We kept pretty busy in June. Emilee went to her first Youth Conference. Our church took all the youth to Nauvoo Illinois for a few days. She had not been to Nauvoo since she was three I think so she got to go and this time she will remember it. She said it wasn’t the greatest most fun time, but she did have fun and enjoyed it overall. Our young women and the young women leaders in our ward are pretty awesome. They seem to all get along well and the girls really like the adults.
Emilee had a little niche in her room that was kind of a waste of space so she asked her dad to build a book case in it. He built it and I painted it and now Emilee has a place for all her books and legos.
I mentioned in a previous post that we had a skunk problem. It started in April…and it was still a problem in June. The people we hired to get rid of them NEVER caught any skunks. They filled their home in and made it so they couldn’t get back in, but then they moved to our bushes and sprayed their stupid skunk smell everywhere. They sprayed somewhere and it smelled so strong it woke me up from a dead sleep at five in the morning one time. I thought it had gotten in the house somehow. It hadn’t but inside and outside of our house smelled like a skunk for a solid week. Instead of wasting more time on animal control not catching them, Emilee and I gave Ryan permission to take care of them on his own. Based on this picture I will let you figure out how he did that. Three weeks later the inside of our house doesn’t smell like skunk-the storage area under the porch did a few times when it rained but it has finally stopped. The outside smells like skunk in two areas that are getting better each time it rains, and there are NO MORE skunks living on our property.
All of us went to Arkansas for a weekend to visit the Torgerson family. Emilee stayed and her and Lizzie went to Sherrie’s for a few days. They seem to get along really well together. They like to do lots of crafts, go swimming, play mindcraft and hangout together. Mimi (Sherrie) took them to a painting place and they did that together one of the days.
Emilee goes in to shock if she doesn’t eat McDonalds at least once a week. This was one of our trips. The FIFA Soccer World cup is going on right now so the toy she got was one of the teams. It happened to be Brasil so she wanted to take a picture to show Matthew. She is also showing him the sad excuse for a ‘small’ fry she got in order to get the Brasil toy. And BTW, I am spelling Brasil the way they spell it in Brasil, not America, so that is not a spelling error. I am sure there are plenty of other spelling errors in my posts that are legit though.
And last but not least for this post. Coco loves that we are home more-I’m only working two days instead of three for the summer, and Emilee doesn’t have school. She has taken care of the house like a champ when we have left her a few times but when we are home she is always willing to cuddle.
