Well.....

.. I thought it was high time I updated this poor little blog with a fresh look for the fall season. What do you think of it? Too plain? Too much? I'd love your input!

(after all, ya'll are the ones looking at my blog everyday...) :)

Have a great week,

~hannah~

A Tag...

Well, my darling friend Rebekah hosted this tag on her blog, and though I had posted my answers as a comment there, I decided to post them here as well. Enjoy!

~Ten Interesting Facts About Me~

1. I am the oldest child of ten - a fact I absolutely LOVE to talk about!

2. The longest my family and I have ever lived in a house is about three years. We have moved around a lot; the Lord has blessed us with a lot of moving experiences :) - but I hope to be staying put for quite a long while!

3. I cannot stand seafood! Which is quite sad, because the rest of my family are big fans of it; shrimp, crab legs, etc.

4. When I was six, I took Jazz lessons; but I stopped after about 5 months.

5. A scary thought; when my youngest brother is fifteen, I will be thirty! :(

6. My bestest ever daddy in the whole world is a fourth degree black belt in Hapkido. When we live in Atlanta, (I was just a little baby) he would learn from the very tough Master Park. I mean tough. Daddy would get beat up almost every day; but he loved every moment of it! :) He stopped when the Lord moved us to Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, but he now teaches several of my siblings and I. And the funny stories he tells us of when he would work with Master Park.... let me just tell you that we love to laugh! :) I was blessed with a WONDERFUL daddy! :)

7. I love to design things. In my mind, I have put together a charming little cottage (or as I title it, "My little Yellow House in the Woods") and every inch of it is complete. My inspiration for this cute litle place came from a tiny yellow house my family and I drive past every Sunday on our way to meet with our church family. :) Yes, my brothers like to tease me about my wandering imagination, but I enjoy coming up with plans and ideas for this darling little house. :)

8. I believe that I have the cutest little brothers anyone could ever ask for! :) (I have six brothers, four of them under the age of eight)

9. My family owns our own personal petting zoo; right here in our home! :) To be exact, we have.... "drum roll if you please" .... Four adorable dogs, seven cuddly kitties, six amazing geckos, two (almost) talking parrot-lets, two "can't-believe-they-are-still-alive" goldfish, and one teeny-tiny cute little turtle. :)

10. I am a part of a dear group of friends who, because they are so close, have decided to call themselves the March sisters. Yes, the same four "Meg, Jo, Beth & Amy" in the book "Little Women". My dear sister Rebekah, whose site I got this idea from, is otherwise known as "Meg", Miss Haleigh Poe who has also taken part in this tag is lovingly called "dear Amy". Our fourth sister, "Beth", has not yet commented on this post, but I do not want to leave her out; our sweet-tempered, loving sister! :) And me, as you all have probably guessed, am the cheerful Jo! :)

~ :D ~

If you did not participate on "Meg's" blog, then feel free to post your answers here in the comment section. I would enjoy reading your answers!

~hannah~

Meet Mr. Bennet...

...a dear little boy who was recently introduced to the Morse family. This kitty is sweet tempered, very adorable, and quite attached to his rescuer/new mama... :) Although he fits his name perfectly, it is a bit too grown-up for him, so for now he goes by the title "Mr. B" . His story is similar to that of his new brothers and sisters, my other "kitt-os", who all have a touching tale of their own, but it is unique none the less. My parents, being the wonderful people they are, :)have allowed my siblings and I the chance to demonstrate our love of creatures by taking care of animals of all shapes and sizes AND numbers... (four dogs, seven kitties, six geckos, two parrot-lets, a turtle and two fish). So for them, the story of my Mr. B is just another page from the Book of Morsel Adventures which we can all look back on in later years...

...My mother-dear, siblings, and I were heading home from being out and about together, making a few little errands here and there. My father was on his way home from work, and we had timed it just right so that we would all be home in time to meet our grandpa who was passing through and wanted to make a quick stop to see us.

