Sunday: Google Chats and a Gila Monster!

We always love our Sunday Google + calls with our kids.  Today we were favored with a beautiful ballet dance number from Gabbi.

 And lots of smiles and blown kisses from Jaron.

 Lily and Caleb had lots of smiles and chatter for us.  Out of the blue, Lily said, "Yosh!"  After family prayer at our house, we say "Yosh!"  We always have . .. Ken and I still do.  It's tradition.  Little Lily remembered that and said it to us.  So cute!

 Caleb was especially excited to tell us about their father/sons outing where they slept in the trunk and roasted martianmellows.  That's what he told us!

 After the calls we went for a drive to see the home of a family that is moving from our ward.  Just a half a block from their house we saw a Gila Monster!  I'm not kidding!  We watched it waddle/ shuffle it's way down the street as birds clustered around it and followed it.  We aren't sure why the birds followed.  Maybe they were chasing it?  There were doves, robins, house sparrows, house finches, and Western Kingbirds following it.  We watched from the car and followed it ourselves for quite a while.

It ended up at the house of a friend (Ken replaced him in the stake presidency 9 years ago), so Ken went and got him and showed him.  It was awesome- like watching a nature show.  Gila monsters are an endangered species.  You don't want to get close enough to get bit by one.  They are poisonous and when they bite, they don't let go.  Could the birds instinctively know that?  Nature is fascinating.

We don't want that family to move from our ward, so I'm thinking I'll email these pictures to them, hoping it will scare them so much they won't move.  

So that's our exciting Sunday evening.