Riddles...

Q #1:
What kind of coat can only be put on when wet?
Q #2:
What letter comes next in this sequence?
J F M A M J J A S O _
Q#3:
What's full of holes but still holds water?
Q#4:
What building has the most stories?
Q#5:
Why is an island like the letter T?
Q#6:
Pronounced as one letter,
And written with three.
Two letters there are,
And two only in me.
I'm double, I'm single.
I'm black, blue, and gray.
I'm read from both ends,
And the same either way.
What am I?

If you want to guess or answer these questions, please click "comments" and write a comment. :-)
Thanks!

The Play, Dwarf Hamsters, and Fun Facts

Hi! :-)

THE PLAY...

So...Moriah, Brooke and me, all had an audition for a play called "Modern Millie" for a school play on Monday afternoon. We had to sing a song and read a script, not to hard, but I was really nervous!
Luckily, we all made it in! We are all 'Female Moderns'...

DWARF HAMSTERS...

So last weekend, we (that's Brooke, Marijke and me) went to PET SMART and got "Fancy Dwarf Hamsters".
Moriah got a "Chinese Dwarf Hamster" at TONI'S TROPICAL PETS..her name is MayFlower. May for short. She acts normal.
Then, Brooke's is MaryGold (Probably Mary for short). She is so calm!
Marijke's is Lou...Lou for short. :-) She acts normal too.
Next comes Skitts. Mine. Skitts is normal...ish. She is so wild! Anyway, 'Skitts' is short for SKITTLES. Yumm! :-) Don't worry, I won't eat her.

FUN FACTS...

* A 'neologist' is someone who makes up new word or expressions.
* Camels have 3 eyelids to protect their eyes from blowing sand.
* Golf balls were originally made from wood. Later, they were made of leather and stuffed with feathers.
* When glass breaks, the cracks can move faster than 3,000 miles per 5,000 km per hour ( I think that's pretty fast)
* "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

Trick or Treat!

BOO!!!

From left to right:
Haley's, Brooke's, Moriah's, Case's, and Marijke's.

Case's bday!

Yesterday, we had a "birthday party" for Case!
He got:
tractors
lightning mcqueen cake
magazine full of trucks and tractors
3 little towns with cars and people with them
and a bunch of "Cars"" ( the movie ) things.

He LOVED it.

He said "Ahh! I lub dem!

It was fun!

Ok...sorry I haven't been updating in a long time. Here's some more fun facts though:

* There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia (approx. 40 million ) as there are people.
*"Almost" is the longest common word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
*Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

Historical Happenings...

An acient Greek vase from around 500 BC shows a boy playing with a yo-yo!
This was also found in my school agenda...

As you see...I changed my blog background! Yay! I will change it every season or every month. :)
If you want to write a comment { :) } please press '0 comments' and then you can write a comment! Thank you!...

Facts...

These are facts that I have found in my school agenda:

* Everything you can do with a ruler and a compass you xan do with a compass alone.
*The number symbol,#, is also known as an "octothorpe".
*Cats sleep twice as much as people-up to 18 hours per day.

I will try to have new ones every week or so...

school netbook...

Awesome! I am on a sweet net book in study hall...I thought it would be worse-way worse than this Everyone in here gets to use one and sometime in the school year we are going to use mac! Then the 7Th graders are going to use these net books.
School itself is alright. That's my answer to almost anything :)
I love net books, they are more than 'OK'.

The Answer:

The answer to the Question of the Week is....manatees.

Question of the week :)

A marshy wetland is teeming with wildlife. According to legend, which of its many animals did early sailors mistake for mermaids?

A. Pythons

B.Crocodiles

C. Manatees

D. Turtles

If you know the answer...please click on 'comment' below and write a comment.

Thanks!

Bet you didn't know

* A lighting storm on Saturn was nearly bug enough to cover the United States.

* The north pole of Uranus doesn't get sunlight for almost 42 years at a time.

* Bees can be green, blue or red. {But not yellow :) }

* The earth spins so fast, that someone standing at the equator would be traveling at about 1,000 miles an hour.

* 321 is the area code for where the space shuttle blasts off in Florida.

* Humans can make 10,000 facial expressions.

* Scientists believe that Saturn's rings will eventually disappear.

* Some fish can change from female to male.

* More dinosaurs have been found in North America than anywhere else.

* The horned dinosaur - Dracoret Hogwartsa was named after Hogwarts, Harry Potter's school.

* Bolts of lighting can shoot out of an erupting volcano.

* A slinky could stretch from a 6th floor window to the ground.