We stopped at the bank real quick, for one reason, suckers! :) lol

And as we were pulling out, I saw a tiny orange blur race across the four lanes of road in front of us. Of course I yelled "Mom! Did you see that? I think I just saw a kitten run across the road." And I had. It quickly hid in some bushes as our big ole' van crawled up along side it, and for some strange reason, Isaac jumped out and told us he would get it for us. ;) Actually though, instead of grabbing it when he should have, he scared it so that the tiny little thing raced across the large parking lot of Bi-lo which just so happened to be next door to the bank.

Mother looked at her watch as someone yelled "It's under some body's car!". Being the great woman she is, she drove over and allowed the four older ones (Spencer, Geneva, Isaac and myself) to hop out and attempt to catch this little creature. Not exactly knowing what we would do with it once we had it.. :) we made a game plan of how we could lure it out from underneath this car. We tried everything, and nothing worked. Finally, Spencer got down on his stomach (yes, right there in the middle of the Bi-lo parking lot) and reached under to grab it. Oops! Wrong move... that scared little kitty skedaddled right up into the engine of the car. We walked back to the van, to find everyone out of their seats and crowding around the door watching every little thing we were doing. Mama told us that she had called dad, and that he would stop by and try to help us. When he got there, he hopped right out, and looked at me like "Hannah, what have you gotten us into now?" as he slowly crouched down next to the car. He tried to lure it out with some "cat" noises... but it only crawled further up into the car. Daddy-o called the man who owned the car to tell him what had happened, and to make sure that it was okay that we were crawling around his car, and the guy just laughed and said that it was alright.

Meanwhile, our grandfather had been waiting on our front porch. :) Daddy told us that we needed to go home, but promised to come back and check on the cat once our visit with grandpa was over. So, about an hour later, Spencer, daddy-o, the twins, and myself drove back down to Bi-lo to try our skills at catnapping again. :) After about 15 minutes, I asked daddy to call the car owner, and since he loves me so much... (lol) he did. The guy said that he would quickly stop by and open the hood of the car for us, Yay! :) Once he got there, it took about a total of maybe two minutes to pop the hood open and snatch the panting kitten before it escaped back underneath the car. Wow.. that was easy. :)

Now, after many hours of nursing his poor skinny little body back to it normal fat self, he has addapted quite nicely into our full home and family. And, don't tell anyone I said this but....

...(I think daddy likes him!)

Hope I haven't bored you too much... Have a fantastic day everyone!!

~hannah~

Free Piggy Banks...

Benjamin was determined to convince everyone that it sounded like a sea-shell..

More posts soon!

~hannah~

Benjamin's Birthday...

On Thursday the 27th, someone in our family celebrated his SIXTH birthday! He was "super" excited, can you guess who I'm talking about? :) Yes, Benjamin is now six! Ohhhh! How time flies.... remember THIS post? Wow....

Anywho, enjoy the video, Ben and I had a lot of fun making it! :D

~Hannah~

P.S. About the posting.... I'll get to that later... :)

My Cool Little Mr. Man...

Smiles...

~hannah~

Fun with friends...

Some sweet friends of ours invited our family to a birthday party they were having for their little girl Angela. They had a small petting zoo there and everything. We had a blast! (can you tell?)

(this rooster is full grown!)

Spencer and my chunky little Mr Man... :)

I think the pony was a hit.. :)

..hopefully I'll have some more pictures next week. We have family coming over this weekend, so we should have a bunch of fun! :)

Toodles!

~hannah~

A B-Day Movie...

(pause the music at the end of this page before playing movie)

Here is a very late b-day movie for Jake. I actually made it the day before his birthday (July 7th) , but for "some reason" I am only posting it now. : ) I hope you LOVE it as much as we do.. :)

~hannah~

A Vote...

cute or not cute?

~hannah~

Stephen Jacob...

"Ugghh.. do I HAVE to smile?"

(love his face in this picture even though it is blurry)

"just a little one.."

Car rides are always and adventure, or, at least what happens IN the car... (can you tell from my last two posts?) :D


~hannah~