My Amazing Little Brother Landon Who Turns 1 Year Old In 5 Days

I know I've already done a post about my little brother, Landon, but this one is very special. He turns 1 year old in 5 days. I am SO excited. He gets to eat his very own cake. We are going to Alfys on January 31st. I'm very sorry I didn't invite you, but it's a family thing.... sucka. NO JUST KIDDING!! I AM!! Landon is now walking up against the couch, and is beginning to stand on his own!! It's the cutest thing in the world. If you have a digital camera that shows an orange light, and shine it at him, he'll squint his eyes and smile REALLY big. I LOVE HIM!!! COMMENT ME AND TELL ME HOW CUTE HE IS!!!

Angelina Marie Karamanyan

I cannot say enough nice things about Angelina Marie Karamanyan. But I can list a few:
She has AMAZING hair.
She dresses like a super model.
She can pull off any kind of look.
She wears just enough make-up.
She's nice to everyone.
She gives me advice.
She tells me things I never would have known.
She is good at sports.
She has a ton of friends.
She has a good additude all the time.
She doesn't do drugs.
She doesn't drink.
She is my best friend. I love you Angelina Marie Karamanyan!!!!

My Big Fat 3lb Hershey Bar..... Well not anymore

On Christmas (Eve) I opened up many presents, but non were as big as this one:

MY BIG FAT 3LB HERSHEY BAR (with the holiday design) !!! :)
Here's the story:

I was opening a lot of good presents and my mom handed me a big, thin one. I was thinking, what is this? I started to tear the wrapping paper and, I did as I always do when opening presents, I closed my eyes. When I finally got it completely shedded of wrapping paper, I turned it to the front. It was HUMUNGO!! It had a holiday design, with stars. I took like three pictures of it(I'll post later). I thought, I'm never going to be able to eat all this! So it sat in my room, in it's box, all lonely... But then on December 29th I went over to Vanessa's, and I brought my Hershey Bar. At first, we just took small bites off the corner. But then we got all hyped up on it and ate more and more and more. I spent the night at her house and the next day we just kept on eating the Hershey bar. Then, Vanessa's sister's friends, Jackee and Carolyn, came over. They were like, Woah! That thing is huge! So I let them have some. I mean, come on when you have a 3lb Hershey bar, why not share? So I did. Now that thing is probably like 1/2 pound. Or maybe more. I'll weigh it later..............

BYEE!! :)

Henry Hudson Claymation

In all of first quarter and in the beginning of second quarter, I've been working on a European Explorer Claymation. My partner was Jenna. A claymation is where you take a lot of pictures, put them together on iMovie, and it comes out looking like a movie. You have to move each clay person, or thing, in the slightest bit, otherwise if you move it too much, it doesnt come out smooth like a movie. In movies like "Chicken Run" you would notice that the characters are made of clay. That movie is a claymation. When you're professionally making a clay mation, you have to have new clay characters for every slightist movement, but when you're making a claymation for you're Social Studies class, it doesn't have to be as precise.

The parts I liked the most about making our claymation was that we had everyday to work on it, instead of having to do the project at home. I also liked doing the dialogue because there was a lot of voices to do and we had to do some man voices. In the second scene, Jenna couldn't do a man voice because her voice is to high, so we just used our normal voices. It was also fun doing the dialogue because if Jenna wouldn't be there one day, I would have to do the voices my self, or get someone else to it with me. I also liked moving the little clay people because you could move them how ever you wanted and make them do what you wanted. Putting all the pictures on iMovie was fun because, even though we would have to re-set all the times on every picture, we could play the scene and it would look really cool. Putting the ending credits together was fun because we got to play music on it. I want to do "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey, but I cant do it for sure right now because Jenna isn't here. I hope she likes the song because it looks and sounds really good with our ending credits.

The hardest part of this claymation was figuring out what we needed to do for our scenes. We had to take a lot of thinking time into what we were gonna do for each scene. If we had a scene wrong, we would have to start over and then we would be behind on the project. It was really hard if Jenna and I got behind because we have soccer practice after school and on Tuesdays and Thursdays we have games so we can't always catch up after school. Figuring out what we were going to say for dialogue and narration was kind of hard because we didn't always know what to say for each character. It was also difficult trying to time each picture on the right time because if it was too short the voice would go into the next scene. If it was too long, then we would have to spend the next 5 minutes trying to find the right time.

