Adoption

We got our travel dates and the boys birthdays.  Boy1 is October 1st and boy 2 is February 2 or 3. we are going to Ethiopia on the 16th and coming back on the 26th. i am very excited. 

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catching up

Wow have I been busy. I have not written in a long time so let me bring you up to date.
1st we got our referral and passed court the second time last Friday.
2nd I am going to Ethiopia. I am sooooo excited.
3rd I have been SO exhausted.
That's about it.
We are getting two boys from Ethiopia. I am going to nickname them Sir Kemry, 4 yrs and Dar, 11 months.
Busy busy busy. Have to go.

Todays a wonderful day!

I don't know why but today is absolutely glorious. I just feel so happy, so today I am going to have some fun. I am going to look up some fun facts and post them. So heres the first one...
During World War II the U.S. government used 260 million pounds of instant coffee.

Fifteen people are known to have been crushed to death tilting vending machines towards them in the hope of a free can of soda.

One of the largest carriers of hepitius B is diner mints.

One plain milk chocolate candy bar has more protein than a banana.

Some large clouds store enough water for 500000 showers

Wedding cake was originally thrown at the bride and groom, instead of eaten by them.

In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured

My favorite would have to be the Bannana and Chocolate one though I don't know haw true it is. Gotta go!

Have not written in a long time!

Dance recital went awesome except for elementary tap and Deena's jazz. i helped a little girl quick change because she had no dances in between her jazz and ballet. i helped Leetu with her quick changes, she had about 3. that was a long time ago though so i will tell you all that's happened. I went to new york city to the museum of natural history it was fun. I also finished my math which was the last of my school work. that's about it. oh and my dog Nancy eats grubs, seriously she will dig until she finds one and then eats it.

Well I have good news, good news, and bad news. I finally got my cast off!!!!!!!!! :-) I am sooooo happy. The bad is I can't run jump play ETC for another three weeks! oh well at least it is off. the other good news i had was, i went to my fist sleep away camp and IT WAS AWESOME!!!! it is camp Kimball and we did orienteering compass archaeological dig, preditor prey. you get the idea. have to do school now. :-)

My Garden

This Summer I am going to have a garden. i want to have a herb/flower garden.

In my garden I want to have

• Buttercups
• Chamomile
• Crocus
• Fennel
• Forget-Me-Not
• Kingcup
• Ladies Smock
• Lavender
• Lemon Basil
• Monarda
• Pansy
• Peppermint
• Primrose
• Rose
• Prunella/Self-Heal
• Sweet Pea
• Wallflower
• Zinnia

I am not sure if I can have all of these with the climate here but I will find out.

30 Hour Famine

Hey! Haven't written in a LONG time haven't I. I am doing this project to help hungry children in Southern Africa.
Have you ever gone to the refrigerator and found it completely empty, like you just bought its from sears. How about every day your hungry and you go to the refrigerator and find its empty, not a crumb left, day after day. some children eat mud cookies and pies, not the one you see in show of little brothers annoying his older sister with it. The kind of you get it wet, form it, and them eat it, thats how desparete they are. i have always wanted to change the world, now i can do it... One child at a time.
Facts

• 1 doller will feed a child for a whole day!
• 30 dollers will feed a child for a whole month!
• a child dies every 7 seconds, most from preventible things like hunger, and lack of medicine.

I have a goal set for how much money I want to raise. I want to raise $720 to feed 2 children for a year. its a lot but nothing is impossible.

check out 30hourfamine.org to learn more.

What I Want To Do This Summer

That is a very hard question, because i don't know what i want to do this summer! i could do practically anything! i will probably go camping, dancing and figuring out what to do. i get very bored during the summer! i read about a million books and thats about it.

