Look at these lips

This post won't be up here long and is only for my cousin's benefit. This is how my lips were done for my wedding. Of course, when I got to the chapel I wiped it off.

I was in a PhD level course

Tonight I had my first course of the semester. It is an internet course so I was in the office at home getting ready for the virtual chat. Brian wanted to come in and see my 'classroom.' He sat down at the desk and started typing in my chat session... I assumed he was playing around and going to write my wife is hot or something along those lines. I was partially correct. He wrote "Amy Holt in da house" and then pushed enter. This was then posted to the chat session. It was the funniest thing ever, but HELLO you can't post this on a PhD class forum.

Trip to Turkey- May 2008

So this post is from quite a while ago, but I did not have a blog then and I wanted to put up some pictures of when we went to Turkey. I was fortunate enough to be the research assistant for this study abroad trip in May 2008... so I got to go for free. Brian was able to come too! We were there for about 14 days and saw some really neat sights. We heard the Muslim call to prayer... it was very unnerving at first, but you got used to it really quickly. We would both love to go back sometime.

We both really loved Capadoccia (the picture with the huge mounds). We got to stay in a hotel where the rooms were inside the mounds. It was beautiful and unlike anything we had ever seen before.

I had to have my head covered during parts of the trip. Any time we went in a mosque it was not required, but would have been considered rude of me not to cover my head. I also found the covering useful when we were in the sun to protect against sunburn. Sunburn was not a problem when we were in the underground city. This is the picture of us that looks like we are in a cave. There was miles and miles of what used to be a big city underground. It was VERY crowded and we definately felt clausterphobic many times. At one point someone yelled behind us that we needed to move the line along because someone was having chest pains... there was no where for us to go. We were smooshed in already (touching everybody on all sides).

Another funny thing was when we were near Ephesus (we did go to Ephesus also... it was amazing to be where Paul was) we went to a heliacropolis (who knew that was a burial ground). We kept smelling something that smelled of rot. Brian thought he was getting swept away by the historical romanticism of the place until he picked up a very beautiful flower (pictured above) that truly smelt like death... it was horrible.

I have also uploaded was is thought to be the last home of the Virgin Mary before her death. Isn't it interesting that the Bible really doesn't give much/any detail about her after Jesus's death.

The puppies

I realized while talking to my cousin this evening that I don't have a picture of our puppy dogs on the blog. Sandy is the brownish/black dog. She is 10. She does everything that she is told by command. She is in love with Brian and always watches him. Seriously, the dog is in love with Brian and is sad that she is not a human so that she could be married to him and spend her whole day making him happy. Queen is the silver/gray puppy. She is 9 years old. She is in love with squirrels. She loves everybody though and loves to be petted. It is nice though because she is not in your face about it. If you don't want to pet her she just goes on her way.

Our new kitchen table

Here is a pic of our new table. We had a table that Brian was going to refinish, but amid all the home improvement projects I thought it might be easier to get a new one so all the efforts can go to finishing the bathroom. We actually bought it on Craig's list so it was a great deal. I also wanted something that would be ours instead of what Brian had before we got married. You can also see the plates that we got from Turkey on the wall behind the table.

Our First New Year's Eve together