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by Kody Pendleton
Christmas  Eve

Every Christmas Eve you go to bed to get more presents from Santa Claus and when your  mean to your parents you will get coal in your stocking and my birthday is on Christmas Eve and we have my birthday at my house.

Every Christmas Eve me my mom and my dad go over to my mamas for Christmas Eve and open presents and eat breakfast in the kitchen and it’s taste,smell and Christmas Eve breakfast was delicious and are presents were really nice and we got to play with them and we got to jump on my trampoline and I got to ride on my fourwheeler.

For Christmas I got a air hockey table for christmas and I got a xbox 360 for christmas and a fourwheeler a playstation 4 and a trampoline and I got a lot of presents for christmas and I got a trampoline and I got to ride on my fourwheeler and I got to jump on my trampoline and I got to play on my xbox 360 and I got to play on the playstation 4.And I got a lot of games for my xbox 360 and my playstation.

And it was fun when I got to ride on fourwheeler and it was fun when I got to play on my xbox 360.And when I got my fourwheeler I was so excited and I got to ride on it and I went really fast and I almost pop a while and I almost wrecked  my  four wheeler  and I feel off my fourwheeler because I almost hit the warehouse and the fourwheeler hit the wail house and I was laying in the snow gladly I wasn’t hurt because I was in the snow and when I was in the snow I made a snow angel and I had a snowball fight with my mamaw at her house and it was fun and I found a big snowball and I hit her with it and it hurt her when I hit her with it and I hit in the stomach and she was done playing snowball fight and we made snow cream with snow and then we opened presents when he had played outside in the snow and the presents were nice and we got to play with them and we played with them in the snow.

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By: Elijah Branks

When I was 8 years old I went to memphis,Tennessee.We were staying the weekend and I was in 3rd grade.I was very excited to see my great grandma and other family.

When in memphis I went to Elvis Presley's mansion. It was very exciting because I always wanted to see it. When I was there I seen this sign and I was wondering what it was for.So I walked over and it had kinda like a biography of Elvis Presly.

Then I went to see my great grandma. I asked her “how are you doing?” she said “not to well.” she was in the hospital . I said “i’m doing good in school.” she did not hear me she was about 80.

Then the next day I went home at about 3:00 am and went to school the next day.I told all my friends about my trip.I am going back soon... hopefully.

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by Rand BartelsMy Trip To Dollywood One day in summer my family decided to go to dollywood. Dollywood is  an  amusement park That has the fastest roller coaster in the us. So when we got there I was so excited. I saw People riding on epic roller coasters.As I got out of my car I saw somthing “I said what is that” and my mom said “it was a trolly.” and thats what we took to the amusment park.  When weGot there I could see some really cool roller coasters.I saw some flipping and spinning.Then I saw my best friend austin.” I said hey austin”he said what's up Randy”and “he said I didn’t Know you come here.”and “I said I do every summer” and then we got some cotton candy it was good.Then we went on some pretty cool rides! And then I had to go back to my hotel.The next morning I was determined to go on the lightning rod. ItIs the fastest roller coaster in the us.I was in line just so excited to go on theLightning rod. Finally I was first in line and he said next and I was nervous.I got in a seat finally the ride started slow and then dropped going 90 miles an hour.Finally when I got of I said that was awesome!and that was my vacation to dollywood.The experience was great and I liked going on rides with austin were still friends today.    

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by Rand BartelsMy Trip To Dollywood One day in summer my family decided to go to dollywood. Dollywood is  an  amusement park That has the fastest roller coaster in the us. So when we got there I was so excited. I saw People riding on epic roller coasters.As I got out of my car I saw somthing “I said what is that” and my mom said “it was a trolly.” and thats what we took to the amusment park.  When weGot there I could see some really cool roller coasters.I saw some flipping and spinning.Then I saw my best friend austin.” I said hey austin”he said what's up Randy”and “he said I didn’t Know you come here.”and “I said I do every summer” and then we got some cotton candy it was good.Then we went on some pretty cool rides! And then I had to go back to my hotel.The next morning I was determined to go on the lightning rod. ItIs the fastest roller coaster in the us.I was in line just so excited to go on theLightning rod. Finally I was first in line and he said next and I was nervous.I got in a seat finally the ride started slow and then dropped going 90 miles an hour.Finally when I got of I said that was awesome!and that was my vacation to dollywood.The experience was great and I liked going on rides with austin were still friends today.    