Interview of Me

OK since you know very little about me i interviewed myself so you can get to know me and my personality

Q. in America just about everyone is originally from somewhere else. what country's are your family's foots in?
A. Scotland, Ireland, native America, and Canada.
Q. If you could pick a theme song for yourself what would it be?
A. In Your Hands by Krystal Meyers
Q. imagine you have the gift of being able to talk to animals. what animal what you talk to and what would you talk about?
A. my dog Nancy, i would just talk about whats up
Q. If you won airline tickets to any where in the world, where would you go?
A. Ethiopia!
Q. Pretend you have the opportunity to travel in time would you go forward or backward? what would life in America be like then?
A. i would go to England in the middle ages.
Q. Which would you rather give up for a week: the TV, the computer, or the phone?
A. the TV since i love playing on the computer and i would hate to have my own phone taken away from me. plus i don't watch TV that much.
Q. If you were to write a book would it be fiction or non-fiction? what would be the topic? the title?
A. i would write a fiction book. it would be around middle ages with magic and wizards and ETC. the title would be
The Tales of Ocrator (oc-ra-tor)
Q. Imagine you are on a decorating show and the most says you can do anything you want to your room. name the three biggest changes you would make to your room.
A. the three biggest changes would be
1. a connected HUGE porch.
2. a BIG built in jacuse on the HUGE porch.
3. a Olympic size pool next to the HUGE porch with the HUGE jacuse.

there is nothing to talk about

since there is nothing to talk about i will give you my book report
book report of dragon quest.
By Katie Hiatt

Dragon Quest by Donita K. Paul is a very good book. It takes place in an imaginary place called Amara. It is in around medieval time. It has dragons, wizards, ect. I like the dragons, they are cool.

Kale is the main character, but there are a lot more important characters in Dragon Quest. Kale is a wizard-in-training and the dragon keeper. She found eight dragon eggs Four of the eggs have hatched. They are Ardeo, a light dragon, Metta, a singing dragon, Gymn, a healing dragon, and Dibl, a dragon of laughter. Bardon is a Lehman at the hall, he is very quiet. Wizard Fenwourth is an ancient wizard, he is VERY enthusiastic. Wizard cam is Fenwourth cousin, he is very gentle. Dragon Quest has two good guys and two bad guys, the good are Wulder and Paladin and the bad are Risto and Pretender. I like the character Kale the best.

In Dragon Quest Kale is going to start her apprenticeship at wizard Fenwourth castle. While kale libborwit and Bardon are about to leave the city gets attacked by creemoor spiders. Kale gets poisoned and wakes up to find Regidor, a meech dragon at her side. Kale and her comrades decide to find out what is happening at creemoor. While they are there they will rescue kales mother who left Kale as a baby in a poor marione town. They get word of a meech leading the dragons away to Risto. Kale and some of her questing party go to go stop the dragons. They fall right into the hands of wizard Risto. Kales mother, Lyll and Fenwourth's cousin, cam of the lakes get turned to stone it’s up to kale to stop Ristos forces from winning, then wizard Fenwourth comes up and Risto forgets all about Kale, Kale sees her chance and helps Fenwourth defeat Risto by magic. The ending is very good.

Dragon Quest has a lot of allegorical elements of good and evil but it is not exactly an allegory. Dragon Quest is about the gifts Wulder gave the characters, and how the characters learn how to use them.

I loved this book. it is a very well written. It is very long, and I like that. I also like how Donita and took Satan made a character out of him and the same with God and Jesus. If you like long fantasy books, or you liked the chronicles of Narnia you would definitely love this book.

"practically perfect" day

oh i love citys!!!! i went to new york city this week and got to see mary poppins on BROADWAY!!! we drove past the new york times where i hope to work someday. then when were driving to get some dinner at this fab restaurant i got THE BEST NEWS OF MY LIFE! (please note that all i say is true) i got INVITED to our dances studios dance company!!!! most of you who don't know me this is a dream come true. in a company show you learn about 4 dances not including my other dances. we get our own show and then we go off to competitions. it was really a "practically perfect in every way" day!

