{Friday Five}

1. How much Evette loves to go on bike rides with her Daddy. This is her crying because she can't ride til Daddy gets home from work.

 2. The baby chicks at Gecko down the street - we visit daily. The workers know us by name. Seriously.

3. Lunch date with some great friends.

4. This hair. 

5. A butterfly landed on my head while we were at the butterfly gardens!

{Garden Update}

Peas

Tomatoes

Peppers

Summer Squash  

Turks Cap

Iris

Snap Dragons

  

Honey Suckle

Rose of Sharon

Petunias

{TBT - France, Part I}

We took a ferry over to France and stayed in Caen. This is a small little town that was just beautiful. We spent the afternoon/evening just walking around and soaking up it's loveliness. 

Our next stop was to visit some of the WWII spots. We visited Arromanches, Omaha Beach, and Pointe du Hoc. It was a neat/sacred experience to walk around these areas. Great way to spend a Sunday.

{Friday Five}

1. Birthday lunch at my favorite taco place, Torchys Tacos, where I got my favorite taco, Baja Shrimp, with my favorite little companion, Evette.

2. Friends who remembered my birthday and know me so well

3. This dandelion picker! Our yard is completely littered with dandelions and this little friend is super super helpful.

 4. My iris bloomed :) It's so lovely. 

5. A "Blues Clues" Letter from Grandma for the Babbs.

{Late Friday Five}

This friday five was supposed to be posted on the 26th, but alas, we were on vacation. So, here it is [Even though part of our trip was during this "week" I didn't chose any top 5 moments from the trip because that will all be blogged about on it's own]

1. This face. We moved the swing the backyard and she's a huge fan.

2. This adorable rain jacket that we got to test out

 3. My two favorite people on the husband's new toy!

 4. This face.

 5. The new store, Gecko Hardware that opened near the house. It has chalkboard walls and speaks to my inner hippie self.

{TBT - England}

TBT stands for Throwback Thursday. I'm going to try to blog every Thursday [wish me luck] about something in the past.
For this first TBT I want to start documenting our Study abroad trip that we took way back in 2010. It was amazing. 6 weeks 9 countries. Amazing. Very little "studying" involved lol

I started the blog a few months after this trip so we don't have a lot of the pictures documented and stories told. I did make some scrapbooks from our trip but those consisted mostly of metro passes, museum brochures, plane tickets, maps, and only a few pictures.

So let us start off with our first stop - London, England. We spent about 3 days there.

"The damage to these walls is the result of enemy bombing during the blitz of the second world war 1939-1945 and is left as a memorial to the enduring values of this great museum in a time of conflict"

We saw Les Miserables on our 1 year anniversary!

We saw Macbeth at Shakespeare's Globe Theater

Tower of London

The Tower of London - we also saw the Crown Jewels - amazing! and the Fusilier Museum

We visited all sorts of museums including the British Museum, The National Gallery, Tate Modern, and Natural History Museum

Delicious Fish and Chips, o'course

Big Ben

Westminster Abbey

I miss the Tubes....

Other things to note/memories made:

-We saw J.Lo at a movie premiere

- Trafalga Square

- Millenial Bridge

- Ridiculous nice Italian restaurant in our street clothes..oops :)

- Visited PWC [one of our few "study" moments during this "study abroad"]

- Visited Portabello Road and it was just as magical as I had imagined. I got one of my favorite necklaces and a vintage dress that fits me perfectly.

London was lovely. It was a great place to start our little tour of Europe. I miss it.

I want to go back and visit so bad!