You may now call me Aunt Emmy!

Okay so I know it's been about 9 months since I last posted but my life as been something that neither you would want to read about nor me write about. But as of yesterday that has since changed. I am now a first time AUNTIE!!!!!! Jenny (my sister-in-law) and Derek had their baby yesterday. She was 6 lbs 2 oz and 19 inches long!! Just a little bundle of cutenss. As of today she is still baby harbie, but hopefully by tomorrow, she will have been given a name. She as been anticipated for so long and she is all we all could have hoped for. She is beautiful and deek and jen are going to be great parents! Out of it being their baby I will wait to post pics for bit!!!

The Time has Come

Well I guess this is it....my last post from London and although I am excited to come home, it will be hard to leave. At the beginning of the semster, one of my professors said, "London will become a second home", at first I just laughed, but now that it has come to the end and I am looking back on this grand adventure that I have just complete, I truely do fell that London has become my second home. Home in a sense that I have found a place of belonging here. I have grown and learned so much about myself that half of me is because of London. We had a testimony meeting last night and due to the lack of time and sobbing girls, I didn't get a chance to stand and express my gratitude for the opportunity that Heavenly Father has given me that come here. It was a fulfillment of a life goal and I am extremely greatful for it. I also am so grateful for the support that mom and dad have given me, through helping me pay and giving me a chance to work and earn it. It truely has been amazing and I have loved every minute of it. So until I am here once more.....it is cheerio for now.

Love the London Bird!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

 Well I did it! I blogged. Enjoy!

this is the baptism font of the first members in wales! 

Coal mine in Wales-BTW we got lost in the mine
Best 10 pounds I ever spent 
King Henry's summer house
We went to the Paris catacombs: there was over 6 million people worth of bones down there
My Hunchback of Notre Dame face!
Me: Esmerelda Kayla: Quasimodo.  There was a guy laughing at us while watching us pose for this picture.
On top of Notre Dame!
We went to Notre Dame and took a seat while waiting for some people in our group and this man came up to me and asked me if he could take a picture with us. So i said yes and he took a picture then all of a sudden it turned into a photo shoot.  this is a picture of this man's whole family.  It was hilarious! little more involve then that but that is the jist of it.  
Church of the Sacred Heart in French: Sacrea Coeur.  It was one of the coolest churches I have seen yet! Loved it 
Us at the Louvre after a day full of museums-Great day but crazy busy
Hey Dumb Dumb give me some gum gum! 
"The Thinker" by Rodin at the Rodin Museum 
The clock at the museum D' Orsay.  An impressionist museum that mom and andi went to while we were there-it used to be a train station converted into an amazing museum!
Sorry that some of these are flipped my computer doesn't work right.
Awesome crepes on Mufatard Road! this road is a open air street market with really good chocolate and huge crepes-we shared this one and i wasn't hungry for the rest of the day!
this is Maria Antoinette's personal palace 
Versailles: Hall of Mirrors! 
Eiffel Tower obviously! It is blue because the President of France is the President of the United Nations and to honor him, they blued the eiffel! 
Chartres Cathedral outside of Paris    

Wa Wa Wa WALES north that is

Okay so it has been a few weeks since I have written... between three papers, a trip to north of Wales, a trip to the south of Wales, Oedipus, Mozart, Winston, Halloween, Thomas Becket and sack lunches I didn't Have much time to write!!!  This is part one of three

A little English History for ya: Today is Guy Fox night AKA British Halloween celebration! They celebrate the day with fireworks and bonfires.  They are celebrating the foiling of the gunpowder plot, which was a plot to blow up Parliament during one of their sessions.  Guy Fox who was supposed to set it off but was caught before he could light the fuse.  They used to burn effigies of Guy Fox but now they just celebrate with big bonfires, fireworks and the Lord Mayor parade.   Cool huh! If you want to full history of it-google it.

Well crazy past two weeks i'll tell you.  It all started with a weekend trip last weekend to Northern Wales with four buddies! We had a blast!  The first day we were there, we bought a day bus pass and saw the whole of northern Wales from a bus window! It was the best thing we could have done-we saw it all for only 4 pounds.  We touched the top of Snowdin- which is the highest peak in the UK and where people train for Everest on and we saw Gelert's grave-poor, poor doggy. We also visited a cool castle that I don't remember the name of but it is famous and big:)! And ate great food! Next day was up the hill on a tram in the freezing cold and wind  then it was down to Conway to see the Conway castle and to the food festival.  UMM UMM UMM UMM good! We then came home on Sunday! Fun Trip i would highly recommend it-and so does Rick.  

HAPPY AUTUMN!

Chatsworth.....Mrs. Darcy!!!!

1st Picture of Hillary in front of Beatrix Potter's House

2nd Picture of McKenzie and Laura on our boat ride around the lake

3rd-5th Pictures from the Bronte parish-cemetery, house and town