Winner!!!!!!!!!!

The winner of our photo challenge was Ireland at her blog A Pearl of Great Price. Here is the picture she entered :

Entries for photo challenge!

Here are the entries for our photo challenge. Vote for your favorite on the poll.                                                      Irelands

 
 Lauras

 

Lilys
 
 Monicas
 

Rubys

 
Eli' O' Keefes
 

and Lindy Joys.


Please vote for your favorite, they are all awesome. You can go the people who entered blog by looking in our earlier comments.  HOpe you enjoy voting.

Photo Challenge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are FINALLY HAVING A PHOTO CHALLENGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
iT is of nature! 
 Rules:
You must take the photo
Comment on our blog with the link to where you entered
follow us if you will
the prize is a suprise
we will have a poll to see who wins
put a link to our blog on yours when you enter.


And A beautiful nature picture we took for an example:

 Enter by October 5th.

Hiking long ago and a photo challenge

While, a while ago I, Josiah and our dad went hiking and it was awesome. I took some awesome pictures and we are going to enter one into Makayla Warrens photo challenge.  Isn't it awesome?

      While, that's all. Two photo challenges in one day. Pretty cool.

Entering into Irelands Photo Challenge!!!!!!!!! (again)

We are entering into   Irelands  photo challenge. The picture above is the picture we entered. 
You should enter too.

A Random Post

This post is going to be a random, short post.

First we will put a poem that I, Layla wrote when I was six. Here it is:
 I know a little bird
That goes tweet tweet tweet
And that pretty little sound
Has a pretty little beat.


The beat is not fast
It is slow
Tweet Tweet Tweet
Is how the song goes


The bird has a red breast 
And a red tail
And in my imagination
The tail is a sail.


I was going to put a poem I wrote a few months ago on here but it seems that I misplaced it so I can't. I will write a poem right now and put it on here though. Here it is:
 Buck in the snow
Breath is like thunder
Running swiftly
Shot by a bow
Down he goes


But up again
Limping away
Blood stains the snow
In pain he goes
In pain he goes


He has escaped
Though he's nearly dead 
But while there's still life
There's hope in sorrow's stead
Hope in sorrow's stead


But the spring helped revive him 
Giving him life again
And it taught him a lesson to
With pain it may have come, but happiness sprung
And he'd become better in many ways too


This is not as good as the one I was going to put but it's still good. More of a rhyme though.
I can't not put this poem that I wrote when I was seven no matter how ridiculous it is. Here it is:
  Ice cream is sweet
 Ice cream is cold


 I don't eat
 Ice cream with mold.


That's all. It's stupid but funny.


Weather over here has been very strange. We had a week where it was very hot and we mean very hot but this week has been very cool, almost like fall weather. We had chili and corn bread for dinner and it was delicious. Yes, that was an abrupt change of subject but we said this was going to be a random post.
We took a vacation to a beach house in June and here are some pictures from it.

                                      

                                                Our cousins Keaton and Addison, Keaton is the baby

                                           the sunset.      

                                              Mud swallow coming out of it's nest.  Yes, that was a random post.

Things in nature

We have had lots of fun experiences outside and now we are going to write about some of them. First we'll write about the violet-green swallow.

       Once we were catching tadpoles at a river with our dad and our dad went farther than usual to look for some perch.  However, instead of bringing back the fish he brought back a live bird.  It turned out that the bird had been laying on a rock in the sun and he just swooped it up with the net and brought it back. The bird was amazing. Sometimes it would lay down peacefully and other times it would flap its wings angrily, trying to get out.  We held it in our hands a few times and were able to observe it for almost the whole day.

          Another animal we'd like to talk about are deer.  I, Josiah actually wasn't there when it happened but I, Layla was. We were taking a drive one day when we saw a bunch of deer.  There were two fawns who looked like they'd just been born yesterday, numerous does and three or four bucks. One of the fawns was a boy and one was a girl.  The bucks nearest to our car stared at us, the does continued to eat but were clearly ready to bolt up at any moment and the fawns continued playing and kissing like before. Sadly I did not have my camera so there are no pictures.

        Last of all we are going to write about a tree instead of an animal.  It is a fruit tree that did not produce last year.  We went from thinking that it was an avocado tree, to a mango tree until we finally figured out that it was a loquat tree. Loquats are Japanese Plums and they are delicious! The chickens and duck love them too.

          Though there are still plenty of things to talk about we'll save those for another time.

    

We are a brother and a sister.  Our names are Layla and Josiah.  We are home schooled and we live with lots of brothers and sisters and our mom and dad.  A few days ago we went down to a river and caught giant tadpoles. They are all about four inches long, head to tail.  Some of them are almost frogs but not yet. We have six chicks and one duckling, two kittens, a dog and a pond of fish.

Layla loves reading, writing, fishing, playing guitar and keyboard and talking to birds.

Josiah loves reading, drums, drawing, fishing, legos and exploring.

Welcome to our blog, we hope you come back to read often.