OK, so today was a normal day. That was until I got Alexa down for bed, at which point I preceded to make my way to the front room and relax on the recliner; however my attention got drawn to another part of the house. THE GARAGE!!! Yes, we have mice in our garage. We try to be the best landlords that we can be but for whatever reason, the mice (4 of them) feel the need to be loud, ALL THE TIME!!! So tonight I decided to evict the little critters and give them a choice. They could leave or they would suffer the consequences. Unfortunately for the mice (not the best animal to be, especially in a garage) because of the language barrier, the above was a rhetorical question. After tracking the mice down to a corner of the garage, I cornered them in with boxes and slowly started moving everything out of the area. Fortunatly for him, Speedy, we shall call him, escaped my wrath and still reeks havack in the George Family Garage. Maybe he will become the new king. Although one escaped, the other 3 were not so lucky. After what seemed to be a period of 10 minutes making fun of myself while I stomped in the garage trying to end the lives of these poor helpless critters, 1 finally succomed to the agaony of the bottom of my tennis shoe. HAHAHA. This now leaves 2 mice still lurking in the midst. I tracked them down to a bag of grass seed that we had in the garage. After which, with Amy's help of keeping the bag closed for the time being, I brought the old bar-b-que grill to the front yard. (Not really sure if you can get arrested for this but nonetheless, don't try this at home.) With grill sitting on wet grass from the rain and lighter fluid in one hand and lighter in the other, I drenched the inside of the grill with natures fury. Then preceded to take the bag and throw it into the grill after which quickly closing the top. I then opened the air vent down below and you know the rest.

ALL MICE GO TO HEAVEN!!!

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For our weekend trip, we stayed at Bass Lake for the night and then woke up bright and early to head up towards yosemite so the girls could go play in the snow. We had a lot of fun; however Amy was back in the car within 15 minutes.

Well it may not be a weekend, but at least it's two days out of town.



We were able to score last minute reservations for a resort in Bass Lake. Although there is no snow here we are sure having fun. We drove up after church and lounged around for the day.


Tomorrows plans are to wake up early and end up to Yosemite for the day, just to make it back in time for school and voice lessons (the monday night ritual). More pictures to follow tomorrow.

Zootime

Last weekend, the Fresno California East Stake had their annual christmas concert and we were once again privileged to hear Amy sing a solo.

The other day I was going through some videos we had on the camcorder so I thought I would share one on here. This one is Chloe dancing as she is eating!

Well our lastest weekend adventure took us to San Francisco. Our upcoming trip to visit my parents in Shanghai, China allowed us to finally get passports and most importantly chinese visa's, all of which had to be done before we leave for China. We were lucky enough to get a hotel room downtown in the Union Square district where all the shopping was, so at least we were in a good part of town.


Chloe had a lot of fun, especially when we went to the Exploratorium (aka Science Center) and ate lunch. Chloe's special was noodles with toe suprise!!!LOL!
When we got there Saturday we went to the Fisherman's Warf, walked around and then went back to the hotel and had a pizza night. On Sunday is when we went to the Exploratorium and I can tell you that getting directions in San Francisco is a nightmare, especially on your phone and when the GPS doesn't work right. We were going to go to church just 5 minutes away, but it took more than 30 to find it and so we ended up going for a nice drive and found the Exploratorium.



We got there early, so once we were there, Amy and Chloe took a nap and Alexa and I went walking around and got some pretty cute pictures, outside of the many faces that Alexa makes.





On Monday we woke up bright and early (depends on the girls) checked out and went to get our visa's for our passport's. Unfortunatly I was under the impression that we would be able to apply for them at the Chinese Consulate and have them mail our passport back to us but that is not how they do things, so luckily we got there in the morning and was able to pick them up the same day, so in the meantime we went to a park and had some fun before we had to head home.





CHINA!!!! HERE WE COME!!!!