* Rainbow-colored grasshoppers live in in rain forests of Peru.

Weird but True

* When you haved lives for 2.4 billon seconds, you will be 75 years old.
* A zeposecond is one-billionth of a trillionth second.
* If you continued to grow as fast as an average baby, you'd weigh about 413,000 pounds by age 10.

Just Laughs

* Women: Can I have a dog for my daughter?
Pet Store Owner: We don't make trades.

* What's the difference between a train and a teacher?
A train says 'Choo, choo.'
And a teacher says "Spit out your gum!"

WOW...

God's son is known by more than 100 names. Nobody in history has as many names as Jesus.
Here's 13 of them:
1.Jesus
2.Ruler
3.Son of God
4.Shepperd
5.Immanuel
6.Gate
7.Son of the Most High
8.Vine
9.Christ and Savior
10.Bread of Life
11.Light of the World
12.Way, Truth, Life
13.Resurrection and the Light

Does God Really Love You?

I also found this in a 'Focus on the Family' magazine. Its by a girl also named Haley! But her last name starts with a D so. Anyway, here it is:

DOES GOD REALLY LOVE YOU?

Does God Really Love You?

How do you know?

Where is it written?

Where does it show?

It is written in the Bible,

God's Holy Word.

He died on the Cross for us.

Here you see, He is able.

Now you decied:

Where is it written?

Where does it show?

Does God really love you?

And now you shall now!

Good Bible Verses...

Here are some bible verses that I found in a magazine:

Deuteronomy 30:19

"I have set you life and death, blessings and curses. Now chose life, so that you and your children may live."

1 Timothy 6:19

"Take hold of the life that is truly life."

Mark 11:22-24

" ' Have faith in God' Jesus answered. 'I tell you the truth, if anyone says go to this mountain, " Go into the sea," and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore, I tell you whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.' "

Outrageus Facts

DID YOU KNOW...

* The planet Mercury is mostly made of iron.

* Q is the only letter not found in a states name.

* The first person arrested for speeding in the United States was driving 12 miles an hour in 1899.

* There are 31,556,926 seconds in a year.

* Its impossible to see a full rainbow in the sky at noon.

* Astronaunt Neil Armstrong left his space boots on the moon.

* Food passes through the gaint squid's brain on the way to its stomach.

* Every zebra's strip pattern is unique - like your own fingerprints.

* The fastest wind speed ever record is 318 miles an hour and that happened during a tornado near Oklahoma City in 1999.

things that have been going on...

Marijke!!

Well....on the 9th of August, we went to the Cedar Rapids Airport and waited for Marijke's plan to land. Well, it wasn't quite the 20min. wait that we planned for it to be. Apparently her fight was delayed for over an hour long wait...

Colorado Trip!!

two days after Marijke came-so the 9th-we went to Colorado to see my aunt and uncle-plus their dog :)-and the beautiful mountains. on the way there, we got stuck in construction. So...instead of a 12 hour drive...it was a 14 hour drive. Yippie. We spent 1 night at our relatives , and 5 or 6 nights at a friends condo near a beautiful, huge mountain. After a couple nights, they came over to go on a 12 mile bike ride with us. That was awesome! Ugh. We went 6 miles, stopped and ate lunch, and then the 6 miles back. Now my least favorite word is UP.

Moriah's and my Birthday...

Our birthday is on the 19th! Yay! We are having a 3 hour party with 5 friends.

Uncles Wedding

Our uncle is getting married on the 21st! We are heading up there the 20th and spending 2 nights at a hotel.

School

School is coming up.

Spring Valley Bilble Camp

Hi!!
About tree hours ago...Moriah and I got back from a great week at Spring Valley Bible Camp. On Sunday around three o'clock we arrived. We were in the 7th and 8th group, just to let you know. On Tuesday-Friday, here was our schedule:


7am Wake Up
7:50am Flag Raising
8am Breakfast
8:30am Cabin Clean-Up
9am Chapel & Devotions
10:30am Sports & Games
11:45am Free Time
12pm Lunch
1pm Activities
2pm Free Time/Swimming/Canteen
5pm Dinner
6:30pm All Camp Activities
8pm Free Time/Canteen
9pm Chapel
10pm Cabins
10:30pm Lights Out


I don't remember what's at 11pm, but that;s probably because I was asleep.:)
On Friday morning we got picked up at 9am.
On Thursday night at chapel, we had an emotional night, everyone was crying and sniffing and about half of the people got saved!!
All together, it was a great week with my friend at camp, and a great week with Jesus Christ.