Happy Birthday!!

Whooo Hoooo!! Yet another birthday here at the Hennhouse!! Happy Birthday Daddy!! You are the best dad I could ever ask for, and you are an amazing example to all those around you. You are a great teacher, mentor, singer, guitar player, tickle-giver, tucker in-er at bedtime, out loud reader, listener, talker, photographer, provider, protecter, decision maker, friend maker, cook-er, planner, get-'er done kind of person, encourager, writer, correcter, and so many other things I could sit here and write all day! You definitely have your moments, and your boiling points, but you come to see your sin quickly and apologize... =) I can't believe God let me have such a wonderful daddy, and I hope I can celebrate every birthday you have with as much fun as we celebrated your 41st!! Only 41 more years and you'll be 82!! I love you so much daddy and I'm so glad you you were born!!

I LOVE YOU DADDY!!! Post a comment to wish Buzz a Happy Birthday!!
~Bugg

Happy 1st Birthday!!

Our little Squeakers just turned one yesterday! She is growing up to be such a big girl. Wednesday night we went to the mall to eat dinner, then went birthday shopping for her at Target. It was super easy shopping for her and only took us an hour or two. Thursday we spent the day finishing unpacking, ( we spent last week with our cousins in Chicago, more on that later...) cleaning the house, making cakes, and wrapping birthday presents. It was very hot so we went down to the swimming pool and swam! Friday was the PARTY!!! Squeakers was the star of the show all day long! Aunt Susie came over in the morning a brought doughnuts! Yum! She brings us doughnuts so often that she has been officially dubbed 'The Doughnut Lady'. Thanks Susie! We had blown up a little wading pool for Squeakers and she sat in that for most of the morning. I took too many plenty of pictures, she is very photogenic. :)

                                    

 These next pictures are exactly a year ago. She has gotten soooo big in the past year, I can hardly believe it!

I just love my sister! I will post a few more pictures, if you don't mind..... In my opinion, pictures speak much better than words. :)

 We had quite a bit of family and some dear friends come to celebrate with us. Thankfully, it was a beautiful night, despite the bugs and the kids played outside most of the time! We played  freeze tag, soccer, cops and robbers, and did a skit! It was a very fun night. Squeakers had a cake all to herself, and she was very dainty with it. For the first two minutes she didn't hardly touch it! She eventually dug in and ate it though! We praise God for Squeakers every day and have no idea what our family would do without her! Post a comment to with Squeakers a Happy Birthday!!
~Bugg

Today is a big day for Dash!! His top right tooth has been loose for days now, and it was finally ready to pull! Mommy is very brave, I highly doubt I could pull bloody, fleshy teeth out of somebody's mouth!  So now Mr. Toothless is walking around the house showing everyone his new toothless smile! :) We love you buddy!!!!

       ~ Bugg~

Goodness, blog posts are getting scarce aren't they? My fault. I planned on posting a while back but as you can tell I never got to it. Anyway......

We had a birthday party for our close friend Tatiana Beaver (she's now 13) Her family and 2 others came for stew and cake. So much fun!!! Happy really,really late birthday Tatiana!!

Oggie, Dash, and Erna had a piano recital. I wasn't there but I know for a fact that it sounded REALLY good. Dash and Erna just started, but Oggie has been playing for 3 years. They all are great musicians!

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We also carved pumpkins!!! It is a tradition at our house. We started a new tradition too! Roasting the pumpkin seeds! They are SO good! And apparently they are healthy for you too. :)
About a week after that we went trick or treating for halloween. The weather was perfect and the candy was great, as usual.

my face looks weird because the texture of the pumpkin guts is not appealing.

Sadly, there is no pumpkin pictures because 2 of them got smashed/stolen. bummer.

I was a square dancer

Oggie was Robin

Dash was Batman

Erna was fairy princess butterfly

Bear was a football player. GO HUSKERS!!

Sweet little Squeakers was a bunny!

and last but not least (as she always will be) Squeakers is four months now!! She is getting chubbier by the second.

                 Bugg

Overheard at the Hennhouse.....

Recently we had some close friends come over to play at our house. They brought there bulldog, Duncan, over for a short visit also.

Dash: "Mom, Mom!!"
Ta: "What buddy?"
Dash: "Duncan just peed on the pasta's!" (hosta's)

Also, Ta and Buzz just celebrated their 15th anniversary on July 22nd! They are the best parents in the whole world and I am so glad that they met each other! Ta told me that on there wedding day a friend said to them, " Someday I just know that you guys are going to have 5 or 6 kids!"
Ta and Buzz cracked up and never thought that there 15th anniversary present would be precious little Giggles! But they were wrong about that, and I don't think that they regret it!
Bugg

Holding new baby sissy for the first time.

Each of the kids got to meet their new sister for the first time and hold her.  They were very excited and sweet to watch knowing how much they were looking forward to this addition to our family!  The last picture i took very spontaneously as they were all hovering over her as mommy was getting her blanky all snug around her.  I will have to get a better shot of all 6 when we get home.