We are freaks...simple as that.

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Sad thing is...this was during a SCHOOL DAY!

SHIELA AND SIDNEY: SUGAR GLIDERS?!?Yes people...sugar gliders! Yep, they are marsupials from Australia, but hey they are now ours. Our family friends Shampsi and Joel and daughter Kalle got these girls at a festival of some sort but then decided that they didnt have enough time for them. Well, dear sweet lovely Margot (You CANNOT say ENOUGH good stuff about MARGOTTTT!!!! EVER!) emailed me knowing I had rats and could take care of creatures like these thought maybe I would be up for the challenge.
Yep, I guess the whole family was cool with it! They are carried around in a pouch daily and love being warm. They eat apples ALL the time. Thank you gliders, now my mom buys ALOT of apples...they are now ALWAYS in the house!!! YUMMMMM!!!!!!!
Sidney seems to be more adventurous them Shiela who seems to like sleepin more. They even make a barking noise. They also cant have access to wood shavings at the bottom of their cage because late at night they will pick it up and thow it at eachother. Did I mention they have thumbs?They are just sooo cute and perfect for this family! We have each gotten bit but it kinda feels llike a pinch...not bad. They are also CRAZY on thier wheel at night! They are just awesome!

HEY FEY!!!So here is my other baby. I adopted her the same time I adopted Rafiella. Fey is just a sweetie pie. Shes never bitten anyone, she cuddles, wants to run around in her ball, gets along with Harvey, and is JUST a PLEASUREEEE to have around.
The little girls are really liking having Fey around because they are both old enough that they can just get her out and play with her. They are very gentle with her and love giving her rides in hoodie pockets. Our house got really cold today and she got kinda sick so I stuck her in my warm MADE hoodie pocket while I was watching Tommy Boy and she warmed right up in her sleep!
HARVEY BUDDY!!!
aka Harvey Wild Man Jackson
Hmmm....I dont know if Harvey really likes her. Harvey was adopted the day after we adopted Fey and Rafiella Gabriella Sarsparilla. My mom FELL IN LOOOVE and could NOT stop thinking about him and having a house rabbit. We decided it was fate. He is great, a little sciddish. He only likes the carpet, because its easier for him to walk on but in these pix he is on the linolium in the kitchen.Everyone looves having Harvey and Fey around. They are great! Harvey is kinda a lump of fur that hops around once and a while. If you pick him up, when you put him down he will yell at you. (A giant THUMP with his foot.) When we got him he was already fixed so we dont have to worry about him spraying or anything. He is really warmed up to the family now.

Rafiella the Rat

This is Rafiella. I adopted her from Beverly Animal Shelter in late November. I liked her right off because of her really unique markings. She had a light grey purple hood and red eyes. She also had those big old ears I cant resist. Unfortunately, Beverly's Animal Shelter seemed to be careless about there rats because to them they just give the extra rats to the snakes. Rafiella who was a hooded crossed with something that was really small because she was tiny when I got her and she was almost a year old. They were careless and they put her in the same tank as a jumbo male rat. And let me tell you, I saw that guy! He was HUGE!!!

Rafiella in these pictures doesn't look too healthy because she was pregnant. I got bit sooo hard by her because of her temper change that my top of my thumb lost feeling and it was wayyy deep, everyone thought I needed stitches.

She SUFFERED for 3 weeks because she was trying to carry 8 jumbo crossed babies. They were way to big for her. Unfortunately there was nothing I could do for her because I had no money to spend $100-150 for them to tell me she was pregnant. I knew it already. She gave birth to all 8 babies and they were huge and all came out dead. She then still had labored breath for 3 days after and was in severe pain. I again, felt soooooo horrible that I couldn't do anything for her. She died late at night while I held her talking to her.

I am sorry to say that. I just hope that she is up there with Brisby and has a bunch of healthy angel babies. :)

THIS is the appitamy of animal abuse to me. To force an animal to suffer because of your foolishness. And I don't care if it is a bug, a cat, a mouse, a dog, or a horse. It is still a living breathing thing with feelings and deserves to be treated with some respect. Im not saying to humanize animals, cuz I don't think that's right either. I'm just saying DON'T EVER make an animal suffer and die because of your carelessness. And it just made me ESPECIALLY sad and mad that Beverly's calls themselves a NO KILL shelter. And then just feeds off extra animals. But because they aren't killing them there it, what? doesn't count? Does that mean I can poison you and walk out of the room? IDK, I just thought I would share my extremely sad and miserable experience. :(

HOMECOMING!!!

