Christmas a Little Late!

 Well our Christmas was wonderful, we spent a lot of time with family and friends.  A great way to celebrate!  We started our festivities Christmas Eve morning with a brunch and presents at Greg's parents.  We then hit my  cousin's house that night to celebrate with my side of the family.  Christmas morning was our house with presents and brunch.  The rest of the day we hosted an open house.  We decided last year that we want our kids to be able to enjoy their presents and hang out on Christmas Day, instead of driving around to different relatives homes.  A great way to celebrate.  Here is our Christmas Eve in pictures....

Christmas Eve Morning:

This was her activity all morning...

One of Sloan's favorite gifts, she didn't open one gift after seeing this!

Christmas Eve Night

All of the cousins (minus Sloan who was sleeping), big smiles and of course some Tebowing!

I will do our Christmas Day in another post.  I love that I am getting into blogging again, only to be have serious issues with the pictures I am downloading.  It is so weird, has taken me two weeks to figure out that if I have pictures that need to be rotated I can't just fix it on my picture software and bam it is fine on the blog.  No, I have to rotate them a 180 degrees the OPPOSITE WAY, and then they will be vertical on the blog.  Weird!  Oh well, I finally figured it out and no it wasn't a full 2 weeks, it was about 2 hours - I just started this blog a few weeks ago!  Oh well!

Happy New Year!

Our cute munchkins....more to come on our "photo shoot"

Happy belated New Year to you and yours!  I know I can hand out a ton of excuses on my lack of blogging lately and my promises to do our summer in pictures....but I am a slacker.  AND, I got a new camera from Santa and know how to download and take pictures/video with this thing.  I am not a techie, but have some serious issues with cameras that are not dummy proof.  So I got a new one and low and behold- I already got our Christmas and NYE downloaded!  Yipee!  And while I was looking for the cord to download, found all the cords for our old camera.  So hopefully can download some of the pics of this summer.  That is one of my resolutions, besides, get fit, not spend so much, have patience, the norms, but blog once a week.  And get up to date on the kids baby books.  But don't hold your breath!

The family

Uncle Jim wrangling the newbie

So I will begin my new year of blogging with how we spent our New Years.  We had family fly in on the 30th, hosted a party that night and packed up and headed  to Steamboat on the 31st.  It was very fun.  Granted the majority of us were in bed by 10 or 11 that night.  Oh well!  Big news though, Gavin went skiing for the first time!  What a way to start off the new year!  He had excellent balance, and said he liked it, but after a few too many tumbles he was done.  Which was fine, I was just glad he did it!  Thanks muchos to Aunt Jill and Uncle Jim- they were his teachers.  As as Gavin said, "Uncle Jim is a good teacher."   Here are some pics:

Gavin and Daddy about to hit the slopes

We then hit a different slope for some sledding.  Gavin was brave and went down by himself, it was great!  He would fly down and then haul his tube back up!  Sloan got into it too, but pretty much preferred tossing the football down the hill.  She is easy to please.

My next post will hopefully be Christmas and how good Santa was to us all!  Hope you had a wonderful holiday and a great start to the New Year!  

A Very Scary Halloween!

Well I guess it could be considered a very scary Halloween seeing as how we all had the flu the weekend before!  But alas, we rallied and made it for some Halloween fun!  Here is  our Halloween in pics....

Our Spooky Witch and Very Scary Vampire, on our way to Gavin's school Friday afternoon to partake in the festivities!  This is really hours before the flu hit our home, in a very bad way!

Here is our Cute Piggy and Sick Vampire Halloween night heading over to the neighbors to get on our float for trick or treating!

I unfortunately still cannot get the pictures downloaded off of our new camera.  Nor can I get the camera to work.  I swear, I am about to smash it!  I have been saying I am going to be better about blogging and then try and figure out how to download/get it to work, get frustrated and walk away.  Hence NO Blogs for a very long time!  And not a lot of pics lately.  The bottom picture is the only one we have of Halloween night, taken from my cell. The top pics are from Jerry.  I am a bad Mommy!  Because look at how stinking cute they look that night.  Even though Greg, Gavin and I all were still in the end of  the flu.  Sloan got it Friday night, gave it to EVERYONE she came in contact with- so sorry about that!  Then Greg, Gavin and I all got hit with it Sunday.  Granted it was at different hours of the day.  But still did not make for a fun weekend/week.  Gavin was still throwing up this past Friday.  Ugh!  He missed all of school last week.  That has never happened!  We both are ready for him to go back.  Can you say Cabin Fever???

