The Social Science Fair

As a school assignment I had to do a project. We got to pick any subject as long as it was in the six categories they assigned. I picked 'Economics' and my project was called "Are Credit Cards good or bad?" and it was all about credit.

During our winter break, judges judged all the fifth grade projects and picked several people from our school to go on to the district fair. I was chosen.


Last Saturday we had to go to the Columbus Museum to drop off my project and then after the judging we came back to get it. I got a 'second place' award and a certificate. Only those with first place winners (and there were two in the category of Economics) get to go on. Maybe next time.

The Word of Wisdom

Yesterday I gave the lesson in family home evening. Part of my lesson was about the word of wisdom. We read D&C section 89. I learned so much from my own lesson. The word of wisdom says first, don't drink alchohol, beer and wine. Second, mostly eat grain and wheat. It also says to mostly eat it when you were hungry. It also says eat meat sparingly especially during the cold months. Then it says that humans should eat grains and wheat and that beasts (animals) should eat grains too. It also says that fruit is good for you too. I thought it was interesting which is listed what each kind of animal should eat. And if you obey the word of wisdom you will receive these blessings: you shall have a healthy body. You shall be happy. You shall live a long life and the destroying angel shall pass you by. You shall wisdom and great treasures of knowledge.

Some people don't understand how much the word of wisdom blesses us. People should be grateful for the word of wisdom because it gives us all the blessings listed above and sometimes more.

Something that is interesting about the word of wisdom is that Heavenly Father gave us these commandments before doctors found out how bad beer alchohol and tobacco were for our bodies. That makes me know that he gave us that commandment so that we could be happy. All his commandments make us happy.

Journal - week of January 11th

Sunday, January 11th, 2009
I had a dream this morning. We were eating dinner. I played at a cool computer game after dinner. I woke up. On the way to church I saw a squirrel. At church we sang Rejoice the Lord King and As Now We take the Sacrament. Then we took the sacrament. I drew a picture. Then Joe Pate gave a talk first. He talked about worthiness. We sang Called to Serve. The High Councilor gave a talk next. Then we sang Redeemer of Israel. In class we learned about the apostasy. In primary we learned verses two and three of the song God gave us Families. At home we did these things: clean kitchen, blogged, ate dinner, gave Luke an interview, Dad gave me a father's interview. In the interview he asked me lots of questions. Then he told me to tell him anything I wanted or needed to tell him. I told him I wanted to spend more time with him and that I needed to practice piano more. We planned to practice piano 30 minutes everyday except Friday.

Monday, January 12th, 2009
I had a good day today. I had musci and I got a 100 in Math. I read a lot today. At night we went to Barnes and Noble for Family Home Evening. There I bought ELDEST... the sequel to ERAGON (the book I'm reading). Eragon is fun. Eragon is about to enter the Hadarac Dessert. It is getting exciting. After I finish Eragon Series I will start the Lord of the Rings series. I watched Lord of the Rings #1 - part two.

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
I threw up two times in the night. I was very sick. My dad made me not go to school. I wanted to go to school everyday in the year so I could get an award but now I'm not going to get it. In the morning I watcheed Lord of the Rings Two Towers, then I blogged for awhile, then I had a snack. We had french toast for dinner.

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
I woke up at 7:50. I said a prayer, got dressed, and had breakfast. Then I brushed and flossed teeth and went to school. At school we started a math class where we went to a different classroom and learned math. We divided into different classrooms with different teachers. I was lucky to get my own teacher, Mr. Smith. We learned about measurement. We did an activity where we measured five things in the room or the hallway. We will be doing it everyday. Then we had art. We had recess. We reviewed math homework that I had never done because I hadf veen sick. Then we went to lunch. after lunch we did some math work and got lots of homework. SS, math and spelling homework. At home I finished homework, then went to Cub Scouts. At home I practiced piano and then got redy for bed and went to bed.

Thursday, January 15th, 2009
At school we did the math class again. We did PE and we had a fire drill. It was a fun day.

Friday, January 16th, 2009
I went to school today. I had PE. In PE we did TaeBo. It was a fun day. We did a kids movie night at home. We watched Star Wars the Clone Wars.

Saturday, January 17th, 2009
Today I woke up and did these things: play wii, eat breakfast, do jobs, eat lunch, have a basketball game. I had a fun basketball game. There were only five people there so everyone got to play the whole game. I made three baskets. At home we did more jobs, then we played wii some more. The Davis' came to our house. We had dinner with them. It was fun. I played some more wii and then went to bed.

