Our TWO "First day of School" Days!

On Thursday we had our first day of Preschool at Church. . .

And Today we had Orientation at Gavin's "other" Preschool. This is the one he will go to once a week that's "his school". . .one Mom is not involved with.

Happy to go to School!!

Here we go. . backpack and roll of paper towels in tow!!

Here's his little class. There is SIX boys in his class.

Please pray for his teacher!! ;o)

Family Fun Day at Daddy's Work

We had a great time at Family Fun Day at Dave's work on Saturday!

Gavin absolutely loves visiting Daddy's work events with the big trucks and all.

Here's some pics from our day. . .

We all loved the American Theme. .

Popsicles for everyone. . .

The day was great fun for all. . .

Gavin even had a great time in spite of the "oops" on behalf of his Mother. . .

I put his shoes on the WRONG feet!!

Daddy's Home!

Yippee!!

Our "song of the day" on Friday went. . .

Daddy's comin' home today
Daddy's comin' home today
Daddy's comin' home today
Hip, Hip, Hooray!!

Dave returned at 12:10am Friday evening from a 10 day venture to California. His employer sent him to the west coast to assist with some special projects. He had an exhausting 10 day trip, working 80+ hours last week alone. That and the time change has led to one tired Daddy!! We've spent the weekend relaxing, resting and playing at home. It's been wonderful!!

Dave enjoyed the opportunity to visit the sunny state of California, and got to see some wonderful sites, including Sacramento, San Fransisco, the Golden Gate Bridge and more. He was thankful for the experience, but glad to be home again.

Welcome home Daddy!! We missed you!

Odds & Ends

Couple other cute pics I wanted to share with you.

Here's Gavin working (for the millionth time) his alphabet puzzle. He LOVES this thing! (Thanks Sarah!)

Here's Gavin on the truck Daddy brought home from work one day. Yes, he's in a diaper, I know. . .but he got up from his nap and went crazy wanting to get on the bucket truck. . .wouldn't stop for shorts OR shoes.

Here he is on his Daddy's shoulders, his favorite place to "ride" these days. And I love that look with his hat!! Too funny. . .

And finally a sleeping pic. . .you know how I love these. Who can blame me, he's STILL and QUIET and angelic. . .he loves that firetruck pillow. . can you tell??

I promise to try better with the blog. I've been having guilt lately about not keeping it up, and friends have been commenting and giving me the "encouragement" that I needed! (Thanks Kristin!)

Have a great evening!

Good times, good times

We had a great playdate last week with some dear friends, wanted to share a couple good pictures.

Here's Harrison & Gavin doing the "boy thing" wrestling and playing

Here's Annalise, Harrison & Gavin being cute!

Our new Pet

Gavin has a new friend in town, and his name is Henry. Yes, Henry the horse. Henry is a stick horse and it is truly Gavin's new love.

It was hysterical. Last week Gavin was "riding" play broom through the house yelling "giddy up Cowboy! Yeehaw" and Dave quickly agreed we had to get the child a stick horse. (or he might start asking for a witches hat!)

Meet Henry the horse. . .

Riding off into the sunset. . .

Now our "Rodeo" is complete!

Sweet Words

OK, I think any Mom would agree. Some of the sweetest words can come from your children. Today, totally "unprovoked" when I sneezed Gavin said "Bless you Mommy". Ahh. . .the little things.

Where have I been???

Ha! I promise, I haven't given up on blogging. I have been meaning to come in and update, but you know how it goes. . .

I'm not really going to try and "catch up", I'm just going to share a couple pics and start "fresh".

Yesterday we went on a little "Daycation" with our dear friends Micheal & Dana. Gavin was THRILLED with going on a trip with Maggie. We ventured to a waterpark for the day and boy we had a blast. In an effort not to ruin my camera I kept it packed away most of the day, but did break it out for a few pics.

He loved this tunnel. . . and must have went though about 156 times!



Just taking a break from all the water and excitement for a quick snack!

In other "happenings" in our life. . .we have some new friends in town. Our Pastor and his family recently moved here from NC and we are loving having them here. Gavin has already proclaimed his love to their two daughters, ages 8 & 4. Seriously, we're thrilled to have them here at our Church and in our town.

We're getting geared up for a new school year. . .just around the corner! Our little Church Preschool is growing quickly and I'm very excited. I've always dreamed of Directing a Preschool and boy I am doing it! Wow. . .the Lord works in mysterious ways. He's blessed us abundantly though and I am so thankful. Gavin is getting excited about starting school too and seeing all his friends. . .now I just have to go through the whole explanation of why he can't ride the school bus everyday again. . .

Thank you

A HUGE Thank you to all my dear friends and family members. Thank you for what? Thank you for your love and patience with me over the past 2+ weeks that I have been unbearable, absent, air-headed and just a pain!!

