Super Ben

I discovered last Saturday that I had married a superhero! We woke up on Saturday and decided to rent a rug doctor (see previous blog) and clean our carpets. I had the joy of herding the kids outside while Ben cleaned the carpets. If you've ever cleaned carpets you know it's exhausting work just pushing that huge thing back and forth and having to empty the nasty water. An easy thing for the man of steel, SuperBen!

Around noon I ran to McDonalds to get SuperBen some food. He wolfed down 2 cheeseburgers and then had to go help a sister in the ward move. It was in the upper 80's on Saturday so not an ideal day to have to move furniture etc. Not a problem for SuperBen and his ability to just fly that furniture to the next apartment.

He returned home a couple hours later, and then took off again to return the rug doctor and pick up a few things for me at the store. Actually, he ended up going to two stores because one of the stores didn't have some of the things I needed. Thankfully, he could just rely on his super speed to get the job done.

After he got back from the store he then washed both of our vehicles while I vacuumed and cleaned the inside of them. He looked like he might just pass out at this point since the temperature was still climbing, but no SuperBen decides to wax one of the cars too!

At 7:00 we finally take a break to eat dinner. We're outside visiting with some friends, when one of our neighbors asks if SuperBen could show him how to change his break pads. So he once again puts on the tights and cape, and rushes to the aid of the neighbor. Unfortunately, these are super tough break pads and take forever to get off! When they did finally get them off an hour or so later, they were only disappointed to discover that the mechanic who told them the pads needed to be changed was crazy. The pads were only worn down half of the way. SuperBen would have to deal with the mechanic later.

It's about 9:00 at night now. SuperBen comes inside all dirty from the break job and asks if it would be alright if he fertilized the lawn. Little did he know I also held a secret identity as Wonder Woman. I pulled out my invisible lasso and tied him up until he came to his senses and realized he needed a break.

I think we both decided that next weekend we are going to give up the super hero job and just play civilians!