STUCK!

ach! i am stuck in the airport with a very bad attitude! i have been here scince two, WAS soposed to leave at 4 and am stuck here until 6! i am very cranky. anybody have ANY ideas about what to do please comment on this. I AM BORED TO DEATH!!!!!!!!!!!! i feel as if i am a fire dragon- a very nice one- about to burst.

noooo!!!!!

okay you know what i said yesterday and now i have only four words to say... I BROKE MY FOOT!!!!!! OK maybe a lot more than four but, i broke it clean through, on my right foot outside tarsal. i have a bright pink cast and i CAN NOT DANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i have a dance recital in two months so i won't be able to do that. i am devastated. we are hoping it heals without surgery. i am going to get crutches today! yeah its that bad. well have to finish school.
broken footed kale signing out.

ouch!

yesterday i went to this church program called SWAT and we had i race, i jumped down three stairs landed my full weight on my feet and my foot twisted to the side. now even though it is not a emergency, i am going to go to the emergency room for X-rays, haven't had those since i was a baby! well it has a big lump on the side of my foot and today i have dance, but i can't even point my foot. i am just going to go to watch to see what they add onto the dance we are doing.

still not a lot to say

We Won
btw: i really do have a dog named nancy though she hurt her leg as a puppy and can not do agility By Kale Allerion
One morning, Kale Allerion, woke up to see her dog Nancy in her bed and her friend Leetu in the next bed. She wondered why they were in a hotel. Then she remembered. Nancy was in the National Agility Course in Goleta, CA! If she would win and become a champion her parents will finally let her breed her. If? …”I hope she wins”, she thought out loud. Then she looked at a picture she always keeps next to her bed. It was Nancy as a puppy at 8 weeks. She was doing tricks in the first week she got her and she knew then she would be a champion one day. She has worked hard all year for this day to come so she can prove she is the best agility dog in the country. Now Nancy and Kale were up and ready to go. She really wanted her to win.

Kale was nervous - really nervous. So many people were there to watch, what if Nancy forgot ……another dog did the run through and now it was Nancy’s turn. Oh there was the collapse tunnel. Since day 1 this has been the worst. Oh no a point deduction.

“Look Leetu, Nancy’s in second place in only the first round, and only 2 seconds short.” Kale said. Kale had to wait and watch 10 other dogs. Kale daydreamed about how many hours she had worked day and night, dry and wet. All the effort she put in to be here this day.

During the second round Kale could not believe it – Nancy was tied for 1st place! Leetu asks Kale if she wanted a drink. “No”, Kale said, “I am too nervous to drink.” Kale stayed and watched. The other dog looked hard to beat and the owner looked like this was competition. ‘Well’ Leetu said with that hungry kind of look “during the break do you want anything?” “Sure” Kale said, “My nerves are much calmer now, I will have a root beer and nachos.”

“Oh my goodness, we won! We did it!” Kale yelled. “We came in first place by 5 seconds.” Kale raced to Nancy and whispered, “We did it. We won 1st place.” Then Kale saw the prize - $100,000.99, a trophy, and medal. Kale thought this was the best day of her life. Kale said to Leetu, “I’m glad you came to see my dream come to life.”

the greedy cobbeler

i have nothing interesting to say but here is a paper i wrote for school.


The Greedy Cobbler
By Katie Hiatt

Once upon a time the elf Casper was walking with his brother Malici along the main road in the town Ocrator (oc-ra-tor) when they happened to notice that inside a shoemakers shop was a shoemaker and his wife weeping. Malici said “We have not had an adventure in a long time. Why not see if we can help these people?”

So the brothers quietly slipped into the shop and listened closely. “Oh Bessie, we only have enough leather for one more pair of shoes.” sighed Grimmson, “We will have nothing to eat by tomorrow. What shall we do?”

Bessie put her hand on Grimmson’s shoulder, patted it softly and said “My dear husband, the Lord has always provided enough for us, do not fret and go to sleep.” As the couple set off to the bedroom leaving the leather scraps on the table. Casper and Malici quickly went to work making the most beautiful and comfortable pair of shoes. They sang and whistled while they worked and were finished before sunrise. Casper told his brother, “We shall see what the morning brings to this sad couple. Quick, hide behind the sofa.”

Elizabeth awoke early and set about making breakfast when she glanced at the cobbler’s workbench. She gasped, “Grimmson, come quickly!” Her husband ran from the bedroom and saw his wife holding the beautifully crafted shoes. She said, “The Lord has provided and we should be thankful.” But Grimmson only took the shoes and placed them in the window wondering how they were made and why.

