Cucumber and Garden

Finally our cucumbers have grown!!!!!!! We ate one cucumber and pickled the rest. They were delicious. This is the way we did it.

Ingredients

cucumbers, vinegar, mustard seeds, dill, water, garlic and a jar

Instructions

1. cut the cucumbers in spears.                                          

2. cook the vinegar water and mustard seeds at medium heat

3. Use a jar and put a clove of garlic in. 

4. Put the cucumbers in and pour the vinegar, mustard seeds, and water in the jar.

5. put the dill in (I forgot to put it in so we put it in last).                          

         It's really good. Next year I'm just going to grow cucumbers, then sell them. We got a bunch of tomatoes, but then the plant died They were tiny tomatoes. The lettuce was delicious.  It's not like the kind you get from the grocery store.   We picked it one leaf at a time.

Ashni Go

My sister Ashni started fencing this month and got put in to a tournament on Saturday. She did really good on her first tournament she got up to 3rd place. She won ... i think 5 games and lost 0 , but on the elimination round a girl beat her from Memphis . other then that she did really well and got a bronze medal here are some pictures of here fencing and a video plus shes in the blue and white stripes .

our little garden

 My sisters and I started a garden.  There's more than just the picture. In this pictures, we have lettuce and  cucumbers . The rest is tomatoes, peppers, green beans and mint.  I love plants.

room make over

On Sunday mom, me and my sisters redid our room. I love rearranging things. We don't have that big of a room, so we don't have that much stuff to rearrange.  Our room is just a little bit smaller then our tittle sisters  room.  Here are some good pictures of our room -

Family Dinner

On Sunday night I made a dinner and dessert all by myself for my family.  For dinner I made an Alsation leek and onion tart with asparagus and salmon.  For dessert I made mini napoleons.  I had to make the pastry cream early and I made it from scratch. My mom and sister made homemade ginger ale. I made a little book with all the recipes in it, ingredients, the amount of money it would cost. I was very happy with what I did.  My little sisters Bijou and Zion were tired and cranky while I was making dinner, but they made it.  It was a late dinner, but a good one. Here are some pictures of our family dinner.

Spring has come

spring has finally come WE ARE STARTING OUR GARDEN . but I'm a little worried about it because in Mississippi or oxford in spring the weather s crazy its always dark and theirs tornado warnings or tornado watch or thunder storm warning o my mom and me were thinking we can just put a plastic top or something over it over it .I now were going to grow mint gr. beans, pepper, cucumber, spinach, lettuce, and tomatoes that is as much stuff i think were going to grow. We have these humongous tree's in or back yard because we never rake our leaves in the fall. For a long time we didn't now Wye there was these beautiful bird i our back yard and now my mom just figured out that its the leaves theres always bugs under the leaves so the bird s can get under the leaves and eat the bug . Here some pictures of our spring brake.

SUPRISE trip to St. louis

My mom was planning a surprise trip to St. Louis. None of us knew but a couple of fiends and my dad. My mom snuck and did everything for the trip without us knowing. She packed breakfast, clothes,and activities for the road.  It really was a surprise for all of us (my sisters and my grandmother).  My mom woke us up at like 5:30 am on Friday. When she woke us up, we were all like "What's wrong? Do you have to go to work?" She was like, "No. WE'RE GOING TO ST.LOUIS FOR THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS!" I was the only one who understood right away. My other sisters took a minute to understand that they were actually going to St.Louis.  So we got to my grandmothers house at 12:00 pm. We actually surprised our grandmother, too.  My mom never actually surprised her before. We had a very good time that weekend spending time with our family.

Fun night

Last night we were planning to turn a song on Grooveshark and my sisters and I would sing to it at the same time. Bijou and Zion would be the back up dancer.  I would be the back up singer and Ashni would be the singer.  We did it once when my grandmother lived here. We planned and practiced it so hard, but didn't work out. But Bijou payed my guitar. She looked so cute in her outfit...

She needed more practice but she was really good.

My mom was working on a cool drawing. Its really cool with lots of design.

angry birds craze

Me and my family loves angry birds. I mean like on the computer for 2 hours playing it. So me, my mom and sisters are like computer crazies. When I'm on the computer too long my eyes hurt like crazy. So I made a little scene with dollhouse people, dinosaurs, blocks and some other random stuff. That's when my mom got a good idea to make some pigs with wooden blocks and angry birds with rubber balls from dollar tree. Total cost for that was about $1.07.  Also I got a Y shape stick and put rubber band on it for a sling shot. Our family love's cheap, homemade games.   

Black bomb bird

                                                                                  

My Life and About Me

My name is Jena and I'm ten years old.  I have three sisters Ashni, Zion, and Bijou. I do ballet at Oxford Ballet School. I love art and am very friendly
                                                                                                               
I've been trying to write a blog, but I couldn't keep up with it. I'm really going to try and keep up with this blog. My mom has a blog called Four Bad Apples and she works at Plein air Montessori school. My dad works at Boure in Oxford. I'm starting yoga, jazz and modern classes and still doing ballet. My mom wants me to do different dances along with ballet and I do too.  Modern is really fun and different at the same time. Since my mom is working, my dad is homeschooling me and my sisters . Its been pretty good so far . Bijou and Zion have been visiting my mom's school sometimes. I'm doing a novel for a month in November so right now I'm practicing for about nine months.