So I went to my first Homecoming at Romulus. I went with my friend at the time Jojo and her cousin. We had a BLAST! The theme was 'Welcome to the Jungle' and they played the AMAZING Guns N Roses song as the theme song. Which was great!

We spent 12 frickin hours shopping for the perfect dress, shoes, under torture devic--I mean garments...EVERYTHING!!! And I loooooved it! It was worth the dehydration and swollen feet of shopping. lol. Cummon...you've SO been there!

Perfection!Carissa in silver and Jojo in pink and black. We all looked great!!! And we had shopping stories to tell each other in the car!!!
Everyone danced and caught up on stories. All my old Romo' friends were really suprised that I cleaned up really nice. Everyone was like "Whoa! You look GREAT!" Everyone did! Nicole, Emily, Courtney(back), Michaela, Jojo, and Casey.
THE SECOND HOMECOMING!!!!
Still great! With a different set of friends! I went to the Waterloo homecoming with my BFF "Uncle" Mollie! We went shopping to get her a dress too, and she ended up with her perfect outfit too! She even had Nightmare Before Christmas accesories. That is Mollies perfection!
Still dorks..hot dorks..but dorks none the less.


Groouuupppp huuuug!

~ANDI~We adopted her, I named her, but we had to get rid of her.
For full story please go to my moms blog, because its a great story and she is a GREAT dog, just not for our family. She has an amazing family now. With another Chihuahua/ Italian Greyhound mix and she is happy!

APPLE CARVING

I took a normal apple one day and decided to carve it. I carved it out leaving the skin intact and then carved a face in it. The first picture is just a camera trick. I was really pretty far away from it...its not a giant apple. ;) I was pretty tired in this picture. It was first thing in the morning.
Leave the inside too...its just a challenge to get that out with a spoon.

On the outside it looks like a perfect apple!

ADAMS BIRTHDAY GIFT
Hehehe...I have a strange sense of humor.

I gave my best friend Adam a cool locker/fridge magnet of...yep you guessed it...a lovely South Park cartoon. I made some cool wrapping paper out of a peice of carstock stamped with every birthday stamp we had and things like cows and squirrels and skulls. Tied it in cool string and topped it with a pin claiming that he blames his additude on video games. I'm suprised his parents dont hate me. ;) He liked it...so I'm happy!

Top it off with a CD burned with a bunch of fun songs, and hand decorated by yours truly, I'd say that that was a pretty cool gift. The pin and magnet I got at Hot Topic and Spencers Gifts.

MAYA AND MORRIS GO TO THE MOON
Yep you betcha. They sent a monkey and now they are sending two 7 year olds. A girl and a cat.

Hehehe..so Maya decided to take a pretend trip to the "moon" with Morris as her "astronaut partner!" HAHAHA!!! I got a kick outa this...but I dont think Morris enjoyed it.

Well, at least they brought their safety helmets. HAHAHA!!!
Ugh...Morris will NEVER ask what the moon is AGAIN!
Hmmm....I thought I would express what Morris was thinking after play time was over!

NATURE CENTER

This is the huge tree house in the Cayuga Nature Center in Ithaca. We got to go inside and climb on this net that was above the ground.

I thought this picture of Elanee was pretty. We were walking back to our car to go home.

Climbing on the net. Fun pictures!!!

Lots to climb on and go up on. It was really great.

Ravyn looked right at home here!!!

MYSPACE FACE

Hehehe...My mom and I were messing around one day talking about how much we HATE that infamous "myspace face". You know the one...camera in the air, dopey eyes, and the WORST...a horrible twisted up mouth. So I am sorry if you think this is attractive and do it for photos...but I hate it!!! It makes normal people look sooooo ugly!!! So here is what we came up with!

Groups 2007
Saba, Zayne, and uhh...I forgot his name.
back-front,left-right:???,Mona, Dawing, Alejandra.
Alejandra and Me.
This year I went to Camp Tabarsi at Onas again and I had such a fun time!!! This was during the summer, but hey...not all of these can be in order!!! Camp Onas is basically a camp for teens aged 11-15, then you can be a conciler at 16 and up. Its a camp with mostly Bahai kids and its really a place to hang out with people who have at least one thing in common...love of the Bahai Faith. We have morning devotions and prayers. We hang out and just love being around each other in a non-judgemental situation and love God and being alive! Its always a really great time and I suggest to anyone even considering going to go! You will not regret it!!!