The Ottoman Empire

So there was this nomads that ran away where they lived because the Mongols were coming to get them. So they ran away and they found a good place in the Byzantine empire to settle. So they started building buildings and started growing crops. Then one day one of the shepherds went away and then got very thirsty. He fell on the ground and said "Allah If you give me some water then I will sacrifice seven of my best sheep to you." Suddenly a fountain of pure water appeared and he and his sheep started drinking from it until they quenched their thirst. Then he thought I don't have to sacrifice seven of my best sheep but I will sacrifice the insects on the sheep. So he picked seven insects from the sheep's wool and he set them on the ground and stepped on each one of them and said "This is my sacrifice to you." Then they all turned to stone. Some of the other shepherds were looking for him and his sheep but all they could find were a lot of rocks and a fountain of water.

Then the Sultan (the empire of the Ottomans) started to conquer some of the city's in the Byzantine empire. Then he conquered all of the city's but Constantinople. Then the Sultan died in the Ottoman empire and there was a new Sultan. They now had the largest empire in the world. So they attacked from the western wall with cannons but it wasn't enough. Some of the people in Constantinople said they wont conquer the city until the moon turns dark. And then suddenly the moon started to get dark. It was eclipse but none of the people knew that. They were terrified. And they  got there army and went to fight the invaders, but they were to many and soon they were destroyed. They called the place Istanbul. It is still called that today.                                              

Playing soccer at Latitude

So Yesterday my family went to Latitude It was the best part of the day. So I first got my new cleats on then I stretched then we did some one touch passing then some two touch, and i found something I loved about the Magista Obra cleats. They had such good touch, so like if there was a bouncing ball then it would just die under my feet. It was incredible. Then I tried some shots and almost every one was perfect, besides the ones that hit the posts or went over the soccer net. Then I did some one touch shots and they were pretty good. Then I tried out a new move that I learned on YouTube. So you get a pass and then you flick it up behind you then you do a Ronaldo chop in the air. Then we played one on one on one. I started out as keeper and then they scored on me and I scored a free kick because my dad fouled me. My brother was playing keeper. Then I shot another free kick on my dad and I scored because it hit the post. Then me and my dad played a game which you tried to kick the ball into the other net and if the other keeper saved it then he got to shot even if it went in or off target.

The Elephant clock

So Al-Jazar was a famous inventer and one day he wanted to invent something called the elephant clock. It works like this. There was a hole in a bowl to make it sink in a tankard of water. So it slowly sank which made some pulleys make a pen move to write minutes. After half an hour the bowl fell to the bottom of the tankard of water. That made a rope attached to a seesaw mechanism in the clock. That made a ball fall out of the serpents mouth which made the guy on the elephant hit something to make a clang and also made the bowl reset and making the bird turn around in circles. The hours were written at the top of the clock.

Julius Cesear

So Julius Ceaser was a guy who wanted to be king of Rome. So he got an army and he wanted to go and fight Britain. The people there were called Scotts. But the first time he went there he didn't have a big enough army to conquer them. So he came back to Britain with a bigger army and this time he conquered them. The Scotts didn't wear anything but a metal collar and blue paint all over them, they believed that it would protect them from arrows and from swords. But it didn't and hey got killed. But the Senate of Rome didn't like Julius Ceaser he was becoming to popular and they were worried that he would become king of Rome. So they told Pompey that he should send him a letter that when he got back they would imprison him. He was mad and he went back to Rome and he got to the Rubicon river and he crossed it. He went into Rome and Pompey's army all ran away at the sight of Julius Ceaser. Pompey ran away too. He was happy now but then he knew that Pompey was in Egypt and he would build an army to attack Julius Ceaser again. So he went to Egypt. The king and Queen of Egypt at this that time were Cleopatra and her brother. They always fought because they both wanted to rule Egypt but they couldn't, but then they heard that Julius Ceaser was coming so they got scared and stopped fighting. They needed to make Julius Ceaser like them and be friends. So they said that they should cut off Pompey's head and give it to Julius Ceaser because he was an enemy of his. So they did that and he got his head delivered in a bag. He was sad because they had once been good friends, he didn't want his head cut off he just wanted to have him in prison so he couldn't do anything bad. But then he arrived at Egypt. Cleopatra thought if she could get Julius Ceaser to like her then he could kill her brother. So she arranged a night when only she and him would meet. Julius Ceaser went there and fell in love with her. She told him that he should fight her brother and all the people that were with him and kill them. Julius Ceaser obeyed and he told his army to fight them, Cleopatra's brother died in the battle. Then the Senate thought this is our chance we need to kill him now. So they found some people that liked the senate to fight Julius Ceaser. They went to Egypt. But Julius Ceaser hadn't forgotten how to fight. He defeated them and he went back to Rome with Cleopatra. But soon after they were in Rome and Cleopatra had a dream that Julius Ceaser would get killed by the senate in a meeting with the senate. When Julius Ceaser was going to the meeting she tried to stop him but he went and got killed by the senate.

