Saturday night, Jared and I went frog hunting. Before the question, "How can they possibly move to the city and become redneck?" lingers in your mind too long, I will quickly explain. We have struggled quite a bit with cell phone reception in our apartment. So, Saturday night my Mr. Wonderful walked outside to talk to on the phone. When he came back in, a gross looking, brown creature (otherwise known as a frog) jumped in with him. Of course, we didn't realize it right away, but when we were getting ready to head to bed, Jared suddenly said, "Is that frog?" as he pointed to the grimy thing on our dining room floor. We walked a little closer, which made the thing jump - in turn making me jump. Then the frog jumped into our kitchen (yuck, yuck, yuck!). I ran to the closet and got a broom (not sure why I chose to do that) and proceeded to climb on the chair, and then onto the bar that separates our kitchen from our dining room. While kneeling on the bar, I used the broom to point to the frog, so that Jared would know exactly where it was at. After a few minutes of me screaming every time the frog moved and Jared looking completely confused, I suggested that we call someone. I quickly ran down the list of who we could call, and decided Bill (my step-dad) would be our best bet. He grew up in Franklin County, VA so I was sure he had experience in catching frogs. Thankfully, Bill was up and was quite helpful. I put him on speaker phone and he instructed us to get a towel - I instructed Jared to make sure it wasn't a good towel - and then Bill told us to throw it on the frog. The little frog was having nothing of it and jumped behind the fridge. I screamed some more, Jared got mad at the frog, Bill woke mom up, and the two of them proceeded to laugh at the commotion going on four hours away from them (and yes, Bill put their phone on speaker, too!). Finally Jared used the broom to get the thing away from the fridge and by throwing two towels on the frog, we managed to get it cornered! Then we were like, "Now what do we do?" Mom and Bill went into hysterics laughing so hard, but managed to tell us to pick up the frog. So after a moment of hesitation, Jared picked up the two towels with the frog inside of it and ran outside. Though the thing landed with a thud, he did manage to jump away. I was so proud of my frog-hunter-warrior :) and couldn't help but laugh when he said, "That was one of my finest moments!" Other than having to stay up a little bit later to mop the kitchen floor (I didn't want frog germs all over the place), Jared and I were able to get a good night's sleep, knowing that the only critters in our apartment were us (at least we hope!). Of course, now were wondering what we are going to do when we have children...we can't even take care of ourselves without freaking out! :) Anyway, thanks Mom and Bill for your guidance while we were in our completely clueless state of minds! We're glad we could provide you two with some entertainment!! :) Love you both!
Other than the frog incident, all is well in our world. In fact, all is more than well...it's very well! :) Jared is enjoying his job and I am enjoying mine. My supervisor is very nice and has already placed a ton of responsibility on me, which makes me realize that he has a lot of confidence in my ability to get the job done! Jared had a ton of fun at the races in Martinsville, and his boss is planning on sending him to more. He is definitely wowing his supervisors. :)
We pray that all is well for all of you! Enjoy your week!!!
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