Slip n slide

So we have a very nice large yard. A huge selling point on the house when we bought it. And there was a while that I didn't enjoy the idea of most of the yard being a hill but we have figured out how to make the hill an amazing adventure. We buy plastic sheets from Home Depot and I stake them into the ground nice and snug and get a sprinkler going and the boys zoom down the hill! They LOVE it! This day we did the "short" slip n slide. It is about 50 ft. or so and to make it so the boys didn't go off the end I put the pool right there and they loved it! they thought it was pretty fun. They ask for the pool to crash into ever time now. On the 9th we will be having a Friday Fun day at our house and we will be putting out the big one. It goes on the other side of the tree, down the steepest, longest part of the hill and you get quite a bit of zip! Warren won't do it but every one else loves it!

Farm zoo

My ward is awesome and my friend every summer sets up a summer group with weekly activities. We have Tuesday Park days and Friday Fun days. This was a Friday Fun day when we went to a farm petting zoo. They have all sorts of animals, not all found on a farm. Or at least I wouldn't usually think you have kangaroos and emus at a farm but I could be wrong... Anyway, the boys had a great time. They LOVED being able to touch and feed some of the animals. Warren was a little nervous the whole time unless it was a tine animal. They had little tiny baby goats that were adorable! I wish it had been easier for me to take pictures but that is what happens when you have three small munchkins. Definitely something we might have to do again next year. 

The joys of East Coast living.

So we had our house sprayed for termites and black carpenter ants. We never saw the termites but the ants... They were everywhere! It was disgusting! We had to keep our kitchen immaculate because I would come out in the morning and turn on the light and the ants would scatter. It felt like hundreds of them. Well, we got the house sprayed and on day 8 after I was starting to feel hopeless, like they would never leave. So I bought some borax and mixed up a sugar/borax drink for them and left it on the counter that night. This is what I came up with the next morning. Eww.

They are coming tomorrow to spray again because after a huge infestation it takes a while to get the numbers really down. We didn't see any for a long time but after about a month they slowly started coming back and now I have about 20 dead ants floating in the jar. It took about 3 days to happen. I can't wait for 10 days from tomorrow!

The most disgusting thing ever

Would you like to see something creepy? And disgusting? And make you never want to grow tomatoes again? Well, here it is!

Maybe that is just a kicker for me but it sure makes me NEVER want to go digging in my tomato plants as soon as I start seeing leaves disappear. Ick. Ew. Nasty. Gross. I found 2 of them last year that were that big and this year I found this big nasty sucker and 3 smaller ones. I clipped 'em good and threw them in the field right behind my garden. Serves them right for grossing me out.