Swim Lessons

Snapdragon started swim lessons at the pool we joined last summer. We have met a very nice family who also adopted a little girl from Hunan province. She is nine months older than Snapdragon, but look at the size difference! She and Snapdragon have become good friends and they actually could be going to the same school in a few years!

Tea With the Ducks

A Peabody duck! Quack! Quack!

Sipping tea....

Enjoying a sugar cube!

This was our third course. First, we had yummy tea sandwiches, then scones, then desert!

Checking out the menu.

Waiting for her Raspberry-Quince tea.

Here ducky, ducky!

We took Grammy to see the Peabody Hotel and the famous ducks. While we were there, we stayed and enjoyed tea! It was wonderful! Buttercup and Snapdragon were very polite and well behaved (even if Snapdragon enjoyed licking the sugar cube from her tea cup).

Grammy and PaPa visit our Tennessee Home!

Two cute business women!

Progress!

Day one!

Grammy and PaPa have come to visit! We have already been very busy. PaPa and Lou are building a swingset for the girls and Grammy and the girls have already been cooking and baking.

Our Cheerleader

Buttercup is excited about being a cheerleader this coming school year. Her practices and tumbling lessons have already started. Here she is modeling her uniform.

Happy Mother's Day!

Woke up to a yummy breakfast of biscuits with sausage gravy and eggs. After teaching Sunday school, we walked to the lake to feed the baby geese. Too cute! Now I am ready to relax on the hammock and take a nap.

Happy Earth Week

Buttercup designed her own stakes to mark her plants.

We need some rain!

We spent this weekend cleaning up the yard just in time to celebrate Earth Week. We have a new garden and a new landscaped area next to the patio. The girls had a great time planting tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, assorted berries and some herbs. I planted Azaleas, Impatients, Roses, Hostas and other assorted bedding plants next to the patio. We installed two rain barrels hoping to harvest some rain for watering. We haven't had rain for two weeks....not that I'm complaining, but we could use some water. It is hard to water after work and school because of our dance schedule and other assorted activities in the evening. Anyway... it looks beautiful and we hope we can harvest some fruits and vegetables this summer!

Easter Blessings

Easter dresses.

Nice look, Buttercup....yes, there are pajama shorts on under the robe.

Little one on a mission.

Crusty Bob the turtle.

A yummy breakfast!

An even better treat!

Max is the best!

We went to Easter Vigil yesterday at St. James in Memphis so that we could relax on this beautiful Easter morning. Snapdragon was full of energy during Mass! Uggh! We woke early to find Easter baskets loaded with goodies and the eggs scattered all over the backyard. The girls enjoyed their egg hunt, even though the backyard was a little swampy in spots due to the rain on Friday night.

The girls also had fun playing outside all day in the beautiful weather. Buttercup went to the lake with her friend and came home with a baby turtle she named "Crusty Bob". He is very cute, but I think he will need to return home tomorrow. We had water gun fights, flew kites and drew with sidewalk chalk.

It was a wonderful Easter weekend. Lou and I began our big endeavors of landscaping. Tomorrow we are working on planting beds in the backyards, installing the new rain barrels and fixing the drainage in the backyard. No more swamp! Buttercup also has to have one more baby tooth pulled tomorrow and the repair man is coming to fix the ice maker. Not to mention the school work I need to tackle. Busy, busy, busy!