Monday, July 28, 2008

Home Invasion

While the blind people were here putting up our blinds, our neighbors cat snuck into our house.

Brennden chased it around the house. He had a blast doing so.

After a few minutes he was able to catch it. We then released it back outside. Poor thing was probably worried that the dogs were going to chase it again but I had already taken care of that. After listening to the dogs barking and running around in my flowers for an hour and a half, I called animal control and had them come by. They only got two of the three dogs and left the cat, but hey, at least it's a start.

Friday, July 25, 2008

What Lovely Language

Heather and Alan came over to babysit last night so that Dustin and I could go to temple prep. The teacher didn't come though so we went and picked up some ice cream and hung out for a little while. Well, as Heather and Alan were getting up to go Brennden yells "You doosh ." (Yeah, I know, I can't spell.) And throws a pillow at Alan. Don't you just love the words kids pick up.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Blooming

The flowers in our garden are blooming. Some of them don't have any petals left thanks to the rain storms going on. The rain drops have been so big that they are tearing the petals right off.


These blue purples ones are my favorite color.

These purple and pink ones were supposed to be the same but they look great anyways!



The red one looks like a strawberry until the petals grow. It turns a orange red color. I have one that has bloomed but the petals are kinda half gone.

Everyone in the neighborhood has said everything in their yards are dieing because the soil has no nutrients in it, but we bought some spray fertilizer so we hope that they will survive. So far so good.

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Tid Bits

More flowers in my garden are starting to bloom! I bought some purple ones (can't remember what they are called) or so I thought. The ones with blooms were purple, but the new blooms are pink. They are very pretty but I wish I would have known they were going to be pink so that I could have mixed them in instead of having all purple one the left and all pink on the right. All well.
We had a zebra for a little boy on Wednesday. Brennden dry all over his legs and arms and body with a dry erase pen. Stripes stripes and more stripes. Good thing it washed off easily. Then on Friday I took him to the park. He tried to climb the ladder looking thing that starts to arch. He couldn't figure out the arching part and fell 4 or 5 feet. Ouch!!! His tongue is all cut up. I feel bad for him.
I don't know when the last time was that I vacuumed or dusted. Argh! But we did manage to get book shelves in the kids rooms so that the books could come out of the boxes. We might actually have everything unpacked now.
The cats got taken to the pound Friday. Sad day. But Charity is allergic to them so.... Every time they would go out for a few days her eyes and nose would clear up but as soon as they would come in she couldn't see or breathe/smell. Poor girl. Maybe she will grow out of it like I did. We might get a dog in a month or so. Brennden keeps saying he needs a new cat now. But we will see what happens.

Monday, July 14, 2008

Flowers



These are a few of the flowers that we planted in out garden Saturday. It took 2 hours! The soil was so dry and hard in some places that Dustin had to literally chisel it apart. Hopefully the flowers will live. So far so good. Most of them can stand up to abuse and neglect and they are drought tolerant so I feel pretty confident that they will make it. Brennden had to to be stripped down and washed off in our front yard because he was so muddy. It looked like he had been rolling around in the mud.

And on another note... I went out to get us ice cream after the flower planting workout and on the way back I saw a 3 year old boy running around naked in his front yard with his dogs. It was hilarious.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Surprise!


This weekend we made a surprise visit to my family in St. George so that they would be able to see Charity while she is little. They were all excited to see us. My mom cried just like I thought they would. It was nice to be able to spend time with both my family and Dustin's family. Brennden had a blast playing with everyone! Thank you Tiff for letting us stay with you. :) And sorry mom. I know it's not the best photo. Hope you can forgive me.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

:-O


We woke up yesterday to a big mess in the kitchen. My cat had jumped up on the counter, knocked over the fish tank, and went after my fish. I'm surprised the noise didn't wake us up in the night. The counter and floor were covered in gross fish water. I had to scrub and disinfect everything. The fish was all scratched up on the floor, stupid cat just wanted to play with it but not eat it. Talked about being grossed out first thing in the morning.