Life from a Beanbag

Hi! I just got back from Mother-Daughter Retreat 2022 today. Here's what we did... ~DAY 1~ Friday We arrived at Shamineau! After chapel, a neon glow party in the gym started. Here's some pictures! Me, Grammie, Whitney, Ella, and Lily  Hattie and I in our neon clothes ~DAY 2~ Saturday We did a ton of crafts today. A ton. Some of the ones we did were... Wooden pallet signs and oil candles Scrunchies and pom-pom crafts (or maybe this was on Friday, I can't remember.) We also did a couple other ones, I just don't have any pictures. In the morning and later at night, we also had chapel.  ~DAY 3~ Sunday After breakfast, we got one last hour of open rec time. Once we were done with that, we headed to chapel. It was a really fun weekend for all of us. Hope we can do it again next year too! (and again and again!)

 Here's the pictures I promised you with us skiing in it in Flashback on My Week! At the top of a slope Waiting to go down the hill On the chairlift In the chalet That's all for now! I'm going to finish a chocolate mug cake that I made earlier today. I would take a picture of it to show you, but there's only a couple bites left. It mysteriously disappeared into thin air over the past hour. Wonder where it could've gone... See ya!

  Hey again! My day's gone pretty good...what about yours? School went great today. For a co-op we do with friends, my mom taught a paint class. The painting: A Q-Tip rainbow with a white background and green grass. It was really fun! We've been learning a lot of science-related topics, so it was a nice change.  Supper is white chicken chili and cornbread. Yum! Some people in my family don't like cornbread as much, which I think is C-R-A-Z-Y! It's so delicious... Another thing about food: We had k ongnamul bap for supper a couple nights ago, and it was sooo good! For those of you who haven't had it before, it's a Korean dish that has rice, bean sprouts, hamburger, and kimchi (pickled vegetables). Delicious! Anyways, that's all for now. Gotta go!

Hi again! If you haven't seen Merry Christmas!!! (Part 1) you should look at that before reading this. Anyways, here's what we did today! ~CHRISTMAS DAY~ (Picking up where I last left off) When we got to Grammie's house, we all had leftovers for lunch. And of course, more cookies. An hour-ish later, the Backward Christmas started! The reason we call it the "Backward Christmas" is because instead of getting, we give! This year the charity was WorldVision. All of us split up into teams of 2 or 3. My team was Mom, Willow, and me. We had to find as many 10 dollar bills as we could to win. Once we got three, all of us "bought" a drink at the drink table. Finding 7 dollar bills got us each 5 yummy drinks. It was really fun! Then after all the dollar bills had been found, you used your "money" to pick out things to give to WorldVision.  This afternoon was mostly just hanging around, millions of cookies and other treats, and some of us had a talent sho...

  Hi again! How's your December weekend going? Ours is pretty busy. Yesterday we had our Cookie Baking Day... Grammie came over yesterday morning at about 10:00am for Cookie Bake Day! Mom, Ella, Lily, Hattie, and I all worked a lot on a BUNCH of cookies. We made rolo turtles, peanut butter blossoms, lefsa, krumkake, biscotti, buckeyes, almond joys, butterfinger bars, and maybe more, I don't know. Can't wait until we can eat all of them at Christmas! Then later after supper we watched the Grinch. The other thing that makes this weekend busy is Christmas on Dad's side! It's tomorrow at Nana's house. Actually, it's also Thanksgiving, too. That's all for now. I'll try to post tomorrow, but I'm busy since you know, I have a Christmas celebration tomorrow. 😉 See ya later!

 Can't believe it's the last day of November! Hope you're ready to go into the last month of the year...2021 is going by so fast!  Luna is right in front of the keyboard right now, so she's making it pretty hard to type. She's sometimes naughty when it comes to computers. One time she decided to walk on the keyboard. And turn on airplane mode. Which made the wifi not work, too. Then just now, as I was about to type something, she put in her own little message; uujhhhhh. Was she trying to spell ugh? No one knows. This picture is proof of her amusing antics: (This picture is actually titled "Luna breaks the Internet.") If you didn't know already, we do advent every year. We have a magnetic nativity, advent candles, and some books we read. This year Mom found a advent book we hadn't read yet, and so far it's really good. The introduction also said that because that book has a lot of food involved in it, it might be fun for the readers to have some...

  Happy Friday! Or should I say, Happy Fondue Friday?  Anyways, if you didn't know this already, Fondue Friday (I named the day) is the day after Thanksgiving when the we decorate for Christmas and have fondue. This year's fondue dippers are raspberries, bananas, strawberries, dried apricots, pretzels, marshmallows, donuts, vanilla wafers, lemon cookies, and maybe more, I can't remember. Everyone also has a couple/ton of decorations to put in her/his room. Well, except for Ella. She already decorated most of her room, and I did her mini-tree for her and helped with a couple other things. Oh, and for supper we got pizza, too. Yum! This is kind of random, but if I sleep in Hattie's room again tonight, it'll be 4 weeks that I've slept in there. 😂 Should I go one more night...or not? Also, earlier today me, Ella, Mom, and Lily went shopping. We went to Walmart and Target, and also to Taco John's (for potato oles) and McDonald's (for fries and soda) in betwe...