The shoes were sold that morning and gave them enough money to buy more leather and some food. After dinner Grimmson set out the leather and again the couple went to bed.

Malici and Casper had been resting all day and at sunset woke to new leather on the workbench. This time they were able to make three pairs of shoes by sunrise. Casper sighed when the work was complete, “I hope the cobbler is grateful for the work we have done.”

The next morning, Elizabeth woke early to find three pairs of wonderful shoes on the cobbler’s workbench. She quickly woke up Grimmson, “The Lord has provided for us again.” But Grimmson was neither impressed nor thankful. That evening after the shoes were sold and more leather purchased, a plan being to form in his mind. He thought if he stayed up all night he would see who was sneaking in his workshop.

The next morning, Elizabeth found Grimmson at his workbench with sketches of two elves. Elizabeth said, “Why you are drawing silly pictures?”

Grimmson replied, “I stayed up all night and at the stroke of midnight, two elves appeared from behind the couch and began to make shoes.”

That afternoon, Grimmson thought of a plan to capture the two little elves. He drew some sketches and set a trap. Grimmson whispered to Elizabeth at dinner, “We shall capture those elves tonight and we will never have to worry about money ever again.” Elizabeth was not paying attention to Grimmson as he spoke and did not understand the elves were in danger. The couple went to bed early.

Casper, quietly spoke to Malici, “We have had our adventure and we must move on from here. Grimmson is neither grateful nor a true friend.” The two brothers slipped outside and were never seen in Ocrator again.

Can you guess what this story was based on?

What Would I do With Million Dollars

“Wow” I exclaimed, “1 million dollars!” “Yes” the person on the phone said “ you just won The Million Dollar Lottery for kids ©. I will transfer it to your bank account personally.” “Okay” I said not really believing it. So it leads to the beginning of a very exciting story.

The first thing I did was go to the bank to check my account. When I got there I received cheers and congratulations ( I guess I am the first person In their bank to win the lottery). So I took out 100.00 and went to the mall to go get some cute outfits (I got a green sweatshirt with gold trimming and some sweat pants to match). I had a really great time but as everybody knows, all good things must end… well almost all things, so I went home.

When I got home I said to my parents “our prayers have been answered. I won The Million Dollar Lottery for kids ©. Now our whole family can go to Ethiopia. So we set aside the money, the whole while they were crying and praying and crying again. So when I finally got away though I did very reluctantly, I went to my sisters to see if they wanted to go to the mall.

When I went upstairs and asked them they jumped up and down for joy. We went to the mall and went to four stores, first we went to Claire's and got 12 pairs of earrings, second we went to aeropostale and got each of us two outfits, then we went to icing and got necklaces to match, and last but DEFINITELY NOT LEAST the electronic store, there we each got a I-Pod nano and a lap top, and N'rae and I got a Nintendo DS and 7 games each and since Toopka has a Nintendo DS she got 10 games instead. As you can guess I had spent more then 100.00 so I think I went back to the bank on my way home from my first trip to the mall.

When I dropped my sisters off at our house I asked my best friend Leetu if she wanted to go to the mall for lunch and some shopping she said yes and so we went to the California Pizza Kitchen. After that we went to aeropostale, pacsun, the electronic store where I got me a camera, and her a I-Pod nano, and then we went to dippin’ dots for a treat. Then her mom called and said she had to come home for dinner. So I dropped her off at her house, and I went home.

I went Strait on to the computer to get some renaissance/middle ages clothes with lots of accessories and dresses. i told them to do 5 minute shipping so we could go to a renaissance fair! my family and i had so much fun, and i bought them each a outfit! i had this beautiful green long hunting dress with a matching surcoat to match! i looked so beautiful. but eventually we went home.

