Hot Air Balloons!!!

Every year we have the Hot air balloon races. They also have a glow show in the morning. Its cold but really fun.

This guy is the only guy in the world to be in a wheel-chair and be the pilot of the air balloon.

A Book

There is no frigate like a book
  To take us lands away,
Nor any courses like a page
  Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
  Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
  That bears a human soul!

- Emily Dickinson

My Shadow

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.

The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow-
Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;
For he sometimes shoots up taller than an India-rubber ball,
and he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all.

He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play,
And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.
He stays so close beside me, He's a coward you can see;
I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!

One morning, very early, before the sun was up,
I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;
But lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepyhead,
Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

Emma Today!!!!

I am poem.

I am a dancer and a 7th grader.
I wonder about the heavenly maker.
I hear the winds magical beat.
I see myself with point shoes on my feet.
I want to be a wonderful baker.
I am a dancer and a 7th grader.

I pretend to be on t.v.
I feel whats it like to fly like a bee.
I touch the charterers  in all my books.
I worry about all evil crooks.
I cry when I can't go to the lake.
I am a dancer and a 7th grader.

I understand the Bible.
I say "Live, Love, Laugh".
I dream about gymnastics.
I try to make my flips fantastic.
I hope that you know who I am.
I am a dancer and a 7th grader.

10 months old...and a day.

Here is Emma 10 months and one day old. She is standing on her own crawling really fast and every once in a while taking a few steps.

Chico with the Depoali's

We went to Chico for labor day weekend. And had a ton of fun. We went out on the the boat once with the Tier's and once with Sky and Henry. There were a few hours of great glass water and I got in some good jumps.

Mrs. Tier