Sunday, June 24, 2007

Lizards, Scorpions, Snakes, and Mice

We had a pretty interesting weekend. First of all we were able to go on 2 dates!! Considering that we used to not go out without the kids this was a major accomplishment! Friday night we went to the Phoenix Furniture Auction hoping to find some great deals on furniture. We have some friends that have bought some nice things from the auction and we were hoping that we would get lucky too! Unfortunately they didn't have anything that we were very interested in. But we went to Outback and had a nice dinner, and then went and got a gift for a friend that just had a baby. It was great to come home and have the kids in bed, and the house nice and straight!


Saturday morning we decided that we needed to clean up the garage since Jason and the kids spotted a mouse running through it. Since then we have found lots of evidence that some little mouse has made our garage a home. (This isn't the first time!) Jason went out and opened the garage and heard something moving around. We have some glue traps by the garage door to help catch anything that wanders in. He went to check it out and there was a snake stuck in the glue trap! He had gotten his head stuck and couldn't get out. He was very excited, he has been disappointed for a while because he hadn't seen a snake yet! He yelled for me to come take a look, and went over to show the neighbors. Needless to say I wasn't very happy that we had a snake that close to our garage! I think Jason called me a scaredy cat because I didn't want to get close to it. The kids got a kick out of it though, they thought it was pretty cool.


It's a good thing we have those traps, we've caught a lizard, a snake, caught one mouse and killed a few scorpions (now we just have to take care of the 2nd one). That is Jason and the kids other favorite thing, hunting scorpions. After it gets dark they take a black light and search the yard, if there are scorpions it will glow and then Jason kills it. This past week we have found 3! The fun things we do I guess.


Saturday night we went out with some friends and listened to the Saturday session of Stake Conference. Afterwards about 10 couples went to dinner. We went to Abuelo's we hadn't been there before. Jason and I just split the fajitas they were really good. I'm sure we'll go to that restaurant again! We had a lot of fun, we'll have to do it again soon!

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