How Did This Happen??

Kyle’s school had a carnival at the first of May.  I really didn’t want to go.  Our Ward was going camping that same night and well we couldn’t go camping because Ronnie had to work the next morning.  So we went to the carnival and  the kids had a great time.  Kyle ran off with his friends and Lana went from booth to booth getting prizes.  Ronnie took Lana around because I was helping out in the karaoke room.  Next year I will suggest ear plugs for the helpers!  Ronnie and Lana would stop in and show me their prizes and Ronnie said that we also have a ticket for goldfish, I don’t know what that means.  I thought well surely they are just giving the kids goldfish crackers, right?  

Soon enough my time in the karaoke room was over and I went out to watch the kids play carnival games. 

      Lana fished                                                                             And got her face painted

           

     She tossed ping pong balls in bowls                             And did the ring toss

           

   Kyle held a snake (but I didn’t get a picture)              And volunteered for the sponge toss

            

He spent most of the evening at the dunk tank where they could dunk the teachers.   I felt for the teachers and couldn’t bare take a picture of them getting dunked.  Then it was time for us to go and Ronnie said what about this ticket for goldfish.  So we went over to where we were to redeem the ticket and they were real goldfish!  Once Lana saw them she was so excited and ran to tell Kyle who in turn had to go play the game until he too got a ticket.  We came home with 2 goldfish, oh boy!  I was not excited because we have a horrible time with pets or fish in general.  Lana always does something to ruin the whole tank and I have to spend a day cleaning and trying to save the fish. 

So on the way home the kids named the fish.  Kyle named his Fish Norris after none other than Chuck Norris and Lana named hers Goldie.  Much like she names her balloons, balloonie and her squid, squidie and  well just take anything and add an ie to the end.  So we get our fish home and have to put them in something and I found some ice cream glasses. 

I really didn’t think that they would live very long so I didn’t want to commit to a real fish bowl just yet.  One week went by and they were still swimming, then two weeks went by and I really wanted my kitchen counter space back so I broke down and got a fish bowl. 

 

Here it is almost two months later and they are still swimming.  I guess I should invest in a plant or something to decorate their fish bowl.   I’m just really hoping we don’t have baby fish in our future. 

And that my friends is how we came to have more fish in our house.  I knew we shouldn’t have gone to that carnival!