Its Great to be 8!

Today is Brylie's 8th Birthday!  I cant believe how old my little baby is getting!  Today Brylie gets to pick out all her favorites.  For lunch she wanted Taco Bell.  Ellie and I brought it to her at school and ate lunch with her.  She is having a party with her class and brought donuts and chocolate milk to celebrate.  Today is also the 100th day of school, so it is a double fun day.
For dinner Brylie wants to have steak, french fries, and fruit salad.  So thats what we will be having!  She is getting a strawberry cake in a flower shape with strawberry ice cream.
It is her weekend to spend at her dads, so her dad will come here and party with her, then take the girls home with him.  Each year the girls get to do something fun for their bday too.  I think Brylie finally decided on going roller skating.  We will have to do that soon!  It is bday season at our house, so we will have to find a time to squeeze it in!
Next weekend Brylie will be baptized on Saturday.  She is very excited about this.  She gets to share this day with her best friend from church, their birthdays are only 2 days apart.
Brylie has grown into a wonderful young girl!  Although she is still the "best" at getting out of helping out around the house.  She always has the greatest excuse or perfect timing of needing to get something else done at that exact moment. She is doing great in school, she is one of the smartest kids. She is reading 6th grade level books and getting 100% on her tests over them.  She is an aggressive little soccer player too.  She will be starting piano lessons next week, so we will see how she does with that!
Brylie is a great kid and I am so happy and proud that I get to be her mom.
I love you Brylie, Happy Birthday!!!!!

Merry Christmas from the Dombek Bunch.  

This year I didn't get around to typing out a letter to send with our cards.  Maybe after Christmas time, I will write on here what we were up to this year.

Always busy, busy

We are always just busy busy around here.  I dont feel like we do THAT much, but even doing a little with 4 kids, can sure keep you busy.  Some of the things we have been up to:

 Music Concerts (Brylie)

 Getting ready for Christmas

(I took a friends family pictures by this huge tree at zona rosa, and a few of the kids too!)

Decorating the house for Christmas

(Our tree and outside lights are up and ready for our non traditional christmas this year!)

Attending Pirate Birthday Parties:

(You can never have enough fun birthday parties to go to)

Christmas shopping

(She will forget what she's getting....right?)

 Playing

 Potty Training

(our first attempt didn't go so well)

Attending Church and working on our callings

(The girls like to try and match the color of our outfits for church, today cousin Kari was going to church with us, so we got to get a picture!)

It seems like there is always something to do.  Besides, the laundry, dishes, grocery shopping and trying to keep a house clean in case someone calls and wants to see it (Yes, our house is for sale!) There is always homework, school activities, play dates and church meetings to keep us busy!  But we wouldn't have it any other way.  After the holidays we will be adding gymnastics back in and piano lessons!

Happy Veterans Day to my 4 favorite vets this weekend!  I am so proud of my strong, brave family members who put everything they had on the line for me and my freedoms!  I could never do what these men have done, so I THANK YOU and I thank all the men and women who serve or have served our country!

Field Trip

Today we took all the kids on a fabulously fun outing (thanks to Groupon).  They got to pretend to be doctors and vets, work on a farm, paint and make art creations, play in a water table, go under the sea in a submarine, build with legos, and much more.  This was a great place, the kids had a blast and Greg and I got to just sit back and watch their creativity!

October

October was a busy month around here.  Here are a few other things we did this month:

We PLAYED: Ellie had a friend over and this is what the play room looked like after 2 hours.  They had a blast, and its easy to clean up...so its worth it!

 We ATE: I am into couponing and price matching.  We scout out the good deals!  This day we got ALL this food at Taco Bell for FREE!!  I even tried to buy some drinks and the guy gave them to us for FREE too! The kids loved the fun outing.

 We DATED: There is this really hot guy that Im dating that brought me these flowers before our last date.  I really am a lucky girl!

Halloween

Flo (the Progressive Insurance Girl), My scary Vampire and Little Elmo had a great Halloween!

We made warm Italian soup and Mummy Hot Dogs for dinner.  We got all dressed up and went trick or treating in our neighborhood.  My girls, their two dads and Cousin Kari went with us!  We saw lots of friends while our trick or treating.  We thought Ellie might get bored and have to go home early, but she never let up.  After every house she would say, "More Caneee, More Caneee"  She would dig through her candy bag between each house.  She couldn't concentrate on walking.  We brought the wagon, but daddy ended up carrying her most of the time! It ended up being a pretty warm night, the kids never even asked for their jackets.  We were done at about 8:00.  We got to bed later then normal, but slept in this morning and got driven to school (on time of course).  It is fun to have kids that get so excited about trick or treating.  It reminds me of my younger days and loving Halloween just like they do.

Halloween was a success!