Birthday Party And Other Stuff!

I'M BAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!!!!

Sorry I didn't blog for a while. I just... didn't feel like it. I have 3 posts planned for August after this, because for two weeks I'll be busy... hey, I've got more ideas! But I probably won't post 'em. Anyway....

My birthday! On May 31st, my grandparents took me out to dinner, as well as two stores! One I spent way more time in. And I got all this!

The first store I went to was Walmart, and I got one thing: a Pokemon Torchic plush! The second store I went to was Gamestop, and one of the things I got there was a Pokemon Pancham plush!

And I have two new amiibos! Charizard and Jigglypuff!

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And lastly, I got a bunch of 3DS styluses!

And that's it for that. In June, I had a huge birthday party! I've been planning for it for a long time! A lot of friends came, and we all had fun! We ate a dinner of sausage sauce spaghetti, we played Picture Telephone, and we played a Smash tournament! That was epic.

But the big thing I'm showing you is what I got for gifts!

First, I'll show you that I got a $30 American Express gift card as well as a $20 Nintendo eShop gift card and 25 other dollars in bills! What did I spend this money on? I'll tell you in my next post, My Room Showcase #2! And you can count on that existing! Just... in August. Aaaanyway, I also got some Ice Cubes gum and squirt guns!

A Mario and Mewtwo amiibo!

Super Mario Maker and LEGO Marvel Super Heroes! Super Mario Maker is just what it sounds like, a game where you make Super Mario Bros. levels! LEGO Marvel Super Heroes... It's okay. But hey! It's the thought that counts!

A Pokemon Umbreon plush!

And lastly, some nice earbuds and... Tomodachi Life! This game I've been addicted to for about a month now. It didn't last, but it was fun while it did! This is a game where you can bring Miis together to live in a big building of apartments, and you have everyone you want living together, like Zelda, Luke Skywalker, Donald Trump and other people!

Here are some funny moments from this past month.

Well, in conclusion, I had a really fun birthday, and I got really nice gifts. See ya next time!

Early Birthday Fun!

Around a week ago, I went to my dad's house to celebrate my birthday! ...Even though it was over a week away then... and we had fun! I got some nice , like a Star Wars kite

a Star Wars puzzle

and... A GOPRO HERO SESSION!!!!!!!! Jealous? I hope not, jealousy's not good... This is an awesome camera, with 1080p quality, waterproofness, mobile device compatibility, and other awesome stuff.

We did some things like watch Youtube videos, film with my GoPro, and we had a nice lunch of spaghetti with sausage sauce! A while after that, we ate some ice cream cake! I was going to light the candles with a lighter, being about 16 and all, but I got a teeeeeeeeeensy bit burned. So I used a lit candle. (the following pic is taken by the GoPro, by the way!)

And my grandma gave me a card that had $10 in it, so.... I FINISHED SAVING UP FOR A >NEW< 3DS XL!!!!! Yeah!!! I bought a used one on Ebay after I got home for $147.24. Here it is! It is really awesome. Not only does it have bigger screens, but it has a few extra controls, faster processing power and amiibo support!

This was an awesome day, an awesome visit, and awesome gifts! I can't wait to tell you about the rest of my birthday fun! See ya!

Goodbye 2015!

So, 2015! That was a good year. Some things didn't go the way I wanted to but I like all years. For this blog... It larger than last year, but I was... lazier.  I didn't write about certain things like moving, and fun parties I had. But in December I made a lot more posts than the other months, because of the 12 Days of Christmas! series. Did I accomplish both my New Year's Resolutions? No! Not entirely! I have read my Bible almost every day, but not completely. I did get a reward for catching all the Pokemon, but... I still have a few "secret" ones left. Tonight, I'm not really going to a big party, but we are having a friend over. It's hard to believe that it'll be 2016 in some hours! My New Year's Resolutions for 2016? Getting a >New< 3DS, finishing up catching all the Pokemon, and getting every Star Wars digitally! And I will try to make a bigger blogging year! Goodbye, 2015! And I hope you guys have a wonderful New Year!

