A few great shots.

I took the kids down to the river the other day for a little photo shoot. Not only did they cooperate...... the pics turned out really great.

I really do have beautiful children!!!!!

I love his dimples!

Look at those eyes!

This pic is very Parker...... What can I do with this rock????

My little model!

There are alot more but these are my fav's.

Starving with out gas in Italy????!!!!! Yeah thats right. ITALY!!!!!!!

We are home from Italy! Yes we was there. (jumping up and down!)

We drove to Pisa on Sunday. It was a 9hr drive but oh so very worth it.

After we arrived we got our gas coupons, checked into our CAMP site, and asked about the commissary. HA HA the commissary is closed Sun & Mon. So no groceries to fill our empty cooler. GREAT! So our next question was where in the closest restaurant because we were starving..................... well it was around 4pm and the restaurants dont open till 7pm! Hence the starving. We though we would go get gas while we were waiting for FOOD. We were on E. Yup not open! Hence the NO GAS. So we went to set up our tent, it went up with out a problem. Thank goodness! By this time we were all hungry/ravished and awnry! So we went down town to walk around. We ran into a little pizza bakery and downed a small pizza in about 2 seconds just to hold us over till we could get a real dinner. We found a quiet little place right off post with wonderful service and lots of PIZZA.

I am sure of 3 things.

1. Italians love pizza.

2. Italians cant drive to save their lives.

3. Between the hours of 1pm and 7pm, they DONT eat!

Day 2

We got up early (finally got gas) and headed to PISA. The city itself is nothing to write home about. Its beautiful yes. But a city non the less. Then you see it....... and you cant look away. It rises above everything else. The leaning Tower of Pisa. The whole plaza of miracles is just breath taking. They almost dont look real. It is true, no matter how many pictures you see it never can compare to the real thing.

WOWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!

We spent a good deal of time here before we stopped for lunch. PASTA. Very yummy.

We then did what the travel book said to do.................we left it all behind and headed to destination #2 CARRERA! Home of the marble quarries. Michelangelo used these quarries. The mountain is so scared but still in use. AMAZING!

The mountain.

The city. Look @ the water.

Ok so after CARRERA we had to go back to Pisa one last time to see the tower in the dark........

Day 3

FIRENZE AKA FLORENCE

I LOVE FLORENCE!!!!!! Trav hated driving in florence. CRAZY! We spent like 8hrs walking the city seeing as much as we possible could which was alot. Our feet hurt. We had a great lunch right beside the cathedral. LASAGNA. :)

We saw as much as our feet would allow.

See all the pics below. We saw ALOT!!!!!!!!!

DAVID was so beautiful. Truely amazing.

P.S. Ice cream in Italy is mind blowingly AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!