Life At Home

                              These were some pictures that I really enjoyed!  Hope you like them!

                                             A sun ray that was on the first day of the  filming.

Dad wanted me to lift this BIG tree.  I did it, but it was HEAVY!

Graham

After finishing history with Sarah, I picked a subject that we learned in history and wrote a story about it!  Billy Graham is the paper!

Billy Graham

Raised in a godly Christian home, Billy Graham went on to have a full life of ministry and influence the world.  In 1918 Billy Graham was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and he grew up on his parents’ dairy farm.  His parents were William Franklin and Morrow Coffey Graham.  At age fifteen he gave his life to Jesus Christ.  Billy Graham attended Bob Jones College in Tennessee where he graduated.  Sunday night, March 28, 1937, Graham preached his first sermon.  After he moved to Wheaten, Illinois, he continued to speak there. All of Graham’s early life experiences made him into a great man of faith.

Billy Graham was a missionary. Every day he looked for people who needed help and talked face to face with them about the Lord.  To prepare for his talk, he memorized a paragraph from another preacher’s sermon and then practiced the paragraph out loud to himself.  He passionately reached out to people with sad hearts and talked about the Lord.  He spoke through television and in stadiums.  Billy Graham traveled through America and also toured Europe for a time, continuing his mission work. 

Billy Graham’s parents influenced him more than anybody, and their example led to his impact on the nations. Of all the people in his life, his mom influenced him the most by praying for him every morning at ten o’clock.  Billy Graham also spoke with Barack Obama about the Lord.  Obama said that Billy Graham impacted him so much that he became a Christian.  His preaching was so powerful that it reached over three million hurting hearts.  After World War II, Billy Graham preached at Chicago’s Soldier Field to a crowd of sixty-five thousand people.  He has influenced many of the presidents of the United States. No one in the past century has surpassed the achievements of Billy Graham for the kingdom of God. 

Tally

The new horse that is living here.  Her name is Tally!

South Bank

Hi everyone!  After one of our friends came over, Mrs. Nichols, we had a great time and went to South Bank.  We really enjoyed it!  So I grabbed my camera and took some photos.  Some of these are macro, just because I like macro!  :) Enjoy!

Above is the anchor of the City Cat.

History

Sarah has been teaching me history lessons over the past year, and we just finished today!!  :)  So Sarah celebrated with a party!!!

Before the party I finished my last history lesson!!!

She took me outside with my eyes closed.  It was pretty scary from  my point of  view!

Then we  shot some poppers in the air and that was fun!!!

Holiday

Sorry for the long wait!!  My forgiveness!  Well going back to the blog not long ago my sister and my mom went to Los Angeles for a holiday.  The boys, dad and I were by ourselves. I am going to show you a little of what we did while my mom and sister were gone.   We definitely  watched a lot of movies, and of course did school!!  Also we set up our ping pong table in the family room, and played lots of matches!!  Here are some pictures th!!

                      

My brothers playing!

Mom and my sister had great fun in LA.  They went to Disneyland, Hollywood, Universal Studios and many other places!!  They also visited a lot of our friends and relatives.  Hope you enjoyed it!!

Lego Robotics

Lately I went to a robotics class with some of my friends.  It was very fun and exciting, to work all together on one robot.  Since we have robotics, I started to make a robot myself.  At the bottom you will see a few pictures of the robot I made and a story about it.  Hope you enjoy it!

Lego Robotics

Lucas Grzesiak

Building a Lego robot, which takes a lot of time, includes many steps.  First, gather up all the necessary pieces for the robot and understand how it works.  Next, follow the directions and do exactly what it says.  When finished building, program the robot on the computer to tell it what to do.  Operate it to see if it works, and if not find out the problem.  It brings great satisfaction to have a working robot after all the tough work.

My brother helps me a lot on building Lego robotics.  Sometimes I struggle to follow instructions, but he helps me figure it out.  When we work together, we build up our relationship.  Each time my brother helps me gain greater confidence with my skills and myself.  We have loads of fun working out problems.  Usually, he is the one who fixes it.  Building robotics has strengthened our relationship and given us lots of time together.

Mt. Coot-ha

Since our family is on American holidays we went to Mt. Coot-ha.  I wanted to share a picture with you that I took up at Mt. Coot-ha.

Trip to New Zealand

Not long ago my family and I went for a two week trip to New Zealand.   I wanted to share with you a bit of our trip.  What was exciting was that we got a camper-van for the whole trip!  So here are some pictures of our trip!

This is the place were we got the Camper-van.  It was pretty big.
The only problem was that it was quite tight in the middle so some
of us had to lay on our beds to wait  to get to the other side.

This was a picture next to the water.  We were just looking
around the town for some little market stands.  But they were
 all packing up so we found a rock museum not far away from it.
 And after we came out next to the water and I wanted a picture on the track.

After a couple days into our trip we found this little place and there was
 a  garden walk.  We went on both an hour walk and a twenty minute walk. So here are just a
couple pictures of the gardens.

We actually saw a real geyser go off!!  It was cool!

After the Geyser we headed to a red wood forest that was really amazing!
The trees were huge!!  This is a picture of me looking up.

My sister Sarah loved horses so on our trip we went horse back riding.
Mom and Sarah and I went on a horse ride together.  It was really nice up at the top.    Here we were at the very top of this mountain and it was really windy!

My second oldest brother wanted me to take a picture of him so I did on the beach.  It was next to a camp ground that we stopped by with our camper-van.  My sister and I went way far to where the water was and it was fun.  Suddenly we actually saw the tide rising!!  So Sarah and I ran back excited to tell the others!

Here was a Middle Earth sign when we were on our way to a Lord of the Rings tour.  It was the Hobbit premiere and Wellington had signs up of the hobbit all over the town!  When we found our tour we started on our trip to some Lord of the Rings sites!  The tour guide was really funny.  He showed us video clips before we saw the sites.  Here are some pictures of where they filmed some of the scenes.   We were so excited!

Smeagol and Deagol when they were on the boat.

The black rider.  Here is where the hobbits were hiding.

Sam and Frodo heard wood elves

This is Isengard.

After the tour we drove to the hot pools.  My bro and I at the hot pools!

This was one of my favorite trips we have been on  

 

Macro photos

Here are some macro lens photos I took during this past year.  I just like the blur and the shape on the first one.  The spider web was another one I liked with the sun!