Year: 2011

We enjoyed a nice trip to Busch Gardens. I love the Critter Creature show. After the show you can go up and visit with some of the animals.

I talked the poor girls ear off for a good 10 minutes.

Enjoying the train ride. We saw some giraffe really close up.

Hanging on the rocks.

Hanging on the rocks and not knowing little brother is sneaking up on you can be dangerous.

My friend, Aran, had a party at the trains at Largo Park today. I enjoyed the merry-go-round for a while before his party started.

Having fun on the trains.

After his party, we rushed to Dunedin to catch the holiday parade. Mommy found an awesome FREE parking spot and we walked a block to the parade and found front spot right on the guard fence.

I loved the bands. I think I may want to learn how to play bagpipes! 🙂

My friend, Camden, was in the parade passing out candy with his soccer club.

After over an hour and a half the end of the parade finally came. Santa and Mrs. Claus looked great. I told Mommy it may have been the real Santa and not one of the elves.

We got LOTS of candy, beads and other parade tossed items. The only thing not tossed were the candy canes. They said they were too dangerous? Who knows. Apparently beads are fine to toss but candy-canes could take out an eye?

Today I took all the cat and dog toys I made and collected to the Humane Society of North Pinellas. I had over 200 total!

So proud of myself!

Mommy took me to the Humane Society and I had to go talk to the staff and let them know what I did and brought in. They got a volunteer to walk around with us and I got to pass out toys to all the animals in the shelter. The cats LOVED my toys.

I passed them in through the bars on some cages and others I opened and put toys inside.

I was amazed how many cats were actually living at the humane society. Some had been there for a very long time.

They had stockings all over and I made sure to put toys into each one I saw .

Emmerson got into the action as well.

I wanted to take all the cats home.

Next we visited the dogs. They seemed to have more toys than the cats so we only passed out a few to the dogs.

This little puppy was super cute! Emmerson picked a fluffy Christmas ball that he thought matched the dogs fluffy head.

When we were all done visiting all the animals I got a certificate!!! How cool! I was so happy with my project.

Tonight we went to see the new Muppet Movie. It was fantastic. We had a good time int he lobby looking all the signs. This was the first large theater experience in quite some time. I like our quiet small place so much better.

My garden is doing great. I am having so much fun in 4H this year.

Today we made holiday wreaths. I hung out with some of my friends and sang Christmas carols while we decorated our grape vine wreaths.