Once Upon a Toad

Well, since y'alls know how much I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE to death the Mother Daughter Book Club, and speaking of that, Heather Vogel Fredrick ( one of my fave. authors IN THE WORLD! ! ) is coming out with a new book in April! You can go on her site, heathervogelfredrick.com and see an excerpt of it, and here is a picture of it......I CANNOT wait to read it!!!!! Ahhh!!!! :)

GRACIE <3

Valentine's Day

Don't ya love the new heart background? Me too. :) Feeling in the mood for Valentine's Day!





GRACIE <3

Outside Sunny Weather!

Well, the weather outside has been kind of ehhh lately, but last weekend, boy was it nice! :)

Adventures in Odyssey!

Adventures in Odyssey is a radio show run by Focus on The Family that you can also buy on CD or tape that my family has been listening to for many years! We all love it, and I go on whitsend.org pretty much every day to listen to the ongoing radio production of the many episodes, or to listen to a new one every day. Adventures in Odyssey is a show that is about regular kids, with regular lives, that are christians and love going to Whits End, a local ice-cream shop, run by an old, loving, wise, man, Mr. Whittaker. All of the kids go to him for advice about everything from loving your neighbor as yourself to honesty to not cheating. When you listen to AIO, you travel into the world of Mr. Whittaker, Connie, a teenager who has a loud voice that moved to Odyssey from California and is a new christian, Eugene, a genius, who goes to Campbell County College and is married to Katrina, a really smart lady who is a teacher, and SO SO SO many other characters! You might think, " Oh , it's probably really boring" but it isn't! You can go on whitsend.org and listened to episodes every day, and also buy cd's! I assure you, you WON'T regret listening! :)


              

Here are some pictures.  :)

Thnx for reading!

Gracie <3

Penny Drive

This week is the penny drive! Here is how is works.  Every morning, for the first ten minutes of every morning, all of the students go to all of the different homerooms and drop coins in all of the homerooms" coin buckets " .  Here is the trick- The pennies count for your classroom, and the silver coins count against your classroom. Members of the sevice crew count the coins, which is kind of hard to explain, and at the end of the day, whoever had the least amount of silver coins wins for that day, and whatever place they are in( 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. ) is the number of points they get. At the end of the week, the class with the most amount of points all totaled up from the whole week is the winner! The money goes to something the school needs, like new textbooks or re-doing the playground or field. Last years winner was Blanchet homeroom.  It is a great and fun way for students to give spare change to the school. :)

To the penny drive!!!!!!!

Mary Grace

Superbowl!

The superbowl was on Sunday, and I thik that it was one of the best superbowls that I have every had. Two of my good friends, Audrey and Andrea came over, along with the Prato's and the Strausses. Me and Andrea and Audrey had a bunch of fun, even though we didn't watch any of the football game, besides the halftime show, which was....yeah...haha. :)

Grandma

My Grandma on my mom's side has recently been in the hospital because of a hip transplant I think. We have been praying for her, but I haven't been to the hospital to see her. On the other  hand, my mom has. She went with annelise and Lucianna went ot see her, and she took some pictures.

Soccer Banquet

Tonight we are heading over to Round Table pizza for a soccer banquet, and we are going to head out at about 7:00. I don't think they are handing out awards or anything, but it will be good to converse with my teammates after a month. Tomorrow I believe that they are going to Sky High,  a really awesome trampoline place. But we can't go because my Dad is working all day tomorow, at this thing at our church called " Faith Trek" , but I don't really mind.  The day after we are having a Superbowl party at our house, and my two friends Audrey and Andrea are coming over, and we are just going to hang out. Go Patriots! Then next week at school is the Penny Drive, and it is kind of complicated. I will explain in another post so yoo don't get too confused. Right now I amlistening to Adventures in Odyssey, which I will also post about later. so, some things to expect in the next week are...


- Superbowl Party
- Penny Drive
- Adventures in Odyssey
- And maybe a couple other things.  :)

Well, have a happy weekend! :)                    

GRACIE :P =P =D :D :) =)
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3                                      

Luci =)

Yay! Is what you might be thinking, because I haven't really put pictures of Lucianna up,  ( I call her Luci, Luci-goo, or Lou Lou ) and I took some the other day. I'd have to say Annelise is super cute, and Lucianna is just the same, but a little cuter because of the fact that she is a baby.  :)

Moons!

Like, in the sky, moons. I was doing math homework, and I saw the moon, which was SO pretty in the sky, and I decided to take some pictures of it.

