Call Us The BackYardigans

Ooh my brother, he is the best brother I could have. I am so glad I have him. We can't live together sometimes, but we can't live without each other. THAT IS TRUE! Every one in my family can tell if we have gone days without seeing each other. They say we look sad. It's pretty true we feel like we are missing something.

We used be the cutest little kids int he world! We would get home from elementary school and we would immediately run to our back yard to play games. You always saw us in our backyard making forts, cakes, houses, mud cakes, games, ice wars between us or us against our dog, and many other stuff like that.

I remember we had a a hug sit and bounce, we actually named the ball. The ball's name was meatball because we loved meatballs back then. I remember that we once decided to become super heroes. So for a week we were tearing clothes apart to make our masks. I also remember how we used to make little drills to train our selves. One of them was to chase the dog around the yard then hold on to him, since he was a big dog. We did that mostly for fun. Once the dog starting getting upset with us he would chase us down so we stopped and made up a new game that involved the dog and water guns. It was called The Big Bear Hunt. We had to hide from the dog they pop out of no where to shoot the dog with our water guns, then we ran away from the 'bear' because he would chase us and try to bite us so we would shoot the 'bear' plenty of times. I also remember when we made our own little club house in the back yard. It was always top secrete. N one knew where we were so they would just yell out our names clueless of where to call out to. That was funny. Up there we used to pretend we were spy's and check what our everyone around was doing. W e even have a box full of junk food for emergencies, like earthquakes or to try and feed a animal anywhere.

AH, BUT THE BEST PART WAS THE WAR FIRST ICE WAR WE HAD. One of our uncles left a big bag of ice outside. We found it and took it. We popped out with many ideas on what to do with it. The best idea was the war. It was Armando, my brother, vs me. He called his side Power Ranger Side. I called my side the Powerpuff Girls Side. So it was Power Rangers vs Powerpuff Girls. W built little forts across the back yard. WE started throwing the ice at each other. This went on for and our until we had no more ice with us. We didn't pick them up because we told our selves that they will melt or the dog will eat them. At the end, I WON!

It was all different when we moved to Utah because we had snow. At first we used to stay at home and play video games on our game box. Of course I always won, because I cheated. Although he never found out. We started getting bored after a while so we took a whole Saturday to make up games with could play outside in the snow. The next day we went across backyards to get to our cousins backyard. We played with them to see what they play. They had a wheel to tided to there tree. COOL. We did more better then them in finding cool ideas on games to play. Th first thing we did was to try to build a snow man. I didn't work! We too little so we couldn't lift all the big balls of ice so we rolled them to the backyard door and stuck them three. The we started making snow balls and throwing them to the door. At the end of the day, we ended up with almost no snow in our backyard, because all of it was stuck to door. It was so stuck in there that no one could go in our out. My mom got mad, but she was glad that we were getting accustomed to the snow. A month later we were a pair of trouble makers. We wouldn't just play in our back yard we would go to our neighbor's yards. All the houses had a door in the backyard. So for us it war a short cut to our cousin's back yard. It funny because we lived around the corner from the mall and we never even felt like going anywhere. The number one place for us would be a backyard with us two, toy or no toys we're good, and our awesome creativity! Those were the days!

“You try to have faith in somebody, even when you’re the last person that believes in him. But when somebody lets you down after you’ve been the only one there for them, and so many times, you don’t know what to do.”

The Sad Part Of My life

I may seem like a happy person that doesn't need anything from life and that has a great family. Well yeah it’s true, but the sad part of my life is the fact that I never actually had my real dad with me. My dad left my mom when I was only one and my mom was barely pregnant with my brother. He did not know that my mom was pregnant. My parent got back together but my dad treated us like shit, that was when I was 2 and my brother was a few months. He treated all of us like shit so my mom left him. He used to visit us and treat all of us very good. He was the one that got me into drawing because he has raw drawing skills. He got my brother into instruments because he is raw at that too.

However that didn’t last for long. After the last visit he left and told my mom to tell us that he was dead so we would expect to see him again because he didn’t want to know anything about us. He said that to him we are dead for him and much more. My mom told us the truth and all our illusions of our changed dad that would stay with us hit rock bottom. All of our family and us wanted to go kill him. We still do.

Do you know how it feels to not have a dad? It's like you have been rejected big time by your own dad. Knowing that your dad is alive, but he doesn’t want to know nothing about you. I’m at school and there is a father and daughter event, I can’t go. I see other kids with their dads and I just look away. I draw and it reminds me of him. Whenever I hear a curtain song he used to sing to me I get really sad. Whenever people tell me that my art work is good it takes me back to when I used to watch my dad draw. I like people telling me but i hide my sad feelings. Whenever my uncles see my drawings they tell me stories of my dad. Whenever people ask about my dad I don’t know what to say. My mom tells me all the time that I remind her of my dad. She tells me how we do stuff alike even though he never taught me. She tells me how much I look like him. At times I can’t hide my feelings so most of the time I cry at night for a long period of time. I’m even crying now!

At night I ask myself if did something wrong. I ask myself many questions. I don’t blame myself. I just want to know the reason. He wanted a little girl. I’m here but he’s not with me. Sometimes you have to appreciate what you have because others may not have what you have, like having both of your parents with you.

Hiking After Thanksgiving

A brief summary of the hike my uncle, my brother and I toke on black Friday.

On thanksgiving my uncle, Greg, my brother and I decided to go hiking the day after thanksgiving. I convinced them to leave around 5am. For me that sounds like fun! My uncle slept over my house that night so we could wake him up and so we could leave faster. That night my brother and I stayed up pretty late until 1am watching George Lopez. I Love that show! I love George Lopez he is the bomb!

In the morning we actually woke up around 4am and ended up leaving around 5am. We stopped by my grandma’s house to eat some leftovers food from thanksgiving. We left and decided to go to Mt. Diablo. That place is awesome! We were on our way and it took a while, I mean a long while! There was fog all over. We were going all the way to the top at first. We eventually go to the summit. It was very very cold! It was windy and foggy. We were up top to see the view all the way down. Hahaha what view? We couldn’t even see 2 ft down because of the fog. My brother kept complaining about it being so cold so my uncle pants him! Greg said, “Haha, now your wewe is cold.” No one was around to see but we saw his soccer ball undies! Hahaha!

We got bored and we down low to start our hike. We parked and went into the wind caves to check them out. Since we like exploring a lot we started climbing them and going in the caves for a while. I slipped and fell from very up high. I scrapped my right knew really bad and my elbows. I really didn’t care and kept on going. It stated raining. More fun! We started playing with whatever was around. We left the wind caves and headed our own way. We were going down a steep hill and my uncle wanted to look cool and started to run down the hill…he slipped…dropped down and rolled all the way. It was so funny! Then the day started to clear up. The sun was starting to shine! I started singing, like always with my uncle and brother. The song I started singing was My Girl by The Temptations. That’s one of my favorites! After that we realized it was about to be noon and my uncle told us we had to head back home because he had to go to work. We went back my brother and I started playing around, tripping on rocks and logs, and singing weird random parts of songs my uncle was balancing a HUGE pine cone all the way. It was Fun!