We are back!

My hard drive failed so all my things have to be done on my laptop now. It took me a little while to transfer pictures onto my laptop but I have finally done the latest pictures.

For Easter we were up in Maryland. We had a very busy weekend. On Saturday afternoon my brother's oldest daughter, Emily, celebrated her birthday at Rollie Pollies. Gavin had tons of fun! That afternoon we had Easter dinner and the annual egg hunt. It was a good time.

On Sunday we went to my sister's church for the Easter message and then we picked up Emma and headed to give Mommar some flowers for Easter. After that we had to hit the road for a LONG trip home. Both Matt and I had to work on Monday.

It was a very busy weekend but a fun one! Here are some pictures....

Grrr...

To all who are wondering where all the pictures and updates are... I'm sorry

My computer with all my pictures has caught a virus and I can do nothing on it! I only have my laptop. I'll do my best to get some pictures uploaded soon. Hopefully my computer will get fixed soon too. Sorry!!

Still alive...

Things have been a little crazy lately so I haven't had time to update. I'll briefly let you in on the last couple weeks...

About 8 of Gavin's closest friends at school all came for a St. Patrick's Day party at our house. Each month one parent hosts and the rest get to go out for a night of free babysitting. This month was our turn. Gavin really enjoyed spending time will all of his friends and decorating cupcakes. However, he did tell us after they all left that he didn't want any brothers or sisters. Haha! Sharing toys is only fun for so long! Here are a few pictures of some of the fun we had....

Holt playing air hockey!


Air Hockey was probably the biggest hit!

Spaghetti Dinner (Nice Matt!)

Jake playing with the race track


Ava frosting her cupcake

Patrick eating some icing!


All decorated and ready to eat!

Oops! Elle got icing on more than just the cupcake

Yum!


Gavin and Elle watching a movie on the couch

This past weekend we went to Maryland for MacKenzie's 2nd birthday. We hadn't seen anybody in a while so it was good to see everybody! Here are some pictures of the party...

Happy to see each other!

Let's jump!


MacKenzie making music

Gymboree games!

Happy Birthday to you!

Yummy Nemo cake!


I'm gonna figure this thing out!

Again?!

Earlier this week the preschool closed early for a snow day.... We hadn't been home long. I needed to go to the bathroom so I told Gavin to take off his shoes while mommy went potty. While in the bathroom I suddenly heard a few loud booms and then my boy crying! Uh oh what happened now.....

When I came out Gavin was laying at the bottom of the stairs crying. Great... he just got a knot on his head.. not another one! When I told him to come see me so I could see it he sat up and immediately threw up. Then he tried to walk over to me and he fell over. I being the panic one called Matt at work. He came home and we spent the next hour trying to keep him awake. (this was no easy task). After a call to the doctor, we were told that if he was still throwing up the next day and if he had slurred speech to bring him in. Luckily.. he just got a few more bruises on his head. The poor guy looks like he has been in a fight. The only thing left now is stiches... maybe that'll be this weekend. Let's hope not!!

This is actually a picture from today... it looks a lot better than it did!

Hurricanes Game

For Valentines Day I gave Matt tickets to the Hurricanes game. The game was last night and we all had a blast. We got to sit in the lower level and we were pretty happy with how good our seats were. The game was awesome. The hurricanes won in a shoot out which Matt had never witnessed before. It was a really awesome game... after all... what was there not to like ??

Daddy got to watch hockey....

Gavin got to see the John Deere zamboni....



and stay out late eating dippin dots.....

and Mommy got to stare at the hot goalie all night :)

What Happened To Your Head??

Wednesday night was just like any other night until about 8:30 when it was time for Gavin to go to bed. We were racing to see who got up the stairs first like we always do. Gavin made it up first and then for who knows what reason he turned back around and came down a few stairs. He saw me coming and wanted to "win" again so he turned around quickly and ran.... right into the stairs.... OUCH!! This was a good one.. Yikes!

At least we didn't have to go to the ER.... just some ice!

We are still alive!

Sorry it's been so long... I got the flu last week and it really knocked me out! But we're better now and I wanted to post what I had been meaning to post a few weeks ago....

Gavin, like any kid I've ever known, really wanted a bunk bed so he could "sleep up high". Bunk beds are expensive, hard to make, and usually not wanted after a couple years so spending the money to make it happen was not looking good for Gavin. Sorry bud....

Good news though... Gavin has a very talented daddy.... so while we were at Aunt Nen's daddy made Gavin a special surprise.... and he loves it!! Gotta love the daddy who can make just about anything!