A Knight's Tale

(No babies were harmed in the celebration of this birthday)


(There was a literary skirmish regarding the definition of "happy ending." Happy for who? The pirate or the prince? Read on for the diplomatic conclusion...

A Knight’s Tale
(As told by the guests of Sparkle’s Medieval Birthday)
Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away there was a princess who was stuck in a tower and a the pirate who was very greedy indeed trapped her. He said, "Argh! Argh! Argh!” And the pirate killed the king.
The pirate hired an evil scientist to make a creature that could help him take over the kingdom. Nearby there was a knight trying to get to the princess to save her. But the pirate killed all the people who were trying to save the princess. Until there was one more prince left.
He had special helpers named Max and Alex. They had super-super power. They had super speed and super vision. The prince heard a voice calling, "help." Then there was a big burning fire from a dragon.
All of them were sleeping at night. the pirate snuck in and went past. The pirate is still alive in the castle with the queen and king dead as Zombies. Watch out. He might get you.
The prince was very quiet back to his cabin. He has a special cabin. His assistants were waiting. He talked to the super speedy one and he said, "I need you to zoom all around the castle."
Then the prince would sneak up because the fast one distracted the dragon. Then the prince killed the dragon. He got the princess and they got married.
Then the magic fairy put an invincible force field around the kingdom and the prince and princess sprinkled magic glitter over all the people to change them back to normal. The pirate and the mad scientist revived the dragon and went to hunt for gold and treasure. So everyone got what they wanted and lived happily ever after.


THE END

Too much Twilight?

Sparkle told me that her Sunday school classmates were talking about what they wanted to eat for breakfast. Each child in turn giggled, “Underwear.” You might think the teachers would be pleased to hear a different response from our six year old until she said, “Blood.”

From NYC to Des Moines

First of all I should tell you why we went. We went because BYU is doing a production/film of a show my dad wrote about the Berlin Airlift. So anyway... We started driving from our apartment at about 10:00 AM on Feb. 16th. We drove for about 4-5 hours and then stopped for lunch. The first day was pretty uneventful; no one threw up and we only watched one movie.




Finally, at around 8:30 we got to the hotel which was very nice. We got settled in and then we went swimming for approximately 75 min. Then we ordered our food which took over an hour to get to us. Finally the cold food got to the hotel and My Hero paid the delivery boy a smaller tip because he was so late. Then we went to bed.

To the surprise of us kids, my parents announced that we were going to attend a sacrament meeting 5 min. away. We weren't planning on going to church therefore we didn't have any Sunday clothes that weren't packed on the top of our car in plastic bags. I tried to convince them that we shouldn't go as it would be so humiliating to be mistaken as a convert in blue jeans. But we went anyway. I enjoyed the meeting but was still slightly embarrassed at our apparel. Eventually we got on the road and had a pretty boring drive until we were about 100 miles left for the day.

We had hit a terrible storm, it took us like 3 hours longer to get to the hotel than we had planned. And on that 100 mile stretch we counted 130 cars off road, which included 6 or 7 tractor trailers. It was so scary. We were going about 40 mile's an hour and were scared out of our wits. At number 70 of our counting cars deal, My Hero, who was driving, said something like, "Look, counting these cars isn't helping me. You can count them in your head but I don't want to know." At the next road stop, we said a prayer asking if we should continue on or just stay at a close cheap hotel. We decided to keep going but come off at the closest exit with an hotel if it started snowing. We all agreed to the terms and continued on. After we got back on the road, the road conditions improved immensely. Finally, we got to the hotel and went pretty much straight to bed. We were exhausted.

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Mom says: We learned about the Delaware Indians and why most barns are painted red.

Sparkle's Big Day

We have a tradition in our family that when a child can write their own name they can get a library card. Congratulations to Sparkle!!!