What We've Been Up To:

We had a family dinner the weekend Robbie and I cleaned out our home in Centerville for the last time (it's still up for rent....let us know if you know anyone!). The grandparents decided to group everyone together for a grandkid picture, and here are the results: We especially like the exchange between sweet Mills and Dax. HA!

Audrey, Eric, Tessa, PaPa, Dax, PaMa, Millie, Bryton, Shae, Tyler, Keagan, Eliza, and Rylee makes ELEVEN!

Dax loved to play in the sand at Sand Dune Arch in Arches. He showed PaMa and PaPa what tractors do!

Sometimes "daddy" likes to spin his little man around like he's throwing a discus. This is what Dax's face looks like at the end of the spin.
My dad and mom, me, Dax, and Robbie at Balanced Rock in Arches. This is where we sat to eat our subs.
He kills me.
Riding on PaPa's back to find the dinosaur tracks.
PaPa watching Dax play with his new toys (more to come on that later).
Ok, so I'm a bad mom. The other day, I was working on the house, and Dax climbed underneath me as I stepped, and I stepped right on his little finger with the heel of my shoe. I felt like such a bad mom! Luckily he's healing just fine, and a bottle of chocolate milk, a bit of snuggle time, and a bandaid later, and he was off to play again!
The pinched finger. It's quite the blood blister!
So sad.
PaMa and PaPa gave Dax this fun little frog puppet with googley eyes. He has a fun tongue that sticks way out. Our sweet, teething son thought it would be just the thing to soothe his poor gums. We didn't have the heart to stop him from making out with the frog.
Again. He. Kills. Me.

more to come....our house is almost done, and I'll post some pics!

Hobos, Beware!

A month or so ago, we contacted our landlords because we had seen a ridiculous amount of spiders and insects infest our home.  They were kind enough to send over an exterminator and rid us of our many-legged house guests.  A few days later, we found a hobo spider just outside our home, and other large spiders literally knocking at our door, but had yet to see anything but mosquitos, flies, and moths actually inside since the extermination.  We thought we were home-free.

A few days ago, Robbie noticed a painful spot on his lower back that seemed to be getting larger and more tender as time passed.  This morning, he was able to make an appointment with our doctor who confirmed that it was, in fact, a hobo spider bite. Unfortunately, it actually injected venom, so it's quite painful and yucky, and happens to be at the exact spot his belt rests on his back.  Poor guy.  

Anyway, I heard a bit ago (after the exterminator came) that the bug spray exterminators use doesn't kill hobo spiders.  It kills the spiders that eat hobo spiders.  Sweet.  We do have the sticky traps around our house, but they've been there for about a month, and we have yet to catch anything but dust in them.  Any ideas about how to nab the uglies???