My twin aka my daughter :)

I've had people tell me lately that Hannah looks alot like me, but when I came across this picture of myself as a child, I was amazed at how similar we look!

Smokie 2004-2011

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Chris and I took Smokie in as a stray in 2004,  he was this little mangy cat that we fell in love with. At the time we already has Silas and we weren't planning to get another cat, but he showed up and we even tried to take him to the pound, but ended up adopting him right back the next day. Despite his poor litter box use, he was such an awesome cat.  He put up with the kids doing just about anything to him, he made us laugh when he would try and crawl into just about bag or box laying around as you can see in some of the pictures.  He loved to snuggle (especially with me).   Because of his peeing in the house we kept him outside alot of the time, but he still got to come in once a day for a while and he really enjoyed being an outside cat, watching the birds and squirrels.  He was probably chasing a squirrel in the street when he got hit.   This was really sudden and I my heart hurts right now.  I know this is what comes with having pets, but he was part of our family so as silly as it may seem to some, I am grieving for him......   Chris and I barried him in the back yard with Silas.   I love you Smokie, Im so glad you were part of our family for 8 years.

Missing teeth!

two gone and 18 more to go!  I hope they straighten out or I see braces in her future!

Whats up with us?.............

Well evidently we totally skipped September, because it's already October 3rd!!!!    I continue to be a horrible blogger, but I dont think to many people read this anyway, and those who do, I talk to a on a regular basis.  

I'll blame not posting things as much on not having a very good camera.  :)   The girls are growing like crazy, I think Hannah is going to be tall, her legs seem really long lately, she definetly doesn't look anything like she did her first year life, for those of you who know she was quite a chunk, and I loved every roll of her !

See I told ya!~

They are are both enjoying Preschool, and Dance class, and going to church twice a week.   We all got to go to the house of some friends from church who have a horse and the girls were probably more excited than I've ever seen them, Hannah actually woke up like 2 hours earlier that morning in anticipation of the evening.   They go to ride, and help saddle and brush and feed the horse.   It was a very special fun night and we felt pretty blessed to have friends that would let us come do this.   The girls seem to be in phase right now where they love to dress like, pretend to be cowgirls and are wanting to play horses 24/7.  Our couches are saddled daily on each end and they pretend they are riding their horses.   It secretly makes Chris and I want to live in the country just so we could get them a horse, its pretty precious!   So you can probably guess what they will dressed like for our church Hallelujah party!

Lets see, well I got in trouble today for not telling my sissy that Hannah has now lost two teeth on the bottom and actually the permanent ones are already poked partly through.   The two on top are pretty lose so, Hannah might be asking for her two front teeth for Christmas!   

I'm already gearing up for homeschooling next year, getting my curriculum picked out, purchasing what books I'll need and we are going to all work on getting our school room painted and organized this winter.  Hannah is excited and that makes me excited too!  

So that was a lot of randomness, but that whats up with us!

to be continued..............