Weekend Recap & Monday Off

This weekend was amazing! Well, to start off--Saturday wasn't so amazing. It was windy & cloudy so we couldn't really do anything but clean, eat, & sit around the house. Poo. But Sunday really made up for the bust that was Saturday. Cory & I picked up my youngest sister, Caitlyn & drove out to Sunfair in 29 Palms to search for Horney Toads & Desert Iguanas. Horney toads have just started coming out of hibernation & we have been searching for them the past couple of weekends with no luck. Yesterday....we found 2! One male, one female...and 2 different colors! We were so stoked! We saw soooo many whiptails and tons of fringe-toed lizards, but still no luck finding any desert iguanas. After our find, we headed out to Coyote Hole in Joshua Tree to look for some Chuckwallas--there were tons of them out, we caught one, he was vicious! Then we let the mean guy go...we were really just trying to show Caity what they looked like, she had only seen them in photos before yesterday. Anywho--everywhere we walked we could hear the chucks' skin on the rocks as they hid in rock crevices. Oh! And on our way into Coyote Hole, Cor spotted a desert iguana sitting in a bush eating his wee heart out. So Cute! I love those guys, they really are so sweet. Peaceful creatures.

It was definately a great day for catching lizards! Thank goodness we didn't run into any rattlers.

1. possible tortoise den 2. Caity & the first fringe-toe we saw

3. Caity taking photos 4. the fringe-toe

little butterfly--something happened to his wing :(

 He was so pretty

1. The first Horn-dog we found 2. Gorgeous orange flowers

3. close-up of the cute little guys face 4. The second Horn-diggle we found. They don't try to get away like most lizards. They get really close to the ground and try not to be seen. They are really neat to observe...and they wag their little tails when they eat, lol. ♥ 'em!

1. the 2 horney toads, side by side so you can see their differences 2. Cor, he looks silly up their on that rock w/a stick, lol. 3. More pretty flowers 4. The chuckwalla we caught, he wasn't hiding very well. Their skin is so leather-like.

Some chucks hiding out in the rocks and one was sun-bathing.

& Today is Monday...and I'm OFF WORK!! Woot Woot! So that means I get to update my blog a bit & take the husband out to lunch on his break. Yay! More free time, lol. And somewhere in my day I need to finish my study guide for my Criminology test :(

Crap! Is my test today?!!

Better check! Geez.

'Member I said Saturday was a bust...and we stayed inside all day? This a project I worked on...I hardly ever wear these shoes, and I thought about painting them to look like saddle shoes--but this is what happened instead. I may paint them some more...haven't decided yet.

How was your weekend?

Silly Guy

My husband & I each have a Bearded Dragon...when I woke up yesterday, I put his (Beast) in the cage, and mine (Irwin) was left to roam around our bedroom. We take turns putting them in the cage because we have to sperarate them or they will fight to the death, lol! We had a lot of running around to do...so when we came home last night--I searched for Irwin. Usually he finds his way to the closet or the bathroom and goes to sleep in a corner somewhere. Last night, the silly little guy found the basket we used to use as his bed in our last rental. He hasn't used it since we moved 2 months ago, and he would usually sleep on my pillow at night so I didn't think he wanted it anymore. The basket was under my desk! He cracks me up! I had to take a picture of him:

And to think I was going to get rid of this basket...poor guy looks pooped. I think he really likes his bed. It makes you wonder if Bearded Dragons can be trained. Hmmm...I'll have to look into it!

This is a photo I took 2 weeks ago of him...he's a bit of a crazy sleeper. He tosses and turns and wiggles a lot in his sleep. I think it's the cutest thing ever.

Do your pets have any funny habits? Tell me about 'em! I ♥ hearing stories, especially animal ones!



Weekend Crafts

 This weekend I had some extra time on my hands and decided I wanted to do a little scrapbooking. It's been months since I've been able to sit down and cut and paste anything and lately I've had all these neat ideas in my head of what I want to do with pictures I've been wanting to get printed. I take tons of photos and never get them printed...so this is something that's on my to do list for 2011. I NEED to keep up with scrapbooking this year. So, I found some cute photos I took of our pets in last couple years and started adding them to my new scrapbook. We recently moved so I don't have all of my scrapbook supplies handy, only the basics. But I think it's a great start for a new scrapbook ♥  I'll have to post photos of them later...since for some reason they keep posting the wrong way...grrrr.

This is my little guy.

The best pets in the whole wide world!

This is my husband's little guy.

The photos crack me up--They just have such personality!