Not Roy's...

...But Outback will do for our 4th Anniversary dinner:) My parents gave us a gift card to Outback, so we took Evan and met them there for dinner. Our dinner was good, but it took forever to get our food. It's a good thing we loaded up on cheesy fries and bread. However, I'm still craving Roy's famous chocolate souffle. I suppose I can wait another year. In the meantime, Jessica made us some brownies:)

Our anniversary is always bitter sweet as it also marks one more year down without a child of our very own. Four years later, we are still in the same boat, but this year we are officially foster parents and of course we still feel like parents to Hay Hay. I just received an email confirmation that the Cade Foundation received both portions of our application. This year 148 applications were sent in, but we will keep our fingers crossed that our application makes it through the deliberation process and end up with a fertility grant. In the meantime, I am setting up a fund raising team for Race for the Family; more to come soon.

In the meantime, here are some memories from 4 years ago...

(Our wedding shower, thrown by fellow teachers.)

(Our weekend getaway with Rachel, Jeff, and Megs...in lieu of bachelor/ette parties.)

(We were certainly slim and trim back then. What has happened? Fat and happy??)

(After driving us home in the 4-Runner, from our own wedding, and still in my dress!)

(Showing off the guns that I worked so hard to get.)

(We only had two pups at the time.)

(Kauai sunset on day two of our honeymoon.)

(Rich, Mr. Photographer.)

(Sunset at Queen's Bath.)

(Wish I was back here!!)