Scary Larry....

So...I forgot to post this before we left for Maui. A few days before we left, I saw a few ants in our house so I called the exterminator to have them come take a look. It turns out we have a HUGE ant colony out back and they think it is in the walls of our basement! The guy who was here has been doing this for 13 years and he said he had never seen so many ants. Great.

Anyway - we paid them a ton of money and they are going to take care of the ants for us. That's not the Scary Larry part of the story. That evening, we went to bed as usual and at 2:19am our house alarm went off. Think - BLARING sirens that wake you out of your sleep. Ryan and I flew out of bed, Ryan looked for a shirt and one of mine was on the floor so he grabbed it. I got the biggest laugh (even in the moment) of picturing Ryan going out to confront a burglar wearing my grey vest! So - I told him he didn't need a shirt on and to go on out! So he grabbed the bat and went out while I answered the call from ADT. They said on the phone that it was the motion sensor in our basement that had been triggered and asked if we wanted them to send the police. We said yes and the wait began.

About 20 minutes later (seriously...I know...had there really been a burglar we would have been dead) the police arrived and did a search around the house with a huge spotlight and came in and searched the basement. There weren't any signs of forced entry and everything looked like it was in place. The only thing that was slightly alarming was that we were missing one screen on one of the windows.

After the police left, we both had a hard time going back to sleep. Madison Claire on the other hand slept through the ENTIRE thing....blaring sirens and all! We think what happened was that the bug man jostled something when he was walking through the basement looking around for the ants and that it fell during the middle of the night and set off our motion sensor. That is what we are choosing to believe anyway!