Slumber party at Aunt Lindsey's!

So I went and picked up Lindsey and Holly on Saturday night so we could have a little slumber party. I was a little worried...I had never had either of them spend the night and certaintly not at the same time but I am pretty resiliant so I thought "how hard could it be." Luckily they are the easiest little girlies to please...Holly chased Darwin around and fed him crackerrs while Lindsey sat and talked, and talked, and talked...and then snuggled with Uncle Les. It was really fun and I can't wait to do it again except the dirty diapers...I could do without that part :-) haha!

The trip of a Lifetime!...

This is when we were climbing the bell tower....over 400 steps....exhausting












In front of some really cool old doors... Les is too cool for me :-)














The chains that the Apostle Peter was bound with











The view from the top of the Tower of Pisa











Les and Me in Florence










Playing around in the Boboli Gardens at the Medici Palace










I'm trying to kiss a wild boar...can you beleive they actually eat wild boar...strange














Allison and I just had to get some amazing Italian Shoes :-) And mine are made from Italian Leather...we only had to stop in about 100 shops before we found the perfect ones.











The Moses...one of Michelangelo's first sculptings...he created this when he was only 24...amazing!













Outside of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican Square










The Tuscan countryside











A really amazing walkway through the trees













Pisa...that's extreme!










I'm so strong...












Les decided to use his amazing kickboxing skills













Florence...this is the only remaining original bridge from before WWI...all the others were destroyed












....this is just a small taste of the amazing trip we took. I wish I could have taken you all with me; it was the vacation of a lifetime and I am officially interested in history now!

I plan to put up more pictures later but I don't want to overwhelm you with hundreds of pictures at once, lol :-)

Mavericks' Game

One of the exciting things about living in this area is all the pro-sports organizations. We love the Cowboys, Mavericks, and Rangers, and we always talk about going to their games but then we get too busy and forget. So Les decided "spur of the moment" that we would go to a Mavs game this weekend. He got online and bought some tickets...

but he couldn't just buy tickets...he had to get some really awesome tickets... on the 8th row

I had only been to a Mavs game once before and we sat in the very very top so this was pretty exciting.

We had a great time!

Spring Break

I've waited long enough,
I think its time to tell,
No one got it right so....
It will be a fanTastic Adventure in a Land far awaY.


I am so excited!!!!

Jewlrey

NewsFlash!!!

Jane Anne (Les' mom) and I have started making jewelry. We are going into business together (in our dreams) and we plan to sale jewelry. I have made about 13 necklaces so far and I absolutely love it. It is very calming and I feel very creative while I am making the necklaces. I posted a slide show of some of the necklaces but the pictures don't really do them justice. Tell me what you think :-)

Spring Break

Can you guess where we are going for spring break?

Bet you can't...and you'll be so jealous :-)

...a huge prize is waiting for anyone who gets this one right

...not really just the warm feeling you get inside knowing you're a better guesser than everyone else

School, school and more school

Okay, I'm finding it a little hard to keep up with this. It seems everyone else is constantly posting new blogs; I will try my best to keep up the pace.

I started my last semester of school! Yay life. I am taking statistics; I was incredibly nervous but all my fears disappeared within the fisrt 30 minutes of class when I realized my professor is an incredibly old man who loses track of what he is saying and wants us to know everything that he has every learned and is committed to making sure everyone earns an A or B...should be interesting.

A great quote from my stats professor, "I am confident I can learn anything you are able to explain." And really that is usually the issue; its not how difficult the material is, its just how good you are at explaining it. If someone is not learning the info, you need to reevaluate your instruction.

My other class is about social skills and it is great. The professor is a principal at an behavior unit and she has some great insight into students who have extreme behaviors. Students with emotional behavior disorders do not value the same behavior as adults and teachers such as being considerate of others, disagreeing with adults appropriatly, and several others. Punishing the behavior out of the kid is not the answer; the only way to make long term changes in the childs behavior is to help them see the value in those behaviors that you are asking them to use.

Anyways...I thought is was interesting...