Back up!

Left out a few NYC fotos... Here we are enjoying rice pudding from...the RICE PUDDING STORE!!! Only in NY.

Art Reception at SUNY New Paltz

Ruth, Your art reception was wonderful! It was great to see your family too. They make me laugh! Love, ya...

Leftover Chicago Pictures...

One of the most famous pizza places in all of Chicago, and we didn't eat there. :((This time...)

Even warmer!

Winter watch

Hey Karen, just for you a view of my super duper warm coat. :) It is "olive drab" color. :)

At the German Christmast Market, Chicago

Still pix of Chicago

What do you think?

Heading downtown Chicago...

Stayin warm...

No words needed...

Happy Thanksgiving

Nice...

Good job, Beth, with this fire that flamed for about five minutes. :) In the blog it lives in eternity.

How our generation currently spends Turkey Day...

Bad

Good

Pre-Turkey Day Meal

Spam?

Another alternative to Turkey. Door prize!

Thanksgiving Day

The cooks. The gas just stopped working at the house and 10 peeps are coming over. They have to cook everything at the neighbor's house. This could be a good trick if you don't want to cook your own Thanksgiving meal. Just tell the neighbor's your gas is out.

See how much I love it, Lana?

Thank you, Ahrim, for my special mug!

Beth and I at Starbucks. She came in as a total surprise to our Thanksgiving! I am sooo glad! :)

Weekend in NYC

One of my dearest friends, Lana, and I in our beloved NYC. We, of course, went food-hopping, Indian, Cuban, and British. We saw an Anton Chekhov play at BAM (The Brooklyn Arts Museum). It is probably the nicest theater I have ever been too!

But the real star was going to Redeemer Presbyterian and hearing Dr. Tim Keller. If you ever want to hear some amazing sermons go to... www.redeemer.com

The shire...

I never knew, but my friend Holly lives in the shire, look! Shire, NY that is.

Qauntum Linguistics

That is Heather's new name for one of my classes! I loved it so much that is what I renamed it! I even told my professor.

HELP! This class is now starting to look like Physics 507! He was drawing diagrams on the board that looked like a DNA chain. When his back was turned we looked at each other like, what the HELL IS that!?!?

I have to maintain a 3.0 to make it. I dunnnnnno!!!

One cool thing I found out is that I could student teach in a refugee resettlement community in NY. That sounded kinda interesting. And I got my green light to study Russian intensively next summer!

Attention all native English speakers!

One chapter in ONE of my books states...

"Many semilexicalized sequences possess permissible expansions or substitutions. In such cases, a formula can be extracted that consists of a nucleus of lexical and grammatical morphemes, which normally include the verb and certain of its arguments, as well as one or more structural elements represented by a category symbol such as tense, noun phrase, or pronoun.

A chapter means about 40 pages of THAT!

Wine anyone?

Here is another view of their backyard. You can see the storm is a---coming!

Here is the MOST PATHETIC and yet valiant last minute attempt at sabotaging the bridal car.

Ahh...have you ever seen Debbie this crazy happy? Rasul looks awittle scwared!

Wow! Look at them! Debbie is thinking. I got him. He's all mine, no escaping now!

Faith: Dave, look, you would never know this was fake costume jewelry, now would you?

This is the actual conversation that was happening...

Dave: So, do you have a boyfriend?

Faith: Um, not really.

Another great shot!

Look at us crazy Uzbek peoples! We took the house down,... for a song or two. :)

Here we all are. The wedding/Uzbek reunion. We missed you Caryl and Lisa, among others!

Betsy and Becky singing for the wedding...

There they are!!!

Here Faith and I are enjoying the moment at the church.

Oh my gosh, too cute! This is Faith's rehearsal dinner dress.

We gals all made it to The Cheesecake Factory. I had to initate them to the amazing dining experience. They will never be the same. :) We are sure having fun even without the dear bride who was too busy to galavant with us.

Here are Debbie's wedding toes. The name of this color was..."You're a piece of work!" A great name for a new bride! :)

Here is the bride the morning of her big day! More pix to soon follow of the wedding. :)

By the way, I was reunited with my suitcase after a MONTH of waiting. ya---hoooo!

Pedicures for the wedding just as Karen ordered... :)

Here we are at an Indian joint for Debbie's "kinda" bachelorette party. You can see we are sooo wild. :)

Faith and I reconnecting after our childminding days in Scotland.

Here we are in North Carolina, old friends from Uzbekistan (except the dog, he's pure American).

My new house shoes, Karen. You likeee?