Disney World

For those of you who don't know, we went with my whole family to Disney World and got back a week ago. (We all look about how we felt in this second picture. We had to get up at 3am to catch our flight and travelled most of the day to arrive in Orlando). The trip was SOOOO much fun. It was quite a shock to have to come back to work. :( We rode the teacups a few times and hit all of the other awesome Disney rides and new roller coasters. It was ridiculously hot and we melted quite literally. Luckily the ice cream is plentiful at all of the Disney parks. We woke up at 6:45 am every day to get to the park that was opening early that day and came back to the hotel around 3 to crash for a while every day. It was quite exhausting, but absolutely worth it. I don't know when we'll get the whole family together again, so we enjoyed the time with everyone!

Welcome Home LAURA!!

Laura got home from Portugal about 3 weeks ago. We flew in and surprised her at the airport. Unfortunately, our flight was 2.5 hours late and hers got in 15 minutes early, so we missed her coming in by about 15 minutes. BUT.... she was still surprised and it was great to be there to hear her stories and to hear her talk in church. Welcome home the Foof!!!

Mind your own Bees-ness.

Back by popular demand, a highlight from last summer (July to be exact):

Okay, so a few weeks ago, Jen and I noticed that a hive of wasps were making their home on the back porch. "Who really likes wasps", we thought. They don't even pollinate flowers or make honey. So, we started discussing how we would get rid of our uninvited guests. Then a few days later, we were swinging in the porch swing when we noticed a second hive. Wahoo! Two for the price of none! Okay, so with that preface, a few days ago we decided to finally evict our guests. We decided to run the hose from the garage to the back door and spray the bee-jabbers out of them. Done and done. We sprayed them like nobody's beesness. Then the next day, we returned to see how they were doing. Yep, they were back. So, we fashioned a bee suit made from my clothes and a jacket, gloves and a machete. Yep. A machete. Jen sprayed them and sprayed them, again the bee-jabbers. And then I went out while Jen watched the skies. She would spray them out of the air with the hose while I removed the hive and smashed it (with a hammer). It was tons of fun and very scary.

Victory! Right? No! They came back again. This time, we made the bee suit and improved it with rubber bands around the wrists. We returned at the end of the day and saturated the hive with actual wasp killer. Three wasps fell dramatically to their deaths and then I ran back in the house. We have not seen them since the great spraying of 08. Indeed, they do make sprays for that. Both hives are gone and we are bee free for the time bee-ing. We send our love and hope this post finds you all well. Smile and have a bee-autiful day.

Unfortunately for us, the bees are back again this year. We might just pull out the bee suit again with further added improvements.