September 17, 2008

Girls and Bugs and Love and Music

A compilation of some random pictures of Claire over the last year. Love bringing lots of photos together from different times to tell a story.

These freakin' bugs are driving us all insane. This is some sort of beetle that appeared in our area from Utah a few years ago and has taken up residence here for the past two summers. They hatched at the end of July and I seriously think we have had a couple hundred thousand tooling around since then. They are crawling everywhere. I don't usually have much of a problem with bugs; living in the country has made me somewhat immune to little critters, but these guys are getting obnoxious. We will not bug bomb the house because of our pet toad who lives in the basement, but if anyone could pass us some voodoo, it would be much appreciated!

This coming Sunday is the 25th anniversary of Mark's and my first "real" date, so we're celebrating with a trip to Seattle to see 2 concerts. The first is Journey, Heart, and Cheap Trick on Friday night, and then Sunday we'll have the pleasure of listening to Maroon Five and the Counting Crows, one of my all-time favorite groups. Nana and Paul are taking care of the kids for us and we are westward bound. It's sure to be a fabulous weekend.

2 comments:

Shawna said...

Have a great time at your concerts!!! I wish I was going!

Karen Tews Lien said...

We have those same type of bugs in our backyard area! They love the bark and are all over our garage wall. Yuck!

Great score on the tickets! If you were leaving in March, we could have taken you guys. Have you found someone to housesit yet?