More pics

We've had a busy two months. I'll try to upload these in a more organized fashion, but here are some random shots.

Nick's Many Expressions

Dave got me a beautiful new camera for my birthday. I've been practicing with my favorite subjects--- my boys!

Matching Outfits

We went to a birthday party yesterday and Max and Gigi had "matching" outfits. I made a tie t-shirt for Max out the same material I made Gigi's dress. Getting both kids to stand in one place wasn't so easy. Max has a death grip on Gigi's hand trying to keep her in one spot.

Gavin

Three years ago you came into my life...

Before you were here we thought your wild-willed sister filled our lives...

I could only imagine what it felt like to hold two in my arms...

I had no idea how I would feel when I saw your beautiful face...

And now you are here... messy and headstrong and in love with life...

Already showing me things I never knew before...

Happy and healthy and amazing in every way...

My beautiful baby boy...

I love you Gavin... Happy Birthday.

Gavin's birthday party!

So... I lied. We did end up throwing Gavin a party. There were no favors, no decorations, no organized games. Just the two girls from his day care, mac and cheese (his request) and his monster truck cupcake cake. And it was a great afternoon. They ran around the house and played all afternoon. Can I hope that all the rest of his parties are that easy??

Gavin opening his birthday presents

Gavin's birthday party!

Grandma Elaine and Papa came down for Gavin's birthday party (which this year was just a trip to Monster Jam). Luckily we had SOME nice weather and got out for some dog walking.

Gavin opening two of his birthday presents. The Gravedigger T-shirt is from Grandma and Papa and the shark monster truck was from his sister. We decided she should give him his present since she almost spilled the beans three times since buying it 3 days ago.
Can;t you just hear the Monster Truck "YEEHAW!"?

GRAAAAAAAAVE DIGGER!


She thought this was pretty darn cool.
Happy early birthday little man!

Bunch of random stuff

Random shot of Chloe's new past time... cleaning the kitchen in full princess ensemble. We aren't really discouraging this one.

Random BAD DOG shot. Seriously, I know that was the only sunny spot but BAD DOG!!!
Random robot shot.
Visit to Grandma Carol's
Climbing rocks!

Leash debacle...
Tree climbing

Exploring

We went to this super cool hands-on museum that had a dinosaur walk through with life sized dinosaurs. Awesome.

Model Train Show

Thunderstruck

Chloe's Christmas performance

Finally!

After months of refusing to accept my videos... I can finally get it to work. This video is a video of Chloe's normal day at dance from Thanksgiving time. She gets cut off at the neck a little mostly because I was filming through the door and over people's heads.

Thursday

Time for the big kids

The tubing run saw an expansion last weekend with much help from Hugh, Michelle, Nevin, and Griffen. The videos are all courtesy of Michelle. The big kids were as much, if not more, into the tubing than the kiddos. In fact, Michelle, David, and I stayed for a long time after Hugh was kind-hearted enough to take Nick, Ev, and Griffen inside. Nevin was a trooper and stayed out with us. It was so warm and sunny that we didn't even have our coats on most of the time.

Dave and the Snow Gods

By the way, we have about 8 inches of fresh snow today with another 7-9 predicted for tomorrow. I think Dave seriously upset the Snow Gods!

More Tubing

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