4th anniversary get-away

we think wedding anniversaries are a big deal, so we celebrate them !

you may remember last year's SURPRISE for our 3rd anniversary - this year we spent 4 days in a little French mountain village called Saorge... enjoy.

walk around the village

tour of the inside

view from the terrace // sunny & rainy

keeping warm - i LOVE building fires - T in his element with tools in hand

a few more pictures around town

{side note: you see that peak on the right?  tonio hiked it on monday - he called me from the top - i love my mountain man}


a quick hop over to italy to visit Vernante where there are several Pinocchio paintings in the town honoring the man who first developed the character with the round head and pointy nose - he was from here... Disney came along a bit later with their version... we were a bit disappointed with the town, but it was cool to see the paintings anyways

{smuggling a basketball... the other day at the market a merchant said, "hey, give me back the watermelon you stole!" ha !  gotta love the freedom people think they have when you're pregnant}

{this one is my favorite... geppetto surfing pinocchio}


and time to head back down the mountain with this hunk, the daddy of our little one ;)

glad to have had a few days of rest
we came home to our living room terrace flooded, and it's still raining...
mopping up, mopping up, dumping buckets and mopping up...
hey, it's adventures like this that you can't pay for, right?

there's no one else i would rather share this life with than that handsome man next to me - thank you Jesus for 4 years together (and for the growing adventure in my belly) !

Love Linz