Silly Sunday Selfies

Crazy kids and critters

I have no words for this.  She just wanted a photo. 

 Marian caught this giant frog at the pond.

Nope.  Not a prince.

Just a gant frog. 

Josh saw this guy as he was mowing the lawn and needed to move it. 

The girls were thrilled to help!

Marian rescued this little guy from the chickens, who wanted to snack on him.  Upon closer inspection we determined him to be a venomous snake. 

He was returned to the chickens, and an epic battle ensued as the chickens each wanted it fo themselves and much chasing and stealing was involved.

A story about a snake

A sneaky snake kept sneaking into the chicken coop and stealing the eggs.  Someone suggested putting a marble egg in there so the snake would eat it, and being unable to digest it, the snake would die.  But the snake just kept eating the actual eggs.  After chasing it away once, Dad decided that the next time we got the snake, we would relocate it up the road.

The girls dashed into the house and said the snake was back.  So we went out to capture.  It was a mighty battle. Marian was armed with a net (that had a snake sized hole in it) and I had a big stick.  Neither was very effective.  I finally had to grab his back end while Marian hooked the front and we managed to steer the snake into a cooler.  

Yes, a cooler.  It was the only thing around with a lid we could close!  Then we had to wait an hour or two for Dad to return and take the snake away.  The victorious children rode out with him to dump the snake a few miles up the road. 

Once they returned triumphant, they realized something.....

See the snake? It was a fairly sizable snake.

See that bulge in his middle?  Yep, it ate the marble egg and was going to die anyway.

Cool Cousins

 When we got back to Mountain Home, Deborah and Miranda were there with their kids.  So it was quite the party!

Miranda's boys really really wanted to get up and Run with Callie and Marian and I.  

They did a pretty good job, too. 

The kids got along pretty well. 

Josh had a marvelous time with Hailey.  She thought he was so funny. 

He was pretty funny.  Here, he is pretending to be asleep and Simon and Hailey are pretending to wake him up. 

He was such a good cousin, reading to Hailey. 

And Rachel was just too cute!

Jonathan's House

 Apparently I was tired of taking pictures.  And I took very few in the 3 nights we spent at Jonathan's.  The kids did have a marvelous time hanging out with their cousins and playing with all the animals.

Rylee is quite jealous that Miri has such a sweet little lapdog.

Callie is jealous that they have sweet sheep. 

They are very nice sheep. 

Rylee and I FaceTimed with Dan and Levi refused to say hello.  He was sulking that we left him.