I lost count of all its legs!!

The last couple blogs have been about the girls and their adventures!  I would like to add one of mine!!  As many of you know I love animals, birds, fish etc.  But one thing I don't like and will probably never like is spiders!!  I was told after we moved here that there are some pretty HUGE and interesting spiders in TX!  I have researched and recognized the bad ones to stay away from!  But in general, I still don't want to run into a spider any day of the week! 

Of course the night I met my first spider, Andy was not here!  The girls and I were playing in the living room, minding our own business.  I went to put some toys away and noticed something gray in between the wall and carpet!  I was going to reach down and grab it, thinking it was a small toy that got misplaced!  How I wished it was a toy!  Nope it was a HUGE spider with many legs!  Trying not to panic infront of the girls I thought about the different ways I could take care of this situation!  1. Call Andy (he would of laughed and hung up the phone!) :) 2. Get a shoe and squish it (I didn't know if I had a shoe big enough!)  3.  Use our vaccum cleaner hose and suck it up!  4.  Pick the "nice" spider up and put him outside (as my nephew Gabriel would of done!)  Well I went with number 3!  My reason for number 3, Andy smooshed a spider in our laundry room when we first moved in.  This spider jumped multiple times at him, which made my decision a little easier!  I can handle getting rid of tiny to middle size spiders, but this one was HUGE!

As I went to get our vaccum cleaner, I was hoping Norman would take one for the team and ger rid of the spider!  Nope, he just sat in his basket eating his lettuce like nothing was happening!!  Anyways as the spider went for a new adventure, I could of just imagine his size!  I heard a big thump as he went in the vaccum, they don't call it a Dyson for no reason!!  I checked multiple times in the container to see if he was in there and moving around! Couldn't tell ya!  So i taped the top of the vaccum hose shut until Andy could take it outside and dump it!  I'm sure this won't be my last spider encounter!  But i wanted to show you what Laila and i thought the spider looked like!  Below is the picture we drew of him!!

I know we may have went over board on the description, but that's what we thought he looked like :)  Of course he didn't have those fancy shoes or hat, but man did he have all those legs!!  Lainie of course thought it was easier to just shoo the spider a way in the picture below!

Either way i didn't want to meet and greet this spider!  I hope he found a new home outside and stayed there!  The next day, Andy went outside our patio, which is off of our bedroom and found an old spiders nest in the corner next to the light!  Thankfully he removed it, but this time, didn't use the Dyson!  Keep you posted as usual! EN