Thinkin' about hamsters. Mine is at my Grandma's house since we will be at the Grand Canyon. I kinda want to kidnap him and brin him to the Grand Canyon in my pocket. Plus he's so fat he needs the exercise. His name is Pickle.

Why hello there! Sorry I haven't written in a while but we are going to the GRAND CANYON! So here are some fun facts.... FACTS....

~Scientists estimate that the Grand Canyon was formed 6 million years ago.

~The Grand Canyon is home to 88 types of mammals.

~Along the Southern rim are several structures built by Mary Jane Colter and are on the National Register of Historical Places.

~The oldest human artifacts were found in The Grand Canyon and are between 3,000 and 4,000 years old.

~The average width of The Grand Canyon is 10 miles and the lenght is 277 river miles long!

~900 years ago the Ancient pueblo peoples lived in The Grand Canyon.

Well I've been trying to find a winter coat for a long time, and I need help picking one. So here are pictures of the two I really want. Please vote!

Today's been good. I went with my mom and Dorothy to go eat bacon at Cracker Barrel with old people. I got chicken and corn. Very good. I realized my mom need a new facebook picture so I took care of that...... FLASHBACK.....

Mom: Helen, Why is there a camera in your armpit?
Helen: What this? OH..... I needed to keep it warm?
Mom: Helen! Your taking pictures!
Helen: Yay. Not of you though... I would NEVER do that since you don't need anymore facebook pictures or anything. Oooo! Look! Monkey! (Runs screaming.)

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I just finished a book called "The Hound of the Baskervilles." It's really good and I recommend it. Here's a summary...

Watson and Sherlock Holmes have stumbled on their greatest case yet. There has been a killing on the moor. The late Charles Baskervilles evidently has died of fright upon seeing the Dreaded Hound of the Baskervilles. Is the hound real? Who is the lone man living upon the moor? Who has been sneaking around Baskervilles Hall at night? Find out in "The Hound of the Baskervilles."

Well I just had my Birthday and it was awesome! I got this cool new camera That you can take pictures underwater with! ( I put some of the pictures below) Nothing else has really happened this week. School is pretty hard but still the same. The pool is almost warm enough to swim in too! Oh yeah! Well see you guys at church or somewhere else! Bye!

My mom said I needed to prove that I was really doing work in homeschool so here's what I'm doin gin every subject....

MATH: Same as people in school, Saxon Math.

SCIENCE: Scientific jobs

HISTORY: The Story Of The World. (its a book)

ENGLISH: Irregular verbs

READING: Pictures of Hollis Woods

Our trip to Mississippi is going great. Our first three days we were in Vicksburg and went to the most accurate battle ground in the world. We learned about the siege of Vicksburg during the Civil War.....

Then we took a sight seeing cruise on the Mississippi River. Lots of kids. Small Boat. Cramped.

Yesterday we saw a mansion called Longwood. Featured on HGTV. It was started before the Civil War and if it was completed, it would have been the most elaborate mansion in Natchez...(there's a bunch of them).

Now we are in Nachez and getting ready to go to a working cotton plant built in the 1800s. We are going to see how they harvested cotton long ago and compare it to how they do it now. Your T-shirt might be made from cotton grown at Frogmore Plantation.

Nothing is really happening today. We went to the dog haircut place to give kip, our dog, a haircut. Five words....HE-LOOKS-LIKE-A-GIRL. Anyway, yesterday my dad and I moved the tree house into the woods. You would not believe the effort it took to move that thing! I am freakin' sore! Finally we got it back there after renting a crane and a pair of elephants. Jk!

MISSOURI

Our trip to Missouri went awesome. Amazingly the R.V had no blow outs. OH YEAH! When we were in Pizza Hut(c) there were these vending machine things that are always in Wal-Mart(c) and in one of them there was alot of fake facial hair. As you might of guessed... I WAS ALL OVER IT. The lady at Pizza Hut(c) gave me a bunch of quarters and I bought like fifty of them! here is a picture of Clara in the Pizza Hut(c) parking lot....

Well nothings really happenin' here in the land of homeschooling. We just went to the do-it-yourself car wash and it was pretty much a fight-fest.....FLASHBACK....

DOROTHY: I am doing the water! ME!!!!
CLARA: Elvis died on a toilet!
DOROTHY: Give it to me! HELEN! stop spraying me and hand it over!
HELEN: Okay. Here I come.
DOROTHY: Helen! Mom! Helen won't give it to me!
CLARA: CCCCHHHHIIIICCCKKKEENNN!!!!

(Dorothy is spraying Helen)

MOM: Helen! I told you not to get wet! You're sleeping in the garage tonight!
HELEN: Not again....

Eureka Springs, Arkansas

Creepy rabbit in someone's front yard.

Me with the WORLD'S LARGEST BISCUIT.

Ridin' some ponies in hillbilly town.

Our fantastic home.

Me under a sign we couldn't pass up.

Well our trip to Arkansas was fabulous. We stayed in a house made 1860. It was an old hotel and was recently remodeled. We rented the whole thing! Here are some pictures of our trip....

