Easter, Dyngus, Equifest, and Ariel!

{Also see the next post down - it's the current one! This one never uploaded properly during Easter, so here it is!}

Howdy! Here's some catching up on some pictures!!

Look how well Ariel colors in the lines and writes! Such a proud Nana.

Ariel's first time in a swim cap {future swimmer right there!}

I went to EquiFest this year, without my best friend Katie Domico, who unfortunately passed away at the end of last year.  She loved horses, and we would always go to EquiFest and plan our dream barn. Love you, girl.

These are a few pictures of a trick rider who specializes in draft horses! He was really amazing.  Check out my Instagram movie clip of him riding!

Father and son silliness....

My first Buffalo Bandits game!! It was a lot of fun! I went with my Reading and Writing Buffalo class at school. We won!

What is Easter in Buffalo without a stop at the Broadway Market??

Central Terminal, now closed as a station, open for tours and under restoration.

Happy Easter!!!

Summer is HERE!

Hey there everyone!! It's been so long since I wrote, but with good reason! This past semester was pretty hectic - I got accepted into Sigma Tau Delta {insert STD joke here}, completed two honors projects, got re certified in Lifeguarding/CPR&AED, and did some re-enacting for Civil War Day at the local middle school! Alex & I even went to Lake Placid again with our friends this past weekend to enjoy a much needed vacation!

Please note I've also published the Easter post as well, it didn't want to upload from the "Blogger" application I have on my phone, and now logging into a real computer, found the issue. 

Here's a picture of my official certificate :)

This was from the museum, my Mom & I (President & VP, respectively) gave a tour for Girl Scouts before we opened for the season:

This was part of Civil War Day! HEY! HEY YOU! YES YOU! I have some information for you!

Did you know that this flag above (what people call the Confederate flag) is not actually the Confederate Flag/Stars and Bars?!? This was a battle flag, and never used as the official flag of the Confederacy.  This is what the actual stars and bars looks like:

For more information about the different flags of the Confederacy, go to: 

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Alex passed his Paramedic Class and his megacodes!! All he has left is finishing his ride time, the school final, and then the state exam, and then he is a fully fledged Paramedic!!

Whelp, I did get a job lifeguarding, so obviously this picture would have come sooner than later.  Come to find out, the sunscreen I used that day was in a report that was put out just a week before this picture was taken, saying that the sunscreen was "ineffective against sun protection". Hooray.  So now, I've done a LOT of research, and found myself some new sunscreen.  

Here's the traditional picture of Alex and our friend in Lake Placid!

And a find last night! A few days ago we found a bump underneath the carpet (which has never been there before).  Alex decided to see what it was, to make sure our floor joists weren't the problem.  We found this original hardwood underneath!! Two pieces of the wood decided to turn into a triangle (or go like this: /\  underneath the carpet).  Look at how gorgeous this is! Unfortunately, whoever put the carpet in went a little crazy with the staple gun and nails, and most of the wood we uncovered was warped a little.  We're going to find a person to come and see what can either be done about this, because obviously we're now missing part of the hardwood, and if we should just tear it out & replace with laminate hardwood (which we were planning to do when we bought the house, even before we knew there was hardwood underneath the carpet).  

 3 more semesters of undergrad, two months until Alex completes his school final and ride time, two months until the family reunion and meeting up with my cousin Remik, and just over 3 months until Alex and I go back to the beautiful Pawley's Island!!