London part one

I know! I Know. I haven't posted in a LONG time...sorry all of you who have been waiting patiently :) So much has been going on. So anyway. We went to London and had a phenomenal time there. It was absolutely stunning and I would love to go back and spend more time there. But I think my sister is planning on going to Hawaii next summer and we are supposed to be going...so...well anyways. I took a TON of pictures and have been trying to choose the best ones to post. Here are a few from our first day.

This was a very typical sight there. Very many houses had this kind of detail.

On our bus ride to the hotel we saw a little boy on his way to school. He was SOO adorable!

This was a Methodist church that was right next to our hotel. It was absolutely stunning.
Everything was Super detailed...including the sidewalk!
There were flowers everywhere! These were outside of the mall. It reminded me of My Fair Lady :)
Here is the pub we ate lunch at. So gorgeous.
This was our Tour Director. Her name was Sharon and she is from an island in the Caribbean.
More flowers. They loves to put them on balconies and window boxes. It was really charming.
As we were walking to the restaurant for dinner, we came across a random lighted wall. Very peculiar, and cool for pics. This is my student Mary Kate and some girls from California.

This is Danielle (a parent) as we were walking to Trafalgar Square. She has a famous double decker bus behind her.
I thought this was cool. It was a restaurant with a random bathtub out front and yes it had water in it.
We got to see Rudyard Kipling's house on our way to Trafalgar Square.

This was a pretty popular chain restaurant. I liked the name.

The next three pictures were taken at Trafalgar square. Although I have many more I am going to put those in another post with more detail about them. The first one is George Washington, second is Big Ben (from a distance) and the third is a couple of random British guys hanging out in the square. lol

yes...it happened again. Sigh

THis little one was found in our driveway half starving, flea ridden and scared. So we are giving her a new home...actually we are not sure if she is a girl, but whatever. Anyway, we can't think of a name. post one if you can. (No, I'm not really that happy about another animal, but what can you do? Shelters kill cats like this everyday.)

London meeting

Last night I had a final meeting with all my peeps that are going to London. This is gonna be SOOOO fun! I have been looking at our itinerary and there is a day of free time so I was thinking maybe we could go as a group to Paris! That would just be the cherry on top! The people I am going with are really awesome! I know we are all going to have a blast. On top of that, one of my parents was telling me about her sister who is older but just found out after 5 years that she is getting a baby from China! A precious little girl! Her name is Wei' An which will be her middle name when she gets here. But she has the cutest little chubby cheeks and big brown eyes! I am so excited for them (even though I don't know them) Anyway, that parent gave me her number because she did a lot of research about adoption agencies and stuff. I would be totally happy with an American baby and it would be a lot cheaper. Well, maybe not a lot...She said the whole thing is costing her sister $17,000. So actually that's not that bad. Anyway, I got really excited about that as well and then came home and Daniel wanted a haricut! I really don't like giving Daniel haircuts because I feel I never do a good job and I like him to be cute! lol. But I gave him one anyways and it is WAAY shorter than what I normally do. It looks like he is in the army again! Oh well... at least his hair grows fast!

This is really good. You should watch it!

This is an arrangement by Jon Schmidt. He's the guy that wrote mine and Daniel's song.

Our kitchen cabinets are coming in in two days! FINALLY! We are almost finished with demolition, but are trying to keep some sort of order while we have to live with it. So that is really cool.

But something even cooler is that my best friend's little brother, Ryan, just got back from his mission today! It was really exciting! And he cried...so cute. We all went to the airport and helped his mom blow up balloons, and his brother-in-law, David made this awesome banner. Afterwards we went to eat at Ryan's in Alexandria and had a good time. That was when Theresa, Sandy's older sister said I needed to blog more. So here I am blogging. lol :)

Mainly the thing I have been doing the most since school let out is laundry. I don't know how two people create so much of it. Insane! I know I should throw some clothes out, but I love all of it so I will just have to deal with doing TONS of laundry. Shannan and I have also been watching Britain's got talent on Youtube. Our favorite was the dancing group "Diversity" They are really awesome! And we also found this funny guy called Dave Days. He does some pretty funny stuff. We have also discovered some new mangoes at the store that are very yummy. They are not the normal ones, but smaller and yellow. Oh my ghoodness they melt in your mouth and are super juicy and delish! So anyway, that's what's been going on with these Curiel's. I have also taken lots f pics of our kitchen which you will see when the transformation is complete!

Happy Last Day of School!

Whew! Got through another year. I hope next year isn't quite so hectic. But the summer is here now and I don't have to think about work AT ALL! Soo wonderful. Shannan has come over and we are having fun exercising and eating healthy. Its always better when you have someone doing it with you. We have pics of some stuff that I will post later. And yes Kelly, I am taking my medicine again. Its not fun, but I know its good for me. well see y'all later

Another play..I know...I'm crazy

So...my friend Patty and I are co-directing a teen mystery dinner theater play. We will be having rehearsals most Sundays throughout the summer. I think the cast is a bunch of very good kids, so it should be fun. So now we are doing a new kitchen, finishing the rest of the house, visiting Raul and Kelly lots, going to London, going to see Wicked, planning for nest year, and doing a play! What am I thinking! Well.. it will all work out :)
Now on to happier topics, tomorrow is the last day of school! Woo HOO!! But I still have lots to do and get it done before 1 o'clock tomorrow. whew. It will be crazy and fun and relieving. So that's that.