Birthday Wishes!

We wanted to wish Grammy a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! And even more special because we get to celebrate with her on her special day!

Gavin found these sunglasses during our move and loves to play with them. (Mandy these pictures are especially for you).

My Little Helper

Gavin is quite the little helper & destroyer at the same time. But when he wants to be, he is quite a good helper. Yesterday he was helping Grammy mop the floor. He'll be all set to really help me once Audra arrives.

Sorry for disappearing for a couple days, we have had a busy week I guess, just waiting the arrival of Audra. And we are still waiting for her to grace us with her presence. Here are a few pictures of what we have been up to, or well what Gavin has been up to. Saturday we had a held a garage sale. Gavin thought it was great to spend the morning outside chatting and flirting with everyone. And he had some great nap hair in this picture.

My boys. How cute are they!?!

Gavin getting his groove on.

Dancing and singing what a special treat.

Gavin also loves trying on our shoes. Usually it is Kevin's flip flops, but one day he left his tennis shoes on the stairs and Gavin happily found them and enjoyed putting them on.

The funny thing was he kept trying to tie the shoelaces. So funny.

Playing some basketball.

Catching some rays in his new pool. And you all can see our lovely backyard of WEEDS, or dead weeds now that it is getting so hot.

Birthday Wishes!

We are little behind on some birthday wishes. Sunday we missed Aunt Jewell & cousin Lisa's birthday and today is Auntie Terri's birthday. So we want to wish all of you a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! We wish we would have been able to be there to celebrate with you, but hope you had/have a wonderful day.

Some pictures of Gavin's happeneings. What a silly boy!

The Children's Museum

This past Friday night we took Gavin to the Phoenix Children's Museum for the first time. He was having so much fun he did not want to leave.

Here are some pictures to show some of Gavin's favorite things to do . . .

Riding cars . . .

Safety first . . .
Playing in the sand . . .

He loved playing with this xylophone . . .

Riding in the race car . . .

The Noodle Forest . . .

More drumming . . .

More Noodle Forest, these one actually were the first time we went through. He was quite hesitant at first and wanted Kevin to carry him, as you could see from the above pictures, he loved it so much he had to go through again.

Plinko . . .

He was not so sure about the wind grate that he is standing on in this picture, because its way more fun to through the ball and chase it.

It was a very fun family night, we will definately have to do it again.

Yesterday Gavin & I finally had the chance to catch up with our good friends Devin & Sophia. We met up for a wonderful lunch and wandered around Tempe Marketplace where we found the fountains. Gavin & Sophia had a wonderful time running around and playing in the water. Gavin was quite hesitant at first to even go near the water, but it didn't take long for him to be soaked from head to toe.

Graduation in Riverside

Alright, so it has only taken me a week to get the rest of our pictures up from last weekend, but here they are. On Saturday we spent the day celebrating Nate, the graduate from California Baptist. We arrived nice and early Saturday morning to save seats for the whole fam.

Gavin was tuckered out before graduation had even begun, but he's such a trooper that he made it the whole day with not more than a 30 minute nap. As long as he has everyones attention he is good to go.
Gavin also enjoyed watching Uncle Jake & Auntie Hannah in their mockrock performance.

He thought about taking a nap, but thought better of it.

The fam with the Graduate.

sorry for the dark pictures, I'm still trying to learn how to use the new camera.

Gavin with his cousin Mia. Niether one wanted to sit still long enough to get a picture of them together.

Gorgeous Auntie Mandy & Gavin hitting his afternoon lull.

Graunt Kathy directing the little munchkins in a little tune.

The little entertainers.

This all took place just before Gav took a spill trying to get down off the bench and hit his lip on the bench and gave himself a fat, bloody lip.

The happy couple.

The cousins and the children and one getting away.

In the evening we went to a wonderful dinner at a Mexican restaurant. Like Father like son. This picture cracks me up because they are making the same face.

Gavin again was enjoying all eyes on him at the dinner table and was playing peek-a-boo with everyone.

Look at that dessert for the happy graduate!

Gavin was completely content with his black beans while everyone else enjoyed dessert.

On Sunday we said our goodbyes to everyone and then we met up with a couple of my friends from college. It was a wonderful end to the trip to catch up with old friends. We went to the park and Gavin had a wonderful time running around and playing more peek-a-boo.

We got to see Katie and her son Brady (that is who is in the pic) and Lacey, her husband Anthon and their two daughters Haley and Tessa. I however managed to not get a picture of all of us though, bummer.

Gavin and Brady sliding, well actually we were trying to get a pic of the two of them together, but Gavin for some reason would not sit still and decided to just run down the slide, while Brady was just not happy.

Gavin loved Cooper, the dog. He was just his size and even got to walk him, or probably more like Cooper was walking Gavin.

But it was a great way for Gavin to run all of his energy out before our long drive home.

And that is the end of our weekend in Southern California. It was quite an exhausting whirlwind being 8 months pregnant, but it was very fun to catch up with friends and family, and we are very thankful for the time we had.