Angry Tennessee Weather

Yesterday some severe storms blew through Tennessee and the surrounding states. Luckily, nothing too severe came around our house. Logan was gone the majority of the day taking his oral exam and practical for his class he has been in the past several weeks. He got home right before the most severe storm hit that included these nice green/dark looking clouds in the picture above. Shortly after this picture the skies opened up and the rain started coming down. We even got a little bit of hail; thank goodness both cars were inside by this point! Our NOAA weather radio was out of control yesterday...between tornado watches all day, tornado warnings, and severe thunderstorm warnings I think we made out pretty well and should feel lucky there was no damage to our house or surrounding areas!

Today we woke up and the sun was shining and beautiful, its just a tad windy out! Hopefully we won't have anymore severe weather in the next few months! We have been extremely lucky to only have that one day of bad storms, unlike last year where tornado warnings seemed to be a weekly event!

Ok off to study for my last final, run some errands, and possibly mow the lawn for my love =).

Love,
Nicki and Logan

Two posts in ONE weekend? Amazing I know

So here are some pictures of the last month of all my flowers and the trees blooming. I got some planting done today but I would have to admit that it is not as fun to do alone as it was last year with the Moms here!

Ok here we go:


The little tree we planted last year actually lived and bloomed beautiful white flowers (for about a week)! It is now full of leaves which I will take extra good care of this year and hopefully the dreaded little Japanese beetles won't eat them again!



Tulips and Hyanciths. The Hyacinths have died off, I cut them back today. The tulips much to my surprise are still blooming! They were HUGE and they are moving on to there third week. Someone at work made the point that tulips are a flower you look at every chance you get because before you know it they will be dead-well not in my yard. I am quit pleased these bulbs even came up at all actually! I think I will add some buttercups (daffodils-down here they are buttercups ha ha) next year by the mailbox!


Here is the first flower pot that I have planted. I discovered Sunday mornings are a bad time to go to lowes because there was everyone in the entire world out and must have had the same idea. Not to mention carrying 3 bags of dirt and flowers alone was really not fun or easy-next time I will go during the week and hopefully convince Logan to be my muscle =). So here we are-I am hoping my impatients will remain shorter this year instead of getting leggy like last year. I have two more planters similar to this one to plant-take suggestions for color choices (I am avoiding pink tho-MOM ha ha).


Here is the mailbox-so far. I am probably going to have to get some more green things if they decide to live. They are for part sun-this front area gets sun throughout the day...so we shall see. I decided with yellow and red Gerber daisies this year. I have a soft spot for them because they were the flowers we used in our wedding! I am just hoping that because they are not in a pot they will continue to flower throughout the summer instead of like last year I got one bloom and the impatients took over! Lesson learned...

I also planted tomatoes, peppers, basil, and parsley in the back. I was so hoping Logan would build me a garden but we are just too darn busy-not to mention he will be gone a portion this summer and I don't want veggies going to waste! You probably don't really need to see pictures of these considering they are green plants in pots-really not so exciting I know!

Ok off to examine the blackberry cobbler.

Monthly Life Update-April?

Has it really come to this? Blogging once a month (if you are all so lucky) is a new norm for the Brokaw family...or maybe just me. I must be going even crazier if I think Logan will EVER write a blog.ha. The thought alone makes me giggle lol...

Sometimes I think Logan and I could have our own reality TV show. Anyone that knows us, knows that we aren't your typical couple. We bicker like best friends, wrestle, hit, punch...you know the usual stuff right? I am sure Logan would like me to make a side thought here-all the 'fighting' is playfully not for real! He worries about this ha ha...Ok back to the point-then I think back to how common place our married life has become and just laugh-work, school, house, mowing the lawn, washing the cars, 'our' shows...I always wonder what people think when they see us coming. Lately we have become that old boring couple that doesn't do much more than watch tv and go to bed and read together...sounds fun right? Ha occasionally.

However, we are still the goofy little odd couple that has weird quirks. I think if someone recorded a daily conversation they would be like oh my god...from nicknames to the way we speak to each other reminds me daily that we are far from the normal boring couple. Latest example-the brownie point game. Whoever reaches 10 brownie points first gets a massage. The other person will receive a brownie point awarded by the person they do something nice or out of the ordinary for. So far I am in the lead-5 to 4. However, before I get my massage I had to pay up to the one I had been promising Logan for 3 weeks (I know, I know-bad wife) but something always came up-school work, tired, just felt lazy ha ha. However-after putting that off for so long he is now convinced the brownie point game needs a new prize-he says massages are dumb because I never pay up-WOOPS. Perhaps by the next blog I will have given Logan a massage that he won with the brownie point game! We are weird-I think.

Life has been unusual for us the past few weeks. Logan has been in a class for the past week that occupies him all day long and he actually has hw! It works out well with my finals coming up that he has to study too but I find I am more willing to help him than do my own work (sigh). I guess the only good sign is that I enjoy helping him which means I am in the right profession-TEACHING! His class ends tomorrow, Sunday, and then he is headed to another school for the Army-busy man. My school is done April 29th (YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY). For 5 weeks that is-then the awesomeness of summer school starts!

Well in spite of the fact that I thought I had many more profound thoughts to update y'all on-I don't. My brain just realized that I am making it think but just not about school and its shutting off. I think this is my sign that I need to go check on the chicken broth I am making for homemade chicken and noodles tonight. I have fallen in love with The Pioneer Woman....check her out-My new Obsession! Amazing but fattening food-so much for the Brokaw diet plan =).

Love,
Nicki and Logan