More Surprises......

This last week brought a few more surprises for all of us. Mostly they were great, but one....well not so much! Derrick had to go to Delta on Friday and sit at the Dearden Equipment booth at the trade show that goes along with the county fair. He came home with the coolest rolling/sliding racks for our food storage. He got one for veggies, one for soups and one for mac n' cheese. I was glad he got a brochure for the guy who makes them, because I definitely want some more. He also brought me a box of Girls Scout Thin Mints....AWWW, what a sweetie! I am savoring each and every cookie.

Yesterday we FINALLY ran to Provo to get our school shopping done (that was an event in and of itself, lets just say, it was stressful). I stopped in at the post office on the way out of town and my new 2008~Winter/Fall Collection Stampin' Up! Catalog was here! YIPPEE! YAHOO! Can you tell I was excited about that? I couldn't wait to check it out, but for some reason Derrick wanted me to drive, so I waited in suspense till Payson and then couldn't take it anymore and made him take over. Of course I have a list now of more things I want. There are some really cute things, and I'm loving the In Colors for this year. You should peek at the catalog online at http://www.stampinup.com/ or I can get you a book if you want to buy one or just look at one, there are so many cute ideas in it! Look how cute the scallop edge is, I just love it. When I got home last night there was a box on my porch with the new Breaking Dawn book. I really should have just ordered it, but I kept putting it off? Well Sheri beat me to it and got it for me! Thank you, Thank you! Yea for Vampires and some quiet reading time!

Speaking of vampires....(here comes the surprise I was NOT so excited about). The kids were playing outside Thursday night and Kaleb came in and told us he thought he found a bat. Ok, whatever buddy, are you sure it isn't a bird? (I think those may have been Derrick's exact words). So we follow him out and sure enough on the sawtooth border of our brick on my front porch is a BAT! The border is only about 1-2 inches off the porch and we had 5 kids out there playing. As I'm telling the kids to get away, Derrick is sending one of them for a jar??? Of course he would have to get a stick and get close to it, to get it in a jar. Crazy man! All of us had to take turns checking it out, including me.....creepy yet fascinating creatures, I have to say. I just knew one of the kids were going to drop that jar and we would be off for rabies shots in the stomach. After an hour or so, he let it go and after sitting on the sidewalk for a bit it just flew away. Thanks for the visit, Mr. Bat, but please don't return or send your friends!

Sorry the picture isn't so great, but well, I wasn't getting any closer!