Carving Pumpkins or not........

Punk's pumpkin.




















Kayla's finished pumpkin!

Madison as Hannah Montana!

Katelyn's finished pumpkin!















Katelyn's work in progress.......















Kayla prepares her materpiece!














Madison starts the blueprints....












Madison was very excited to carve her pumpkin...the older two appear to have outgrown this practice and have decided to use a sharpie on their pumpkins. :o(

Golden Birthday!

The punk!
There were presents!
And cake....

The outside scene.
Badmitten game!
The food.
Spraying of the hair!
More spraying of the hair.

We officially had the 13th birthday party for Kayla and Katelyn~of course, born on Friday the 13th of 1995!

Dave Doak for Sheriff

Just wanted to say, if you live in Portage County~vote for Dave Doak for sheriff! He is a great guy and Madison is his biggest fan!

http://doakforsheriff.com/#top

Friday's random photos

The purse..........
My niece Brattany!
My Dad and his youngest kids!
His hot new car! LOL. It looks a lot better now but still has a long way to go.
My Grandma last Christmas.

So tomorrow is the girls' birthday party at my parents. They wanted to have a bon fire, volley ball and bocce ball. And since we do not have a yard we opted to have the party there.

I found this REALLY cool dog purse...what other kind! LOL. You can buy it at the awesome site where you can click to give money to places for free. Here is the link to the site and I will attach a photo too. http://shop.theanimalrescuesite.com/store/item.do?siteId=310&itemId=34902&origin=EPA_101708_P_34902_04

13 on the 13th

New foster girl~Girlie!
Kayla tries her laptop out.
Katelyn looks to see what Kayla is doing on HER laptop. LOL
Ethan and his $300 half a tail! He is still a handsome man!

Kayla and Katelyn are officially teenagers! Their party is on the 18th but of course they had to get some of their gifts already! We went to Sunny Lake Park yesterday to have a little picnic, take a bike ride and give them there laptops(birthday gift from us).

Darcy was adopted today. Bobby Jack and Patchy Queen went to a different foster home as they were not doing so well here. We did take in a new dog today though (I know, I know...I was supposed to be taking a break but....we had a zillion apps for another Rottie mix we had so since she is a Rottie/Dobie mix and I got another call yesterday from another person looking for a Rottie I decided to take her). Her name is Girlie (she came with her name) and she is a DOLL! We adopted out two of our rats on Saturday too. YAY!

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First Field Trip!

All the kiddos!
I think this may be a modern day scareacrow??
Awesome flower shot!

This is Maggie Mae...my parents' newest addition. LONG story! Looney tunes!

So Madison and Rob went to the Apple Orchard today....in the rain. Here are some photos.

Foster's Update

Lookie my Roy! Such a sweetie!


Of course, that would be the old, I mean, anniversary couple! My girls!

Arroyo(or Roy) was adopted on Saturday which leaves me with NO foster dogs! So we now have, 4 rats: Lola and Hannah and Ethel and Esther. 4 cats~2 kittens and 2 adults: Bobby and Patches (adults) and Mallory and Yoshi (kittens). 1 rabbit~still not named or sexed for that matter!

My parents' anniversary party went well on Saturday! And Madison has her first school field trip tomorrow. Rob will be going with her since he can go without missing work and I am sure there won't be many trips like that in the future.

It's October

No new photos so I am posting some from last year at the JDRF walk at the Cleveland Zoo! Katelyn and Kayla!
Me abusing that poor elephant! ...and to think I call myself an animal rescuer!
Punk being Punk!
Katelyn tames a bear!
Kayla trying to soothe the poor elephant after my ride!

And that means a few things.....

We are half way through the first quarter of the school year and interim reports were sent home. Kayla and Katelyn got one "B" which they are not too happy about but are hoping to get them up before the end of the grading period. Katelyn said that if not at least their report cards will say "ADVANCED" math or Language Arts...LOL. But that is what the guidance counselor said when she wanted to move them up...that some kids are unsure because they want to make sure they keep their all "A's" record.

Madison got all "1's" on her interim report since they don't have letter grades yet and her comment is "Madison is off to a great start!" YAY!

