Improvements

Remember our crazy overgrown front landscaping? Well, improvements have been made. With any luck, in a few weeks our front lawn will be a deep shade of fescue green.

ThenNow Then Now

Removed: 1 dead compact holly, 2 Japanese dwarf cedars, 3 nandina bushes, 2 un-identified bushes
Added: 2 bags top soil, 5 bags black mulch, 2 hanging ferns, 4 hostas, 6 begonias, 1 compact holly, 2 hydrangea bushes, 1 azalea bush, 1 gardenia bush, 2 double impatiens, and a fushia.
Time: 4.5 hours
Cost: $197

Incredible!

As a Spring Break reward, we took some of the Bible Study students to Incredible Pizza. I had never been and I was looking forward to the trip. Since moving to Memphis I have worked exclusively with middle schoolers. Whether teaching, advising, or mentoring one thing can be agreed upon: KIDS LOVE INCREDIBLE PIZZA!

Whats not to love? There is lots of junk to eat {in an endless buffet!}. Mesmerizing games to play. Tickets to win. The ever alluring chance of hitting the jackpot. Along with go-carts, bumper cars, put-put golf, air hockey tables, and bowling. When it's time to redeem the tickets for prizes, Incredible Pizza has a store- not just a counter- where kids can go and spend their winnings. 3.5 hours after arriving, we left with one water bottle, three whoopie cushions, two bottle poppers, one bracelet, two necklaces, a deck of cards, three key chains, a pair of sticky eyeballs, a blue teddy bear, and at least two sets of light up teeth.

Tennessee Tuesdays

From 2:00 until 5:00 every Tuesday, the Memphis Zoo offers free admission to anyone with a TN Drivers License. Taking advantage of spring break, the nice weather, and the free admission, my coworkers and I decided to take a few kids to the zoo. Evidently, over 25,000 people had the same idea (along with some other not-so-bright ideas).

A patch of spring in Overton Park.
(For those of you that are not familiar with Memphis, the Zoo is in Overton Park.)

This mini cow was ready for a close-up.

A couple of the girls LOVED the polar bear exhibit.

Do you see anything wrong with this picture?
Perhaps something bright pink on the right side of the Zebra?

A few monkeys were hamming it up!

The next Karate Kid.

ABC's of Zoo Rules.

Yours truly and D.