Just One of those days........

Pandora jamming and working on taxes........
What could be better?

Happy Birthday Lauren

Happy Birthday to YOU
Happy Birthday to YOU
Happy Birthday dear Lauren
Happy Birthday to YOU ! ! !

We LOVE you........ Hope your day is Happy, Happy, Happy!

Our Student For The Day............

Our student for the day is............. Christy McEwan!
Can you believe it?

Christy has a job working part time at her kids school, grades 1-8. Their rules are if you don't have a teaching degree, you have to take the Praxis test, and pass it. Christy took the test, and passed it.......
making HER our Student of the Day!

In case you are not aware, the Praxis is a teacher certification exam.
You go girl!

Baby Sto

Look at my baby's muscles!
I guess he has been hitting the gym!

Happy Birthday Joe

Happy Birthday to YOU

Happy Birthday to YOU

Happy Birthday dear Joe

Happy Birthday to YOU!

Happy Birthday JOE.  You better watch out, those years are adding up!

Selfies at grandma and grandaddys

Jack

Sherrill left Tuesday to go out of town to work. It was just me and the dog!
He refused to eat supper, he refused to eat his bacon Wednesday morning.
Sherrill comes home Wed night......Jack eats his chicken, Thurs morning he eats his bacon....Sherrill leaves again to go out of town. Thursday night, Jack refuses to eat his chicken, and I am sure he will
refuse to eat his bacon tomorrow morning.
I wish Sherrill would just take the dumb dog with him! I am tired of cooking for a dog.
Wouldn't you just LOVE to have a visitor....... Jack is ALWAYS available.

I told Sherrill Mandy came to town and we went out. His first comment was .......did she take Jack out
to walk? He's more concerned about Jack than Mandy.

Valentine's Day Surprises

Every year at Valentine's Day I get a box of Turtles. It has been the same FOREVER. This year however was a little different.  Saturday morning Sherrill went to run errands, and came back with
SIX boxes of Girl Scout cookies.....Lemonade. If you haven't tried them, you don't know what you are missing out on!

Then Sunday he went to Sam's Club, and came back with a 2 1/2 to 3 pound container of mixed nuts.
He knows I like them.

Then to pay him back, I had to cook chicken pastry, sweet potatoes, chicken salad......and so on.

We are not the ones for flowers and cards.... we want the REAL deal!

Hope all your spouses remembered you, but most of all I hope you remembered your little and BIG
kids!

Happy Valentines Day

Happy Valentines Day to YOU, and YOU, and YOU.................etc
You know who you are!
LOVE each and every one of YOU.

Meghan and Pip

Whoooooo

My Kid is smarter than your kid.......for this week anyway!

I just got a call from Christy. She had received an email from Kenny's "Virtual Home School" inviting him to join the National Honor Society. He has to have at least a 3.5 GPA.  This is the home school where you actually SEE the teacher, and she can see you.
Way to go Kenny!

A COLD day at the beach

Let's see who can figure out all of these.
It took me a second look!

It's that time again........

The whispers have already begun.

Kat and Cindy are checking out some options.

Suggestions?

Happy Birthday Cindy

Happy Birthday to YOU
Happy Birthday to YOU
Happy Birthday dear Cindy
Happy Birthday to YOU!

We LOVE YOU girl! Hope your day is GRrrrreat!

Izzy's Make a Wish

Just to make sure you are keeping up with current events!

Practice makes Perfect

I came across this today.
I sure am glad my doc practiced on a gorilla before he got hold of me!

Triangle OBGYN Medical Team Performs Follow-up Cancer Surgery on Gorilla

 September 10, 2008; Cary, NC – A team of medical  professionals from Triangle OBGYN and Duke University Medical Center successfully performed a difficult and  intricate surgery August 27, 2008 on “Donna,”  a 39 year old, female Western Lowland Gorilla who lives at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro, NC.

Senior Veterinarian Ryan De Voe, DVM at the  North Carolina Zoological Park contacted  Sameh Toma, M.D. and Gerald Mulvaney, M.D.  at Triangle OBGYN to assist his staff in doing a 
total hysterectomy on Donna. This procedure was 
a follow-up to surgery that Drs. Toma and Mulvaney
performed in November 2007 which resulted in a
diagnosis of endometrial cancer. Because of the
nature of Donna’s cancer, the team from Triangle 
OBGYN brought in Dr. Fidel Vilea, a 
Gynecologist/Oncologist, from Duke University
Medical Center to consult on the surgery and 
insure that all malignancies would be removed.

As of today, the 400 pound gorilla is nearly back to normal. “Donna is doing great. She recovered from anesthesia very quickly
and began taking oral fluids and some fruit the morning after surgery,” says Ryan DeVoe, Senior Veterinarian at the NC Zoological
Park. “When I went to visit her I honestly couldn’t tell anything had happened to her. She is one tough monkey.”

Zoos around the world utilize the services of (human) medical doctors when dealing with great ape cases. The NC Zoo reached
out to Drs. Toma and Mulvaney at Triangle OBGYN for help since gorilla reproductive anatomy, physiology and pathology is
so similar to that of humans.

“For years, we have benefited from animal experimentation. Now we have had the opportunity to give back. Our vast experience
and deep fund of knowledge in human medicine has allowed us to provide assistance to our veterinary colleagues in difficult
surgical cases in which they are less experienced due to the rarity of this type of procedure in animals,” says Gerald Mulvaney, MD
at Triangle OBGYN. “The anatomy of the female gorilla is close enough to the human anatomy, that it allows us to use our skills
that have been refined over years because of large volumes of human surgeries similar to this one. This has provided a cooperative
relationship between human and veterinary medicine that we encourage and hope to continue in the future.”

“The zoo is buzzing with news of Donna’s successful procedure and the great medical team that was here to pull it off. You guys
have no idea how thankful we are for your help,” remarked Dr. DeVoe from the North Carolina Zoological Park. 

First Snow Day in 61 YEARS

Flintstone Car

Red wheel barrow

                                       

Christy's kids are out of school today......... first SNOW DAY in 61 years for this area.
Christy had to go "dig out" her little pigs. The cows and horses are in the barn. The pigs have a shelter, but can't get to the food and water. The dogs...well, they are dogs, they can always climb on top the dog house. And the cat...... I am sure she is on the back porch somewhere.
The snow is up to Christy's knees, with drifts almost to her hips.

Can't wait to see what Reno has!
Oh...... here it is

This was taken along the highway from Truckee, CA to Reno.
Truckee is where Kat's favorite thrift store is. It's a small town between Reno and Lake Tahoe.