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My Journey To Wisconsin

By Jackson Barton

On one cold fall night North Carolina at about eleven o'clock when everyone was asleep me and my family were just getting up.We had just got a rental car.we had got up just before the rental car closed luckily we had a friend to work overtime so we could get a car.Well finally left,it took forever to find the right car but at last we left to go to Wisconsin.

On our way to wisconsin we saw a lot of new and different places!One of the places was Indiana there was so many windmills in Indiana!Once we left Indiana we entered Illinois It didn’t look any different. I was worried I thought that we took a wrong turn,”dad where are we.” I said “where are the big cities .” I said again. Well I answered my own question there it was the big  city.

It was beautiful but the coolest part was the road it had four lanes on both and two extra lanes for the taxis! Well me and dad  were so excited but we still had to go.Traffic was horrible but we got to wisconsin. “Dad look at the snow.” ”Dad look at barns!” “dad wake up mom she has to see this!” I screamed with excitement.

We were happy up there.We had lots of fun to.We went sledding and also went to a shop named A&W were we got cheese curds and root beer floats.At the end we said our good byes and said thank you for letting us come up for thanks giving.

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By:Jayden Shugart
On a crisp fall day, me and my mom were walking to Walmart.I was only 7.I asked”Mommy can I buy a toy?”She answered”Maybe.”I enjoyed hearing the crunching of the leaves under my feet,as I skipped down the sidewalk.Suddenly,my eyes felt like they were going to burst.The most beautiful doll i’ve ever seen was standing in the Walmart window.It was a georgeous doll.It had beautiful,long,straight hair with a beautiful satin bow tied up in it.She had cheeks like roses,her eyes a grass green color,her lips were cherry red,she also had a beautiful smile strewn across her face.A beautiful baby blue lacey dress that flew down to her ankles.Tall white socks with mary jane shoes.My eyes gazed in amazement. Ameadiatly a smile rushed across my face.I started jumping up and down.The leaves crunching beaneath me. Ameadiatly,without pausing beetween my words I yelled”MOMMY CAN I HAVE THAT DOLL?!”Mom looked at me like I was crazy.She asked calmly”How much is the doll?”I said without even thinking exitedly in reply”It is ...let’s see hmm….$200.00”Mom dropped her wallet and yelled”WHAT?!”Mom picked up her wallet and stood there,eyes wide open like she had just seen a ghost.After standing there for a minute I asked”So can I get the doll?”While I rocked my feet back and forth.       My mom said while she stood there eyes shut.She sighed and said”No”My eyes filled with hate.I felt so furious and hateful.I wanted to tear my mom to pieces.I felt like a volcano about to erupt.I screamed”NNNNOOOOOO!!!!!My mom said”What?”as she looked at my tear filled eyes.She reached out her arms to give me a hug.I quickly dodged her hug.Then ,when I felt like I couldn’t hold in the tears,my eyes burst.I told her”That is the most beautiful doll ever!”My mom said angrily”Stop!This behavior is not going to embarass me!Get in the car!”I stomped to the car and slammed the door shut when I got into my small blue sion.It took about 15 minutes to get home.Finally after it felt like hours of driving , I finally got home.I immeadiatlly ran into the house with full speed.I ran into my room and grabbed all my stuffed animals.I flung them all over the house.The kitchen,the bathroom,my room,the living room, and more.I sat down and said to myself”Now were even!”And smiled a big evil grin.5 minutes later,mom came in and dropped everything and yelled”WHAT HAPPENED?!”Then I said happily”You didn’t give me the doll ,so I gave you a mess.”Mom said shamefully”I don’t like a mess,so pick it up!”I said angrily”No!I refuse to pick up this mess!You pick it up you little idiot!Mom got so mad that her face turned as red as a cherry.She wipped me,picked me up,and threw me in my room.She locked the door behind her.I screamed as I kicked and punched the door,trying to escape my room.Finally,I gave up.I slid down my door and started crying.2 hours of bordom passed.I heard mom at the door,unlocking the door.I crawled to the door and sat down.Mom slowly opened the door.I looked up and saw her calm face,looking at mine.She sighed and said”We need to talk.”We crawled  on the bed and mom said”That tantrum was unnaceptable!Do you have something to say to me?”As tears streamed down my eyes,I yelled”OKAY!!I wanted that doll so bad!!She was goergous!!I’M SORRY!!”Mom smiled and kissed my forehead and said”Baby girl,I know you wanted that doll,It’s okay,maybe next time!”I smiled and mom wiped my tears away.We went into the kitchen,and ate some blueberry cinnamon buns.

