Meet Cole

Hi! I'm Cole and I'm 11 years old. My interests are: baseball, baseball, baseball, reading, cooking, music, and video games. I am a pitcher for my baseball team. I love fantasy books, like making desserts, and my favorite kind of music is metal. The best metal band is Fall From Grace; my uncle is their drummer!

Favorite restaurant: Lone Star or Applebee's
Favorite outdoor activity: baseball
Best thing about brothers: never getting lonely
Worst thing about brothers: lack of privacy
Favorite thing to do with family: go on vacation
In 10 years I: will be majoring in medicine at Duke
Best thing about me: creativity
Book you should read: Harry Potter series
Favorite vacation spot: Topsail Island
I am most like my: Grandaddy

Italy

1. Florence: Church of Santa Croce in the piazza of the same name. The largest Franciscan church in the world was begun in 1295 on the site of an existing 13th Century church. Notables buried within its walls include Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli, and Rossini. This was my favorite church in Italy- it is impossible to describe its beauty.
2.Ponte Vecchio in Florence. This is where I purchased Barry's wedding band.
3. Rome: The Colosseum

4. Julie, Jessie and me in Pisa

5. Verona

6. On a gondola in Venice. Our gondolier was grumpy & talked on a cell phone!!!!

In April, I traveled to Italy with a group of students and my friends and fellow teachers, Julie Woodward and Jessie Jordan. We saw fantastic sights, beautiful countryside, and breathtaking art and historical relics. I will never forget this unique and gorgeous country.

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Meet True

(as dictated, verbatim)

I am True Alexander Stanley! I love Barry, Mommy, Momommy, Grandaddy, and Great Grandma, Debbie and Anacin and a bunch of other people. I like to watch Dora and Spongebob. I love to eat carrot dogs, like the one in the picture. My favorite movie is Powers Rangers. My other favorite movie is a video of me on TV. When I grow up, i want to be a police officer. No, actually, i want to be a worker. I love playing with my brothers, play fighting with them, and eating with them. I love to go to the beach. I love when Barry rides bikes with me and picks me up. He eats with me, watches tv and other stuff. He is a good stepdad. My favorite drink is Mt. Dew. Uncle Matt picks me up sometimes, too, and he is kind of silly. I like him and love him.

Meet Reese

hi I'm Reese , I love to play baseball. I love to listen to rock & roll. I love the beatles. My favorite food are scrambled eggs. My favorite amimal is a blue whale. I like them because theyre so amazing( and so big ). Here are some amazing facts about me:

Favorite sports team:YANKEES

Favorite movie:Nacho Libre

When I grow up:I want to be a baseball player

Favorite vacation spot: mountains

Biggest complaint about brothers: sometimes they annoy me

Best thing about brothers: they give me company

Best thing about me: I'm trustworthy

Book I read lately that you should try: Dave Draveky - an autobiography( with Tim stafford)

even more honeymoon pics!!! Can you stand it?

Barry at the Seaport

Swing 46 inMidtown

After the ballet...

At Umberto's in Little Italy

More Honeymoon Pics

Times Square

This is aboard the Staten Island Ferry- the best freebie in NYC! The view of the skyline is truly amazing.

My favorite building in NYC: the Chrysler Building. This was taken from the top of the Empire State Building.

My precious Barry at The Met

The two of us before the ballet...I am in a red dress with my true love at the Met, just like Loretta in Moonstruck- my childhood fantasy come true!!

Central Park

honeymoon

I think we walked around 2000 miles this week in Manhattan! We had a blast, and although being together anywhere would have been romantic, New York was the perfect backdrop for our happiness! We saw Romeo & Juliet at the Met, visited the Museum of Natural History, drank espresso in Little Italy, went rowboating in Central Park, saw A Chorus Line, ate everything from Japanese to Cuban-Chinese cuisine, and enjoyed the tango at the South Street Seaport...

Our wedding was perfect- intimate and sweet. We were just ecstatic to be married, but our families made this day absolutely wonderful. God has truly brought us together, and we treasure our chance at real happiness. We are blessed.

our new family

Hi, everybody! I don't know what the heck I'm doing! i just created a blog, apparently, and my darling Barry, the tech wizard of the house, is out. So, i will try to do something interesting!!
we just got married on June 16, 2007, and our family is humming right along. We are moving to High Point in two weeks! Everyone is excited, but there's a ton of work to be done...