Brinlee riding Aiden's scooter
Chloe on car, Brinlee on scooter
Playing in their new sprinkler with their friend
The pretty girls posing after getting soaked
Playing in the mud
More mud...
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
Ghetto Kites
Well, you all know how talented Jeff is with making things (i.e paper dresses and costumes). Today he got the great idea to make kites for the kids since it was a tiny bit windy. They were made out of poster board, a clothes hanger, duct tape, string, and a bit of a ripped t-shirt for a tail. I have to say, I was quite impressed that they did actually catch air and fly! He never ceases to amaze me or the kids!!!
p.s.-Brinlee is in the brown shirt and Chloe in the turquoise.
Cards with the tards (ok really our friends, I just thought that sounded funnier)
Mmmm....wine....(Westside!! ha ha)
Mr. Serious
Mr. NOT So Serious...
Good times one night with our friends playing card and board games after a quick dinner of BBQ hamburgers and hotdogs with the fixins...
Kids had a blast playing outside together and then off to bed for them and game time for us!
Soldier Girl
Chloe wanted to be like her daddy and dressed up in his boots and uniform shirt. Please ignore her nakedness-it was just too cute to pass up!
Saturday, April 17, 2010
My marathon runners!!!
Getting their numbers at the expo
Posing by a picture of last year's crowd
Posing outside the expo
I have never watched a marathon before. My friends decided to run in the Paris Marathon and asked if I wanted to go, and I thought why not? One of my friends is a vetran runner and for the other, this was her first one. I thought to myself, "Why not go and support them?". Little did I know how moved I would be by watching them run 26.2 miles. And with a smile on their faces I might add. I along with my other fellow "pit crewers", watched the start, metroed to the halfway point to give them supplies, and then metroed to the finish in time to meet them. It was an unbelievable experience and am so thankful I was able to be a part of their victory!!! p.s. there was approximately 40,000 runners!!!
Random Paris Pictures
My "girls".
This bathroom was CRAZY! We couldn't figure out how to get into it, and it resembled a space ship. It required us to swipe a ticket and push buttons and it just didn't open up. It was in the metro and was very scary! Only one of our group managed to get it with help of a random person.
A beautiful view of the Sienne River
The Louvre
The Infamous Pyramid
An elaborate ceiling in the Italian wing
Another Ceiling
Enormous and beautiful paintings in the Italian wing
I just really liked this painting
The Mona Lisa from a distance. It is actually very small.
Statue of Venus
Horses atop a pillar
My first mummy sighting! I loved it! He was very short.
This is how I feel sometimes...
I was so excited to be able to briefly visit The Louvre Museum! I felt a little bit like I was in the Da Vinci Code movie! ha ha We did not have time to wander through the whole museum (I think you could spend days there), but we did get to see The Mona Lisa, part of the Italian paintings, The Greek Wing, and my favorite, the Egyptian Wing. It was breathtaking for sure.
Palace of Versailles
The Gardens and The Fountains of Versailles
During the expansion and embellishment of the castle, Louis XIV entrusted the creation of the gardens to Le Nôtre. It took 20 years for him to achieve this absolute masterpiece where all is once again perfection, symmetry and harmony. The gardens were designed for walking, while the flower beds were designed to highlight the castle. More than 300 statues, vases and busts decorate the paths. Water was also omnipresent with 1,400 fountains and waterfalls (only 607 of them remain today) as an integral part of the production. The sun theme is honored in the gardens as it is inside the castle. Every path offered the stroller its own allegorical figure; every clump of trees hid its own mythological legend. All was elegant, majestic and a symbol of the almighty king. This all took 6.2 million liters of water per hour to run. The king did not want to waste this valuable liquid, as water was so rare at the time, so he ordered that only the fountains he passed on his daily strolls be activated.
Pictures from Marie Antionette's private cottage
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