Faith Formation

Each year at my church I go to faith formation every Sunday. But we realized I have an extra hour and thirty minutes before my class now that I am in sixth grade. My sister Catie is the assistant teacher for the fifth grade class. I decided to ask Catie if i can help her class. The actual teacher is a family friend too. She asked him, and he said, "Ofcourse." Now every Sunday I aide with their class for faith formation. I like their class, it's always funny. I loved his class last year.

Getting ready to serve at 9am Mass

I'm now also an alter server. I normally hold the the cross. I really like alter serving; it is more fun doing something in Mass other then sitting down and paying attention. In my case every Sunday I go to Mass, help at class, then go to mine. It's kind of an advantage too, while helping I hear what they are doing and in the other class we do a bit of what they do, but then we do the other page in our text.

VBS at Incarnation Church

VBS stands for Vacation Bible School. This year for the first time I was an aide to a leader at a station.  Every day the kids were in groups and went to different stations. My station was the movie station. There were many funny things that happened throughout the week. Let me tell you about one time. There was a kid named Jackson and his friend Jacob. (Jackson is four and Jacob is 8 but seems younger).

Jacob and Jackson

Me at the movie station

One day when they were at our station, Ms. Philomena our leader, was telling them that kids in Africa have bugs that can bite kids and get kids in Africa sick or even that it’s deadly. So she was telling them what it feels like to be a kid in Africa. Then she was saying have you ever been scared? Jacob raised his hand and told her his story and afterwards she said, “that is scary Joseph!” So Jacob said, “My name’s Jacob and pointed to Jackson and said, “He’s Joseph”. So Jackson said, “I’m not Joseph!” So they told Ms. Philomena after all what their names were, and we all laughed.  
(This week as part of VBS we vollected enough money to buy mosquito nets for over 100 kids and we’re going to send it to Africa soon.) 

The Black Tip Shark

Yesterday was a great day at the beach with my family; we were all fishing except my mom. Everybody caught a fish except my dad. Caren and I were fishing at the moment and everybody else was in the water relaxing. We were still fishing when Catie said, "Hey we're at the sandbar." Then she told us "Caren, Zac come here this is the sandbar". So I came first while Caren was fishing there for another minute. Finally Caren and I were fishing on the sandbar when she gets a bite.  She looked down and there was a Black Tip Shark.

So we start swimming and running back to shore. Luckily it didn't chase after us. So my mom and Catie stayed on the sand relaxing after that, but my dad was after that shark.  He got this small fish that I found to use as bait, and we cut it up to pieces. Also the shark was only a baby shark. Later Caren tried fishing for the shark with the fish bait. It was weird because my dad would be still fishing on the sandbar and from time to time he'll point right on front of him saying, in a calm voice, "The shark is in front of me". Also he would warn us when the shark's  coming our way. Caren was still fishing at the shallow water and I was next to her, then she gets a monster bite by the Black Tip Shark. It was so big it broke the line. It was cool, surprisingly not creepy. Also it was in front of me about 10 times. So after about 35 minutes they stopped fishing and went back to our beach house. But it was so cool looking at a shark in action biting the line and being in front of me so many times. That day was so cool!

My Sister's Wedding

My sister Cristina got married August 20, 2011. At first I was going to be the ring bearer. Then later on I had to do other special things in the wedding so then I got to become a groomsman. (By the way a groomsman is a special person who gets picked by the groom. There are also bridesmaids which are chosen by the bride.)
So I had to rent my tux, buy new shoes, buy a new tie, new socks, everything. After all that it leads to the wedding morning. Almost all of the bridesmaids came over to sleep at my family’s house. Cristina slept in her old bedroom. So trust me it was crazy with the only guys there being my dad, my dog, and me. We all had to wake up at 5:30 A.M. and there were ladies who came over to our house to do all the bridesmaids hair and my mom’s hair. But luckily my dad and I didn’t have to get our hair done so my dad and I just stayed in bed for a while. But later on we had to get dressed so we could leave. So once we got dressed, we left to go to the church. Also Cristina didn’t want everybody to see her wearing wedding dress so she left with her maid of honor. So the ceremony started and I had to go with my mom down to the front of the church and light a unity candle. Then the wedding officially started. And trust me it felt like forever so I’ll just skip to the part where the priest says “you may now kiss”. So then Cristina kissed her fiancé Justin and they officially became married. Justin became Cristina’s husband and Cristina became Justin’s wife.
Then the fun part happens at the reception. The reception is where everybody goes to a place and has food and talks, and there’s a dance party. The dance party was so awesome. My cousin Marcos and my two cousins from Texas Jordan and Dylan were there. So at first my cousins and I were trying to not have to dance. But my mom got Jordan on the dance floor, and then he liked it and kept dancing; so it was just Dylan, Marcos and me. They almost got Dylan when he was hiding under the table, but he got away. But I finally stepped up and starting dancing. I got Marcos to dance and we tried to get Dylan, but he just ran away from us. That dance party was so awesome! Also everybody was dancing like they were crazy and the food was so delicious. Finally everybody then had to leave so we all went home and I was so tired. All that dancing and all that standing drained me of all my energy. I just took a shower right when I got home and stayed in bed for what seemed like forever. While in bed I kept saying “I can’t believe my sister just got married”.
That day was one of my favorites and I will always remember it. I still can’t believe my sister got married; but anyways, I have two more sisters that are older than me so I have more weddings to look forward to!

The quarterback Michael Vick

Michael Vick was a quarterback for the Falcons in 2005. He also had a 130 million dollar contract. In 2007 he went to jail for having illegal dog fights. He got out of jail in 2009. He then got a million dollar cotract to play for the Philadelphia Eagles and be the starter quarterback. Michael Vick is now the 20th best football player in 2011.The best player is a quarterback it is Tom Brady. Tom Brady is my fantasy football pick also and Michael Vick is my fantasy football back up quarterback. What I don't think makes sense is if Michael Vick is such a great QB then why did he do something that made him go to jail? My favorite four QB's are Michael Vick, Tom Brady, Drew Brees, and Peyton Manning. Also Peyton Manning is the 2nd best player for 2011 and Drew Brees is the 9th best player for 2011. Tom Brady plays for the New England Patriots.Drew Brees plays for the New Orleans Saints.Peyton Manning is for the Indianapolis Colts. Also when it was the super bowl with the Saints playing against the Colts I went for the Saints. The Saints won that super bowl.

My cousin Marcos came back from Spain

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