Scorpions!

Fall is here!! (Yay!! My favorite season) It is finally starting to cool down to temperatures that we can go outside and play in, take long walks, and even open the windows to cool down the house instead of using AC. Fall has always been my favorite season, I love watching the leaves change colors, its the perfect weather, but this year, by far, Adam, Alexander and I are most grateful for fall because it means an end to scorpion season. For those of you who don't know scorpions come out around spring time as it begins to warm up, and are truly out and about through the summer. (they come out when the temp. is above 77 degrees, below that its too cold for them) This year we had a scorpion infestation in our home. Starting on the day Alexander was born 03/09, until the beginning of Oct. we have killed a total of 79 scorpions, almost half of those being in our home and the other half on our property-- in the backyard, on the porch, or in the garage! We have become experts, learning as much as we could to get rid of our problem, hiring a pest control person, and then going out every night with a black light and hunting them. (Scorpions come out at night, and glow brightly under a black light.), and of course praying.We hope we have exterminated these little critters from our home and won't have any problems next year; every home on our little culdesac had a ridiculous amount this year, we think because of the construction going on by our house they migrated over. Adam has become an expert hunter, and isn't even a little afraid of them, I can tell you just about anything you need to know about them, but am still terrified of them. We were definitely blessed, nobody was hurt or stung, and there were even a couple of them that we say God caught for us-- There was one in a bucket and one in a candle jar, that we woke up and they were stuck in there, they couldn't get out, and we don't know how they could have gotten in.