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I loved this talk.

There is now something called mormon messages on youtube.

I found it on the lds.org site.

That's where I found this.

Country Quirks

Aren't these buggies cute?

All of them have babies inside.

Their mom's are inside the building.

And no, the missionary was not left out to babysit them.

Europe must not have kidnapping issues (actually this is kid napping in Europe...that's a good one).

Caught for real

I saw them this time...three of them making their way across my backyard.

I ran out my front door to greet them.

But I needed to look intimidating and was no longer in my pj's or snowboots (see earlier entry), so I grabbed a bowl full of dirt on my front porch (not really sure what I would have done with it?) and marched on over.

I sent them back to where they came from with a "don't come this way again".

It wasn't the hispanic looking trio which jumped fences this morning.

One of the boys was a youth from my ward.

Makes me wonder how many come this way, and which trio I can blame for the majority of break throughs.

Any thoughts Amy?

Were the ones you've seen in the past dark haired or long haired?

Caught....well almost

My neighbor Amy's home backs up to the side of my house.  The side where the little intruders like to run.  She has seen them before!

Today I got a phone call.

Side note: we have costco phones which die about 3 years (maybe 5 I can't remember) after you by them.  We are at that point and occasionally we can answer a call and actually get to talk for a couple of minutes, at least long enough to let you know we'll call you back on the cell.

So I answered the phone, but it died.

But Amy left a message:

"Brooke, did you see them, they just ran through."

Since I was in the kitchen I could hear the message and looked out back to see the open gate.

I quickly grabbed Sam, Hadley and my camera and jumped in the car.

I had no intentions of running them over, I just wanted to see where they hid out after leaving my place.  So we took off down the main road and low and behold there are three kids up ahead, running fast and looking suspicious.

I caught up to where they were and pulled out my camera.  They didn't notice me as they hid behind the house with one of them peeking out looking toward the school.

I could have gotten a perfect picture, what with my 18x zoom.  But I put my eye up to the eye piece to make sure it was nice and close and couldn't see a thing...you see the it was on view finder, you know that really easy to use device that doesn't require you to put your camera up to your eye (I have a point and shoot).  By the time I realized this they had seen me and started to run again.

They jumped over at least two more yards where I saw them peaking through some fence and realized I could get no further with my catching abilities at this point and headed home.

But not before yelling "If I catch you going through my yard one more time you are in big trouble."

I bet they were scared.

A perfect Valentines Day...in Heaven.

My Grandparents didn’t fight.  Grandpa always said, “It takes to two to fight and I’m not going to be one of them.”  They were always together, until my Grandpa passed away just over a year ago.  My Grandma has been lonely since and has been waiting for her time to go.  I find it perfectly fitting that Grandpa would come for Grandma on Valentines Day.  It’s so romantic.

 

But I’ll miss her.

One of those moments

There wasn't any new snow today to give away footprints. I videod the gate...but no sluffers today.  Tomorrow maybe...I will for sure fill you in.

Photo courtesy of Kelly

On another note, I got some good talk time in with Jadey tonight and found out the following:

While playing football with the 6th graders during recess another story in and of itself as Jadey has helped girls everywhere join the ranks of the boys sports playing at recess) one of the boys took the Lord's name in vain.   

Jadey responded with a "hey now can we clean up our language?"   He asked her what she meant and she chided, "you know what you just said."   And he was good with it.   

There was another incident with some finger flailing that she was able to refute with some humor also.

I am SO way proud.   And Reed is taking all the credit for the humor.

Strikes again

So I looked out my window and the gate was open.

They had gone through AGAIN!

The video camera is now rolling in the window.

I will get you yet   MWahahah

The case of the trespasser turned trespassers

I love a good mystery.  I don't like scary stuff, but I like a good mystery.  So in the dull of the dead February, anxiously awaiting spring, I have been blessed with one.

We have a gate out our back yard, with easy access to the Jr High.  We haven't locked it in the past, but through the winter we have noticed it being left open.

Thanks to the snow we could see a set of footprints leading to the side of the house, but with the roads cleared we didn't know where they went after that.

With recent snow storms coming daily old footprints have been covered clean.

Yesterday I saw them around 12:30pm.

Note: We had since put a lock on the gate (an easily undone lock, but a lock nonetheless)

This time there were three tracks.

I put on a coat and went out to see if I could track them further.

There were fresh prints to the neighbors gate and through his yard then another yard and then I lost them.

Today I look out the window at 9:47am.

New prints (thanks to the fresh snow)

You should have seen me:

Capri pajama pants, Reed's snow boots and my Sunday coat, with bed head.

The prints followed the same route.  No one in site.

I am going to find out who is doing this.

Only what should I do when I catch them?

Do you think they'll take me seriously if my pajama pants don't meet my boots?

I have fantasized about going to the upstairs window with some water and pouring it out on them when they pass underneath...that would stop them.

I might just set up the camera in a back window.

We will for sure put a real lock on the gate, but I want to know who it is first.

If it's someone that knows me I probably shouldn't reputate myself as the "crazy lady" that will pour water on you if trespass in her yard.

For sure I will keep you updated.

Perhaps a smeared faced picture of the culprits (as they are surely underage).

For now I should probably go do the laundry.

Diamonds are a girls best friend

Emily has like a trillion spelling words each week.

So we spend lots of time studying and learning them.

Hadley likes to join in the fun.

She creates sentences to go with each word.

Today for "dime" she said:

"I have a diamond ring."

Yesterday is was "before":

"On my birthday I will be four."

They don't make ornaments for that

For a little less then a year SHE has been H3.

It is how she began signing her name.

I have a pillow with her signature on it.

Unfortunately for you it is a little light to see in a picture.  But come over and I will it show it to you. It sits on the couch, with the signature hiding against the couch.

We searched endlessly for a cheap little H3 emblem from the car that was H3 first.  But didn't find one.

Alas, she has turned H4.

If they ever make that Hummer...she will have had the name first, but she will surely be H7 or H8 by then.

At the request of my sister Mel I am posting her party pics.  

Mainly she wanted to see the cake.

It was made in a castle bundt pan that I purchased on a girls trip.

It is such a cute bundt pan.

But you can't frost it or you lose all the little features.

I didn't think about that, until I went to frost it.

So we frosted around the windows and along the top and Hadley placed little confetti dots on the frosting and she was so happy that I didn't stress long about it's looks.

And just for history.

Her sister blew her candles out.

Dawn's having a giveaway

Go check out Dawn's site on my side bar.  She is having a giveaway.  And while your there check out her cakes.  They are incredible!