Failed Pancakes and Flowers

I had a good week.
On Monday I went to piano practice, and I've started on Madame De Pompadour, which is a lovely piece of music from one of the episodes of Doctor Who. I've got the first page down, and now I just have to wait until this Monday to get the next one done. I don't usually take it one page at a time, but my piano teacher said it would be better because this piece has six flats. Yes. Six. But once I got the hang of it, it's not that hard.

On Tuesday I went to our other homeschool co-op and got to see mah friends again. In my Writing class one of  my teachers spends personal time with anyone who wants their writing critiqued, so I always do that. This week we were doing poetry, which I am in love with, so she read through mine and liked it. :D
I'm the only girl in my class, and all the boys in it hate poetry. Their loss. XD I don't know why though, poetry is beautiful. But it is kind of funny every week when they're all like, "Whhhhyyy are we doing this? WHY?" And I enjoy it so I just kinda laugh at them in my head.

Yesterday I asked my brother to teach me how to use a shotgun. So he did. I'm really proud now. I know how to shoot with one.
We went up in our tree house thingy and he set a box out in the woods for me to aim at. I was afraid the gun would have a kick to it and slam into my shoulder, but it didn't have strong one. It was really loud though, but really cool. And I kept my first empty shell.
I'm not sure how many times I actually hit the box, because when we brought it back in it was full of holes, but my brother shot some too. So I dunno if I hit it at all. I kept aiming too high.

Me with the shotgun. :D

My mom got that picture. :)

I was babysitting Emelyn and Peyton on Thursday night. Because I'm an awesome big sister I decided to make pancakes for dinner. They were really excited when I made them into heart shapes. :D

Peyton with her heart pancake.

 

 I usually mess up on making pancakes, but I actually got these ones done really well. So I finished and we were all happy and hungry and ready to eat pancakes... And then we had no syrup, and pancakes are not pancakes without syrup. So I decided to make syrup, which is surprisingly easy. My mom used to do it all the time when I was younger, so she texted me the easy recipe and I followed it. 

Only, it's probably better to have all the details the first time you make syrup, because I left it on the stove for too long and it basically turned it to really yummy concrete on the bottom of a pan. 

So, not one to be discouraged, I tried again. And this time I was so worried about ruining another pan and messing up the syrup that I didn't cook it long enough. So it was kind of a pasty bowl of sugar. Which was no good.

So after burning my tongue about five times and also burning my fingers a lot we had to eat my beautiful pancakes without any syrup. It was mortifying.

And I'm a klutz in the kitchen apparently. Ah well, it won't stop me from cooking.

I went out jogging with my sister on Thursday, I think. She plays soccer so she can jog for a really long time. I kept making her slow down because I'm pretty awful at keeping up for a long time. And I also kept stopping her so I could take pictures. There are a lot of flowers out now, 'cause it's Spring Time, and we live in the country, so it was really beautiful and I got a lot of pictures. 

 

I had to take like ten pictures before I got one with its wings open. 

 

 

 

 

This is one of my favorites.

 

I thought this looked lovely.

I think I annoyed her with how much I stopped her, but we had a lot of fun. We're really close in age, so we're best friends and we laugh and talk a lot. At one point she said something and I just had to stop and bend over because I was laughing so hard. Keep in mind I did this on the side of the road because I was laughing so hard. There are hardly ever any cars on it though, since it's kinda the middle of nowhere.

And then we talked about TV shows we liked, and about other stuff, and we sang this weird little hand shake/song we came up with together. It was great fun. 

My big sister Madison is HOME FROM COLLEGE FOR THE WHOLE SUMMER! I'm really happy. This means that when our Dad gets back from his trip our family will be back together! :D

Have a lovely weekend minions.