Thanks for stopping by my site.  My name is Katie - I am a 8th grade student in New Hampshire.  I have many hobbies and interests which I would like to share with you.

One of the things that I enjoy the most is cooking.  I especially love to bake cookies, bread and deserts. This Christmas I baked many different kinds of cookies - my favorite ones were Santa's sandwiches. They were so tasty. If the recipe has chocolate you don't have to twist my arm to whip up something quick. I can do other things as well.  My greatest challenge with cooking is keeping my mom from snarfing down everything that I make.

Over the past several years, I have become a very good fisherman.  My favorite fish to catch is Bass. I once caught a Pickerel by the fin. Mom didn't want to touch it so she slammed it against the boat to get it off of the hook. What really hooked me into fishing was when I caught a large-mouth-Bass when I was somewhere in the first or second grade. Did you happen to notice the 18 inch Salmon I caught this year?

I started playing the trumpet in 5th grade. We have a great band director who likes to have fun and gives out the funniest things for the band raffles. I am first chair in my school band. I also play in church with my mom, brother and others.

I love horses and love to ride them.  Every summer I visit my grandparents who live in Scottsbluff, Nebraska.  I get to ride horses there every week.  My favorite breed of horse is Arabians closely followed by paints. I also have a collection of horses. My favorite so far is a paint named Tucker but the riding place went out of business so now I ride a black Quarter horse, Percheron crossbreed. My dad fount a place where I can work cleaning stables and watering horses; the benefit is that I can ride for free.

My Dad's two parakeets are named Popeye and Olive; we always name our birds after restaurants. 

I guess you could say that I am a bit of a bookworm because I truly love to read.  My favorite series of books is the Redwall series by Brian Jacques. I also like the horse stories that almost everybody reads and I like the chicken soup books for horse lovers and pet lovers soul.