Another family visits and neighbors moving in!

The Jenkins, Staci, Kirk, Kate and Luke came to see us; we haven't seen them since June. Carter has been going through serious Kate withdraws. Actually they were driving from Charleston back up to D.C. and we were the lucky ones they chose to stay with. We had a few families come over last night for dinner so that everyone could visit the Jenkins family. Boy are they a popular crew. I swear everyone was lining up to see them pull into the driveway.

We all had a great Mexican dinner. There were awesome nachos with meat, beans, tomatoes, cilantro, cheese and sour cream. We also had chicken enchiladas and Mexican rice and for dessert we had freshly baked cookies and ice cream. It was awesome.

Sarah and Tim

Jess, Zoey, Isaac, Luke Kate and Staci

This was the morning they left.







Julie is the little girl in pink and Audric is the little boy with pretty blue eyes.

This is how they were the whole night. Kirk, Kate's dad calls them the old married couple.

One last squeeze!

Till next time.....

Last night my love/hate relationship with Blinky grew. I woke up around 2:30 and heard him in our room. I jumped out of bed and told Joe I saw Blinky. He asked if I was sure and I said I was pretty sure. He came out into the living room and sure enough the delux apartment in the sky was empty. I continued to look for Blinky but with all the lights on he darted back under the bed behind a laundry basket and then behind our long dresser. We were moving furniture all the while trying to be quite because the Jenkins were sleeping in the next room. I finally captured him and brought him back to his apartment and back to bed we go. We toss and turn until 4am when Joe finally gets up and says since I can't sleep I might as well go off to work and that is exactly what he did. Thanks Blinky!

This morning I told the kids about Blinky and they ran into the living room to see him. Well, Blinky wasn't there. That's right he had escaped again. I guess in my tired 2:30 stupor I didn't check all the compartment doors and he was gone. I told the boys that we would probably have to wait until tonight to find him because he sleeps during the day.

Fast Forward a few hours...the boys were in Carter's room watching TV when they yell to me that they think they hear Blinky. I go in there and pull the T.V. dresser back and sure enough there he is. He was very prepared for this journey as there was a stash of his food that he must have brought along. He had also found a dollar bill that he was trying to make a bed out of.

Fast Forward a few more hours...check out our new neighbors I found today. Tonight they sleep in peace but tomorrow its war!!

Movin on up....

Well Blinky's movin on up,
To the east side.
To a deluxe apartment in the sky.
Movin on up,
To the east side.
He finally got a piece of the pie.

After another escape last night I finally decided that was enough. We have come to the conclusion that Blinky really is the smarted hamster alive. Last night with the top taped down he some how managed to unhook the latch from the outside of the cage...I know, AMAZING!!

We have also realized that our kitty Roads would never save us from intruders. He can't even managed to catch Blinky as he made his 6th escape.

The best thing I could come up with was to buy him a bigger better cage, so here it is, a deluxe apartment with attachments in the sky!

Joe had a visitor last night....

At about 2:30am Joe jumps out of bed and shouts "Holy Shit Dawn!!" and then says "He's in our bed." Who might you ask is in our bed....none other than our newest pet Blinky. By the time we turned on the lights he had jumped off the bed and was now under it. Within a few minutes he was safely back in his cage. Joe then took out the scotch tape and taped the door shut. He did this because this was Blinky's second escape of the night. Joe woke me up at about 11:30 and told me he heard Blinky. We found him around midnight and I had put him back to his cage and put books on top of the door. Let me tell you we have one hell of a super hamster.

Blink Eye

has been found!! He returned back to his cage. I guess he was either hungry or thirsty and didn't want to be a meal for kitty.

It was bound to happen...

Blinky has escaped. I found the cage like this when Carter and I got home from shopping around 10:30. He must have broke free sometime last night. The boys are heartbroken. We are just hoping to find him before kitty does. Joe has plans to sleep on the couch tonight. He is hoping to hear him moving around tonight.

My childhood revisited

Bryson will be so sad he was in school and missed this.

Sloppy Joe or Blink Eye

Those were answers to one question. One question that I asked Bryson two days ago while Bryson and I were doing homework.

"Bryson what would you name our hamster if we got one?" Bryson thought for a moment and then said "I would like to call him Sloppy Joe." "Sloppy Joe" I said and then his reply was "Yep!" I wasn't quite sure what to think but had a good laugh afterwards. The next morning we got up and while we were getting ready for school I thought I would ask him again "Bryson what would you like to call your hamster if we got one?" Once again he thought for a few moments and then said "I would call him Blink Eye, so that I could Blink at him. (He then starts blinking his eye at me and showing me exactly what he would do)." "Really" I said. Bryson then tells me "yeah and I could call him Blinky for his short name and Blink Eye for his long name."

This morning we went on a journey to the pet store and purchased a cute little Blinky.



This is their Easter gift and they seem to be very happy with him. So does Road Trip(Roads) our kitty. Roads is waiting for us to become careless and I am sure at one point we will as history is always bound to repeat itself. I had hamsters growing up and I don't think any of them ever died of old age.