Spring Break

So over my spring break my sister Sarah was married to a wonderful guy named Brian. As most of you know I offered to make a wedding cake for their wedding party which was held at their new house this past Friday, March 22. Nathan also offered to cook for the whole shindig which ended up being about 90 people or so, kiddos included. It was a great success. I can't recall a single thing that went wrong and not only did my cake turn out as I had planned but it was also fairly edible. The groom's cake was a suprise hit as well and survived about 5 minutes post champagne toast before it was sliced and disappeared. It was an enormous amount of work getting the house prepped before hand, cooking for everyone and then cleaning everything up afterwards but thankfully both ours and Brian's family are pretty awesome when it comes to hard work. The following Monday Nathan and I headed up to Colorado Springs where Nathan had meetings scheduled all week and I spent the days site seeing. The mountains were beautiful, the weather was perfect all week. On Friday we drove up to CastleRock and had dinner with my Aunt and Uncle whom I had not seen in a few years. Nathan commented the whole drive up on how great it would be to own land in Colorado or Northern New Mexico. The drive home was long especially after we stopped in Dallas to pick up all of his cooking equipment and a new couch. From Dallas back to our home our little 4 cylinder Mazda truck hauled a sixteen foot fully loaded trailer behind it, we had to keep it in fourth gear going about 60 mph, 40 mph if we hit an incline. It was a learning experience and I say that because half way home Nathan pulled over and handed me the keys saying I had to learn how to pull a trailer. We made it home though and I've got some great pictures...



Nathan and Dad servin' up gumbo





The mint chocolate groom's cake






The wedding cake





Brian wiping down the counters ... a familiar site around the Thompson household





The Air Force Academy Chapel, if you think the outside is cool you should see the inside...





The view from our hotel room





Turkeys were all over the place, we scared these off as they were crossing the sidewalk just a few feet in front of us





Nathan helps out by hanging Zach's swing at his new home









Wait... Now it's perfect...

Fair Days and School Grades

Nathan and I managed to squeeze in a quick trip to Dallas last weekend to visit family and see the State Fair of Texas (Nathan's first time). We spent two days at the fair and on Saturday we drove up to Honeygrove to visit Mom and Dad. Here are a few of the photos I took at the Fair and at Honeygrove...

Nathan enjoys his first "corny" dog

The petting zoo was my favorite part of the fair




Texas milk jug

At the ranch with mom and dad, here mom is showing Nathan the plans for her kitchen..

Later Nathan chops up some firewood

Together Nathan and Dad stock up the Chiminea (sp?)

Nathan and I head down to the pond to fish the evening rise on Dad's new pontune boat



We caught a beautiful sunset while on the pond


School is still going well, big shocker there huh? Who knew I had it in me to get A's and B's? I've never had grades like this and it's addictive. I get special attention in class and several of my teachers remark on my enthusiasm in class. My English teacher told me I was his brightest student this semester and my Anatomy teacher stopped me after class with words of encouragement for our upcoming exam saying that I was the last student she would be worried about in her class and that it was apparent that I was studying more than anyone else. Okay, enough patting myself on the back here. Just one more thing though. History was made last week when midterm grades were posted and I officially have an A in my math class. I screamed so loud my teacher jumped..kinda embarrassing now that I think back on it. Believe it or not I am still very humble. Even though I am now taking 17 hours (I just added another quick 8 week course last friday) these classes are very easy compared to what's next. I'm just thankful to be starting out on the right foot here for the first time ever ;)

Muggles and Birthdays

I have officially finished the new Harry Potter book The Deathly Hallows. I received it in the mail on Saturday, the day it was released and managed to finish it by Sunday evening. It was sad saying goodbye to one of my favorite series but what a fantastic read! I think she did a brilliant job ending the loved series but I hope someday she revisits Harry and writes a few more.





As some of you know Nathan's birthday was last week and we celebrated it in Baton Rouge with his family. It was kind of a disappointment or as Nathan says "anticlimactic". None of his friends made it and no one gave a single gift but me. It was kind of odd. I'm beginning to understand why he hates birthdays... I think some of you would agree it would have been a much more rowdy and good time if we had spent it in Shreveport.




The 30G iPod I got him was a huge hit and he was even more elated when he discovered most of his previously stolen music had been purchased and downloaded already. He spent all weekend with headphones on it was a little irritating :)



After the weekend was through I joined him as he headed down to New Orleans. It was fun sightseeing and we took a day to drive down to Vernon to see the coast where I saw my first alligator!



Sorry the photo's not good but I was driving and Nathan had the camera for once. As you can see he's no genius with a zoom lens. There were a bunch of alligators in the water just chillin', they looked kinda cute bobbing around in the water. I was reminded of Chuck E. Cheese's and felt the urge to want to smash them on the head with a padded hammer. It was an interesting drive down as we passed through counties that had been seriously flooded. A few houses were still spray painted with slogans like "have gun, will use." or my personal favorite " You loot, We Shoot" I thought the rhyming was a nice touch amidst all of the chaos. Seeing as how they spray painted onto the actual siding of the houses they're stuck with it unless they want to repaint. I wanted to have a photo of a least one of the houses to show you all but once again that would involve Nathan operating a technologically advanced device like a digital camera. Some day hopefully that poor muggle won't be so intimidated by technology. It will be a miracle if he doesn't find a way to brake that iPod soon.