The End

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Cheese for DaysBy Landon Pierron	It was early in the morning when I woke up, then, I fell asleep again. When I had woken up again me and my Dad were out of state and on our way to Monroe, Wisconsin for the Cheese Days festival! I was so very excited, Wisconsin is a very important for me, my Brother, and my father because we were all born there and lived there, in Monroe  to be precise. In Monroe everything is so close together, and almost everyone knows each other, which is pretty cool, and the Cheese Days is the cherry on the top! It’s a festival centered around cheese and Swiss, and other German heritage! 	The person me and my Dad were going to stay with was my Uncle, and if you know my Uncle (which most people in Monroe do) you know that he is a pretty unique guy. For example me and my Dad were trying to get him to go to the Cheese Days when “Oh I would love to get one of their Cheese Days pins for my collection.” he said “Great then, you can come with us!” replied my Dad “Well to be honest I really can’t I have bad allergies.” said my Uncle “Oh I understand, ok you can stay here and vve’ll get it for you.” my Dad kindly answered “Ok I guess I could just ride my bike.” responded my confusing Uncle. Me and my Dad simultaneously responded, “WHAT!” There was more to that but I do not want to confuse you further, so as my Uncle rode his bike through  Monroe with his “bad allergies” me and my Dad marched off to the Cheese Days! The Cheese Days was a blast, there was so much to do; listen to elkhorns, or polka joyfully to an accordion player, you can go through Cheese City tasting all the different cheeses, you can even watch a cheese carver as she carves cheese, or just slowing down, and sniffing the tasty aroma.	The next day we went off to the Cheese Days one more time before we left. The first thing I did was ran in the Cheese Days Chase a 5k run. It was extremely hard and the excruciating pain was unbearable, I didn't even think  I would make it, but I kept on going, and in the end it was ok because out of 1,100 people who entered I came out in 127, which was pretty good for my first 5k run! After that, we did a little more polkaing! Then, we got some fried cheese curds which no other cheese curd compares to one of those nuggets of gold made in Monroe! I got the honor of getting to carefully open the box and the curds were heavenly! Well, it was getting time to go so we went back to my Uncle’s, packed up, gave my Uncle his pin (not that he deserved it anyway) and left.	Now I have learned a very unique lesson: the heartbreaking feeling of leaving the Monroe Cheese Days festival 2016. Now things have changed, now I feel good about the past of that long ago experience… yesterday.

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Cheese for DaysBy Landon Pierron	It was early in the morning when I woke up, then, I fell asleep again. When I had woken up again me and my Dad were out of state and on our way to Monroe, Wisconsin for the Cheese Days festival! I was so very excited, Wisconsin is a very important for me, my Brother, and my father because we were all born there and lived there, in Monroe  to be precise. In Monroe everything is so close together, and almost everyone knows each other, which is pretty cool, and the Cheese Days is the cherry on the top! It’s a festival centered around cheese and Swiss, and other German heritage! 	The person me and my Dad were going to stay with was my Uncle, and if you know my Uncle (which most people in Monroe do) you know that he is a pretty unique guy. For example me and my Dad were trying to get him to go to the Cheese Days when “Oh I would love to get one of their Cheese Days pins for my collection.” he said “Great then, you can come with us!” replied my Dad “Well to be honest I really can’t I have bad allergies.” said my Uncle “Oh I understand, ok you can stay here and vve’ll get it for you.” my Dad kindly answered “Ok I guess I could just ride my bike.” responded my confusing Uncle. Me and my Dad simultaneously responded, “WHAT!” There was more to that but I do not want to confuse you further, so as my Uncle rode his bike through  Monroe with his “bad allergies” me and my Dad marched off to the Cheese Days! The Cheese Days was a blast, there was so much to do; listen to elkhorns, or polka joyfully to an accordion player, you can go through Cheese City tasting all the different cheeses, you can even watch a cheese carver as she carves cheese, or just slowing down, and sniffing the tasty aroma.	The next day we went off to the Cheese Days one more time before we left. The first thing I did was ran in the Cheese Days Chase a 5k run. It was extremely hard and the excruciating pain was unbearable, I didn't even think  I would make it, but I kept on going, and in the end it was ok because out of 1,100 people who entered I came out in 127, which was pretty good for my first 5k run! After that, we did a little more polkaing! Then, we got some fried cheese curds which no other cheese curd compares to one of those nuggets of gold made in Monroe! I got the honor of getting to carefully open the box and the curds were heavenly! Well, it was getting time to go so we went back to my Uncle’s, packed up, gave my Uncle his pin (not that he deserved it anyway) and left.	Now I have learned a very unique lesson: the heartbreaking feeling of leaving the Monroe Cheese Days festival 2016. Now things have changed, now I feel good about the past of that long ago experience… yesterday.

