Crawdads!

A couple weekends ago, Lars took the boys out to Hyrum to fish for crawdads. They had a blast and came home with a big bucket full of them...

 Ashton invited his new friend Dylan that he met at vacation bible school.

I was proud of Lars for taking some good pictures since I stayed home...

Anyway of course the boys begged to be able to keep some of them, so Lars let Ashton keep some in water in his room that night.

Then the next day he went and bought them tanks and everything else they needed to really keep them as pets. I was NOT on board with this at first. In fact I had to walk out of the pet store, and just told him to do whatever he wanted. I really hate the idea of any kind of pet.

So he brought all the stuff home and got it all set up for them in their rooms that night. I still wasn't excited about their new additions.

That is until I saw their cute little excited faces. (the boys, not the crawdads).

 They named them, Ashton's...Spikey and Gunnar's...Pinchey (he only has one pincher) and they kept running in and out of their rooms to check on them and I was won over. I guess every kid wants to have a pet. Believe it or not, I had a DOG when I was little...not a family dog, it was actually mine. Panda was it's name. It didn't last long because my Mom feels the same way that I now do about dogs, but I did have one. Also a bunny named Bugsy that I had for quite awhile. Anyway as far as pets go, these 2 are pretty cool.

They are fun to watch...they stay up all night and play and apparently some have been known to be great escape artists! I hope these two aren't that talented. I prefer them to be in their tanks at all times.

Anyway kind of fun :)