BabyCricket-lovers...that's us!

We have a cricket problem. On any given day you can hear at least 3 crickets serenading our home, and I'd imagine at least 5 others who are keeping quiet. When I say "our home" I mean INSIDE our home...not outside. At first I thought it was cute. Back in those days we found just one cricket a week or so, and we're kind to our crickets. We escort them in a cup to the front door, then toss them outside, hopefully shaking some sense into them. They know we won't kill them, and I guess our reputation has spread. I feel like we have become cricket Mecca! There are more crickets than people in this house! It's becoming a battle.

Tonight after dessert I threw (not literally) Zach in the tub, then left for a minute. I ran back in because he started screaming "Cricket, mommy!!" He was pointing at TINY bugs. I looked close. I thought they were tiny ants (we have had those, too), except--they were jumping! FAR! They were Baby, Stinking, Crickets!...which only confirmed our fears that crickets have been getting it on in our house.

After the initial gross factor wore off, Adam and I decided they were cute and started brainstorming ways to rescue them. Sadly, one of them died during the trip out the front door...and the mother abandoned the one that lived, but I'm sure Heavenly Father has BIG plans for that little baby cricket. I will call him The Cricket Who Lived, and Katelyn and I will daydream about the adventures he will have while hopping the corridors of a school named Hogwarts. I can't wait to tell Maggie!

P.S. Don't tell my kids cricket #2 is dead. They are hearing bedtime stories about him as I type.

Good Morning

I got a lot done this morning. Starting with this:

And then this:

I like when the weather is slightly overcast and chilly.

Grandma Shirley

This evening our family got to do a temple baptism for our Grandma Shirley, who passed away last year. The temple worker on the phone cried, and said that Grandma Shirley had been waiting there all day for us to come.

Afterwards, we ate at Claim Jumper.
I taught Katelyn how to play checkers,


while Zach pretended to be Coraline.

My TEACUP Runneth Over (with excitement)

Girls Only

Kate and I left Zach with grandma for a Girls Only day at Disneyland.
It was SO MUCH FUN!!

Making crazy faces on Main Street:






The "yellow" one was flirting with all the little girls. Kind of weird.


We saw Mr. Frederickson. I swear.