Hanne and Lindsey Donna and Steve come for a visit!

I am off of work for a 4 day weekend!! How bout that!! Yesterday was a day filled with more thunderstorms and tornados, again! Tom was at school yesterday while I was at home and he called to make sure I was okay, I hadn't even turned the TV on yet, I was busy reading my new book. He told me that there were tornado warnings in Murfreesboro and he was stuck taking cover in one of the buildings at school. It turned out that there were just bad storms here in Nashville, but in Murfreesboro there were several tornados that touched down... He made it out okay but there was a lot of damage all over that town and I will be praying for everyone that lost their homes yesterday...

I guess that's why I am thankful that Donna and Steve and the girls were running late yesterday...they weren't caught up in the bad weather, unfortunately though they were caught up in bad traffic. Their 10 hour trip to our house from Disney turned into 14!!! They made it to our house around 1:45 am for a rest from the road.

Lindsey was sound alseep when they got here, cuddled up on Donna's lap. We had the dogs outside and when we told her they were coming in she woke up with so much energy... She has an incredible love for animals. She had a great time throwing the ball for Shirley.

I think Linsdey was ready to take Riley back to Wisconsin with her!!!

Hanne was pretty sleepy and shy but it really was good to see all of them. Hopefully next time they will be able to stay a little longer. 2:30 am they were back on the road headed to Madison. Steve really wanted to get home, which I don't blame him they still had a long drive ahead of them and it is so much better to just be home after a long vacation like they had.

Spring-urgh!!!

Spring sports are here and that means that I am going crazy!!! There are so many games scheduled over the next month and half that I don't even know how they are going to play them all...and that means that making plans for myself from now until school is out is pretty impossible. What does that mean...I am a big ball of stress!!! Some days I think I am going to be done early and I find out at the last minute that something is rescheduled...like tomorrow...6:30 baseball game, yippy. Yesterday everything got rained out.

I am getting excited though...Thursday Donna and Steve are stopping by Nashville on their way home from Disney with Hanne and Lindsey...Its going to be so nice to have company down here. I am getting pretty lonely. They are going to be the first of several visitors. Mom and Dad are coming down in the middle of May and Patrick and Soumya say they are coming at the end of May.

The last couple of days I haven't been feeling good, not sure if I am fighting a cold or allergies... I have never had a problem with allergies but I guess people from Tennessee have a problem with the pollen down here???

We got an email from Lisa today...She sent us Ultrasound pictures. They did the 3D thing, those are pretty neat...she is getting closer and closer...I can't wait to get up to Chicago to see her baby bump at the shower...also it will be nice to get out of Nashville for a couple days.

survived the storm!!

I spent a little longer in the training room than I wanted to today but wanted to make sure the weather was going to be okay to go home. Turns out I decided it was okay to go home right in the middle of rush hour traffic, smart one Amanda!!! What usually takes me 15 min took 45 today. I usually don't go home at 5 and especially not in the rain. If it sprinkles here it slows down traffic. Seems everyone gets excited and slows down to 4 mph then that causes accidents and the chain of stupidity continues... I've said it before and I'll say it again...People in TN are the worst drivers in the country, I swear they will give anyone a license here...Holy Cow!!!

The rain let up not to long after I got home, so we fed the puppies and they finally decided that it was safe to go outside and play. We knew they would get kinda soggy but felt bad for them for being trapped inside all day. They had a good time out there but then we forgot about them and all of a sudden the skies opened up again.

The poor puppies were trapped outside in the pouring down rain!!! They were waiting patiently by the back door for us to let them in as we rushed to the back door to get them.

At least this time we didn't have to give them baths, it was raining so hard they were already squeeky clean from their "rain shower" all they needed was a toweling off!!!!!

Scary Weather

So I am sitting here in my training room by myself because I don't want to go home and drive through a tornado. We are having some serious scary weather here and for any of you that know me well, you know I DO NOT LIKE TORNADOs!!!!! So far so good, think they are all going to pass around us but they are letting all the kids go home but I want to stay for a little bit. A tornado has already touched down about 5 miles from my house so I am really hoping that my puppies are alright!!!!