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Going to Camp When I was walking down the path to camp in the summer.I saw my counselor Will Solace, he had short blond hair and light brown eyes and was tall,next to him was Chiron, he had a short curly beard,brown hair and dark brown eyes.When he saw me with my parents he told me to go my cabin. Camp started about 9ish so not many people were there,mostly just counsulers not many campers. When the conch horn blew it was time for lunch by then all my friends were there we all had to sit at our cabin table. p.s( worst idea ever).During and after lunch was sword fighting lessons,that was my favorite. Today I will be fighting Percy, he was a hard competitor but eventually I beat him. I always loved going to camp for sword fighting lessons. After that was done it was dinner. I saw my friends Jason and Piper. Jason had kind of long blond hair and eyes the color of lightning. Piper had almond color skin and black hair with brown eyes. The lesson I learned was if you get knocked down you get back up.

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Going to Camp When I was walking down the path to camp in the summer.I saw my counselor Will Solace, he had short blond hair and light brown eyes and was tall,next to him was Chiron, he had a short curly beard,brown hair and dark brown eyes.When he saw me with my parents he told me to go my cabin. Camp started about 9ish so not many people were there,mostly just counsulers not many campers. When the conch horn blew it was time for lunch by then all my friends were there we all had to sit at our cabin table. p.s( worst idea ever).During and after lunch was sword fighting lessons,that was my favorite. Today I will be fighting Percy, he was a hard competitor but eventually I beat him. I always loved going to camp for sword fighting lessons. After that was done it was dinner. I saw my friends Jason and Piper. Jason had kind of long blond hair and eyes the color of lightning. Piper had almond color skin and black hair with brown eyes. The lesson I learned was if you get knocked down you get back up.

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The Mega Bike Crash

By: Gaines Davis Townsend

One hot and humid summer day, my dad took me to some cool hidden bike jumps.

I was super excited to because all my friend had went and they said it was cool. As we just got there my dad was hungry so he pulled off his backpack and was looking to for something to eat.

I asked if I could go explore my dad said yes.the bike jumps were so cool, some were huge jumps and some were for beginner. I kept exploring I noticed there were some trails.

I saw some other kids so I went up to them to talk. The oldest was in high school and the youngest was in middle school. The oldest was super good at bmx, he told me about a cool trail.  I hiked my bike up a trail the trail I hiked up was gnarly I thought “hopefully the trail he was talking about wasn’t that hard”. I made it to the top I saw a big tabletop.

I started pedaling I saw the jump coming closer and closer. I noticed the jump wasn’t a tabletop it was a huge gap-jump. I couldn’t break so I kept pedaling and could hopefully

Land the gap-jump. Soon I was flying like a birdy, the landing of the jump was coming closer and closer. The front tire hit the lip of the landing my bike completely stopped but I flung off the bike and I landed on my neck.

I got up I was ok but my neck, chest, and my shoulders were sore for a few days. Luckily my dad found me, I had to go to the emergency room because  my parents were worried I had broke my collarbone and hurt my neck.  I go to bike there a lot now but I don’t ride without my dad knowing where I am going.

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by Ashleigh Grieves

I am always excited for Saturday, I get the same meal, breakfast twice! I have so much to choose from, from omelets to pancakes. My family and I all help to make breakfast for dinner.

As the clock strikes 6 pm my family all gather around the kitchen to discuss the meal. We all looked around the kitchen for ideas, if no luck we go through an endless search through the cookbooks, curiously looking at every page. Then “bam” a perfect recipe is found, pancakes with  blueberries. We go looking for the ingredients, lucky we found them all. We find sides like bacon, eggs, and sausage. My mom and i get out the supplies  and start cooking. I hear bacon sizzling, eggs frying,  sausage popping, and pancakes bubbling, ”Yum.” My sister and i race to the Moonstone. ( a type of plate ) We put the Moonstone on the table fork on the left and spoon and knife on the right.  The table was finally set.   My whole family all sit down at the table. Starting with the pancakes we munch them down till there is none left. The bacon and eggs are long gone at that point. We eat dessert which is usually raspberries and yogurt or something in yogurt. ( my mom really likes yogurt ) We all help clean up the table. My brother does the dishes with my mom, and my sister and I clean the table.

