Happy 6th Anniversary to us!

It's been 6 years!  Yay for us!  :-)  Nothing exciting for us this time.  For the second year in a row I am working a wedding on our anniversary.

Happy 5th Wedding Anniversary to us!

5 years has come and gone so quickly.  I'd post a photo of us together but I don't think I have a recent one and that just proves once again how insanely crazy our life is right now.  But even though it is insane we are loving every minute of it!

4 year anniversary

Yup! That's right! We've been married for 4 years now. And about 15 hours ago I realized that I had almost forgotten our anniversary. Yes you read that correctly, the wife forgot the anniversary. The only reason it even occurred to me is because I was asked at work yesterday what the date for tomorrow and after I said it, I stopped to think about why that date sounded familiar.....But don't worry, Mike forgave me. But secretly I think he forgot too.

So to celebrate our four years I am going to share pictures from our honeymoon in Italy. We took 29 rolls of film - yes film. We did not bring our digital camera (at the time the digital rebel was way out of our reach and we didn't want to lose the one we did have). The 35mm took better pictures. But I had the negatives put on cd and lets just say that 4 years later the pictures don't transfer as well. There are a lot of pictures of just us because this post is about us. Plus I hardly ever put up pictures of the parents. Some day I will post individual pics of the different towns we went to on our two separate trip to Italy. Maybe I'll even do Ireland and Scotland....that's when I have free time. :-)

Enjoy the pictures of me pre baby (10 pounds lighter) and Mike with hair!

Rome: our first stop on our two week trip

Venice - great memories, we stayed in an attic of a Venetian families house.

Lake Como - Bellaigo - I was keeping an eye out for George Clooney

The view from our hotel room. One thing about the least expensive hotel on the lake - bugs in the rooms!
Benno and Lukas drove down from Zurich and stayed a few days with us.
Lukas thought the lighter made for a romantic picture. :-)

Lake Como is an amazing lake! I can totally see why celebrities have secret homes here. Also it is such a rough, sometimes single lane road that a lot of people stay away.

The train. We took many trains. I refuse to drive in Italy. We took a taxi in Rome to Vatican City and it scared me half to death. Buses and trains are the way to go!

Cinque Terre - One of our favorite places in Italy. It is a costal area in north west side of the Italian Riveria. There are 5 towns lining the coast and you can either hike, take a train, or a boat to get to each town. Cars can not access the towns! We choose to hike after taking the train in from La Spezzia. The hike from the top town (5th) Monterosso al Mare to the Vernazza (4th town) and from Vernazza to Corniglia (3rd town) is like hiking in the back country of Yosemite. It is a very hard hike and isn't for the weak or wimpy. It will kick your butt so if you think you will wimp out halfway through take the train or boat, the only way out is to hike. No one is coming to your rescue!

This is the view of Vernazza on our way to Corniglia. Just breath taking! We had lunch down by the water before continuing on to the 3rd town.

We ate lunch at those little yellow umbrellas.

Vernazza
San Gimignano - one of the hill towns in Tuscany. Our first trip to Italy we went to Siena, Pisa, Lucca, and Viarregio so we wanted to check out another town. This town is known for their towers and still is preserved in it's midevil look. We ate at a bruschetteria. It was AMAZING!

Florence - This was our second time in Florence. We love this city. It has the best gelatto! Here is a picture of us from atop the Duomo.

Finally some pictures of the parents...

It has been a very long time since Mike and I have had some "decent" photos of us taken together.  Here is my attempt at capturing us.  My trusty camera, a tripod and some amazing weather and scenery in Tahoe.  My newly acquired photoshop skills are also coming in handy.  Some photos are on here  more than once because I edited them differently and I liked them all.  Click on the photo to enlarge if so desire. :-)

Anniversary Trip to Tahoe

Cole acting like he cares that he is leaving us for a day and a half.

(by the way - this was the FIRST time I have spent the night away from Cole.  It was a little bit easier than I thought it would be.)

We went here first to wander around.  Got hungry and left to Kings Beach to find a cheeper lunch.

We had lunch here.  OVERPRICED and NOT GOOD.

Don't waste your time or money.

Should have eaten in Truckee.

I took Mike to the miniature golf course that I went to as a kid.  Still the same and still a lot of fun!

Mike kicked my butt.

I was almost 30 over par...

Beautiful views of the lake from Kings Beach

We had an amazing dinner at Gar Woods. 

Mike chose the restaurant about 2 months ago.

To our surprise we were treated to dinner by my parents.

Sneaky Sneaky!

The view from our table

Appetizer: Coconut Prawns - eaten way too fast to document with a photo

I also had French Onion Soup - as always a good choice

Chicken Picata

Jerk rubbed pork tenderloin

The restaurants dock at night

View back to Gar Woods

I think my pants may have still been unbuttoned at this point.

Too full from all the food.

We got White Chocolate Snicker Cheesecake to go.

The cabin in Rainbow we got to stay at for the night.

Thanks goes out to the Bonner's!

We played Yahtzee and ate cheesecake by the fire.

The only reason I had to get up in the middle of the night was to pee.

No child to tend too!

Onyx was so happy to see us, she jumped into the car to greet us with kisses.

Cole's reaction to seeing us was not so sweet.  He ran and hid between my mom's legs and then when I picked him up he head butted me and started crying.  Missed you too sweets.