Announcement: In January, I will make a post called My Thoughts on Star Wars: The Force Awakens {[(SPOILERS!!!)]} so look forward to that!

12 Days of Christmas! Day 12: Christmas 2015!

Today, Sophie woke me up early. After everyone got up, we opened stockings. Along with candy and things, I got a cute stout little Kylo Ren plush, which talks if you press his chest!

a pair of BB-8 socks, which match my BB-8 shirt,

and a Finn action figure! My dad suggested to keep it in its box so it can increase value (although my mom says that'll be probably in 40 years)

After that, we decided to attempt to sit through the entire Star Wars Holiday Special, and it was so bad... it was entertaining! After less than an hour of watching, we ate breakfast, which was pancakes, and then we went to opening presents! I got a Pokemon Deluxe Essential Handbook, which is basically a physical Pokedex in alphabetical order!

The Beatrice Letters by Lemony Snicket, which is an intriguing A Series of Unfortunate Events spinoff!

a Star Wars: The Force Awakens soundtrack!

a Star Wars Trivia Game, which tests your Star Wars knowledge and is quite fun!

a Japanese Shulk amiibo, which is sold out at retail stores but is sold for more at online stores, plus it's awesome!

and the best one of all... a pre-order to a digital copy of the movie... STAR WARS THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!!!!!!!!! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!! I get to own my favorite Star Wars movie in spring 2016! This also comes with a few cool posters, too!

After that, we finished the Holiday Special. And when that was over, we played the Star Wars Trivia Game, and we had a lot of fun! After our game, we made a new version of the game where we play only one aspect and put it to elimination!

After that, we played some Smash, and then we finished Tomorrowland. I would say that movie is pretty positive. And we played a lot more Smash. That was fun. We cleaned up, and they left. It felt like the day was finished, even at around 5, when I started this post. But the festivities don't end today! Tomorrow, I am going to see my dad, and he's got more gifts to unwrap, and we will have fun! Merry Christmas!

On the 12th day of Christmas, these things happened to me:

Christmas came,

Christmas Eve came, 

I did a White Elephant gift exchange,

we made Christmas sweets, 

I went caroling at a nursing home

I went to Andrew's party,

I saw The Force Awakens again...

I WENT CAROLING!

I watched The Force Awakens,

I went to Wednesday homegroup

I did Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

and I made Christmas card art with glee!

12 Days of Christmas Day 6: The Force Awakens Again!

Today I woke up around 7 AM. Mom wanted to wake up early, but she just kept sleeping in. She got up finally and then she told me it had snowed. Okay, whatever. After a period of Youtube binge-watching, we left to clean the church briefly. Then we went to see dad and grandma! We mostly watched Youtube videos, but dad gave us special "micropresents" before Christmas. He gave us each $50 (Well, me $49 but still) and a Cinemagic gift card. We also ordered some stuffing late lunch. Later, we watched AFV, and that was funny. After that, we went to grammie's briefly and then went to see... Star Wars: The Force Awakens again! This time not just with brothers but with mom! The second time it was still amazing. Oh yeah. We went home and it was really late. So I made this post and I went to bed.

On the 6th day of Christmas, these things happened to me: I saw Force Awakens again... I WENT CAROLING! I watched The Force Awakens, I went to Wednesday homegroup, I did Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and I made Christmas card art with glee!

12 Days of Christmas! Day 5: Caroling!

Today, Sophie woke me up around 10, and I fell asleep and then mom woke me up at 11. So mom said today was a light school day. Great! After a while, I got to school with reading. Mom left to the store briefly, and we were supposed to stay on the same floor, and Sophie was watching The Muppets, so I had to sit uncomfortably in a closet. After that, I continued my history test, and did very little because I got very distracted. And then I almost finished my Pearl Harbor report. So it was a lighter school day than mom wanted it to be. After that, we went to Sophie's horseback-riding class, which I've never been to before. Turns out this is Sophie's first time riding by herself!

