs like mad. Jonathan graduated in April with his Food Science degree from BYU to add to his Culinary degree and Culinary certifications. After lots of hard work and searching we found a job with Lyons Magnus which brought us back to California (I didn't see that one coming!). Or oldest Matthew was baptized in August and we moved in September. So here we are in California in a temporary apartment/storage unit up to our eyeballs in boxes and after looking at what felt like millions of homes we found ours. After only a month and a half of searching and a short 2 week escrow we have a home to call our own. I am excited to start ripping down wallpaper and personalize our home.