Where's the Monkey?

Can you spot the Ethan monkey in the tree? He was bored during Courtney's soccer practice so he decided to climb the trees. 

Garbage Disposal

Our garbage disposal died last week. I am tired of getting disposals that die quickly so we bought a good one. It "eats" everything!! And it has horsepower!

Bryan took our old one out and put in the new one - which is quite a bit larger than our old one. We tested it and it was so quiet that we weren't sure it was working. So we put noodles down it, ran the disposal, unplugged it, and checked to see if it had worked.  It worked! Bryan doesn't trust it because it is "too quiet" but it's pretty cool. I even out a drumstick bone down it and it ate it easily.

Our new disposal all shiny and new:

The old disposal (upside down):

Website

After months of working on things and trying to get all the wording and pictures correct, the law firm has a website!!

Check them out at www.packgraff.com

Wasps

In case you didn't know, I hate all flying insects!! So when I noticed wasps nests in our house during the summer, I called an extermination service to get rid of them. They charged way too much money and didn't do much.

The other week we noticed wasps climbing into our rain gutter in back. I didn't want a rip off company to come this time so I went to HomeDepot and bought a $3.00 can of wasp spray. Last night Ethan got to spray them and it was amazing. I think Bryan counted 18 wasps that fell out onto the ground. We are going to spray again but that was a lot more economical than the company we had help last time!! And Ethan had a lot of fun.

Here are just a few wasp corpses.

Flag Football

Ethan is playing Ivins flag football again this year. He is kind of bummed because he is the oldest in the team (along with Carter) and the other kids are 9 years old. But he is excited that Bryan is his coach. 

They had their first game this week and they did really well. I think their team name is the Screaming Banshees. 

FHE Treat

I saw an article on the interment about 101 things to do with your waffle iron. So for our FHE treat this week, I decided to try one idea. I bought some cinnamon rolls, the ones that come in the tubes, and we cooked them on the waffle iron. It was really simple and turned out great. The only problem was that the kids wanted more and we didn't have more. They want to experiment next time with cooking my overnight cinnamon rolls on the waffle iron. We will have to see.

Ethan scarfed them down!

Parade

We had the annual Lions Club Rodeo Parade last Saturday. It was nice because it is usually so hot during the parade, but it was wonderful weather this year.

There is always an entry for Pizazz and this year Courtney decided to ride her bike with the other girls,,,but they went so slow that it drove her nuts. And her pedal cut up the back of her leg because she kept stopping and starting. She says that next year she will walk!

We had her bike decorated and watched for her to come by. Ethan did his best to get candy but the people in the parade weren't throwing candy to older kids so Ethan felt it was age discrimination!!

When Courtney passed by, the boys walked to the end of the parade to get her and bring her back by us. 

Courtney spent the rest of the parade grabbing candy (she is much more aggressive than Ethan is) and they ended up with a nice hail of sugar. It was fun but really long!!