April Fools

Our home inspection is tomorrow morning and we are nervous. The buyer is qualified as a first time home buyer and and has an FHA loan. Yesterday we were warned that FHA inspectors are really picky about stuff like mold and peeling paint. It has to be perfect for them to pass it off. And since "we" opted not to pay for an inspection when "we" bought the home . . Who knows what they will find.

So Brent suddenly had a big list this morning. And he's totally willing to do it all himself . . . but he will be in clinic all day and has an elder's quorum visit and basketball this evening.

So it happens to be a sunny 70 degrees outside for the first time in 5 months and Marcus had a easter egg hunt scheduled. . . but I am down in the basement all day painting the walls to hide what may be mold.

One of Marcus's favorite sayings is "April Fools!" He says silly things to us and then says, April Fools so we know that he knows that it's joke. Or sometimes he says it when he is in trouble hoping we are just kidding and he really isn't going to get a spank.

My children LOVE April Fools. Savannah has been on the internet doing research for days in preparation. It is really annoying to have some many saboteurs around the house. Camille is still trying to figure it out. She had worm holes cut in our bowl of apples, messages written on the toilet paper roll, and I caught her dumping salt into orange juice I had just mixed for breakfast. Savannah had been busy starting off the day by smearing vaseline around the bathroom.

By 7:30 a.m. Brent declared that there would be "No more tricks in this house". But just before that Savannah had put a bowl of flour on the table in place of powdered sugar, for sprinkling on our German Pancakes. I decided to let it pass, though I did kindly warn each child when they got the bowl to go easy on the sugar. Savannah took her plate into the kitchen and helped her self to the real powdered sugar. She had just sat down when Kennon came down complaining that there was vaseline all over the faucet. Brent lost it then and sent Savannah upstairs to clean it up.

A minute later, Kennon had piled a couple tablespoons of "powdered sugar" on her breakfast and was just about to dig in. Brent saw Savannah coming down the stairs and suddenly had an idea. He switched Kennon and Savannah's plates and motioned for Kennon to be quiet. Kennon wasn't going along quietly though suspecting that somehow she was being tricked. She kept hollering that she wanted her food back, even as Savannah dug in, and Brent repeatedly tried to give her a signal to hold her tounge.

Meanwhile Savannah ate most of her pancakes while Kennon went on and on about how she wanted her food back now. Somehow Savannah was enjoying her food so much she had no idea that she was involved in this latest trick. Once she had licked up the last of her flour Brent fessed up who had the flour and who had the sugar and Kennon was suddenly laughing with us. Camille and Caroline were enjoying their food and were oblivious to the drama unfolding at our table. Both even had seconds with more flour while we busted up.

So apparently there is no need to put a big scoop of powdered sugar on top of your syrupy pancakes. I am glad that Savannah demonstrated that so well and I will leave it off the table in the future.

I don't think this is very funny for the rest of you, but I just had to include it since it was so much fun for us.

And HA, HA! Brent just now called after choking on a special sandwich I prepared for his lunch today.

It worked awesome and luckily he was eating with friends so they all had a good laugh at his expense and one of them even sent me a picture just now. Thanks Dave for the pic and thank you Michelle in El Paso for the good idea. April Fools :)