This is my favorite weird Al song...WHITE AND NERDY.

Blandford Fair Fiddle Contest

Yesterday was the annual Blandford Fair Fiddle Contest. I won 5th place and I got my first trophy. My dad accompanied me on the guitar. The songs we played were, River John's Sunset Waltz, Irishman's Heart to the Ladies and Turkey in the Straw. The first song is a waltz, the second song is a jig and the last song is a hoedown.

I was hoping to get a trophy this year. I didn't care what place it was as long as I did better than I did last year. And I did! My dad said that he would be proud even if I didn't get a trophy. And when I got one I was like ha,!

Here we are playing in the contest:

Vacation

Last week for our family vacation we went to Cape Cod. We went on a ferry boat to go to Martha's Vineyard. This is a boat that we saw on the way to the island. Once at the island we shopped, ate, and road bikes across the island to Edgartown,and back (they have rrrreeeaaalllyyy good ice cream).

We celebrated Izzy's 11th birthday with our family at Yiayia and Papo's house on the Cape!

Fundraising for Disney

The Pioneer Valley Fiddlers are going to Disney World in the fall of 2008. The group has been selling candles, washing cars, and playing concerts to raise money for the trip. The kids in the group are really excited to go! They will be playing all of 25 minutes once there but of course we'll be in Disney, so it won't matter that it is such a short concert! We'll spend a few days there having fun, going on rides and eating yummy food. Inshallah (God willing.)

So, Isidora and her Dad have begun there efforts to raise a little extra money for the trip to their National debut. They raised quite a bit in a short 1 1/2 hours on a Monday afternoon! This picture was taken in Northampton outside of Thornes Market. Lots of foot traffic there. A couple of times people stopped in a little group to listen. A friend of ours stopped by and donated generously, Thanks Tom!

Blueberry time!!!

It is blueberry season!!! It is definitely our favorite fruit picking season of the year. Isidora and I go over to Birdhaven Farm each July and pick and eat until we our buckets and bellies are full. This year we went with our friends Linda, Ruby and Ella. Unfortunately I forgot our camera. The view from the porch of the farm is stunning with fields of blueberries, and horses and mountains in the background. After about an hour of picking Linda, the girls and I sat on the porch enjoying a blueberry fudgecycle. Mmmm, it sounds odd but it is really yummy. And then the farmer, a nice man named John, gave the girls carrots to feed to the horses!

With all those blueberries we picked we may just make our own frozen smoothies and some muffins. Here is a sample of what we picked




And here is Keith who came for a visit this weekend. We haven't seen him in a dog's age! Aren't he and Izzy cute???

Last night I went to my friend Sydney's house for a sleep over.We stayed up till 12:00 at night dancing then we fell asleep to the movie THE MUPPET'S MOVIE. But me, I watched the whole movie and it ended at 2:10. Then I fell asleep.Then in the morning we partied till my mom got there.

Hello. One day we went to NEW YORK CITY! We went in the biggest Toys R Us in the world . There was a ferris wheel and we went on it. When we went passed the lego section there was a lego statue of Jack Sparrow (from Pirates of the Caribbean). Here's his pic.

Welcome to our family

Hello. This is our new family blog. A place where we will share with you events, activities and stuff that's been going on in our lives. Here is a picture of Isidora and her dad playing in the local fiddle band--Pioneer Valley Fiddlers.