We went home briefly, ate dinner, and went to the church for a special Youthgroup. This time we were going Christmas carols! We went caroling around the neighborhood and sang songs like Joy to the World and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. That was fun, but really cold. When we came back for hot choco, there wasn't just that, but gingerbread cookies that you could frost!

And I had too much of it. Mom vaccumed the church for a while and then we came home. It was late. So I finished this blog post (with some distractions) and went to bed.

On the 5th day of Christmas, these things happened to me: I WENT CAROLING! I watched The Force Awakens, I went to Wednesday homegroup, I did Brazillian Jiu Jitsu and I made Christmas card art with glee! 

12 Days of Christmas! Day 4: Star Wars: The Force Awakens!

(Sorry I didn't post this yesterday... I came home too late)
Yesterday, I got up around 8:30 and after a while, I started school with reading Star Wars Jedi Apprentice: The Dark Rival. chapters 1 and 2. Those were short. After that, I cleaned the bathrooms, and then wrapped a gift for Christmas.

After mom got off the computer, I finally got to math... and I was way too sidetracked. I started at around 12 PM and ended at around 2 PM. And it wasn't a whole math lesson! I continued school after that. Then we went to the church to do art class! We didn't finish the Christmas cards on Monday, so they told us to come again today on Thursday to do that. We went there, and we didn't really "finish" the Christmas cards, but we cut the art out and glued it on folded paper.

After that, we made new art on a Christmas card for a neat flower. I am not proud of it, but other people liked it.

While we were there, me and my art class teacher talked about Star Wars. one of the the things she told me was that she actually went to Tunisia in Africa, where the Tatooine parts of A New Hope were filmed! I'm jealous! So we finished art class, and mom told me we were going to Job Lots for Christmas shopping. She told me that they have everything there! And I was like... "No they don't! I've been there!" but she went anyway. Turns out it was farther than she thought. But then I saw Charles here, and I was like what a coincidence! And then he told me "We're going to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens!" And I was like "Are you serious??" What added even more to the surprise was that I thought people could only watch The Force Awakens on the 17th if they're lucky winners or something. Oh my gosh! First, we went to Wendy's and ate dinner there. And then we went to Target to look at stuff while we're waiting to see the movie. Then we went to Cinemagic around an hour early.

There was a big line that didn't budge for a while, and then it moved quickly. While we were in the theater, watching the ads, Andrew and Isaiah came to watch, too! The movie? ... ... ... Without spoilers, it was the most awe-inspiring experience in a movie ever. I was blown away. AND I'M GONNA SEE IT AGAIN ON SATURDAY!!

We went to Andrew and Isaiah's house, and we watched some hilarious videos called Star Wars Bad Lip Readings. Then Charles brought me home REALLY late. And I went to sleep around 3:00 AM.

On the 4th day of Christmas, these things happened to me: I saw The Force Awakens, I went to Wednesday homegroup, I did Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and I made Christmas card art with glee!

12 Days of Christmas! Day 3: Wednesday Homegroup!

Last night, mom told me to get up at 8:00 AM because she was leaving then. So I set my alarm for then. But mom woke me up at, like, 7:55. And then my alarm got me up at 8:00 AM. After a while, I started school with math, but it took so long that I had to do only half of it. After that, I washed the dishes. But I didn't dry them. I did some other school stuff, but I couldn't do reading because I had left my book in the car, which mom had taken. Also while she was gone, I filmed some footage for a movie that I was putting on Facebook. When mom came home, I played Splatoon and Smash Bros. Wii U online with Isaiah. We had fun. After that, I did more school. Reading was notable as the ending was... dissapointing. 

