The kids had UEA break this week, so on Thursday after work we drove up to Lori & Sean's. The kids had a great time with their cousins mainly glued to the TV whether it be playing video games or watching the Lord of the Rings series. On Friday, Uncle Greg came up and took all the kids bowling. Lori and I got our cameras out and then rounded up all of her scrapbooking "Doo Dads" and took pictures of them to use in our Digital scrapbooking designs. That evening Brett, Andrea & Jaron came and we had Navajo Tacos for dinner and just visited. When my parents left on their mission they were worried that we wouldn't get together with each other. I'm really proud of us because we have been able to get together every three months or so.
Kirk wasn't able to come with us because of work but he kept himself busy helping some people in our ward move, helped his parents clean out their garage and built shelves for them. And then he made our kitchen spotless. What a great thing to come home to. Kirk is such a wonderful example of service. He has arranged probably 5 wood cutting projects for people in our ward who need wood for the winter. It has been great because Derick and Tyler always go with him to help and they always come home having a great time and happy that they were able to serve.
One other thing, Bella, our dog does the funniest thing. She takes her bone, and then she tries really hard to dig a hole in her pillow in the living room, and then she sticks her bone in it and walks away. Then she'll go back over to the pillow and repeats the steps to get her bone again. Funny!
We have mice in our house. Enough that they can get really creepy, I used to give them names so that they didn't seem so bad, but lately I've been getting really tired of them. So off to the store to get some mouse traps. I got the basic spring loaded traps and was told that peanut butter was the best bait to use, so I loaded 8 traps with peanut butter. After strategically placing all of the traps, I go to check to see if we've caught any and all I find is traps with no peanutbutter left. Stupid, or smart, mice. So off to the store to get something different. Tyler and I find these traps.
We caught 3 the first day. The only problem is that it doesn't kill them so we put them in a bread bag and then WHACK them on the sidewalk to kill them. I know that might seem horrible to some of you but I think that the mice are dirty, creepy things. Last night there was one in my bedside garbage can keeping me awake, I figure if they can get in the garbage can, they can crawl on my bed while I'm sleeping. It's so embarrassing when we have people over and I can hear them squeaking, I always hope that they either don't hear them or else think that we still have our Guinea Pig. So here I am, on a quest to kill all the mice around.
