we are the champions

The amazing ladies of the Aggie basketball team are
NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
for the first time in history! Whoop

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As usual, its great to be an Aggie!

GIG 'EM!

Puggle tricks

In honor of Oliver's 2nd birthday I wanted to show you his tricks.

 

Isn't he the cutest!

 and in case you can't hear the command that makes him sit on his back legs it is "meerkat". Jimmy volunteered at the Dallas zoo a few summers ago and he loved the meerkats so we taught him that. this is what he is imitating. 

Spring Break: Stop 5

We were in one of our favorite cities for St. Patrick's Day..

♥ BOSTON ♥

Which just so happens to be one of the best places to be to celebrate the Irish! We listened to Irish music, met men in kilts and of course drank green beer.

 

Spring Break: Stop 4

I've been slacking with the vacation posts but I am going to finish today! After NY we went to stay with Gram for the rest of the week. While we were there we took a day trip to Mystic and another to Old Saybrook with my aunt and cousin. Being at Gram's was my favorite part of the trip because we got to relax. One day it was cold and rainy so we stayed in our pjs and read all day, so nice!

 

 

Weekend Makeover

I have to take a break from my vacation posting to show you what I did! Saturday night on my way back from a friend's house I saw two white chairs on the curb.  It was late and my car is tiny so I left them. But I turned around to get them, then decided against it again, then turned back around one more time, I had to have them! So there it was almost 1 in the morning and Jimmy and I are stopped in the middle of the road trying to stuff these chairs in my car. They wouldn't fit so Jimmy carried them all the way to my house! don't worry they are light and it was like 2 minutes from my house.

The chairs were filthy, they had wasps nests all over them and the paint was peeling pretty badly. But I wanted to give them a second chance so I gave them a good scrubbing, sanded off what old paint I could, put a few layers of fresh paint on them, and made them pretty new cushions. And I am pretty happy with how they turned out!

The dirty dirty dirty chairs before..

 my handsome handy-man making the bottoms of the cushions

and drum roll please.......

The finished product

Now that they have had a make-over these pretty little chairs have a new home on my front porch!

Spring Break: Stop 3

After a night in the city of brotherly love.. just kidding that's cheesy. After stopping for a night in Philly our next stop was NEEEWW YOOORK (in my best Alicia Keys voice) It was relatively calm, I think because we were there on a Sunday. 

This day was especially perfect because I got to cross something off of my bucket list! We went to the American  Museum of Natural History, actually we were the first people in when it opened. As awesome as it was I have to admit that I was a little disappointed that it was nothing like it is in Night at the Museum.

After we went to the museum we walked to time square and had lunch. Then we went to F.A.O. Schwarz, I had to find it because my roommate said it was closed but one of the first things I saw when we got to the city was a woman with a F.A.O. Schwarz bag. So we went on a mission to find it. After that we spent a few hours in Central Park, then headed to our next stop.

Spring Break: Stop 2

After we left D.C. we drove to Philadelphia for the night. We got there too late to see any of the history, but we managed to do the most important thing there is to do in Philly.. eat Philly cheesesteak! Some of you might have heard about the food feud between Pat's and Geno's so we wanted to find out what they were all about. We were going to get a sandwich from both places and compare but the lines at both places were crazy long. So we chose Pat's, I didn't think I would like cheesesteak but it was pretty good.