The Bee's Knees ...but not really

We came home after work Wednesday evening to a little surprise.  Our bedroom was swarming with BEES!  I went upstairs to change out of my scrubs and there were about a dozen bees flying around my bedroom, walking on the walls and sitting on the window sill.  I called for Spencer (of course) and he immediately came upstairs and killed all of them; like any good husband would.

He went next door to our HOA president's house to once again report to problem (we noticed a bunch of them on the house a couple weeks ago, but they hadn't done anything about it yet).   He came back home after just a couple minutes and there were tons more in our room!  (Commence small freak out.)

We canceled our plans for the night, closed our bedroom door (since that's the only place they were getting in so far) and I packed up the girls and headed to my parent's house to hang out while the HOA president called every Exterminator in the county to see if anyone could come over right away.  She even got a hold of some Bee Keepers in the area and they headed right over!

Spencer, meanwhile, went to the store and got more spray Bee Killer and some spray foam insulation so he could patch the hole they were coming in through; as soon as we figured out where that was, of course.  When he got home from the store and went back to our room, he said there were close to 100 bees on the window!  They all seemed to flock to the window, trying to get out again.  Ugh, it was super creepy. 

Not our actual window, but almost exactly what ours looked like.  Yikes!

He and his dad killed all the new bees in our room and then started searching every nook and cranny in there trying to find the hole.  After a few minutes they figured it out; we have a high built in shelf in our room and the hole was a corner in the shelf.  Spencer said it looked like the people that built the house just got lazy and left a little hole about an inch wide in the very corner of the shelf/wall.

Spencer was able to fill in the little hole with the foam insulation and that stopped the bees from getting inside, but we could still hear them in the wall...  *shiver*

Meanwhile, the Bee-Keepers were doing all they could outside to collect the little buggers.  They wanted to take the hive home and keep the queen.  (Who knew there really are legit Bee Keepers around here?!)  They were decked out in official Bee Keeper clothes, tearing off the siding and trying to smoke them out.

The Bee Keepers couldn't ever find the queen, so they left a Bee Box near the hive and they left for the night hoping they would get lucky and the whole swarm would get into the Bee Box and they could take them home.  We were hoping too!

The next morning we realized how much the Bee Keepers really helped!  They got SO MANY bees to get in that box.  I didn't dare to get a picture of the inside, bit here's a few still trying to get in.

The exterminators come every 24 hours for a few days and keep spraying to make sure they're all gone and just after the Bee Keepers work, there were WAY less out there.

So now there are NO more bees in the house, none to be heard in the walls, a whole hive at a new home with the Bee Keeper and hundreds dead outside--just the way we want it.  :)

** Click on the Bee Keeper pictures to get the full effect! **

Daddy

We're proud to call you ours.

The very best daddy to our girls and my favorite man. 

Love you babe,

Happy Father's Day

Successful Summerfest!

Finally!  We rang in summer the right way!  We finally got GREAT weather for our Summerfest party--perfect temperature, no rain, no surprise sprinklers...  Hooray!

We had a couples party this year and it was super fun.  We started with a tasty dinner of steak and chicken shish-ka-bobs, veggies and dip, chips, artichoke dip and grilled pineapple.

After dinner, we played a friendly, yet competitive game of boys vs. girls giant kickball.  The pictures are all blurry, cause basically we're all SUPER fast runners and it just couldn't keep up with us  :)

Once it got too dark to play anymore, we ate some delicious dessert (popsicles, cake pops and s'more treats) and settled in to wait for the fireworks to start.

 My mom, me & tired little Afton in the swing

 Jon & Anu  (their wedding WILL happen... someday)  :)

Spencer & Sadie.  

Daddy was super nice to let her stay up for fireworks

 

 Rachel & Jeff (kid-less!  An actual date night!)

 

Nicki & Ben (also kid-less!  I was jealous...)

 My cute little family

 Sadie & Scott hung out on the blanket to watch the fireworks.  

SO excited for them to start!

I love this.  She was absolutely captivated

Our backyard has a fantastic view of the fireworks!

Thanks so much to everyone that came!  We had a blast!

Bigger, Badder, Blacker

After some serious discussions about the small size and lack of space in Spencer's truck, we started looking for a larger alternative.  He LOVED this truck, but it was just too small inside when our whole family was in it.  Afton's car seat couldn't lock into place if Spencer had his seat all the way back; and having his seat all the way back was really the only way my 6 ft 5 in husband was comfortable...

With just a little bit of hesitation, Spencer gave up his little baby for a much larger baby. 

Basically a bigger (and blacker) version of his old truck.   :)  Holy spacious!  We can EASILY fit 6 (yes, six!) people in this truck and no one feels cramped--even if a tall person is sitting behind Spencer!  We're really liking it.  Spence already has his vision for the truck and says someday it'll look like this:

we'll see...