ant piles and mud puddles

football practice was quite unique today!

to start things off, i just want to say a big thank you fay for dumping unnecessary amounts of rain upon us, for too many days in a row, making our football field a giant pond and forcing us to practice somewhere else...

...and thank you to the incredible 30 minute intense downpour this afternoon right before practice began to give our new practice location a few more inches of standing water.

so after wading out to watch practice, i discovered something else that came to practice...a very unwanted guest...ANTS! little, red and hungry fire ants! ahhhhhhh!! they were everywhere!! the boys were freaking out. it was actually a little amusing to watch one of them run from the team every few minutes into a puddle and stomp around screaming like little girls! one of my sweet kids had over 65 bites/welps all over his torso! poor guy was bit up!!!!!

so in case you're ever looking for the largest colony of ants in jacksonville or the largest practice puddle known to man, i know where to find them both!!

all of this fun, on a monday, AND on only 3 hours of sleep...whew! is this a taste of what the rest of the week is going to be like?!? if so, i better get to bed now...