Journal - week of January 4th

Sunday, January 4th, 2009
I had a weird dream. I was in church. There were 20 seats. One of the boys in the seats yelled 'hey weirdo' Then I forgot the rest of the dream. At church in class we learned about Joseph Smith. We read Jospeh Smith history about how Joseph the vision and how the false churches did not believe him. In primary we learned about Heavenly Father's plan for us. We watched Horton hears a who as a family movie at home.

Monday, January 5th, 2009
I had a dream. I was starting a race. "GO". I climbed a ladder and went down a slide 5 times. After I that I was suddenly in the car with Chase, Jordan and Ken. We got home. We had a babysitter and played outside until midnight and then went to bed. I woke up (in my dream) and mom and dad yelled at me for playing outside at midnight. Then I woke up for real. I played Wii after school, did lots of jobs and had family home evening.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Today I had a good day. I gave a tour at school for someone new. I read a lot at school and I got a lot of homework.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009
I am going to have art today. At home we opened presents from Grandma and Grandpa Walton. I got Pokemon card and a Beedle the Bard book.

Friday, January 9, 2009
Today I had a fun day at school. Emily took happy to our house tonight. He is a cool hamster. At home I played video games and practiced basketball.

Saturday, January 10, 2009
Today I watched Kung Fu Panda and Lord of the Rings #1 part 1. I did really good in a basketball game. I made two baskets.

My Journal

I started a journal.
I write in it every day.
I will type it on my blog.

I will type about every day from my journal starting with the week of January 4th.

Happy weekend with Happy

I had a fun weekend. On Thursday Emily told mom that she could bring Happy, her class hamster, home for the weekend if mom said she could. I thought Mom would say no, but she said yes. When happy was at home he would do tricks for us. He climbed on the wall of his cage and then did the monkey bars across the ceiling. We put him in his ball and watched him roll around. Once Luke picked up and threw the ball. It's a good thing Happy didn't get hurt. We guarded the ball from Luke from then on.

This is a picture of Happy the hamster.

This is a picture of Happy, Katie, Emily, Megan, and me.

Another Christmas

A few days ago a package came from my Grandma and Grandpa Walton. We waited to open it when Grandma and Grandpa could watch us through the computer.

There were presents in the package. We all opened ours. I got an awesome book called The Tales of Beedle the Bard, by J. K. Rowling. They got me the one with the cover from Canada. I also got some pokemon cards.

All the girls got aprons and Dad got a cool shirt.

We also got a snack cookbook that was for the whole family. I had lots of fun opening presents that day.

Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning

On Christmas Eve we did lots of fun things. We made cookies for Santa, we played Christmas songs on the chimes, we acted out the nativity and after lots of fun we went to bed. I couldn't get to sleep because I was so excited. I finally fell asleep.


My snowman cookie for Santa.


Me and my brother Luke.

Me and my stocking.

I was so excited when I woke up. I looked at the time and it was 6:30 so I woke my Mom and Dad up. My mom made me do my hair to get ready. Dad made us close our eyes as he carried us to where everyone else was gathering. We lined up on the staircase. We had to take a few pictures and finally we went to see our presents from Santa. From Santa I got a soccer goal and a Soccer Wii game. I was so excited to play with it. Then we looked in our stockings. I got a Pikachu toothbrush, and I got race car legos, an orange, a magnet that showed lots of different feelings and something to put on the one you feel. I also got two pokemon figurines... kricketot and chatot.

Walking in to see our presents. Isn't Luke so cute?

Me with my Santa presents.

Building my little legos in my stocking.

Then we had breakfast. We ate the traditional potato, eggs, sausage, cheese Christmas breakfast with muffins and grape juice. After a very long breakfast we got to open our presents. My mom and dad got me... 8 pokemon figurines, a big Fireman lego set, a small boat lego set, Super Smash Bros. Brawl Wii game, and Sonic and Mario at the Olympic Games Wii game and the movie Kung Fu Panda and Furious 5 movie. My Aunt Amy got me 'Newsies' DVD. My Uncle Brian got me 3 pokemon figurines. My Aunt Ashlyn got me a Sorry Sliders board game. My cousins Tyler and Spencer got me some Pokemon Cards. Grandma and Grandpa Johnson gave me Guitar Hero World Tour Wii game, a book and a shirt and BYU pajama pants. Dan and Sarah got me Horton Hears a Who movie. I was very spoiled. It was an awesome Christmas.

I gave Katie a Disney Fairy book, Emily a Junie B. Jones book, and Megan a crougunk figurine. I got my Dad the movie Ironman and all of the kids gave my Mom some new knives and a knife sharpener.

After we opened up all the presents I started playing my video games.