After school, I uploaded my video I was working on. Finally! And just in time! After that, I bought the character that came out yesterday on Smash... Cloud! I played Classic Mode and got used to the character. Ah, I'm getting so distracted by other stuff on the internet... I should get to tonight! So tonight I went to our church homegroup! On Wednesdays, this was the adult homegroup, So I hung out with my friends and we talked Star Wars. That was fun. Goodnight. That was too quick. Sorry for the inconvenience. 

On the third day of Christmas, these things happened to me: I went to Wednesday homegroup, I did Brazillian Jiu Jitsu, and I made Christmas card art with glee! 

12 Days of Christmas! Day 1: Christmas Card Art Class!

Guess what! I'm starting a new series on my blog! Technically, it's nothing new, because I've done it before a couple years ago on my old, outdated blog but it's new on here! For 12 days from December 14-25 I am posting public journals with pictures on this blog! One big difference with this and the one I did a couple years ago was that the old one was littered with Youtube videos of what I watched or played. And this won't be. Rather, I'll post pictures of what I watched or played. Enjoy!

Today, I woke up to my 3DS alarm at 8:30, and hit the snooze button multiple times. I got up around 9:15. It started as an average school day, where I started out with silent reading, which was chapters 3-4 of Star Wars: Queen of the Empire by Paul Davis and Hollis Davis. Those chapters were interesting and funny. After that, I ate a couple snacks, and I did my Bible reading, which was Hebrews 12-13 and Jude. Those chapters were interesting and healthy. After that, I did my math.

And while I was doing math, I ate lunch, which was Ramen soup. Mom told me at around 3:15 we were leaving to the library before we go to the church for a special art class session for making Christmas cards. So at 2 PM I had an hour and 15 minutes to finish school. I started out with doing more of my rough draft for a report on the Pearl Harbor attack. Next, I did my Language Arts, which was finishing a chapter of The Hiding Place, answering questions on it, taking vocabulary from it, and other stuff. But I got a headache, so I took a shower and I couldn't finish it. We also couldn't go to the library before the art class. We went to the church, and the art class was fresh and fun! We did things like rolling paint on a board then printing it on paper, and doing the same with a gel board! Here are the ones I made. 

After that, we went to Subway and Sophie and mom had dinner from there while I had Chunky Soup for dinner. Throughout the day I played the video games Pokémon Ruby, Super Smash Bros 3DS and Splatoon. The game I most played was Smash 3DS, where I beat Classic Mode on the highest difficulty for the second time ever! After I wrote these words, we played a special game where we each pick a book and take turns taking sentences from them and putting them into a silly story. Here's the one we did today:

There was once a little girl named Mary. They both lay back on the steps.After talking for a few minutes, I said, "Tom, you obviously run a pretty good business." "Oh, no!" There were some sounds that slowly faded away. Once the kids were back in the car, they all started chanting, "McDonalds! McDonalds!" Then John saw something. Right then, though he really wasn't being careful; he just wanted the guys to agree with him. You'll find some terrific deals at estate sales and auctions but you have to be careful. All this time Grandmother was busy. If you think Chris and Willy should leave and come back some other time, turn to page 8. Also, if you;re sitting in a big mess right now and simply cannot afford to make even the minimum payments on your debt, don't lose hope! Mary lay in bed and didn't have to do a thing. Christ took a deep breath. "Gotta buy a house! Gotta buy a house! Mary is getting a little stronger every day," he said.

Taken from the books Busy Times, The Hidden Staircase, and Dave Ramsey's Complete Guide to Money.

What did you think? Crazy, huh? Well, we had fun. Mom said it was her least favorite of the ones we did, but it was still funny. I found out that Facebook is doing a special thing where you take your profile picture and put a lightsaber in it to show that you are a true Star Wars fan. Coincidently, I already had a profile pic that had me covering my right eye with a Subway glowstick lightsaber, so that fit perfectly.

 

After that, I worked on my video My Top 6 Favorite Star Wars Movies, which I'm hoping to upload to Youtube tomorrow. And it's getting late now, so I should get to bed. Goodnight.

On the first day of Christmas, this thing happened to me: I made Christmas card art with glee.