Happy 3rd Birthday Gino!!! (& happy 29+2 Birthday to me!)

Well, another year has come for my baby. We celebrated his 3rd Birthday

on July 20!

Happy Birthday Gino Beano we love you!!!

From his purple cake (thank you Aunt Janet) to his purple car to his purple guitar! We had a very Mickey Mouse/Purple Birthday! It's what he wanted...

So, did he keep to his word and start using the potty on his summerday???? NO. I will just have to keep trying. He is a very stubborn child, we have no idea who he gets that from =)

After his Birthday he said he'd do it on MY summerday ...but still no luck. He continues to pee in the potty when he feels like it, but that's it. I keep hoping that he'll be potty trained before he goes to Kindergarten!

He also got a CARS helmet & elbow pads that he loves wearing.

Dominic likes wearing his black Transformer one too.

Adjusting to life without Copper hasn't been easy for us either. We had pizza the other night & Gino got up with his crusts & threw them in the garage, even though I told him Copper wasn't there anymore. We were sad, but than thought it a little funny that our kids are trained to throw all their left-overs in the garage. Dominic said "now I'll have to eat my crust". It's just not the same outside without him.... we would like to get another male chocolate lab puppy if anyone knows of any let us know.

I also had my Birthday (sorry no cute pictures of me) Didn't do anything big but it was nice having Andy home all day. He's been working 2nd shift, so my mom made me dinner.... it was very nice. She also got me a yummy banana cream pie from Lynway (mmmm good). Plus Gino sang me Happy Birthday... it was very cute.

Thank you to EVERYONE who sent Birthday wishes my way!!!

We plan on going out of town for a quick weekend getaway for our 10-yr anniversary coming up in a couple weeks. That will be nice. We haven't been away from the kids in a quite a while. Good luck Momo!

My friend Morgan & I took the kids to Kingwood Center in Mansfield the other day for a photo shoot! They did really well. I will getting some pictures developed soon & send them out. I decided it would be cheaper to take my own pictures. The garden's were beautiful! Here's just a couple that I took.

I've just started working again, so if anyone is hungry for Italian food come visit me at Toscana Italian Grill on Cleveland Rd. I'll be working a couple nights a week & on the weekends. It's the same people I worked for who opened When In Rome... same yummy food with a couple new things on the menu.