It is common knowledge that when a certain movie called, "Arachnaphobia", is watched that the fear of spiders is certain to follow. This fear is not understood by my normally-understanding husband who makes light of it and even threatens to bring spiders that he captures near me.
Obviously he has never seen "Arachnaphobia".
This is a relevant fact, because while I was gathering my things together to go to work, I happened to glance down and see a humongous animal-like spider sitting casually in a gift bag that I sometimes use to carry Joshua's toys. For a split second I thought that it couldn’t be real and Tim must be playing a cruel joke on me. Oh no...it was real. The pictures don’t do it justice because his legs were all scrunched up and I wasn't going to get any closer – with legs extended he was probably the size of my palm.
I calmly held the bag at arms length and carried the creature outside where I was going to take another picture. However, due to the loud rustling inside the bag I thought it best not to sport with it and threw the bag near some bushes and proceeded to do the heeby jeeby dance as soon as I was safely back inside (To Joshua's great amuzement...or confusion - I'm not quite sure which). I told Tim that he will be spraying and he was surprised of how big the spider actually was - which gives me a small satisfaction that I, Rebecca Skaggs, got rid of it.
Here is the culprit:
Why didn't I kill it?
- I thought about it but then I imagined the crunch and cringed.
Why didn't I vacuum it up?
- Only my friend, Marilyn, could be so level-headed in such a moment.
Why didn't I capture it?
- Are you insane?
I love when he bends his legs like this - Like a little frog :)
Happy boy!
To me he looks a lot like his Uncle Jesse's baby pictures in this picture
It's getting so hot here so he's been sportin' only onesies. 
Joshua's looking at my manager who came in to get her baby fix like 
This is my co-worker Cathie who saw this safari outfit and said - "That's Joshua!" and brought it in to work for him yesterday. I just love the hat! He's ready for the Wild Animal Park.
Grandma Plumb and her boy. I Spy a cute pregnant lady can you?
Howdy folks! Joshua loves his grandma.
I love this man! 
Cute couple!
Didn't I say the cake was amazing? 
Ashlyn making Joshua laugh. It's so much fun to see him interact more and more.
Sarah and Joshua
Melanie was so tired but she couldn't pass up the opportunity to hold Joshua.
The grand kids (minus 6) with Grandpa 
Our family.
I met my sister Emily for lunch one day at a park . It's so fun having family close by.
My work has an "Infant at Work" program and so I get to bring Joshua to work with me until he's 6 months. Everyone loves to see him and the office morale is definitely up since he's been there.
We all went to Phil's BBQ. If you haven't been you've got to go and you'll see why... 
To illustrate the goodness of Phil's I'm posting this embarrassing picture of me. Everything is unbelievably good there, I couldn't get enough. When you do go, don't make the mistake I did of wearing a white shirt. 
On Saturday we got to drive to Orange County for my sister-in-law Kristen's baby shower. She's having a little girl in September, the same month Emily's due with her little boy.