Then we have Kayla and Katelyn will be turning 13 on the 13th this year! YIKES! Some day Madison will turn 13 on the 13th as well since I like to have my children on the 13th of whatever month they are born. All 2 birthdays are on the 13th! LOL.

Then we have elections coming up in just a month. I will be voting Democrat at this point as I happen to think that the Republicans have shown us all the miracles they can do with our economy for long enough. Now that I am struggling to EAT I think I will throw all that moral garbage out the window and vote for Obama!

But on a local note. ....if you are in Portage County, our family friend, Dave Doak is running for sheriff. Yes, he is a democrat but more importantly (as the sheriff doesn't do a whole lot platform wise) he is a GOOD man...honest, caring and has the experience to be a great Sheriff for our community! So if you wanted to know how to vote for for our county Sheriff...Dave's the man!

http://doakforsheriff.com/#top

I am adding another site to my little favorites list too. http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3&ThirdPartyClicks=ERA_100408_ARS if you go here and click you can give money to several different things...."child health", "animal rescue", "breast cancer awareness" and others. I chose to get a reminder email each day...I just go and click on everyone and it gives them money....and costs me none. It is a true thing too....I checked it out on snopes. LOL.

Longest, most jumbled blog ever.............

We set up new cages for rats. The yellow bottom is for the two boys and the purple bottom is for the 6 girls.
Cherry is our red saffron Lovebird. I took her from the breeder that we got our Howie from in hopes of taming her but have been told that since she was a "breeder" bird and never tamed that the chances of that are very unlikely. She probably needs a home with another Lovebird where she can just been a "for looks" bird. The red saffron is a very rare color caused by a defect while the egg is developing. There are no health issues but it is actually a mistake for it to show up but is very pretty for sure!



This is Darcy our white faced blue violet pied Lovebird that the girls are afraid of. LOL. She needs a little extra time spent with her but is really a nice bird. We have decided to find her a new home since they are afraid of her. I know....I am a loser like all the other people that I rescue animals from!! What can I say!





This is Charlie, April (Mrs. Stanfield), Megan, Holly and Leah.




Open house photo!



Roy, our foster Greyhound.





Yoshi, foster kitten...he is a boy! LOL. And Mallory is the girly





Tortie/Calico....GORGEOUS-est kitten ever!




















So I was told that I needed to update my blog....but I didn't think anyone even read it but me! And though it is nice for me to know what I am doing ....it really doesn't help me much...I am still pretty clueless!

Madison had an open house at school and her teacher took her picture...for some reason I look fat in the picture but I am sure it is just the angle of the camera! LMBO!

We would really appreciate thoughts and prayers for Madison's teacher's family for the next YEAR as her husband, Charlie is off to Egypt for a year. They have 3 little girls...I will be posting a photo and I know that Punk has had a REALLY hard time with Rob working second shift and not seeing him through the week so I can only imagine how it will be for their 3 girls...Megan, Leah, and Holly...not to mention Mrs. Stanfield essentially being a single mom of 3 while working full time too! So lots of prayers for them please.

My parents' surprise 40th anniversary party will be this Sunday now. It isn't a surprise anymore as I ended up asking my mom when she wanted to have her surprise party! LOL. But my dad didn't know it had been rescheduled until last night. It is good how we communicate so well as a family! :o/

Our Beagle/Basset foster, Stewart has finally been adopted! He has a nice family with a fenced yard(in Kent), a Beagle sister, Ruby to play with and a little human brother, Finn! Cute little guy!

The Italian Greyhounds have moved to Maryland with another Iggie, an Iggie Chihuahua and a Golden...oh and two humans...HUGE fenced yard! GREYT home!
We did have to take a Greyhound off the last haul out of September though as they just closed down The Woodlands kennel there and I just couldn't not take any....yes, I am supposed to be taking a BREAK!.....but one foster dog is better than it has been for awhile. Arroyo (we call him Roy) is doing pretty well and should be leaving for his forever home in Newark on Saturday....and FINALLY I will be foster dog less! I HOPE!!!! We still have 4 foster rats, 4 foster cats (2 kittens and 2 adults) and now a foster rabbit....The APL asked us to help them so I couldn't say no to them! LOL. BIG surprise that I cannot say no...right?? :o/