Happy Birthday Derek!

Yesterday was Derek's 31st birthday! Happy Birthday DD!! He had a fun and relaxing day of golf and a BBQ at the park. Rayah and I baked him a birthday cake! I love coffee, cream and chocolate; therefor, I love tiramisu!! :)

In my quest for an easy recipe for tiramisu, I found a recipe for tiramisu cake at smittenkitchen.com. I made this same cake for a Father's Day BBQ and had enough of the same ingredients left over to make it again, as well as the ambition to make it EVEN better the 2nd time around.

It was amazing! Even the kids loved it!! With that said, I promised Derek that next year he can pick his favorite cake to enjoy on his birthday!

This picture is so funny to me! Roman has just blown out Derek's candles, you can still see the smoke coming off the candles and the cocoa powder blown across the table. Derek is just looking at him like "Really?" While Roman looks at him with his most angelic look. How can you get upset with face like that?

Cookie Monster

The cookie monster stopped by our house. I guess he couldn't figure out how the hell saran wrap works.

I was looking at some pictures I had taken of Renzo recently and realized that I had almost the exact same photos of Rayah and Roman. They are all 6 months old in the following photos.

It seems like whenever a person has a baby, one of the favored topics of conversation of family and friends is to speculate who does this child look like! In this instance we can really compare the kids at about the same ages. Almost in the same poses even!!

Rayah and Renzo, both insisting on feeding themselves.





Roman and Renzo, playing with their toes.

So true...

Not to sound to much like an old parent, but....WOW! Kids grow up so fast!! Where does the time go?

I feel like it was just the other day that Rayah was born, let alone Renzo who is now 7 1/2 months old! He's already crawling everywhere! He can pull himself up and he walks along the edge of anything he can grip. He is so little that it is strange to see him almost walking.

Here he pulled himself up at the bench and then worked his way around the wall and over to the edge of the garbage can.

When he finally did let go, he just stood there for a few seconds before slowly lowering himself to the ground. He has really good balance and you can tell he is so proud of himself. He really wants to do everything his brother and sister can!