Hormonal Much?

Bed Head in his favorite pjs, seriously Santa still???

That is how I feel right now. I cry about 4 times a day. Seriously, I am banned from watching pretty much anything on the TV, even the Olympics make me cry! The person that gets me to cry ALL THE TIME though, is my cute little monkey. Last week Greg and Gavin were wrestling on the floor and I was laying on the couch not feeling very well and rubbing my tummy. And my sweet little boy came over and kissed my belly, kept his lips on it and said, "hi baby". It was the cutest thing, Greg and I were both stunned. I am getting teary eyed writing that. I am such a sap! It is annoying!

Hiding from me, or is it something else?

This is the same boy though, when asked if he would rather have a new baby boy or girl, his response is "a dog". Greg about had a heart attack the first time he said it. I have been saying all along if it is another boy I am entitled to get a girl dog (because we have decided 2 kids is enough). I am tired of being outnumbered! And maybe I could dress up this new dog in pink frilly things! Can you just picture a baby Bulldog or Shepard in a pink tutu!

Pimpin' ain't easy!

Last week Greg and I celebrated our 3 year anniversary. Yes, 3 years, that is ALL! Seems much longer! We got away this past weekend for the night, which was fun but I missed all the boys. Maybe now that I am pregnant I am a homebody! Who knew. I have attached some pics of Gavin's gift for Valentine's day. Well not his actual gift, just the box that his and Daddy's gifts came in.

Part 2 of a Very Belated Xmas!

Greg & Jerry (Papa) in their Xmas jammies from Gavin- Greg asked me to "please not put this pic up." Sorry honey!

We decided to venture to Nebraska for Christmas this year. Gavin is still not up on the whole "Christmas thing", so we figured this would be the only year we would go back. After this I would like Gavin & new baby bean to wake up in their own bed and begin our own Christmas traditions.

Opening Santa gifts on Christmas morning.

When we decided to drive back we did not have a clue that we would be going into a blizzard! But alas, when we did find out, we left a day early and thought it wouldn't be too bad. Were we wrong! The drive started out with my lovely son having a breakdown that lasted about 30 minutes or so; in the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE. He was so hysterical he ended up throwing up all over himself. Lovely. We didn't have anywhere to pull off for about 15 minutes, so the car smelled just peachy. Did I mention I am pregnant? And that smells are super great right now? I think I told Greg at one point we were turning around (we were about 3 hours into the drive), little did we know, we really should have. The rest of the drive went ok, until about the last 3 or so hours. The snow was coming in and there was accidents everywhere. Our normal 7 1/2 hour drive turned into almost 9. All I have to say, is thank god we had brand new tires and our truck, we would have never made it in my car!

At Big Papa's Christmas day, because our dinner for the day was cancelled, we threw together a quicky dinner (no stores were open) and decided to stay in our pjs all day.

The snow, the snow, the snow, it never stopped. And with the blowing snow, it was such a lovely blizzard. This lovely snow broke a 61 year old record for most snow on Christmas. Being from Colorado, we are lucky, it snows for a good day or 2, then we head outside in the sunshine and play. Not so for the Nebraskans. We never once got to play in the lovely snow. Poor Gavin. And to complete this lovely weather, most all of our "to dos" were cancelled. Overall, we did have a good time, Greg tied one on pretty well one night with his cousins, aunts and uncles. I even managed to stay up until 2 am that night!

Our drive back was worse than the drive to. We found out the day before we were to leave that I-80 was closed and had been closed since Christmas Eve. They finally opened it up the night before we left, and it was not in great shape. At one point we were down to one lane because they didn't remove enough snow. I have added some pics of that 9 + hour drive home. We saw about 8 accidents in about a mile span. FUN TIMES!

I just noticed while looking through my photos to upload, I have have only about 15 pictures from our trip. And they all are either Gavin or our drive. I realized that when we go somewhere with Jerry, I leave it up to him to take all the pictures. So I apologize to the Kelly's, I don't even have a pic of Big Papa! Sheesh I am a slacker.

