So we headed out to Lethbridge this weekend to visit family & friends.
As we were driving through town Saturday morning, doing massive grocery & Christmas shopping, we had a good chuckle at the initial overall scenery... first of all you can see for miles (I find that appealing, feels like home to me -Kev just gets annoyed that there are no trees), the air is dry, the fields are brown, the wind is howling through the crack of your car door and every kind of truck imagineable, including a couple tractors, can be seen on (and off) the road. Typical Alberta scenery. We were laughing at the chauchies: younger males who can be seen driving fast little cars, with music so loud you could blow an eardrum...they have a pasted look on their faces that reads, "ya, I'm hot - I know it, you know it, we all know it"; and rednecks: another group of younger males who think they're hot b/c they drive a truck with a paint job they've (obviously) done themselves and feel pretty high and mighty b/c they can see above everyone else, but can't get in or out of their trucks without a ladder...they generally have a face that reads, "i got me my own set of fancy mudstained wheels and da chics dig it".
Anyway, as we were pulling into Costco there was this a truck in the parking lot that had some words painted on the back window which read, "GIT-R-DONE". Oh ya. Good ol Lethbridge. I think Texas might be the only other place in the world where you'd see that on the back of a pickup truck. Then again, I haven't been everywhere, redneckism may be contagious. Who knows.
Good times. Good times.
Aaaaaaaanyhoo, we got that done and visited with Kendra's family the rest of the day. Sunday morning we had our friends Buck & Leah over for breakfast, and Sunday afternoon was spent with Sam & Lisa (and little uns) watching the big game. YEAH BC!!!
Here's a few pics of Sam & Lisa's family:
Well, this one's ours. But she was there too.
Atalie seemed to have lots of fun with her cousins on Sunday. The girls entertained themselves on the floor with a pile of toys for awhile, and then she had a go at the excersaucer, which she loves!
Sam was literally stuck in the corner of the couch as we watched the Lions' victory on TV.
Andrew & Alisha were zonked right out.
Jerah is becoming quite the pretty little girl now! She's in kindergarten and loving every minute it seems.
Lisa holds down the fort (sorry Sam, you're great too but Lisa stays home all day with 3 bretherick-blooded entertainers who barely slow down to have a nap - she wins). You'd never know by her easy-going smile though would you?
And that was our trip.
This is 1 of 5 traps. It is beneath the kitchen sink where we find new mouse droppings daily, yet no mouse.
We thought this one was sneaky. Apparently not sneaky enough.
This is a dual-dose of temptation. Kevin invented it incase the mouse decided to hop from the soup to the garbage bag.
And here you'll see our new method of madness (let me interupt this segment to mention that we do not actually use the sponges or dish-drying rack you see here, beside the mouse poison!!!). Pure poison potpourri. I hate to admit that I do feel somewhat bad for the mouse/mice who are about to ingest this stuff. One feeding and they start to bleed from the inside, comletely dehydrating themselves. Pretty nasty stuff if you ask me. I'm wondering where I'll find the little sucker belly up next. Ughh. I shudder to think of the moment I open a door somewhere to find a smelly surprise. The lady at the Hardware store told me to watch for them in places where you'd find water b/c they become very thirsty. Does this mean I'll find one as I climb into the shower one day? Or perhaps open the lid of the toilet, only to find one floating around??
Seriously. Awwww. Geez.
Wish me luck.
