My brother is up visting for five days! It has been fun having him here. Yesterday we went to PetSmart and purchased three hermit crabs and all that goes with it!

Here is a picture of my brother just starting to set it up. We also got another fish for our fish tank, that is what the kids are looking at.

Spidey getting ready to go in his new home.

Spidey on the move.

Well things don't look good for C1's I just checked on it and it hasn't moved yet since bringing it home. We might be taking Daffy Duck back to the store!

On to the electrical fire...

So I was pre-heating my oven last night to make lasagna and I see something in my oven that doesn't look quite right. It looked like there was a sparkler in my oven. So I open it up and my heating element was on fire! I didn't know what to do (I do now) so I used a fire extinguisher to try and put the fire out - that didn't work - that just made a HUGE mess that took me forever to clean up and ruined the lasagna! Anyway, so I called 911, I didn't know what else to do! The firetruck came - the kids liked that- and they put out the fire - turn off the power to an electrical fire- OH.

So now my oven is toast! Can you see the heating element is like ashes? It started on the right side where it is broken in two.

Currently my oven is on the front porch. Lovely.

I am so thankful to God that it was contained, that I was home to notice it and that all we really have to show for a fire in our kitchen is this:

My husband is going to call GE tomorrow and see what they will do for us if anything. I have my eye on this new oven:

I use my oven A  LOT, hopefully I won't be without one for too long!