Hurst Family News

The title comes from a Beatrix Potter story. But now here's our story: One lovely Sunday afternoon we decided it would be a good time to go for a little stroll through the neighborhood. We all got bundled up (it was a little chilly) and got the kids strapped into strollers and low and behold it began to rain. Drip. Drop. Drip. Drop. Drip. DripDrip. DripDrip Drip. DrippityDroppityDrippity Droppity. Drippity Droppity WOOSH! It was pouring. We retreated back inside to wait it out. When it let up we managed to get Ian to try on his new Birthday golashes and jump in the puddles. He preferred to splash with his hands or sit in the puddle. Oh well. We tried again to go for a walk. We wandered over to the temple and enjoyed the view for a bit. Wandered toward Main Street and towards the Tabernacle. BOOM! Thunderstruck. The clouds opened again and we ran for cover under a tree. The boys only got marginally wet in strollers under the umbrella. We, however, were soaked. To the bon...

I told you I'd do it, told you I'd do it.... Aaaahhhh! (Thank you Thank you. I'll be here all week) Look at what a good big brother Ian is. He loves Landon so much. He always wants to hold him and rock him. Today when he came home from his grand adventure with Grandpa and Grandma who did he want? Well Dad at first to snuggle him (he'd just woken up) then he wanted Landon. "Hold," he said. So he held "LaLow" and gave him a big hug...did Mom get a hug when he got home??? no. But I'm glad he loves his brother. Ian's 2nd birthday was celebrated in style with a trip to the zoo and a "Melmo" cake. Evidently my niece is terrified of muppets...that would have been good to know BEFORE the Sesame Street themed party. She didn't have any trouble eating Elmo's face--she just didn't want to talk about it or hear/say his name. Anyway, Ian LOVES "Melmo" and had a wonderful time. I'm pretty sure he thinks every da...

So I was going to update photos today since I have a little wiggle room in my schedule but I found out I don't have any on my computer and my card reader won't work. If I can find the adapter I promise Ill post them. Ian is with Grandpa and Grandma Hurst until tomorrow. He left with them on Monday. Life has been weird around here without him. Not bad but weird. Quiet. Calm. Clean-ish. I managed to clean up our room and finally finish putting up our pictures in there-only took 3 months not bad. I wish I could fix our lovely ghetto fabulous curtains though but alas, grad school budget doesn't allow for that right now. That's ok the rest of the room is nicer now, but our carpet still smells like dog pee and it is NASTY. Its been that way since before we moved in but we've had the house open all summer and now that it's cooling off (already crazy) we've closed it back up. I don't think Sean can smell it but it bugs me. I really really really wan...

So, a while ago our elder's quorum helped a guy some junk from his yard. it is an elder couple, who probably haven't done anything with their yard in years. Shortly into the job, we all went and got some heavy gloves because of the arachnids we saw roaming the trash we were hauling off. One item in particular was especially infested with the largest wolf spiders I have ever seen. I was able to kill most of them, but one in particular may have gotten away. Since I have a pickup, we loaded it all in for the trip to the dump; however, it was evening and the dump was closed, so I took it home. That night I did some research into prices at the dump and the tractor tire we picked up was going to run us $100 on it's own. I would get reimbursed, but between that and the other tires it was going to be a $160 dollar trip, over half the elder's quorum budget. So, I talked to the elder's quorum president, who talked to the bishop to decide what to do. In the mean time, ...