What Are Comment Questions?

You probably have already guessed what my new "Comment Questions" are. But just to clarify....
Comment Questions are just questions that I put at the end of my posts that you can answer in comments! You don't have to comment an answer, any old comment will do! I really enjoy when people leave nice comments, and I check my blog at least once a day so your comment will be published soon!
Thanks For Commenting!
Purple Pixie

Swimming With Friends

Today my sisters, our mom and I went to our friend's YMCA pool! We had a lot of fun, plus, there was a water slide! Our Y only has on outdoor slide. We played games such as:

• Water Volleyball
• Octopus
• A made-up game called Piranhas
• Another made-up game called Crabby Crabs

We had so much fun! I am so tired, I can barely look at the screen of my laptop to write this post! I hope that we can meet up and swim again sometime soon! We are seeing them, Camera Girl and Maddie, tomorrow because they are in a play that we are doing!! (In a post, coming soon!)

Comment Questions:

• What kinds of things do you like to do with your friends?
• Do you go to a YMCA, and do you enjoy going there? What is your favorite part of the Y?

Thanks for Reading!

Purple Pixie

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

Happy Saint Patrick's Day! I know that this is not the best picture, but I thought that it was really cute! :-) We had green pancakes for breakfast! My mom made my dad a shamrock pancake and a leprechaun pancake! She put icing and glittery sprinkles on them! We are having fondue tonight and I hope we watch an Irish or St. Patrick's Day movie!
Comment Question:

• What did you do for Saint Patrick's Day? Comment about it, and I'll be sure to reply!

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

Purple Pixie

Fashion Show

Guess what?! On Saturday (3/10/12) I was in a fashion show as a guest model!! It was an American Girl Doll Fashion Show! I had a lot of fun! It was pretty cool to walk down the runway with all the people looking at me!

The runway was a sort of cross, one part longer than the other one. I had to climb up a few stairs when they called my name. When I got to the runway, I walked down the runway, stopped at the end, showed my doll, turned around, walked to the end of the part on the right, showed my doll, turned around, walked to the end of the part on the left, turned around, walked back to the head of the runway, and walked down the stairs again! Once every Guest Model walked on the runway, we all walked down and back again! Before we went back to our tables, the people running the Guest Model part of the show gave us a small gift and a certificate of participation. The gift was a cute little 'make-up' bag with a mirror attached!

We entered to win the minor prizes, but we didn't win anything. They are announcing the Grand Prizes tonight, and will call us if we win! :-( Our grandparents went with us! I had a really great time! I will post some pics soon!

Thanks For Reading!
Purple Pixie

Movie Review: The Lorax

The Lorax

Oh. My. Gosh. This was one of the best movies I've ever seen!

It's a story about a boy named Ted. He has a crush on a girl named Audrey. When he finds out that her dream is to see a real living tree, he sets out on an 'adventure' to find a tree. His energetic grandma tells him that he should see the Once-Ler, an old man who lives outside of their town made from plastic. The Once-Ler tells him parts of the story of trees, one part everyday. In the end of the story, the Once-Ler gives Ted the last Truffula Tree seed, and tells him to plant it. There is some conflict with the greedy town zillionaire, Mark O'Hare. He and his bodyguards try to stop Ted, but in the end Ted has all of the townspeople and the two bodyguards on his side. The trees grow again and the Lorax comes back to see the Once-Ler, who has trees growing in his yard.

This movie is definitely two thumbs up, and a 4.5 star rating!

          

 

   

Hunger Banquet

Today my group in church (Roots & Shoots) held an Oxfam Hunger Banquet. A Hunger Banquet demonstrates what hunger really is in our world. When each person came in they paid $5, they reached into a basket and took out a card. The cards read one of the following: High-Income, Middle-Income, or Low-Income.

The High-Incomes received:

• Table and Chairs
• Silverware
• 3 Course Meal
• Waitresses 

The Middle-Incomes received:

• Chairs
• Silverware
• Rice and Beans

The Low-Incomes received:

• Seats on the Floor
• Rice
• No Silverware
• No Chairs
• No Beans

I read two pages of the script in the beginning and was a food server. I spooned out rice and beans to the Middle- and Low-Incomes.
Here is an informative page from the script my friends and I read today:

In over 35 years of Oxfam’s work, millions of dollars have been raised to support human rights and put an end to poverty. Millions of people have participated in an Oxfam Hunger Banquet or skipped a meal to recognize the plight of the world’s hungry.

While the proportion of the world’s populations living in hunger has decreased, hunger endures for millions of people.

This Hunger Banquet is a metaphor for how food and other resources are inequitably distributed in the world. As such, an Oxfam Hunger Banquet can only touch upon the issues. We cannot recreate the many and complex ways in which poverty manifests itself. We will not have time to go into all the problems associated with lack of access to healthcare, education and employment opportunities, and the realities of the day-to-day struggle for survival.

The one thing that we would like you to remember is this: everyone on earth has the same basic needs; it is only our circumstances – where we live and the culture we are born into – that differ. Each person’s place is randomly determined.

Some are born into prosperity and security while millions, by no choice of their own, are born into poverty.

As each of us walked in the door here today, we chose our lot at random. Look around, and you can see that equality and balance don’t exist here.

It is important to note that no one section of this room represents a single country. While the US is one of the wealthiest countries on earth, 36 million Americans live in poverty.

Hopefully along with the money we raised for Oxfam, we also raised awareness about hunger in our world.