Never Fear, Freedom is Here!

Ok, so I went down stairs to get a water bottle. I got the bottle, filled it, then went to the silverware drawer to get a lid. I opened the drawer, and then...

A HUGE TREE COCKROACH

was spinning in circles inside one of the upturned water bottle lids. He escaped to the back of the drawer before I could do anything beyond screaming. Glory and Mom, alerted by the sounds of my frantic cries, came to my assistance. After relaying to them my horrific encounter, we began to shovel through the contents of the drawer with ice cream scoopers. We caught sight of him again for an instant as he scurried out the back of the drawer into the cabinet below. Screaming and shivering, we pulled the drawer out and spotted the vile creature hanging on the drawer wheely thingies. Quickly, we located the raid and tormented the bug with volley after volley of the dreaded poison. After a well aimed hit from Mother, he dropped head first to the cabinet floor. We tried to do a visual search for him, but could not pinpoint his position. Pulling out the Icecream scoopers again, we began using them to pull the tupper-wares out of the cabinet, searching for what we hoped was a dead cockroach. After pulling out most of the contents, we finally found him behind the lemonade pitchers. Luckily he was dead (Well, mostly dead. His antennae was still moving...) We all leaned back with a sigh of relief. The thing was dead, and there was no more cause for alarm. But then the problem arouse of getting the disgraceful creation out of the cabinet. But none of us dared to stick our heads in there to get him out. After contemplating whether to do rock paper scissors or to draw straws, we then realized with relief that none of us had to risk our lives and sanitation in this way. For it was time for Freedom to get out of school!!! He'd save us! We raced to the bus loop to retrieve our hero. There he was! "Freedom! Freedom, We need you help!!"

"What?"

"There's an imposter in the silverware drawer!"

"A bug?"

"A COCKROACH!!!!"

"Oh, ok."

"We need you to extract him from the vicinities. Do you think you can do that?"

"Sure."

When we returned to the house, we women raced to make sure the little varmint was still where we had left him. Luckily, he had been wise enough not to wander off. And he had ceased that frightening twitching too. Calmy stepping over the mess of silverware and tupperware strewn across the kitchen floor, Our Hero reached down and picked up the scandalous infiltrator and escorted him to a more suitable environment (outside). (Now you can't cause anyone trouble ever again little cockroach!!! HAHAHAHA!!!!) Casually, Freedom set the empty corpse bellow the tree, where it is to rest forever more. And the Burgin kingdom was free from the tyranny of the cockroach king once more.

THE END

Popsicle Scene!

It rained yesterday, so Glory and I decided to make a popsicle scene! =) I made the house, the corral and the boat (Which actually floats by the way!) and Glory made the horse and the furniture. Whaddya think?

ABCya

 Ok, so there's this website called ABCya.com, and one of the games on there is making an animation. So Glory and Freedom and I have been making lots of animations. These ones are mine:

These ones are Glory's:

And these ones are Freedom's:

If you would like to make an animation, you can make one here: http://www.abcya.com/animate.htm

Big Bend Blast!

Hey guys! We just got back from Big Bend and had TONS of fun!! I took tons of pictures! My sister got these new sunglasses for the trip. doesn't she look like a movie star?

 This is my cousin Everal. She's found a cool rock!

 A view from the window, while driving around the park.

 Isn't she pretty?

 My Dad, being goofy as usual.

 Setting up the tent! Everal there is "supervising"

 Some views from when we climbed the Chisos Mountains! The views were absolutely breath taking!! The pictures really don't capture it at all.

 Hiking along!

 Glory and I had tons of fun photographing every thing!!!

 The men of the family =)

 My movie star sister and I =)

 Here we went to the Rio Grande. The cliff on the left is Mexico, and the cliff on the right is the United states!

 My dad, being goofy again.

 There were lots of Blue Bonnets in the park.

 The Border!

 Have I mentioned she looks like a movie star?

 Hey look! There's me! I got a bad sunburn the first day, so for the rest of the camping trip, I had to where this silly hat to protect me from burning any worse. I actually grew rather fond of it, but it's really my dad's and he took it back when we got home. ='(

 I don't know what this face is about, but it's cute! =)

 On to the natural hot springs off the Rio Grande!

 You can't really tell in this picture at all, but these palm trees are MASSIVE!!! They were planted there before when there was actually a spa!

 We saw this horse on the other side of the river while on our way to the hot springs! Here we are walking off the trail to get as close as we can without crossing the river. =) This isn't the first horse we've seen on the other side of the river. Earlier, we had seen a little herd of three, one black, one brown, one buckskin. Those pictures are on my mom's phone though, so maybe I'll get them up later.

 Check out these bird's nests on the cliff! Pretty cool huh?

 These are called petreglyphs. Petreplyphs are when the markings are carved into the rock.

 These are the hieroglyphs. Those are when the pictures are painted on.

 Here we are at the hot springs! It was nice, but the real fun was in the river!

 See, this is us playing in the river by the hot springs! There was a really strong current in the middle of the river, so we would swim up the side of it, then hop in the current! IT WAS BEYOND FUN!!!!  It was too deep to stand in the current part of the river, but there were rocks to stand on next to the hot springs. It was absolutely impossible to swim against the current, so while the current pulled us back towards the hotspring, we had to try to swim to our lefts as hard as we could to make it to the rocks where we could stand up and the current didn't pull as hard! Twice I didn't quite make it to the rocks, but luckily Mr. Lollo was there to catch me and send me back to the spring.Thanks Mr. Lollo! SO FUN!!!!!!!!!

 Back in the hot springs. Mr. Lollo had to take a break, and we weren't allowed to swim without him as life guard.

 Climbing up in the rocks! I was barefoot because my feet were all muddy from the river. I felt fine, but then mom found a scorpion under a rock as she climbed up to join me. She made me put my shoes on after that.

That has to have been the best camping trip of my entire life!!! We only stayed for 2 whole days and 2 half days. I could have and wanted to stay ALL WEEK LONG!!!!!! I HAD SO MUCH FUN IT WASN'T EVEN FUNNY!!!!! Wait, that doesn't make much sense does it? The point is, I REALLY ENJOYED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! I definitely hope we get to go again soon!!!!!!!!! =D