Christian as a Werewolf , Captian Moroni, & Clone Trooper
Halloween Bonfire
Brittney had the best blood curlding screams you will ever hear when she played a mental patient in the hanted house
Lori & Karl
Happy Halloween!!
Very Vayden
Completely Christian
Christian has been enjoying fall break and is off in Indiana now having fun there. Christian’s team has been winning their football games and made it to the play-offs. Their first play-off was yesterday. We are sure they felt Christian’s absence.
Sooooo Shelby
Shelby sent us some pictures of homecoming. They blocked of the main road for the event. The La Porte Slicers did go on to win the game. Shelby also told us she sold almost $200 worth of port pit chickens.
Family Stories
The Scorpion
One night Lori and Karl were watching a scary movie upstairs. Vayden was already asleep and Christian was watching his own movie in his room. During a scary part of the movie Lori started screaming; “Look at the floor!” over and over. Karl who was dosing off, thought she was talking about the movie. Lori kept yelling and Karl finally looked at the floor in the room as opposed to the movie and there crawling across the carpet straight towards where we were sitting was a scorpion. For a second it was a little hard to believe. Now scorpions are pretty creepy looking in pictures and at the zoo, but they take on a whole new level of creepy when they are several feet away from you in your house crawling straight for you.
Karl jumped down off the couch and grabbed Vayden’s plastic changing pad and put it on top of the scorpion before it could make it under the couch. Karl knew that if he did not kill the scorpion, Lori would be probably be insisting on sleeping in a hotel. With the scorpion under the pad, Karl pounded the pad with a box of Vayden’s wipes and called for Christian to come see. When Christian was in the room, Karl lifted the pad, expecting to see a dead or at least severely wounded scorpion. When Karl lifted the pad, the now very mad scorpion ran straight for Karl. By the way, a surprising fact that is good to know . . SCORPIONS ARE FAST! Karl stopped the scorpion just short of reaching his leg, using the pad again. Additional pounding did not kill the scorpion and Karl had Christian go in the bathroom and get a glass to trap the resilient creature. The scorpion was finally captured and measured at over 3 inches.
Karl and Christian have since purchased scorpion lights and gone hunting for them at night outside. They make these little flashlights with black light. For some reason scorpions glow under black light making them very easy to spot even when they are hiding. Karl and Christian were only able to find one dead one, but could not find a single scorpion outside. They even went into the neighbor’s back yard and all over out front. No scorpions. The bug people came and sprayed again for free. Nothing lives out there anymore. Lori is still having nightmares involving scorpions however and always turns on the light before she walks anywhere. Karl did wear flip flops the night it happened in the house but has since been convinced it was a fluke.
Heart Attack Grill
Karl finally talked Lori into going to the Heart Attack Grill. The restaurant is set up like and emergency room complete with and ambulance parked outside and everything. You are greeted by nurses who admit you by dressing you in a hospital gown and placing a band on your arm. The menu consists of big burgers and an instead of a salad bar there is and all you can eat french fry bar. The burgers and the fries are fried in lard. By the way french fries fried in lard are unbelievably delicious. The biggest burger they have is called the quadruple bypass burger. The quadruple bypass burger is 8,000 calories. They will wheel you out in a wheel chair if you eat it all. Our nurse said only a few of them are ordered every day. Karl did of course get a quadruple bypass burger and ate it with no problem. He even ate some more fries after finishing it.
Our little Vayden has been with us for a whole year. It is hard to believe. It is also hard to remember life without her in our family. She is now a little one year old. Vayden is settling back into her normal routines. She had a couple of really clingy days with Karl and would not let him even set her down. She is walking all over now. She often plays in her own little world moving things around and talking to them. She now gets scared by some loud sounds. For instance both Lori and Karl have called out for Christian when he was in another room and she was startled and ran crying to the nearest parent. A sudden sneeze or other unexpected noise can startle her too. We have started using the DVD player in the Sequoia as means to keep Vayden happy in the car. She seems to really like watching her videos while driving. This is evidenced by her screaming when we have to park and the DVD player goes off. It came in real handy on Friday night when we were returning from going to dinner and doing some Halloween shopping and go stuck on the freeway for over an hour do to a “police situation” up a head of us. That most likely would have been an hour of crying but not for the DVD player since Vayden does not like to hold still in the car. Her father can relate. After an hour of standing still on the freeway, Karl wanted to throw a tantrum too.
Completely Christian
Family Stories
The Smell
Lori likes to tell this story and finds this one entertaining. Karl has a pretty sensitive nose. Given its size, I am sure no one finds this surprising. Karl is sometimes bothered by cleaning solutions or some of the fragrances Lori uses to make the house or her car smell good that no one else takes offense to. One particular day Karl continued to smell a foul odor that smelled like poop. It was ever so slight and he could only get a wiff of it now and then. Throughout the day Karl continued to smell it. He would smell it in different rooms and it was driving him crazy trying to locate the source. He could not determine where it was coming from. Because he continued to smell the odor wherever he went he thought to check his shoes, he washed his hands and finally took a shower. He went back to work at his desk and the foul scent returned. Because the scent was slight, no one else seemed to be smelling it and Karl though he was going crazy.
That morning Karl had taken Roxy for a walk. Roxy did what she always does on a walk, she pooped. Roxy can have just pooped right before we leave on a walk and regardless she always takes the opportunity to poop again on a walk. Karl was wearing cargo shorts that particular day and pulled out the zip lock bag and paper towel that he carries for just such and event. There was nowhere to throw the poop away at the time so he put it in the side pocket of his cargo shorts. He then carried the zip lock bag with him all day. After he showered he put back on the same pair of cargo shorts. It was not until Karl had been pestered by that slight stink the entire day that he finally realized where the smell was coming from.
Note from the Editors
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Post Card Perfect shot taken of a Mountian Lion by Grandma Phyllis
