Death to the Spiders!

Alright, I think I've mentioned it before but living in the basement brings lots of spiders.  This week I was presented with one that still makes my skin crawl.  I walked into the bathroom and in a corner that was too close to comfort for me was .....

THIS!!!!

I took a picture of it because I had read somewhere that there might be things called Hobo spiders, but that they are sometimes really just ordinary house spiders that get mistaken as Hobos.  Well, my research and comparison has led me to that this WAS a Hobo spider.  Why so bad?  This thing is venomous, like a black widow or brown recluse.  And...they LOVE basements.  UGHHHHHHH!  We are definitely respraying, and cleaning and spraying our outside windows...and I don't know what else, but I want them to be gone.  

I did kill it after taking the pictures.  I squished it with my pink flip flop multiple times to ensure a death.  And then it went down the toilet to drown its sorrows.

Anyways, that was Monday so now I'll focus on the weekend.  

Friday night we had a couple from the ward come over.  It was the first outside church and church function interaction that we've had.  I made dinner for them and then we just talked.  At one point we watched a lightning show.  We had walked outside because it was gorgeous to watch, but then a huge one clapped over us....so we were content to sit inside.  From here though through our one window pane the view wasn't the same.

Saturday morning Kyle had an Elder's Quorum breakfast to with.  The food turned out to be edible, and more than just the families of the presidency showed up.  So it was a great success.  Later, we had the missionaries over for dinner that night.  

I didn't take pictures of these weekend events because I had just met these people, and it is kind of weird if I just pull out my huge camera to take a few pictures.  Like I know I'm weird, but I don't want to completely give them to what level I am at just right now. That is one downside of a DSLR (the big fancy cameras for those who were wondering what that meant.).  The downside is that you can't just whip it out and take discreet pictures.  It's very obvious...

However you get beautiful pictures like the ones I got Sunday evening when we drove and parked in front of the Antelope Island Causeway Toll Booth thing. Examples are:

This was my favorite shot of the night.  I love the bright yellow/orange to the dark blue at the very top.

Or you get pictures like this:

Shows off the beauty of nature...

Or I can take cute shots of us when waiting for the sun to actually set.

So yeah...I LOVE my DSLR.  Those were just some shots from a sunset outing.  The rest can be seen through a link on the side to my other blog.