Pests...we have had our fair share of experiences since moving into this house.  After having a lot of snakes, black widows (scary yuck) and way more than our share of unwanted pests, we were very on top of pest control this year.  Or so we thought.  We haven't had the spiders like last year and defiantly less snakes but we still had this little guy plus his distant relative that was about 20 times bigger than him.  The boys had fun "taking care" of this little guy though.  Apparently squirting it with water is how to tell a baby snake who is boss.

He was so excited about the snake. 

Not even sure what to say about this one.  He was dead serious that spraying it with water would scare it away.

Taedon just had to help.

Here is the huge distant relative that appeared in the yard one day.  I opened the front door to go outside to discuss our future landscaping plans and quickly shut the door.

We also get the occasional cute pest.  I can handle a ladybug any day of the week.

One day we are in the house and I hear someone talking in our backyard.  I look out to see our next door neighbor standing near the trees looking at something.  I go out and see what she is doing and see that she has found this gigantic turtle just hanging out.  It was almost three feet long.  The boys were napping or else they would have loved to see it.