First Snow

So this I think is practically the first snow that we have had here. We had another one but it wasn't actually like making a bile of snow like two inches. This snow was about three inches. We played a lot of snow soccer which is really fun for the keeper but it does make your technique worse when you play in the snow because you wear boots and those have very bad touch they only hit the toe. But sometimes you have really good top corner shot which feels really good because you rarely get those. I really like playing one on one on one which is basically three people playing soccer with one net. So there is one attacker, one defender, and one keeper. The attacker tries to dribble and score, if he scores then he goes into the net and the keeper would play defense and the defense would play attacker. But if he doesn't get past the defender and the defender gets the ball then the defender has to clear it and then he is attacking and the attacker is now on defense. It is really fun and perfect for are family because we have three boys, me my brother and my dad. Sometimes it gets really hard to dribble. Sometimes the keeper makes the perfect dive in the snow and saves it and then lands on the fluffy snow. The boots might not have good touch but they have good power. Sometimes you are right in front of the net but you hit it bad because you are sliding and it hits off your foot and goes off target.

Christmas

So Christmas just passed and I got a lot of good presents. The first one I opened was an ice cream scoop to get perfect cookies. Then I got a sifter which helps with the flour. Then I got an Ex Box controller. That helped a lot to play PES 2016 which is a soccer game on the computer or  play-station. I also got a calligraphy pen set with ink and a book. I also got some pens, scissors and some 90% chocolate bar which was delicious. I also goit Pes 2016 the whole game. And ata last which I was so amazed to see was MY SOCCER CLEATS!!! They are the best soccer cleats ever they are called Magista Obra cleats and the y have such good touch and they are amazing they are royal orange and the best of all I didn't think I was going to get them so it was a big surprise I am so glad i got them. This Christmas was awesome!!

Playing soccer with the high school

SO today i got my new cleats on Christmas and I wanted to try them out. So I went and played with my dad at the high school. My cleats were called Magista Obra cleats. They are so awesome. They have such good touch. There was another kid named Brenden he was from GPS as well. I was all orange, orange shoes, orange socks, orange shorts and orange shirt. I was on the dark team which was all dark and the other team was the white team. We won are team and I played really well. My dad played good too he was the best on the other team. After that we played with some friends and saw who had the fastest shot. I had the fastest shot which was 60 mph. We also did a pro challenge which you had to hit it over the wall and around the wall. My best was three and a half stars out of five. The other guys had three stars and two and a half stars so I also won in that. I was also the best in the other thing. We were hoping for another guy who was good at soccer to come but unfortunately he did not come. We brought a little net but we had to make it bigger because it did not work for them. We didn't play full field because none of the adults were in shape. I once dribbled around a lot of people and scored.

