My New Helicopter

For Christmas I got a cool helicopter. We took it out on Christmas day while all our grandparents were there and I was very dissappointed! I didn't know it had to be charged first. We played with it a little anyway but couldn't really get it off the ground.

So, I charged it and took it out a few days later and it really flew. It was awesome! It flew all the way down to the end of our street and landed on a moving truck at the apartments and some kids climbed up and got it and were playing with it by the time my dad and I ran down to find it.

I made Christmas gifts for everyone

In metal/woodshop class I made key hooks. Daddy's has a Dallas Cowboy's star but see below my granparents all have Texas inside theirs.

In photography I made mousepads for everyone. They are all different!

And in wood shop I made my mom salad spoons.

Bird Houses

Last Christmas I came up with the idea to make something for my grandparents for Christmas.
My mom found some bird house plans online and printed them for me. Dad helped me a little on the first one but I made one for each set of grandparents and by the time I started on the second one I really knew what I was doing. Today the bird houses still look great and birds are living in them. They seem to prefer mine to the "store bought" houses. There have been several sets of babies born in them.