Our latest Project

Ryan doesn't know what to do with himself between the end of football season and the start of pool season so he does home repairs. The 1st thing we said we would do when we 1st looked at this house was replace the flourescent light box in the kitchen. Well 4 years later it is finally done.

Isabel's observations on Ryan's project:

Isabel: Mom, dad got mad 'cuz he broke that thing. He said bad words. I'm glad its quiet now.

So am I so no more projects this year.

Here are some recent pictures so Grandma Bear can see how much the girls have grown. We have a meeting about kindergarten next week. It won't be long before Isabel starts big school. Liza is 1 next week. She is a very independent baby. She figured out how to open the door of her classroom at daycare so they had to put a new lock on. She would just go out cruising the halls.

Squirrel Emergency!!

So Killer, pictured above lounging on the decorative throw pillows, caught a mammal and was eating it in the back yard last night. Ryan wasn't sure if it was a baby mouse or what so he did some google research. Turns out we had a nest of baby squirrels fall out of one of the palm trees. Due to Hurricane Ike there are lots of displaced wildlife animals now and so we came across a wildlife rehab site that gave phone numbers. Ryan called and said we had a nest fall down and the lady actually said, "Oh this is an emergency!!" So we packed the squirrels in a box and rushed them to the lady's house. She has incubators in her laundry room and added our squirrels to the four she is already caring for. They will be released back into nature in about 8 weeks. Hopefully no one runs them over. Thanks to Ryan there are 2 more squirrels in Texas tonight. Who knew squirrel rehab even existed.

Bad Hair Day

Isabel has been asking to get her hair cut for a while now. So I take her to the shop for one of those cute short in the back, longer in the front cuts. The lady cut off quite a bit more than we expected and Isabel actually fell on the floor and insisted her hair be put back on. A trip to the toy store and the assurance that her hair is growing all the time restored her mood. We also pointed out that Liza is bald and happy. I didn't think her first traumatic hair cut would be at age 4.