A Super Hero-of some kind

This past weekend our stake did a preparedness fair. They did a SUPER job of having things for the kids to do so that parents could wander and stuff( I contemplated going shopping-heehhee!)Anyways, one of the stations was these masks. Kolbe carefully made masks for all the kids...each had some special thing on it...like Kolbe's said "blood thirsty", Kenna's said "fabulous fashionable" and Avery's said "gorgeous". Eli wore his mask for days, and for obvious reason, it cracked us up!

Just a funny....

Today after I finished changing Eli's diaper he said, "want some sugar on my bum mom." I was just a little confused???? And then he pointed to the baby powder. Apparently I bake too much if my two year old recognizes white powder as sugar! It was so stinking cute.

Another one bites the dust!

today my number hit 8...it was another squeaky little friend on a sticky trap....and again...no Nate

7 down....and (please no more) to go!

As I got home from work I heard this weird squeaking...I thought there must be birds on our roof(I actually thought, great, now we have birds nesting in here too)...but as I walked up front there was another furry friend, very much alive, caught in one of those sticky traps. Stuck...alive...and moving...waiting for me to do something. Why is Nate never around when the dang things come out?

So, Avery again asked if she could pet the mouse....'he's soooooo cute mom'. Um....maybe next time! And I pitched him, sort of forcefully, into the big empty garbage bin.

Please, please please let us be nearing the end of my mouse family.!

Conference with Eli

So, as usual conference was an experience with the kids! I began telling Eli there were "mean men" when we are in public to help encourage him to stay close by me. Of course today when we sat in the chapel for the Sunday morning session there was a old man sitting two rows back. He was a little gruff looking...and Eli noticed him immediately. Eli has two volumes: loud, and louder. So when he saw the old man he yelled, "Mom, MEAN MAN!" and started pointing. I tried really hard to shush him and explained he was a nice man...then Eli started yelling, "Want to say hi to good man! HEY, GOOD MAN!"

About 5 minutes later he noticed a REALLY old man, probably in his 80's. I thought he was cute, sitting there all hunched over with his wife. Eli again started to yell...only this time...he thought the old man looked like a baby, I'm guessing becuase he was small?! He said, "mom, a baby man!" over and over and over again!

Just when I thought I might get to listen, Eli crawled under the bench up two rows where there was a younger couple. The guy was flopped back, totally sleeping away! Eli sort of snuck up and then, very reverently, jumped up and yelled, "you sleeping?"

I spent the remainder of the session in Relief Society room with him...much quieter for the rest of the chapel!

EEEywwwwww!

So all of you who know what a germ phobe I am are probably laughing hysterically now....because we have a stinking mouse problem in our house! Well, not our house, our garage...but its attatched! I'm dying...I set 2 traps the other night and within a half an hour I had two dead mice...but when I went to remove the trap from WAY UP HIGH on the shelf in my garage...a mouse ran by! I can't take it....I have some food storage stuff in there on shelves...just my dry stuff like cereal and crackers. My mom warned me forever and I told her she was nuts. Then AVery informed me she saw a mouse and I of course thought she was telling stories...but then I climbed and looked and sure enough, on the top shelf...mouse poop galore. Today I set 6 new trips and 2 d-con traps. And, just for the sake of sheer happiness....while I was setting them I literally heard a mouse climbing in the wall behind my shelves.


Please pray for me....I may just go crazy!

Yes, my family is laughing their bums off right now!

Last ones, I promise!

Just a quick set of pics to say "YA-HOO!" we finished the work on the new deck. I have absolutely no idea how much time this thing took, other than it was like 2 months start to finish. Technically its not finished, as we still have to strip the old stain off the stairs and restain them to match...but the new deck is stained and done!

The pic of the corner is my proud moment as a carpenter! Don't look TOO closely, or you'll see its not perfect...but, I cut the top railing myself...and made the 45* angles too. I am so so so happy with the deck.

I started cutting the moldings for around the interior doors yesterday too. Since I ripped the old ones off several months ago I'd say its time to work on putting them back. I started with the bathroom and am glad that it is no longer possible for people to peek through the cracks!

That is pretty much the happenings here...