Books, books, bOoKs.....

Yes! Books! I love them! And reading! I love it too! Which is why, last night, I decided to make a visit to one of my good friends, Mr. Amazon. Now Mr. Amazon has ALL of the books you can imagine, but since I needed to make my Peter and The Starcatcher Series complete, and the Mysterious Benedict Society complete, I decided to buy 7 books from him. Now the great thing is, they all cost a penny. A PENNY! But the sad thing is, shipping is $3.99, so that one cent makes al of the books four bucks! So I now had to pay Mr. Amazon something like $33.36! Which may not be a lot to you, I have just been saving up my money, but my mom said that if that I really liked the books ( which I do! ) then I should get them for my nice little collection of all my faves on my bookshelf! Which I did, and I am expecting them in the mail by February 7th, but knowing Mr. Amazon, it may take a tad bit longer. Yesterday, my mom's good friend, Sarah Sexton came over to ou house for a nice chat with my mom and to have dinner with us ( she made taco's, benas, rice, and cupcakes which were all delicious! Thank you! ) and her daughter, Anna, had borrowed one of my books In May, when Mary Catherine made her first communion, and it just happened to be Pies and Prejudice! And she brought it back yesterday, and I was SO SO SO SO happy, and I just dove into it, going to my favorite parts, and wishing, for the thousandth time that I was part of The Mother Daughter Book Club. :)

Catholic Schools Week!

Yay it is Cathlic Schools week! This week is really exciting, and the theme for This year is sort of like this " Archdiocese of Seattle. Catholic Schools. 73 Schools grounded in Faith, Service, and Academic Excellence" Catchy, huh? Lot better than last years. So, On Sunday we had an open house, to show odd all of our awesome work! Yesterday, we had a school-wide rosary, led by my little sisters class. Today, the whole school is going roller-skating at a rink, and we have non-uniform! Tomorrow, we have a visitors lunch, where we can have either our parents, cousins, aunts, uncles, family friends, grandparents, anyone, come and have lunch with us and visit our school! On Thursday, we have a school mass, and on Friday we have a read-in. Well  have to go, or I'll be latefor school!

MG

The Hunger Games!

Well, as you probably know, I have started reading the WONDEFUL series, the Hunger Games! As of the moment, I am reading the last one, it is just as excellent as the first, and you might be wondering if I am Team Gale or Team Peeta, and at the moment I am neutral....I am Team Katniss! Haha.....I don't even think there is a Team Katniss. So anyways, the first book. I will tell you what it is about. So there is this 16 year old girl, Katniss Everdeen. She has long brown hair that she wears down her back every day,and  she lives with her mom and her little sister who is 12, Primrose. ( Prim, for short ) Her dad died when she was I think 11 or 12, and I guess she isn't as close to her mom since. She lives in what used to be The United States, in a place called District 12. There are 12 districts, from 1 to 12, and they are absolutely dictated by The Capitol, the head of all of the other Districts, that tells everyone what to do. In all of the districts, there is one main industry that it takes care of, like fishing, agriculture, or lumber. Distric 12 takes care of mining. Anyways, every year, to remind the whole country of Panem( What the whole country is called. Sorry I forgot to mention that. ) that they still have complete and utter power over them, The Capitol holds a yearly Hunger Games, where two tributes from each district, one boy and one girl, go to an arena, and fight to the death to crown the annual Hunger Games champion in any sort of climate/landscape that the capitol designs for them, a different one every year. ( This is the 74th hunger Games) So to choose, they do this ceremony called the reaping, where they pick names out of these two glass bowls, on for the boys and one for the girls. And since her sister Prim, is only 12, this is her frist time, so she only has to have her name enetered one, unlike Katniss . Anyways, Prim's name is picked. And Prim is kind of dainty, and Katniss knows that she would never stand a chance, so she volunteers to go for her. the boy is Peeta Mellark. And there are SO many details about a whole bunch of other characters and stuff, but I think I will make you read the book to find out what happens. 

Hope ya liked it!

