Our Opening

Do you know what our opening is? It's where we all sit together and memorize things. We have a song, a poem, and a scripture to memorize. We've memorized two poems already, and we need to find another one to memorize. The second one was pretty easy. But we haven't memorized any of the whole song or scripture. We just do little parts at a time. But before we do the song, we do the Pledge of Elegence. We take turns from oldest to youngest to hold the flag, and whoever holds the flag, after they have a turn to say the prayer. Then we do the memorizing stuff.
The first thing that we practice is and memorize is the song. It's called America the Beautiful, on page 338 in the Hymns book.  We've learned the whole first verse, and I think there's four verses. This is how the first verse goes: Oh, beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea!
After our song, we do the scripture. It's Helamen 5:12 in the Book of Mormon. (We haven't gotten the whole thing memorized, though.) Here goes: And now my sons, remember, remember, that it is upon the rock of our redeemer, who is Christ, the son of God; that ye must build your foundation, that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds; yay, his shafts in the whirlwind. And that's all I've fully memorized.
Next, after our scripture, we do our poem. We've memorized two poems, and so now we need to find another poem to memorize. This is how the first poem goes: Keep a poem in your pocket and a picture in your head, and you'll never feel lonely at night when you're in bed.

The little poem will sing to you, the little picture sing to you, a dozen dreams to dance to you, at night when you're in bed.

So... Keep a picture in your pocket and a poem in your head, and you'll never feel lonely at night when you're in bed.
The second poem goes like this: I never saw a purple cow, I never hope to see one. But I can tell you anyhow, I'd rather see than be one. 
After we do our memorizing, we do flashcards. Sometimes we do science, and there's vocabulary words, and there's also math flashcards. They're all on my mom's tablet. We use it for school. And soemtimes I use it for e-mailing people. So, that's all that we do with our opening!

Fablehaven

Kendra just got back from getting the artifact, but the artifact isn't really there. Either somebody already took it, or the artifact was re-hidden. Someone that went with Kendra to get the artifact put something in his coat pocket and said that they could pretend that they already found the artifact, so that nobody would try and find it.
So they discussed the situation at the Sorenson's house.
When they were having pancakes for breakfast on Saturday, Kendra fell asleep and had a dream about her riding on a ferris wheel. Everybody that was on the ferris wheel were falling off. Right when Kendra was about to hit the ground, she woke up. Seth said that he wanted to help, but Grandpa Sorenson said that he couldn't be involved. Grandma and Grandpa Sorenson said that he'd told Kendra and Seth's parents that they were going to be sent home on Thursday, which was in less than a week.

Fablehaven: Homecoming

Kendra, Warren, and some other people have to  get an artifact, but, they found out that someone else had already taken it. So, they're trying to figure out who had taken it. They also had other problems, like, they didn't know if the Sphinx was a traitor or not. So, the Sphinx might have been the one that had already taken the artifact So, what they did was pretend that they had found the artifact, so that nobody else would try and find it. But, they also wanted to know if the Sphinx was the captain of the knights.
Back at home, Seth, Tanu, Coulter, and Grandma and Grandpa were trying to figure out how and why Tanu and Coulter changed into shadows, and why only Seth could see them.

There are a lot of weird things that are happening in Fablehaven, and there's a lot to figure out, before Fablehaven is destroyed.

Kendra
Q: Do you believe that Vanessa is saying that the Sphinx is a traitor?
A: Yes, I do.
Q: Do you think that your people believe Vanessa?
A: I'd say they're still thinking about it.
Q: Would you rather give up, or try and try again:?
A: I'd rather try and try again.

Seth
Q: Do you think that Graulas is telling you the truth, or is he lying?
A: I think that he put in some truth, and some false.
Q: What do you think is false, and what do you think is truth?
A: I don't know yet.
Q: Why do you think that you are the only one that can see Tanu and Coulter, the shadows?
A: I don't know about that, either.

To Arches

A few days ago, we just got home from a fantabulous trip. We went to Arches, National Park. Did I tell you it was fantabulous? It was! When we first got there, it was about eight to ten o'clock, so we didn't have any time to play. Just unpacking and going to bed. The second day, we climbed rocks and chose different rooms. I shared a room with Tyler and Mykel. (Chloe is Tyler's middle name, so we call her TC.) Mykel is two, and Tyler is ten. But then, TC found a better room. It had a bed with a HUMUNGUS pillow. But then TC decided to go back to the old room, and I had that room all to myself. Kenyan also had a room,  and a lab, but then he changed his lab to another place. But he didn't tell us for a while.
But, there were also rules that the grown-ups made, and one of them was that if we couldn't hear them when we were in a certain place, then we weren't allowed to go there anymore if we didn't have a grown-up with us. Another was that we had to have a buddy. One day, Kenyan went without a buddy, and he didn't come when the grown-ups were calling him, because he was distracted, so my dad made up the rule that we were allowed to count thirty steps and that was how far we were allowed to go, so we counted thirty steps.
we also went on two hikes. One was on the third day, I think, and the other one was on the last day, which was Wednesday. The first hike, we hiked to Delicate Arch, and when we were still hiking, there was a rock that we climbed that was like a big hole.
The second hike was to the Delicate Arch. TC thought it was the most unique rock, because it looks like a pair of pants. Then we went to the Cookie Bowl, and had lunch there. Then, we went home.

Annie in the Air: Part Three

Annie got home and again told her mom what happened, but she still didn't know what the problem was. So they decided not to worry about it, and the next day, another weird thing happened.
While she was at school, doing her math, her chair's legs started walking over to the door. Her desk's legs, too, and she didn't notice until the legs of her chair and the legs of her desk started walking away from each other. but everybody in the class was staring at her. "Ahhh! said one of the students. "Annie's chair and desk are alive!!" The teacher went to Annie and said, "What is making you do this?" "That's what I don't know," replied Annie. "Well, I think you're pretending. If anything else happens like this, I'm sending you to the principal's office."
So, when Annie got home from school, she told her mom what had happened. But she still didn't know what was wrong.

Annie in the Air: Part Two

When Annie and her dad got to the house, her dad asked her how she went up so high and why she went up high. "Well, one of my friends from my class at lunch asked me if I wanted some orange juice, and, of course, I accepted it, and then I started to float up in the air." "How did that happen?" asked her dad. "I don't know," replied Annie. "I just floated up in the air, and there was a window that was open, and I just went right through it. Then I saw you, flying in the air, and so, then, you saved me." "How do you think you started floating?" asked her dad. "I think it had something to do with the orange juice that I ate, but I'm not exactly sure." "Okay, well, let's go ask Mom and see what she thinks," said Dad. So, they went to ask Annie's mom and told her what happened. Mom didn't know about any of it, and so they just didn't worry about it.
The next day, when it was lunchtime, another one of Annie's friends, named Emily, asked her if she wanted to have her orange juice. Of course, Annie accepted it, and then, when they went to their classroom after lunch, Annie started to hiccup. Hic, hic, hic! she went, and she tried to sit quietly in her seat, but soon the hiccups were so bad that she was jumping in her seat! "Why are you jumping up and down like that?" asked her teacher, Miss Manny. "I-hic! I--"Okay, so you have the hiccups. Now why are you jumping in your seat?" Before Annie could answer, (or at least try to answer) she jumped so high that all of the rest of the kids couldn't focus on their work. Soon, Annie jumped so high that she flew right through a window again! But this time, instead of floating, she was bouncing! Then, she bounced right into the house, where her Mom was.
Annie couldn't say anything. She had too many hiccups. But, when she'd gotten in the house, her mom was scared, so she yelled, AAh! which scared Annie and took away her hiccups.