Ellie turns 2

Today is Ellie's Birthday!  We can't believe our baby is 2 already. Ellie was excited about having a birthday.  Since Daddy and Brylie just had theirs, she knew what she was in for....attention, cake, and presents!  In the morning she got to open her big present that Daddy bought her. She LOVES her horse.  She named her "Chocolate Chip Cookie" She rode on her all morning until it was time to go to church.  She had a fun time at church.  After about 30 mins at church she kept saying "I want to go to my class'.  She loves her friends at church.  There are 4 boys in her class and she is the only girl.  But she is one tough girl, so that is great.

   

 Later Ellie got to open the rest of her presents and have some cake.  Mommy and Daddy also got her tickets to go see Yo Gabba Gabba LIVE which is one of her favorite shows.  We think she will be sooo excited to see them!
It was the Superbowl also, so we watched that and partied together all night.  Im pretty sure Ellie loves being 2!  Ellie is such a sweet, smart, beautiful little girl.  She has brought so much joy to our family.  Ellie is everyones buddy and brings our family all together.  Mommy loves getting to stay home and spend every day with Ellie.  I love getting to watch her learn and grow each day.  Daddy is probably Ellie's favorite person.  She LOVES hanging out with her daddy.  She is so excited when she hears the garage open in the evenings, and runs screaming "Daddys home, Daddys home".  She is a daddys girl (right now anyways....I still have time to work on her). Kaden and Brylie love playing with Ellie all the time.  They are so good with her and make her so happy.  She loves it when they get off the school bus and come play with her.  She is also buddies with Jaren.  Jaren follows her around and never leaves her side when he is here.  He likes getting to play with her!

We ALL love our Ellie!

Announcement.....

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!