Say Cheese or NOT!

Hey guys, look at this gorgeous sunset tonight.

I think the lighting is just perfect to get a good picture of all three of you kids.

How about you poliwogs come over here in front of the sunset so we can get a nice picture of you.

Really? Come ON!!!

Just one nice picture and you can go back to your

goofy crazy selves, deal?

So I get the twins over in front of the pretty sunset, that's a start.

There's Peanut Pie with her infamous rabbit ears.

It's always either the rabbit ears or the peace sign.

You can see it's getting a little darker. Time is running out.

Soph jumps in, "It's okay Mom, I'll handle this!"

as Joey is goin' in... Eva's fightin it, (while laughing the whole time.)

And he plants a big wet sloppy brotherly smooch on her head.






Sophie's now frustrated. "They're 'noring me!" she says.






Now when they are by themselves just hanging out I can get a really good shot.

See here?

Eva's all cute (with her peace sign) smiling nicely.








And Joey too. "Hey Joe- look over here!"

"No problem Mom!"

And finally Sunny is as cute as a button,

smiling with every fiber in her face.

Sigh...............................................

Oh well.

Now it's too dark. My perfect picture just didn't happen. My mission was foiled.

Those kids, too nutty to sit still and smile nice for

one stinkin minute....

Is that really too much to ask?

Geez!

another sigh....

Well,


The moral of the story is...

Even though I didn't get my perfect picture, the reason behind it is way more fun and justifyable.

My kids, my highly spirited, fun loving,

crazy kids

could not sit still

because they were being just that.

AND

We did manage to get this decent family picture.

Win-win if you ask me.

Gabby Cat

This is Gabby

She was rescued from a raid at a crackhouse somewhere around the Detroit area.

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It was sometime in 2007.
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She was pregnant at the time.

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She didn't quite look like this when we adopted her.

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She had just had her litter of kitties about 8 weeks prior and she was nothing but black and white skin and bones with swollen teets from nursing her babies.
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She allowed all three of my children to pick her up, carry her like a baby and handle her in any way they did so choose. She loved the attention.
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So we brought her home, we had plenty of love for her too.
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Within three months she ballooned to three times her size. I mean, does it really matter? She's a cat. She's now a big fat happy healthy cat.

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Except we now have a slight problem.

Now that Gabby has become big and healthy,

she no longer feels the need to groom her backside.

She has long fur you know.

Clumps get stuck back there and she smells like a barnyard.

It's gross.

We have to have her shaved down every once in awhile so the stink goes away.

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Regardless of her Smelly Cat Syndrome, we love her.

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We like to sing that song Smelly Cat, you know, from that episode of Friends?

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And she continues to think she is

Super fancy royalty

who graces us with her presence in this household.