A few days ago the boys called for me to come look at the weird bug they found crawling on the couch.  They said it looked like a bean or a small pebble with legs. 

This is what we found.

I didn't have a clue but Christopher guessed that maybe it was a tick full of blood so I ran to the computer did a google image search for "tick full of blood" and sure enough we had a match.  YUCK!!!!

We've had many encounters with ticks since moving to the country.  I am pretty sure they are coming in with the cats but obviously this one was attatched to something.  We are positive it wasn't the kids because we would have seen something this size over the last few days while we've been at the pool.

Here it is upside down.

I think I prefer the small version.