AHHHH!! The Spiders Are Taking Over!!!!

Okay, so it would not typically be in my nature to take pictures, let alone post them, of spiders. However, this is a special circumstance where these are incredibly huge and disgusting. The spiders are taking over our house! Seriously!!!

**Warning! These are very graphic pictures and may cause nightmares.**

We found this guy on the outside of our garage. Pretty, isn't he?

This weekend we moved the girls' room upstairs and our office/schoolroom to the basement. We found something like 5 or 6 Hobo Spiders in their bedroom alone. This morning I went to start a bath for B. and there was another one in the bathtub. After being quite sure I had killed it by flushing it away, I was quite shocked to walk in the bathroom about an hour later to find yet another hobo in the sink! And the biggest one yet! In all the goings on of having four kids 4 & under, one of the boys let the dog in (Benellie, the hyper black lab, who is not allowed in the house), which scarred O. and she started crying. I could hear the dog practically running laps around the upstairs on my beautiful hardwood floors. Of course, I had to run up and put her out. I quickly returned to the bathroom downstairs to finish off the spider, but it was gone. I am not at all comfortable with this situation! However, I cannot change it. I am just glad the girls don't have to sleep down there any more. Sorry boys. Oh, and I forgot to mention that Benellie also found a porcupine last night or this morning. Now, it was less than a month ago we commented about how wonderful she was. She had never gotten into one. She was so smart. Etc, etc, etc. Well, all I can say is, she found one. But thankfully, there were only between 15 - 20 quills, and, she let me pull them all out. They were not deeply embedded at all! Amazing, I know!