Valentine's Day

I always loved Valentine's Day because my parents called me and my younger brother, Matt their "Valentines" b/c we were both born like almost exactly 9 months from V-day.

Gino's not originally from the USA, so he didn't grow up with all this American holiday snazzle. It's taken lots of training to get him used to it and he still forgets that I love pink roses, not red. Oh well, he tries. Of course all the chocolate is a plus..in every sense of the word, ha!

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2007!

Mia Gray McNeil is here...11/25/2007!!!!!!

Mia Gray McNeil (my baby sis, Pam's, 2nd child) was born on 11/25/2007, the day before her Gramma's b'day, 8 days after my b'day and one week after her Uncle Matt's b'day and cousin Amy's b'day. Yay! Another November baby.

Caroline and I traveled to AL to see her. She is absolutely gorgeous, sweet, yummy and looks (t0 me) JUST like Anna Ryn did! Her big sis is TOO much fun..miss personality. She is Pam's little shadow and wants to do EVERYTHING Pam does. We put Mia on a blanket to take her picture, so Rynna (my nickname for her) had to put the closest available personalizable thing (which was the singing Christmas frog and snowman..ha ha) on a blanket to take its picture too! She wanted Caroline to play with her at all times and would point to her room and get upset if Caroline did not come right away. TOO CUTE!

I wasn't as much help as I could've been if I hadn't brought lil Caroline..my cling-on along but I couldn't spend that much time away from her! Anyway, we did get a few things done...the Christmas card photo taken and cards ordered, taking the girls to see Santa at the mall, Pam got her "hair did", we took some fun photos of Pam and Mia, and then just tried to relax.

Tina turns 33! AHHH!

Gino threw me a sweet surprise b'day party this year. Ronda and her friend took me shopping and Pearce was s'posed to babysit that nite so G and I could go out. When we got home from shopping, SURPRISE! Some of the neighbors came over, we had BBQ, ribs, potato salad and lots of cake! I even got a gift certificate to the spa! Awesome job HONEY!

Spaghetti is yummy!

Future Rock Climber/s?

Well, looks like Caroline could be our future rock climber. Corbin only wanted to be in that harness for a few minutes then threw a fit to come down. This was at Snow Canyon State Park..a few minutes from our house.

November 2007

Halloween

Halloween is so much fun! The south end of Jacob Dr. is closed off for the annual "Ugly Bug Ball". Gino spent about 2+ weeks hand making his costume..."Master Chief" from the video game HALO 3. He won the overall best costume! Go G! Corbin was Batman and Caroline and I were kitties! There were SO many cute kids and TONS of trick or treaters. Enjoy these pics!