It's payback time....

I have a friend, Joel, that I have known for 10+ years. I play volleyball with him weekly, and I worked with him forever. He's the biggest prankster you have ever met.

He's also the guy that I know I could call and he would do anything for me (or anyone)......BUT he's also the biggest prankster ever!

When I was in the office, he put scotch tape over the phone receiver so that whoever I was talking to couldn't hear me. One time I came back to the office and he had used at least 3 full rolls of scotch tape around EVERYTHING in my office. It took me an hour to clean it up! When Katie had a first time date with a guy, he googled him and printed out everything he could find about the guy (like 30 pages) and taped it all over the office,  (although he did have help on that one).  Those are just a couple of the crazy things he has done to us that I can think of tonight.

So......tonight it's payback time. He's on his way back from Mexico, so we made a visit to his house tonight. One word of warning for anyone in the future....DO NOT leave a window air conditioner in a ground floor window.....it's not secure! Even if you lock your doors, someone can get in.

We were careful to not hurt or damage anything, but he's not going to be happy when he comes home tonight. I'm just really glad that I don't work in the office anymore (he can't mess with MY stuff) and I think I will make sure my house doors are locked in the near future!

 

(Vaseline is GREAT for door knobs and toilet seats!)

We didn't bring this baby doll....it was actually in his garage? It was very scary. Kind of like "Chucky". We just added the knife and beads.

Again....we did not bring the mannequin....it was in his house! We just fixed her up a bit.

Mariachi's in the window (he's just back from Mexico, we wanted him to feel at home!), freezer paper on the couch. Streamers everywhere, and furniture moved into the other room.

We missed you Joel! :)

How to catch frogs.....

With a broom of course! You didn't know that?

Matt's new hobby....

Matt isn't one to sit around much. Ok, he doesn't mind sitting around, but he has to be doing something while he's sitting around. Usually that means playing X-Box Live with Joe or being on the computer. He's always sending me quick links he found about some craft or cool gadget that he found.

His latest gadget? Cutting bottles. With the help of his Grandpa Art, they made a bottle cutting jig and he's been cutting every bottle he can find.

Basically you just score the bottle with a glass cutter, then pour boiling water in it so that the water is above the score line. Then you pour ice cold water over the outside and it (ideally) breaks along the scored line. He says that his success rate now is up to 75% that break correctly.

He's been sending picture messages of his latest creations and progress.

We have been saving bottles for him, so he brought the jig with him yesterday when we grilled. This is the result of yesterday afternoon:

 

These Absolut glasses are going to be our new "Bloody Mary Glasses" when we go camping. They are the perfect size!

I have plans for the tops as well.

Last spring I found this wind chime in a store. It wasn't very expensive, but I didn't buy it because it would be too easy to make.  The bottle tops would be perfect for it.

Now we need to scrounge for more cool shaped bottles for him to cut (hint hint: if you have any different shaped wine/beer/liquor bottles he would love for you to save them for him!)

Ideally they would have a screen printed label on them like the Sol or Absolut. We are trying to figure out how to seal the label on this Cabo bottle. It would make a nice bowl to put something in.

Now I just need Al to make more shelves to put the new glasses on. I'm running out of room with my beer glasses anyway.

On a side note, we had the BEST beer can chicken last night.

 

And Ava got to show off her new shades.