The MBS

What is the MBS?, you might be wondering. Well, it stands for The Mysterious Benedict Society. The Mysterious Benedict Society is the first of three wonderful books in the MBS series, First The Mysterious Benedict Society, two The MBS and the Perilous Journey, and three The MBS and the Prisoners Dilemma. I personally liked the first and last ones the best, the second one was okay. Anways, the first book starts out with a child, Reynard Muldoon, ( Reynie for short ) looking at a newspaper that says " Are You a Gifted Child Looking For Special Opprotunities?" ( or something like that, I haven't read the books for a really long time) and he is, so he goes to this building to take a test, with lost of other kids, with twists and turns along the way. The only kids to pass the test are himself, George Washington ( Sticky, actually, because everything he learns pretty much sticks in his head ) Kate Wetherall, ( she has always wanted to be called TheGreat Kate Weather Machine) and Constance Contraire, a crabby, plump, girl, who whines and rymes all day. You will learn fabulous things about all of these four along the way, and see how they end up with Mr. Benedict, go on a very important mission, and create a friendship that will last a lifetime....well a friendship that will last into the next two books. :) Here are what the book look like.



Well, thanks for reading, and I hope you try out these FABULOUS books !

Me! Haha . . .

Well I was bored, ( as you can see ) so I thought I might take some pictures...of myself.

Howdy!

Well, yeah. Feeling western today, eh?  :)  Anways, just wanted to check in and tell you that no, I haven't forgotten about you. Just been busy. So, the weather is getting a little better, it is still a bit chilly outside and all of the snow has melted! Today we had non-uniform ( oh yeah! ) and next week it is Catholic Schools week! So on Sunday we have an open-house at our school for a few hours, and we have spent many hours working on making our hallways spick-and-span with amazing work!!! On Monday, we have a school rosary, on Tuesday, we are all going skating at a roller-skating rink, ( with non-uniform) on Wednesday we have Visitor's lunch, on Thursday and Friday..I don't know. I think that one of the days we are having an all-school mass, but I am not certain. I also just found out that the play that the intermediate is going to see is called " Help" and it is the story of the Beatles, so that's exciting....next week is The Superbowl!!!! I have positively no idea why I am excited, because I don't like football at all whatsoever, but  it is still exciting for my dad because he LOVES the Patriots ( He is from Massachusetts ) and so we are going over to this family we know's house, ( The Strausses ) and I might go down to my friend Andrea's house because they are next door neighbors. Which makes it pretty convienient because we go to the Strausses a lot, so I can just head over to Andrea's house for a sleepover if we have a prayer meeting! :) Well, that pretty much covers everything interest-WAIT! NO! There is something VERY interesting! I have just this past week made maybe the BEST decision I have EVER made! I started reading The Hunger Games!!!!!!! And, let me tell you. If you haven't started reading them, you are missing out on life! Not kidding! To prove it, I wiped out the first one in a day! A day!!!! And the second one( Catching Fire )  is amazing, but is taking me a bit longer to finish..he he. I am SO excited to read the last one, Mockingjay, and even more to see the movie! AHHHH!!!!!!!!!
That pretty much wraps everything exciting in my life...haha.  :)

Ready to go read the hunger games...and do homework..  ,

Gracie!

Andrea's Birthday Party!

So this is kind of a long story because...well you'll see. So Andrea's birthday was on Friday, and on Thursday our power went out. and guss what. it was still out on Friday. So my dad went out to Starbucks to do some work, and it took him literally a half an hour to get out of our culdesac. Not even joking. And he was supposed to drive me to the party. so I wasn't able to go. So then I had to call the Hallahan's and mornfully tell them that I couldn't go. But you see, Andrea is such an amazing friend that she had her dad drive her, and one of the other girls that was at her house, Alex, to drive to our house and get me, because it was just our culdesac and giant hill that we couldn't get through. Well, the guys working on the power were working on this tree at the main light that you had to go through to get to my house the regular way, but they caught the tree on fire, the fir department had to come, and the roads were blocked. So we called Mrs. Hallahan so she could call Mr. Hallahan and warn him. But at that moment, the Hallahan's actually showed up at the bottom of the hill ( Me and my dad walked down our hill) so were were like, " Hallelujah! " And so after that we drove back to The Hallahans and played Just Dance 3 and hung out until my other best friend Carolyn showed up at her house and I wrote this skit( that you saw earlier) and we practiced a lot and hung out, and we eventually fell asleep playing Life on Carolyn's iPad. In the morning, Mrs. Hallahan( an amazing cook) made us breakfast- eggs, potato wedges, french toast, chocolate chip pancakes, bacon- delicious! - and orange juic and hot chocolate. It was super yummy. after that we kept practicing our skit( well it was more like a play ) and then we listened to music and then when the parents came we put on the play for them! It was so much fun! Happy Birthday Andrea!