mini-break

I got to go to Collegedale for a little bit longer than normal by tacking on an errand day that involved picking up alumni weekend programs at College Press Monday. Ryan is on Spring break, which was my biggest reason for going down there. We had fun playing outside Sabbath afternoon in the front yard. If you want more pics, see Mary Jane's blog.

Obviously, Ryan and Ryan don't know what sport they're supposed to be playing. Ryan (K.) tees up his slapshot, while Ryan (H.) dresses to play soccer instead of hockey. Either way, something's wrong.







Ryan (mine) brought a car full of sports equipment to occupy himself while he's on break. You name it, he brought it. And if that wasn't enough, we hit up Ross for some more inexpensive tennis racquets for him to take back to school.



Lucky for Jaclyn, the rain had toned down the pollen count and we managed to be outside with all of the trees and flowers without being miserable. If you look closely at Jaclyn's sandal, you can see the pollen that survived the rain. This was just from walking through the grass.




Crestmont Drive is really pretty with all of the dogwoods and other flowers out right now.







I liked the view of the hostas by Heilmans' front deck. I like the way they spiral when they grow.

pedicure

Yesterday turned out to be an unusual day for me. I left campus with Nikie at 12:00p to go order our softball team's shirts at a place in Gallatin. on the way, we stopped at Taco Bell for a quick lunch. After ordering kelly green shirts (Nikie wouldn't go for camo), I dropped Nikie off at Walmart to pick something up for J.P. and I drove to the Nissan dealership. I had to drop off a receipt for them sponsoring a hole in our golf tournament. We then drove back into Portland to go to the bank and deposit lots of money. Our final stop was to pick up Sonic blasts for my faculty family kids. By the time we did all that, it was 2:30p.

Last night, I went with Nikie and got a pedicure in Portland from a little Vietnamese lady. I'm pretty sure it's not worth what you pay, but oh well. You can be the judge of how my feet look! When we got back, I watched The Pursuit of Happyness with Nikie and went home around 10:00p.
Today will be almost as crazy, except all the running around at lunch time. I'll probably eat at home today. I am teaching photography for Don at 1:00p. We're taking motion shots of cars driving by on 109. We'll see how that goes. At least it's nice out. Yesterday we could have taken motion shots of rain.

I'm going with Nikie to the coaches' meeting for our softball league in Hendersonville at 6:30, then we're going to buy Nikie a new glove for the season. You'll be seeing softball pics on here before too long!

sprung

I am sooooooooooooo glad it's the weekend. And this weekend it actually feels like spring. At 9:00p tonight, it was still 64 degrees outside. The trees are all budding and campus is starting to look green again.

This butterfly would be sad to see my front yard now. I'm happier though, because they mowed all of these weeds down.

These are in the Prayer Garden on front campus.

The good news: My yard is mowed.
The bad news: All the grass is on the driver's side of the car.

cat brain