Well I don't have anything

that's interesting so
here's a picture of me with

some plastic people....

Sticking toothpicks in my eyes.

Well I'm reading "The Red Badge of Courage" and reading it is like stickin' toothpicks in my eyes. Anyhow... here's my funny story of the day: BTW: this really happened....FLASHBACK....

Once upon a time, Helen and her sisters decided to go to Target because Dorothy had to use the restroom really bad. As they entered the store, Helen's eyes immediately went to the COOLEST SHIRT EVER. Helen pushed her siblings out of the way in order to reach and hug the shirt?
"Mom! This is the freakin awesomest shirt ever. Can I have it?"
"Yes, my most beloved child," my mother replied.
Helen says, "Yessssssssssssss!" Helen took the shirt off the hanger and ran to the checkout. There she was told that THIS WAS NOT A TARGET SHIRT. Some freak had pulled what they called a "switch" by taking their shirt off and putting on a Target shirt and then leaving their old shirt in the store!!!!
"What???? What freak would do that? And .....can I still have it?"
After some skillful negotiations with the "department manager," I GOT THE SHIRT FOR FREE!!!! ...and walked triumphantly out of the store.
So...now my mom is washing it 10 times and disinfecting it in case the previous owner had lice.

THE END.....look for me in a town near you....wearing a totally cool shirt with Africa and peace fingers on it.

CHORES

well today my day went kind of like this...FLASHBACK...

MOM: Helen! Get your hiney over here and pick up these clothes!
HELEN: Yes your Majesty.
MOM: What did you call me!?!??

(Upstairs watching T.V)

1st SISTER: Mom! Helen bit me and then threw me out the window!
HELEN: Dorothy, I'm all the way in the other room.
MOM: HELEN! You're grounded!
1st SISTER: WA HAHAHAHAHHAH!!!!
MOM: Oh yeah! HELEN! Go dig the dirt out of the pool while your sisters and I go to Disney World.

Just another day in the life of a homeschooler..

Clara's fabulous adventure to an R.V store...

I finished "Roll of Thunder, Here My Cry". It was really good. Now I am reading "Red Badge of Courage". It's hard to read but very interesting.Well it's pretty much spring here at the homeschool acadamy. I've been running around taking pictures of just about everything I can find. LOL. Here are some of my best pictures.

Today my dad is having a "fancy" business party. Uuuuugggghhhh.... here's an example of what it is going to be like: FLASH FORWARD.... (and here are some pictures of my parents working. By the way, the underwear say "world's largest source of natural gas."

PAUL: well hey there Jonathan. Stocks this quarter are going as expected.
JONATHAN: haha. Paul, you're such a jokerster! (chuckle chuckle)

PAUL: well you know, the apple doesn't fall far from the stock market.

HELEN: You guys are so weird. I'm gunnu watch "Nacho Libre" upstairs.

JONATHAN: you go right ahead my little business woman. (chuckle chuckle)

DANCE CLASS

Hey guys. I just finished making a picture of an ocean for science. I don't really know why I did it. I'm not even learning about oceans. Anyhow... today's my first dance class! It starts at 1:00 and i have an awesome outfit picked out for it: Bright yellow pants with hot pink tights under it and a Gunter t-shirt. OH YEAH! I'm gunnu be so stylish!!!

hey GUYS. HOMESCHOOLING IS GOING GREAT. WE WENT TO THE FRISCO LIBRARY AND I WILL HAVE VIDEOS OF OUR TRIP TO THE LIBRARY SHORTLY. ANYWAY, I'M FINISHING "ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY" JUST LIKE YOU GUYS. I WAS OUTSIDE A LOT TODAY PLAYING WITH THE DOGS, OSCAR AND SCOUT. SEE YOU GUYS SOON!

tHe hElEnAtOr!!!

YOUTH TONIGHT @ 6:30 (WEDNESDAY) !!!!! OLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL!!!! BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!!!

First Day of Homeschool.

Hey guys. We're going to that new pizza place in Prosper. Yumm... love it there. Anyway, today was my first day of homeschooling. It rocked! Math was a beat down in the first of the day because I did the wrong lesson and it was super hard. In science I'm learning about climate and stuff like that. SHOUT OUT TO ALL UNICORN LOVERS!!!

Hey guys. The flu is invading my house. Now I'mthe only one who doesn't have it. Yesssss! (thank you immune system!) Anyway.... I can't wait to start homeschooling tomorrow! It's going to be boring without you guys though.

Today we went to go look at some RVs. You wouldn't believe how cool they are! One of them had two sets of bunk beds and two bathrooms! OMG! We were looking at RVs because we want to take one on all of our FABULOUS trips. Speaking of trips, on spring break we are going to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. I have a picture above of this really cool church we went to while there last spring break. It's made of all glass and is right on the edge of a mountain!

Hey guys, this is Helen with a few words of wisdom. Alright, this is my new blog all about my crazy adventures while homeschooling. It includes all my vacations to different or exotic places and what going on on the way there. Miss you guys and I hope this helps you keep up with what I'm up to!!! :-)