A Deer Hit Us!?

Since it's the end of the month and Darrell and I both have slacked on Home and Visiting Teaching I decided to make texas sheet cake to take to our families. We had 4 plates to deliver. We delivered the first plate and started driving to the next. As we drove down Greenhouse Rd for those of you who are not here- it is a residential street, lots of new home building and some old and fields in between. We had just passed a subdivision and were slowing to turn and Darrell and I both noticed something brown, and thought it was a dog. Then BAM!!

Look at how close it was to Carly's window! We've only had her in a backless booster- we are putting the back on because obviously you never know when something's gonna come at ya!

Here is some deer saliva- how nasty is that?!

If a DNA sample was needed we'd have everything- here's hair also!

We stopped and looked and one deer was hopping across the road and another was in the middle of the road twitching- ewww! We were so shocked- it's like 6:00 in the evening- not dark at all! Both deer were running full speed down a residential street- what the heck were they doing?! We pulled over and looked at the back of the car and were shocked! Luckily it was further back or a head would have been through Carly's window. The impact was hard enough Carly lost an earring, and Lexi got a really bad head ache. We went over to look at the deer, and it was dead by then. The girls were sad for him- he had little nubs so we know it was a him. But we just started laughing! A lady was outside weeding her yard and Darrell was telling her, she was very surprised and told us her sons had just told her a deer ran through the back yard and she told them to quit lying- no deers ever are over there! I'm glad we had a good sense of humor- the $500 deductible for insurance is really going to stink though!

So the moral of the story? Don't wait till the end of the month to do Home and Visiting Teaching or random deers might come ram your car!

We also had to have a little anatomy lesson on deers. The girls were begging to see there deer so after delivering the rest of the plates we drove back. By the way, ANOTHER deer was there wandering on the side of the road! We drove passed and slowed down and Ashlee asked, "How did the deer get a hole in the back of it?" I looked and what she was seeing was it's booty! I told her that it was it's booty and that's where it poops. She was very confused at why we could see the booty hole! Why do my kids have to be so observant?!

I will post pictures of the deer later- Darrell has them on his work phone. Don't worry, nothing graphic, gory and not of it's booty!