Lions & Tigers & Bears, OH MY!

This weekend, Zach and I went to visit Zach's family for Easter. We had lots of fun with family, friends, ate lots of candy, had some good Memphis BBQ, hung out with 4 dogs, heard the new preacher at church, and also went to the Memphis Zoo. The highlight of the trip by far as we spent the whole day with Zach's parents and got to see all the cool animals. Someone asked me if there were kids with us on the trip to the zoo. Nope, there sure weren't any kids, but I probably acted like one. I love these fun places... so take a trip with me through the zoo.

Zach and I pose in the little cubby in Africa (I believe). I think that we were the only big people that got in this little cubby.

We saw pink flamingos....
Trumpeter Swans...
Penguins, one of my favorites...
Elephants...
Leopards...Tigers...


Giraffes...
And my most favorite... BEARS... The Panda...
Polar Bear...
and the Black Bear...

We left the zoo and came home to our Bailey girl. She's the most precious animal of them all. You can see that she was thrilled to get her Easter present. Zach and I really know how to humiliate a dog. She loves us anyway though! Zach's mom bought the rain coat.


I hope that everyone had a great Easter holiday and was able to enjoy some time with family and friends!

March Happenings...

This post has been a long time coming. I was working on it the other night and the internet was incredibly slow. Not only was the internet slow, but the tv was all staticy (sp?). Come to find out, there was a cable problem in the area because someone had run over the cable box in our alley. Now that we have that all cleared up... here's my post!

This past weekend, I got to visit one of my very best friends. We have been friends since Kindergarten. Here's a throwback of Amy and I from the 7th grade. Aww memories... ;-) So, I basically went down there to visit Amy's sweet little girl, Abby. I was so excited to see her because it had been almost 8 months since the last time I had seen her. Abby is now 10 months old and just has the best little personality. I was at first scared that I wasn't going to be able to go because I was sick with a sinus infection. So I called Amy and told her it was totally up to her... and luckily, I found out that Abby was sick with a sinus infection, too. So, I went and Abby and I were sick together. We had a great time hanging out and catching up. Always good times! Some pictures from the weekend....


I think that this was the back side of Abby's wave. I'm not quite sure, but it's cute anyway.
When we got home from the weekend in Houston, we had to go pick up our little girl, Bailey. She stayed at my parents house the whole time and she was soooo excited to see us when we got back. She wouldn't leave our side and this is what she looked like on Sunday night. What a little cuddler.

So the biggest news from this week from the Shirley household was that we had our first snow!! Here are the pictures from the week. It snowed on Monday and Thursday nights. Last night was the worst, it took me 1.5 hours to get home. It usually only takes 25 minutes. It was beautiful and it wasn't as bad as ice because it was nice and fluffy. Too bad it didn't keep me from going to work. It was all gone by this afternoon.


When I saw all the snow on my oleander plants, I was afraid that they wouldn't make it because they were so wilted. But after it melted, they perked right back up. I would have been so sad if they had died, but they are now just fine.
What a happy beginning to the month of March.