Speedy Gonzales

The weekend of Alabama's Homecoming (Oct 16th) Jared and I decided to stay home and watch the game. It was a late game (8pm) so it would be easier to watch it and go to bed than worry about driving all the way home. During halftime Jared goes to the living room and gets on the computer to waste some time. All of a sudden I hear... "Stef, will you get my flashlight?" I walk to the bedroom without asking any questions and grab the flashlight. As I'm handing it to him he's already looking in the coat closet right by the front door. So of course my curiousity gets to me...I ask "What are you looking for? A spider?" and he replies "hand me my machete". Ummm, those are 4 words no wife ever wants to hear their husband say. Now it is funny but at that time it creeped me out. Ha! Of course I get the machete and come back. Right now the top of our pool table (which is so heavy it took 4 people to move) is leaning up against the wall inside the front door. He asked me to hold it back so he can look behind it. I am standing there, during halftime, with shorts and a t-shirt on, barefoot, holding up the top to the pool table when a field mouse runs right in front of my toes. Of course I'm like "Jared it just ran by" and he starts searching the living room. While he is looking I decide to get up to the second step to get a better look. I'm standing there shining a flashlight when it runs by my feet again. Once again we chase after it. We no longer see it so we give up and go back to watching the game.
A week goes by with no mouse and I'm starting to think it's gone. Then last weekend I hear Jared jump up and run across the room. I come in to see what he's doing and he's looking behind the pool table. I decide to hold the pool table away from the wall so we can see it and the little thing was popping in and out of the pool table. He would poke his head out and see us and go back in. After a while we give up and go on doing whatever it was we were doing.
Sunday night we were getting ready for bed. Jared's already in bed watching tv and I just brushed my teeth and started to walk around the bed to my side. Right as I go to turn the corner he runs by. Jared gets up and looks under the bed. I say "be careful" and he said "it's not a tiger. it's not going to leap at my face" haha! But anyways, about that time it runs and jumps in a purse I had sitting on the floor. This is an empty purse (all except a pair of heels) that Jared's mom had just given me. So he scoops up the purse and walks out of the room. When I finally leave the room he's standing at the end of the hallway debating how to kill it. He said "is there anything in this purse?" and I said "just a pair of heels your mom gave me" and he said "are you attached to the purse?" and I said "no" so he replies with "then go get me the hammer" that thought makes me cringe but I start to head that way. He then said "no I can't do that. How about a garbage bag?" So I pull out one of the white kitchen bags and he dumps the mouse in. At this time we are looking at him and he is looking at us and he was so cute and scared. He was about an inch long and grey. Now we are torn. Do we kill him or not? So Jared said "let's let fate decide. Do you have a quarter?" I grab one from the table and he flips it. Fate decided it was time for the mouse to die. However, we weren't sure. So I suggested best two out of three. He flips again and again fate decides the mouse must die. We decide fate is incorrect and Jared puts on shoes and heads out the door. In the storm he decided to release him down the road. We go back to the bedroom and climb back in bed. Not even 5 minutes later Jared sees another one run under the bedroom door and into his closet (we have his and her closets) After chasing him from Jared's closet, to my closet, to the hall closet, to one of the guest closets, we lose him when he goes into the hallway. It's at this time that Jared and I make an agreement. The first one we let go...from here on out, they all must die.
So because of this and because of the 50 million wasps floating around the front and back door we have decided this weekend is....TAKE BACK OUR HOUSE WEEKEND! Nothing shall live, everything will die! :::in a creepy Halloween voice with crazy laughing in the background:::