Quick Successions: New Mexico Edition

I went to New Orleans with a colleague from the university. While I was there, I went to the aquarium and found Nemo and Dori.

This year for Spring Break we went to Las Vegas. We stayed at the Venetian Hotel. There are canals in this hotel and people to paddle you in gondolas. Here is Brian and I having a good time.

Brian always makes me a little gift for Valentine's Day and brings it to me at school. Here is this year's offering. It is a poster with candy. It is very cute. So is Brian. Our school mascot is the Knight and Brian makes reference to that in the poster.

I made a cake for my professor that looks like the textbook that he wrote. He was very impressed. His name is Michael Tunnell. He is an award-winning children's book author and a two-time member of the Newberry Committee. He has been one of my favorite professors in this program. I look a little haggard because it was finals week and Brian was in the middle of having surgery and I had to come to campus for finals.

We spent Christmas at our house this year because Brian was recovering from surgery. Christmases at home are always so relaxing. I got a new wedding band for Christmas. I lost my old one and I don't even know where.

Here is me at the grave of Benjamin Rush, a signer of the declaration of independence and apparently my relation. He is in the same cemetery as Benjamin Franklin. Chelsea and I went on a tour of Christ's Church Cemetery while we were in Phily. It was a really good tour. The top picture is of the inside of Christ's Church, where Grandpa Ben went to church. He sat on the right side looking forward at the front of the church.

My colleague Chelsea and I went to Phily in November so we could attend a conference. It was very fun. We got to go to a session with Julie Andrews and we also got me meet some other authors like Matthew and Jennifer Holm who do my favorite series, Babymouse. Here are some picks of us having fun. The top picture is one of Chelsea and I. The bottom one is at the famous Reading Terminal Market where I went to eat lunch with Chelsea and some friends from Georgia. It was so crazy. There were so many people.