Top Ten Tuesday - Italy Edition

So as I may have mentioned once or twice (or a thousand) times before, we recently took a vacation to Italy. I don't repeat the awesomeness that was the trip to make you jealous, but to make myself remember how grateful and how very lucky I am. It was an amazing time and I loved spending it with my family. Here's my top ten favorite photos from our trip (in no real particular order).

10. Murano Island off Venice. Beautiful scenery, lovely glassworking shops, and much serenity

9. Drake snuggling on Daddy at the Roman forum in Rome

8. Link giving his big sister a kiss on the gondola ride

7. Pompeii ruins

6. The Pantheon!

5. Big sister attracting some attention from the birds in St. Mark's Square in Venice

4. Link cooling off on a hot Roman day

3. One of the domes in Vatican City

2. The Colosseum, from the third floor

1. Traghetto boats moored up on the Grand Canal

Linking up to Oh Amanda

You Capture

This week's You Capture over at Beth's blog is pretty much anything. She asked her son what the challenge should be and he replied with, "like trees and beautiful plants and little cute babies."

Here's my submissions for this week.

I don't know if this tree is beautiful or not, but it's certainly different.

No idea what it is.

Found it in a park on Murano in Venice, Italy.

Drake cheesing for the camera. I realize he's not a cute little baby anymore, but he'll always be my baby,

plus there's beautiful trees in the background so this totally is sticking with the week's theme.

My little baby giving his big sister a smooch while on a gondola ride in Venice, Italy

It was H-O-T in Venice (in Italy in general, actually).

We stayed cool due largely in part to all the fresh water sources.

Okay, I'm at a loss as to how this photo is "like trees and beautiful plants and little cute babies,"

but I'm going to be a rebel and post it anyway. One of my favorite photos from Venice.

Linking up to Beth's blog.

Back from our Italian Vacation

So as the post title says, we're baaack! Our vacation was amazing. We saw some really great things (Pompeii, the Colosseum, Venice) in Italy and it was absolutely wonderful. I find that now I'm way behind on orders placed while I was away. I love graphic design, but right now I'm swimming in orders. So until I can play a bit of catch up, I had better leave this post sweet and simple. I'll leave you with some photos of our trip. Have a great week everyone!