Caroling

So yesterday night we went caroling to family's with some friends. Me and my bother and are friends played a game which went like this. So me and my teammate had a ball and we tried to keep it and throw it to one another while the other guys try to get it from you and if they do get it from you then we try to get it from them. We also sang songs named Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Joy to the World, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, O Come all Ye Faithful, Silent Night, and maybe some other songs that I don't remember :). It was really fun, we weren't the best group but we did pretty well. We also brought some people some treats. We first made some homemade chocolate chip cookies but them are neighbors brought us some sweets so we used those to give to the other people and we could keep the delicious cookies. Are friends brought some treats and they gave them out too. I think we did something good. I think we made them happy. We also went to a restaurant called Leo's. We gave them flowers and they gave us some drinks. I picked water but my friends picked some Soda and Sprite. They went crazy after, but in the end it all worked out well and we went to our homes and went to sleep.

My Christmas gift

Jesus is my Christmas gift. He if the gift of love and kindness. He wants us to be kind to others and help them with what they need. I am going to give my friend Christian a present which is tongue dispensers, he wants to make stick bombs out of them. This Christmas there is no snow yet which is kind of crazy. I think it is because of global warming because last year we had 7 ft of snow. We didn't have to use a ladder to get on top of the roof we could just jump on top of it. I hope we can think of Jesus this year.

Chocolate chip cookies

So I needed to make chocolate chip cookies for the caroling we are doing tonight with some friends. The first batch I made turned out pretty good but I forgot to put baking powder and salt. So I did the next batch and they turned out a lot better. I hope to make another batch of them because I only have ten cookies. But I don't have butter so I have to get some at the store. The batch tastes really good, it is amazing what a little salt can do to cookies. Way back when they bought stuff with salt. I hope that the people who try the cookies like them because I didn't use sugar. I used honey and 100% whole wheat flour which I grinded my self in the blend-tec. That is why I don't have to use brown sugar. I also use 86% cocoa bar of chocolate instead of milk chocolate bar, which is very sweet. I hope to make twenty more cookies so there will be some left over so I can eat them ;). For Christmas I want to make my brother and sister a giant cookie for each of them. I hope they will like it. I am going to make them in the cake pans that I have. But I still need to get butter for them.

Birthday party

So my brother had a birthday party today. We invited some friends but some of them had to leave really early and some didn't even come. But luckily we had a lot of people. We first played some gubs which is a game of wit and luck. Then we went and ate and then we played capture the flag outside. We hid the flag in the umbrella but they found it and beat us. Then we put it by the tree and they found it again but it was still really fun. Then we went in and we ate cake that I made (you can see the cake in my other blog). It tasted good. Christmas is coming up it is in 6 days. YAY!! There were 14 kids in all and 8 adults. Are yard is very big so we can play capture really good. I decorated the cake so it said heart Ian 13 I also decorated the sides of it. But once my dad cut the cake up then it didn't look that good but it tasted good.

Birthday cake

So I made my brother a pineapple upside down cake. It is perfect not to sweet and not to not sweet :). It looks amazing and I am going to cover it with whipped cream. It has four pineapple slices on the top. My brother had a great birthday and I made croissants and bagels, we also watched the hobbit The Desolation of Smaug. We are going to watch the new Star Wars today. This is the first time I have ever made a Pineapple upside down cake. So I hope everyone at his party will like it. Christmas is in a week, so close. I put some melted blueberries and pineapple in the cream. I made it myself.

Crossiants

So my brothers birthday is tomorrow so I need to make him croissants because he asked for them. They are not hard to make but they take a lot of time to make them. And to get them really flaky then you have to do what I am doing. So you first make the dough then you knead it then you put it in the fridge over night so it can rise. Then you have to roll it out the put a whole butter layer on it. Then you wrap it around then you roll it out to 48". That is pretty far but then to make it flaky you fold it then put it in the fridge for a minimum of half an hour. Then you repeat this process over and over and over again. I have done it about ten or eleven times now. On a video on how to make crossiants they only do it four times but I am making them for my brothers birthday. So I want them to be extra special. Every time I cut them precise then I have some left over so I make a croissant out of that. I hope he likes the crossiant I make for his Birthday.

