She leaves the house looking like this...

So today Raleigh had a taste test and before we left I told her to take off her "princess clothes" and of course she refused. So, with the advice of my sister-in-law..."just let her go like that" I let her go like that. She was sporting 2 of her banklets (her new word for blanket), one tied "high in the back and the other tied on my butt in the back" and she also had to wear her apron like princess belle wears. Oh, not to forget the princess high heel shoes and 8 pounds of jewlery. She did want me to wear the "white lacy dress" a.k.a. the afghan that is a blobing blanket on the couch - but I refused. Anyway, the ladies at the taste test were quite amused. When we were leaving I caught a group of them gathered together getting a good laugh. The lady who checkes us in called her "Princess Raleigh" to which Raleigh was delighted. When I helped put on her princess ensamble this morning she actually said that now she was "georgous!" So as we were leaving the taste test this morning we had to pass a group of men in the hallway - they got a good laugh too and all I could say as we were passing them was, "...not a battle that I chose to fight today" to which they were still laughing.

N.I.M.B.Y.

Okay - I have the answer to everyone's MOLE problem...the neighbors may not like it..the moles will not like it...and it only takes 4 DD batteries -- it is the MOLE CHASER!! I am serious...this will work (we hope)...or at least when they are installed in our yard in the dark of the night, we are hoping to see many mole trails headed straight to the neighbors yard (sorry Barb). This interesting looking object sends out a high-pitched sound that drives the Moles CRAZY!! We'll keep everyone updated. It is either this or the traps and frankly, I think those moles are so ugly that I don't even want to see them dead in the trap.

Moles, hear this -- Not In My Back Yard!!

Mole...

Looks like there is a mole living in our yard. I was mowing the other day, and I saw a couple trenches and the ground was soft. The next day there were more trenches!!! So, I went to Lowe's and spent $25 on supplies to get rid of the mole. Last night I started the adventure of killing the mole! The trap is now in place. Now, it's just wait and see. I promise there will be pictures of the dead mole once I get him.

Dave

Sparkly Pictures

Janet, I'm sorry that I wasn't able to post these pictures until now...and Missy, I know that you're going to freak when you see the sweatshirts....1)matching was NOT on purpose 2)nice track jacket was packed away under deck and unaccesible at the time of the picture. :) Sorry that the pictures aren't the clearest. There are four channel set circular diamonds on each side, and then a middle one. I really, really, really like it. I'm sorry about the randomness of the blog, but it took my literally 45 minutes in order to disable the security settings on my computer to figure out how to post pictures. Anyway, I'll be home soon, or try to take better pictures and post them, but I thought that this might save Janet.

I Love ya, Tomorrow.

Missy and I have been trying to teach Elliana about the concept of time. As you know, she will often say," this or that happened last week", when the event really happened about 6 months ago. Or, if she gets new shoes and gets a compliment on them she'll say she got them "yesterday."
So, yesterday we went to Rivertown Crossings and I got her a bunch of skirts from the Children's Place. Unfortunately, when we got home they were too big. This morning she wanted to wear her new clothes in the worst way so I told her maybe we could meet Raleigh at the mall "tomorrow." (so I could make the exchange) So she leaves the room, comes back in a few minutes with all of her 3 year old determination, and say's, "Mom, tomorrow just never comes"! Then she stamped her foot, crossed her eyebrows and said loudly, "TODAY IS TOMORROW, SO LETS GO TO THE MALL NOW!"

The Janet Picture

Since Becky isn't posting pictures...

She thought she was sticking her head into the picture to be funny...
Little did she know the picture would end up on the blog...
Here it is for the whole world to enjoy...

Becky's Trip Home

We had fun when you were home, Becky...hopefully there will be some better (and more sparkely) pictures posted soon.

New Deck

Here are some pictures of our completed deck project. Hopefully this project moves people to buy our house.

Randy Jackson Revenge

Someone calls me today on the driver test line and asks if we issue the license he needs for his boat. I tell him that we don't and then I wanted to say that by phoning us he is barking up the wrong tree, but it came out - "Your're barking up the wrong dog." Afterwhich, embarrassed, I quickly hang up.