Mean jerk

A mean jerk stole my purse and camera last weekend. He just lifted it from my unlocked minin-van. Imagine that. I hope he dies. Haha, just kidding. But I do hope the purse fits his personality and he enjoys all the great pics I had on my camera, since I don't get to now. (It had all my pictures of our trip to Moab with the Trapnells on it. Blast!)

I'd taken my kids up to the nearby Dinosaur Ridge to check out the fossilized tracks and bones. We parked the car in a parking lot at the bottom of the hill along with a few other vehicles. It was a miserably cold day and so I spent about 30 minutes bundling the kids up. I guess in the dress- up party I forgot to lock the van. Half-way up the mountainside I wondered if I'd locked the van? But I was too far away for my clicker to work and there was no way the kids would walk down and walk back up again. So I crossed my fingers.

Well that didn't work did it. What are the chances? The kids couldn't believe someone stole from us and looked frantically around the car for me. All the fun we'd had at the ridge, sadly, was forgotten. As we searched frantically for my purse Isaac got to watch a guy accidentally back his subaru up over a road sign though, smashing the sign flat to the ground, and the guy didn't even stop to notice until he'd backed all the way over it and then drove forward over it again with both wheels. And even then he never got out, he just sped away. Was he the robber making his frantic getaway??? Isaac couldn't believe what he just saw and brought me a piece of the guys car that fell off saying, "Mom, he even left a piece of his car behind!" And it was a nice car too.

Back at home... We'd carved pumpkins a little early this Halloween and they had begun to decay. Ethan wanted me to let them keep them until they were totally decayed. I was fine with that, but with them sitting on our kitchen table all moldy while we ate dinner it was kind of grossing me out so I moved them to the back patio where the kids could still have a good view (but at least not during meal times). Well, when we got home from our robber incident, Ethan's decaying pumpkin had been demolished (by a squirrel I'm sure). Isaac saw it first and yelled, "Mom! The robber smashed Ethan's pumpkin too!!!" Wow, how did he find out where we lived and get here so quick? But it only makes sense. He's just a mean jerk.

On a happier note, we ended our dinosaur day by seeing Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs at the nearby dollar theatre. Great flick. We were all laughing. And another positive side note, my cell phone and wallet weren't in my purse when the robber took it. Sucker! I'd hidden them in a different part of the car! Phew.

These past few camera-less days I have missed being able to take pictures though. I thank my lucky stars that After Thanksgiving Day Sales are just around the bend and I'm married to the A.T.D.S. master-of-the-world-who-will-work-you-and-anyone-else-he-is-up-against-over. I definitely see a camera in my future. Wink.