4961 Lunetto Ave

Here's the house! We will probably be moving in mid-August. It's a 3 bedroom 2 bath with a decent sized backyard which is hard to find in Vegas. The process is so much longer than I expected. Between home inspections and Palmer having to go sign and approve more papers it is taking forever for it all to be done. But move in day will be here soon and we can't wait!

Front View of the house

KitchenLiving/ Dinning Room

Master Bedroom

I have been in Ohio since the 27th of June with the Beckers, the people I nanny for, we are staying in Columbus and Akron. We have been staying with Christina's sister's famliy, the Howards, in Hudson, a suburb of Akron. The Howards' house is on a huge chunck of land and their backyard is all forest. With the Forest comes lots of animal, but with all the critters in the backyard the boys and I were most interested in the frogs and toads. The frogs constantly fall into the window wells around the basement windows so every couple of days the Howard boys have to climb down and free all the frogs. The first time that we pulled a few frogs out of the window well the Becker boys were freaked out. The frogs were too slimy and gross for them. It was very amusing to see the difference in the way the Ohio boys and Las Vegas boys reacted to the frogs. Grant and Bryce have grown up in Las Vegas so they didn't have the slightest idea how to react to nature, but after a few days of observing the Howard boys they caught on that if you don't catch them with your hands you won't catch very many. Today all the boys went out determined to break their own record of the most frogs caught at one time. They were all in the window wells catching frogs while Chase and I played with the frogs and toads on the grass. We were also in charge of making sure that the frogs didn't get out of the bowl, which was quite the task. It was really fun to watch the boys scream "AHHH I got one," everytime they had caught more to add to the bowl. The two older Becker boys have gotten over their fear of actually touching the frogs which made catching the frogs much easier for them. I dont think we broke their record of 31 frogs but we came awfully close at around 25 or so. Runaway Toad

Chase chasing a toad we were supposed to have in the bowl! Bryce, Cade and Grant counting the frogs... Bryce carrying the toad VERY carefully. The smallest frog. He was just set free from the window well. Wanted to know if he would turn into Prince Charming. Sorry Palmer, I had to try.

A days worth of frogs right before we let them go...

He's Home!!

To my surprise, Palmer was able to pick up our new kitten a day early! So he is home now with Palmer. I guess Palmer has already decided that he doesn't like the name Bump so he wants to change it already but we'll have to see.

The Countdown For Bump!

Palmer and I have been waiting anxiously since April for our Sphynx kitten. The women we are getting him from wouldn't let us take him home until he was 10 weeks old! So Palmer has been counting the weeks til the pick up date. Well finally on Friday morning Palmer gets to pick up our new guy, Bump, (it's a Sopranos thing.) I actually don't get to see him until I get home from Ohio next week but I don't think Palmer is going to wait a second longer. Here he is all naked and wrinkled...