Two Years Later......

Welp....it's been a while, damn near two years to be exact and while I certainly don't promise to blog more regularly I certainly hope to.  Mostly so that I have a scrapbook of sorts including all the amazing things life throws my way...and perhaps the not-so amazing too.

So- since there is NO way to fully recap the last 2 years I've tried to summarize the big & most memorable moments!

Fall 2010:

I ran my first half marathon!  As silly as this sounds training made me fall in love with running and while I cursed the rainy dark runs on weeknights I looked forward to long morning runs on the weekends...needless to say these are now a slight hobby.

We visited my Uncle Mike & Family in Southern California, naturally we selected the dates based on Cougar (& UW .... #gocougs) football & caught two away games!

Cougs vs. UCLA at the Rose Bowl!  GO COUGS!

Dave, my Uncle Mark & I...he had surgery two days later for jaw cancer & today is doing great!

 

UW vs USC at the Coliseum....naturally I stayed nuetral here.

That winter Dave & I decided that going back to Italy was the only obvious thing to do...duh.  So we planned a last minute trip for spring and were out of the country in five weeks!  It was a very lucky and amazing opportunity!  We caught two Serie A soccer games, spent lots of time with Dave's family in Italy and made a million great memories!

 

Milan

Inter game!

 

Lake Como

Cinque Terra

Bay of Naples, Sorrento, Amalfi Coast

Pompeii

 

Positano

 

 

Clearly we have a bagillion photos but those are my best attemt at summing it up :)  Needless to say we LOVE Italy, the people, the food, the culture, the scenery, it's an amazing place I hope we get to visit several more times.

That summer, summer 2011, was full of more!  Dave graduated with his Masters in Teaching!  WAHOO!  I went to Glacier with my family, ran another half marathon, we went San Diego for a friends wedding & visited my Uncle Mike one more time!

 

Fuller & I at the Rock & Roll Seattle finish!

San Diego!

Yep- I was too lazy to go find my camera but had this pic of a pic on my phone.  I repeat, two years is a long time & I'm about to reach my max time in a desk chair.

 

Glacier 2011!

 

Are we on picture overload yet?  I am.  Two years is a lot to cover.  Fall 2012 Dave was coaching and Teaching Garfield High School, in a unexpected turn of events Dave ended up in the Interim Head Coach position on top of his first year of teaching...needless to say it was stressful.

I went on girls trips, we celebrated holidays, hung out with friends and then in the spring & summer of 2012 we celebrated 5 milestones.....HUGE milestones!  We found out we are expecting a little one, Jacquee & Chris found out they are expecting a little one...any day now..Megan & Chris welcomed their beautiful daughter Harper into the world, Landis & Matt got married and Uncle Mike passed away.

 

Katie, Kristin & I did the Warrior Dash in North Bend...SO MUCH FUN!

 

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Landis visited Seattle!

 

Seattle got snow!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

T & I at the Hawks game!

Hartley, Jax, Stone, Megs, T & I before the WSU OSU game in Seattle!

 

 Dave & I found out we were (are) expecting on Easter weekend!

Harper Mae Snyder was born!! Love this little girl OSO much! She is most beautiful little thing!

Landis & Matt got married & we took over Charlotte, NC to celebrate!!

 

Doug & the girls at dinner!

 

 

We went to Duluth MN for Sara & Devin's wedding!  Didn't take enough pics!  It was also Dave's 29th birthday!

 

 

 

 

More of Harper 'cause I just can't get enough!

 

IT'S A GIRL!!!  We found out August 3rd 2012 that Baby M is a little girl!  We can't wait to meet her in December and welcome her to the world!  Love you to the moon little one!

Progression! I think the last picture here is 4-5 months...I really should have kept better track!  Please ignore the classy toothbrushing picture!

Jacquee and I at her shower, I'm about 22 weeks and I believe Jax is 34! Can't wait to meet her little boy Cooper in just a few more days!!

 

On August 7th, 2012 Uncle Mike passed away.  He fought long and hard and is now resting peacefully.  I will love, miss and think of him daily.  His impact on my life will never be forgotten.  He was my uncle, advisor, biggest fan, honest critic, life lesson pointer-outer, crap-talking, football watching, margarita drinking, deeply loving, ultimate hugging, beach loving, God fearing friend, very very good friend.  There will never be another like him.  His passing has been hard.  Hardest because it breaks my heart that my little girl will not know his love.  He called me from his hospital bed to congratulate us & discuss my "bump" and share in our joy- even is his darkest moments he remembered to celebrate life and love.  No better place to remember him than Huntington Beach, CA, love you always Mr. Mike Fox.

 

Me & my cousin Stephanie at Uncle Mike's Reception

 

 

 

Some of the boys getting ready for the memorial surf- it was a beautiful sight.

 

PHEW!  That was just about a month ago!  SO- thats the last 2 years of our life in a super speed mode.  I forgot a million things, didn't capture a million more and most importantly was incredibly blessed with amazing family, the best of friends, my dream man and a little one only 3.5 months away! 

 

 

I also made & captured a few delicious meals that I just had to capture below since that was the entire reason I started this darn blog...

 

 

 

 

 

I believe this may be the longest blog post of all time.  No joke  At least the longest "this is just pics of my life" post.  Hopefully it won't be two years before the next one & it won't take me all night.