Best Purchase EVER!!!

So last fall when I was in New Mexico helping after my sister had her baby I was at Target getting some prescriptions filled and was burning time while they were doing that. I had my 11 year old nephew and Connor with me. As were walking around the store I saw some Cars rain boots. I needed them of course because all boys who live in the country NEED rain boots, aka Poop boots. Well they've loved them and used them a lot and will use them for a while to come because they are still like 2 sizes too big. This is not what makes them the best though.

Lately we have been having problems with two mice, one that eats the poison but will not die or go into the traps. Another that runs across the traps and does laps around our living room but won't even eat the poison or die. Well last night we rearranged the traps to make sure it would get caught. Well it worked for one mouse, sort of. The mouse is caught but not dead. The other mouse ate yet another poison packet but wasn't dead. It was laying in the middle of our entry way floor. Well Connor decided to pick up a shoe and try to squish it. Not so successful. It ran under a shelf and hid for a couple hours. Well I was going out to put some shoes on the shelf in the entry way and talking on the phone to my mom when I Tyler came out. I showed him the mouse so he put his poop boots on and started preparing to step on the mouse. Well of course he chickened out but Connor thought it was a cool idea and put his poop boots on to join the fun. Well after about five minutes Tyler informed me that the mouse was not moving anymore. So Tyler wanted to get rid of it. I gave him a box, and using his awesome poop boots, kicked the mouse into the box. Then the boys triumphantly carried the box out to the dumpster.

So here is the ode to the poop boots of wonder. They make even the biggest chickens able to do amazing things. They've helped the boys learn to ride bikes, run fast and now slay mice. Totally worth the $15 a pair I paid just 9 months ago. . .

Busy, WET Summer

I would like to first apologize for still no pictures, our computer died and is getting fixed and the computer tower we borrowed will not read any of its USB ports so I can not download any pictures from my phone or camera, SORRY.

It seems we have been going non stop since summer started. We have been in Idaho nearly every week all summer long and I'm not seeing that ending very soon. My sister is 3 weeks away from delivering number 6 and so we have been busy helping out her 7 and 4 year old daughters with dance. They have to change costumes quickly and a 9 month pregnant belly makes it pretty hard to do and do quickly so we have spent a lot of time at dance this summer.

My sister and her 7 year old daughter had birthdays last week so we were over helping with the party and getting ready for my mom's family reunion. This was really the kicker since we were preparing for anywhere up to 250 people to come to the reunion. (That's just my mom's siblings and their kids and grandkids.) We ended up with like 60 most days and 100+ one day but it was really hectic and fun. My sister was able to come up from new Mexico and we were more than excited to see her since it's been a year for most of us. (I did fly down when she had her baby premature the beginning of November but most hadn't seen her since last summer.) It was fun to have the cousins together again and remember why we watch certain kids or groups of them much more closely than others. Tyler was surrounded by girls but loved telling on everyone for anything. Connor and Sam (my sister from New Mexico's son) are the same age but Connor is a little aggressive and loud for Sam and so there were many fights. The last day they really got to play Connor swung a little medal and hit Sam in the face. I asked Connor what he did. He said with a huge smile on his face, "I hit Sammy." Well after Connor had served his well earned time out, he was headed upstairs to play, well Sam was waiting at the top of the stairs and pushed Connor down the stairs. He only went down a couple stairs so was just really scared. My sister asked Sam if he pushed Connor, to which Sam replied, with a HUGE grin on his face, "Yes I DID." Well I guess after a week one retaliation was WELL deserved.

My sisters and my parents came to my house for an overnight stay this week. My mom loves the library and shopping at our Kmart because it has a bigger selection than the one in the Burg. She really wanted to show these two things to my sisters and Tyler wanted to show them the Candy store of course. Well after we showed those things, the kids were too tired to go anywhere else so we came to my house and napped and had dinner. We then went back to town to check them into their hotel and take all the kids swimming. When we got there we discovered it was an outdoor pool and in the shade now that the sun was setting. I did not swim but ran everyone to the potty and kept a count every couple of minutes to be sure none of the 7 kids went missing.

Now we are all enjoying a little break where nothing is going on and our house is getting cleaner. . . Well all of us but Brian who has to work 11 of next 12 nights because he traded shifts to be able to attend my mom's family reunion.