A celebration for a smarty-pants

 Well, one of the many things that attracted me to my little Andre Joseph in the first place was his rating of awesome in the smartness category.  A couple weekends ago on the 18th of September after a whole week of sleep deprivation and exams and stress he took THE GRE. That dreaded exam to help decide the fate of grad school.  He may not admit it, but he was pretty nervous. HOWEVER, not only did he finish way early, he got 100% of the math part right!!!! Yeah.... ALL of it. In addition to doing pretty dang well on the other parts. Obviously I am beyond proud and love to embarrass him by telling everyone I know, but before we told the world we had a *little* celebration at our apartment by playing dress up and drinking fancy drinks : )

back to the future: lost vegas

WHAT?!?! now we're in Las Vegas again?

Now I remember, we're on our honeymoon! That was fun: seeing all the fun free stuff, bumping into friends and family, what a grand time to be had by all.

(Jaala and Harrison were shrunk with us when we went to see visit the flower garden)
(world's biggest chocolate fountain, or something like that. I swear we're not obsessed with the delicious cocoa bean treat from the heavens)

WORD

UP!

wax.

breakfast of champions!!

here's the recipe:

1) drive through the ghetto to find a grocery store in the middle of the night

1a) find tastiest cookies in the whole world (or at least Andrea's fav) ON SALE!!!

2) realize there's no fridge in the room

3) fill the sink with ice

4) insert milk into sink of ice

5) call room service for extra glasses

6) pour milk

7) dunk cookies

8) enjoi!

oh yeah, and it IS possible to have the world spin in Vegas with out alcohol or illegal substances.

It's fun to get pictures with random German tourists.

I also recommend watching the Bellagio fountain show from the top of the Eiffel Tower at the Paris, then you don't have to battle smelly tourists for a good view.

Back to the Future: part 1 - new member of the family

What's going on? Now it's like a week ago?

Oh yeah, how could we forget? our family just got a little bigger!!!

We're no longer a couple and their little fish (Alpha the Betta), but now Dirk the Dyson has been added to the brood.

As hardcore as they are made out to be, they are REALLY easy to assemble (step 1: open the box, step 2: plug in the hose. that's basically it).
SOMEONE was REALLLLLLY excited about the new addition...
They were exited enough that at 11 pm they wanted to vacuum the entire apartment.
Ok, it was Andrea, you got it out of me.