When I got home I told my parents “guess where we are going to tonight? SUSHI!” so we went to dinner at our favorite sushi restaurant. At the restaurant I said “momma here is the money to buy our house, build a extension, build a barn, get everybody a horse, get enough hay for 45 years, and tack for everybody. We stuffed ourselves until we felt we were almost going to burst… because I told them we are going to cold stone, our favorite ice cream restaurant. So after that stuffing fest we went home and went to sleep.

When I woke up in the morning I looked up how much money I had (on my new lap top) guess what… I had spent it all.

13th century menu uck and yum

13th century menu

DINNER

Stuffed Peacock
Beef Roast
Pigeon
Stuffed pigs stomach w/ eggs
Potted Beef w/ nutmeg
Glazed Eggs
Eel Pie
Beef stew
Roast venison
swan pie
potted crane stuffed lark pie

DESSERT

candied figs
dried apples
almond cream
cake
peach wafers
bordanut cheese
pear wafers

clothing

haven't written in a long time

Clothing in the 13th century
I love to shop! If I had a million dollars I would go shopping three times a day, but I was thinking what clothes I would buy? I would buy lots of modern clothes from aéropostale, but also renaissance clothes! Oh, if I could have lived in the middle ages as a princess I would have been content but no I have to live with TVs and radios when I could be rid of that STUFF in the middle ages. I took much longer to make ONE dress in the Middle Ages though, and guess what, Singer had not been born yet so the sewing machine did not exist. That made it very hard for people to sew with tiny stitches and lots of other things. First they would cut the pieces out of cloth, and then they would dye it with the colors they wanted. they would sew the pieces together and then make some last adjustments if needed and then they would sell them.

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ZZZ ZZZ okay school now
would i have liked to live in 1820
omg i would on certain exceptions. my favorite times are the middle ages so why wouldn't I. but i won't discuss that much anymore. i would've liked to live in the 1820's because i want to see what it would be like, i like to read about that time period and i would like to see the truth, that may never happen but i would sure like it. share your comments on this topic please i want to see what every body else thinks.
i got sick this weekend and so did leetu, she went to the hospital and it ruined her vacation (she was on vacation.)

Not a Lot To Say Today

hello everyone

there is not a lot to say today but i will give you my horse paragraph

Horses
By Katie Hiatt

I have always wanted a horse. Horses are fun, horses are cool, and horses are Expensive! For the first year you have a horse you will have a little bit of… well a lot of extra costs, for example curry combs, halter, and saddles. All the grooming supplies cost about 75 dollars all together. Vet expenses cost about 300 per horse and year but your horse could get sick unnoticeably and the cost to fix your horse could be very expensive so it is best to have about 14,000 dollars extra just in case. Then there would be the Ferrier. Ferrier expenses get more expensive if you add horseshoes. Without horseshoes it is usually around 175. Horses eat hay and grain. One horse usually goes through a half a bale of hay and 3 lbs of grain per day! The approximant costs of this would be 680 per year. Some common illnesses cost a lot like colicing cost a lot but sometimes it still dies. Some of the most common horse illnesses
Colicing -which is the most deadly disease that a horse can get there is a cure but sometimes it does not work.
West Nile virus- this disease is not very serious but very common.
And Monday morning disease- Monday morning disease weakens the leg muscles, but not as serious as colicing. One of those would cost around 10,000 dollars. For the total of the first year of owning a horse it would be around 18,709 dollars. I could not afford to feed and keep a horse by myself in fact my parents couldn’t either cause if they could we each would have our very own horse already if we had a place to put them, so I will just stick with dancing.

please note: I want you to know that i am going to use nicknames for my friends & Family from the Dragon Keeper Chronicles. example my real name is not Kale that is just my nickname.