Hi Trevor!!!!

I'm Tired!!!

Today has been quite a long day.(long couple of days actually!!) I worked from 7am till 11:00pm yesterday. I had to see patients in the clinic first, then we had a chili lunch so I felt obligated to stay to eat instead of going home for lunch like I usually do on Tuesday and Thursday. Then I went to go get my yearly TB test and then off to the high school. Most of our teams were away yesterday but we had a couple teams practice then a soccer game at 7pm. About 10 minutes left in the second half of the soccer game a kid broke his collar bone!! So off to the ER I went to make sure that the kid was taken care of over there. He got released about 11:00. Got to bed around 11:45 then up early this morning to go back to work. Thought I would be done early today since ALL of my teams are away, right. You wanna know the best part about my job. Realizing there is a Tennis match at 4:30 that I have to stay for when I thought I would be out of here at 5. Now looks like I'm staying till 7. So I went up and told the coaches that I have paper work to do and I am hanging out in the athletic training room until its over. I just can't sit out there today and watch Tennis of all sports!!! Yuck! Sorry tennis lovers! I hope everyone else is having a better day than me.





Here is a picture of me working...its football last fall but I thought I would add a picture today too.


Here's another, see, I can never escape laundry!!!!!!

Lazy Sunday!!!

We started today off slow. I actually fell asleep last night at 8:30. I think it might have had something to do with "Earth Hour". We shut all the lights out to watch TV. Would have gone out to have a fire but it was pretty soggy out there!! I also had to work all day yesterday at a track meet and oh how I love track!!! That pretty much exhausted me and we had some crazy storms here last night. So, after a big dinner, scary storms and a couple beers; I was out!!!

We were up pretty early last this morning and watched the news to see if there was any storm damage and really there wasn't much. We hung out for a little bit then went to church, went and bought us some new running shoes and then grocery shopping. That pretty much wore us out for the rest of the day. We came home and put all the groceries away and I put a pork roast in the crock pot.
Tom studied most of the afternoon.

So, our lives are pretty boring today as far as that goes unless you count watching a round or two of "puppy rumble" which keeps us entertained for a while.

We also got to talk to a lot of family today. We each got to talk to our Mommies today. I was on the phone with Kimmy and also heard from Drew...

We got some good news from Drew...He spent the weekend in California with Kendra and it looks like there will be another wedding coming soon. Drew asked Kendra to marry him on the beach at sunset...How romantic...Congratulations Drew and Kendra!!!

Spring Break Week

This week was a nice, much needed break from work. I spent a lot of it doing absolutely nothing but it was great!!! I had high hopes of getting a lot acomplished like cleaning out closets and organizing my kitchen cabinets, but oh well I have all summer for that, right?? The weather was nice, 60's and 70's all week so I got out in the yard a bit to play with the dogs. We barbequed and ate out on the patio one night and had another night by the fire.




Friday night we went out to Zanies, which is a comedy club in downtown Nashville. We saw Dave Atell who is a late night comic we used to watch on Comedy Central back in college. We had a great time. It's not often that we get out of the house for a "date" so it was really fun. Saturday we had to get up early to go help friends of ours move. It wasn't bad at all though. They had a lot of it done and organized so we just had to load stuff into the truck and take it to a storage unit a couple blocks away. They took us out to lunch for helping at the Red Robin. I guess we will be helping them again in a couple months when they move out of their rental and into their new house.

Saturday was a busy day!! After we got back from moving we layed around for a couple hours then showered and went out with another couple of friends. We went to the Flying Saucer which is just an old bar in Union Station that has about 200 beers to choose from, similar to Old Chicago but without the pizza. They did have pretty good food though and just as all bars do in Nashville we got to listen to live music after 9. The music was very loud but good. We went on from there to downtown to an Irish Pub, Mulligan's and had a beer there and listened to an Irish band. They were much better and definately more fun.