Mary did you know and the First Noel

So I played Mary Did You Know in church today. I have been practicing the song for a long time. I used to play it pretty good but it didn't sound that good because it was the same arpeggio over and over and over again. So I wanted to change it up a little. I started it with one key then octave then arpeggio. I really like the Mary did you know by Pentatonix and Peter Hollens. I played it good and everybody said good job. Someone made me play it again. They felt the spirit when I played the song. I also learned how to play the First Noel. It is the same background arpeggio as Pachebal which makes it easier because I already know the left hand to Pachabel so all I had to learn is the right hand. It sounds really good. We just got a new piano which is a baby grand so it is amazing. It makes it sound so much better. I also play Pachabel and it is a very hard song.

Futsal

  So I play a lot of soccer but most of it is like on turf or on real grass. But then I had a futsal tournament. It is played on a basketball court made out of wood. It is a really small field and the ball is very small too. It is pretty fun. Our team plays a 1 2 1. So one center back to midfielders and one striker. There is also a keeper of course. The center back (which I play) gets the ball the most. So he has to think fast and do strong passes so the defenders do not steel it from him. I am having another tournament in a month or so. The nets are smaller so it is harder to score. Also when you try to roll the ball you sometimes get stuck because the ball stops. The best shot is low in the corner on the ground because the keeper doesn't really want to dive on the wood. Also it is a lot better to work the ball close to the net and just place it then just shooting from half field. The ball is also heavier and is harder to shoot high and will not bounce as much as a regular soccer ball and not even close to a basketball:). I have a practice today on turf and it is going to be a bust day because my brother and grandma have stuff right before my soccer practice so I have to b e ready for them to come then we go. I only hope we make it on time. Personally my favorite is still on real grass.:)

Nitrotype

So Nitrotype is a game that you have to type fast on. They keep track of how many races you do and if you got first place, second place, and third place. They also tell you which keys you type good on and some that you are having trouble with. You can also get new cars in the dealership. You can paint them too. You can also buy nitro's which are stuff that can make you skip words if they are tricky. They also keep track of how fast you type in words per minute. So far my fastest is 74 wpm. It used to be about 20 when I was starting. I got a lot better. You can also get cool cars is you unlock cool achievements. Some of the people cheat on there and it is kind of unfair because the computer is doing it for them. They usually get around 100 wpm. My sister is trying it and she is getting better. They do something that a lot of other websites do they get a lot of people on their website and then they make them buy stuff. It costs like $12 for a cool car and some money in the game but it is not worth it, it also blocks ads, so they put ads on first then they make people but their thing to block the ads. I have trouble with the lower keys on the keyboard. Like Z, X, C, V, B, N, M but i am getting better at them. I am also bad with the numbers. You can also do practice races just by yourself so you can practice without trying to race. There is always 5 people in one race. If there isn't enough people then the computer acts like someone and then they race. But the good thing is that they usually type the same speed that you are at. Some cars in the achievements are insane to get. you have to type like 600 times in a single sessions, that means nonstop. And some cars you have to use 600 nitro's which is a lot of nitro's. Sometimes I am around 80 wpm but then I get nervous and I go down to 70, that is how i get to 74 wpm.

Playmobile story

So me and my sister went upstairs to play toys with are imagination. We played with are playmobile toys. We both made an empire. Mine had two vikings, three knights, three farmers, one Giant Troll, one scout, and one king. I don't know what she had because I did not count her Guys. Well then we both made bad guys called barbarians. We made them split and attack are guys. First they attacked my sisters place. It was very strong but they destroyed some of it with a catapult. My guys helped her after they defeated the other guys. My barbarians had spears and pikes and just threw them. But my giant troll destroyed them quite easily.