Making breakfast for dinner is one of my favorite thing to make. It  helps me get focussed on the week ahead of me. Every day I hope we can do it again, and every saturday I hope we can have a great breakfast for dinner weather it is dinner on a conversation.

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BEST TRIP EVER     by:samarah wanamaker                                It was 2007 on a hot summer morning and me and my family we're in our big white house packing for the long trip ahead. My mom and dad we’re packing my purple suitcase. My grandmother was packing snacks.I was sure this was going to be the best trip ever.We all loaded the luggage into the van and then we got into the van. Before long we were at the harbor. We got out of the van and locked up the car. Then,there it was, right in front of me , it was the big long bridge leading to the ship.We got on the ship and took off. This ship is wonderful, no, it’s amazing , no, it’s fantastical, yes that's the word. We spent about a day on the ship before we got to mexico but it was worth it.  Mexico is so beautiful and full of life. We walked around mexico for a while. We stumbled upon a weird statue that was golden. We passed it and moved on.We went to eat at a place called el cardenal. I had rice, beans,and chicken. We went back to the cruise ship and spent about a week in mexico and then went home. This truly was the best trip ever. 

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BEST TRIP EVER     by:samarah wanamaker                                It was 2007 on a hot summer morning and me and my family we're in our big white house packing for the long trip ahead. My mom and dad we’re packing my purple suitcase. My grandmother was packing snacks.I was sure this was going to be the best trip ever.We all loaded the luggage into the van and then we got into the van. Before long we were at the harbor. We got out of the van and locked up the car. Then,there it was, right in front of me , it was the big long bridge leading to the ship.We got on the ship and took off. This ship is wonderful, no, it’s amazing , no, it’s fantastical, yes that's the word. We spent about a day on the ship before we got to mexico but it was worth it.  Mexico is so beautiful and full of life. We walked around mexico for a while. We stumbled upon a weird statue that was golden. We passed it and moved on.We went to eat at a place called el cardenal. I had rice, beans,and chicken. We went back to the cruise ship and spent about a week in mexico and then went home. This truly was the best trip ever. 

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On a hot summer day a few years ago I went to the beach.

The sand was hot, the water was clear with little fish swinging around,the sky was blue with barely any clouds.

It was just me and my grandma. I was so excited.

I got into the water with my boogie- board and started riding waves. After a while I got tired of just riding waves.

I saw this boy doing tricks on his boogie-board like spinning around and jumping up.                                           So I asked my grandma if I could do tricks she said “No’’ at the moment she did the boy crashed and busted his lip really bad there was some blood in the water his mom and the lifeguard had to help him out of the water,but it could had been much worse.

I’m glad I listened to my grandma.I still go to the beach but i’m always cautious.I listen to my parents whenever  they say something is not safe I hope other people listen to their parents too.

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by:Daniel Jones

One day I was helping my hard working Mom and my very strong Dad

outside.I was 11 at the time and I liked walking barefoot.When I walk barefoot my Mom

says”If you walk barefoot you're never gonna get better”I say I know…

I was moving little statues and pots,but when I was going in there was a baby garden snake .At first I thought it was a little piece of wire but then I saw the slithery,scaly,black head!

I was running for my life,heart beating,shivering but yet hot.I saw my Dad so I ran to him luckily he had a shovel in his hand.I told him what I saw and he ran and cut it in half. I remember the blood that came out the snake.

After that I was traumatized I now know to always look where I’m walking.Well after

that I couldn't stop breathing hard my Mom is really good at calming me down so she told me to calm down and take a hot bath so I did and had a good rest of the day.The End!

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by: Skylar Casey

I was so excited and scared, but mostly excited. The very pretty mountains with flowers on the mountains everywhere just boosted my excitement. I was finally in the very pretty Brevard/Pisgah Forest. I did not think we were actually going to buy it because, it was so pretty,expencive and on a steep hill. I don’t like steep hills.At first I didn’t want to move because all my family was in Sanford. They come to visit sometimes.

