Emmy’s Blog

Today is my dad’s Birthday. So I want to say this” HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD! I want to wish my mom a VERY belated birthday.

Today is my sister’s birthday. She turned 10 years old. Shaina and I are only 2 days and 5 years apart! For presents she got mostly Pokemon stuff. Her favorite pokemon is Pikachu. She also received alot of other cool things. So this is what I have to say:

Happy birthday to you

happy birthday to you

happy birthday dear Shaina

 happy birthday to you

Are you 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 STOP

 She is 10 years old

she is ten years old

she is 10 years old

she is ten years OLD

 Happy Birthday Shaina

           This is Pikachu.                                      Here is a cake for you Shaina.

When the nor’eastern storm hit us on Sunday lots of people lost power including me. My dad had to go on storm duty for most of that night. In the morning we still didn’t have power and my dad got frustrated. My sister and I played “Clue” and after we finished the game the power came back on.

The problem was that many people had no power still so my dad had to do more storm duty. We were planing on going to Washington D.C. with my grandparents, but their basement got flooded and we had to postpone our trip until June. On the other hand I got to see my cousins because we went to New Jersey to help my grandparents. Unfortunately we had to clean their basement which kinda smelled and was very dusty.

On 4/2/07 I went to my Bubby and Zedy’s house for a Jewish holiday called Passover. At Passover we remember when Moses asked the Pharaoh[Ramses II] to release the Jews, but Ramses II said no. So God put ten plagues upon Egypt and they were that the river turned to blood, frogs covered the land, lice came, flies came, all cattle died, boils upon every man, hail fell, locust came, darkness covered the land for three days and finally every first born was killed. But the Lord spared the Jewish childern by having them put lambs blood above their doors so God would pass over them. Finally the Pharaoh let the Jews go. That is how the first  Passover happend. We eat Matzah which is unraised bread. We eat it because when the Jews were leaving Egypt they didn’t have time to raise their bread so they made Matzah. What my Zedy does is hide some Matzah under a pillow and we had to try and grab it while he isn’t watching.  We also said some prayers in Hebrew and sang “dayanu”. Later I played with my cousin Tyler and talked to my Aunts and Uncles. I was so much fun.

 Matzah                                      Star Of David

Here are some pictures of where my cousins live in Starrucca Pennsylvania.

Isn’t it beatuiful!?

This the pond we go swiming in at the summerfest.

In the summer we roast marshmellows and make smores here,but we have to lie down or put our face behind something because it gets really hot.

On Febuary break my family and I went to my cousins house in Starucca, Pennsylvania. They live in a town that is very small, but on the other hand their house is beautiful. They also have a pond that we swim in during the summer and a giant sleding hill that we slide on in the winter. Every year we go up there and we call this time the winterfest. I have four cousins and their names are Harrison, Caitlin, Natale and Jessica. I also have a Aunt Mary and a Uncle Matt. They have four dogs and their names are Molly[pug], Meg[cairn terrier], Kayla[dauschaund] and Margo[french bulldog]. If Meg got face to face with my dog Nicky, Meg would try to hurt Nicky and Nicky would hide under a chair! They kept all of the dogs (except Nicky) in the kitchen. When we were up there we had a blast sleding. I went on a sled with Natale and we flew off a jump and she landed on top of me! Then later Shaina, Harris, Caitlin, Natale, Mesha[their friend], Jessie, and I hooked our sleds together and made a train. The first run was sucessful but the other run wasn’t. Harris was the connector for the two sleds and he let go of the first sled with Jessie on it and the rest of us ran over Harris and made a giant dent in the run! Then Molly and Margo came running down the track to meet us as they always did. At the end of the day we all made it down to the pond[ the ice on it was 5 inches thick] and began the very long hike up the hill. On the day we had to leave we had a giant snowball fight, but Molly just ate the snowballs. While we were up there we saw some Charlie Chaplin slient films with a organ doing the music and then went to the Chinese Buffet and ate alot. while we were there we would also play card games and the computer game “Where in the world is Carmen Sandiago”. We even watched the Patrick for President marathon! I can’t wait to see them again.

At the back of the sled is Caitlin in the green, then Shaina, Mesha, Harris, Emmy and Natale. To see more pitures of my cousins house click here.