Small Town Girl

Epilogue

~Danielle's POV~

"Mommy, dad is trying to make breakfast again!" I hear a little voice say.

"Ugh, that is a problem!" I say groaning and opening my eyes to see my three children jumping on bed. I get out of bed and follow my children down the hall to the kitchen.

"See Mommy! He's making a mess!" My youngest child and only daughter, Mary Ann says. (Her first name is Mary and middle is Ann, but I like to call her Mary Ann.)

Sure enough though when I looked over Tanner had flour every where and and there was pancake batter in his hair.

"You weren't supose to tell Buttercup. I guess now the tickle monster is going to have to get you." Tanner says as Mary Ann squeals and runs away from him. My two older sons, who are twins, decided to join in and tickle Tanner. I laugh as they all dog pile on Tanner and tickle him. I then go to clean up Tanner's mess.

I understand why Tanner wanted to make pancakes for me today. It's our 10 year anniversary, and we have three beautiful kids. My oldest son is 8 and my other son is 7. Logan Mitchell (again first and middle) who is 8 has blonde hair and blue eyes like his dad. Conrad David (again first and middle) who is 7 has blonde hair and brown eyes. My daughter, Mary Ann, is age 6. She got my dirty blonde hair and Hazel eyes.

"It's your turn now." Tanner says grabbing my waist and pulling me away from the mess and to the kids so they could tickle me.

"Stop it! I'm going to pee my pants!" I tell using my kids trick on them. It always works too. It doesn't help that their uncle, my brother Kolter, did one time tell that to our babysitter and she didn't listen and he peed on her.

"That's just gross mom!" Logan exclaims.

"I won't actually do it." I say out of breathe.

I then look at Tanner and he has a face like he is ready to start tickling me again. As soon as he makes a move towards me, someone knocks at the door.

"I'll get it!" All three children say and then I hear the pitter patter of their tiny feet and they race to the door. Tanner and I wait to see who the guest is because we live out in the country and we dont get very many vistors. We don't have to wait long to find out who it is.

"Jasmine and Tanner!" I laugh as I hear their squeals of delight.

"We better go make sure that they can get through the door." I say laughing and pulling Tanner D up off the floor. We walk to the door and see Jasmine's, 9 almost 10 year old, twins that she had after Tanner D and I got married. She had a little girl, Rayne, with brown hair like Tanner and blue eyes like hers, and her son, Asheto, has her blonde hair and Tanner's brown eyes.

"Jasmine what are you guys doing here!" I exclaim while pulling her into a hug.

"Well since it is your anniversary we figured you guys would want to go out on a date or something. So we came to babysit."

"You didn't have to do that. Besides we figured we would have a movie date with the kids."

"That works too but my idea would be better for you too" She says winking at me.

"What ever you say Jaz." I say laughing and rolling my eyes at her.

We all go and sit in the living room to catch up while the kids also catch up. At about 11 I make pancakes for everyone since Tanner D's attemp failed and I realized the kids didn't have breakfast. I was shocked that I had no one begging me for food. After I cleared the dishes and loaded them into the dish washer I heard someone knocking. Again I could hear the pitter patter of the the kids feet again.

"Keziah and Kevin!" I hear little voices yell. I heard the kids back into the living room so Keziah and Kevin good come in with there kids. They have four, children so far, two girls one is 5 (Esther) and one is 3 (Jane). Both have brown hair and eyes. She also has two boys that are 4 (Luke) and 1 (Mathew). Both boys have blonde hair and brown eyes. Keziah is also expecting child number five in a few months.

"Oh, I want to hold Mathew!" I say as she laughs and hands him over.

"If you want to hold a baby so bad why don't you have another one of your own." She says laughing has I make funny faces at Mathew.

"I have a handful with just these three. I'm still surprised that you are sticking to your seven to eight kid plan." I say walking to the living room to lay him on the floor to play.

"Well with Tanner D being your kid's dad I bet it feels like you have your kids at times."

"You got that right." I say laughing at Tanner D trying to look innocent. " So what brings you guys here.

"Well we were going to babysit for you so you two could go out but it looks like Jaz beat us to it."

"Well she says they are staying to watch a movie with the kids." Jasmine says throwing a glare in my direction.

"Sorry, we just don't really do anything fancy." I say holding my hands up.

"Fine." Jasmine says sticking her tongue out at me.

"Jasmine do we need to have a talk about behaving in public?" Tanner says raising and eyebrow at Jasmine's childish behavior.

"No." She says in defeat.

We spend the rest of the after noon talking before I make supper and we settle down for the movie. Nobody went home so we had a big movie party and the boys insisted on making popcorn. I made Kevin in charge because I don't know how well Tanner D and Tanner could handle making popcorn together.

When they are finally done with the popcorn. We all sit and snuggle together while watching the movie the kids picked out. Which happened to be The Lion King.

When theovie was over all of the kids were asleep on the floor and Jasmin and Tanner were snuggled on the couch sleeping. Kevin and Keziah were still sitting on the love seat side awake. Tanner D was sitting in the chair sleeping with me on his lap. I get up quetly and show Keziah and Kevin to the guest room to sleep. Then I wake up Tanner D to go to our room. I decide to let Jasmine and Tanner watch the kids.

Tanner D falls on to the bed still in his jeans and t-shirt and crals under the covers. I join him not bothering to change either.

"Happy Anniversary and good night Danielle." He whispers and pulling me close to his chest. He then kisses my fore head before we both fell asleep.

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I'm ending this book now, but I am going to make a sequel. So look for the second book. I hope you liked my book. I'm sorry if it is not the good. I am not much of a writer, I'm more of a reader.

All of the names of Danielle's kids are names that I want for my kids, when I'm older, if I have one girl and two boys. Jasmine's kids are also names she wants in the future. I couldn't remember what my friend wanted Keziah's kids to be named, all I remeber is that she wants a girl name Esther, and I just came up with the others.