Storms, Storms and More Storms!

Recently there have been thunderstorms, tornado activity, and all sorts of craziness with the weather. Our mailbox was one of the latest casualties. Nathan tried rigging up with bungee cords but that lasted about 2 hours.

Como Zoo

Nathan took the day off of work and we all took a trip to the Como Zoo. We walked all through the Conservatory and saw lots of neat plants and flowers. Nathan was very excited about each kind of flower because his work has a little photo club, and he fancies himself as a photographer. A slide show will be posted of Como Zoo pictures, watch for in the margin.

Then we got to see where the polar bears are going be living in their new digs. Hannah got to see Sparky the seal on the seal island exhibit. It was a fun day. The traffic coming home was not!

Here is some video of Emma basically saying "are we there yet?" and then they both conked out!

Kelley Farm

I took all three girls to the Kelley Farm and we could not have asked for a more beautiful day yesterday. Hannah loved seeing all of the animals and helping in the pioneer kitchen. The little girls really enjoyed the new scents and sounds of the farm, but weren't really into seeing the animals yet. They enjoyed it all so much that they fell asleep. If you haven't ever been, you must pack a lunch and go. It is so neat, there is lots to do and it is close so you don't have to spend a fortune on gas.

Chipmunks, argh!

Scary chipmunk, terrifying!

Yesterday morning somehow a chipmunk got into our house. It consequently scared the living daylight out of Hannah who screamed bloody murder, which scared the living daylight out of me and I ran to see what the matter was, I was talking on the phone with Jamie and just yelled hold on into the phone, threw it down and ran to see what the matter was. Jamie sat there on the phone wondering if there was an intruder or if Hannah was hurt. She said "I was thinking I am only 10 minutes away!" basically running scenarios in her head. It was a whole ordeal, I had to shew it out with a broom, setting up little barricades so that he would not go into the rest of the house. All the while that I our giant cat Dojo, just laid around like nothing was going on. Seriously do you think I could our money back from a free kitten?

LAZY, FIERCE CAT!

Garage Sale! On the 4th, What is More American Than That?

I haven't posted for a really long time because every free moment that I have has been consumed with getting ready for a garage sale. We had it over the 4th of July and it went quite well. We joined together with my brother Dan's girlfriend, Jamie and we had a ton of stuff. Ironically enough I think I could go through the house and find enough stuff to have two more sales but at least we got rid of a bunch of stuff. I have learned from the best--the Paukert women--they really know how to have a sale. They mark stuff low, so everything will go, Andrea had a sale just the other week and she had everything inside the garage 25 cents, we did that on the second day and people love it. Ellen also taught me to have everything 1/2 off on the second day and so basically everything that was left in the garage was 25 cents and everything that I could not price down that low was 1/2 off. Thanks to those well-seasoned garage sellers for the training.

Hannah and I are really excited because now it feels like the summer can finally start. We have plans to go to the Kelley Farm and berry pickin' and bunch of other cool things. Hopefully I will get back to more regular posting here too! Included in the slide show are some pictures of Hannah and her big pop sale during the Garage sale and also her working out the kinks with her bike riding skills.