10 Things About Me

Gracie asked me to say 10 facts about who I am so here I go:

1) I enjoy changing the flow of creeks by moving rocks around.

2) I am an omnivore

3) I have been to Legoland two times

4) I am going to save up my money with Maretta and buy a shop to sell toys made of bike parts.

5) I am on a swim team

6) Once I went to my grandparent's house on a plane by myself

7) My birthday is Christmas Day

8) I made $80 selling Otter Pops this past summer

9) We are about to go on a three month trip to Guatemala and Mexico

10) I drive my Mom crazy because when she takes me out in nature, I always seem to find something made by humans instead and focus on it.

More Photos and my Week

Snowy days. Gingerbread houses. Snow forts. Sledding. Bonfire parties. Bone books. Jumps. Friends. Fires. Buses. Shoveling. Christmas - I'm almost 8.

14 Inches of Snow!

The Weekly Pictures

Snowy Days

Do you like snowy days because I like snowy days. I like going sledding on the hill at the park down the street. I like riding my bike in the snow. When we were riding our bikes, we got about a block from the house and had to turn around and come back. The snow was in our eyes. I went inside and got my swim goggles to keep the snow out of my eyes. I like playing games inside with my brothers like rokenbok, hide and go seek, puzzles and other games like that. Phelan likes playing with his Carebears.

Physics Pro

If you look at the movie of the claw opening and closing, that comes from a pump that runs on water pressure. When one pump opens, the other pump opens connected by a tube that goes from one to the other. I built last night before I went to bed.

The Dog and the Jaguar

A dog and jaguar got on a bike. Then they rode and rode and rode until they got to Legoland. They saw a big giant lego guy. Then they started to go on rides like the jaguar ride. Then they forgot their food so they went back home and and got their food and ate it. Then it was nighttime so they went home.

By Phelan

Birthday Photos

This birthday party I invited eight kids. We played tag outside. I thought that was lot of fun. Every kid joined in. My presents were two Bionicles, a rock tumbler, a bike jersey, a Peanuts comic book, an airplane modeling set. My Mom painted my play room green, my Dad is going to make me a desk, My Grandma made me curtains, my Grandpa is making bookshelves and my other grandparents bought me a sorter so I can sort out my toys. I thought that was a really good present from them. Another one of the games we played was my Mom gave us a piece of paper that said a word on it. My word was tow truck so I built a tow truck. Each person built what was on their paper. Some of the other words were airplane, space ship, tractor and car. We made a comic book where each one of us had a page. Now we are going to make it into a comic book.

Letterboxes

A couple of days ago, I went letterboxing with my friends Gabe and Maretta. Their Mom printed out the directions on the computer to find the letterbox. We followed the directions until we came to one trail where it splits into three other trails. It said that Reedies (college students) don't usually chose the middle trail. We didn't go on that middle trail and we went a different trail. It said we had to pass three planks and six earthen risers. We couldn't figure out what six earthen risers were. It said that it was in the heart of a Y before six earthen risers. We looked all around and we couldn't find it. So we went back and chose the middle trail. We walked down that one and after three planks we found six earthen risers - which were steps! We found it in a log that was shaped like a Y, down in the middle of it where it was hollow.

A letterbox is a box that you hide out in the woods. Inside there is a book and a stamp. You follow directions to find it and when you find it you take the stamp in the box and stamp your book which is called a passport and then you take your stamp and stamp it in the book in the box. It's a lot like geocaching.

When I came home I made a letterbox to hide up on Powell Butte. I named my letterbox the crying tree because I'm hiding it near a crying tree which is a tree with sap dripping down it.

I LOVE LETTERBOXING

Cyclo Cross Race

Cycle cross racing is on the road and in the dirt and mud. The adult cycle cross race was 1.5 miles long. I rode on the whole entire course when they were all done racing for the day and taking it apart. I also got to race in the big kid's race. The kid's race is called the Kiddie Cross. I had a fun time at that place because there was a corn maze I got to go through and ride my bike off of jumps. My friends Christopher, Caleb, Elliot and my brother Phelan all came with us. There is a bonfire you can see on the movie with the jump on it. There was a bonfire because it was really cold that day.

What we Like to Do

Here are some things I like to do:

Swim, roller skate, mountain bike
Hike with friends
Read comic books like Tiny Tyrant and Casper
Draw, paint and do ceramics
Build inventions with my Dad like motorized skateboards
Play games like Gin Rummy and Uno
Play with my brother and my friends Asa, Isabel, Caleb, Maretta and Lucas

But mostly, I like to go on rides at Amusement Parks

My brother likes to:

Learn about bodies???
Play Carebears with Isabel
Go Outside
Play Speed Racer with Elliot
Anything to do with dinosaurs
Do paper mosaic art
Take pictures
Learn how to rollerskate

Do you know how to spin wool?

Spinning is pretty hard because the wool will break on you if the string is too long. I learned with my friend Connie with a drop spindle. I made the spindle myself. I took a long stick and put a wheel on it and a hook on one end. First you take yarn and practice spinning it back and forth. Then you use these brushes to make all of the alpace fur go in the same direction. Then you then wind that up into big chunks that you take strips of and wind into yarn.




Un sol is money. Notice in the movie she is asking for un sol. She is asking for un sol because she wants money for her picture being taken. My Mom told me because she's been there. It's in Peru where the deepest canyon is called the Colca Canyon. My Mom told me she hiked to the bottom with my Dad, spent the night and the next morning hiked up. Notice she is also spinning alpaca wool like me.

My photography from the Old Days

I used to do photography and these are some of my photos.

The Weekly Photos at Bridal Veil Falls

My Brother Phelan

Halloween 2008

I'm Ritchie Rich and this is my dog, Dollar.

My past Halloween Costumes

My race track

I got the idea to build this track from when I went to my friend Christopher's house. We made the same thing but out of sand. When I got home, I just started building this. I started by gluing a bunch of pieces of scrap wood together. Then I made the track out of chopsticks. I made one tunnel that didn't work. I had to take that apart and build a different one. The tunnel fell apart because I didn't have any supports. It just kind of collapsed. I also put clay on it to make a mountain and that was what made the tunnel collapse. It was too heavy. I took the clay off and then put supports next to it that I'm going to glue the top of the tunnel too. Then I'll add the clay again to make it look like a tunnel going through a mountain. A river and a bridge is also on it. I made a suspension bridge with triangle supports. All that I have left to do is fix the tunnel, put the clay back on top and paint it. I might make some trees and add those.

Pumpkins

The pumpkins that you see in the picture, my brother and I carved last night. the one with three yes is supposed to be an alien. I carved it myself. I also carved a little one myself.

Our trip to the Seattle Zoo

This was our trip to the Seattle Zoo. If you have been, I hope you have seen the Red Panda. It is the cutest. There is a Zoomasium which is a place you get to play around with a slide, rocks and a cave that you can go through. There is even a place for littler kids to play. There is a tree that you can climb all the way to the top. There were lots of really cool animals that I have never seen before such as the Red Panda, Jaguar, Gorillas, Toucans and a Lion.

As you can see from the pictures there is a baby gorilla. The day we went it turned one year old. One of the gorillas was throwing up and then eating it. The zookeeper said it was a bad habit. It was really gross. The girl next to us said that it had done it 10 times while they were there.