Our visitor

Just moments ago I got called upstairs to witness a visitor to our house. Where this guy came from we aren't sure, but after trying to convince us to let him in, he gave up and left. Hope you find your home buddy!

Two teeth down

While at the McDonalds today Alex lost tooth number 2! Here are some shots of him. I just had to post them all! I was trying to get him to pose, and all he wanted to do was eat his cookie!

Crunchy Corn Bran

Ok, this sounds like the most disgusting cereal out there right? But it is SO delicious. I have been in love with this stuff since before I can remember. I was talking to my folks about it last night and that got me to remembering that somewhere in their albums is a shot of me. I had to have been like, 3 and I was in the middle of our family room chowing down right out of the box! Once I nearly choked on some and my brother saved me! Me and this cereal have a history.

So, what gets me into this whole thing? Meijers. I very much dislike going to this store, because it seems that every time we go they are all out of the sale items and because it is a one-stop shop, I always get stuck there for 2 hours. But, we were in the area and they had corn 8 for $2 so we went. While we were there just picking up a few odds and ends, we stopped in the cereal isle. (BTW I saw my friend Katie while we were there and she is looking fabulous!) So, here I am looking for the cheap cereal when I spot it. Crunchy Corn Bran. How had I ever forgotten that Meijers was the only store in Michigan that sold it?! Sweet goodness, at last I found you!!!! Of course I got a bag of cheap stuff, but I went all out and got me a box of pure deliciousness!! I highly recommend you go and get some!

Wanted: Missing Tooth

Alex and Jacob went to Aunt Mandy's house for a sleepover on Friday. We called to check up on them later in the evening and Alex told us that his tooth was all wobbly. By the time he came home the next day I had forgotten all about it, so I was surprised when Alex said he had pulled his tooth out later Saturday night. Yeah, Alex has done this before. He can't stand loose teeth, so they always come out fast. So folks, here he is in all his toothless glory!

The end of the season

Well folks, the season is over. Jake went to his last game on Thursday. At the end of the game they all received their trophy's for the season. The funny thing is we almost didn't go! The weather on Thursday was miserable. It was in the 90's and it had to be about 300% humidity! Who wants to send their kid out to have a heat stroke!? Well, I got to thinking that the season must be over soon so I checked the website and lo and behold, this was going to be the last game. Crap! Well, we did make it. Jake took a huge jug of ice water and Carl, Alex and I found the shadiest place we could fine and we braved it. No one ended up passing out, but Jacob didn't even want to stay after the game for the pizza. He was out of there! I don't blame him one bit.

Good job Jake, we are so proud of you!

Crazy Rabid Squirrel!

When we were at Jakes last game, there was this insane squirrel that kept coming over. It seems that the scent of Alex's cheese Nips was too much to bear. We had to keep throwing them at her to keep her from jumping in our laps! Carl put one of these photos he took on Caedes. There is a link on the side. You can view it by looking up our name, which is cncbell. Hooray! We are published!Really, there was little zoom on this. She was about 2-3 feet from us at all times!

Augh, they see me!!

Gimmie the cheese cracker, and no one gets hurt!

Tale of the Recycling Samaritan

Ok, this is embarrassing and hilarious all at the same time.

I went to go do our recycling today. We are really gung ho about this, and have managed to reduce our landfill contributions by half! Seriously folks, couldn't be easier! Anyway, I was at the Wayne recycling center (Wayne Rd. and Forest) doing my weekly drop off. I realized that I also had a bunch of stuff in the truck that had been there forever, random water bottles and such, so I got them out. Well, after I opened the trunk I kept the keys in my hand...can you see where this is going yet?...

Of course they go into the dumpster with all my bottles. AUGH!! Ok, don't panic, They didn't make the clang noise they would have had they reached the bottom. But of course they were nearly empty unlike every other time I have been there stuffing my plastic into any available nook and cranny. So I run back to the car and get my tote out that I keep all my recycling in and take it over to the dumpster to stand on. Totally breaks cause I am no ballerina, but this is a small price to pay folks! I began to gently prod away all the who knows what and finally discover my keys between a booze bottle and a can of pop. The problem was that they were 2 inches farther down than I could reach. NOOOOOOO!!

Luckily, another recycler had come during my mad hunt. I mean seriously, I have never seen more than 1 other person since I have been doing this! I told him that I had recycled my keys and asked if he could help me. I told him he could stand on my tote, it was broken already, when he looked down and saw the 3 inch metal lip coming out of the dumpster at the exact same height as my tote...yeah, now I felt really dumb. So I get up on the lip with him, direct him to the booze bottle and he was able to fetch them for me! Hooray. Of course this is the time to put the icing on the cake by making the comment

"Not only did you help save the Earth, but you also saved me!"

Was that not like, the most "Saved by the Bell" corny line ever?! Why, why do I do these things, I'll never know. Anyway, they guy totally stayed there until I got in my car and left, even though he had been done forever. Probably thought I would do it again after a remark like that.