Unwelcome Guest

Are you kidding me? Since June we've had this CRAZY sound coming from under our house. Evidently an Armadillo has taken residence and we can't seem to get him to leave. We tried to tell him he wore out his welcome. We tried to block him...with a cement block. He has lived through it! He was blocked in for 2 months and lives to tell. I bet he laughs at us. We had to pull out all our bushes (which I hated anyhow) just to get to the hole he dug.

Since we pulled out all the bushes Now, we're getting letters saying we have to do something with our flower beds or get a fine. But we need this guy to leave so we can make it look nice. We Still hear the crazy noises he makes. Right now it sounds like he's vacuuming. Doesn't he have anything better to do on a Saturday night? Maybe my mom sent him. We always cleaned on Saturday nights to the oldies. I should probably put on some oldies music, do some dishes and make my mom proud. I would be VERY thankful for this guy moving out. He's not welcome but I do appreciate him reminding me to do my chores! :)

Today I'm thankful for my sweet hard-working husband. He is so patient with me and loves me in spite of my imperfections. I'm still trying to get the hang of all the time a new baby requires and getting all (or even some) of my housework done. Being here all day sometimes I get stuff accomplished and other days nothing gets done except there is a baby that has been fed, cleaned and loved. This morning he helped me clean up and reminded me again why I married him. And kissed me every time I passed him. Mark, I love you!

Now off to do my dishes.

Yard Fairy

Someone must've read my blog... or possibly the weather was nice enough to play outside? We've had visitors playing in our yard again! YAY! Yesterday I found some electrical tape, purple and pink curled up ribbons and 2 popsicle sticks. I hope they had loads of fun playing.

Happy Friday the 13th...(duhn-duhn-duhn)! That makes tomorrow Valentine's Day! The shop is closed. Mark and I are up for a day of romance, since this will be our last Valentine's without little ones. And we're grateful for that. I want to take a drive with the windows down and show him all the wondeful smells of Florida at this time of year. The orange blossoms should all be blooming. This is perfect timing for a gorgeous ride. We wish each of you a very loving and happy Valetine's day...whatever you do! Lauren-Orlando Loves you and wishes you a very special V-Day!

BABY UPDATE: Mark and I are settling in to the idea of becoming parents. We went to the doctor last week but due to our little "situation" (no insurance) we didn't do a sonogram. So far it appears our due date is October 5th. We're going back on March 4th to find out for sure. I could be further along though.

Yard announcement

Yesterday I got a text on my phone. It said "hey, Maddie needs to go in your backyard, her artwork flew back there- is it ok?" Of all the great things in my yard, never would I have thought about artwork by a very talented teenager. How in the world did it fly over the fence into the middle of my yard? She's lucky her artwork didn't land in Cami's "masterpieces."

I'm sad to say that one of my little friends moved away. I probably won't have as much stuff in my yard now and that makes us sad. Before he left, he made sure we had his scooter for a couple nights. So long Junior and Caitlyn! We'll also miss your parents who were very good friends to us!

Our Crazy Front Yard

As you know, Mark and I haven't been blessed with children yet. However, if you were to pull up to our home and look at our yard you'd think we were lying liars who lie! Since we both work a lot of long hours, our driveway is empty all day. I'm sure that creates quite the fortress of fun. I have such a hard time figuring out what to blog about, so I thought I could start with what's in the yard and work from there.

Sunday I got home from church and took a nice look at the yard. There was a set of glow-in-the-dark vampire teeth, scooter and purple curly ribbons. Normally I'll find a juice box, wrapper for the straw (of course), a Ripstik, a bike, a shoe, a welcome mat (not mine)...as you can see, its always an adventure. Mark and I love it. We hope our yard is filled with all sorts of stuff from our own kids one day. Our backyard is normally limited to balls and action figures.