Christmas Slackers

Merry Christmas everyone! Yeah, we're big slackers this year... no cards... ugh. We have been so busy! Not a white Christmas here... in fact, it's so nice that I am wearing flip-flops!

We went up to my parent's house in Conifer for Christmas. My sister and her boyfriend were there and my aunt, uncle & cousin also came up. We had fun, good food, and a great gift exchange.

One of the gifts we got was a new kitchen faucet! Today I decided to install it while Max was at work. I totally knew I could do it so that's why I didn't hesitate at all. Well, it took me 4 hours to get the old faucet off the sink! The stuff was so rusted and stuck under the sink, it really took all my muscles and cuss words to get it off. Once I finally got the old faucet off, installing the new faucet was easy! See?

Today Max's mom drove over from Utah with Mark, Jessie & the kids. Max's mom is staying with us - so we made our guestroom up all nice for her. We're excited to have the space for someone to stay with us! Max's sister will also be staying with us, so we have our other spare room also outfitted for her.

We hope everyone had a great holiday & wish the best for everyone in the new year.

In Addition To...

Chasing out rabbits, and saving voles, yesterday we did a couple of other things around the house that were long overdue! We installed a light in the dining room, as the previous owners took the existing light. It was in the contract that the light was not included, must have been sentimental, because it was NOT great or "us" at all!

When Johnny, my nail technician, came to the house warming party he noticed that we did not have a light in the dining room, and just had wires hanging out of the hole in the ceiling. Immediately he offered to give us an extra light he had purchased for his house, but did not end up using. We of course accepted the offer and here is the end result:

Many thanks to Johnny and his thoughtful gift! :) This light is exactly like something we would have purchased ourselves.

Then, as a direct result of having to clean up all the bunny poo in the garage, we ended up moving most of the stuff that was in the garage down to the basement. So yesterday we also accomplished the goal of actually using our two car garage as a two car garage! Max was really happy!

Today we have not done anything around the house, because we're pretty tired from everything that we did yesterday! Slowly, but surely we will get stuff unpacked and our house will be box-free!

Garage Dwellers

Max went into the garage today to throw something out and I heard him say "There's a rabbit in the garage!" I ran to look and sure enough- there's a bunny sitting right next to his car! The door was closed, so he either got in when the door was open, or he squished through a small opening where the door seal is missing. Max was pretty upset, it was kinda funny! He opened the door and chased the bunny out- he went to the yard between our house and the neighbor's house:



Here's the evidence that there's been a bunny in the garage!
It looks like we also have another furry friend residing in the garage too!



Here's Mr. Bunny hiding behind some shelves in the garage. He had COME BACK IN the garage after Max chased him out! He was acting like that was HIS house! Max chased him away again, and later we saw him across the street watching us!



I was helping clean up the turds and I saw the mouse* vole! Here's Mr. Mouse Vole running along this tube as I was chasing him out of the garage.



Here, Mr. Mouse Vole is just outside the garage as if to say "Ha, ha- I'm not in your garage anymore!"



I chased him away from the garage door entrance, and he was walking along the side of our house. He was going so slow that I had Max get a container. We initially caught him in a disposable Ziploc storage container, but it didn't have a lid, so I ran inside and got this container. While we were transferring the mouse vole between containers, he jumped out and fell on his back on the sidewalk! His head made a thud, as we were standing while doing this! Poor Mousie Volie in a Tokyo Joe's takeout container. I think he's alright though!



We drove to the greenbelt to set him free.





He didn't seem too excited to move to his new home!




Yeay! He finally decided to get out of the container!





He scurried under the grass and leaves and gets to live another day!

*Since I was wondering why his tail was so short, I looked it up. I'm thinking he was a vole, and not a mouse. Source