Our Week

We have been quite busy lately, so here are some pictures to let you in on our week.

Gavin is quite the loving big brother. Sometimes a little too much so, but he LOVES his little Audra ("Audrus" in Gav terms).

He always wants to hold her hand.

We blew up this toy Gavin got for his birthday last year and they both loved it. Audra liked that she could sit and chew on the balls and Gav loved climbing through it. A year ago when we blew this up, he was completely scared of it, but not anymore.

He can't wait till Audra can really play with him. He was trying to play football with her, but she just wanted to chew the ball.

I think Gavin is going through a growth spurt. He is eating constantly and a ton of food at that. Well look what he found in the cupboard. FRUIT LOOPS! And apparently one hand at a time was just not quick enough to get them out of the box. . .

I was in the kitchen and looked out and this is how I found him. Laying in the fruit loops eating them by the fist full.

And loving every minute.

Yesterday I was working on a little painting and of course Gavin wanted to help. And when Gavin helps with paint . . . this is what you get . . .

some paint in your hair and all over your body.

So needless to say he needed a bath. Well when I went to lay Audra down for a nap, I came downstairs to . . . this . . .
He was nourishing his dry skin apparently. And he has quite a thing for his hair.

Happy Birthday Baylor!!!

On Monday, not only did we celebrate Kevin's birthday but we also celebrated one of Gavin's bestest friends Baylor (or in Gavin terms "Bayor", even just looking through these pictures he would not stop saying "Bayor . . . train . . . Bayor . . Bayor"). So we went with the Arnolds for a birthday lunch at the train park.

The boys got to play on the playground, run in the sand, oh and start the water in the sand and throw it all over (they are boys for sure and Gavin was quite a disgusting mess with sand all over). This picture is really funny though because they were standing up there yelling "hey" back and forth, one of Gavin's favorite things to say.
We also got to ride the train 2 times. As you can see the boys thought this was great. I believe Baylor was yelling, "All aboard".

Getting ready to ride.

Birthday Wishes

Well we are a little late at saying this on the blog anyway, but we have been celebrating all week and end the celebration with a big dinner party with our friends on Saturday. But anyway we want to wish daddy a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! We love you more than words.

In search of FALL COLORS!

On Saturday we headed up to Oak Creek in Northern Arizona in search of some fall colors. As usual the pictures are in reverse order . . .

so we ended our drive home with this amazing sunset.

We also visited the train in Flagstaff. Gavin was quite excited about the "choo choo".

We stopped along Oak Creek to have a picnic lunch and Gavin got to run around and play "bootball".

So we discovered its quite difficult to take a family picture these days. Its quite hillarious really.

Gavin decided it was time to finish his sandwhich, while Audra decided to take up some opera singing.

My boys.

Gavin fought really hard to not look at the camera.

ASU Football

This past weekend we had the privilege of going to an ASU football game with Graunt Kathy & Gruncle Paul. Gavin had a great time, especially since he is so into football these days, and his football jersey. We had great seats right on the 50 yard line about 16 rows from the field, so it made it great for Gavin to see the ball and the game. At first I think it was a little overload for him, but by the end he was cheering and making new friends.

And Audra was wonderful the entire time.
Watching the jumbotron.

Gavin is quite hillarious with his hats these days. He will readjust the hat 5 times before its perfect. Too funny. One day I actually watch him readjust it several times and then one time he pulled it off and flatten some of his hair then tried to readjust it again.

Thank you Kathy & Paul for taking us to the game. We had a wonderful time.

Gavin & Audra Laughing in the Bath

Halloween

Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of great pictures from Halloween, Gavin did not want to cooperate too much. We joined some friends for dinner and then we headed out to take the kiddos trick or treating. Gavin was not so thrilled with trick or treating. He just wanted to be carried the whole time while Audra slept.

Gavin & Baylor & Charissa riding to the next house for some more treats.
This was probably the only house that Gavin actually got down and walked up to the house, but hey at least i got it on camera.

He had way more fun playing football with the big boys before we went trick or treating. He loves his sports these days. And he has been living in this jersey, he never wants to take it off. And he woke up on Sunday morning ready to put it back on. We were in his closet getting his clothes before church and I had a nice button-up shirt out to put on him and he threw it on the ground and yelled "NNNOOO! Bootball (which is football)!!" So I ran down stairs and threw it in the wash because it was filthy from the night before. So if you want to know what to get Gav for christmas, shirts with footballs, baseballs & basketballs on them.

The little missy however did cooperate for a couple pics (and don't mind the red ring around her face, she is teething and drooling like a crazy women, so her skin is quite chaffed).

This was how most attempts to get Gavin to take a picture ended.

Our little cheerleader, cheering on Gavin the ASU football player.

At least she will sit still for me.