Medicine and Me

today I will be writing about medicines.
modern medicines and past medicines
in Renaissance times people would use different medicines to do different things. to treat ale head they would use peony root to soothe the pain, now a days we just grab Tylenol, also if they had a rash they would treat it with goose grease (ewww). when they were infested with boils and blotches they would use oil of bay. all of those things we could treat just going to CVS and getting some medicine. medicine has come a long way in such a short time... the end

yeah know i get to talk about some other things, well i have not really described me so i will do that
interests: school, writing playing on the computer,
favorite things to do: read dance
what dances: hip hop, ballet, and lyrical.
favorite books: the dragon keeper chronicles.
i love: books, my Cd's, my family, my friends, my house specifically my bedroom, my dog, my phone and last but most inportant (drum roll please) GOD
i hate: spinach but i have to eat it anyway, mushrooms-now these i don't have to eat- annoying books, when my dance get thretend, and i am sure i missing some things but oh well.
ttfn
(it means ta ta for now me and my friend leetu made it up)
please note that all names i use are nicknames from the dragon keeper chronicles that fit my friends.

Lot to talk about

Today is the last day for like a month I will be able to write about my day and things that have happened. The rest of the month of February I will be writing about Catherine Called Birdy, so I will have a lot to say today. Last night the snow finally got the better of my phone, the screen turned white and everything. Thankfully we have insurance on that so I have another phone on the way with the same number and everything. also I finished a book trilogy, called the door within. It is so good. On top of that I found out that my two favorite authors have blogs! Donita K Paul has a blog named Dragon Bloggin' and my other favorite author Wayne Tomas Batson - who is the author of the trilogy I just read- has one called Enter the Door Within. also two nights ago I jammed my finger into my hand like the basketball players jam their fingers into the basket ball well let me just tell you it hurts alot... trust me on this you don't want me going into full deatail. theres more though I have TWO tests on Monday... one on Asia-geography and one on the skeleton system-science. wish me luck... Corpus Bones!

The Orgion of Corpus Bones

WOW!!!!!! Okay I have to do this thing for school, and for those of you who don't know me I am home schooled. I am reading this book called Catherine Called Birdie and I have to blog about certain subjects. so here goes...
THE ORIGIN OF "CORPUS BONES"
In the middle ages people would say Corpus Bones as a way of saying oh my gosh or darn. Corpus means 'body' in Latin. so they are really saying as translated in english Body Bones.

Panda Paper

Well what does everybody think of my panda paper, bet you did not know some of the stuff in here... well maybe you did.

giant pandas and red pandas

by katie hiatt
There are two animals called a panda that scientists originally thought belonged to the same family. The Red Pandas and Giant Pandas share some of the same characteristics. Recently they have discovered through DNA tests that the Red Panda and Giant Panda actually belong to two different families. The Giant Panda belongs to the Ursidae family, which is the family that all bears belong. The Red Panda belongs to its own unique family called Ailurdae.
The Giant Panda weighs 154 - 275 lb. Giant Pandas live in mountain forests of China where there is lots of bamboo for them to eat. Giant Pandas are endangered right now. Poaching used to be a problem but now the pandas are not hunted anymore. A Giant Panda eats mostly bamboo. Bamboo is 99% of a giant panda’s diet. Another problem for pandas is the decline in bamboo. Giant Pandas do not hibernate they go south for the winter to try and stay warm. Giant Pandas usually tend to keep to themselves.
Red Pandas are very unique. They look a lot like raccoons. They live in the mountain regions of Asia. Red pandas are endangered. Red pandas are most active at dawn and dusk. Their diet consists of mostly bamboo, but they also eat grasses, mushrooms, and acorns. Red Pandas are about 30 to 60 inches long and 3-6 lb. Scientists and environmentalists are working to keep the panda population from decreasing any further. They have made progress but more work needs to be done to make sure pandas continue to exist in this world.

Phone Story

Two weeks ago Saturday afternoon I was playing in the yard when our neighbors across the street asked us to come over, so when we got back I realized the phone I got for Christmas was not in my bedroom. I looked the house over three times and when I finished still no phone, and if you had a rumor lg you would be so upset, just like I was. The next day after church we had a phone call from our neighbors they found my phone in the snow I sadly went over to they’re house when I got there got my phone and I tested it and it worked. When I heard how it was found I gasped, our neighbors found it right before they ran over it with a snow blower! I am so relieved.

Homework

Last night I was checking my homework to make sure I had it all and I am sooo glad I checked, i had to create a book mark about a dog, AND finish a paragraph. so I am at school now and i turned ALL my homework in.