My Birthday in California

Me and my dad had the best time of our lives at Universal Studios Hollywood in California.


   Every 10th birthday you get to go wherever you want to go in the united states of America ( Alaska and Hawaii don't count.) I decided to go to Universal Studios Hollywood I was going to the beach too.
The week before we left to California was when my dad told me in the car if I would want to leave next Thursday. I of course was in so much excitement I was thinking to fast and just said "YES!!!!"  As soon as we got home I told all my 8 siblings where I was going.


We left at about 3:00 and we were on our way. We arrived in California at about 8:00 and ate at panda express. We had a big dinner/desert. After that we looked for a hotel but all we saw were about 1,000 casino's. It's harder to get into where all the hotels are because they literally have no signs at all oust there It's really hard to get to the hotels. We drove for like another hour and finally found a hotel that we could actually see and get to.


We left the next morning to Universal and it only took us a 1/2 hour to get there. When we got in the Universal city walk it felt like you were in some tiny state with like 1,000,000 people in it.


The first ride I went on was called The Simpson's Ride. My dad felt sick after it because it's one of those virtual roller coasters where there's a big movie theater screens that shows you like a video but it throws water at you and other stuff like that.


I know I'm skipping to the end here but the last ride I went on I went on 3 times (and dad went with me) It's called The Jurassic Park Ride that has an 85 ft drop at the end. The funny thing about us falling is they take a picture of you while you fall, and when you look at the picture of my dad you'll see he's got his arms around the lap bar, his head in between his arms. When you look at me you see a boy who obviously wants his mommy to say "It's all right, It's all right" so it definitely looked like I was afraid of going down that far I would think it would take at least 5 seconds but it takes like 2.


After that we went to the beach and I layed eyes on the ocean for the very first time. Luckily we brought my football and I got to play catch with my dad. He sometimes threw kind of far into the waves and I would grab it and try to keep my balance. One GIANT wave came in and knocked me off my feet. Unfortunately it was right before we were going to leave. So my dad had to give me a towel and I'd have to sit on it.


We drove back that night and arrived at our house at about 6:00AM. I told everyone the stories and stuff and gave them their gifts. It sure seemed like one of the most successful trips of my life. 

Three Months on a Diet

Starting Sunday I will be going on this diet called the GAPS diet. The reason I'm doing this is because my mom got an e-mail from a lady whose daughter has type 1 diabetes. The e-mail said that her daughter got on a brand new diet (the GAPS diet) and it lowered her A1c to 6.0.


A1c measures the average blood sugar. An A1c of 6.0 is great for a child with diabetes. The lowest my A1c has been is 7.6. It takes three months to get the A1c to an average level.


For the past few months I've been working really hard on trying to get my blood sugars in range. But after me and my dad went on my tenth birthday trip (FINALLY!) I got back and my mom got sick and wasn't doing well. Now you may think I'm crazy for saying this but it was good for her body to have a cold. You see she hadn't had a cold in 5 years and when she got the cold it meant her body didn't have so many toxins held in there. My little brother got the cold first, that's when me and dad left for the trip. Then my sister. Then me. I had it for 2 weeks and it passed. We started school just four days ago with a tutor. And it was just yesterday that we came up with the idea of me going on this diet.


I'm going to keep a journal of what's going on in the process of the diet. You're going to see days as the titles like Day one, Day 2 and so on and so forth. I'm going to try to write every 2 days so it might be more like Day 1, Day 3. If I don't get to writing every 2 days then I apologize and I'll try and write more later.


Just wanted you to know about what's going on.
BYE!!!!!

Leaving In November

In November we will leave this house, because of a court thing (I forgot what it's called). I hope you know our mold story, and if you don't then I'll have to explain it to you. You see, we were in a house in Colorado, and we had to leave it because of, dare I say it, MOLD. And most importantly we had the highest score of Stachybotrys which is one of the most dangerous MOLDS. I'll tell you the names of the molds: Stachybotrys,Aspergillus,Penicillium, Cladosprium, and Chaetomium. That's all I know but my mom knows like every thing there is to know about mold. You can visit HER website at www.moldrecovery.blogspot.com.

Anyway i hope you know enough about our mold story to follow along. So we leave from here in November for a court hearing (I figured it out).

