Happenings

Thursday of last week we were watching Wizards of Waverly Place when this really obnoxious sound started. At first we thought it was the show, but it just kept going and was too obnoxious even for a Disney Channel show. So we muted the TV and sure enough, wasn't the show. So we turned on the news and sure enough, it was a tornado warning. We had a huge front going right over us with some super cells that could cause tornadoes. The newscaster said that people in our area should get in our "safe place", so we got the girls out of bed (it was around 10) and we make a makeshift bed in the hallway and hunkered down for about 15 minutes while Mother Nature went nuts outside. There were incredible winds and the rain was beating so hard, but we didn't have any tornadoes in our area. Thankfully.

Today it's been storming more. Like gigantic hard hitting, bounce-off-the-ground-after-it-hits rain drops. Tennessee has this crazy intense rain that is nothing like I've ever experienced in the West. We heard about a flash flood watch, then we experienced a mini one in our backyard.

Here is our yard before:

And here it is after:

I don't think that this was even at it's highest. Soon after this, it was just gone. So crazy. It's happened a couple times this morning. The neighbor's yard (to the left in this photo) was almost completely underwater.

In other news this week, Rob's heart has been acting up and giving him some pain and numbness and other not-so-good symptoms so we visited the cardiologist Friday. He has what's called PVC's that are normally harmless enough, but the doctor wanted to monitor his heart for 48 hours so he got to wear a monitor over the weekend. Here is my studly hubby all hooked up.

Too bad they didn't shave him before they put those super-sticky nodes on him. Peeling them off wasn't pretty!

The other day I was trying to find Ruby something to wear. Apparently I hadn't done the laundry in a while, so I plopped her down on the (clean) laundry pile that had found a home on our couch and thought it was cute so I took a picture. (Don't worry she is wearing a diaper even though you can't see it. Doing all this laundry once was enough!)

And since I can't take a picture of Ruby without G being in it, here's both my girls.