Alconbury

We had our first official game this weekend and I was so excited how they played I had to post!!! This is the half time huddle my girls at that point had 4 goals and the other team had zero!!!
This year my team is rocking it!! I am so proud of them!! Many people came up to me and complimented me on a job well done. We didn't have a very nice head coach last year and it really shows in the way they played. This year they are doing so well!! Many coaches have come up to me and told me that the team is night and day better and are amazing this year!! I am so proud of them!! They really have come together. My varsity team ended up winning 7 to zero with this team!!! That is a picture of me trying to coach!!
Some pictures of them on the field!! The other team was really ruff and kept saying to there coach we can't keep up with them they are just to fast... it's because they run a lot during practice!!
Number 31 is my best player on the team in this picture she took down the girl that was on the ground and ended up taking down this girl too... She is so good!! All my players are amazing but she is great!!! My JV team ended up winning against the team 3 to zero!! Go Lady Lancers!!! Can't wait for the rest of the season!!

Valentines Day

I had the most amazing Valentines Day ever!!!! I have the best husband in the world and he is the most wonderful man ever to walk the face of the earth!!!! I bought Josh a stress free massage and he went above and beyond!!! He bought me 7 bouquets of flowers because I just Love flowers... he made breakfast with strawberries so good!!! He bought me a popcorn machine because when I was younger we had one in our house and Mom and brothers and I would gather around this popcorn machine and joke and have fun so he got me one!!
Then if that wasn't enough he made this really cute and thoughtful coupon book and right away I used the shopping spree coupon I couldn't wait so he took me to Cambridge and being a great husband followed me from store to store till I found what I wanted and didn't complain at all!! Then we ate at Chilli's which doesn't sound that exciting but they have free refills.. all places here do not have free refills and give you a shot size glass that you only get to drink from and think that will be good so you end up over spending on drinks alone and we only order soda. But what a great Husband!!! Then when I didn't think it could get any better my Wonderful Brother and Sister in Law send me the cutest video in the world telling us happy Valentines Day!! What a Great Day!!!!! I have the most Beautiful Nieces by the way!!!
PS... this might be a while till we post because soon our lives will turn into a soccer life!! I was promoted this year to Head Soccer Coach so will be taking on more responsibilities so please don't think it is because nothing is going on we will try to update as best as we can but Soccer is really going to take over!!

Birthday England Style

Sorry we were really tired but I had the best birthday ever!!! The Hewson's in our AMAZING Ward invited us over to their house on my birthday to celebrate it and Sister Hewson made this amazing meal and home made Belgium Chocolate Cake that was so AMAZING!!! Before we went to their house I had a facial and spent a fun day with the Hewson's Daughter Libby and her son.
Even after making a great meal they still got me presents!!! What wonderful people!!
This is Libby and her son we were having fun with whip cream and her son loved the whip cream so we started spraying the cream in his mouth. He sure loved it!! She is so great her Mom is the one that threw the party or should I say Mum...
Just showing off my awesome presents while Libby makes fun of me!! So Funny but little did she know I knew she was doing that!!
Josh stuffing his face with that amazing cake as you see the slice is very small but that was all you could really eat!! It was so AMAZING!! After the already awesome party we played games and had a great time!! We are so blessed to be around such wonderful people and to have such a wonderful time!!

Snow Day

Thanks to Global warming we have had 10 inches of snow in the last week and have some great 2 hour delays from not having to go to work and sleeping in. The High School children seemed really upset that they didn't have a full day of school lessons but little did they know we did a full days work without the 2 hours... LOL!!! Well Dolche's little girl Bella our new little puppy took some naps and had a hard days work of playing in the snow we had to take pictures!!
The video is so funny I hope you laugh like we did!! Bella sure gives Dolche a run for his money and is not afraid to tell him!!! You can see how well they listen to us when Josh tells them to go inside!!!!!

