New School Year!!!

Another year of school is about to start. I am really excited for the new year to start. The girls on the other hand are a little wary. Cadie is going to be the oldest in school this year, she is very excited for that, but she is also not wanting this year to end, because then middle school starts. Madison is just plain excited all together, she doesn't care who her teacher is or who is in her class, she just wants to go. But on the other hand of that she is not ready for more homework.
Naomee wants preschool to start yesterday. She has her backpack and she is very impatient. I will load pictures when they go on Tuesday.

Update on our Crazy squirrel!

An update on our crazy squirrel!He is obviously doing fine. He does still have a little crook in his tail. He has been spotted laying in our yard and on the fence not far from my bedroom window. I wonder what he was thinking about while staring at my windows?

I don't think you can see the crook in his tail, but if you look carefully you might!

Squirrely Adventures

Ok so here is how it started. I was talking with Cadie this morning at about 7:30 and when she left my room I heard some noise that I thought was her opening and closing her closet. I didn't want her to wake her sisters up in the next room, so I went to ask her to stop. Then I heard the noise again. I went to listen close to my bathroom where I thought I heard it the first time. It turns out there was this scratching noise above my bathroom and only the bathroom. I contacted Shawn and asked if he would come home and check it out. I didn't want to climb a ladder and into the attic pregnant. So Cadie came back into my room and we were talking when heard the scratching again. I wasn't too worried Shawn was going to come home and check it out. Then all of a sudden Cadie and I heard something that sounded like my toilet overflowing. I went to check it out and saw a drowned rat looking thing sitting on my toilet seat. I screamed and really scared Cadie she started to get scared and when her sisters came in the room to see what was wrong Cadie took them into their room and kept repeating. "I don't know what it is, there is something wrong in mommies bathroom." I texted Shawn, since I knew he would answer his pager before his phone, and told him that a Rat had came up through the toilet. Then I went and looked again at the creature and shut the bathroom door. It turns out that it was a squirrel and not a rat, Thank goodness.

This is the poor thing that got trapped in the toilet vent on the roof and fell in. He was scratching to get out of the tube. I tried to get him into a box to take him outside but he starting jumping all over the place. I decided that I needed to get some outside help. I called several friends and once they all stopped laughing they were finally able to come and help me. The ones that came to help me had a couple of teenage boys that I knew would be eager to help me eradicate my vermin. And they were, they brought their Air Soft guns to stun the thing with. But the decision was made to open the window to the bathroom and try and direct it out that way. It finally made a 2 story leap to the ground and was last seen running into the bushes. The boys were disappointed that they couldn't use their air soft guns. I had called someone professional to come and get the squirrel out, but they wanted $129 to remove the animal and place it back in my yard. My friends did it for a plate of Brownies. And all it took was a broom!!!
This the girls on the roof with Shawn checking things out making sure that all was well after the squirrel incendent. All of this happened before 9am this morning. What a crazy way to start the day!

What a group!

This is my parents with 8 of the 9 grandkids, the baby was in a stroller! Pretty good if I do say so myself.

Cousins

Can you believe my parents had 2 kids and those 2 kids had all these kids. Crazy huh!

A few of my favorite things!

Here are 2 of my favorite people in the world, my grandparents, with 3 of my most favorite people in the world. (Missing is the 4th of my most favorite people.)