Dominic is 6!

This is the day Dominic turned 6 years old! At his birthday breakfast we reminisced about the events leading up to his birth, and then those first couple days of his life. It was so wonderful to talk about that time of our lives!

When I asked him what he would like for his birthday breakfast he responded with: quiche, sausage, and apple kabobs...that was plan until the week ran away from us, and I was exhausted from the other snacks we provided for school and k-enrichment, and so I asked, "How about donuts and chocolate milk?" He was very happy with that menu as well! (and no work for me!)

A birthday song from Grandma

Nick made an airplane for Dominic with Vinny in the shop.

One of my best friends, Marissa, came up with her 3 kids for the night to celebrate Dominic too! It was so much fun sitting on the couch, drinking wine, talking, and watching the kids play-although we did not hear very much from them..too busy having fun! It was a pretty perfect evening for me! Here is Samantha with Dominic.

The three girls!

On Saturday Grandma and Grandpa came up for Dominic's party. He had been LONGING for a headlight that he saw some crossing guard wearing...

Grandma and Grandpa got him one!

Dominic wanted a bowling party and I was all too glad to oblige...we were out of the house and I didn't have to plan a bunch of events!

Here we go TEAM STRIKER! What a bunch of crazy boys! I was cracking up the whole party-this whole group could not keep their hands off of each other...wrestling, hugging, falling down, they were so physical and goofy!

Pre-game Cheer

We had cupcakes for the bowling alley, and a Mary cake for the family pizza party after.

Winning these stuffed animals at the pizza restaurant was the big deal of the night! On an ordinary day, they wouldn't want anything to do with these stuffed animals...but this night it was all the rage!

Dominic got to have Pryce stay the night for his birthday. The three of them cuddled up and watched a movie before bed.

Dom had a great birthday celebration, he is still excited about all of the fun they had!

The Eyfords Visit! What a GREAT time!

One of my dearest friends, Shannon came to visit this weekend with her family. We LOVE the Eyfords! Both Vinny and I have such a great time when we are together! Shan has been my friend since high school and whenever we get together it feels like no time has passed at all, we slip into that comfortable friendship so easily.

The kids had a great time together too!

Of course a highlight for our kids was the RV!! They LOVED riding around in the Eyford's RV. It made a regular car trip into a very exciting adventure! Brad was a conference training both days so he missed out on many of our adventures.

Ready to ride along the Olympic Discovery Trail to the Secret Spot!

It was a day of building bridges...Jack had a mission to build a bridge across the stream in our secret spot so the kids gathered up sticks and logs of many sizes and made a bridge. Vinny helped out too!

Dom testing the bridge

The first bridge that was built

Onto the second location...to build another bridge

Shannon and Jack collecting "materials" (Jack's words) to build another bridge!

Working on the bridge

Couldn't resist this pic!

Snacking on some popcorn...these kids did not stop eating all weekend!

G loved hanging out with Shannon

These two had a great time together

We can't wait for our next weekend with the Eyford family!

When did I have time to do this?

After our Valentines Breakfast with the kids we had them look through our "memories" box with us, and we found this book from our first year of dating! I don't know how I had time to make this...hmmm well maybe no kids was a factor!

We were laughing about how I had so much time before to spend time on this type of thing...now I just whip it out on the computer using my new fave-mypublisher.com- but I used to make these books with my second graders around Valentine's Day using an old Peanuts book (Snoopy) as a launch. I loved hearing what the second graders thought LOVE was!

Moments in Our Love Journey!

Our First Valentine's Date! Vince actually BOUGHT this dress for me as a present and gave it to me before we went out at my parent's house. I was not sure at the time that it would fit, but it was perfect! What an amazing guy!

This was a picture from a wedding that we attended while we were dating, and someone asked us on our way in: "So when is your guys' wedding date?" We were soooo embarassed!

We attended a Rainiers Baseball game with Vinny's friends for a summer date, and had a great time getting to know one another!

The morning of our "proposal" weekend! Vinny came to my house and surprised me while I was still sleeping with callalillies and then whisked me off to Lake Cordelaine.

Dinner was set up for 2 on the dock of a restaurant on the lake and this was the moment after we got engaged! We were so "flowery!"

My favorite wedding pic! And it was taken by my uncle!

On our honeymoon...where we danced the night away at a casino. While I was dancing solely for my husband, a man came up and gave him money to have me dance for him! Vinny loved it!

Our first step into the real world-Vinny's first job as a principal in this town we call home! Here was his first office! I was 2 1/2 months pregnant!

Attending a wedding, and I was soooo excited to wear something that would show my little "bump!" 5 months pregnant with Dom...I had been waiting FOREVER for the bump to appear!