Bella loves her Dad! I mean LOVES her Dad!! Everything is "no dadda do it!" She wants Dad to put her hair bow in, read her a book, sing her a song etc. When Blake comes home she runs as fast as she can to him to give her a big hug and kiss!
Halloween! Tristan was a football player and Bella our little cheerleader! They couldn't wait to get into the candy!
Bella Loves to ride on Daddy's shoulders! We went on a fun trip to the pumpkin patch. Our favorite fall tradition!
Here is my Stud! He loves to smile for the camera!
Tuscany
Florence, this was right by the Uffizi. During the day painters would come show their work etc. It is so beautiful!
Our Beautiful Hotel Room. We stayed at the St. Regis Grand Hotel which was amazing and really so beautiful. We walked into our room and went down the hall and our room just kept going and going, all the way to a very large dressing room. Beneficial really knows(knew, i guess) how to pick beautiful Hotels etc. With our trip to Whistler, Arizona and we stayed at the Willard Grand Hotle in Washington D.C. They were all beautiful places. 
Blake's Dad came too on his bicycle. J/K:) 
These are some of our friends we did most everything with and it was so fun to get to know them. Allison & Kyle, Andrea & Brady, myself & Blake.
They say that if you throw a coin into the fountain you will return to Rome, if you throw 2 coins into the fountain you will find love and if you throw 3 coins into the fountain you will get married. Since we both have 2&3 already we just threw 1 coin each in, we had to save the rest for the public bathrooms:)
The Fountain of Trevi!
The Pantheon! This was one of my favorite places. This was built in 125AD and everything is original. The dome, the marble floors and the colums are all orginal. The colums are all one piece of marble and came from Egypt. This is such an amazing building! Raphael the Roman Renaissance artist is buried here (as in one of the Teenage Mutant Ninga Turtles).
Our first day in Rome was so much fun! When we arrived we went first to Piazza Navona for lunch. It is this lovely pedestrian squares with Bernini's famous Fountain of the Rivers. We stopped here for lunch at a fun cafe and this is where we purchased our paintins! So many painters come and this is where they sell their paintings etc. After lunch we went on a walking tour of Rome and this is what we saw & learned.
Ever since Mr. Alston's social studies, grade 6 class I've been fascinated with Pompeii. Well, I got the chance to go and convinced my hubby to come along. We set off with Kyle & Allison, Brady & Andrea, Bob Hall and his wife Jill. Pompeii is an hour from Rome so we went to the train station and the first six bought train tickets on a less expensive train and when it was our turn to pay the train had sold out, so we had to up-grade to a train that was $40/person one way to Pompeii and it was leaving in 5 min. So we hurried and bought our tickets, ran to find our train and jumped on the train as it was leaving the station. The whole trip was to hurry and catch the train from here to there etc. But we arrived in Pompeii and started our 4 hour walk on rock and stone. I always thought Pompeii was a little village, but it was a huge city and they still haven't dug a portion of it up yet. You could see the original tile and paintings. Down the streets you could see where they would have driven their carts. I enjoyed it so much because I learned so much about it before and how they had built everything was simply amazing.