My family is doing very well with what we are doing and how we changed over the last few years. It's still hard to keep up with it but we do it anyway. The picture below shows all 11 family members well Megans not there she was feeling sick so it's 10 family members. I'll tell you their names from the left all the way to the right. It goes Ryan, Kaitlyn, Mom, Kristen, Reagan, Dad, Me, Shannon (also known as she, she,) Brandon, and last but not least Erin. And Megan's not there.



Over the last couple of years I have been one of the most improved of the family. I went from eating Pop Tarts to eating unhealthy cereal. I went from eating cereal to eating Breakfast Bowls. I went from eating breakfast bowls to eating Luna Bars. I went from eating Luna Bars to LaraBars, from LaraBars to smoothies, etc. etc. Every day I wonder when i'm going to heal and yet I am healing, and better healing then you could ask for. My first healing is the diet, my second is the love my family and God have showed me.

Birthdays In December

This month on Dec. 5th I had my 10th birthday and it was definitely one to remember as my mom's blog probably told you about going to build a bear and bla bla bla bla bla and I hope you know his name if you don't then it was Noah. And I met a dog named joseph and I hope to see him again.
Every 10th birthday you get to go any where in the united states of America, and I hope to go to New York but I can't count on it, plus I have an alternative called California. I have to wait for after christmas and then we would go in january.
Also the dad takes the boys mom takes the girls and my mom has already had her last little kitten. because my mom calls one of my brothers (the youngest) is called the last puppy so she is called the last kitten so that's how that connects.
At build a bear you get to get the outer layings of the bear and you go over to the stuffing machine and YOU get to put your foot on the pedal. Then you watch the young lady (probobly in her 20s)stuff the bear and that's the coolest part because you watch the bear rise up and it comes alive in your mind , then you know that it's yours. Then the second step is you go over to this shower/air shooter and you wash him. Then you go and pick out an outfit for him or her which ever you choose and then you go up to the cash register and ring them up and off you go.




so that's what happpens on 10th birthdays.

Christmas Night and Day

Today I wrote a poem about Christmas which is only in 3 days. It's about me getting ready for Christmas watching lots of stuff like snow fall stuff like that.
hope you enjoy it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tomorrow is Christmas day
It's almost time to open gifts
Santa's working on his sleigh
As the snowfall begins to drift

I hang up my red stocking
The tree glistens with Christmas lights
The cookies smell is shocking
The big presents give lots of fights

I sit there waiting for him
Eager to unwrap the presents
The night begins to get thin
Maybe he'll be here in seconds

It's finally Christmas day
They are all eating fairly fast
Don't get blown away they say
They all say that it was a blast!


MERRY CHRISTMAS!

The Common Thing Of Houses And Food

Every day I wake up to the early sunshine beaming down on me and I wonder how we're all still alive. Of course, some have already lived what they were supposed to live. But that's a different story.


I also wonder if food contaminated with mold ever makes people sick. Because I know that houses contaminated with mold make people sick. Of course, you might of heard our story already and you may think we're liars and we just want our house back. But that is not the truth. The truth is that this is our life and we have to live with it. Anyway, we were taken out of our home because of the word that must not be said.


Sometimes it brings tears to my eyes to even think that we are the ones going through this, but we are.


But back to how we lost our house. Well, we had 2 humongous exposures and the first one was when we had one of our bathroom walls taken down in our basement. And the house was almost as big as the exposure but it really wasn't. It was actually 5500 square feet. But the exposure was twice the size of the house, no three times the size of the house. That's how big it was. Some times I forget the types of mold we had but it always comes back to me. We had penicillium, and stachybotrys. Big word. Big number. When we got it tested, the count in all was 320,00 and our tester was amazed at the number. He even said it was the biggest one he had ever seen in his testing years. And the count of stachybotrys was 260,000. And the average would be around ten or so. but that's only what I wake up to.

Breathing

My family and I always have to do a thing that is good for your lungs, it's called breathing. Breathing is a thing that one of our doctors showed us he said that if you do this every day our breathing and temper will get way better. What it shows you is how your doing with your breathing and you can even play games and green is really good if you have 100 green it means that you are doing really good, blue is medium and red is really bad. also were doing it every day but last night I had a bad dream and I asked my mom if I should do breathing because she was up at that time and she said that's a great idea. I can have lots of times when I wake up my mom and some of those times it's because I'm low.


But that's a different story. But later that night I had another dream and it was a pretty good one actually because it was about our house that we lost and i saw my dad and my brother Reagan sitting on our new couch watching TV and they looked at me and smiled because i got our house back. Then i woke up . I still don't know what that dream was for but I still do not know what the future will hold.