The Passing of a Furry Friend

Sadly, my parents dog, Wendy, turned for the worse over the weekend, which resulted in her being put down this afternoon. Hannah has spent the last two days at my parents house, just getting in some playtime with her, noticing Wendy wasn't quite herself.

I went with my mom to the Vet, so she wouldn't have to do this alone, but I don't think I was much help, I was sad and tearful thinking this was the end of our time with Wendy.

Hannah took the news pretty hard. My parents have had Wendy since before Hannah was even born, so Hannah has essentially grown up over the last six years with a dog at Gramma and Papa's house.

Gramma gave Hannah some special things that belonged to Wendy as a keepsake. The loss of Wendy will hopefully get easier over time.

A New Look!!

Today marks the one year anniversary of Hannah's Happenings, and what better way to celebrate than with a new look!!!

A Day at Disneyland

We spent the day at Disneyland yesterday. When I say we spent the day, I mean we literally spent the day there. Something we rarely do since we have annual passes. We've done it on special occassions like when out of town family is here, but we generally only stay a couple of hours. Yesterday we went with our good friends, who are also our neighbors. We left our houses at 7:00am and got home half past midnight!!! We had a wonderful day. We did sooo much and took advantage of the Fastpass system and the Child Switch system. Because of that, we were able to get on all the big, "aka" good rides, at least once, if not several times. Hannah is tall enough for every ride at Disneyland, so we're always asking, bribing, begging her to go on, at least try, a good ride. Well yesterday she did! She rode Space Mountain and loved it! Even when asked today if she'll go on it again, the answer is yes, with a smile. We tried to get her on another good ride, but trying one was enough for one day. LOL.

"Hi Gramma, guess what I rode?" It's been over 4 years since Emily and Kayla had been to Disneyland. Now, both older and willing to try new rides and meet the characters. It was a lot of fun getting to act as their personal tour guides and share some of the magic that we get to experience fairly often. We sat for the parade, and staked out good seats for the fireworks show, in addition to experiencing Fantasmic. We didn't leave the park until well after 11:00pm. We spent over 12 hours at Disneyland, and still didn't get to some of things we had hoped to show them!

Here is Hannah, at the end of our day, totally worn out.

To the Movies

We went to the movies today with Gramma, Auntie, McKenzie, and Haylee, and saw Over the Hedge. The girls sat well and enjoyed the movie. Now that summer is here, we'll have to take advantage of the free summer movies at one of the local theaters and go to the movies all together again.

The Hummingbird

About a month or two ago, we hung a hummingbird feeder just outside the kitchen window. Gramma had one outside her kitchen window that attracted many hummingbirds and Hannah loved to sit on her counter and watch them.

For the longest time, we had no hummingbirds, now we have about 3 or 4 that come to the feeder regularly throughout the day. We also have this one hummingbird that loves to sit on the branch of the peach tree. He'll sit there for the longest time.

I also caught him sitting atop the hanger for the feeder.

Having Some Fun

We stopped at a friends auto repair garage tonight for a repair to our van. Hannah's friend, Zachary had spent the day with dad at work. The kids were sure happy to see each other and had a blast playing in one of the cars at the shop.