Saw it...

Loved it! Yup, I really did. I thought it was great fun!

It's that time of year again...this time, Disco style!

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Pause our music on the side if you need to!

The big game...straight ahead

This is hanging outside of our home right now. Brandon said it needed to be up the WHOLE week. I don't even think we do that with the American flag during the week of the 4th and that's my fave holiday. Brandon is wearing blue everyday this week, and Tanner is wearing a BYU shirt to school EVERY day(yes, he has that many!) Freaky you may say? I say,do what ya gotta do boys. Go Cougs.
P.S. While I was outside taking this picture, 18 month old Gavin locked me out the front door! He pushed the chair over to the door and bolted the door. I'm sure he was trying to figure out a way to escape. I was lucky to be able to get in through the garage!

Gavin's stitches

This picture isn't the best. Sorry.
He is a real stinker! His new trick is to push the chairs over to where ever he wants and climb on into trouble! He had just pushed a chair over to the kitchen sink and was getting ready to get into the sink. Brandon got him down off the chair. Gavin got upset(temper! temper!) and bonked his head on the cabinet knob! It isn't even sharp but he must have hit just right on the bone. Brandon being quite the expert on stitches from his childhood experiences, decided we'd better take him on in, so I did. He got three stitches. Poor kid! Surprisingly, he was the first child of ours to need stitches. Crazy boy! Honestly, when he is awake, we are pretty much just trying to keep him safe! He is anywhere and everywhere...that he shouldn't be! I made three trips to the pediatric night clinic last week. One for Zach because he had the croup and they gave him an oral steroid to open up his airways. The next night was for Gavin's stitches. Then two days later, I took Gavin in again for the croup. He also received the steroid but through a shot. He just loves that place so much now...not. The poor child had such a look of terror going in after he got stitches. He put his blankie over his head the WHOLE time the doctor examined him. He was so hoping the doc would disappear. Oh, the trauma! But at least they have a cool fish tank with "Nemos" and give out suckers. That's partially worth the trip.

To Wii or not to Wii, that is the question...

We don't have one...yet. The last latest and greatest thing in the gaming department we purchased is the Nintendo 64 I bought for Brandon about 10 years ago. Obviously that was a time in life where he had more time! I have been happy that the kids like to do a variety of activities and haven't exactly invested our money in that area very much. But now, Tanner is getting older and has been to birthday parties and relatives houses this year where he has played the Wii and really enjoyed it. I like the family and physical aspect of the Wii system and all of the options it brings. I don't like the price and the price of the games. Is it worth it? Tanner has also mention that he likes the Didj system by Leapfrog. It looks pretty educational. Please feel free to share your opinion!

Gavin is 18 months

This post turned a little longer than planned! I will understand if some of my readers don't read it all! I like to do an update here on the blog about Gavin every 6 months. I started when he was six months old and then did one at one year. I so wish I had done a blog when the twins were babies!

Gavin is the sunshine boy of our lives right now. He is such a loving little child. He is always giving us kisses and hugs. He just melts our hearts. All of the kids adore him. It is very fun to watch them all with him and truly love him. Zach HAS to give his "schmoopsy poo" a kiss every morning and after every nap, without fail.











Megan loves her baby brother. It has been fun to see her relationship with him grow. When she first found out he was a boy, well, let's not mince words: Weeping and wailing were sometimes seen! When he was born, she loved him and felt much better. Now even just recently, she has said things like: "I can't believe how much I love Gavin." Or, "Gavin is the cutest boy ever!" Or, "I'm so glad we get to keep Gavin forever because I love him!" And that is even with him constantly messing up her room, so she must really love him!














He loves tools! I mean the REAL tools. He seems to know the difference between real tools and toy ones. The real ones are just too tempting. One day he got several tools out of the drawer such as pliers, screwdrivers etc. I held the tools while he took turns with each one, fixing something! He would take one and use it and then put it down and go on to the next one for a long time.
He also likes balls like Tanner did. He likes to put one in the hoop every once in a while(with a little help) and play catch. Tanner is excited to play sports with him. Tanner says Gavin is his twin. Tanner looked very much like Gavin at this age. So Tanner says there are two sets of twins in the family.











Gav LOVES animals. Especially horses. We have to constantly drive by horses for this boy! He finally rode one at Thanksgiving Point a few weeks back. He could have stayed there all day. We are due for another trip to the zoo soon. We have a family pass and those are the best deal! I think he loves animals at an earlier age than the other kids did. He is very drawn to them and loves to make the animal sounds.














Gavin came into the world at almost ten pounds and did everything very fast. I hardly had an infant for very long. He has always been in such a hurry to grow and be a big kid. Boo hoo for me!













Gavin the Gavinator is pretty much into everything right now. Our house is sometimes a disaster and I'm tired a lot! Phew! He can push a chair over to things and get up to everything. But he is a cutie patootie and you know he must be, because Megan wants to keep him(she said so!) and so do we. :)

(I recently had his pics taken in his Halloween costume! They'll be posted later. I couldn't resist. He's the baby and he looked too cute.)

Halloween Fun

Halloween was great. I took the boys on a Haunted train ride and my Mom came along the day before Halloween. It was really fun for them. Halloween was a busy, but fun day. We also had a family dinner on Sunday with yummy soups. Last week the kids went to Grandma's house(Brandon's mom) for a kids' Halloween party. She and Mike put on a great party for the kids and they both dressed up so cute. My camera was dead at the time, so sadly, no pics from that night. We have all had a great Halloween season and with the beautiful weather, it made it so fun! We were able to get out and do a lot of great, fun activities!

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