How to annihilate grill wasps 101

Obviously the House of Nuts loves to make videos.

Embarrassing ones,

silly ones,

music ones,

and just plain ridiculous ones.

For example:

The eradication of grill wasps.

Our house is a prime target for wasps.

There are a lot of cute little nooks and crannies where they can stuff their little bodies and make little hives.  

So by the end of the day

It is no longer the House of Nuts

but in fact, 

the House of Hives.

and we don't like that.

Wasps are mean,

they fly in your face trying to intimidate you,

they show off constantly,

(really, who cares if you can fly?)

and they shove themselves, or parts of themselves, where they don't belong.

By stinging innocent bystanders and living in eaves, gutters, corners and grills.

So what do we nuts do?

Send Deruda and Padre to deal with the beasties.

While we film them.

How to annihilate grill wasps 101 @ Yahoo! Video

By the way, thank you Otis for the swell narration and Aliswan for the filming...albeit from a distance.

And then there was none.

This weekend we moved the Unkie, Auntie, T-dog, and Widgie out.  

It was a sad, sad, moment but there are always ways to bump up the happiness factor.  

Such as Bug wearing hot pink high heels.

Here is a few stills from the day:

Auntie Karen, in her sweet In-N-Out shirt.

Bug and I

Bug and I after packing, moving, unpacking and moving more stuff.

the Padre vacuuming the dust that was under the TV downstairs.

We had to vacuum because it was nasty thick.

Don't judge us, you would write in the dust to...

although I do believe the writing is still there, in storage, in the basement.

At least we are humorous cleaners.

So there was the move.

IN OTHER NEWS

Sunday was good.  The best part was when the cita burned the last pan of rolls.

Yes those are rolls you dirty reader, get your mind out of the toilet. :)

Also you will notice, or you may not, that I changed the blog template.
It used to look like this:

Now it looks...well like it does now.

Change is good.

In fact, almost everyone has recently (blogger and life wise)

Stephie did, as did Aliswan.

Still working out the kinks.

So there you go.

Lots of change afoot.

Aliswan graduates next week,

then leaves for Syria the week after, 

and starts grad school in August.

the little juan comes home from his mission in August,

after which he will promptly head back to university.

Stephie graduates from high school at the end of May,

and starts university with Jon, in August.

Deruda is going to his first prom in the next little bit,

and will be starting his junior year of high school in the fall.

Bug also starts high school in August.

Basically everyone is growing up, moving on, and going crazy.

Because that is what we do.

We are 'the nuts' in the House of Nuts after all.

A week in the life...or maybe just a night.

Our Grandma (the cita's mom) is INSANE at Yatzee!.

For a game of luck, she has sweet skills.

The padre beat her once.

Alas, Monday night was not that way.

The only person he did beat was himself.

For the worst score of all time.

His score was 47.

Yes, you read me right.

47.

It beat the previous worst score ever of 72.

Which was also held by the padre.

Just think padre, 

if it was golf,

you would be kicking our butts.

Today's posting--Round 2

Yes, I already posted today,

but then I found the family camera

and had to post some randomness from the familia.

Here is Bug at her first national competition.

Dancing With the Bug @ Yahoo! Video

No, she did not know I was taking video.
Yes, she was upset when she found out.
Yes, I do have video of her dances.
No, she refuses to let me post them.

The majority of the familia went to Sandy yesterday to bid farewell to Cecily.
She is going on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to Spain.
That is pretty awesome.
Afterwards they went to Temple Square

and hung out with the super sweet sister missionaries.

By the way, have you ever noticed that clean clothes are incredibly comfortable?

True story.

Happenings of the House--Superman and Flyingman

It's hard when your familia is doing so many things on so many DIFFERENT CAMERAS!!!

and then they keep forgetting to give them to you,

so you can post their craziness on the blog.

So you'll have to wait a bit for the familia.

But here is a bit of our lovely visitors.

This video is of T-dog and Stephie.

Stephie wanted to play Superman with T-dog.

Apparently that wasn't cool enough for the T-dog because he named himself "Flyingman"

We all thought it was pretty cute.

The Adventures of Superman and Flyingman @ Yahoo! Video

He renames things a lot.
Like when he thought that the song You've Got a Friend in Me from Disney's Toy Story was really saying
Are you kidding me?
So that is how he sings it.
Don't believe me?
Here is proof:

Are you kidding me? @ Yahoo! Video

Hope your spring is looking good.
Ours is,
on the days it isn't snowing.
:)

Did you know Stephie is going to college?

True story.

She is graduating in May,

she will spend the summer saving

and then she heads down with the little juan to SUU in August,

where she will learn good things,

eat the good ramen,

and work the good brain.

She will also live in student housing.

She will probably see some of these people everyday.

She will probably sit at this table--but not with the bug.

The bug is to young for college.

She needs to focus on making it to high school first.

She may run on this track.

...probably not though.

Maybe she'll watch people run on this track,

and then go for a swim.

Because that is what she does.

She will probably play foosball.

But not with the bug.

Because...we already went over that.

But maybe with the little juan.

...probably...

She will tower over her enemies.

Enemies like anatomy, math and phonics...

and crush them with the intense power of her turquoise hoodie.

(the padre is showing her towering ability)

(which was very nice of him)

Above all,

she probably won't miss us,

even though we will miss her.

On Tuesdays,

from 9-5,

and ever other Saturday.

Have fun Stephie, 

try to make it to at least most of your classes.

We ♥ you 

For more good times with Stephie, in her own words,

Click here.

So here is a HUGE update...or just a huge post.

So what happened LAST week?

Yes, I know, I'm late updating it...but it was worth it.

:)

My Auntie and T-dog decided to do pilates together.  

Well, Auntie decided to do pilates, T-dog decided to help.

Exercising with mommy part 1 @ Yahoo! Video

The video is a bit long, but really cute.

Little Widgie also got sick.
This is how she looks when she is sick.

You can tell she is sick because she has snot in her nose.
but she still smiles!



She is the happiest baby.

So the cita and I take the kids to school every morning.
On those mornings when it is grey outside, snow all over, and horrendous high school traffic,
we entertain ourselves by looking at the pattern the water makes on the windshield.
While we wait in the ridiculously long line at the 4-way-stop.

and then we make videos of the experience. :)

Let's go to school! @ Yahoo! Video

and take pictures of half-eaten candybars.

On a more mature note.
This last Saturday we got to be a stellar cleaning crew and deep clean our grandparents Wheeler's home.

It was a blast.

T-dog and Widgie also enjoyed themselves.

After some foot-popping fun cleaning,

the cita and I took the padre, Stephie, and bug to IKEA for the 1st time!

We had a blast!

Please, please, please, for my sake, notice that the cita's apple juice is for 'tots'.  

The padre got it for her.

We all found it appropriate. ♥ 

The padre fell in love with a VERY, VERY comfortable chair.

and we all fell in love with a couch.

...and sat there for the better part of 20 minutes.

I know this is long folks, but this is the end.

Our week ended on Sunday with our grandparents Wheeler's 52nd wedding anniversary.

It was full of good food, family,

and T-dog showing of his Nigh-Nigh blankie.

Nigh-Nigh Stephie and T-dog!

I will FINALLY close with a video of the padre and bug teaching T-dog how to play Yatzee!

They taught him how to blow on the dice.

Learning to roll the Dice @ Yahoo! Video

Adios from the House of Nuts!!!

(at least for another few days, this update took FOREVER!)