Saldivars August 2014

Hello everyone. These past couple months have been very busy. Jeremy and I are moved into our new apartment and absolutely love it. It is bigger than anything we have ever had and has lots of space, but yet we can't find room for all of our junk. It's weird how that works... Jeremy is registered for all of his classes and starts in just a couple of weeks as a full time student. He is excited for school but doesn't want to start yet.  He is going to be busy studying for the next 3 years. Go Jeremy! I am as stressed as I will ever be with work. I can't wait for school to finally start because then things will start to slow down for me.

We enjoyed having family here visiting. I wish we had more time with both families, but I am glad we at least got a few days. It is always so fun to see everyone and see all the kids twice as big as they were the last time we saw them. Time just flies by. The kids are growing up way to fast.  Jeremy went with some friends to Moab for the weekend at left me here. I didn't want to stay here alone so I invited Tyler to stay with me. It turned out to be pretty fun. We went to the Ward family reunion and the temple for a session. It was real neat to do a session with a good portion of our family and to do our Ward family names. The reunion has got me excited about genealogy and learning more about our ancestors. I am even taking a class on how to use familysearch.org, but I get impatient because they move too slow, I want to be able to do it all right now. It is fun to learn about our ancestors.

Jeremy and I had quite and experience a couple of weeks ago... We both just got home from work and relaxed for a few minutes before bed on our couch in our living room. I went to turn off the lights and just above the couch in the window seal there was an orange snake. It did not look real at all. I thought to myself "Jeremy doesn't like snakes. Why would he buy one just to scare me?" I asked him when he got the snake but he had a blank look on his face. I showed him what I was talking about and he kind of started to freak out. Of course I thought this was all a trick and didn't buy it for a second. He kept telling me that he didn't put that there and asked if I did. It never moved, it just sat there starring at us. Our faces were about a foot away just starring at it pointing out all the ways it didn't look real. Jeremy finally said with a serious voice that he didn't put that there and asked me again if I put it there. It was in that 3 seconds that my heart fell to my stomach, we both flew off the couch and I was terrified! We found a real snake in our house. It was about 2 1/2 feet long. Now that it was real, it looked real. Its scalely shiny skin and black eyes. I can still picture its eyes just starring at us.
We weren't sure what to do or where it came from and how long it had been there. We just got back from camping with Shannon and the family and our tent was lying in our living room to dry out from the rain. Jeremy thought that it got in our tent bag and came home with us. I thought that since we live so close to the mountain that it just a mountain snake that got in our house and maybe this was going to happen all winter. I was trying to think of people to call to come get rid of it because I didn't want to touch it. At this point, Jeremy and I both had a tennis racket in our hands just in case it moved. He told me to grab a stick and I thought that was a horrible idea because it would just fall off and slither under the couch. So we grabbed a box. I held the box with the tennis racket and Jeremy gently pushed its tail. As soon as it started to move its head around, we both freaked out. Now that it finally moved, it became more real. While it was wrapping is head around, we hurried and pushed it into a box and quickly taped it shut. We heard a rattling noise, which was odd because it wasn't a rattlesnake.
We decided that before we just let it go, to see if maybe our neighbors had a pet snake. It was 10:30 at night and I didn't want to go door to door asking people if they had a pet snake. Just then some of our neighbors drove up and sure enough, it was theirs.
To this day I still don't know how long it went missing and how it got in our house, but I sure hope that it does not happen again.