On to better things, I am trying to download some pics off my phone to give a recap of our summer.  yes, it is almost Thanksgiving and I still have not done much about our fabulous summer!  From camping, to a lot of mountain time (Breckenridge 2X), Steamboat, Estes, Glenwood, Vegas (and swimming with Vince Neil), etc. Fingers crossed that I will get my S#%T together and quit procrastinating about stuff.  Maybe that should be my Thanksgiving Resolution.  Hopefully I will get the camera working by then, we are heading to Nebraska this year.  Or this weekend- Greg and I will be heading to San Diego (well Greg will already be there) for a little getaway.  Wish me luck on fixing the camera!

A Taste of Colorado??

Huh. A Taste of Colorado? I think it was just a taste of 10 different chain restaurants. We ventured down there Monday morning to hit the Lego tents (That is my son's new love- LEGOS! He and his Daddy have built castles, boats, trucks, space ships, airplanes, star wars thingies, etc. It is getting ridiculous how many tables we have with legos on them). Anyway, I was so disappointed in the actual food booths. They had the same ones on every street, in the same order. What happened to the variety and local restaurants? It was disappointing to say the least. Oh well, the kids had a good time!


I am making it my mission to do more posts. Our summer has been so full with so much and I want to document it! I did get a new camera, but still have no idea how to download, I am sure it is easy- but I just haven't done it. Slacker. I know. But I will try and do blogs on our fun trips, Gavin's fun trips with the Grandparents, hikes, Vegas, etc. etc. Too much fun!

Sloan's First Birthday!

Ok, I am back, unsure of how long though. I did get a new camera, so hopefully will be better at taking pictures and blogging!

Sloan turns 1 on Tuesday....so this past weekend we celebrated all weekend. My sister came over on Saturday to give Sloan her gift and of course cupcakes (because she flew out to Boston Sunday)! Sloan's first taste of some yummy sugar! She loved it. Completely dug right in and was sharing it with everyone. Then on Sunday we had a small party for her with the grandparents only. We learned with Gavin that he was too shy to enjoy his cake and let loose on his first birthday. So we decided since my sister was out of town to just do a small party. I am glad we decided to do that, she did not nap and had a late night the night before. So was very tired! I will do a longer post with pictures from that day and also her actual birthday (tomorrow). Greg is taking the day off and we are going to Estes Park! We haven't been back there since she was 11 days old. Should be fun! Here are some pics of her day- she decided to just dig in face first and loved her gift from us - a new kitchen!

Taking a Break

So for the summer I will be taking a break with blogging. First off my camera is broken, so my pictures are all on my phone and I think it is a pain to email it to myself, download to my computer, etc. I am not that technically savvy. Plus our summer has been so crazy and busy that I would rather spend my days sleeping in(Gavin woke up today at 8:45 and Sloan at 7:30- score!), going to the pool and playing with the kids. Sloan will be one soon and is definitely our drama queen and keeps me on my toes. Gavin is growing into such a boy and has taken the summer off from school, so we are trying to keep him busy and entertained. Lucky that is not hard to do!

So be patient, I will hopefully resume soon, but in the meantime- ENJOY!

My Baby....

Girl is now full on walking! Yikes! She just turned 10 months and must feel like she is missing out on life or something. She is amazing with her stability and balance. Yesterday she just stood in the grass for 3 minutes. Just hanging out. We were counting her steps and the last we counted was 20. Now we don't bother, she just motors. Unless she is feeling like she is too slow, then she drops and crawls. It is very cute. Now if she would only get some hair.

The pictures are from the wedding we went to in Nebraska. Both kids did great and were so cute. The pic of Sloan sitting down was her mad that her Daddy went into the house. She is such a Daddy's Girl!