My Thanksgiving Indian

Joshua had a Thanksgiving party/feast at his pre-school. There are 9 boys and 2 girls in his class. I am sure it is wild and crazy days in his class. They had a really good time and looked so cute in their outfits that they had made. Their meal consisted of: McDonalds chicken nuggets, corn, macaroni & cheese & cheesestick and for dessert a cookie and a pumkin muffin. He wore his outfit all day and evening and tried to go to bed with it. I finally convinced him to set it next to him in bed.

How do you trap an Armadillo?

Yesterday the boys were running around the house playing and yelled for me to come and look at something. I went to check out their findings and saw a very large hole and below the hole more holesburrowed towards my house and my neighbors. After inspecting closer pretty much in every direction. My first instinct was that it was a gopher or mole or something. After researching, I decided that it was probably not a mole or gopher since they usually leave mounds. I called around today and one of the guys seems to think that what I am describing is an armadillo or a skunk. YUCK and YUCK! Neither sounds fun, but I am going to say it is an armadillo because I do not want to even entertain the idea that a skunk is living under my house. Pest Control wants to charge anywhere from $450-$550 to trap and remove the animal. So what to do? Apparantly these animals can do some really significant damage under your home and to the foundtion. Of course Michael is out of town for three weeks training for his new job.
Plan A: A little investigating of my own. I loosely stuffed the 8X6X8 hole with newspaper to see if this critter decides to come out to play tonight. This will tell me if he is still living under the house.
Plan B: Still undecided. I am considering calling Animal control to deliver a trap to see if I can catch it myself. Then it will only cost $100 for someone to come out and remove it.
Plan C: Flood it out of the hole. I am just not sure I can take on what decides to run out of the hole while I am flooding.
Plan D: Wait until Uncle John comes Saturday and see what he thinks. :)
Hmmmm........

Since Michael has been gone:

• Huge lightning storm came and took out my internet and tv for 3 days
• Furnice tripped
• Mysterious animal digging tunnels under the house
• issues with a boy on Jacobs bus
• what next........
  
  

This is not the Actual Armadillo at my house

Uncle Timmy's Wedding

Uncle Timmy got married a few weeks ago. Forgive me for taking so long to post. It was a very pretty wedding. The boys were Jr. Groomsmen and ring bearer. Jacob said that he was excited that Uncle Timmy was getting married, but was not excited about wearing the tuxedo. We had a great time visiting with family over the weekend.

Trick-Or-Treat Ya'll

Michael and I are very proud of our carving jobs. We had not carved pumkins in years and had so much fun. Jake the "clean freak" on the other hand did not have fun. I forced him to put his hand in the pumpkin. I don't think he will ever do that again. Josh loved it of course.

Halloween is one of the boys favorite Holidays. They were excited all day and could hardly wait. The new Outlet mall was having a thing for kids where they could trick-or-treat at all of the stores. So we headed up there first. Jacob had a minor meltdown at the first store when Josh received a scooby doo sticker and Jake got a cars sticker. Apparantly cars is not cool anymore. He quickly recovered when he discovered the next store gave him a handful of candy. We did have one other upset. Everyone kept calling Jake "bobafet" or "storm trooper". One even called him a "Power Ranger". So he was very annoyed and was sure to correct everyone.

We came home and ate dinner and then Dad headed out with Clone Trooper Rex and Raphael Ninja Turtle while mom stayed home to man the candy and greet all the cute little trick-or-treaters. I later joined them and had so much fun watching them run door to door.