A Hunting We Will Go...Hi Ho the Dairy-O!!!

We have added a seventh member to our home. Is it a dog you might ask or a cat, but no Sam is allergic to those. What about a fish or possibly a chicken? Nope and nope. Our seventh member has just invited itself right in and I for one am not pleased. For it seems there is a mouse in the house.

This is not just any run of the mill mouse either. This fellow is quite daring. So daring in-fact that our kids have named him Despereaux because he comes in even though he is going to be killed. And they are surely right about the killing part.

This little interloper has been driving me nuts. (Not much of trip these days.) I have had my heart stop about half a dozen times as our little fellow has come skirting past my toes. Then there is the smell and the droppings that Despereaux has been leaving behind. Can you just say  *eeeewwwww*? I can. I am so tired of cleaning up mouse poop I could scream. I have been cleaning up kid poop for a very long time and don't need mouse poo added to the mix.

So I have taken action. I got myself some Decon. I didn't want to get a trap set up behind the stove (were he has set up his home) to fish out a dead mouse when it started stinking. I have also cleaned my kitchen with every know cleaner that I could get my hands on. Under the stove, refrigerator, counters, cupboards and any surface that I could get my hands on. I don't think my kitchen has been this clean in awhile.

 I am hopeful that our little furry friend will be out of the house soon. If not I may have to resort to drastic measures.

Sometimes it is just like that.

So I have not had much motivation to blog for several months now. Not that it comes as a surprise to any of you in blog-land as I have had very few posts. But I am trying to get back into the swing of things. So here is a post full of some of our happenings lately.

Miss B had her 13th birthday on the 3rd of May. She really wanted an Oreo Icecream cake. The only problem that was found with this cake, was that it was so cold that she couldn't take an actual bite out of it without freezing her teeth.

I have been trying to get some updated "nice" pictures of my kiddo's for the family wall. Here is one of Sam when he and I had some one on one time. He is such a ham.

 While we were in Utah for Easter, we worked on some family pictures. Here is our family. Pretty soon your going to have to put Marc and I in the front because we will be the shortest of the bunch.

 Nikolas had his last viola concert of his 8th grade year last night. I really wanted to get some pictures of him with his instrument. I made him ham it up for me afterwards. He was a great sport and I just love his smile.

 He has really grown into such a handsome young man.

 Mommy and Sammy!

Here is my goofy boy! Hannah got mustache glasses and of course Alex needed to borrow them. LOL

 

 Here are some of my shots that I made for the wall. Miss B is just stunning and Marc and I figure Sam's football picture will look a lot like this one of him here.

 And last but not least is our silly dogs. I just figured I should put a picture up of them too.

 We have finally gotten some sun her and I have been working on my yard a lot. I have also been helping mom with hers. I will put up some finished pictures when I am done. I just have some bark to lay. 

Miss B

Baby Brother

 

My baby brother got married. He is all grown-up now. He is sure a cutie too. (I should warn you that there are quite a few pictures.) Here is his lovely bride, Anna Marlatt! LOL It is so fun calling her that. The pictures go in order from just before the ceremony to when the bride and groom skedaddled for their honeymoon. I am so grateful that my brother found such a wonderful woman to share his life with.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Congratulations!! 

Wayne and Anna Marlatt

March 24, 2012

Sleeping or Not

 

Last night was Al's sleep study. He was very nervous about the whole thing but came through with flying colors. We are trying to figure out why he has such problems with his sleep. Hopefully this will give us some clues.

Al got his own little room with a nice comfy bed, but he had to get wired up like some weird science project. He started off pretty okay and responsive about the whole thing.

He had to have electrodes on his face, chest, legs, and head.

The wires for the head had to be in certain places and Sophie, our tech, had to measure and measure and measure his head.

By the end of all that Al's tolerance was starting to wain and I really couldn't blame him. More than anything it was the goop that they used to stick the electrodes to his head that he didn't like.

I thought the wires looked like a rainbow but I didn't tell him that. By this point he was just ready to be done.

As you can tell, he did not like the thing in his nose but he kept it there.

Here is the board all wired up.

They used this black casing type of thing to zip up a majority of the cords so that he wasn't getting caught up in them while he slept.

All snuggled in. It took him about an hour and half longer to fall asleep than normal. Personally I am surprised that he did as well as he did. I wasn't even wired up and was having a hard time sleeping and then had weird dreams about being tangled up.

He was really excited to get up this morning. Infact, he was up at 5:45am, wide awake, because he was so excited to unhooked and wash the goop out of his hair. Here he all happy to be done. They even gave us a voucher to eat breakfast in the cafeteria. We are waiting for the results, they will be ready in about 2 weeks.