  So....now it's almost 6:00 and we're thinking about supper. Leaving on where I left us with Part 1, after I got changed Dad, Ben, Hattie, and I watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade for a while. I also crocheted for little bit while we watched, too.  Lunch was D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S, by the way. We had turkey, cranberry sauce, gravy, hasselback potatoes, green bean casserole, brussels sprouts, and maybe more, I can't remember. And before lunch , Ella, Hattie, Lily, and I put on nice clothes and Ella did makeup on all of us.  A little after lunch we had pie, too. The gluten-eating people (Dad, Ella, Ben, me, and Lily) had french silk pie (at least I think that's what it was) and the gluten-free people (Mom and Hattie) had chocolate pie. Then after we had lunch and pie, we hung around for a little bit and watched Free Birds. Well, Mom, Dad, Ella, Lily, and Hattie watched it while I played games on the tablet.  That's all for now! I'll post Part 3 again later...

  Thanksgiving break has started out great! Can't wait for 5 more days of no school... I just got finished watching some Dude Perfect videos, and Mom, Ella, Hattie, and Luna are still watching them.  This is a project I've been working on lately for Christmas decorating. I found a pattern for crocheted trees that I'm working on right now, and then once you crochet them you make a chain to hang them on. If you like crocheting here's the link!  LoopTeeLoops: Christmas Tree Garland Pattern So...when do you decorate for Christmas? We decorate the day after Thanksgiving, and have fondue that day, too. So watch for a post about it on Friday... That's all for now! See ya later on my wonderful Thanksgiving break!

 We just got back from church 10-15 minutes ago. We're (well, Hattie, Lily, and me) are waiting to see if we can go to play practice today. The reason we might not be able to go is because Mom still has a little bit of the 'rona. But then again, Hattie, Lily, and I don't feel sick at all. The play is actually at the same spot I did volleyball at! The musical is called "Raad Tidings," and I really hope we can go. Plus some of our neighborhood friends are going, so that makes it even better.  I'll give you an update later!

  Here I am again! For lunch some of our friends brought pork roast, squash, and veggies and Grammie brought over yummy soup and blueberry muffins. Mom, Dad, Hattie, Lily, and I just got finished watching a movie, but before that I did some of history and helped Ella set up her Christmas decorations in her room.  This is kind of random, but I came across this picture of Loki and she looks so cute! She looks so adorable, just sitting there like she's a book.  Gotta go now. I'll hopelessly try  (just kidding) try to post tomorrow!

  Hey again! I'm sooo glad it's the weekend. No school for two days! Sorry the title is kind of confusing. I was just thinking about how much cream cheese wontons sound good right now. Too bad I can't have dairy (most of the time 😊 ). Not everyone is awake yet. I only know for sure that Mom, Dad, Loki, and I are awake. And that Hattie and Luna and sleeping. I know that Hattie is still sleeping because...1. She sleeps in a lot (so do I). And 2. I slept in her room again. Tonight marked the seventh night I've slept in there.  Guessss what? Now Thanksgiving is only in twelve days! Can't wait for five days of fall break to start. This year it's Nana and Paul's Thanksgiving, which is just where they have it on the actually day of Thanksgiving. It goes back and forth from Grammie and Papa's house to Nana and Paul's house. I can't wait to see them again! And have yummy food too... It frosted a little bit today. The roofs of houses got a little dusting ...

  Happy Friday! Sorry I haven't posted in 12 days, and hope your November's been going well.  Mine's been...kind of covid chaotic. Ella started to not feel so good a little while ago, Dad got a fever some nights ago, and then little while ago Lily didn't feel great either. Fortunately, they're all getting a lot better. Ben, Hattie, and I are the only ones who haven't felt sick, since Mom's a little iffy.  I'm getting pretty excited for Thanksgiving. After all, it's in less than 2 weeks! And after Thanksgiving, it's Fondue Friday, when we decorate for winter and Christmas. I'm also getting excited for Thanksgiving break! School is going fine, but I'm always up for summer/thanksgiving/winter/spring break 🙃 . I used to like school more, but after a hard and/or kind of boring history curriculum and math lessons, I don't enjoy it like I used to.  I just got finished watching Toy Story 4. Dad chose it, and Hattie, Lily, him, and I were th...

