Credit to our 4 legged family member

It's been an interesting few days around our house. Started out Tuesday AM around 4 when Cody got sick. Yeah - it seems the flu bug has made his way back to our house. So no school for the boys and I went into work late. Then I started to not feel good. Decided that I shouldn't probably eat anything and only made it at work till 4:30. I spent the night on the couch and the boys were nice enough to let there mom just relax. So I stayed home on Wed. and felt better. But then this morning around 1am - it seems it was Dylan's turn. He got sick all over. So I had to change bed, clothes, you name it. Got settled back into bed and the real action started.

I'm sleeping but all of a sudden hear Molly bark. First bark not thinking much of it. She must of heard a noise. She barks again and I heard Brett get up. I was surprised. All of a sudden he comes flying into the bedroom and says "somebody is trying to break into the van". Whole sh#T. Are you kidding. So he is throwing on clothes, has already called 911 and is heading down the stairs. So I join him on the front porch as we wait for the cop to arrive. We are talking and looking up and down the street and low and behold - we see the guys down the street. Continuing to look into windows. So Brett calls 911 again as they were headed down the street to another. Just as he calls again the cop comes. So Brett tells him and off he goes. Stopping to talk with a guy but honestly I think the guy buffaloed the cop - I think he was part of it. So we are still outside and just watching around the neighborhood. Kind of in disbelief of what happened. Oh and let me back up a minute - we knew they were trying to get into the car because we got a nice fresh snow last night and the stupid idiots walked up to each window and wiped it off so they could look in. DUMB! So all of a sudden I look across the street to a neighbor of ours and see movement. At first I thought nothing of it as the guy is a paid fire man and I figured he has a scanner and heard what was up. Um NO - it is one of the kids. He walks out of their driveway, across the street (right in front of us) and it isn't until Brett yells and starts to run after him that he decided he should high tale it. As my citizen on patrol husband was running I quickly yelled at him to stop as that is just NOT a good idea to run after the jerk. Who only knows if he had a weapon of some sort on him. So we call the cops AGAIN and the original cop came back. However, there are now 2 other marked cars on the street and an un-marked van going around. The cop gets our information and Brett tells him he just saw the guy. So the cops drove around shinning the spotlight into back yards but only caught a glimpse of them. So we hope they don't come back. Kind of un-settling to know that they saw us but who knows if it really sunk into them or not. Frustrating that the cops didn't try and get "out of the car" and go look for them. I realize it was cold outside but these kids have been breaking into cars (maybe not them but probably) all around the neighborhood.

So kudos to Molly for alerting us to something amiss. We are calling her Tacko's little deputy. (Tacko is my brother's k9)