In this project I learned that it takes a long time and a lot of hard work to create something really good. I also learned that it takes partnership to finish something. If Jenna wasn't my partner, it would have been really hard for me to finish our claymation. I learned that it takes patience if you want your claymation to turn out right. If you don't have patience, then you get into a big jumbled mess and don't know what to do. I learned that if you don't get a scene done by the time it's due, then you get docked points for not trying hard enough, or someone deleted your work and you have to start all over. I also learned that if you DON'T save your work to the server on your computer, someone could easily delete all you progress and then you have to start over and you get really behind, and then your behind for the rest of the project, pretty much. If your partner wouldn't be there one day, you have to work extra hard and fast because you want to get your scene in when it's due.

This project wasn't really that hard in the beginning because you just had in to start working. This project taught me a lot, and I won't forget everything I have learned. In the future this project will probably help me if we have another similar project. I hope we have another project like this claymation in High School because I had a lot of fun working on this. Although I'm kind of sad it's over, I'm happy we don't have to stress this any more.

What I did while my parents were in California without me

Last friday, my mom, dad, and little brother Landon, left for Californa. Without me. I was left with my sister because of stupid school. Ok, so sometimes school isnt so stupid but it is when you are left alone with your older sister and cant go to San Diego. They came back last night about 9:30ish. They brought me a tie-dye tshirt that said San Diego. Im wearing it right now under my blue and white warm up soccer jacket. They also got me earings. I totally forgot that I asked my mom to get me earings when she she asked me what I wanted. My mom has the same ones except they're a little bigger and blue. Mine are pink. My mom also got us both (my mom and me) the same pink ones, but they're triangles. I love my mommy and daddy and little brother. I was alone most of the days they were gone. I basically sat home for 5 hours on sunday all by my self. I sat on the couch and cried for like 10 minutes because I couldn't stand being alone for that long. I tried doing fun stuff like watching movies, and going on the computer, but after while, it all got boring. I started watching a movie called "Rest Stop: Don't Look Back" but stopped after like 15 minutes because it way too gory for me. I watched re-runs of about every single show in the entire world. Ok maybe it was only ABC Family. But it seemed like a crap load of T.V. I was bored to tears. On Friday-Saturday I went over to Shaina's house. We rode her horses and I jumped a jump that was like 2 feet high. But give me a break, it was my first time. On Monday, after soccer, I went over to the CMA Church for the last hour of Middle School Monday. After that, my friend, Niki, and I rode the transit home. She asked if I wanted to spend the night because there was no school on Tuesday because it was Veteran's Day. I said sure and she asked her mom and she said yes. I called my sister and she said she didn't care. So that was my semi boring time while my parents were in California without me.

My Birthday Party

I was having a hard time deciding what I wanted to do for my 14th birthday party. Some of you may be saying that when your 14, your too old to have a birthday party. But not me. I love having birthday parties. Except for last year when only 2 out of 11 people invited showed up. But I wont get into that. So me and my mom were throwing out ideas for my birthday party this year and none of them were good enough. I thought about going to the Paint Escape with 5 friends and picking ceramic things to paint. My grandma thought about taking me and friends to a place in Seattle where we can make out own chocolates. But that wasn't a good idea to me because then I would have to only invite people who like chocolate, and not all my friends like chocolate. I had no idea what I wanted to do. I was stressing this a lot. I wanted to have the best birthday party ever and I couldn't squeeze that little idea for an amazing party out of my head.
I came home from school one day and my mom said she had an idea for my birthday party. She asked me if I wanted to know then, or wait for a month to find out. I asked if it was a really good idea and she said it was. So I had her tell me. She told me about The Great Wolf Lodge. I was so excited and said that was a really good idea. But the thing was that I could only invite 2 people. And I already had two people in mind. I already had one person that was coming no matter what. My best friend, Niki.And I asked my other best friend Vanessa. She is going to ask her mom and I hope she says yes!!
I can't wait for my birthday party!! GREAT WOLF LODGE, HERE I COME!! (and niki and vanessa too!!

(post pictures later!!)

Life Graph

When I was in Kindergarten, my friends and I were a little mean to the other kids on the monkey bars. We would wait until a kid was on, then we would cut in front of them by jumping from the side. We would all laugh except the kids on the monkey bars. One of my friends jump to the farthest bar and I thought it was cool. So I tried it. I didn't make it and landed on a huge chunk of wood. I was crying so hard that I couldn't see where I was walking. My friend, Tess, saw the blood on my face, and puked. I got escorted to the nurse's office and got pop-sickle. The nurse asked if my sister, Karissa, was at school today, and I said yes, she was. Then she asked me if I wanted her to come down with me. I said yes and the nurse went to call the Intermediate School for my sister. She got a pop-sickle also, and we waited for my dad to come.
Tess also went home because she puked. When my dad was signing me out of school, he said, "Tess got sick, and Chelby gets pop-sickles." I laughed and then we left. It does not feel good to have a fat lip.
Needless to say, I never did cut in front kids on the monkey bars ever again.