whether you can see it or not, i promise there is a little bump there. it is keeping my pants from buttoning already, not cool baby h, but i guess i will let it slide. 
when we checked in we all received dousing rods or witching sticks. the point is to hold the sticks parallel to the ground about 10 inches apart. when they start spinning around on their own in your hand, you are apparently getting ghostly activity. the scary thing is it really worked, well they spun on their own, i don't know if there were ghosties or not. this picture was taken at a park down the street from wayne newton's house. this park was haunted because several bodies have been found there and supposedly they have all hung around. also, it was like 110 degrees there at night and the ground at the park was freezing. it was very strange. 
this is part of wayne's estate. there was a house built across the street from his main gate that is supposedly haunted. apparently, some drug lords started building it and selling drugs out of it before it was completed. a 16 year old girl went missing from the same neighborhood and her body was found in the incomplete house. apparently, she was killed in some drug lord war or something... anyways, the house was never finished after that. the story is that the girl haunts the house. we were shown pictures of the house in day and at night. during the day it looked like a normal house, but at night it was covered in orbs (ghost talk). the killing took place like 18 years ago and numerous realtor's have listed it with no success. people that look at the house always come out saying it was hard to breathe and they felt like they were being strangled. the even freakier part of this story is that the address is 6660 pecos. the realtor's would move the address numbers up and down just to attempt some interest in it. 
the other great thing is the conservatory that changes with the seasons. all of the decorations are made of flowers and are just unbelievable. the fountain was made of flowers. 
this time there was a green house in the center of the room. you could walk into it and it was filled with birds. 
water tunnels. no, they are not in tubes. it was funny to watch people that would walk by and stick their hands into the water to see if it was real. the water sprayed all over them. well, that's what they get. 
bird in the green house. 
we took a lil' trip to moore this morning, actually i do this a lot of mornings, to work in my classroom. i made kyle-boy go along to help unload my fridge. anywho...when we got home it was apparent our a/c was not working...big bummer because at this exact moment our buddies at the weather channel are telling us it is 104 out and pushing 90 in the house. not cool at all dudes (pun intended).
the goal is to make this area look more like a built in hutch. there will doors on the bottom and the top center. we are going to leave the top outer cabinets open and use the shelves. i got this idea from a magazine, i have no shame in using someone else's designs. 
today we took a little trip to builder's warehouse. fun place if you are into that kind of thing. we are definitely going with the white subway tiles for the backsplash. i know that is a lot of white, white tiles, white backsplash...but it is going to look great! 
i like the one in the center, kyle likes the dark one on the top. what do you think? the tile behind all of this is what is on our floor.