First Hair cut...

It was time for the mullet to take a hike. Nana was nervous to cut his hair but he was great. Gavin is 13 months old in this picture. AND yes he has a sucker in his mouth...second child really is spoiled.

Sleeping babies...

Nothing is better than a day when Micky has the whole day off. He worked a double shift to be able to be home on Monday night. We were actually able to have a family dinner all 4 at the table. Sammie of course had to melt down, go to her room and start the meal all over again. She says her "brain" tells her she doesn't want to sit at the table with everyone. After a few moments alone in her room her "brain" decided it was hungry and we finished our meal. Micky quickly moved into the living room to play/watch the Olympics. Everyone was cranky because it was just a full day of actives. I'm in the kitchen cleaning and baking a cake and notice no one is making any noise....All 3 had fallen fast asleep on the floor. Here are the pictures....

Daddy and his snuggle babies. Sammie is smiling but it's because she knew I was standing there! Little stinker. Gavin had fallen asleep right on Micky's head while they were watching TV.

Gavin does love his blanket that Grandma made him he drags it everywhere!


Sammie of course insisted I get my picture taken so sorry for the HOT look! And the dirty living room..I need a cleaning lady.

Here she is the stinker herself! I just can't believe she is 4 and half already. She does have a super pretty smile if I do say so myself!

Daddy Date night....

Sammie was so excited to see 101 Dalmatians last night with her daddy at the Theater! She got all dressed up and looking great for her big night. We weren't sure she was going to make it at first because she was a little grouchy. She wouldn't miss her hot date with daddy though.

They had fun and so did Mommy and Gavin. The little man and I played put on the sunglasses...it doesn't get old when you're only 11 months old! OF course I have pictures....

Yes Gavin is WALKING....He's so big!

I know I'm the mom but he is so cute!! I love his two lonely little teeth.

The Christmas Hot Dog

Christmas through the eyes of your children is so much better than anything in the entire world! It’s that time of year where things start to get crazy because you want to cram in all the holiday cheer. This past weekend was no different for us. Unfortunately our only snag was the little guy was sick with bronchitis. So we took the kids to this giant light display at the Jackson Fair grounds. Really I have never seen anything like it. Sammie of course thought it was the coolest because she got to sit on mommy’s lap. Gavin was just excited to be out of his car seat. As we are driving through Micky and I are talking about why we celebrate Christmas. Sammie says, “duh it’s baby Jesus birthday”. We look at each other and I know we are both thinking whew we did something right. We come across the nativity scene and Sammie says, “who are those people?” I look, “oh those are the three wise men and they brought baby Jesus gifts. They brought frankincense, myrrh and mommy can’t seem to remember the third gift. Daddy do you remember?” Daddy looks at me, “gosh nope I can’t”. Sammie bust in, “umm well I think he brought a Hot Dog.” She says it in her little Sammie way full of all the confidence in the world. Micky looks and says, “honey baby Jesus was just a baby he can’t eat hot dogs.” She looks right back at him, “daddy begin born is a lot of work and baby Jesus needed a hot dog”. There really isn’t any way of arguing with her!

Here they are at the end getting their picture taken. I love Gavin's waving. Sammie's cheese ball smile.

Apparently Daddy had a hard time keeping his finger off the flash? Gavin's still waving.

The picture doesn't do it justice but it was really cool this is the front of the light display.

I love this picture because you can tell they do just love each other.

Sick, Sick, Sick...

It just the start of the holiday season and we of course have to start it out with some excitement. Gavin is again sick. Of course like any good little child he doesn't get just a tiny little cold. Oh gets bronchitis almost pneumonia. It’s nothing a good round of antibiotics and a new nebulizing machine won't take care of right. Oh the up side you almost can't tell he’s sick. He is full of smiles even at 6am when daddy is yelling at him for getting up so early. We plan to spend the weekend getting rid of the germs. We might get around to putting up the Christmas tree too.

Here are a couple of pictures. The first is of us at the light parade the day after thanksgiving. Gavin’s smile is so BIG. The second he's just a stinker and I loved his face.






Hope to have reports of healthy kids next week!

HOLY COW a new POST!

Okay so it's been a LONG TIME since I have made a post. I would say I have been really busy but truth be told I simply have just forgotten. Only recently have I realized the importance of making these posts. If I document the simply everyday events now my kids will have them in the future. (Oh yes Kids because Gavin has come along since I have last posted....8 months ago!) So I'm trying to take on my mommy role to remember the fun and not so fun things that have been going on in our little lives.

I'll try to recap the last 8 exciting months! The biggest event of course is Gavin's birth. Does any mother ever forget that day? I remember we had Pizza for dinner! Gavin entered the world and remained nameless for 12 long hours. Of course we had visitors a the whole day and just couldn't decide. Once he was named of course everyone LOVED it!


The next six months were spent with lots and lots of family time! We certainly enjoyed most of that time. I still can't get use to 2:30am wake up calls! We did take advantage of the time by visiting friends and family. One highlight was our trip to the Detroit Zoo. Sammie loved every moment and the bonus we got to see Jon, Roberta and little Avery.
We certainly did lots of normal family things like visiting the state parks with Grandpa, dance recitals and playing soccer at the Y with Colin.

This was the weeking mommy wouldn't leave Muskegon! We ended up staying with Grandma and Grandpa for 4 days. Oh it was fun time. I'm sure my parents we ready for us to go home.


Dance June



Gavin was doing a lot of sleeping and growing during all of this. Mommy was stressing out because of course Gavin is so different from Samantha. I was of course worried I was breaking him. He's a strong little guy who loves to play and more than anything lights up when his sister walks into a room. Of course she commands attention but he is more than willing to provide her with all of his! He's now 8 1/2 months old and almost walking. He's been teething since he was about 4 months old with no teeth yet! We keep saying any day now...mommy is really kind of scared for that day but it's coming.

Just 8 months old here at cousin Isabelle's 1st birthday party.


Just had to add this one the three cousins.
Samantha, Riley and Brock I could just squeeze them all!


Okay until next time which I will try not to make more than 8 months away!