lots o' bunnies

It has been weeks since we posted and asked for your help in naming our rabbits.  As it turns out, if you submitted name ideas, this is actually in your favor.  Instead of 3 names, we ended up needing nine!  Finally, after much discussion, they have all been named.  Our kids are excited to send a little 'prize' in the mail for the winners of the name contest.  (See bottom of this post.) 

Now for the list of bunnies.  These sweeties are looking for new homes!

Our biggest rabbit, who seems to have identity issues, was dubbed el Pollo Loco/Crazy Chicken. 
Update: CC has found a new home with Anna-Lise & Isaac.  He probably misses his lady friends, but he'll get over it (we hope).  Isaac LOVES him, so at least he'll get lots of attention!

Update: Hop (or Hop-Pop) is 'visiting' Kim & Brian.  He may have found a new home.  It sounds like he is Evie's new playmate!  She calls him Buddy. :)
 

Flopsy, busy Mama that she is, will be looking for a new home after she weans her last litter.  (Which is hopefully the newest babies, born just a couple days ago.) 

We'll be keeping two of her babies.

Daisy and Coconut, also known as 'the twins'.  (How weird is that -- I actually caught them doing the exact same thing!)

Carrot is very cuddly and is a favorite around here.

Velvet has very unusual coloring -- fur the same color as Brooklyn's hair! (Plus some random grey markings. I think it's kinda endearing. :)

Sweet little Mocha. AKA Mocha-Lotta-Bunny.

Bun-bun also has really random markings and is a sweetie!

And here are the 7 new babes.  They were born on May 25, exactly one month after the above bunnies (born April 25).  They're a little scrawny, but hopefully they'll do okay. 

If you are on Facebook, you may have noticed that we are having trouble limiting the number of bunnies that keep coming our way.  It's rather embarrassing, actually.  I assure you that we do know how this happens. ;)  When we bought our rabbits, they were supposed to be female.  And we didn't know a Mama could get pregnant just hours after giving birth!  So we may end up with 3 litters in 3 months.  (oops.)

That means we have LOTS of bunnies needing new homes.  Would you like one?  Pretty please?  

If you don't know much about rabbits, check out this site.  Rabbits make wonderful house pets (easily litter-box trained), are quite social, don't bark or meow, and they are just plain fun to have arround.  Ours free-range in the back yard.  We wet down an area of dirt every day, and they dig into it and find a cool spot to lay.  They are pretty tame, and even hop up to us when we go out back. 

Did I mention that we haven't had to mow the backyard grass since last Fall? :)

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Congratulations to: Heather & Cooper, Dee, Samuel, Denise, Annie, Daddy/Andy, Sandy & Mark.  Thanks to everyone for all your great name ideas!  

Name that Rabbit (or three)

  

We have a problem.  (No -- not that we have too many pets.  We like that! :)

Apparently we are terrible at naming pets!  Unless we name them after diapers, that is. 

Our biggest rabbit, now about 10 months old, remains nameless. 

Now we have added two baby ones, in hopes of minimizing his confusion about his budding rabbit identity.  They are currently called, Cutie, Baby, Sweetie, Honey, or any other term of endearment that pops into our minds at the moment it's needed. 

Knowing about the big wide internet world out there, and apparently thinking that there are folks out there who enjoy weighing in on our little world here at home, the kids thought you (yes you!) might like to help us. 

So here's the deal.  Suggest your favorite rabbit names.  Leave them in the comments section.  (You can click on Name/URL or 'Anonymous' if you don't have a google or other account.) 

To sweeten the deal, we'll send you a treat in the mail if we choose a name you suggest. 

Destany is suggesting we send you three packages of 'dairy-o cookies'.  (Oreos) 

Hmmmmm.....  We'll get back to you on the giveaway.  This just might be fun! :)

Funny Friday (caption contest winners!)

  

"Stand back evil do-ers, I have a broom and I know how to use it!"

(courtesy of Jamie)

"Famed Rap artist reported missing from studio. 

Found safely - doing chores in the backyard."

(courtesy of Megan)

Hear no evil, see no evil, have no balance. :)

(courtesy of Amy)

Jamie, Megan, & Amy -- email me at andykiara@cox.net with your address, and I will mail out your body & hair butter right away! :)

Caption Contest & Blog Giveaway

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These pictures were too good to keep to ourselves.  But I need your help! 

Caption Contest: Leave your best captions to these pictures in the comments.  (Make sure to specify which picture, and sign it or choose Name/URL if you want credit for your captions!) 

Blog Giveaway: If we choose your caption for a picture, you can choose a free tub of body butter from this page.  If you don't live nearby, I will mail it to you! :)

Captions will be chosen on Thursday night, and we will re-post on Friday morning as a Funny Friday post.  (By the way, isn't our little guy just too cute? ;) 

This just in! Winners!

The kids were being goofy this morning, and thought it was so exciting to draw the names.  It was hard to keep them still enough to snap a picture!  They were dancing around the room, announcing their winner. :)

Kelli and April!  Please email me at andykiara@cox.net and give me your address.  We will mail your book out right away!

First giveaway!

I've always loved blog giveaways, but never had a good excuse to do one.  Now, as we go through our (too many) belongings with the goal of keeping only those things we need or love, we are finding we have duplicates of some items that we no longer need.  We have TWO copies of this book to give away!

This book was a great encouragement to me when we first adopted!  We didn't know anyone else who was pursuing the adoption journey the way we were -- with the goal of growing a mutually beneficial relationship with our daughter's first family.  This book  really encouraged us and 'normalized' our adoption journey -- for us AND for our daughter's birth mom -- so I purchased a few extra copies and loaned them out to family and friends who were interested in understanding our adoption journey better.  Now that we no longer need the extra copies, I'd love for them to go to new homes, to encourage and help other waiting or adoptive families, or for a birth family considering or participating in an open adoption. 

If you'd like to read more about the book, check out reviews here.

You can enter the giveaway two different ways.  One entry for each of the below:  (please leave separate comments for each of these)
1. Leave me a comment.  (If you don't mind sharing, I'd love to hear where you are in your adoption journey and why you are interested in the book. :) 
2. Become a follower of our blog (or let me know you are already a follower).  

We'll draw for two winners on Friday at lunchtime.  The kids can't wait to help draw the names! :)