Celebration!

So many things to celebrate. Yesterday was my husband's birthday - #30! Now we're both old farts. :) We had a good time, and plan to celebrate this weekend with some of our friends. We went to Rockfish for dinner which is one of our favorite seafood restaurants. Then off to the mall to play with the puppies to see if we'd be swooned into getting one. They're just so darn cute and loveable. We played with a little short-haired Dachshund for a while, and had a good time, right up to the part where it pee'd and pooped in the play area. Great reality, huh? Here's Joe with his new heavy bag I got him for his birthday. He's been wanting one to hang in the garage. It's getting to be a real testosterone den out there... between all the tools, the cars, the motorcycle, and now a heavy bag. Makes up for the girly touches I put on everything else. :)

Another great reason to celebrate is that our good friends, Luke and Emily, welcomed their first child yesterday! A little girl, Megan Elizabeth, weighing 8 lbs, 1 oz, and 21 inches long. Luke says Emily was a real trooper through the delivery process, and I believe it. Congratulations Friends! We can't wait to meet Megan!

Last night we had a doozy of a storm here. The kind that wake you in the middle of the night. I've never heard the wind howl so loud. For a few minutes I thought I was going to get to experience my first tornado - we even considered getting out of bed, and heading to the closet/safe room. The really weird thing was that during the storm, it all stopped briefly, and became so quiet, before it eventually picked back up with the howling. We finally went back to sleep, and woke up this morning to find that there were 26 tornadoes that touched down between here and OK. I guess that's why they call it tornado alley... anywho, we didn't have any tornadoes here, but they did nearby. We got the aftermath of the storm. Apparently after a large number of tornadoes, the cooler air is brought lower in the atmosphere causing hail, and other such phenomenon. (This West Texas living is going to be a great lesson in atmospheric studies I think.) So even though it was 75 degrees yesterday, we had hail over night. I found it piled up next to one of my daylillys this morning.

Joe has worked really hard the last two weeks getting our flower beds ready for the new season. He laid down pea gravel after planting some new border grasses, and perennials. With the wind down here, the mulch pretty much just blows away out front. However we are going to use it in the back yard which is protected by the fence. I'm so proud of how hard he's been working on this project, and I think it's really turned out nice.