Days of 47

Dominic galloping in his official cowboy attire

Real cowboys wear their hats sideways

Rocco LOVEs the rodeo



The Girls (Polly, Gaye, Whitney, Jill, Emily)

One tough cowboy!

TJ thought he was too cool for the hat but I got a pix anyway!

Even Vin sported a hat (briefly)

Birthday Weekend


Me and GG on my birthday. She had just had knee surgery so we went for a visit.


The boys took turns pushing her in the wheelchair



That weekend we went up to the cabin to celebrate all the July bithdays on the Fassio side


Steve "Cowboy", me, Dominic, and Rick



Dominic LOVES blowing birthday candles out. His favorite song is Happy Birthday, just like me!

Playing horseshoes

Riding the 4 wheelers



Riding Bears

Golfing off the edge into the river below

and a little R and R

Happy Belated and Happy Almost!

While in San Diego my Dad and his wife B came and stayed for a few days. Since we didn't get to celebrate my dads birthday with him earlier that month, we decided to celebrate together his past June birthday and my July birthday coming up.

We ate a wonderful Family Italian restaurant fully equipped with a life size gondola for the kids to eat in.

We were even serenaded by the owner and his accordion with a wonderful rendition of my favorite song "Happy Birthday". He also played our wedding song for Vin and I, "That's Amore"

I love you Dad! It was fun being able to celebrate together in person! xoxo

San Diego Zoo 2009

Lego Land 2009

Wild Animal Park 2009

Sea World 2009

Happy 4th Birthday Gavin!!!

For my nephews 4th birthday. Just the 2 of us went to Build-A-Bear. This was Gavin's first experience with Build-A-Bear which made it all the more fun.

Here he is suffin his buddy

Washin' his buddy

Dryin' his buddy

Some new Iron Man clothes to complete the look

Rining the Birthday Bell

I brought him back home to play with the boys and have a sleepover. Not that anyone got much sleep!

I love you Gavin!!!!

Happy Dad's Day!

This year we swam, barbequed, and had root beer floats in honor of DADS!

Cute Cousins!!!!



Do You YuDu?

I went on two scrapbook retreats. One was up in Eden Utah. We had a fabulous time. The other was at the cabin of my scrapbookin' buddies. Here are a few shots of our YuDuin'. The YuDu is a personal silkscreening machine from ProvoCraft. We YuDued just about eveything we could think of that weekend.


Dominic's Swim Lessons

Dominic took from SwimKids this summer which is a swimming survival skills program. It taught him to immediately float on his back after jumping into the water to catch his breath and get his bearings before swimming to the side. It was quite amazing and he did really good. Dominic has no fear of the water so these classes were a MUST!


He loved sliding down the little slide


down he went



One more time...


Kickin' it on his back

Crashes on the way home, still sportin' the goggles.