  Guess what? I'm back from Utah! So...technically I got back last night, but I didn't have enough time to post about it until now. Here ya go! ~DAY 1~  First day in Utah We got back from the airport late, met Jamie (my uncle from Mom's side), and Ben went with him to job shadow the next day. The rest us of drove to the Air BnB and stayed up later than 1:00 in Utah time.  ~DAY 2~ Lots of hiking day Went hiking at Provo Canyon and took some pics there. Here they are! Then later we went hiking again on a mountain that had a great overlook. It was also kind of sketchy because the path was narrow-ish and slanted at some parts. Ben and Dad went up REALLY high.  I guess you had to be there to really appreciate the view.  Later for supper we went to CupBop, a Korean place, and went to see the Cougars play in a volleyball game. They won the first three sets, so the game was the shortest possible. Which was good, because we were all really tired. We got to bed pretty lat...

This weekend is so busy! Yesterday was Ella's birthday and also Super Soccer Saturday for Hattie and Lily.   All of the Hublers (minus Ben), the Kandells, Grammie and Papa, and Zyra and Aaliyah came. I also saw someone from my volleyball team! We all had lunch there and then went to Grammie's house. For Ella's birthday supper, she chose mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole, chicken, biscuits, and pie. After supper (and a yummy dessert!) we watched a movie then went home.  Right now we're getting ready for church, and after Grammie, Papa, Zyra, Aaliyah, and us will all come back here for crepes.  Do you know what's sad though? I only have four more practices/games in volleyball left. I guess it isn't that bad, because the reason why I have to stop volleyball early is cause we're leaving for Utah the next day. I still wish I could finish volleyball though.  Gotta go now!

  I have to admit, this weekend was pretty fun. Yesterday everyone but Ella and me left for Lily and Hattie's soccer, so the house was pretty quiet for the first part of the morning. Then for brunch (basically lunch for me, I had a late breakfast), Mom, Lily, Hattie, and I drove to the Kitchen Table and got some food. I got Maddie's breakfast, which is pancakes, chocolate syrup, whipped cream, and sprinkles. Most of the afternoon I hung out with friends and then later we went to the Nowthen Fall Festival and saw some of our neighbors there! I got mini donuts, and the fireworks at the end of the night were really cool.  This morning we went to church with one of Ella's friends and had a yummy lunch once we got back. We hung out with Delaney for most of the afternoon and then closer to supper most of us were hanging out in the front yard. I practiced volleyball a little bit with my Dad, and now we're waiting for the fire to start outside.  It's been a great weekend!

  I am sooo glad it's Friday. This was only my first week of school but already I'm starting to wish it's the first week of summer. Anyways, today was pretty fun. I hung out with Hattie for a while and we made a couple video star videos. And by the time it was supper, both Ella and Lily were gone. Ella got to go to the Cheesecake Factory (lucky!) with a special friend and Lily went on her birthday outing. For supper the five of us that were still got Jimmy John's and speedway slushies. Guess that's it for now. Bye!

  Right now Mom, Dad, Ella, Owen, and Hattie are in living room watching Home. I've watched it too many times so I don't like it that much, but there are some funny parts. But then again, who asks me for my movie opinion? We also watched High School Musical 2 earlier, after Ella, Owen, Hattie, and I had put on carbonated face masks. We looked foamy really foamy, and I accidentally got some in my mouth and it tasted really bad.  It's 8:50 right now, so I guess I gotta go. I'll try to post tomorrow though! Say bye Loki!

 Hi! What have you been up to lately? I'm starting school this week (Monday or Tuesday, I can't remember), and volleyball started last Wednesday (the 8th). Delaney does volleyball too, and it's fun to hang out a little during practice and after. After practice she rode home with my Dad and I, and he took us to Bill's for a treat. Oh, Lily's and Hattie's soccer also started last week, and yesterday morning Mom, Dad, Ella, Nora (one of Hattie's friends), and I went to Lily's game/Hattie's practice and scrimmage. I might post later, but I don't know what we're going to do after church. And Loki looks confused puzzled  confuzzled, so I doubt she knows either. See ya later!

Happy Labor Day! My weekend has been pretty fun, what about yours? On Saturday we (Grammie, Papa, Noah, and the rest of the Hublers) drove down to Elk River and biked for little while, then went back to Grammie's house. For supper we had hotdogs and brats around the campfire. Here's a few pics! On our snack break at the bike trails Around the campfire (or what's left of it) Yesterday after lunch we  (Grammie, Papa, Noah, Owen, and the rest of the Hublers) drove to Big Stone Mini Golf, had a quick (as in like 10-15 minute) snack, got on our bikes and biked down to Lost Lake Creamery to get some ice cream.  After ice cream (I got mint chocolate chip in a sugar cone) we biked back and then walked to the mini golf place. It was really fun, and I would go there again if I could. Once all 14 mini-golf-golfing-places-thingamabobs were done, we went to look at the sculptures. Us with our golf clubs Nice picture Funny picture! In the donut-looking thing With the horse Hanging with t...