Bugs

OK, so we love Texas. It's awesome. There are two things I'm not particularly fond of... 1. being far from family. 2. the bugs.

Texas bugs are INSANE. Huge. Creepy. Crawling. Make your skin crawl. and EVERYWHERE. And there must be steroids in the soil here because they are HUGE.For example. Here is a baby cricket. Baby. This one is about 1 1/2 inches long. They have the LONGEST legs I have ever seen, pink googly eyes, and antennas that could reach Utah I swear.

This picture is so disappointing because it does NOT represent the true grossness of these bugs and their ginormous size.
Let me tell you a story...
Night before last, I was having a dream about these said bugs. A Gecko jumped out of the pantry at me and it scared me so bad it woke me up. Understandably shaken, I couldn't go back to sleep. As I lay there I can hear a cricket.... SO LOUD... echoing. Great, there is a cricket in our house. So, I get up and go on the prowl. After much circling trying to find where this annoying cricket is calling from, I open the door to find a 3 inch long cricket attached to our screen door! I threw up in my mouth a little.
I run into our bedroom, and wake Hayden. It's 2am. He's thrilled as all get out with me. I tell him about the cricket and he replies "honey, just get it, they aren't that scary!" I beg him, he drags himself out of bed and follows me.
He takes my flip flop, steps outside and swats the LARGE AND IN CHARGE cricket of the door. I tell him to smash it because I don't want that thing alive. So, as he bends down to swat it...
the cricket jumps....
I have never in my life seen a grown man do such a squirmy, scared, jumping all around dance of fear in all my life. And the scream that accompanied this fear dance would put any little girl to shame. I have never laughed so hard in my life.
We laid in bed and laughed about this for over 30 minutes.
This is the conclusion we came to:

Main Entry: ¹pan·sy
Pronunciation: \ˈpan-zē\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural pansies
Etymology: Middle English pancy, pensee, from Middle French pensée, from pensée thought, from feminine of pensé, past participle of penser to think, from Latin pensare to ponder — more at pensive
Date: 15th century

1 : a garden plant (Viola wittrockiana) derived chiefly from the hybridization of the European Johnny-jump-up (Viola tricolor) with other wild violets; also : its flower
2 a usually disparaging : a weak or effeminate man or boy or b Hayden Behling

Cornell Girlies....

While in Utah we decided we better get some pics of the kids together. My good friend Aimee was going to take them but ended up have a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. So we dressed up the kids and took them to Garnder Village anyway and tried to get some pics. They turned out pretty dang cute! Although, we have pretty dang cute kids!

Cousin Kaicee

We were so excited to have Daine, Steph, Cousin Kaicee, Grandpa Jack, Grandma Lorraine and Jacki to come visit last week! Steph made these adorable dresses for the girls and the tie for Danzer. We got the all dressed up and of course all three of them decided they wanted nothing to do with it. In the end, we got a couple really cute candid pics of them....

Our New Digs (as poppies would say)

Here are the new pics of our house. I know I have pics of it on here, but this is with our furniture and decorations in it. THANK GOODNESS Jacki was here. She painted pretty much the entire house while I moved us (minus the big furniture). Hayd had to work and had the busiest week. But as a team, we got er' done!

Danzer's cowboy room. Fits him perfectly!

Our Master

Spare Bath

Elle's room

Dining Room. Minus the dining room table. Insert Object A here:

Object A, scheduled to arrive Friday

Family Room

Kitchen

Guest

Danzer LOVES all the room to run around. He drags this lawn mower EVERYWHERE! I hear "cha-clunk cha-clunk cha-clunk" all day long... thanks sis ;)

Ride em' cowboy. We are startin' him early

This is what we love the most. Having LOTS of friends over to visit! FAMILY- GET DOWN HERE!