Monday, November 29, 2010

Soundoff!

I put Gavin in a children's choir at the Piano Gallery. They learn new songs, sing about letters and colors, and do fun activities all associated with music and he LOVES it! He looks forward to his "singing class" every week. They performed a song called "Little Lamb" at the Festival of Trees and later this week he will have another concert where he will sing both new songs he learned as well as his part. He's pretty excited!

My Little Lamb

 Gavin, Reese, Miss Marisa, Ava and De
 Singing at the Festival of Trees
 Singing Itsy Bitsy Spider
Practicing for their concert on the stage

Warning: Lots of Gavin

Gavin hit his head on the apple tree and thought he needed a band-aid so he went and got one himself and put it on his head. I told him to throw the wrapper away and the next thing I know he has the garbage can outside and is putting the wrapper in it.
 I was baking like a maniac the week of Thanksgiving ( 2 pumpkin rolls, 5 apple pies, a brownie pumpkin cheesecake and 6 dozen rolls). Gavin is my little helper and mimics me. The day before he asked me why I had a towel on my shoulder. The next day when I asked him if he wanted to help me he disappeared into the bathroom and came out with the hand towel over his shoulder.
 Gavin woke up before us and apparently was very thirsty!
 He watched some Spiderman cartoons and now he is always
making a "web" and blocking us in or out of rooms
 He suddenly LOVES his green John Deere hat and wears it a lot.
He thinks it's so funny that it smashes his hair flat
 Decorating his own Christmas tree for his room
We buy him his own ornament every year

 He took this picture himself
His apple was broke and only held together by the skin. He was opening and closing the apple and making it say things like "Hello, how are you doing?"


Sorry this is probably really boring to a lot of you, but I want to remember 
the funny little quirks and everyday things about life so I post them.

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I was a super spoiled girl this year! It started the day before when  my bestest girlfriend Liz took me to breakfast that morning.  Cody took the day before off with me (since I had to work on my birthday) and hung out with me all day and took me shopping for my birthday. That night we went to Liz's for our weekly Mystery Monday and it ended up being a SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY for me! I had no idea, but I guess that's the point of a surprise right? 
Me and my girls, I am a lucky girl!

Gavin was asleep when we got there and slept through everyone yelling "surprise" and all the other commotion that comes with having 5 families in one house. The only time he woke up was when one of the husbands popped a balloon and Gavin woke up and said "shhh" and then went back to sleep.
 
This kid sleeps through everything!

We celebrated my birthday at work and Tamra made me this awesome cake with a clever song!
 
My sister and I usually celebrate together with my family since our birthdays are only 9 days apart. We were both blowing on the candles and it took us multiple times, we totally sucked!

It's Schnowww.ing!!!

 I LOVE to play in the snow with Gavin, it's one of my favorite
 things so I was super excited when we got dumped on with lots
of PERFECT snowman snow!

 Making sure it's nice and packed!
 Did I mention Gavin LOVES to eat snow?
 All done! Cody got us some branches of our plum tree for the legs and arms.
 My little snow angel!
 I had to join in the fun, it looked like to much fun!
A big cup of hot cocoa to warm up!!

Fans

This year a huge number of "fans" (windmills) were placed up on the hills above Idaho Falls. You can see quite a few from town and Gavin kept wanting to go see them. We headed up one afternoon and I was stunned at how many there actually were. The more we drove the more we saw. I also couldn't believe the actual size of them. We drove right up to one of them and although the picture does nothing to show how ENORMOUS they are it's still pretty impressive. I'm not sure how I feel about them...actually I do but I'm not going to get into that on my blog. ; )

The first group of them we came across. You almost feel like you are on another planet or in an alien movie, I know it sounds weird and Cody thinks I'm crazy but that's the feeling I got when I was up there.

Monday, November 1, 2010

HaPpY hAlLoWeEn!!


To Infinity and Beyond

Look at my impressive wingspan!

Maycee the Ladybug

I vant to suck your blood!

Dr. Suess Spiderman


Trunk or Treat
Gavin/Buzz Lightyear and Teagan/Hiccup

Melvin the robot

Thing 1 and Thing 2     

I made Cody a costume this year so he had to dress up!
Not to shabby for not having a pattern!

Pumpkin Carving
Madilyn carving her pumpkin
Gavin, Luke and Madi with their pumpkins  
 Luke and Gavin wanted to play so we carved their pumpkins for them

Boo at the Zoo
Abby and Tyler (my cousin)
We always run into them at the zoo. Last time it was Hogle Zoo in Utah.
Karen, 49ers Fan and Madisen, a Bumble Bee

Madisen the Bumble Bee

My Fam!
Who knew Buzz Lightyear hung out with Thing 1 and Thing 2

My sister and I

Gavin's Spooky Pumpkin

His only request was it have BIG, SCARY TEETH!