My homemade gel

So I wanted to have my own hair style and I wanted to use gel, so I asked my dad "do we have any gel?" Then he said that we were all out. I felt like I couldn't have my own hairstyle now but because I had been making stuff from scratch then I thought couldn't I make my own gel? Of course I could, so I went on the computer and I saw how to make your own hair gel. It was called flax seed hair gel. Basically there were two ingredients Flax seeds and Water. So I am going to tell you what you have to do.

The ingredients are 1/4 of a cup of flax seeds and 2 cups of water.

So what you have to do is put the water into a saucepan and put it to a boil. 

Once it has come to a boil add the flax seeds. Turn the heat down to medium and leave it there for about 7-8 minutes or until it turns into a thick gel. 

So once it turns into a thick gel then drain it into a container. 

The gel is ready now and you can apply it to your hair.

Pes 2016

So I learned that Ajern Robben a famous soccer player, has a very good long shot on Pes 2016. Today I played and I at least scored 2 or 3 long shot goals with him. I think the way to actually shoot a long shot in real life is basically with accuracy and power. So let's say that you were just outside of the 18 yard box. If you were on the left side then you would want to aim for the far post because the keeper has to dive farther and longer so if you played it high in the top corner then you would surely score. If you were in the middle then you could choose either way, left or right because they are both the same distance. And the right side is the same as the left side you would shoot for the far post in my opinion. Now in Pes 2016 you would go toward the net then go to the left or the right then you would shoot. Now the power in the shot on Pes 2016 is just a little below the full strength then it will go top corner and the keeper will have no chance.

My Christmas list

So I am getting only a few stuff for Christmas. They are these things.

A calligraphy pen ink and book, 20$

Pes 2016 38$

Pes controller 35$

Some awesome socks 15$

I was wanting to get Magista Obra cleats for Christmas but I thought it would be better to get them for my birthday because that is when soccer season starts. 

The Pes 2016 is 25% off so it is on a good deal it used to be 50$

The socks are to keep me warm during the winter.

And the Pes controller is to do tricks easier and dribble faster.

And the calligraphy pen is for good handwriting, my favorite kind of calligraphy is called copperplate. It is very fancy. The calligraphy pen will help me write better and because I am a beginner I will need the book and the ink comes in little tablets which will be very good. I am very happy with my Christmas list and I hope I have a good Christmas.

My Cakes

So I love baking and this time I wanted to try something new like Cake :). Well I thought that chocolate cake would be good. So I got a recipe on chocolate cake and I made it. I baked it I let it cool. Then I made the ganache for the cake. Me and my brother ran to the farm and got some cream for the ganache. I put some store bought chocolate and put it in a bowl but it asked for one pound of chocolate and that is a lot. So I had to make my own chocolate. But it still wasn't enough so I just thought I would half the recipe and only add one cup of heavy cream. But I messed up and I added two cups of heavy cream, how could I be so stupid :(. But then I thought of something brilliant. I would beat the heavy cream and chocolate into CHOCOLATE CREAM:). So I did that and it worked. I put it on the cake and I was so excited I had just saved my Chocolate cake:).
In the end it tasted really good.



So my brother is a real health freak, so he wanted me to make Kale Cake. Wow. So I made it the same as the chocolate recipe but instead of cocoa powder I added Kale puree which is just oil and kale blended together. I put it in the oven But i forgot that I had to put honey so quickly took it out of the oven and I scraped it back in to the bowl and added a lot of honey and put it back into the oven and let it bake, I had just saved another cake:). Well when it was baking I saw how to make a frosting but I couldn't find a recipe that didn't call for Sugar!!! But then at last I saw a page that told you how to make a egg white frosting. I was scared that we would get salmonella, It said that you would put really hot honey but I didn't want to put 1 1/4 cups of honey. I researched and I read that out of every 30,000 eggs one of them has salmonella in it but I still had a bad feeling about it. Well in the ending when I put it on the cake and I tried a piece it didn't taste thad bad but it was very sweet because of all of that honey I put inside of the kale cake, but it was good.