I'm so ready for Fall!!

This past weekend I flew down to Virginia to spend some time hanging out with my dear Lindsey! The weather made some of our plans challenging (it was rainy all weekend), but we had a really great time. On Saturday we were going to head to the pool to go swimming, but due to the weather we had to make other plans! We went to this HUGE Yankee Candle shop that is really awesome and has a bunch of little shops attached to it. They have a very huge Christmas-y area, that let us know there was only 144 days until Christmas! The Yankee Candle Shop had all of their Fall stuff out, so I bought a few Halloween decorations that I'm really excited about (I'll show you once I decorate for Halloween!). And Saturday night Lindsey and her family and I went to a baseball game! The rain held off for most of the game, but at about the 6th or 7th inning it started getting pretty rainy. We stood under the awning for awhile, but ended up leaving a bit before the game was over because it was getting late and it just didn't seem like the rain was going to stop.

Yankee Candle! It was so fun and pretty.

144 days til Christmas (even less now!)

I was excited for this because I love bacon, but it did NOT smell "mmm" at all. 

Baseball game! Before the rain started...Haha :) 

Lindsey!!  

Here are Lindsey's little girls: Reagan is on the left, and Colby is on the right. 

I'm quite glad that summer is almost over. And the main reason is all of the frickin bugs everywhere. I know that sounds whiny and lame, but seriously, they are BAD this year!  The worst I've ever experienced. There are so many mosquitoes, biting gnats (that like to swarm), flying big reddish beetles (that make their way into our basement on a very regular basis), and the newest one is this ENORMOUS grey-ish bug that I've seen the past few weeks. They attach themselves to our house, and sometimes they're just sitting on our walkway to where we take Guinness to go to the bathroom. Well, today I finally figured out what they are: they are cicadas. I don't know how many of you have seen cicadas or heard them (they're quite noisy, and you can usually hear them making noises from trees, etc), but they are HUGE (the bodies are literally the size of a ping-pong ball or larger) and ugly. The good news is that they're fairly harmless, but they will bite if they mistake you for a tree. I'm going to attach some pictures so you can see the grossness of what I'm dealing with here:

This is one molting its grey-ish skin. I saw a few of them in this stage today... I could see their green heads poking out of their grey bodies. 

And here the cicada has almost completely shed its grey skin. I've found a few of these grey-ish "shells" laying around, and one of these huge green bugs flew past my head today. 

So, I think you will understand why I'm ready for some freezing temperatures at night. Yes, you heard that right: I am asking for freezing temperatures. I'm just very over Summer. Come on, Fall!!