100th Day of School

Gavin's 100th day of school is coming up, and his teacher asked that the kids each decorate a t-shirt with 100 of something on it. Gavin decided to use these guitar and star stickers. Here he is showing his jammin' out pose. He's pretty excited to wear it to school next week.

New Year's Eve

We spent New Year's Eve with Jason's brother and family. We had a good time playing games with the kids and snacking on good food and visiting. Here's a picture of all the kids excited to stay up late. The cousins love each other...Aidan and his cousin, Taylyn, are especially good buddies :)

Better Late Than Never...

Here we are over half-way through January, but it's better late than never, right? Here are a few highlights of Christmas 2010 for us...

Aidan sat on a bow and I had to take a picture...he did this his first Christmas too when he was just crawling around on the floor...guess he likes to be festive!


The kids got a hover toy from Santa.

Jason loves swords...he was surprised to get this sword from Dad and Laurie. He's obviously excited about it :)

Aidan was really excited to find a flashlight in his stocking.

Aidan LOVES Elmo...

Connor's been scheduling things in his new calendar including scheduled dates with Daddy ;)

Aidan loves to ride his new indoor bike/video game...works good for exercise when it's too cold to go outside which has been almost every day lately.

The big boys love to play their new drums and guitar...jammin' out like rock stars!




I realized I didn't take pictures of quite a few things, but we just want to say thank you for all the gifts from extended family...we were really spoiled this year and had a really fun Christmas.

New Ultrasound

I had another ultrasound last week because during the usual routine ultrasound last month, the little baby wouldn't move his hands away from his face so the ultrasound tech couldn't check his palate and also had trouble checking one section of his heart. During this ultrasound last week, it was easy to see everything was great with his heart, but the stubborn little guy still wouldn't move his arms from in front of his face...I guess he likes to sleep like that! I like to sleep like that too sometimes so he must get it from me. Finally, after the ultrasound tech bounced on my belly with the ultrasound tool enough times that he finally slid his arms over to the side of his face. Luckily, everything looks great with his palate too. I drew an outline around the same "face" picture to help those of you who are having trouble being able to tell what you're looking at. I know it looks a little silly, but I hope the outline helps so when you look at the picture above it, it makes sense.

FINALLY Caught Up!

I got so behind on my posts while I was sick with this pregnancy...I'm finally able to get off of the nausea medication this week...now if we can just stop getting the flu in this house! We've had four rounds of it this winter already, and the kids all had flu shots...so frustrating! Hopefully, we'll all be well for Christmas! It feels good to finally be caught up on the posts...I know there are a ton of pictures, but I had a lot to catch up on!

Random Silliness...

Last night at dinner, I gave Aidan a drink without realizing he brought his own drink up to the table from earlier that day. The next time I looked over this is what I saw! One has water and the other rootbeer, so luckily it's not too bad of a clash! lol.

Snow, Snow, Snow, SNOW!

We got a TON of snow this week. The kids are in snow heaven!
Such a cute little face!


My kids with one of the neighbor kids playing in our front yard.

Braving the storm in his car ;)

Piano Recital

Gavin had a piano recital last week. He worked really hard for it and memorized his songs, but he always had the sheet music up as a backup. I told him to bring his music just in case, but when he walked in the room for the recital, one of the other kids said, "Hey, you can't use your music." So, when it was Gavin's turn to go up I tried to hand him his music, but he said, "No, that's okay." I think he thought he wasn't allowed. He got up there and went slowly through the first two measures of the song and got nervous and forgot the rest. He ran from the piano all sad...poor guy. I felt so bad for him. He had such a good experience with his last recital, but now he says he's "never doing a recital again!" Luckily, everyone still clapped for him and congratulated him afterwards on how brave he was to go up there and how hard it is to play in front of everyone. I think he'll still try it again next time...
Here he is getting his prize after the recital...I think he was feeling a little better by then...especially since the kid who told him that he couldn't use his sheet music went up there and also forgot his music and stopped partway through to say "I forgot!" I said, "see Gavin, other people forget too, and it's okay."

Gavin's Class Christmas Party

I was able to help out at Gavin's School Christmas party. They made gingerbread houses and had hot chocolate and got all hyped up on a sugar high...it was great fun.
Here's Gavin enjoying the festivities...


Here are my two little helpers enjoying the party.

Belly Post

20 weeks along...1/2 way there :)

Black Friday Shopping

I'm not a big Black Friday shopper, but there were a couple of good sales that were worth getting up for at the Wal-mart. We were all at Jason's parent's house for Thanksgiving, so my sister-in-law Angie, and I got up in time to get to Wal-mart by 5:00 am...luckily the Wal-mart is only 5 minutes from their house. It was a good thing we got there when we did because by 5:10 am everything on sale was GONE!
Here are Angie and me first thing in the morning...aren't we pretty! lol ;)

Haircut!

I was growing my hair out to donate to Locks of Love. I think my hair grew faster when I was pregnant because suddenly it was so long it was just unmanageable! One day I just couldn't take it anymore and called up a salon and took Connor and Aidan with me to just get my hair cut that very day. It feels so much lighter now...I love it! Jason kind of misses my long hair although he loves me no matter what of course! I told him I'd think about growing it out again to donate it, but in the meantime I'm just really enjoying the shorter hair :)

Laundry, Laundry, Laundry...

We have had endless laundry lately (more than usual anyway) to catch up on since I've been sick and Jason's been busy trying bring home the bacon and fry it up too! Here's a picture of Aidan taking advantage of one of the laundry piles :)