He loves me, He loves me not!

This is the question that I'm sure Madisen (my niece) has been asking herself since the day she was born because Gavin has refused to hold her the entire time, but she finally got her answer, HE LOVES HER!!

We watched her on Friday night so her parents could go see New Moon. I had her on the couch and Gavin went up to her and was scooping her up. I took over and had him sit down and put a pillow under his arm and let him hold her.

He was so proud and he was so careful with her.

He held her for almost an hour

Every time her binky would fall out, he would very carefully put it back in her mouth for her while saying "Here you go baby Madisen"

Here he is feeding her.
I know I went overkill with the pictures, but I was so excited. We have been waiting 8 weeks for this to happen!

New Moon

Confessions:

Yes, I am one of those people who neglected my wifely, motherly and household duties every time a new Twilight book came out.

Yes, I am one of those people who bought my tickets to the movie months in advance to insure that I got to be one of the first to see the movie at 12:01 am
Yes, I am one of those people who bought a Twilight t-shirt to wear to the movie
Yes, I am one of those people who bundled up warm to withstand the bitter Idaho temperatures as I stood in line to get a good seat in the theater
Yes, I am one of those people who stayed up until 2:30 am and then had to be to work before the sun was even up the next morning
Yes, I am a TWILIGHT FAN!

All bundled up and ready to go stand in line with my ticket in hand!

Erin, Alicia, Nikki, Linda, Misty, Kelly, Kayla, Jolie, Teri, Chelsea, and Deanna
More of us have arrived, there was 20 of us all together.
Tiffany's brother (that was his name for the night), Amanda, Tiffany, Alicia, Misty, Nikki, Kayla, Sara, Teri, Linda, Kelly, Chelsea, Deanna, and Jolie

In the theater where it was warm! Now what do we do for the next 2 hours? Talk and eat all of our yummy smuggled food!

Alicia, Deanna, Sara, Amanda, Jolie, & Nikki

We had a great time, thanks Chelsea for putting it all together! And I really enjoyed the movie despite the fact that I had been up for 20 hours straight by the time it started. I can't wait to see it again!

Sista's

Maria, Erin, Teri & Karen
All my sister's
I have been wanting a picture of the four of us since Erin joined our family a little over a year ago, I'm just a little slow about it. Maria is married to my brother Kenny, Erin is married to Paul and Karen is my little sister.

Happy 29th to me!!!

I had an O.R. rotation at EIRMC for school on my birthday, but luckily they got done early so I didn't have to stay my full 12 hour shift, happy birthday to me! Cody and Gavin took me to breakfast on Saturday for my birthday (it's our own little tradition to go to breakfast the Saturday before or after all our birthdays) and we make homemade french fries and hamburgers for dinner on my actual birthday. Gavin decided since it was a special occasion he was going to wear underwear on his head! It was actually so funny to us that he even did it and was so proud of himself that we let him just keep them on.

These have nothing to do with my birthday, but I thought they were so cute I had to show them to everyone. Jenny (one of the ladies I visit teach) made them and brought me some. I think they are the cutest ever! I had a hard time eating them because they were so cute, but uummm, they were so good!

Happy Halloween

Between the Halloween Parties, Carnivals, and Trunk-or-Treats by the time Halloween was really here he was done with it. When I brought his costume out to put it on him for the last time he ran from me and said, "No more Lion anymore!!!" I did get him to put it on without much of a fight, but he refused to wear the hood.

We went to Great G&G Fry's first and he headed straight for the toy closet and then when we went to Great G&G Butikofer's he went right to the berry tic-tac-toe and wanted Great G-ma to play it with him, it's his favorite thing to do, except go see the cow's and eat raspberry's, there. Next we headed to my parents with everyone else.

My brother Kenny and his wife Maria

Faith (Tooth Fairy), Taylor, and Gavin hiding in the corner. Uncle Kenny talked him into putting his hood on, but then he didn't want to come out of the corner.

I think I spy a little lion in the bushes!

I'm not sure who this guy is, he just showed up and wanted his picture taken, we are NOT related, I swear! P.S. Yes, he is wearing women's panties on the outside of his man-tights!

O.K. so I fibbed a little! This is my sister Karen, with Madisen and my bro-in-law Chet. He has the most creative costumes every year and he makes them himself.

Carving Pumpkins

We grew pumpkins in our garden again this year and Gavin was not into carving them at all

Cody ended up doing both of them.

Gavin did touch one of the seeds, but that was it.
(Yes, I realize this picture is sideways, but I can't fix it, sorry)

The finished product.
P.S. Never leave the men in charge of the pumpkin carving!