Ballet and Cute Old Italian Singers

For Valentine's Day, my darling husband displayed his undying love and devotion by coming with me to Butler's Midwinter Dance Festival. They have an amazing ballet company and it was wonderful. (Thank you Bryan...your self-sacrificial goodness did not go unnoticed) However, we did also hang out and read for a while in an awesome old cafe we found and continued our tradition of making a fun Valentine's Day dinner together, this time with homemade chocolate mousse for dessert that Bryan very much enjoyed...so the day wasn't all horrible for him.:)

But back to the show. My all-time favorite part of the performance was when the dancers broke loose from the restraints of classical ballet and started doing some really great jazzy stuff in vintage red silk dresses. And then of course a couple guys came out snapping their fingers in pin-stripes and fedora hats.:) As fabulous as their moves were, I still think that it may have been the music that made it. I mean, listen to this guy. It's just so cute. And it turns out that he's one of those old Italians dripping with character...I love that country. Here's a picture of him to go with the song.

I think I shall be purchasing a CD of Paolo's very soon...

Happy Presidents Day

I know I already posted earlier, but I found this funny (and highly educational) video. Hehe. I'm not a big fan of rap, but in honor of President's Day I am posting it anyway. (Jen and Ann, I thought you could use this for your boys' history lesson today):)

Updated Honorary Ireland Post

Here are the new and improved photos of our "honeymoon" plus birthday trip to visit Luke in Ireland. (He was doing a rotation there for school). Originally I had posted all the pictures in a long and rather arduous column but then decided to actually go to the work of putting them into a slide show (with some fabulous Irish music to boot). So hopefully they will now be easier and more fun for everyone to look at.:) It was a wonderful place...enjoy!

Photo Tag

Jen was doing a photo tag thing on her blog and it sounded fun. You are supposed to post the 4th picture in your 4th photo folder. However, I only have one photo folder on this computer because it's my laptop, so this is actually the 4th picture in my 1 folder.:)
It's a fun picture though. I think Jenny took it while we were walking out of some quaint little cheese shop in Dublin. I'm not sure why I'm carrying flowers, but it makes it all the more classic...that and the word "bus" painted on the road.:)

I have suddenly realized that I don't think I ever posted any of our Ireland pictures, I think because we went before our blog was born. It was fun to look back through them...there are some pretty good ones. If you would like to see some of them, then by all means let me know and I can do an honorary Ireland trip picture post.:)

Which reminds me...Jenny, I never did get Luke's pictures of our road trip to the coast from you. I still want those! Is there any way you could send them over e-mail?:)

Trip to the Dentist

Just wanted you all to know that Bryan and I officially failed our check-up. We both have five cavities. Yes, that's right. We both have FIVE cavities.

Disgusting isn't it? I don't know how it happened. We do actually brush our teeth. By all accounts, it just doesn't make sense. OK, so we don't floss. But seriously, how many people floss regularly? I guess that's what we get for not going to the dentist for 2 years after getting married and getting kicked off of our parent's dental plan.

Anyway, we'll be going back there a couple more times before this is all over. It's a good thing that we like our new dentist and her very chic office so much. Otherwise this might be a real hassle....

In order to end the post on a more positive note, I should mention that we do get free whitening for being new patients. (Thanks Ann for the referral!) We just have to get all of these cavities taken care of first before we can move on to the fun stuff. How sad.

Well, I should probably go and floss my teeth or something...