2014 HANNA FAMILY CHRISTMAS!

We hope the 2014 year has found you and yours happy, healthy and wise!!! The Hanna family seems to have sped through the year at warp speed as I'm sure you have as well. Each of the three girls seem to have added at least two new activities to their repertoire and each day leaves us feeling like the "Tasmanian devil"!


We continue to enjoy our time at 2205 Copper Creek Lane and couldn't be happier. The 12+ acres of WILDERNESS have continuously afforded our frontier young ladies an ample pioneer experience. Hope and Kevin have recently started their own home-grown Chicken Ranch! What first began as an open-range approach quickly became a self-contained chicken compound following the Great Oppossum Massacre of 2014. They now have 21 chickens that produce enough eggs to sale to several customers per week. Hope's initial goal was to save for a car but when real life lessons met pie in the sky dreams she settled for saving for an Orbeez Swirl N Whirl instead!?!?!

Kevin continues to keep busy with his early morning swims at OBU and late night raquetball feats with friends. In addition, this year he began cultivating a salsa garden and producing the world's best salsa!! He became the proud papa of another Golden Retriever puppy this summer named Cache. Although having Copper (8 years old) around has greatly helped calm the puppy in Cache, Cache still has chosen to help relocate several of our flower gardens and has deemed it unnecessary for Kev to read the instructions left lying around for Hope's swing set! Kev and Cache have had many early morning and late night talks and so far they seem to be yielding as good of results as our visits with our daughters:).  Now you can see Kev driving around Shawnee with Cache and Copper gaily riding in the back.


Tina continues to keep busy with all the girls activities and work. She absolutely loves her job at South Central Industries and Group Homes. In September Tina and the girls attended a One Direction concert in Tulsa. Tina's hearing is beginging to return to normal! Tina loves attending the girls sporting events and cheering them on (very quietly and respectfully) from the stands:) She was also extremely excited to support the San Antonio Spurs to their 5th National Title in June.


GRACIE 14 years - Gracie continues to grow and blossom into a beautiful (inside and out) young lady!!! Gracie is now an official high school student. She attends Bethel High School where she is a cheer leader and makes top grades. She is absolutely loving everything about growing up and hanging with her friends. It is very difficult to believe that this time next year we will be car shopping! Gracie has demonstrated her driving prowess over the last few months via go-cart, golfcart and 4-wheeler. For some reason, she chooses to perform these demonstrations moments following  rainstorms when the ground is ideal to absorb the wheels of aforementioned carts and wheelers!?!?!


FAITH 12 years - Faith continues to keep the entire family and her friends in stitches with her creative sense of intelligent good humor. She literally grows more beautiful each day. Faith and Grace both are now over 5'7" and both taller than their mother. Faith seems to go from one activity to the next moment to moment. She is involved in school basketball and volleyball, league basketball and volleyball and cheerleading. Faith has made a really good friend with an OBU basketball player named Charity Fowler who has served as her coach and trainer and inspiration. Charity and Blaine have been a welcome addition to our home and family and add to the fun times:).  In honor of the Hunger Games books and movies, Faith wished all the turkeys "May the odds be ever in your favor" at Thanksgiving and proceeded to dress as Effie Trinket for a school dance. She was a dead ringer!


HOPE 9 years - And now to little Miss Hope. Hope continues to thrive in her world of whatever it is at the moment!!! This past summer she was selected among the TOP 6 for the National Talent on Parade Parade of Champions/Dance in St. Louis, Missouri. She also scored a perfect on her state math test and most importantly has mastered the art of magic with her performances as "HOPE HOUDINI"! Hope is following in her big sister's footsteps and taking up league basketball and volleyball. Although she writes (ok - scrawls) right handed she dribbles and serves with her left hand. Instead of thinking about what she wants to be when she grows up, she's trying to decide what dominant hand she wants to be. Decisions, decisions!!!!

Well, that's a quick update on the Hanna family for 2014. We wish you all a Happy New Year and as always an open invitation to come visit!!!

The Hannas