Got 'em!!!

WARNING: If you are squeamish about mice...

GO NO FURTHER!!!

I saw a mouse in my kitchen 3 days ago. In fact, I chase a mouse around my kitchen...and if I were U. Dave or U. AJ I would have gotten him too! It was even a clumsy mouse and tripped and sommersaulted over itself on its gettaway run...but alas! I am even clumsier! So even though I thought I was prepared with club in hand, and spooked him from his hiding spot prepared to do him in...HE GOT AWAY.

And he also got away with 3 meals of peanut butter and one of marshmallow.

BUT HE DIDN'T GET AWAY WITH THE BACON THIS MORNING!!!

And neither did his wife 3 minutes later! :)

The kids were quite excited over the mice...Tay-O in particular. Kate more felt sorry for it and thought it was cute.

Tay-o was facinated by its tail.

Miss Kate wanted to pet it...and I told her she could as long as we could have a very thorough hand-washing party afterwards!!

I also let Tay-O pull its tail. :D He was a little unsure at first...

But by the time we caught the second one he was opening his mouth to have a taste...Seriously!!!

We hope these are the last mice we see in our house, even though they do appear to be such a sweet couple! :D

...But we did set the trap again just in case!!!

(I just heard the trap snap again!!! NO JOKING!!!)

I guess I have another little fellow to take care of so...Happy day to ya'all!

UPDATE: cuz I know ya'all wanted to see more pics! HAHA

15 min. after posting I had 4 mice. The fat one is the one I chased but missed. I seriously recognize her. :D I think I caught her just in time.

Don't they look cute and cozy. :P

...

Then by 5:00 we'd caught 5 of 'em.

Now they just look like a bunch of dead mice...

except for #5 who looks like he's about to jump and run.

Fall fun and MICE!!!

I love Fall!!!

Watching the tree in the corner of our yard go from

THIS....

to THIS...

To "time to rake leaves". :)

That is one of the many things I love about fall. :D

The kids loved "helping" Daddy rake leaves every weekend.

Well, more like they loved to PLAY in the leaves Daddy raked every weekend.

Tay-O had to figure out what leaves were all about first.

"Umm, just what exactly am I supposed to do here."

Miss Kate showed him what fun there was to be had with a great mountain of leaves...

And after a little inspecting...

He found out how much fun they were too.

My little squirrel in her nest.

Trying to get the hang of raking.

Big sis makes it look so easy.

Leaves in the hair! YAY!

Taking a nap in her bed of leaves.

The hazards of a leaf pile:

"Mommy, my boot fell off!" :(

Found it!!!

I love the view out of my kitchen window.

Did a little project with Miss Kate while fall was in the height of its glory.

Tracing, cutting, and pasting leaves to frame a picture of our family. ;)

Another week passed and the kids headed outside once again to rake the leaves with Daddy...although you can tell it was already getting much more chilly.

And they're off.

We all love to watch Daddy work...me included. ;)

Of course climbing the fence and peering over it is pretty fun too.

Who knows what kind of exciting things might be going on on the other side of it.

Usually nothing. :)

Apparently they were playing follow the leader...

Still following the leader...

still following the leader...

Game over.

Tay-O is headed off into the sunset.

I noticed it was a beautiful one when I was taking out the garbage.

So I had to stop and take time to enjoy the sunset for a minute.

I love a weekend that ends like this.

And then I was back in my kitchen, making dinner and enjoying the view.

THE MICE

Here are the pics of the little bed I made for the mommy and daddy mice of the recently acquire mouse family at our house. Miss Kate loves them to death.

Made from popsicle sticks, cardboard, and wooden dowels (chopped up and carved).

Then of course we had to make the mattress, pillows,

and a cozy flannel comforter to tuck them in with.

Goodnight Mr. and Mrs. Mouse.

A couple of fun videos of the leaf romping. :)

(Sorry the one with the words got sort of messed up and you can't read what it says, but I don't have time to re-edit and repost it so you'll just have to wonder what it said.) :]