Wishes sometimes do come true...

For about five years now Kenny has tried every year in September to get us to buy him a snake for his birthday. We were able to get by a few years in Utah when our neighbors (The Bielstein's) would bring us the garden snakes they would find while weeding their amazing garden, but since moving to Alabama we haven't been so 'lucky'! Then one day someone at work mentioned to Arnold that their teenage son had outgrown his snake and was looking for someone to take it off his hands. Great! Just what I needed. So the Saturday before Kenny's birthday we drove down to Pascagoula, MS and picked up a three year old California King Snake for Kenny's tenth birthday. Kenny couldn't stop smiling. He also couldn't stop saying, "I can't believe he's really mine!" Two months, four frozen dead rats, and many, many hugs later....we now can officially say we have a new addition to our family. His name is Taz and he's a snake. Future visitor's beware...