Easy ways to start a bonfire!!

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Ever since we were little, my dad has taught us that,

1. Fire is not to be played with and matches are not toys.

and

2. How to start a fire.

So I’m going to tell you how to start a good bonfire.

1. Clear a good spot away from tree’s, (unless your campsite has a pit) in this case we had a hole dug, from earlier when we tried to make a pond, but that’s another story.
2. Gather lot’s of wood, logs, twigs(as tinder), and paper if you have it.
3. Lay down a good layer of paper, perhaps, 30 pages/papers crumpled up into loose balls. Then lay a lot of your smallest twigs on the paper. Strike a match or whatever you have, and let ‘er rip!

TIP: As your fire get’s bigger add on your wood to the fire, if you wish to make your fire bigger, you may need to get more wood!

During the bonfire my family thought I did a really good job getting a blazing fire goin’. It was so big we had to move back a couple of feet. Once we had a fire going, we played games in the dark like, flashlight tag, or spotlight (which is similar to flashlight tag), and my dad sat with us and told us stories about things he did with fire as a child :0

All in all it was awesome!

Family

It was great to have Garrett home. He takes after my Dad and is a great story teller. He told me some hilarious tales about being in the Marines. Next Tuesday we get to go to his wedding in Washington. Gavin, my older brother, hopes they have a chocolate fountain. I do too….tee hee :-)

For the trip my Marmee downloaded some Jonathan Park audio stories for my MP3 player. I like them because I learn a lot of scientific facts about creation, God, ancient artifacts and animals.

I like our new family picture. See me in my cool shades? It took us a while to get this just right.  I’m holding my younger sister, Gaela.

We started school last week. This year my Father is teaching us History and Science. He is a funny teacher. Of course my Marmee and I seem to laugh our heads off at no apparent reason too…. tee hee :-)

I like science better because science goes BOOM!  tee hee :-)

Family fun

 

A  few days later we had a campfire. During Garrett’s stay

Garrett took us to Wal-mart, spent time with us ect.

Having him here was strange…at first then, again, I think it was strange for all of us.

Just reunited

Here’s Garrett and Sara just as they came off the plane.

 

 

Just havin’ some fun

Here’s Garrett and my Dad… Just havin’ some fun

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are reunited!… for a week at least.

Garrett has returned! For the past week he has been home.

And here are some of the activities that we did. 

 

 

Here Sarah getting some Indian spirit :-)

 

 

 

 

 

The artist… and the canvas. :-)

 

 

 

 

 

Meal site

For the past few weeks my family and I have been helping out at a local Meal site.

 

 

The week before school 

started we made thank you  notes. 

Superhero or Jedi?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Superman…. or Yoda?

 

 

 

 

 

In a cowboy hat? When did they  go Western?

Cute

More Crafts

Here are a bunch of  fun little projects from a family blog

called Martinworld. Hope you enjoy!

 

Waterworks

 

Look what we made! We made the Water Work Cycle.

 

 

 

 

Here’s some pictures of what and how we did it.

 

Learning About Yellowstone

  A little while before we left we, Me, Gladys and down, excluding Nuby(Granton), did a lap book on Yellowstone.

 

 

 

 

The Second Amendment

This is very true.

“We have a right to bear arms.”

 

Mama At The Tea Party

Look, there’s my Mom! She went to the party to

Can you spot her? To the left of her is the lady who invited them.

 

 

 

A princess and her friend

Here’s Grace and Rebekah, her friend, at the tea party.

 

 

 

Dress up or Tea party?

A friend of my Mom’s invited the girls to it in a nearby town called Lenox.

Look at the little Princess attending a tea party.

 

 

 

 

 

Fishing anyone?

Here’s my Dad trying to fish without being called for help.

 

 

 

Fishing At Leonard’s

Well we  didn’t catch anything on our expedition , but we did bring back a bin full of Red Clover

 

 

 

Look what I caught! :0

Not on purpose.

 

 

 

 

Here’s Gage getting ready to fish.

Place Could Use A Good “fixer-upper”

Here’s G-G bex, in our camper that we used to live in at California.

Great Faces, Great Places!

Can you believe it?!? We made it to Mt. Rushmore! Seeing it was…well… AWESOME!!!!

Here are some interesting facts.

• People had to millions of holes one inch from each other.
• Only 10% was drilled ( the rest of the carving was done by Dynamite.)
• And it took TWENTY years to make!!!

Aye Captain!

Here’s Captain Gunnar(me) at port making sure all is well…

Family River Fishing

Here we are at  a river we were driving up.

Monster!

Check out what I caught! A whole 20 inches! I caught her at the local lake… Fogle.  After gutted it, I stuck ‘er in the freezer.

“… Waiting…waiting… waiting… Mom! When are we gonna eat that fish?!?  

Jacklins Fly Shop

Jacklins Fly Shop is “the greatest place in the world to learn to River fish, by fly’s, poles, fly rods and so on" is what my Dad said. If you ever visit that shop you’ll see what I mean.

(This is the man who taught my Dad to Fly fish. He’s probably moved away.)

Silly or what?

Here’s my Dad and Gavin in front of a…well I don’t remember but it was an interesting place!

Vacation fun :)

 

Here’s Granton and Daddy looking through our car window.

Hansom? ;)

Tempted

“Is a Christian movie about the daily battles of  Temptation

When a high school student is asked to a “get-together”

he faces a battle in his mind against Satan.”

I thought it was great example

of our daily battles with Satan.

Check it out at Behemoth

In Philippians 4:13 it says

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”

Just Fixed ;)

 

Look at me!

Can you guess what I’m on?

 

 

 

 

A  lawnmower.

Engaged? Already?

Look at this cute couple soon to wed in……………November !!!