We bagged the mouse!

Last night as we were finishing dinner Mike went downstairs for something and came up proclaiming with "Rocky fists" pumping the air--I got 'im, I got 'im! After finding an emergency bar chewed into (through the Mylar wrap no less!) we got really serious about catching the little sucker. (I had just bought the bar for Tate's 72 hr kit) So, we set the bar on the floor in the cold storage and set a sticky trap and a regular trap. Well, he fell on the sticky trap.
Caden was quite disturbed by the whole thing though, because he is a lover of all animals, he was a little weepy last night. He was convinced it was Mickey Mouse, who had walked to his house to come see him. (Awww)
Hopefully he will not be scarred for life!

Cornbelly's Fun

We went to Cornbelly's on Laura's recommendation and it was the best fall attraction we've been to with kids. The jumping pillows were amazing, I want one in my backyard! As you can see we really enjoyed them! We also cheered for the little piggies, road a tractor train, peddle carts, went in a corn maze, had water pump duck races and climed and slid from a huge hay stack. We thuroughly wore the kids out and ourselves too. So thankful the weather was nice.

So, the mouse hunt is on again. Mike had a sighting and won't rest until the darn little fur ball is trapped. He is vigilant, you gotta give him that.

I went into Hot Topic the other day, yeah, I didn't quite fit in...but they have the merch for New Moon there. Anyway, exciting, they have all the action figures for the new movie, and all sorts of stuff. It was hard to leave empty handed, but I managed.

Starting potty trainig during UEA break. We will see how it goes. Hopefully it will take!

More Domestic Industry

Welp 90 lbs of flour later I have canned up 24 cans of flour. Check me out workin' that canner! (If you look closely, you can see Edward supervising the whole opperation from the bookshelf.)
Other than hording food, I am trying to figure out my Halloween costume. Can't quite decide if I am going to go for Alice playing baseball or New Moon Alice...oh, choices choices.

Wendover

So we had an adventure to Wendover, NV on Friday night to go see one of Mikes favorite comedians Frank Callendo. He does impressions George W., Madden, Charles Barkley...anyway he's funny and clean. Good times. Hate the smoke everywhere you go though.

Laughing & Biting

Loved The Office wedding last night. Mike and I had some good belly laughs. I love good physical comedy i.e. people falling down in one way or another. Kevin in his kleenex box shoes crashing into the candles, right up my alley!
On that note, was driving home the other day and saw a kid trying to do a skateboard trick as I was waiting to go through the round about. I could see where it was heading way before him. He was trying to flip it as he jumped but it went vertical and he landed on it right between his legs. I laughed so hard and banged on the steering wheel with my hand. I love a good injury, as long as it's not me! (I know I am sick, but I just can't help it!)
Also, how much am I loving Vampire Diaries! I just can't get enough of that show. I get all excited when it's Thursday. I think it could be because Stephen Salvatore reminds me so much of my other favorite vampire!

So excited!

My best friend from high school and her cute sister are coming out for the New Moon premier...could this get any more exciting? Mike said I'd better not get too crazy or he will be forced to "trank" me. LOL!

Unexpected visitor and other anecdotes

Last night I was sitting down to update 'the blog' and Mike yells, "Mel, I just saw something." He said he thought he saw a mouse run behind the tv...well, hours later after stacking everything up on top of tables, tipping over the couch, Mike standing by with a box thinking he will catch it when it comes running out (I quickly pointed out it doesn't usually work out for Tom, and I doubted it would for us.), a run down to Wal-Mart for traps, and Mike building "barricades" of boxes to the hallway (we couldn't sleep unprotected!) we finally got to bed way after 1 am. I am making fun of my cute overly sensitive about critters in his house hubby, but I really am gratefull for his grave concern for finding the mouse. It was just really funny to see him in action.
After we told the kids we have a mouse in the house and we set some traps to catch it so leave them alone they went on a mouse hunt for about an hour, it was great! We got to lay in bed a little longer and they were fully engaged in the hunt.
Later, Tate came in and said "Can' fin' my foo'ball." We told him it was in his bed. He said "No! Can' fin' it, Mouse ate it." I laughed so hard, the mouse ate it! I wonder how many more times I am going to hear that!
Now, after all of that excitement, I can't even remember what I was going to post last night!