Eye Surgery Adventure

Twas the day before surgery and waiting at the port to cross to France the snow was sure falling in hopes of Josh being able to see without the help of corrective lenses danced through his head. While I slept in the car getting ready to climb aboard the thought of Josh seeing and going to German help the dreams to come forth.
Our first stop was in Bruge, Belgium where we were greeted by a mystical creature called a golden troll who gave us the one finger salute. Okay enough with that... Josh was opted to get the free eye surgery called PRK was he ever excited he will no longer be needing glasses. Unfortunately we had to go to Germany for his surgery and drive there from England. Which sounds like a great adventure and it would be if it wasn't snowing. On our way to Germany we stopped in Bruge which has amazing shopping and is a very beautiful city and has great chocolate. But for some reason maybe because it was snowing and Cold we didn't get many pictures only this picture! The restaurant we ate at the building was built in 1614 which was really neat!! So once we bought our chocolate, Belgium waffle and took the picture of the troll we headed to Germany. Well it just happened to snow that day and the snow was coming down really hard and we had to stop for gas... The Tom Tom took us a wrong direction and we ended up getting stuck on a hill. The German people are so nice and so willing to help some guy stopped and asked if he could help us... but thank our lucky stars or Heavenly Father we got out!! When we arrived in Landstul which took us several hours to find the base we were so lost!! It sucked we put our emergency break on at the hotel not thinking anything of it... well bad idea our breaks got frozen and stuck. Not to mention the base wouldn't let us get gas even though we are military they wouldn't let us... We had had it!!! So we did what anyone else wouldhave done we went to a travel agent and booked a trip to Belek, Turkey all inclusive and WARM!! Since we had to stay in Germany for 2 weeks of those 2 weeks we only had to be there for 3 days we where able to take this wonderful trip!!!
Well Josh and I being the adventure types we didn't even know what we booked we were so excited to get out of Germany and go to a spa hotel we forgot to ask all the important things. But we were blessed to stay in a 5 star hotel!!! IT WAS AMAZING!! Since they are Islamic in Turkey you weren't aloud to walk around the hotel in your bathing suit you had to wear this robe and slippers and when you came to eat you had to be fully clothed and no swimsuits... of course the men could have worn whatever they wanted they could have been naked and that wouldn't have mattered LOL!! Our room was amazing and had amazing views of Belek!!!
So since it was a spa break we booked a spa deal for couples... it is a Turkish bath special they had going on... in the picture is a picture of the baths... we laid on top of this stone slab and in the rooms leading out of it was there baths that you could wash in but they brought the water to us... it was so neat!! They first scrub you down with Lemon scrub and they scrub your whole body they pretty much removed all of your skin!! It was like being reborn, skin wise!! Then they make these bubbles from the towels and throw a million bubbles on you and your surround by bubbles and they rub you down and massage you with this cream and between each step they throw the Turkish water on you... once they are done washing you down you go over to the baths and they shampoo your head and scrub your face down...
then they bring you to this room (VIP) and you sit in this bath that works as a aqua massage machine and you soak in anything you want from Chocolate and so forth we got the Cleopatra bath... that smelled like lavender!! It was so AWESOME!!!
Every night they had something going on!! Since it was all inclusive we would sit and drink soda's and wait for dinner or the next show that was going on!!
This night they had bingo and Josh won the grand prize!! HE IS SO AWESOME!! He won another aqua massage for two which we did in chocolate this time and free bowling that they had in the hotel we ended up playing pool instead, but after that we went dancing!! THAT WAS SO MUCH FUN!! We ended up being the only ones on the dance floor but I don't care we had fun!!
This is the beach and you can see the mountains in the back round it was maybe 100 feet from our hotel room!!
We went into town and went shopping... did they ever have stuff to buy we wanted more traditional Turkish stuff to put in our house but a lot of people sold designer stuff that was priced way to high... but this boy we ended up meeting and it was on Sunday, and he is Muslim and he was showing us what they wear in there meetings. He was a little scared at first because the hat he is wearing is what someone who is high in there church or religion would wear. He told us to hurry up and take the picture but he did it!! Another thing here that was really inexpensive was jewelry!! Josh bought me some amazing jewels that are so awesome for like a 3rd of the price!! WHAT A GOOD HUSBAND!! But in the videos you can hear them praying over the loud speakers!! That was neat!! But this boy was one of the devoted workers and stopped work to pray he told us that but he stopped so that was cool!!
Yes they have phones... Just wanted you to see it!! It was outside of our hotel!!
All of the hotels has massive security you can see the guy standing guard outside of our hotel. When we arrived it was dark outside and we see all these hotels barbwire at first I thought they were military installations or prisons but they weren't they are our hotels... I guess they have a lot of problems but turkey is very very very poor... the jewels we bought from the guy which wasn't that much money, he was able to shut down and not have to work for the rest of the month and it was the beginning of January he was very grateful and kept giving us stuff for free.
This is inside the security part but outside of our hotel this is maybe 10% if less of our hotel it was so big and the grounds were Big, if you want you can see it on the Internet google susesi if you have time and want to go to turkey stay here!!
So funny story... the people were so excited about us for some reason... we were the only Americans to ever visit this hotel!! The only ones!!! They didn't even have an American flag flying outside of the hotel!! Anyways everyone thought that I was Josh's Secretary and he was a big wig boss and we were having an affair... funny!! I have no clue why but all the managers and higher ups would come up to me and talk to me... because I am so chatty and at dinner every night they had baklava which is mine and Josh's favorite desert in the whole world!! So this manager comes up to me and sees me getting it and is kind of surprised and I tell him I LOVE BAKLAVA!! (thanks to the Greek festival and awesome parents taking me to it when I was younger and Josh coming to it) We know what it is!! So this manager is really surprised and says do you want to learn how to make!! I am so excited and he tells me come down and we will take you into the kitchen and show you how to make!! It was so cool!! they took us into the kitchen which is the size of our house and then some and takes us in the back to where they make the desserts and show us how to make it!! You can see it on the video!!
Another food that the Turkish people eat is fresh honey! Josh's Favorite!! They had fresh honey out for us to eat all day and Josh would eat the whole thing comb and all!! It was pretty cool!! There food was MAGNIFICENT!!! This was the best hotel we have ever stayed in even our complementary shampoos and stuff was designer stuff!! Best treatment ever by staff... they ran out to the local town to buy me black tights!! How nice was that!! We loved it and if the future lets us we will return!!! It was neat seeing a new culture!! To bad we had to go back to Germany!!