Frosty...

The redneck snowman.....

We decided to spend the day outside on Saturday. For once we got above 20 and my son is 95% back to normal. So after a few weeks of cabin fever we ventured outside to build ourselves a snowman and do some sledding. We have some crazy/funky faces for our pumpkins at Halloween time, so I pulled those out and used them on our snowman. We named him Billy Bob and I think Gavin was a little scared of him. I kept asking him to stand next to him so I could take a picture of them together and he wouldn't do it. OH well! Overall he had a great time and I am glad that the weather is a little nicer now!

Sunday was our annual baking Christmas cookies day with my family. It is always a good time, until we realized we nixed out the only cookies Greg could eat. He was not a happy camper when he realized this, but oh well! I told him I would make him his very own batch. And that is asking a lot from me, since they are Peanut Butter balls and I don't like peanut butter! As always, the kids had a wonderful time decorating (yea right!) the cookies and I snapped some pics of them and of course the winners in the contest we have every year. (We pick one of every kids, then go around the room and vote.) This year, the big winner was Pyper, she got a $1. That is how we get them to decorate, BRIBE THEM!

(The winning cookie is the bottom left side Santa- Beautiful! It was a struggle from keeping some of the younger kids from eating every cookie they decorated!)

(This is my son, doing god knows what, while the rest of the kids were decorating.)

Unsure if I will post again before the holiday, we are celebrating Christmas this entire weekend with my side of the family. This will be the first year IN MY LIFE, that I will be leaving Colorado for Xmas. We will be heading to Nebraska next Wed. for 5 days! Should be a good time. Just a little hard for me....

Have a wonderful Holiday!

Halloween-a little belated....

(Gavin in Mommy's boots)
Before we get to Halloween, last week we had a snow storm that pretty much locked us in for 2 days. It was great and Gavin LOVED putting on his boots this year. He actually still tries to grab them and make us put them on him. The only problem is, he doesn't get how you put them on and curls up his toes so it is a STRUGGLE for us. Here are some pics of our little monkey enjoying it. Of course I also added in some pics of the dogs enjoying it too.

Here are some wonderful pics of our lovely pumpkins this year (please note the little pumpkin, it makes a cameo later on):Friday night we adults rang in Halloween at a party at my sister's. We had absolutely no fun, and were asleep by 8. Ha. We actually had a blast and ended up having a slumber party with a bunch of family at the Alexander casa. I think we finally went to bed about 2:30 am. I don't remember the last time I have stayed up that late!!! This first picture is hilarious, because I was in charge of doing my sister's makeup and while putting on false eyelashes- I GLUED HER EYE SHUT. HILARIOUS. Please also note my wonderful spooky appetizers I made for the party! The puking pumpkin and spider web bean dip. Yummy!

Halloween day was beautiful and Gavin had a wonderful time Trick or Treating. We did our neighborhood hay ride again and all of the kids had such a good time. Gavin was usually the last one to get to the door (out of about 15) and he was the 2nd to the youngest. So he got a lot of raves about what a cute little "monkey" he was.

Cousins...

This post is dedicated to Gavin and his wonderful cousins, Pyper, Frankie and Jackson. My sister has 3 adorable kids that we get to see a lot! This summer we had all 3 stay the night a few times, and then each one had a night over to do what they wanted. It was a ton of fun and Gavin loves playing with them. Here is our summer in pics......

Pyper's 5th Birthday -May 31st

(The boys were outnumbered here, it was a princess/tea party, but lovely nonetheless.)

Slumber Parties at our House!

(We did a lot of pool time and of course snuggling in my bed with my boas! And yes, we are naked in the backyard, that is how we roll.)

Trip to the Zoo!

(They loved holding hands, it was too cute!)

Frankie and Jack's 3rd Birthday- Aug. 21st!

(Their party was held at a farm, which all the kids loved, a lot of animals!)

(We also had a dinner at the Alexander's for them. We danced, Jack sang on a rock, they tried on the new chef hat and of course Gavin doled out some smooches!)