I have just finished successfully directing my 2nd Vacation Bible School. Our Church had 122 children in attendance and it was indeed a success.

So for all of you that have left me messages, emails, etc and I have not responded I truly apologize, I am slowly uncovering myself and plan to be back to normal as soon as possible.

Please know that I dearly love you all and truly thank you.

Camping Pics

Here's pictures from our camping trip from a few weeks ago. . .I just realized I hadn't shared them yet! oops! We went camping with our friends Marshall & Lisa, and of course thier twin boys Carson & Parker. The boys weren't too sure about the sleeping arrangements. They had to cut their camping trip short, but I think they'll be ready by next summer. We still had a great time. Gavin loves playing with the boys, and the boys enjoy him. . .as long as he doesn't play tackle football with them again or give them too many "bear hugs". . .ah the gentleness of a two year old boy. . .Thankfully Marshall & Lisa are very understanding and patient friends.


Here's part of our campsite. We borrowed our neighbor's pop-up camper. We love that thing. . .we gotta get one someday!



Here's the "fun quarters" of our campsite--playyard is a MUST with little boys!


Here's Gavin & Daddy looking out the camper looking for the horses. We had a horse pasture right beside our campsite. . .Gavin thought that was so cool!



Unfortunately the horses were not too friendly and we had to be careful when petting them, but Gavin & the boys really enjoyed watching them. . .



Gavin really loved "helping" with the twins.


No camping trip is complete without Tractor transportation!



And here's a camper at heart. Sittin by the campfire playing some music on his guitar and eating graham crackers. . .didn't even wait for the roasted marshmallows!


All in all Gavin thought the trip was great!! We'll do that again soon!

Get Ready. . .

For Picture overload!
I've been very "lax" lately with the blog, so here's my marathon post with lots of pictures to update on all we've been doing.


First, Gavin has such a great sense of fashion. . he's his beloved rain boots that he begs to wear every day. And of course his Daddy's hat!!


We enjoyed a visit to the Horse Show. . .and a necessity for any show. . Popcorn!


We had a great playdate with his buddy Robbie. The boys (& Moms) have so much fun together. . .just hanging out!


Had a fun visit to Mimi & Granddaddy's house one weekend. We picked squash out of their garden! Gavin was such a big helper!




Here--let me pick one


I got one!


Wow this bag is heavy


You carry it Mimi, I got to find something else to get into


Let me reassure you these skunks are plastic yard ornaments. . .


And it's a good thing, because Gavin LOVED playing with them.

Five Funnies for a Friday

Wanted to share a few things my funny child has said this week. . .oh out of the mouths of babes (especially Two year olds!)

1) He was playing with his Bob The Builder Duplo set and overheard his Nana (while on the phone) say "Praise the Lord" and out comes. . .

"Praise the Lord Bob the Builder!!"

2) Gavin has become quite interested in "his" house. "Where is my house?" "We go to my house?", etc. We were leaving the house to go run some errands the other morning and out comes. . .

"That my house? Bye Bye My House. . I love you My house. . ."

3) While playing with his friend Madison they were doing a "salute". Madison would count off. . ." 1-2-3-4-Salute" then Gavin would repeat. . .

"5 - 2 - 4 - 2 A-loop"

(Yes, he knows how to count)

4) While sitting at the dinner table we usually "review our days" with each other. This always starts with me saying "Daddy, how was your day". . .when we were finished last night Gavin paused, then looked at Dave and said. .

"Daddy, how your day were?"

5) Most of you know that my child has a TRUE OBSESSION for Fire Trucks. They are his favorite thing in the whole world. Now he finally knows what the man is that drives the Firetruck (For a long time they were called FireTruckMan). When I say Gavin, what do you want to be he replies. .

"I want to be a Pire Pighter, I drive Pire truck and spray water on fire, it's HOT!"

Just for you "A-issa"

Hugs to you!!

Where has the week gone??

Wow. . .I've been pretty absent lately, huh??
Here's a "slideshow" of what we've been up to lately!!

Our friend Maggie came to play one day. . .we had fun times together!

Then Gavin went to a very cool birthday party at the zoo. . .here he is with his friends Piper & Ty.

Piper & G-Man are blowing their party accessories. . .

Gavin's music class started again and he has so much fun! Here he is with Maggie & the twins. They are all in his class now!



We had a picnic with our friends from Church
Gavin was dancing with his friends. . .

Then we had a fun playdate with more friends from Church:




Then last night was our Father's Day Cookout at Brandon & Jody's House.
Love getting together with everyone from Jody's family. . .
Gavin had a great time with the kids. . .and played ball with BoBo and huggin HarleyDog!









As you can see we having been very busy. . .enjoying Summer!!
Hope you all are doing well!
Happy Fathers Day!