Gettin' Dirty

Time to get down and dirty. Now last October I vowed to never do a mudrun again.   After a slight arm pulling by a girl I work with, it happened again.  This mudrun was by far way more awesome than the last one I did.  Guess it sort of helped that with all the rain we had lately the whole course was like running thru one gigantic mud pit.  Wish a camera would have survived to share all the fun. There were nature made mud slides that you went down into streams, running tree to tree just so you wouldn't slide on your bottom the whole way down the trail, and the views were just gorgeous.

Now time for me to shut up and put out all the dirty little snapshots from the day.

The Team

Seriously need one of these in the backyard.  Face first for this girl and I flew down.

The very steep hill you see...yeah you had to pull yourself up that via a rope. 

Aside from those awesome ugly shorts my legs are there somewhere.

The team in our mudified glory.

And a little brag...my son and myself first and second place in our team.  Just slightly competitive.

 

This will definetly be happening next year.  And the hubbie and steppie won't be staying so clean.

 

 



Slam that in the Bucket

The plane, the plane is coming.  Fly an RC airplane has completely crashed into the hubbie’s bucket list. 

 

Check out his adventures....

 

 

 

Think he may have been the happiest man on the planet

 

Mission accomplished: 

 Bucket List Item of Fly an RC Airplace - Done

Airplane held together by Super Glue and Duct Tape - Yup

Very Happy Husband - Check

  

Oh Batman

Yet another opportunity for me to scream in fear for a brief moment appeared this week.   This would be when my dear hubbie thought it would be fun to try to scare his dear wifey.  After our little bat incident earlier in the week (read about that here: Just Batty), I walked into this:

Did he suceed in making me scream, yes. Twice even.  Kind of forgot it was hanging there later that evening. Oh Batman. Well played dear husband, well played.

 

International Picnic Day

Time to celebrate. Tuesday was International Picnic Day!

“Hey Boo Boo, let’s go get us a pic-a-nic basket”- Yogi Bear
 

From Punchbowl:

During the Victorian era, picnics were very important social occasions. They offered the rare opportunity for young men and women to spend time together in the great outdoors. They were also quite elaborate. A picnic for twenty people might feature cold salmon, lamb, veal, chicken, ham, pigeon pie, sandwiches, fruit, a selection of cheeses, and a variety of baked goods! The modern-day picnic is much less complicated. In fact, the phrase “it’s a picnic” means “it’s easy.”

For our picnic day, we crashed the little brothers house and had our picnic there with him and my adorable nephews. 

Oh my did the boys love this crazy sandwich

 

 

Laughing cow cheese, first time....amazing. 

 

A very glorious day with great food, amazing people, and no run in with any pesky bears try to snatch a pic-a-nic basket. 

 

 

 

Just Batty

Who would have known that everything would have just gone batty this morning.  Now aren't bats just the most adorable things.

 

Yeah maybe when it looks like the above, a cartoon.  Neatly pasted to some random document you have.  Not when a bat decides that it needs to be your roommate at some point during the night.

 

Here is how that all went down. Bring on the bat brigade!

 



In our  little world of slumber last night, Bullet starts to get all squirrelly and then we hear this weird noise. Hubbie gets up thinking it was the window fan (at this point the noise stopped, of course). Fans still working and he comes to bed.  Alarms go off.  Go downstairs, get our morning started, etc. I go back upstairs to get ready. Start packing the gym bag. And all of a sudden, hear a weird thumping noise.  Look Down and......

HELLO....it is a bat coming out from underneath the bed. Crawling on the floor.

At this point I completely freak out. Standing by the window fan, screaming to the hubbie (who can't hear me since he has the water running downstairs).  Forest sleeps thru this whole entire episode.  The bat was like right in our bedroom doorway.  There was no getting out and I left the cell phone downstairs.  Finally it crawls behind the door.  I haul downstairs.  Explain to the hubbie what just happened and the discovery of our new roommate. And here is how the next act played out.

 

Hubbie: What are we going to do?

Me: I don't know, Don't you know?

Hubbie: I am a city boy

Me: Well I am a country girl, moved to the city, back to the country, then married you. Now you are the husband that needs to take care of it. (he laughs)

 

 

Then I am like maybe we should call my little brother or my dad or someone. Of course, he is like no we (ha ha we thats funny) will see what we can do. Go into the garage he grabs a sheet. I grab a butterfly net we have because the only instance I can remember of someone catching a bat is the movie "The Great Outdoors" and that worked for them.  See.....


 Walk to the bedroom. Of course, I hand him the net. He moves the door and is like there is a bat. Yeah, seriously this girl not messing aound. Realize the net is the best choice (of course). He manages to get the bat in the net, wrap the sheet around it.  Bat is very cranky at this point and letting everyone know.  Hubbie takes it outside and lets it go.  Crisis Solved.