Happy Anniversary...to you!

That's 19 years!



Happy Anniversary!

Love from all of us:)

The Neverending Story

Since all of our family is out of state, (sorry – all but ONE of our family is out of state :) and we live in a black hole when it comes to mail service…Caitlin’s gifts will be trickling in all week.

Tonight she opened gifts from two Great-Grandmas…

   

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Gifts from Aunt Connie, Great Grandma Choo Choo and Great Grandma Casteel – THANK YOU!

Caitlin's Birthday (Part 2)!

The Birthday Princess in her tiara!

On Sunday, Caitlin's actual birthday, we had a small party for her and invited Julie (my saving grace and the kids new best friend!) and her husband Denny.

Caitlin (and Evan) had a blast playing with balloons, eating cake and opening gifts!

Here are some photos of the afternoon. We'll put a whole bunch more up on the slide show as well!

What a nice Daddy :)
He's actually done this THREE years in a row...he has strong hands!

So, the final cake!

Tinkerbell spent some time in the sun! We really should talk to her about sunblock…

Caitie's first dollhouse! She LOVES IT!

Balloons, priceless!

Julie and her husband, Denny

We had our first family tea party, too…

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We’ve had so many today I think we may be a little bit British by now.

…and all the rest of the photos!

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We had a great weekend!

Caitlin's Birthday (Part I)

Last night was the first part of Caitlin's birthday celebration...

We got a suite at the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak and spent all day today at the water park there! We all had a blast...got a little sunburned despite the buckets of sunblock I tortured the kids with (actually Caitie is the ONLY one who didn't get burned)!

It's 745 and everyone is in bed. Here are some pictures of last night and this afternoon

A view of the "casitas" we stayed in. They are great little two story "houses" with kitchens and two bathrooms! Very cool :)

Main pool(above)

Playing a little miniature golf before the "dive in movie" started - you can see the lazy river to the right - it was HUGE, we spent a lot of the afternoon there! After golf, we went back over to the main pool where they had a projection screen set up for Madagascar II. It was such a perfect night! We stayed out there until 9pm...late for the kids, especially when they had such a busy day Friday!



Dinner Friday night. We ordered pizza from Spinato's, a local place that has gluten free crust on the menu! Yay for Evan

Kitchen of the casita...

Tomorrow we are having a little birthday party with just us, Tracy and maybe her friend Tom and Julie (our babysitter) and her husband Denny.

Round II comin' up!

Busy, busy day!

Friday was a busy day! The kids both woke up at 5AM!! We had gymnastics in the morning where they ran themselves ragged. We got back home just in time to meet Julie and she took them to Chick-Fil-A for lunch, where they played again for quite a while.

When they got home it was just about time to leave for the water park!

Poor kids...it may be a long weekend.

Rental Woes No More...

For those of you who didn't know, we've been dealing with rental craziness at our house in KC. In February we found out our roof was leaking and we had hail damage (which isn't really a bad thing - we got a new roof!). But then, in March we found out there was mold in the basement and of course a leak to go along with it. So, it took a little over two months but we finally got all of that under control (a new rook, the leak repaired, mold removed and basement refinished) and listed the house for rent again.

Last weekend we found renters!! Yay! It's so nice to not have to make that mortgage payment this month.

Now we can start thinking about what we want to do here in Phoenix...rent again next year or buy a house??

Happy 12th Anniversary

Woo hoo! We made it!

12 years, 2 dogs, 2 kids, one cross-country move :) = Lots of LOVE!

In February we exchanged rings a second time out by Canyon Lake. My ring was lost last year on Caitlin's 1st birthday and Danny hadn't been wearing his.

We had been looking for new rings for a while but didn't want to spend a whole bunch of money on them. We just wanted something simple and silver. We came across rings at Tortilla Flats of all places! They are steel and just simple silver bands...perfect!

My Mom and Dad were in town and we drove out to Canyon Lake and stopped along the road to find a geocache...it was a beautiful view so we climbed up to the top and exchanged the rings! It was very impromptu and really cool! There is a picture of us up there however, I can't find it at the moment.

To celebrate this year we are going together to get Margarita pedicures at a spa near our house! Seriously, you get a foot massage, sit in massage chairs and they serve you Margaritas! What a great night...we'll get pictures of that, too!