Honeybees

This is the story of the honeybees. So we were having just a little family a birthday party on Monday April 23rd for Kaylies 10th birthday. Her birthday was the following Wednesday but shans dad was gonna be out of town so we did it Monday. Anyways so my neighbor came and knocked on the door to inform us that there was a lot of bees in our tree. So we all went out and looked and then went back and did more of kaylies birthday and then when that was done I went out and took 2 pictures. Each from a different side of the tree. So these first two pictures are of the Swarm of Honeybees in the tree. The next day I called terminex to see if they just kill hem or move them and they said they don’t touch them cuz they are protected in Utah. So I browsed the internet till I came accross the website Beefriendlyutah.com and I called the guy and he came within a half hour to take care of them.

This is the view facing south

This is the view facing north

This is the first box the bee guy used. It is full of wood with honeycombs on them.

This is the guy shaking the bees off the tree into the box and yes he got the queen she is in the middle of ll the bees. (everyone ask me that so I’m answering so you wont have to ask me)

This is the box after he shook all the bees into it. He had to give them time to go down into the box.

Now hes preparing another box for the bees because this box was to small.

Here he is moving the honeycomb things with the bees on it to the other box

He’s dumping the rest of the bees into the new box

The new box waiting for the bees to move down into the box

He put a what I think is called plywood over the top of the box, also he is sitting there trying to calm the bees down

He held up a honeycomb so I could see it with all the bees on it. That’s whats inside the boxes

He left the box sitting there like that all day till around 9pm to give all the bees time to find there way back and into the box.

This is when he came back and went to put a lid on the box instead of the plywood.

These are the few bees left in the tree at the end. He got a few of them down but some stayed. Those that stayed eventually found a new hive or went back from here they came from.

This is the bee guy he has been doing this for several years. He collects them from where they are not wanted and moves them to where they are wanted. He said mine were going to a farm that’s actually not that far from me. He has a website beefriendlyutah.com so if anyone needs him you can have them look at his site. He also invented the metal things on the sides of the boxes. It’s made especially for bee boxes. I believe. You can find out more about them at ecobeebox.com they look pretty cool.

Kaylies 10th Birthday

so for Kaylies 10th birthday we let her have a slumber birthday party. she invited 4 girls and only 2 showed up and only 1 stayed the night. but they still had fun. we had kaylies favorite meal of chocolate chip pancakes with fruit, whip cream, and syrup on them for dinner. they then played for a few minutes before we did Cupcakes, Ice cream and presents. then they plyed agin for a bit before I pulled out the nail and hair stuff and let them do their nails. that didn't go as well as I would have liked, I was trying to help them and keep my other kids out of the polish at the same time. but then maybe 10 minutes in they got bored and wanted to run around and play again so then the rest of the night they ran around playing till 11pm when the 1 friend went home. then they layed out there sleeping bags and watched Happy Feet 2 and went to sleep. I feel bad though cuz I didn't take many photos of it all. only took few. the last picture was actually taken on monday at her family party but it looks the same as it did at her slumber party.

April

So this month was kind of busy one we had mine and Shans 12th Anniversary, Easter, and Kaylies 10th Birthday. So for my anniversary Shan bought me a dozen beautiful roses.

on Easter the kids had fun finding their baskets and all the eggs.

oh and look I braided Kendras hair.

and here are a few Kaylie family birthday pictures

and hopefully soon I will fix my background so its not valentines anymore. oh and sorry in advanced for any mistyped words my keyboard on my laptop doesn't always work right there have always been certian keys that I have to hit hard to get to work and I don't always tap hard enough on them for them to work.