The Rescue Rangers

I wanted to document Shane's latest obsession- Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers. No, it is not on TV anymore, but he somehow got hooked from watching it on youtube, and I found a DVD on Amazon.  He has assigned each of us characters (luckily there are five Rescue Rangers and five of us) and calls us by those names often.  Here we are, left to right: Dale (Shane), Gadget (me), Chip (Marissa), Zipper (Sadie), and Monterey Jack (Josh).

He likes to get Marissa (and anyone else that will) to play Rescue Rangers with him, which usually involves someone needing to be saved from a mean something.  And because I love cheesy tie-ins, I will lead right into documenting my parents time here by saying that after that awful awful week they were our Rescue Rangers!!  They were here for 2 weeks, and helped us out so much. Here are just a few of the ways:

They took the kids to an Easter egg hunt complete with a helicopter dropping the eggs,

and held Marissa tight when said helicopter was a little too scary.

 They took them to the park on the one nice day,

and then took us to Chuck E Cheese when it had rained for about the tenth straight day.

 Good thing they brought this raincoat for Marissa,

and this adorable little outfit my mom couldn't turn resist buying Sadie even though she knew she probably wouldn't need it for too long.

 (It's also a good thing we moved because after another visit with completely crappy weather my mom vowed she would never come to Saginaw again ha ha)

They told scripture stories way better than mom or dad,

 snuggled babies and read lots and lots of books.

They shared their food with us,

 and even thought we were cute when we were making our "crusty face"

 Basically, we had a lot of fun and are so glad they could come!