April 5, 2010

Have I mentioned.....

...Lily's current situation?

It's quite pitiful. She had some minor surgery on her ear. As a result, she was prescribed 12 days of the E-collar and bandage. It's torture. She also has to be sedated all of the time. Even with the sedatives, we've had to make four unscheduled trips to the veterinarian due to her successful determination to remove the bandage. Lily has rubbed, brushed, pushed, and drug her head against ever surface, mobile and immobile, in and around our house in order to loosen her head wrap. She's crafty.

April 4, 2010

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

April 3, 2010

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.