Program, pets, plants, and a broken bone

So the death of animals seems to be a curse I am doomed to live with for the rest of my life. Ben and I were at a Strengthening Families class on Wednesday night when our babysitter called to inform us that two of our hamsters were dead. Needless to say many tears ensued and the kids were not sent to bed before we returned home, mostly out of compassion for all parties involved including the babysitter. By the way this was not the same babysitter that was watching the kids during the bird incident.

On Friday the kids didn't have school so we went to a nursery to get some trees and grape plants for our back yard. We then proceeded on to the pet store to look for replacement hamsters. After much discussion and debate we ended up coming home with 2 rats instead. I have to admit I like the rats better than the hamsters. They never bite and just seem more interesting.

Diamond in the corner and Sadie up front. Their eyes really aren't red it was just the camera. We did not buy devil rats for our children.

On Saturday we purchased the wood to make arbors for our grapes and spent the day building arbors, and planting all our plants. That is until about 4:30 when Bonnie came home from a friends house crying very dramatically because she was sure she had broken her hand. I should have learned to listen to her about broken bones at this point because this is the 3rd one she has had and she has been right every time. However, I gave her some pain reliever and told her to put ice on it until it felt better. I did finally take her to the urgent care when I noticed it was starting to swell. She had broken her 5th metacarpal, the bone in her hand right under her pinky finger.

Bonnie with her splint and sling until we get her to see the orthopedic surgeon.

Ben continued to work on the back yard while we were gone and I came back to help him finish. We still need to finish the arbors, but overall it looks pretty good.

Nate mowing the lawn before we started. This also gives you a good before view of our back fence.

Starting the work.


A couple of after pictures. We will post more when we finish the arbors.



On Tuesday this week Jared had a Kindergarten program called "The Seasons of Kindergarten". It was very cute with lots of singing and we took some videos. Unfortunately for some reason our camera did not record any sound. I am adding this video anyway because Jared's actions crack me up. The part he gets very intense about he is singing "Gonna catch a rainbow, gonna catch a rainbow." It was better with sound, but even without it's pretty funny.