So Sunday we were pretty tired, we didn't get home until 1:30AM!! That is unheard of these days, I know we are old, right! So we layed around for a couple hours after sleeping in till 9. I sat in the house and crocheted for a while while Tom cleaned up the yard and mowed. I finished the blanket that I have been working on so I felt obligated to go outside and help him. We turned over this patch of dirt next to the patio and raked it all up and planted seed. Hopefully with the ropes and chair baracades we can keep the puppies out of it until the grass grows in. Wish us Luck!!! Today I am back to work at the High School, no games tonight though so should get home early. We do have a lot of softball games this week though so back to being busy for me...8 weeks until I'm off for the summer!!!

Irish Puppies!!!

The past few days have been nice. I have been home enjoying the start of my spring break. Tom's was last week so its too bad we didn't get to spend it together. He spent the first of his break in the yard but the rest of the week was cold and rainy!! Yuck!!! Today is the first nice day in a while. It is bright and sunny and 70 degrees here. I just got back from my 3 mile run. Which was not that good today but at least I went. I went to the store to buy this weeks groceries and had to pick up stuff for the puppies of course.

Shirley is not so much into the dressing up anymore but it has been a tradition since we got here to dress her up every St. Patrick's Day. the last couple years have been bandana's. Riley is a ham for the camera and loves hers. I can't wait for Tom to get home tonight because those pins light up in the dark, they are going to go crazy when I turn the lights off and turn them on chasing each other around!!!
I hope everyone has a great St. Patrick's Day!!!!

long week

This has been quite a long week. It started off great with good weather, that always makes me have a good day. Monday and Tuesday it was sunny and nice with Tuesday getting up to 81 degrees. These pictures were taken Tuesday. I got home from working baseball games and we made dinner. (Left over grilled chicken turned into yummy salads) We then went outside and sat by the fire pit for a little over an hour and unwound and then in to watch "The Biggest Loser". The rest of the week has been cold and rainy!!! I sat out a baseball game on Wednesday in the wind and 38 degrees!!! YUCK!! Yesterday's game got cancelled so I got to come home after the clinic but I ended up staying at the clinic late, oh well, you'll have that. Today I had my post op appointment with my surgean. He reassured me that everything went well during surgery and I am on the right track. He said to just keep things up naturally for the next 6 months, try to lose some weight and if nothing happens after that then he will see me in 6 months to talk about IUI.


We had a full moon on Tuesday night just as the clouds were moving in. It looked really cool as it was poking in and out of the clouds with that cool moon glow. I had a hard time getting a good picture but this one is the best with the tree and the glow of the clouds. I think it is pretty.

Here is Tom enjoying his fire pit. He spent the afternoon digging up the base for it. We spent last fall moving it back and forth from the side yard. Now it has a permanant home in the middle of the yard on a nice brick base. He did a great job, it looks really good out there. Its so peaceful to just sit by the fire on a cool night and talk about our days. I recommend it to all couples!!!

Yard Work

> Its a Riley EXTREME Closeup!!!!

Tom is spending the day today in the yard. It has been a long winter and we have not figured out how to break the dogs of a digging habit. So...He gets to spend his first day of his spring break filling holes and planting grass. Sounds like fun, huh. If anyone has any suggestions on how to break dogs of digging holes when you are not there to stop them, PLEASE leave a comment and let us know!!!!!!

Look at the yard, last Fall we had a nice yard, full of grass and hole free. Now we have patchy grass and muddy puppies when it rains!!!!

So today has been a busy day already. I got up and went to the grocery store. Then, I came home and cooked breakfast for Tom and myself...mmmm...scrambled eggs and english muffins. I then had to go to the dentist...FUN and get 2 out of my last 3 fillings done. He didn't have time to do the 3rd because I had to get to work. Tonight we have our first official baseball game. At least it is nice weather so I will be able to enjoy the outdoors today.