Ducks, duct tape and lights out

According to the calendar it's spring, but you sure wouldn't know it by our weather. While we're dreaming of sunshine and blue skies, we're getting rain, rain, and more rain (and 47 degree weather). Needless to say, we haven't been feeling very spring-y.

Until today, that is. Today Mike and Carol arrived. They're my favorite part of spring :D



When your teenage son has a friend come to stay for 2 nights, you have to stop and ask: "Whatever will we do with them?"


This was the boys on Friday night. Why, oh why, didn't we tape their mouths??



You'd have thought we would have figured it out by the next day, but no, we forgot then, too.
On Saturday hubby broke out the heavy duty 8 inch wide industrial tape. First victim was Jason, who fought bravely, but was no match for Sasquatch. After he was all taped up, hubby went after bubba...



He fought a little harder, but still wasn't much of a match.



Afterwards, we taped the two of them together and they (tried) to make a made dash down the hall.




Squirm, little men, squirm!!!



Lest you think that we're horrible people, I should point out that hubby had to hide the tape from them so they wouldn't get into again ;) And this was actually one of the calmer activities of the day, if you count the airsoft battle in the backyard (which left hubby bleeding) and the wrestling match after dinner where both boys tried to take down hubby (and failed, as usual :)

We finished off the night celebrating "Earth Hour". For those few who may not have heard of it (they were hoping to reach 1 billion people this year), here's a quick little video about it:

We spent our hour playing board games by candlelight (and I was wishing that I'd had the good sense to use the bathroom prior to lights out ;)

So how about you? Enjoying your spring? Torment your (or somebody else's) kids lately? Celebrate Earth Hour??