Pinata, Friends, a Dead Cat, Two Drunken Strangers, and a Cub Scout Pack Meeting - June 18, 2014

Wednesday - June 18, 2014

It was a fun, kinda crazy day today. Today was Missy's last day of staying with us.  She had to leave this afternoon.  We had a nice relaxing morning.  Last night I introduced Missy to the show 'Bridzillas', on Netflix.  I love watching that show.  The house was getting too messy for comfort, so in the morning, after I finished eating breakfast, I mustered up the energy and did the quickest clean I could, so we could have some comfort.  My quick clean ended up taking about 2 hours, so not as quick as I hoped, but the house felt much better when I was done.  After the house was cleaned, Missy and I did puzzles while we watched Bridzillas for a while.  Alissa had gone to her friend's house to play for awhile, but they were planning on coming back to our house to play in the afternoon.  The pinatas were dry and Missy's pinata was all prettied up and ready to go.  Missy didn't want to leave until we got a chance to break the pinata.  We wanted everybody to be here for it, so we had to wait for Alissa to come, Brinley's friend was going to come also and we thought it'd be fun for her to be here too, and we had to wait for Roger to wake up.  Everybody was finally here to do the pinata a little after 3:00pm.

Brinley and her friend Onnika played with the cloud dough that I had made, while they waited.

 Alissa and her friend Tanya were just being goofy while they waited.

 Roger finally woke up, so the fun could begin!  Here are the girls posing with their beautiful pinata's  Brinley made a heart, Missy made a cat, and Alissa made a bird.

 Here's our handsomest boy waiting for the pinata fun to begin.

 Alissa put some small toys, that we had (Legos, squinkies, I can't remember what else), in her pinata.  she wanted to break hers.  So she went first.  She ended up breaking hers pretty easily.  After it was on the ground, she took off her blindfold and beet it a little more.  She is just funny like that.

 Before it was completely destroyed, she tried it on as a hat.  So cute!

 Time to break Missy's Pinata!  They were all really excited to see what kind of treats were in Missy's pinata.  They had been asking her all week, but she wouldn't tell them.  Brinley went first.

 Now it's her friend, Onnika's turn.

 The kids were all being so goofy while they waited for their turns.  they were all so hyper and excited.  It was fun!

 Parker's turn!

 Now it's Tanya's turn!

 Alissa's Turn!

 I took a turn, then Roger had a turn.  Of course, Roger broke it open.  the kids were so excited grabbing their prizes.

When it was all done, we cleaned up and the kids took all the prizes inside to divvy them up evenly between each other.  

Missy packed up all her stuff at this point and headed home.  We had a lot of fun with her staying here with us.  We love to have company.

Shortly after Missy left, the kids went out in the front door to play.  They came back in to let me know that they found a cat that is laying on the ground, not moving, and it's eye is sticking out of it's head.  They didn't understand why it's eye would being hanging out of it's head.  Roger and I went out to see.  The cat was laying in the parking lot right behind the parking spot that Missy had just pulled out of.  Every time we went outside while Missy was here, there were cats by her car.  for some reason they were attracted to her car.  It was crazy.  We don't know if Missy ran it over or somebody else did.  Missy said she didn't feel anything when she backed out, so who knows.

Roger had to work tonight, so I helped him get his dinner ready and he headed off to work.  All of the friends had to leave shortly after Roger left.  The kids and I had the house to ourselves.  We felt a little lonely.  The house all feels a little empty after people leave.  We decided to lock up the house and just stay in for the rest of the day.  I worked on scrapbooking stuff and the kids were in the living room taking turns playing Minecraft on the PS3.  

Around 8:00pm, someone knocked on the door.  I figured it was probably one of their friends asking to play, so I wasn't in a big hurry to get in their and see who it was.  The kid's ran to the door and flung it wide open when they heard the knock.  There were two guys in the 20's, high on something, at the door.  The kids opened the door and stood back, the drunken men stumbled into the living room.  I came into the living room and saw them standing there just kind of looking around all confused.  They saw me.  One guy said, "Hey, where's Rach.... a.....wait.. Dude. I think we're in the wrong house again man."  The other guy was standing there smoking something from a pipe.  He looks up confused and says, "Oh...man.... Not again...."  Then they both stumble out of our house.  I heard the one guy say what number they were looking for.  I don't remember what it was, but they were way off.  That was just a crazy weird experience.  I thought we were pretty safe.  I keep the doors locked most of the time.  I hadn't really thought about how dangerous it could be to have the kids running and answering the door all the time.  I showed them a good way to answer the door that doesn't involve flinging it wide open and welcoming just anybody into our home.  but mostly, since then, when there's a knock at the door, the kids all yell, "Mom!"  and they wait for me to be standing close by before they open it or they just let me be the one to open the door.

So that was our crazy, fun, interesting day.

Thursday - June 19, 2014
Parker had a pack meeting to go to tonight, so Roger got a ride to work.  Sydney came over to play, so she came with us to the meeting.  They played a lot of fun games and then roasted marshmallows for s'mores.  Parker was a little shy at first, but he still had a lot of fun.  The girls enjoyed their time playing on the playground, then joined us for s'mores at the end.