Well, Hello There 2018!

Hello, it's your friendly neighborhood moustached neighbor! (Heh heh, sorry, another DanTDM reference!)

GUYS!!!!

IT'S 2018!!!!!

2017 IS GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2017 started off with me coming home from the youth retreat after driving all night. I was exhausted but happy to be home.

2018 started off with me starting to write this post and listening to Splatoon music. Not quite as eventful but, eh, who cares. XD

Didja guys stay up all night? I didn't, actually. I mean, I saw the clock at 12AM but I was in bed, almost asleep. XD

What did you guys do to celebrate? My family doesn't do a whole lot but on New Years Eve we had a super yummy supper of bacon wrapped wieners, Caesar salad, chicken wings, and pizza buns. It was all SO good! :o We also played a game called Balderdash which was creative and fun! Before supper, though, me and Koolest and my brother watched DanTDM on our Wii U and then my brother played Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild WHICH IS SO COOL!!!!!! :O You can hunt animals with your bow and arrow, climb mountains or pretty much anything, make food in a pot over a fire, catch fish, and AHHH, it's awesome. XD

Okay! Enough with my little chitchat!

Today's New Years! (Oops, I didn't end up finishing this post on New Years...)

So I'm going to be doing a little New Years post. (I said "little" because I don't have a whole lot of time to write it... heh.)

Looking back at 2017, it was a good, good year. But in some ways, it wasn't as good as I hoped. The main reason being that many of our AJ Blogger friends have quit. And I miss them all so badly. :(

But I try to look at the good of 2017!

Here's a small list of some of what I found good about 2017:

• I got closer to God and started to really enjoy praise and worship at my church or church in general.
• I got super close to some AJ Bloggers due to being able to talk to a lot of them in one place. (Y'all rock. ^-^)
• I started to learn how to really enjoy life.
• I made tons of awesome memories in the summer such as biking in the rain after getting ice cream blizzards (and having one explode on me, XD) or swimming out in the lake with my family on vacation or walking Mocha or biking with Koolest and than stopping somewhere random just to talk or talking for hours with the AJ Bloggers or watching TV shows with my siblings or biking fast down the sidewalks of my city.
• I got more connected into my nursery class at church.
• I learned how to socialize a bit more.
• I drew more and got better.
• I wrote more and got better.
• The Maze Runner series captured me and I seriously am the biggest fangirl for it.
• I found out Splatoon music is awesome. (XD)
• I found out DanTDM is an awesome, hilarious (and kid friendly) YouTuber and now love watching him on our Wii U with Koolest and my brother.
• I hung out with my siblings more.
• I found out that my AJ Blogger friends have my back.

I could keep going on but I think I'll stop here!

I hope you all can look back at 2017 and see that it was a good year! If you can't see it at first, look harder!

Alright, before I end this post off, let's have a little mini throwback. ^.^ I'll be looking at 2017 posts and pick random highlights. Throwbacks are fun so WOO! XD

2017 Throwback - Looking at all the Months

January:

OH MAN, I totally forgot sheep came out in January! I remember being excited that me and Koolest found the sheep door in an adventure. XD

February:

OOO, DO YOU GUYS REMEMBER THIS?! XD Suspense Saver became a superhero this year! (Hmm, he needs to appear more often.... possibly for my JH story, right?! XD)

Suspense Saver still gets called on to this very day...

March:

Koolest/Chloe made the first chapter of JH illustration. I was so proud to announce this and I still love itttttttt! :D My wittle shocked face is su cute! XD

April:

In April, I celebrated my first ever blogiversary! :O Ah, memories, memoriessss!

OH MY, DO YOU GUYS REMEMBER WHEN I CREATED LOTS OF EDITS FOR BLOGGER MEMES?! XDD

I think this hairy brownie was one of everyone's favorites. XD

May:

LARRY THE BUNNY!!!!!!!! XD

Guys, if you have NOT read Swirl's first chapter of Larry the Bunny, YOU MUST DO THAT NOW!!! It is pure awesomeness. XD

June:

AHHH, I remember the Summer Splash Party!! That was so much FUN!!! :D And Cat made this awesome edit for it! :o

(Who thinks this party needs to come back this year?)

Ah, yes. The Team Zios and Team Mira stuff was really popular for a while! (Hehe, I was rooting for Team Zios AKA the winning team. XD)

July:

Anyone remember my Canada Day Party? :O It was super special because Canada turned 100! ^.^

August:

Ahh, that was an incredible vacation. ^.^ I swam almost every day, I got AJ toys, I had a LOT of fun with my family, and I READ THE MAZE RUNNER FOR THE FIRST TIME AND WATCHED THE MAZE RUNNER MOVIE AND IT WAS AWESOME. XD

September:

DO Y'ALL REMEMBER THE SUMMER STORY CONTEST AND THE WINNER WAS ONLY ANNOUNCED IN SEPTEMBER NOT SUMMER?! XD

Ah hahaha, yes, I know. I still haven't made all the winner and runner-up's art. Heh.

