Guitars,guitars and more guitars

The last couple of years my Dad has been giving me guitar lessons but since it was always getting put off and practice wasn't getting done, my parents paid a professional to give me lessons. I started about 2 months ago and I've really enjoyed it and I've been making progress.

Every Saturday morning I have an hour lesson at this guys house. At first I didn't really want to go but after a couple lessons I started liking it. Since I've started, I've learned 6 songs (four more than I've learned in 2 years!!!). Every day I practice for a half an hour and a couple of weeks ago my Dad said that since I'd been improving he'd let me use this:

My favorite books that I read this year

Here are a few of the best books I've read throughout this year.

(No particular order)

1. Harry Potter and the philospher's stone.

Dad read this to us recently and I loooooved it.

2. Inkspell.

I had read the first book in this series two years ago and my parents gave me this after I lost a tooth. I really liked it.I finished it in 2 weeks(it's a 650 page book!!!)

3.Behind the curtain

This is the second story from a series of 3.It's a great story with a lot of suspence and mystery.

4.Soldier X

At school this year my teacher really got me interested in world war 2 and I read this.It's a story of a German kid who gets sent to war and trades clothes with a dead russian soldier after getting wounded in a battle.

5.Fablehaven

This is a book |I found in a used section in a book store and thoughT it looked interesting and I'm glad I bought it because it turned out to be awesome.

Sorry this is a little late but I thought I would take advantage of my day off from school because I'm sick.On the weekend after my birthday we rented the gym at my school for my birthday party.I invited a few of my friends over for lunch and then we went to the gym and played a game of hockey.Here are some in -action photos of the game.



GOAL!!!
The game finished 10-9 for our team.The winning goal happened with 4 seconds left in the game.
We had a couple of close calls because we were 4 against 5 and we decided to play without a goalie for the last few minutes.One of my friends on the other team shot the ball down towards our goal and fortunately Joel happened to be in our goal and the shot ended up between his legs...SAVE!!!

Thursday hockey outing

On Thursday after school Mom took Joel, Jack and me to the hockey rink for a while before supper. Hockey is my favorite winter activity.I could spend all day out playing if I could.

Here I am getting ready to shoot.
There was another kid and his Dad there and we played for a couple hours with them.The Kid's name was Maxime. He's the one in between me and Joel.
Joel just started learning how to skate and spends most of his time on his behind!