Goal:575
Christmas Day is here! I ran down the steps to see my brother rush down right behind me. The Christmas tree lights were flashing and our lawn was full of white, crisp snow. I could play all day! I saw candy canes on our Christmas tree. I grabbed one and peeled the wrapper off slowly. "Merry Christmas Aria and Dyson," my mom was full of joy, she always is. That makes me happy.
"Thanks," I said popping the candy cane in my mouth.
Payce came from around the corner and smiled at us. He was full of joy! He ran up and jumped on me. I grabbed him, a little startled. I hugged him back. I turned around and saw that Dyson had his eyes fixed on the presents. Gifts are his favorite thing.
"Hey Dyson," my mom said," we can do that later."
"Aww. Fine,"
He looked like he was faking his "depression" from not getting to open his gifts. I bit my candy cane in half and started to chew it
"Hey Dyson...do you wanna build a snowman?" I said in tune to the song.
"Sure!"
We got all of our snow gear on. Snow pants? Check. Gloves and boots? Check. Warm layers of jackets? Check. Hats or ear muffs? Check. Scarfs? Check. We were all set for having a wonderful snowman experience! Now we just need to get Payce ready. We went through the checklist with Payce and went to the door.
"Mom! We're going outside!" Dyson yelled.
"Okay! I'll stay in here," she replied.
I opened the door, slowly. It moved slowly. I didn't think I was ready for the intense coldness. We walked outside, trying not to struggle in the snow. Payce had the hardest time because it covered a lot of him. First, we gathered some snow. Actually a lot of snow. Payce was having the time of his life, jumping up and down in the snow. We did all of the hard work.
"Are we done with the base of the snowman?" Dyson put his hands in his pocket.
"I think so," I replied with a calm tone in my voice.
"We should take Payce in. He probably wants a cookie."
"Cookie please!" Payce had over heard us talking about cookies, which he calls dukies.
We walked back to the door and slid it open in what felt like a millisecond. We got Payce undressed and into his regular clothes. He ran off to our mom saying, "cookie please!"
Dyson looked at me and I looked at him. We both shared a smile. It's like we were sharing the same thought.
We shut the door and then the screen door after. We were going to finish our snowman.
"Ok Dyson, I'll finish the head and you get pebbles and two sticks. Ready? Go!" I was ready. Dyson was too.
I found a clean patch of snow and put it on the top of our headless snowman. I patted it and shaped the form of it. It was starting to look like a snowman! I quickly spotted a small area of some crisp white snow and put it on the snowman.
"I'm done," I said as Dyson brought the sticks and pebbles. We placed the eyes and the arms. Beautiful. I went inside and grabbed a carrot. I stuck it on our snowman.
"We're done!" Dyson and I were so happy.
We finished our snowman.(Monday)
(Goal:150)
"I'm cold Aria, do you want to go inside?" Dyson had his hands at his sides and his jaw was shaking.
"Sure," I said struggling to walk to the door. We slid open the screen door and then the real door. We took off our snow boots, jackets, snow pants, hats, gloves, and scarfs. I was wearing my pajamas underneath my snow gear. Dyson was too.
"Ahhhh, it feels good to be warm," Dyson said letting himself fall on the couch.
"Hey Dyson, do you wanna get a cookie?" I asked. I knew what the answer was.
"Yeah!"
We both rushed over to the cookie jar. There were three left. Yes!
"Do you want one?" I asked as I turned to my mother.
"Ehhh. I'll eat mine later," she was drinking some water.
"Okay,"
Dyson grabbed a cookie and I grabbed mine. They had red and green frosting. That made me remember my birthday cookies. (Wednesday)
(Goal:250)
My birthday was on December eleventh and I had just turned eleven! The cookies were awesome and everybody liked them! I baked them the last night. It was hard.
When we were finished with the cookies, we ran to our mom.
"Hey," she said, Payce on her lap.
"Hi mum!" I ran up to her and hugged her.
"Sooo...can we open presents?" Dyson was looking at the box that said, -To Dyson.
"Okay, fine,"
"Yesss!"
Dyson and I dashed over to our presents to reveal: two nerf guns!
"Coool!" Dyson was amazed at his gift.
"Sweet!" I was happy to get a nerf gun. I opened the package, put the ammo in and-- BOOM!
The bullet shot the wall! It didn't damage it but it did stick! Shortly after, it fell.
'This is amazing!' I thought to myself.
Speaking of Christmas, I should wear my Christmas earrings! I ran up to my room, grabbed my earrings, put them on and then ran back downstairs.
"Aria! Dyson! Get some clothes on! We're leaving for a surprise!" My mom went outside and into the car.
I ran back upstairs and changed into some warm clothes. Dyson came downstairs right after me.
We both ran to the car and got inside of it. Payce and Dyson were buckled in. We drove off.
We stopped at a Tim Hortans and got three hot cocoas. Then, we headed of. We then stopped at the Beverly Hills park. I saw some friends from church.
(Goal: 300)
Some of my friends are Kaitlin, Kennedy and Jordan.
"Hi Aria," Kaitlin waved over at me.
"Hey Kaitlin!" I replied.
My mom took out the sleds--the sleds? Oh! That's why we're here! We're sledding!
I smiled at my mom and she smiled back. I quickly got Payce out and put his shoes back on. He usually takes them off in the car, I'm not surprised. I put his hat on, again. He dosent like it on in the car. Finally, I picked him up and out of the car.
"Ready to go?" My mom said handing Dyson and I a sled.
"Yup! Hey mum? Are we by any chance going sledding?" I asked with a curious voice.
"You guessed it! How'd you know?" She said eyeing the sleds. I giggled. That giggle turned into a laugh.
"Maybe..."
"Okay! Let's go everybody," said Kaitlin and Kennedy's mom(Mrs.Quinn).
We all started to walk up the road and at some parts, it was icy. The adults avoided it but us kids took advantage of that and put our sleds down. Then someone would push us.
We finally reached the mountain and then, we had to climb stairs!
'Seriously!' I thought to myself.
So, after we climbed the terrible wooden stairs, we got to the top. We all placed our sleds down. I was with Payce, Dyson was with Elijah and Kennedy was with Jordan. Kaitlin wanted to be alone and so did Ben. Ben is Jordan's brother.
"On your mark," my mom shouted.
"Get set," Mrs. Quinn shouted.
"Go!" I didn't know who shouted go but by the time I turned around to see, we were halfway down!
Payce clutched my hand and I hugged him tightly. We hit a bump and bounced up and down. We slowly turned around and I waved to my mom. She waved back and someone took a picture of us. We both laughed as we came to a stop. Several people came in behind us.
"That was awesome!" Dyson and Elijah were laughing very hard. We all stood up and headed back up the stairs.
By the time we got up the stairs, one other group was down there, climbing the dreadful stairs. I felt bad for them, but then realized that it was our turn to go back down and quickly ran over there with Payce.
I went down the mountain a few different times with other people. Then, it was time to go. We rode down our last trip for the winter this year. It was a blast though. The fun haters--I mean the adults took the stairs.
