San Angelo Wildlife

Texas is full of interesting wildlife, so I thought I would share it with you, in all its disgusting glory. Trust me, your skin will be crawling. First, the cutest of wildlife, armadillos :)

This nasty bug has an equally nasty name, Tarantula Hawk! I haven't seen one, but a girl in my ward saw several of these in her parents yard! And of course, what do you think a Tarantula Hawk eats......
...Tarantulas of course! Here they are duking it out!
And lastly, scorpions. Devin has found more than one IN his classroom. Yuck. If you live somewhere that is not here, count your blessings!

Sleeping Beauty

This can't possibly be comfortable, but she's been in this position for a while now! Also, I found this flowerpot on my patio, and I thought it was too awesome of a find not to share with you all :)

Courtney-isms

-Courtney was watching Wordworld on the laptop today, and the desk chair spun her around backwards and she started whining, "Be nice chair!"

-When she doesn't want me in the same room as her (I thought that didn't happen for 14 more years) she'll point at the door and say, "Go free!"

-During Sacrament, Devin was blessing the water, and Courtney ran up the aisle loudly saying, "I'm coming Daddy!"

Thrifty Tartinis

I have found the best thing since sliced, thrift bakery bread. The Economides Family! (Great name right?) Reading this book has gotten me all fired up for saving money. They talk about how to get out of debt, and they have a bunch of money saving ideas. It's like Dave Ramsey and Amy Dacyczyn had a baby, and they baby was an entire frugal family! I just started reading it on Saturday, and it saved me $50 so far! One of the topics it covers is auto insurance, and they say to get rid of medical expense insurance if you have your own, good health insurance. Turns out our policy DID include that from our BYU-I insurance days, so we were able to take it off, for $50 a year; I love saving money :) Another idea for saving on food that I like; when bagged produce is cheaper than "bag it yourself" produce, weigh a bunch of bags. They sell them by a certain poundage, but not every bag is exactly 3, 5 or whatever lbs. Some weigh a little more, and some a little less. Anyway, there's my spiel for the day; it was just too good not to share!

And of course, your dose of Courtney

Happy Father's Day!

First off, sorry everyone that is not family, but it doesn't matter what you've heard about other dads; Douglas Mitchell is THE BEST dad. Ever. Thanks for taking us camping, and building us a fort and playhouse, and taking us sledding every winter, and providing for us, and being a strong priesthood holder, and especially thanks for letting Becky and me do up your hair, girly style :) I love you!

And thanks to Devin for providing for our little family, and bringing entertainment, fun, and happiness to the family. Courtney and I wouldn't know what to do without you; Courtney wouldn't even be here!

I think dads are under appreciated. In every ward I've ever been in, mother's day always means nice candy, one ward even hand makes chocolates for the moms! And then on father's day, the women pool together the gum and tic tacs out of their purses and give those to the men. Ok, that may be an exaggeration, but at the same time, kind of not. And mother's day is more commercial than father's day; commercialism is America's way of rating the importance of an event. So I hope if you're a dad, your family made this day special for you!

Happy 31st Anniversary Mom and Dad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wave your hands in the air like you just don't care!

Videos/Pictures

Here are some more pictures from our road trip back in March. Courtney's swimsuit isn't this pink anymore; spending every day in the pool has really faded it :(

I don't know what happened, I guess I lost the sound on these? But I think they're still pretty cute, and if you're in Spokane, I'm sure Jordan will entertain you with his own ad libbing of what's going on :)Sorry that I haven't blogged much, I have a lot to say, but I also have a pool outside that beckons to me every day. So I will try and catch you all up on us Tartinis