September & October Adoption Drive

We have had some of our adoption drives next to our local Pet Store-Pet Crazy. This Pet Crazy Dog helped us advertise.

Fellow Friends and Volunteers

These guys are awesome we could not do it without them!

Here is where we put Joshua when we need a break. Ok, ok truthfully he is a great puppy entertainer!

Hungry Girl

There are  good crumbs in here! I just know it!

Joshua is also good at entertaining kitties!

Tayler and a few volunteers rinsed puppies down to keep them cool.

Boys "New" Room

 Joshua helped me patch the holes in the wall. When he was younger he had a bad habit of throwing things. I am so grateful he is out of that stage and can control his frustration better! He helped me patch, sand and paint.

We put their beds on top of each other giving them so much more room.

 Brenden chose Army green for the wall color.Joshua likes blue the best so he helped chose the school room color. Pictures to come later.

 Both boys had fun picking out where to put the military wall art.

 Loving their new room!

This is a Thomas The Tank Engine table set my dad built for Brenden when he was little. They don't play with it as much as they used to now that they are growing up but insisted on keeping it in their room. Other kids that come over think it is the best!

Common Garden Spider

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_aurantia

for more information on these awesome creatures.

 I was so excited to get some great pictures and have the kids see a garden spider. This pretty girl made a web right beside our front door. I measured her at 3 inches! I remember having one of these spiders outside our dining room window growing up.

Nugget

Mushrooms in Dew

 Beside our bird barn this mushroom forest awaited.

 The dew droplets glistened in the morning sun.

 Inverted mushroom.

Sun rise.

Rattle Snake

 Josh happened to look out our dining room window and see this. Brenden was at church, I was at friends house. Tayler and Joshua were inside playing! Thank you God!I have seen one a bit bigger at our neighbors house last year. This is our first rattler and I would have to say the biggest snake we have had on our property.

  This is minus the head in measuring. Josh had been taught always take the head off of a poisonous snake.

 Nothing scares this girl! She said it was very heavy! No we did not skin it or eat it. We left that to nature.

Meet Stormy

 Stormy

Our very first foster. She was found in an abandoned house locked in a crate, paralyzed and pregnant. Though Stormy had a rough start her guardian angel brought her through. At this point before we brought her home she had regained most function of her back legs. She needed exercise and to gain weight. We were amazed at how well Stormy behaved and fit right in. As you can see she loved the children and was ever so grateful for any and all attention! I am happy to say this wonderful girl is in her furever home now.

Her favorite was getting a belly rub!

Jessie

Meet Jessie

Early one morning getting ready to fix my coffee, what do I see out the dining room window? This guy and he has a bead on my chickens. I dropped everything ran out the door in my pjs yelling no, stop! Poor guy dropped to the ground and didn't move. I called the kids to grab a leash and we got him into a crate. There was no way I was going to take him to the shelter. All this after deciding that we as a family were not going to take in fosters. He was very timid around "big" people. He loved Joshua to death. They had the best time playing! I did not have him long when a friend offered to foster him. She had a shady fenced in back yard, and several dogs for him to play with. The day of our first adoption drive she brought Jessie by on her way to take him to his furever home! He went to a lady that wanted an inside dog and that loves him dearly.

Adoption Drive August

T, R, and B on the back of our truck holding signs.

Our First Drive We had amazing support, so grateful to all that showed up to help!

Everyone of these sweethearts were adopted!

 Tayler and Joshua doing their favorite thing at our drives, loving on the puppies.

                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                        Not hard to believe they wore the little ones out!

 We had a very nice lady offer us a pig, she was hoping we could sale it and keep the money as a donation for our program. To bad you can't have a pig in city limits. You can bet the kids tried to talk their daddy into it. :)