Nancy's Retirement Party

One of my favorite library people retired this year my former boss/co-worker/friend Nancy. Her party theme was Cinderella - complete with a tiara for her to wear at the party. Here is her princess cake.

Here is Nancy opening some of her many gifts.

Here is a picture of me & Nancy at the party.

Nancy's blanket

I made a fleece blanket for my former boss/co-worker/friend Nancy when she retired at the end of March. Here she is looking at the blanket after she opened my gift.

My cats were very interested in this blanket while I was making it - maybe because the of the cat pattern. Here they are checking it out.

2009 NCAA National Champions!!!

Carolina won the 2009 NCAA National Championship! And even better for all the fans out there was the fact that almost all of the games in the tournament - including the championship game - were won by double digits. What a great way to end the basketball season! Here are some pictures to commemorate.

Cat Pics

You can see how excited Sandy and Roxy are about the Carolina Championship!

Here's a close-up of a sleeping Sandy.

New Bird Feeder

We recently bought a bird feeder for the tree in our front yard. Either we have a LOT of birds eating from it or the wind is blowing the seed out because we've already had to refill it twice in just a few weeks! Here's a picture of the new feeder.

Here's a picture of two birds eating at the feeder.

2009 Spring Plants

Since we're finally heading into spring and summer we planted some new flowers in the bed in our backyard. Here's Chad digging the holes for the flowers.

Here are the new flowers all planted!

Easter at Verizon

Our church (Mecklenburg Community Church) had our Easter service at Verizon so that we could have one service with everyone there. It was pretty cool to have a church service there when you're used to going to concerts there and dealing with hundreds of drunk people - not the case at our Easter service by the way! They also had egg hunts for the kids and Chad's sister's family came with us, so one of our nieces participated in the egg hunt. Here's a picture of Karissa (in the blue and pink jacket) in line for the "hunt".

Here's a picture of the egg "hunt" in progress - I lost track of her at this point!

Inside Looking Out

Sandy and Roxy love to look out the windows - especially if we open the windows and they can see and smell what's going on outside. Since the weather has been so nice recently I got this picture of them both looking out the same window.