Honey and Her Friend

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The kids call this cat "Blacky". He is an outdoor cat that has adopted our family. He and Honey love to play together. When he is done playing he lets Honey know in no uncertain terms!

Honey is turning out to be a very good learner. She has very few accidents. We are starting to let her be in the main part of the house more and more.

Honey is already learning several puppy commands, like "CRATE", "SIT", "COME" (Although she still needs to be close to you or in the mood for this one. She seems to be going through a little "phase" because at first she was quite able to "COME"!)

Sometimes she rides in the car for short rides, like to meet Ryans bus.

Good Puppy!

Here are some more pictures from today...

Greene County Tech 2nd Grade Play

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Here is Robbie lining up to go to the his big performance!

In the picture above, imagine Robbie at the left microphone. His part was so short, I didn't get the camera in focus quickly enough!



No Robbie in the picture above, just an overview of the play set and choir areas.



I wish the one above didn't turn out so blurry... But there he is doing his part with the choir after his huge part on stage!

Ashlee's Curly Day

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Wavy is about the best we got on Ashlee's hair. I think we need to use a stonger hold product when we are rolling the curlers. But it was not bad for our first attempt. She bounced out the door very pleased, so all it well that ends well.

Ashlee, Before...

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Ashlee went to bed with curlers in her hair tonight. She is hoping for the curly look for school tomorrow. Stay tuned...

Ryan's Two Year Old Pictures

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What a handsome boy! My RyRy!

Friday Night Living Room Slumber Fest

Here are my cuties. Aimee is sacked out under a blanket on the floor. Not a hair on her head is visible, thus no photo of her...

Honey is Adjusting Well!

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Honey has her own space in mom and dad's bathroom while she adjusts to indoor/outdoor life. So far so good. There was a little to clean up this morning in the bathroom. But during the day when we took her out frequently there were no accidents. Good Puppy!

She had her first two little SIT lessons today. I am going to work with her briefly about two to three times a day so that she will be a very well behaved little lady.

Meet Honey!

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We have a new addition to the family. She will be sleeping in a crate indoors. We have learned our lesson about living on a highway and having a dog the very hardest way possible.

Honey is a doll, but the animal control that we got her from wasn't sure what her breed was. But I'm sure no matter what she will be loved. Her paws are pretty small so I don't think she'll be real big.

So now I will be reading up on training! Its been so long since I've trained a puppy. In fact I've never had one this small... But she is already asleep in her crate. She slept under a seat in the van on the way home. So I could tell she was going to "den" nicely. When we got home we let her run around the yard a bit and she did both types of business and we praised her tons. Then we brought her in and let her roam the house just a little.

The kids then took her back outside and she chased them and chased them and had a ball while I was tending chickens and the horse.

She is a real snuggler so far and very quiet. She barked at one of the cats once it was quite cute.

Stitch's Garden

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I didn't get a picture, but Rob said before we went out to plant. The cats were all laying around on his nice soft dirt. I said "Oh no, the cats are partying!"

Anyway, we planted some flowers for Stitch this morning just before it started to rain.

So I guess we aren't working in the garden today. We may have to break down and do some house work.

We lost our dog Stitch today.

Stitch was hit by a car last night or early this morning. The children are coping better than mommy and daddy surprisingly. He will be missed.

Aimee's Spring Picture

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I wish the same photography company did all the kids...

Anyway, we got Aimee's pictures back today. They did two different poses. My kids are so cute!!!

Kids Spring School Pictures

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These are the proofs that we received today.

Ryan goes to School!

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This is the "Your going to leave me here again aren't you?" look.

My cute Ryan has started school. His pediatrician referred us to The Learning Center because his speech development is behind quite a bit. It is most likely because he had ear infections almost constantly until he had tubes put in his ears in May 2006. He probably wasn't hearing well before that.

We have already seen an improvement in his talking since he started school and he has only been going for a week and a half.

His school is quite far. Daddy usually takes him in the morning because it is near where daddy often starts his day. Then he rides a bus back to Paragould in the afternoon. We don't pick him up from the bus until 5:15-5:30 p.m. so it is a long day for him.

Here is a picture of him blowing bubbles in his cereal bowl that Doug and Donna gave him and another picture of him at school.

Working in the Yard

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Rob tills the garden plot. Ashlee rakes out rocks and other misc. Robbie mows the far end of the pasture. A busy group!

Here are some pictures of our first day dedicated to our first garden.

Below are some more pictures of the day. Ryan turned two on Thursday and started a school program on Wednesday. He tested pretty low in his speech and development so he is going to a preschool program. He came home Friday with the stomach flu already. No Fun. I'll have to get some more pictures of Ryan on here soon!

Here are more pictures of the yard work today. Enjoy.

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This morning Rascal and Diamond were snuggling each other. I had to take a picture! Aimee decided to get in the picture and Diamond decided to lick her too.

If you look at the top left corner, you will see Cinderella off lounging on her own. She is not a social kitty like the other two. But is getting more and more tollerant of them. In the past she would not even want to be in the same room as them unless it was feeding time.

Here is one more kitty picture.

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Mommy, Daddy and Ryan went to Robbie's poetry day on Wednesday. It was really neat. Each of the kids in his class got up and sat on a stool and read three of the poems they had written. After each child we were to snap our fingers just like in a coffee house.

Then we had finger foods and coffee, cocoa and punch.

They dimmed the lights and had white light strands strung through out the room. It was well organized and some of the poetry was quite entertaining.

Many of them read their "I wish" poem. Most of them wished for horses or toys. One boy wished for "a mom that wasn't mean". Another little girl wished for "a new daddy". There was another poem about a Grandma (that had come to the program). So there were some teary moments as well.

Robbie had a nice poem about his sisters and the last line said "I have a little brother too".