October:

Oh yeahhh! I wrote my chapter of the Project in October! :o That was fun! ^.^

November:

In November I stumbled upon Doll Devine! It's actually so much fun and I really love making book/movie/video game characters. XD

OH, MEMORIES!! I remember when we made this, Sarah and Swirl!! That was so fun!!! XD

I also turned 15 in November!! :D

December:

Even though this Christmas countdown happened SUPER recently, it's still an awesome memory and belongs in this throwback. ;)

Before I end off this post, I just want to thank you all for reading my blog and being an awesome friend to me. I love you all. ^.^

Have a happy New Year and...

Jam on!

Comment call: What are your goals for 2018? Are you excited to see what 2018 will have in store?



Memories, Memories...

Hey-ho Jammers! Today's post is going to be different than all the others. Wanna know why?

Because it isn't about AJ.

Yes, I know the blog is named "Animal Jam Jumble" and it should be all about AJ. But I have been wanting to post about this for a while and I thought you might be curious about the game I used to play and adore. That game was called Pixie Hollow.

I think it was the best game I have ever played. No joke. Now, don't tackle me because I just said PH was better than AJ! I love AJ, don't get me wrong. I have tons of amazing friends on there! But Pixie Hollow didn't have scammers, hackers, or rares. Sounds wonderful, right? XD There was NO trading in that game. You could only send gifts to people from ONE shop. So even if someone was jealous of one of your items, you couldn't even give them it!

There was also NO famous people. Sure, there were the cool people. Doesn't every game have those? But they didn't have crowds following them, shouting for autographs. There was none of that. It was just a fun game. :D

I spent hours on there. I played in the morning. In the afternoon. In the evening. I spent time playing games, hanging with amazing people and friends, and shopping.

I want to show some pictures I took in my last few weeks of playing before it closed down on September 19th, 2013. ^-^

This is me. :D I was Sunshine, the Light Talent fairy. I had SO many clothes and I loved them all.

So you see all those buttons on the picture? I will tell you what they all meant! I will start with the far left side. The chest was of all your house items. You could see them all and go through them. The book was for changing your outfit and such. The pouch was to see what level you were on and how far till your next level. The map and compass was the map of Pixie Hollow.

Now on the far right, the little house was for your home. The flower was for going to your garden. The little fairies was your friend list and the party hats showed all the parties going on.

Oh and another thing, the yellow blocks at the side were called whispers. Whispers were really just a big private group chat with just your friends. You could whisper ALL your friends that were on in a group or just whisper one of them. ^.^

One of my pretty ball gowns. :D There was a shop called "Queen's Boutique" that just sold pretty gowns. Sometimes they would leave shop or sometimes there would be new gowns. Whenever a new one came in, the shop was VERY busy. :)

Sunshine's home. :D My house has four levels on it. I think I added the ladders myself... Oh, there were SO many things you could buy! I love my bed. It looks so fluffy... :3 (I made the bed myself with a gazebo, fluffy rug, and pillows.) Also, that square was a chat log of your whispers. :) I remember whenever someone sent a whisper, there was this hushy noise that sounded like a whisper. XD

My boy fairy! Technically called a sparrow man. :P His name was Thatcher. He was a Tinker Talent. It was quite funny when I was him. All these fairies swarmed around me with love faces. XD I flew around super fast, trying to get away, and they followed me. Oh, those were the good 'ol days. ^.^

Thatcher's suit! Heh, he's smiling! How cute. XD

My other fairy! Ebony the Garden Talent, who did have black hair when she started but she dyed her hair blond. :) I loved going to the salon and changing my hairdo!! It was so much fun!!

Another outfit of Ebony's. I loved all the clothes so much...

Aha! The Pixie Hollow map! It was soo big! There was a spring, summer, fall, and winter area. Winter and Summer only had three places to go, while spring and fall had four, I think...

Also, the game used diamonds as well! Only members could get diamonds. You could use the diamonds in the Post Office, where whenever you bought clothes there, you could pick one of your friends to give the clothes too! So then you both had the same clothes! I remember when I bought stuff, I would whisper to all my friends, "Who wants a gift?" And EVERYONE said, "Me!". XD

You could also dye your furniture or clothing items and make them a whole new color! You had to pay with acorns, raspberries, blueberries, or dandelion fluff. :D

Well, I hope this post was interesting! If you have any questions, feel free to comment and ask. :) Also, if you guys want, I could post more pictures from PH. Again, tell me in the comments!

Oh, guys! We are at 1,220 pageviews!! And the 500 pageview giveaway hasn't even ended!! XD Thanks to all my wonderful readers, comments, and friends!!! You guys rock. I wouldn't have made it to this milestone without you. :D Thanks again!!

Till next time...

Jam on! Or fly with you later, as the fairies say! ^-^