Matt & Lindsay's Spot

So, on Sunday, it rained ........ and rained and rained some more. It was raining when we woke up and it was raining when we went to sleep. Thunder even woke me up at 4 am this morning. This was not just a drizzle either. This was a downpour! All day! I really thought our house was going to need to turn into a boat. Insane as we are, Matt and I decided to go out in this and go to lunch and to Lowes. Needless to say, our clothes are still hanging out to dry (I even had an umbrella!). Even the cats were prepared in case the rain got into the house. Looking out the windows now, I see beautiful blue skies. I hope they stick around!

Hi all! Sorry we havent updated in a while. I wanted to wait until I had new baby pics. We went to our ultrasound on Wednesday and found out we are having a BOY! It is a little early (16 weeks) to find out, but the ultrasound tech said (and I quote) "it is pretty prominent" and she was sure it was a boy. We have another u/s at 22 weeks, so we will confirm then. We arent going to paint the walls blue yet, but after seeing the u/s I am sure its a boy. We are super excited! I was shocked with how the little guy looks like a baby now. Last u/s he looked like a little grey gummy bear, now you can see arms and legs and bones. Matt laughs at the 2nd picture. He says that it looks like a demon baby! Hey, we are all allowed to have bad pictures of ourselves! He is kind of funny with his mouth open like that! Thats all the exciting stuff going on right now with us, other than Matts 25th B-day today!! Happy birthday Hubby!

Unfortunately about 500 of our tadpoles are no longer with us. It rained last night and overflowed our little pond, taking a large number of our little friends with them. They are currently making our sidewalk spotted. I would have saved them if only I found them earlier. But do not fret. We still have millions still going strong. They have grown amazingly in the past week. Maybe we will have some itty bitty frogs within the next week or so. If we do, I will have to post some new pictures. So, stay tuned!

Ok this story needs a little back ground info first. A few months ago Matt decided to be Mr. Home improvement. When you walk up to our house, there is a sidewalk from the driveway to the front door. The sidewalk is about a foot/ foot 1/2 from the house. Well, when they built the house, it looked like they had extra concrete from somewhere and just decided to fill up the space between the sidewalk and our house. It looked bad! It was a different color and it was pored in really messy. So Matt went out and bought a sledgehammer and went to work on it. That was fun! We are planning on putting in plants and flowers, making it into a pretty garden. Well, the first time it rained, we found out that was not going to work. It fills up like a pool! To fix the problem, we just need to get gutters. Well, thats one thing on a list of needs (Update - we are getting a quote from a guy Matt works with in the next week or so) So pretty much we have a pond in our front yard every time it so much as drizzles. So the other night we get home and there are about 15 frogs on our front sidewalk using our "pond" as there personal swimming hole. They were SO loud. CROAK! CROAK! All night long! Well the next day. Matt goes out and was planning on emptying the pond and he comes back in and tells me to come out there. Well, needless to say, those frogs were busy. There are about 8 BILLION tadpoles in our pond.



Yes, all those black dots are tadpoles and that is a small corner of our "pond". There are thousands more. Frog legs anyone?