Family Trip To Oregon!

We were in Oregon last week visiting ALL of Paul's family. What a whirlwind of a week it was. My kiddos were in heaven with all of there cousins to entertain them. This trip was a very important since we received the news about Pauls sister and her cancer spreading. We tried to take it all in and enjoy our time with her. The weather was fantastic, cold at times, I think we spent each day in a sweater. This was the first time since Peter and Julies wedding that the entire family was together, and that was 4 years ago. Here are a few photos from our trip!!
Draft 2......I went to download the photos for my blog and they are gone, yes folks you heard me right, GONE!! 50-60 photos have vanished from my laptop. I can't tell you how many tears have come from this. There were photos of my kids with Paul's sick sister, my kids with my mother in law, first plane ride of Chance, etc, etc.....I guess the silver lining is that the photos we took of all the grandchildren and Paul's siblings were also taken from others! The entire trip through my eyes are gone. I have Julie and Maiko's photos, but as you know it isn't the same. We even had our neighbor and good friend down here, he works with computers, and he couldn't locate them either.
Lesson learned....Don't delete photos from the card until you are SURE they are downloaded.....It was still a super fun trip filled with great memories for our entire family, however, my downloading days are over for now!!!!

10 Years Already??

Today marks my 10 year anniversary. Where has the time gone? I remember the day Paul asked me to marry him like it was yesterday. It wasn't too romantic, but it was sweet and thoughtful. A year later we walked down the isle and made promises to each other that we would support and love one another for eternity. I will say for the most part we have done that. By no means are we perfect, but I feel we do have a strong marriage. Paul is my calm and my sense of normalcy. He is my biggest supporter and the BEST daddy any child could wish for. I am blessed to have found someone that tolerates all my imperfections and loves me in spite of them (and there are A LOT). Happy Anniversay Babe, I love you more today then I did 10 years ago!

Terry Fator~AMAZING!!!!!

Just got home from Vegas and saw the most amazing show. I didn't watch America's Got Talent, but that is exactly where Terry Fator was found. He is absolutely breathtaking! I went into this show with no expectations, and came out a HUGE fan! For those of you that don't know him, he is a ventriloquist, singer, and comedian....hilarious! His puppets include Winston the turtle, a stoner, a cowboy, a cougar (the kind of women that like younger men), my favorite, Maynard ( not exactly sure what he is, but he does a mean act of Elvis and he's awkwardly cute). Anyway..Here are a few clips that I took of the show....This will NOT do him justice! He is truly amazing and I am thrilled that he was finally discovered! His show is at the Mirage, and its worth seeing if you make it to Vegas!! Enjoy!! He also has a book I can't wait to read...Maybe I should start a fan club...haha!
Oh and did I mention that I won $350 when I was there? That was the icing on the cake!!

Birthday parties, demolition and recitals!!

We celebrated McKenna's 6th birthday with a bounce house in our backyard. All the kids has so much fun, what a fabulous way to start the summer. However before the party started Paul was upstairs filling water balloons when we started noticing water coming from my vent in the kitchen. Paul opened the vent and water was pouring out of it....What great timing huh? We had buckets and towels all over the kitchen to catch the water that dripping. Many apologies to all the guests the water dried by the time the party was over. We had contractors and insurance people at our home bright and early on Monday morning to find out it was only a seal that was broken and when he was filling up balloons the water got behind the seal and down the pipes it came! We had a week of fans drying the water, ceiling cut out being put back together, but it looks just like nothing happened. Thank goodness Paul is in the insurance business b/c they responded like we were the President and First Lady, haha!

We also had Field Day for McKenna, end of year parties and saying goodbye to another school year, we have been busy. This past Saturday we had her ballet/tap recital. It was of course precious and she had a lot of fun. My entire family, Sandy and Beth came to watch her performance (thanks again Beth, it meant a lot to have you there). I am about to pack for Vegas and head out in the morning, so looking forward to hanging with my mom Vegas style! Enjoy the pictures!!