An other hobby has taken over the Northcott house hold.

 

 

 

This past month I decided that it was time for me to learn how to decorate cakes. It is yet again another hobby that has been dying to come out. I sign up for course 2 which starts next week along with soccer for three of my kids. I am the coach for two teams and get to just enjoy watching Spencer run the field. really if I didn't have a thousand things on the go what would my life consist of? ........... And lastly I have finally also signed myself up for aqua aerobics, the only problem is that my classes are from 8-9 at night monday through thursday so I will have to take the next month off because of the kids sports. If any of you out there are looking for a great way to work out this is it. I LOVE IT and my class is not full of old women,just the average jane out there wanting to get in shape. Happy Blogging I'll post again soon sorry for the short one today but I need sleep so that I can take on tommorow.........

VOLES

So now that the snow has melted and we can offically start spring winnipeg now has another problem! Have any of you seen these? They may look cute but they are destroying my backyard and eating all my perannials. At first I thought it was the kids, but then I saw one scurrying across the yard. The problem is that we can't get rid of them mouse bait although they some what look the same doesn't work. they like grass roots and seeds of all kinds. I looked them up on the internet and they said that fox pee is the best thing to put around to get rid of them...... Ummmm where am I suppose to come up with fox pee to rid my yard of these pest? I think it is time to get myself a shotgun and have a little bit of fun. They are lucky for one thing I am scared to death of them so if I see too amny okay if I see one I scream and make all the kids go to the front yard. Two the back still is a little to wet for them to come power rake for me. Greg and his little friend decided to hunt them yesterday so I thopught go right ahead however they got one and then pounded it's head in so then I had blood all over the rocks under my deck. I think that was worse then them running around. Greg was so upset over it when he was done that it took me a hour to calm him down. The scream before the poor thing gave up the ghost I think will haunt him for a little bit. I still can't believe that he killed it in the first place. So now they have Greg on their side of saving them and wanting to make their home as comfortable as possible. Is he crazy if I even say posion he yells at me. Boys what do you do with them I don't know. So wish me luck I am hoping with our neighbours to rid ourselves of them in the next week I'll keep you posted of our progress.

What can I say?

This past weekend was conference, and I can honestly tell you all that it was just amazing to me. I love it normally don't get me wrong but it was so powerful and I felt that the twelve apostles have a bond that is just unbreakable. We played around with the t.v. and figured out how to transfer the picture to our t.v. (they have such nice t.v. out there now but I love my beast) we have a 45 inch so the picture was Hugh and the kids would come sit and watch a bit and then play with toys and then come and sit and watch some more. Greg couldn't wait for the prophet to speak. He kept asking me why I love President Monson so much? I just do, I have waited my whole life for him to be the prophet. Another side note Spencer thinks that his name is Thomas Spencer S Monson I can't get him to omit the S oh well he loves that his name is everywhere. He got all excited when ever Richard was said as well. Silly kid!

Yesterday afternoon when I was making lunch, I was heating oil on the stove, James came over and told me that it was too hot so he reached in the freezer and pulled out the ice cube tray (dud) put it in the pot with the HOT oil and it started splatting everywhere I have a small burn on my arm. Our alarm for the house is hooked up with the fire station so you guessed it, the alarm went and before we could prevent them from coming we had two fire trucks at our house about 15 Min's from the time it started, pretty good now we know if there is a real need for them to come. Anyway they had to come in to the house and check it out before leaving I couldn't face them but did try to find my camera to take a picture really does this type of thing really happen to normal people? Have no fear I couldn't find the camera. All my neighbours have been asking what happened so now I'm the talk of the street BEWARE WHEN TRICIA IS COOKING.... When that was all done with we watched the last session of conference and all was well.