My family and I were driving to go look at the house that we thought we were going to buy. After five hours of driving and sleeping, we were there at the house. I was so excited because i have not seen it yet. Then my family and I got t explore the outside of the house and the inside. The outside was the best part. While mom and dad were settling the payment, my brothers and I were playing on this big,fat and tall tree. It was in the circle. The circle is this big oval/circle thing in the middle of our front yard.

After about five or four days after we bought the house, we started moving all of our furniture and other stuff in the new house. Our house looked so good after we were done. Buying a new house was so scary and so was moving to a new school but, it was so much fun. I really liked the view of the balcony, the mountains were so pretty especially at night. At night all of the lights are on, it almost looks like New York!

It felt so sad that I was leaving all my friends, but I made so many new friends here, especially this year 2016-2017. I remembered this story because I wake up every morning and smell the pretty flowers, hopefully I keep doing that every morning. This experience is impacting me today because when it is Saturday and Sunday, I get to adventure off into the woods.

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lost

Once when I was 7 at  Myrtle Beach at 1:00 pm on a light stone grey path.We went and bought some different taffy at a taffy shop. We were walking eating different  taffy two seconds later I lost my parents.

I was worried sick i did not know if I would be there for five minutes or even life I was really really scared and started to panic i know that if i stayed still it would be a better chance i'd get found.

So I sat on a bench worried as soon  as  I thought I was lost forever

I saw my dads round hat over the crowd I rushed over to him and gave ham a big big hug and told him

i'm sorry and told him that next time i'll be extra careful.After that we went and played some more games. But i learned a lesson to never to run off when there is a large crowd mostly at the beach.

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By:Zoe

On one day every fall me and my mom go to a tea party. At our tea we can not wear any clothes we have to buy fancy fluffy hats and the dresses are magical. We have a great time. But it makes me feel nerves to be at something so important.But my mom comes with me so I am not alone which makes me feel alot better.

Going to the tea party  is one of my favorite things to do. They even have snacks with tasty mides of their own who dance on your plate. Then as i was sitting at a table drinking tea

The person in charge said we will draw names from the glass gare soon so put your in with a chance to win

All of the sudden I wanted to win. But I knew I would not.I said to myself I  might as well try so I put my name in and waited. A Lot of time past. Then she said the person in charge said let's see who won. Then she said zoe hebb has won.

I had doun it i ran and hugged my mom. I will never forget that moment when I won. Some time passed . It was over i graded the lassed of the snacks and left. I can not wait till next year.

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It was August 9th 2015 under a big and stinky bridge with my dad. We went ahead and put the bait on are hooks and cast the bait. A few minutes later my dad reeled in a fish he caught. It was a rainbow trout. I was jumping for joy! While my dad was getting his bait on I caught a fish. It was another rainbow trout. I looked on my dad’s pole. I asked “What are you doing.” He said “I’m fishing for something big.”

A few minutes later he caught something big. It was a snapping turtle. Daddy let it go and it almost bit him. Then there was this log that had a bunch of moss and bugs but, there was something else too… it was a baby alligator. It was cute besides the sharp and scary teeth.Last me and my dad packed up and went home to cook dinner. It was rainbow trout yum.

I loved that day because I got to spend time with my dad. That day I learned to love your parents and never put a fish on a hook. That day i got my fear of swimming in lakes,oceans,and deep creeks. For now on I will love my mom and dad more than I ever did before. I will always remember this day from the delicious trout to spending time with my family. Always love your mom,dad,sister,brother,grandma cause you don’t know if you will be with them the next day.

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THE BEACH
By: Alex Jones

The beach was hot as could be it was a good 92 degrees. My mom,dad,and cousin kassie plus me were amazed how clear the water was.

The beach the beautiful sand, sun, crashing waves, and the beautiful sunset making the sky orange in all directions.

This all happened at 3:00 in panama city beach. And it was amazing seeing all that cool wild life and what they do to eat.

Wait if you are getting bored it is almost done just stay a little longer.

How beautiful it was sun,water aaaa. I love the water it was the most beautiful beach I have ever  been to.

And I had a great time being there with my mom, dad, and cousin kassie and they had a great time being there with me. Me, my mom, dad, and cousin kassie were shocked of how beautiful it was there.

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by:Trinity Wilbanks

Every year, my family and I do something special for Christmas Eve. On Christmas Eve, we stay up until 11:00 or 12:00 watching “ Christmas Vacation “, open the one present from our Mommy and Daddy, were our matching pajamas from Ginny, and drink our cappuccinos, also from Ginny, all in the living room. While we are doing this, I feel happy, and joyful.

