it's like heaven when I hear my family members are happy.
I love me some daddy!!!
on the way to kiev, on the train. crazy is all I can say.
daddy, at nana and pop-pop's porch.

happy birthday daddy!!!!!

I know this is a little late, but anyway.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!!!!!!

daddy turned 40 on monday, and he said it was a really good birthday!! I am so happy that he had a good birthday!!!! he is a very special daddy, to me.... he is the best daddy ing the world, to be honest, he is the greatest daddy ever!!! I know a lot of other kids say there momn and dad are the best daddy's or mommy's in the whole world, but my daddy truely is the best daddy in the world!!!!! he also got a really cool mbirthday because one, who else get's to have ther ebirthday have way across the world?? two, he got this super cool quilt, made with all of his shirts, that he could not bring, at least I think it was with all the shirts he couldn't bring. well, I have to go, we are having company soon.

see ya!!

hannah jane

p.s. later I will have to post pictures.

happy birthday lainie!!!!

yesterday was lainies birthday! she turned 6 years old!!!! I did not find out until I went to go see if the lewis' had written a new blog. I figured it would not be likely if they had written a new one, lately, but I always like to check, just in case. it had said she asked if they could have a piniata, and the teacher said yes.... of course. :) anyway, she did not even know what it was!!! but the good thing is that they all had a good time, especially lainie! so anyway, I do not have that much time, so I am going to go. I just wish lainie the bestfirst-over-sea's- birthday!!!!!

love,

hannah jane

mothers day card

I made this on www.cartoondollemporium.com

you can see what it says, but here is what it says:

I love you, mommy! you are the best! I hope that you are having the best mothers day, yet!

happy mother's day, mommy!!!!!

today is mothers day, and it is the first time mommy has had an over-sea mothers day. (obviously) and I am going to right a blog just special for mommy. 

mommy, is the best mommy in the world! and she is an awesome person! I mean come on, people who would not love a person who one, is a mother, and does a great job at it. two, she is like a SUPER TECHER. three, she gave up practically her whole life to come to some ugly city where you have no car, whenever you go down the elivater (if it is working) it smells aweful. and it is 99 percent poluted. everything is great abut mommy. oh, did I mention that she can sing like angel??

I am so happy that my mommy is my mommy! she i the best mommy ever and I love her!

love,

hannah jane

new volenteer group

yesterday was team meeting, because there was no school, yesterday. I was all alone, at team meeting, beacause abby was at chrissies house. so the only thing I could do to entertain myself was listen to the scheduale of when the volenteer team is coming. (and eat) as I listended I noticed that it is going to be a very .... very .... VERY busy scheduale. mommy has to go to ashan, to get food, one for us, and two for the three girls thta are coming to our house to stay, until it is time for them to go back to the states. we have to clean the house. A LOT! we have to still do school. except on thursday.  we have to go to stone soup, on next saturday. we also hjave to do a lot of other stuff that I can not remember. I do know that we are having three girls staying at our house. 

It is going to be soooo busy this week. maybe I will have tyo do school on monday, tueseday, and wednesday, and then for the rest of the week, no school? :) cause the jam-packed scheduale.

well, I am going to go, so I can go do something more exciting then writing a blog. plus, I really don't know much about what is happening to the point.

love,

hannah jane

notchka, notchka, notchka.

notchka has been such a sweet kitty, for the past weeks, and here is my sweet story about last night:

it was probably 10:00 when I got in bed last ngiht. and we were watching emprers new groove on the way to bed, in our room. about an hour and a half into the movie I heard the ladder to my bed clang just a tad. I kept wondering to myself, ''what in the world is john doing???'' and then 2 seconds later, I found myself smiling looking at notchka who was ready to jump into my bed. if you have seen pictures, or lke auntkay has been here, you know that my bed ladder, is really hard to climb up if you are a cat.ayway, I saw notchka jump up, onto my bed!!!! ALL BY HERSELF!!!!! :) she has gotten to be the sweet cat we were hoping she would adjust to be. and well.... she did!!! I am so excited!!!! and then it was probably 3:oo in the morning last night, when I woke up to her chasing my feet, in my bed. whenever I would move my feet under the covers, she would chase it wondering what it was!! :) she is a really sweet cat, AND, I love her soooo much!!!! she also like john-john's bed, too, and sometimes, when she gets up to my bed, she amediatley jumps up to the top of the schoff, and jump from the schoff, to sissy's bed, she likes sissy's bed too! :) well, I have to go, before my ''time'' is up on the computer, for me to switch with john.

bye!!!!

love,

hannah jane

it doesen't feel like we have really been here for 7 months already. To me it feels like I have lived here my whole life. but actually i HAVEN'T even been here for even at least half of my life! this summer is going to be really, fun. but I just can't actually believe  that the summer is going to be really fun. I already know it is, I just don't know how. I mean I am away from  all of my garndma's, garndpa's aunts, uncles, my friends, my REAL home cats, practically everything I loved about my life. I love a lot of people in russia, and obviously you can tell everytime I walk into mr. hayes classroom that everybody loves me too. but heres the catch (there is always a catch to a missionarys life, it can never be easy :) EVERYBODDY! and when I say everybody I mean EEEEVVVVVEEEEERRRRRYYYBBBBOOOOODDDDYYYY!!! IS LEAVING MOSCOW, TO GO LIVE IN SOME LUSGURY PLACE IN THE STATES. ok, well maybe it is not lugsury but if I were ever able to go back to the states soon, that would be a lugsury place. anyway, I just need you to pray for me. just a teansy weansy little tiny prayer that I would like russia and have better summer then what I am having since we came here. (and when I mean all of you I just mean mimi, poppym aunt kay, and maybe aunt cathy. that is pretty much the only peole that read this.) I am hungry, so I am going to go get a snack, so i better get off before I starve.

love you!'

hannah jane

p.s. the picture of the beach was not tooken by our family, I just downloaded it from the enternet.