Introducing....Lola

We are excited to introduce the newest member of our family, Lola!!! Lola is a Minature Schnauzer. We had promised Buttercup we would let her get a puppy after we settled in from the move and today we kept that promise. We had been looking in the paper for the past few weeks and today we saw the perfect ad. Buttercup is very excited. Of course, Lou and I are having a few moments of "What were we thinking?...or not thinking..." But she is very adorable and seems to be very sweet so far. She is a little shy, but she likes to eat! She already ate a bowl of puppy chow!

Our Cheerleader

Buttercup participated in her cheer camp last week and loves it!!! We were very proud of her performance on Saturday and are looking forward to a year of watching her cheer. The girls all looked adorable in their cheer uniforms. GO COLTS!

More Summer Fun!

We just had another wonderful visit from my parents. We had a great time and the week went so fast....4th of July at Navy Lake, Memphis Redbirds baseball game, zoo, celebrating Dad's birthday, shopping, picking peaches, seeing Eclipse (AWESOME!),touring the Pink Palace Museum, eating at HardRock Cafe, visiting The Peabody, more shopping!!! Wow!
Thanks Mom and Dad! .... Not to mention fitting Buttercup's cheer camp, Snapdragon's dance lessons and my tap teaching into the mix!

Now it's back to reality. I will move into my new classroom tomorrow. I am very excited and need to start focusing on what I will be teaching!

Just About Finished!!!!

The girls love the new play set!!! PaPa and Daddy did a great job! Now we are just waiting for the tire swing to arrive. Thanks, PaPa!!!

Dance...Dance...Dance....

My two beautiful dancers put on a wonderful show last weekend. Buttercup has grown so much as a dancer over the years, but she has decided to take a break from dance next year and work on her cheerleading. Buttercup is an amazing tap dancer and I hope I can convince her to take lessons if I am able to teach her class this year. Snapdragon loved being on stage and is still singing songs from the show. Her favorite song is "My Boyfriend's Back." She danced very well...which surprised us a bit because she cried at many a dance lesson. I couldn't be prouder!

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).