Inside a Peach Pit

Peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots and almonds are all closely related fruit trees with very similar pits. In all these fruits, the pit must be broken open to reveal the almond-shaped kernel within. In fact, this is what almonds actually are: the kernel within the pit of the fruit of the almond tree! The kernels of all these species contain high concentrations of a chemical known as laetrile. Research has shown that laetrile induces programmed cell death in cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone. 

New Book Club

Hi everyone! We are hosting a new book club! We are reading Number the Stars and its about a Jewish girl in WWII. We are going to talk about the book, bake, giggle, and play board games. The reason we are playing board games is because in WWII the Red Cross would send the prisoners of war special Monopoly games with hidden things inside them to help them escape. Some of the most common things they would send were a map of the prison inside the hotel pieces, a metal file hidden within the board, and German currency hidden within the Monopoly money.  We are also playing a game called Spy Alley. Anyway, there are 8 people in our book club and I'm super excited. It is on Friday.

iPod (part 2)

Hi! We got our iPods! Mine is gold, Joy's is hot pink, and Graham's is red. We got it at the Apple store for $250. It has 32gb and is 6th generation. I got a really cute cover. It is sea foam green and says "smile" in cursive. The case comes withe a stylus and screen protecter. I switched from an iPad to an iPod because an iPad is kind of bulky and heavy. Our iPods are super. It took about 15 minutes to get it all set up.

Ipod touch

Hello! I'M GETTING AN IPOD TOUCH!!!!!!!! All the Clark children are selling their Ipads and getting their own IPod touch!! We are all getting the 32 GB gold 6th generation. I'M SOOOOO EXCITED!!! We will probably get it today!! We are buying it at Huppin's.

CHRISTMAS

Our aunt, uncle, and our older cousins came to have Christmas with us! They live in California and  got here on Tuesday evening. They drove. On the day after Christmas we all went skiing! for Christmas we got a TV, 2 computers, a nail set, instant oatmeal packets, money, gift cards, bath towels, a sleeping bag, headbands, an American Girl magazine subscription, and balloons.

Christmas Poems

(I didn't write these, I just found them off of the internet)  :)

Carolers 

Holly
Reindeer
Ice
Stockings
Tree
Mistletoe
Angel
Santa

Bethlehem
Amazing
Baby
Yawned

Joy
Everlasting
Son of God
Under
Stars

Silent
Night
Outside
Winter

Book club

Hello! I joined a book club! Although I HATE reading, I LOVE book club! Book club is every month. There are 8 girls in it, including joy and I. I am actually starting too enjoy reading (FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER)!  We read The Royal Diaries Book series and right now we are reading Kaiulani the Island princess. It's about a 12 year old girl who is princess of  Hawaii and her father is making her go to Egland for 1 year to do her schoolwork. We have also read Cleopatra, Princess of the Nile.