A Horse of a Different Color

How many pets do we have? To the unseeing eye, one would say, "none". Take a close look though




We actually have 3 pets. One baby horse, one Mamma Cat ("I'm a Mamma Cat because I have my whiskers on and my tail on") and one baby cat. Yes, we are those people who love our pets so much that we dress them, let them eat all of our food, talk to them, at times sleep with them, kiss them, talk about them all the time, and even let them live in our house at all times. Our pets get along so well that baby horse gives our cats rides all the time. He loves to buck them off but the cats don't mind (they always land on their feet) and jump back on. Who would have guessed that I would be such a pet lover?

Lost but not forgotten

Sorry it has been so long since I have written. I tell you, time is just going by faster and faster. Then, when I was going to post, my monitor went out. We got a new one last night and are back in business.We had another tornado hit down in Chickamauga. This time, it took down one of our trees, trimmed up a few in the front and probably every house on our street had at least one tree come down. Most damage is fence damage but a few roofs need to be fixed. It was kind of cool watching it come in. The kids were watching out the window and watched the branches fall off and then we heard them hit our roof. It bent our gutter a little bit. Then our whole house shakes and We run to the kitchen to look out and our tree had fallen down, it our neighbors house (empty) and did some damage to his garage door. As I am looking at that, I see the empty houses tree fall. We decided to take the kids to the basement for a bit. It was over about 5 minutes after it started. Our power was out for a few hours. Not too long. Other people had it out for about a week. Will and I sat on the front porch until about 12 that night to direct the traffic through the power line that had been knocked into the street. Other streets were closed down and our street was the detour. Kind of exciting. I am glad that is as much excitement as we got though.





The last is our tree that hit the neighbors and the other pics are around the neighborhood. Like I said, not a lot done but enough to get your heart pumping a bit.

family

They may not be picture perfect all the time but I love them.

Carnival

The library had a list where you could read 10 books to your kids and then you would get 1 hour of free rides at the fair. The list didn't specify which books or kids ages. So I got 3 and started marking all the books we read. I really thought that this was a gig to get parents to take their kids to the fair, make them pay to ride the rides with them and they would mark the prices up but I was in anyway. I was pleasantly surprised that they didn't do that at all. All of the kids rides were really close to the gates so we didn't even have to ride with them. There were height requirements but there were enough rides that the three of them could ride that it ended up being a really good time. Cole really wanted to go on this little roller coaster but he wasn't tall enough without an adult so Will went on it with him. He loved it. I wanted to go on the Ferris wheel (I love them) and Cole was the only one tall enough to go with me so he and I got to enjoy that. McKelle loved the boats the most and she rode them 3 times I think. The hour flew by but was exactly enough time. Any shorter and we would have wanted to stay a little longer but we had already said only one more ride and didn't realize that that was exactly the hour mark. Perfect.





I must say, I love the library. I always have because I enjoy reading and I like free stuff but with kids, there is a whole new element with it. They have some fun story times and other perks to go with it.