Its been a while...

Dolche is a Daddy... a friend of ours has an Maltese the beautiful white dog in the picture and with Dolche our Yorkshire terrier, produced 6 little puppies 3 boys and 3 girls, this has kept us pretty consumed for the last few months. Those puppies are really cute. It is always relaxing to see these little dogs. They have gotten so big too. Poor Balie was only suppose to have 4 puppies but to our surprise she had 6.































Its a good thing that Human's don't have Litters......
The puppies had a feeding frenzy Poor Baile!!

on the video we are voicing our concern for the puppies well beings so sorry if this upsets anyone but you just had to see them eating!!

Venice

When we arrived in Venice we hopped on the boat and went to our hotel room so we could put down our bags... but when we got to the hotel they informed us that the bathroom had been flooded and we couldn't stay there anymore but they were going to put us in a nice hotel that was right next to St. Marks Square where you want to stay anyways!! So we were excited but nervous to go when we arrived they put us in this amazing room!!

The fist floor had a big bed and a sitting area with a fireplace!!
The second floor part of it had glass flooring had two smaller beds to sleep in and a desk!! We didn't use it at all but it was really cool looking.
Sorry, this is the massive fireplace that I didn't focus very well but it was great even though we didn't need it!!
Our bathroom had a jacuzzi tub that was so awesome!!!!
Also had the wonderful Italian toilet and regular toilet we used the Italian one to fill up our water bottles!!! HAHA JUST KIDDING!! But made you think twice!!!
The Cool part of Venice is there is no cars in the area so we had to get everywhere by foot or boat!! It was so neat!!! So this is me excited about going to Murano where they make the Venetian glass that they are famous for!! One of the many things Venice is famous for it is really cool to go and see and you can get necklaces and big rings!! I Loved it!!
When you enter the island you can go to the museum and factory where they make the glass... this guy had the biggest arms I had ever seen and he is probably older than my dad!! It was cool!! You can see how they make the glass on our video and hear their accent that I can not understand!! I wish they had subtitles even though they could speak English I couldn't really understand them!!
The Venetians believe that they have an amazing water system and there water is so good!! I think it is a natural spring but water is running from this fountain and you can go and fill up water bottles and drink whenever you want... you see old women filling up big gallons of this water to store for themselves. I didn't want to drink out of it but I dared Josh... sick!!
This is part of Murano where you can go to ever store and look at the glass that they sell... they have really inexpensive stuff in one store and in the other it is really expensive. But non the less it is so beautiful I wanted to buy it all but couldn't maybe next time!!
This is the final bridge to our hotel room and the view was so breathtaking!!!
We decided to go and see a play that they put on about Venice and it's history. On the way to the event we had to take a picture of this little side street!! It was like we were on a movie set or something just was so magical and not real looking!! Funny story... so the hotel had told us about this awesome play about Venice's history and we have to see it. We booked to see it and have dinner before we watched the show. They told us the food was so good etc... We get there and It was like releasing the hounds for feeding we all are running into the venue to go and find a place to sit which had seating for maybe 6 people of like 70 people so we manage to get a seat. I had to watch this seat like it was life or death because these two women were giving me the dirtiest look wanting our seat it was too funny!! Then Josh gets food and comes back, I am like that is great starters to eat I am excited for the real food... well that was the real food BBQ wings with rosemary and some nasty pizza!! It was too funny! So we are laughing so hard while these ladies are still staring at us. Then the cast comes out to poke fun of us I am sure to rub in our faces thinking these morons actually paid us to get in... Then the play is about to start we walk in and get our seats which is like buckets seats that fit 4 people and I was thinking I can be stuffed like a sardine I am going to pass out but we manage to get our own bucket. We were being optimistic thinking it has to get better. Well, they didn't speak good English so we couldn't understand them and it was mainly about having relationships with more than one person no matter if they smelled and looked really bad!! So not a place for us at all!! When it was done we ran out of there so fast we would have left sooner but they had us locked in the room trust me I tried!!! But other than that Venice is an AMAZING CITY!! I suggest if you only can go to one place in Europe it would be Venice!!!