While we are watching the movie, I listen to us (Shade: the oldest of us four, Gracen: the second oldest of us four, me, Trinity: the third oldest of us four, Madalynn: the last of us four, Mommy, Daddy, Ginny, and Papa) laugh to the hilarious parts of the movie.

We are in the living room, doing all of the stuff, I am feeling happy and merry. I also want to know how my family is feeling but that is not possible, so I guess they are feeling happy and merry like me.

I love doing our Christmas Eve tradition because I get to spend time with them, cuddle close to them, hug them, and squeeze them. I love doing this every year and it is so fun!

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The Best Museum ever!

Kinley McCall
Dear Diary,
Today I am in                ,Kentucky with my dad.We are both wearing jeans, that  is the only downer.This place is huge ,and I think it may have some good air conditioning ,lets head in! I am so excited it is going to take us a minute to get in because we parked in the back.

This museum is so cool!’’thanks dad’’.I am glad that this is my last vacation before my 3rd grade year.This museum is so cool it has robots that answer your questions using the bible and they can walk!And if that is not cool enough for you than listen to this the have life sized replicas of dinosaurs made of bones and legos.

I see something big,it looks like a boat it is a type of boat it is noah's ark! It is truly huge! If I had to build a boat that big all by myself I would quit before I even started.(if that is even possible.)I really truly love this museum.

I LOVED  this museum.I think this owner really tried. I mean any museum that can fit a boat that big is worth some respect.I Learned that when you try you can go far.

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By :Patrisha Summey          I was playing in my neighborhood a few years ago with my small straight black haired little brother Maddox, my very funky colorful clothes sister Mahala,and a kid in the neighborhood with big bright round glasses Rogan. I was in the green yard  with some huge trees around. I was the monster in the game and I said “ I’m gonna get ya” and Rogan said “No you're not,” then he threw a piece of sharp metal at my head, I started to bleed. Rogan was so  frightened he rushed to his house. Mahala and Maddox just stared  in astonishment.

Then I was crying and screaming while walking up to my house. It hurt very very bad. The blood was dripping all over my body. I felt extremely scared. I thought I was going to die from losing to much blood. My mom said “We are going to the hospital.” Me,my sister,my brother,and my mom hopped into  our minivan and drove to the hospital. My mom was worried.

While I was in the car my blood was all over my clothes it slowly started drying up. I was my first time I had bleed extremely bad I felt very very worried,but my mom handled it very calmly. It was not to long until we got closer to the hospital. We did not rush or panic while driving.

We soon arrived at the hospital. I hopped out and I got in the emergency part of the hospital. My mom put bunches of paper towels on my head my mom said “Patrisha hold these on your head” I said “Okay.”Soon later my dad arrived there from his work. He wondered if I was okay. After waiting a while I got into one of the rooms. I got stitches it hurt when I got it ,but soon later it was the end. It was very scary but small in my life it is one of the reasons I do not see Rogan a lot.

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Breakfast For Dinner

I am always excited for saturday, I get the same meal, breakfast twice! I have so much to choose from, from omelets to pancakes. My family and I all help to make breakfast for dinner.

As the clock strikes 6 pm my family all gather around the kitchen to discuss the meal. We all looked around the kitchen for ideas, if no luck we go through an endless search through the cookbooks, curiously looking at every page. Then “bam” a perfect recipe is found, pancakes with  blueberries. We go looking for the ingredients, lucky we found them all. We find sides like bacon, eggs, and sausage. My mom and i get out the supplies  and start cooking. I hear bacon sizzling, eggs frying,  sausage popping, and pancakes bubbling, ”Yum.” My sister and i race to the Moonstone. ( a type of plate ) We put the Moonstone on the table fork on the left and spoon and knife on the right.  The table was finally set.

My whole family all sit down at the table. Starting with the pancakes we munch them down till there is none left. The bacon and eggs are long gone at that point. We eat dessert which is usually raspberries and yogurt or something in yogurt. ( my mom really likes yogurt ) We all help clean up the table. My brother does the dishes with my mom, and my sister and I clean the table.

Making breakfast for dinner is one of my favorite thing to make. It  helps me get focussed on the week ahead of me. Every day I hope we can do it again, and every saturday I hope we can have a great breakfast for dinner weather it is dinner on a conversation.

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