What is this the animal kingdom?

What a funny day! Okay I'll start off by explaining what happened to me last week, I was unloading my car in the back yard one night after Rees went to sleep. It was dark out and my outdoor lights didn't kick on so I was stumbling around to get to the car when all the sudden I see beady little eyes and this horrible hissing sound so I freaked out! I ran screaming back into the house and of course when Mat went out after it there was nothing there...I'm crazy right! NOPE not at all, can you believe what showed it's self in the back yard today while we were playing in the pool... the nasty little rodent that scared the bajeebers out of me (still not exactly sure what he is...opossum I think, maybe) He is huge and just walking around liked he owned the place. I got alot of pics of him but he was at the barn so we stayed out. Check him out

Action shot. He's bigger than my cat!

Okay so then I see Rees concentrating way too hard on the pool so I walk over and low an behold there was a freakin frog in his pool. I hate frogs, I mean I like for them to hang out at my pond (as long as it's not those ones that make that really loud sound all night long...I hate those) but you know what I mean right, who wants to touch those ugly little boogers? I'll tell you who my son. Aghhh He was obsessed with the poor frog. He got it out of the pool and kept putting it into his little play cup (not one he drinks out of just a play one) then he slammed the cup down on the ground with the frog in it. The dumb frog didn't run so Rees just played and played with that frog. Watch....

finally the frog had enough torture...he ran off

So after all that the frog hopped off, but he didn't go far...

He decided to follow my lazy cat around. That cat has it too easy shouldn't he be trying to eat the frog? Or at least toss it around a little? So that was the d

My non cooperative test subject

I have been wanting to play around with my lighting in the studio for a while now. I bought this really pretty trunk to use as a prop so I thought now is the time...I really need to start trying to improve my skills so I grabbed Rees and we went over to practice. Does anyone have a guess as to how this turned out??? Well let me show you...

Ugh, this is the best shot I got and that's not saying much because the lighting is horriable in this one. (and yes that's a bottle of paint in his hand, whatever to get him to stand still) :)

I was trying to get him in the trunk, but he didn't want any part of that.

What about sitting on the trunk...Nope he wasn't down with that either.

So this is why I don't have alot of pictures of my little man and the ones I do have are just plain luck because when we're in my studio together I take about 200 pictures so there's bound to be one or two that are okay. Good thing he's so cute, or I'd have already given up :) He has so much energy he can't contain it for even a second, constantly on the go. I didn't learn anything new that day, but I had alot of laughs!

Oh, on a side note, has anyone been into Big Lots lately? They have alot of pretty home dec stuff right now. That have a huge buyout of the Jennifer...something stuff that is so pretty but they said it wouldn't go onsale for another month so you might want to wait a little while before you check it out. This little tiny wicker bench (it's for kids and it's only big enough for like to toddlers to sit on, very little) is $120...can you believe that? So I have to wait for it to go on sale before I snag it but the rugs, and outdoor stuff is gorgeous! Just thought I'd pass that along!