Murder and mayhem

Ok, sorry for the week long hiatus of blogging, but man has it been a full, fun, but so busy week. This will be a bit of a bore of a post, not a lot of my usual wonderful wit :), just filling in some details of our past week. Last Thursday started with murder and ended with a burglary. Sort of.

So here is the murder victim, Tina Texas and her mourning sister, Ms. New Mexico. Here are the suspects below.

I hosted the most fun Murder Mystery Party. It was a beauty pageant theme so everyone had an assigned state and came dressed to kill. It was hysterical, everyone stayed in character all night yelling accusations at each other, bribing, name calling, backstabbing, it was so funny, and even more great is that people met new people. I had been in a funk this summer which I have referenced earlier so in August I told myself I needed to plan a party. Cuz that's what I do, I host, I socialize, I plan. So I forced myself out of the funk with the help of my friend Elizabeth, aka Tina Texas and it was a hit! You must try one someday, they are so easy and loads of laughs. So on to the burglary part, this is crazy.

After the party I hopped in the shower to wash out the massive amounts of hairspray and makeup I had on.

did you know that night is one of the only times I can remember using rollers, and the first time since probably junior high that I used  hairspray.

When I got out Ritchey told me he thought someone had been in my car. We live in a great little pocket of town, but our neighborhood is a great cut through to a not so great part of town, so some foottraffic. Anyway, i asked him why he thought so. Basically he went to lock the car doors from the clicker (inside the house) but it wouldn't lock. The automatic doors don't lock if one is open. So he saw that the sliding door was open on our swagger wagon :). He thought that was wierd but figured one of the kids had not shut it behind them. He automatically shut it with the clicker from the front porch and went inside. Then he heard the alarm go off. And that was where were at when he got me in the shower. His theory was that the alarm only goes offf like that when someone from the inside tries to open a locked door. Don't tell but my kids have set off the alarm that way when I have purposely locked them in there to return a video or post office run or to have some peace and quiet. Anyway, so he deduced that someone had been in the car. I thought he was dillusional and asked him if he had gone out there to see if the car was trashed or our dvd players stolen. This led to a power struggle and me implying he was a wimp and "Fine, I'll go out there if you're too scared". Such a wonderful Proverbs 31 wife I am. Not my shining moment. Anyhoo. He decided we'd just call the cops just in case these possibly fictional character were waiting in the bushes to jump us. So the cops came by and yes indeed these fictional characters were real. Our car was trashed, the dvd players were stolen, but not much else damaged. I was just glad they hadn't gone through the door that was broken and I had finally gotten to shut properly. We were pretty freaked out by this. It is so cliche, but you really do feel violated. Someone going through your stuff touching things with their grubby hands. And it was even more freaky to know that Ritchey had trapped them in our car, I'm sure freaky for them too. Then you move to anger, like, these punks, don't they have anything better to do, are they void of any morals. We've even had someone steal all of Cooper's bicycles/tricycles once a couple years ago. You're just like, come on people, get a life.  So that was our exciting Thursday night. Murder and Robbery!  I think I am going to bed, but hopefully soon I will blog about our camping trip, fill you in on my work with the crisis pregnancy services start up, and perhaps share a paragraph from Packer's Knowing God that blew me away. But that will have to wait. We have nothing to do this weekend, I am so excited, so I plan on getting back with you.