Summer tiiiiiime...when the livin's easy.

Last night was ACA Graduation 2009. Aaden is no longer in Pre-K, and Rylan will be headed to the "big kid" class.
The program was a 50's theme, ACA Soda Shop. All the kids looked amazing. Here are my 2 precious ones dressed and ready for the show.

Also, we had that problem of unwanted guests in our house brought in by an uninvited rat sooooo, we decided to get a dog to guard the yard for us.

His name is Ike, and he is a super sweet lab/chow chow mix. He is about a year old and the kids just love him.

So school is out and we are officially into our summer. ACA starts back for summer June 1, so we have a week and a half off. Our days will be filled with sleeping late, big breakfasts, pajama days, and lots of playing outside. Happy Summer Everyone!

Shoo Flea Don't Bother Me!!!

The NIGHTMARE seems to be over! What nightmare? FLEAS!!!! That's right little itty bitty tiny black bugs invaded our home and our lives! It was HORRIBLE!! Here's the crazy part! We have NO pets. None! Not one! Animals got under our deck (which we used to love, and now we loathe) and spread fleas into our yard, our bodies, and our house. There must have been millions! They were everywhere! We even stayed in a hotel for two nights to get away from them. It took about a week to get rid of all of them, and there is even still a few stragglers.
Bug Busters came and sprayed our deck, our yard, our house...and they were still there. They then came and sprayed again...and they were still there. We then had all of the pine straw picked up all around the house, and then I spread granules...and they were still there. Then Aaron came home and we raked out from under the deck...and they were still there. We then started to tear the boards off our deck...and we found a huge dead RAT!!! Ugh! (Aaron accidently touched it with his bare hand and I thought he was going to puke! He HATES rodents.) We removed the rat, they sprayed the deck and the yard again, and...they are almost all gone. Seriously, a NIGHTMARE!!! I would not wish fleas upon my WORST enemy!
I'm just glad it's all over...I pray it's all over!!!