The Creature

Halle, in a pretty sad pathetic whimper came into our room this morning at 6am and told us "There's a creature in my room, and I don't know what it is!" Chase and I weren't quite ready to wake up at the moment and Halle is known for having dreams and talking nonsense at night and early hours of the morning ( I have no idea where she gets that ha ha- hey Kenna, have you blessed your scriptures yet? I was just checkin' ha ha) Anyway, we gave her a pillow and let her sleep by our bed for a minute but she insisted one more time that there really was a CREATURE in her room and she didn't know what it was! I, at this point knew there would probably be no falling back to sleep and I started thinking about this creature. Tyler told me yesterday that he saw a bat in our garage. I went to check it out and saw a bird in our garage and told him it was just a bird. Then I thought about the sound I heard in the middle of the night downstairs but was too tired to do anything about it, and then I thought about the time that we were living in Fairfield and a bat got in the house and flew in my face and freaked me out, so I made Chase go and check out the creature in her room. It ended up being a brown and black nasty bat (with a "pink bottom" Halle's own words) that was hanging upside down from her lamp 3 feet away from poor Halle's head-GROSS! Chase got a box from the attic and I heard a few bumps and thumps and thought for a minute that this was serious and I might need to get in there, but then thought what am I going to do about it except for probably yell, "GET IT! GET IT!" 2 seconds later he had the bat in the box, took it outside and let it go. Sophie had no clue what had just happened and Halle was right, there was a creature in her room that she had never seen before!
We spent the next 15 minutes laughing in our bed, all five of us, taking turns telling what the bat looked like. According to Chase it was 3 feet long with vampire teeth and green eyes!


I thought I would throw this picture in with this post since we didn't get a pic of the bat. We made Chase a giant cookie for fathers day. I love the ages of our kids, they are so excited about everything. Tyler made sure to try to trick Chase by telling him we were having popscicles for dessert.

Cafeteria, Underpants hats, schools out

Halle: Mom, do you know what cafeteria is?
Mom: Ya, it's the room where you go to eat your food, like at school or a hospital.
Halle: No, I mean cafeteria, the kind that comes out of here (pointing to her bum).
Mom: (Just couldn't hold back the laughter on this one) Ya I know that kind:)
Halle: Well I just had some.
THanks for sharing Hal


Every Wednesday night Tyler has baseball practice from 7-8pm. Halle thinks she's really missing out by not getting to go with dad and ty, so we have our own girls night while they are gone. It isn't too exciting, ya know, getting to watch a movie in the family room with a bowl of ice cream is probably as cool as it's been. Halle came downstairs last week with underwear on her head and said "lets all wear underpants hats for girls night!" About 3 minutes later I came downstairs and she had Sophie all outfitted with her own underpants hat:)






Tylers last day of school was June 10th this year which seemed kind of late, but they didn't start school this year until after labor day. I wanted to do something fun for the last day of school and found these window markers at Walmart. Tyler thought it was pretty cool and I think we'll make it a tradition! I have to do these things while I can, when Tyler gets to middle school he may not think it's too cool to have his mom decorate our sweet van to pick him up in!!!