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.)

Memory Lane!!!

I have seen this blog on friends blogs and one a couple of my sister-in-laws too. So I thought I would give it a try! I hope you all are doing good. Sorry I don't post as often as I should. Shawn has my camera (and he is at scout camp) and I didn't clear it before he took it, oh well!

Here are the instructions:

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot. Anything you remember!Serious or funny can be ANYTHING!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave me a memory about me, I'll assume you are playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one to you.

You're tagged if you read this. You have to do it!

The Truth about us Bloggers

My sister-in-law put this on her blog, so I had to copy it and let everyone else see it. It was just too funny to pass up.

The truth about us bloggers...

Funny stuff, take a read:

Salt Lake Tribune Article

Culture Vulture: Parody blog truly 'Blessed'
Sean P. MeansCulture Vulture
Article Last Updated: 07/15/2008

It's SOOOOO good to be Tiffany/Amber/Megan/Nicole. TAMN, as she's known on her blog, "Seriously, So Blessed," is young, LDS, and quite happily married to Jordan/Jason/Wes/Taylor (or JJWT, for short) - and as of last week, the blissfully ecstatic couple found out they're going to have a baby. (TAMN announced this on her blog with a picture of a green Jell-O-and-pineapple-filled casserole dish with "We're pregnant" written in Reddi-Wip.) TAMN blogs about her pregnancy, complete with a downloaded widget that shows what the fetus probably looks like. She blogs about the talk she gave at church. She has her playlist updated with the latest tracks: Taylor Swift, Colbie Caillat, Tim McGraw, Miley Cyrus and Janice Kapp Perry. And she raves about her favorite things, which include the Cheesecake Factory, scented candles and the literary output of Stephenie Meyer. (Only 17 days until "Breaking Dawn" is released!) And, of course, she loves being married to JJWT. "Marriage is COMPLETE BLISS and we have had non-stop fun since we married! No, since we met! No, since we were BORN! No, since the PRE-MORTAL EXISTENCE! Couldn't get any funner," TAMN wrote last week. Yes, seriouslysoblessed.blogspot.com is a parody - an astutely sharp spoof of a recent Web phenomenon: the married Mormon blog, in which LDS women (and it's almost always women) write about their family doings, post photos of their kids, and decorate with backgrounds, musical play- lists and widgets. It's scrapbooking in a form that everybody, from your neighbors in the ward to people on the other side of the world, can see. The real TAMN, whom I contacted via e-mail, isn't ready to reveal herself, but she dropped some biographical details: Yes, she's a woman ("it is truly amazing how many people are convinced it's written by a guy," she wrote), 25, LDS, living in Utah, married, and a recent mom - "a FSAHM (fakeout stay at home mom)" because in August she returns to grad school. She has blogged about her own life, but started "Seriously, So Blessed" in June as a joke for friends. As word has spread (Holly Mullen, editor of "City Weekly," clued me in to it), the response has been overwhelmingly positive. "Most of the people linking to it," TAMN told me, "say things on their own blogs in the same tone (unintentionally?) as the fake one, like 'Holy cow you guys! I'm seriously addicted to this new blog! It's making fun of all of us and I am way guilty too but it is SOOO funny bc it's way true!! Don't be offended!!' "

If you wanna look at the blog, I recommend it, you'll get a good laugh:
http://seriouslysoblessed.blogspot.com/

Panning for Jewels 6-25-08

Shawn helped the kids pan for rocks and arrow heads at the store in the Garden of the Gods!

The funny thing about this is with 9 kids Shawn thought we would need 2 buckets full of treasure, but each bucket was so full of findings that each kid came away with pocket fulls and I had to take the rest that nobody wanted.

Garden of the Gods!

Naomee by the sign for Garden of the Gods on Wednesday the 25th of June.

The whole family at the top of the rock!

All at the top of a big rock!

Ta Da I made it!!

Shawn with a nephew.

Trip to Colorado!

Where do you think she gets the attitude from?

These were taken in Colorado Springs at the Garden of the Gods. It is a gorgeous set of rocks that look as if a God placed them in a particular set up. It was a very cool place.