Starting Etsy

     So recently I have stared my own business on Esty selling needle felted creations of mine. My shop's name is TatorbugsCrafts and so far I have 7 listings. Nothing has sold yet, but i have over 50 views. My favorite listing of mine so far is the 4 acorns. I made them with my mom's cousin, Chelsea, and it was so fun! I hope eventually someone will find my shop and buy something.

OPC

I just got back from OPC (my milatary camp) it was awesome! My favorite two councilors were Willow and Ozzi. I really liked being out in nature and no worries about my Hay Day farm. While I was gone I got invited to my best friends house for her birthday party and a hike with her, her dad, my dad, and I. The hip is up by Wallowa Lake, OR for 1 day! Can't WAIT!!!!!!

     At OPC there was a TON of mushrooms hidden in stuff like spaghetti and lasagna, but I ate it anyway. On the first day I was doing a front flip and landed on my back everyone laughed exept one. I was able to do twenty five push-ups in the milatary vests (with out the bulletproof part in) and helmet. Over all it added at the most ten pounds more than my normal weight. This year the therapist guy was different... In a good way. He asked for only positive stuff and what our school has done to support our family (my answer NOTHING) so he was cool. My ABSOLUTE FAVORITE part of OPC only my cabin got to do was...... Ride in the humvees!! This year the movie we watched was Big Hero 6 I fell asleep in th beginning of the movie like usual. In my cabins skit we did a mystery of a missing toy dog that someone stole. It was awesome!!! We probably got the most laughs. On the second to last night we went on a night hike and had to be quiet for twelve hours! I can't believe I made it! On the way back to Clacamas (on the bus) there was someone who said they liked me. Awkward! So we were supposed to get there at 3:00 but there was bad traffic and got there at 4:30. Someone had to go pee really bad (earlier that week he had to go so bad he peed his pants on a waterfall hike 1/2 a mile) so I was kinda scared. He told the bus driver an hour before we got there he had to pee and the driver said 15 more minutes until we were there. It was the longest/fastest drive ever, I talked the whole way. I can't wait until next year.

Either I or one of my brothers are in these pictures.

(Sorry I uploaded this late)

Magazine Sale

At school I am doing a magazine sale fundraiser and I'm trying to raise some money. In the magazine sale I sell magazines from a list of a lot of magazines. I would like to sell 10 magazines and you can help, I only need 6 more. Please buy one of your favorite magazines.

Robotics Qualifiers

Yesterday was qualifiers for robotics to see if my team would make it to super qualifiers. The first few alliances we went against beat us by a lot. We switch out a driver and got way better scores. At the end we were in 6th place overall. My strategist got to pick our alliances. We lost our last two finals final matches. Making it into finals is amazing for a rookie team. When they were calling up the teams making it to Super Qualifiers they called out the ones with awards. We didn't have any awards. Then they called the teams by rank that were left, 4th and 7th. My team was so angry and sad. Luckily some of the people on our team remembered we were in 6th place so we should have went. We told an adult and they fixed the problem and let us go also. Instead of breaking the 7th place team's heart they let them still go. When the lady came and told us we were for sure going we screamed. It is Valentines Weekend which is when I have junior champs for swimming. I really want to go to super qualifiers and junior champs. Which should I go to?

Needle Felting

 So tomorrow I have a robotics competition and my robotics team name is BB8 Builders and so I needle felted a BB8. It's not the best, but I like it.

I like to needle felt little animals like foxes, cats, birds, and more. Today I felted a bumble bee and a panda head. I want to make enough felted stuff to sell at the Altrusa Bazaar for money.

If you want to learn how to needle felt check out this link https://youtu.be/0vrN-tYrYtU and please subscribe.

Happy New Year!!!

What do you want to do this year? One thing I want to do is sell some of my crafts and animals for money. The places I want to sell my crafts are at the Altrusa Bazaar, eBay, my friends, ect. I will use the money to start my own robotics team with my friends. A robotics team costs about $2000 so we will split the costs. I already have $600-$700 from my sheep a while ago. That is my one thing I want to do this year.

John Day

December 27,2015

I am heading to John Day, Oregon to our cabin to go sledding. On the way there I see the devestation of a fire from this summer. There is no green, only white snow and burnt black trees. Every now and then I see houses, or what's left of them. There are stumps everywhere.

    When we finally get near where we are going we can't get past the first gate.  Our four wheeler can't get past a tree, so we start hiking.  We don't even make it half way to the second gate when we head back. The snow went up to my butt and hurt our legs lifting our them so high. When we get back we strip from our snow clothes and go back to John Day to retrieve presents from our grandparents.