silly 9 month old

christmas 2009

Love Song

we love fall

woke up to beautiful sunshine and couldn't pass up the opportunity to go out to the arboretum for pictures and a picnic. grab a cup of coffee and get comfy, there's lots of pictures on this one

Cracking up with Capri

Capri LOVES the song "Love Song" by Sarah Barellis...so here is her version of it...i think



Love my daughter, but the kid is not always photogenic...she loves pictures, but never smiles & always squints so we've been working on her technique. it figures the one time i set the camera to "video" on accident, she smiles beautifully, at least we captured the memory...somehow.

Gaven says 'DaDa'

Gaven learned how to say "DaDa" but we've yet to tell him that he looks "special" when he says it...what a hoot

October Daze

our little piggy

so, we found out on tuesday, that gaven (our little 6 month old) has swine flu. poor little guy is coughing all over the place, but is finally starting to show improvement with the tamiflu. however, while he's been sick, he has mastered two new tricks. he is now able to put himself into a sitting position from crawling, and then this morning, this is what i walked in on...


we are from this point forward, referring to him as bam! bam! he's so strong, even when he's not feeling well.

Gaven's Giggles

so, when it's late at night, gavey gets the giggles, and we had to capture it on film. enjoy and try not to laugh, it's pretty hard not to.

the kiddos

Wheat and What Not

this has been a fun month for photos...we had a photo shoot with gaven near paul's birthday...gaven fit in his daddy's baby clothes at age 3 months! we also took the kiddo's out to the wheat field for pictures before the wheat was all harvested. we had a blast out there trying to fight the enormous rain drops, but we were able to get some good shots.

wasington/oregon trip

we just got back from a wonderful trip to the west coast. we had an amazing time with my family, a wonderful celebration shower for capri and gaven, we were able to attend paul's sister's wedding, and take a mini vacation with our two kids to the place we fell in love...cannon beach, OR. here are some pictures

we are so blessed

posting, like sleep, is few and far between, but we feel so blessed to have had my mom here for the birth of gaven as well as having my sister come to help me in any way she could. it was wonderful to have them here to share in our joy, and in immense help as things were pretty shaky the first few days with gaven's jaundice and capri's jealousy. they've been gone for a week now, it's been tough, but i'm figuring this juggling thing out.

gaven's officially out of premie clothes and into newborn and capri is becoming her normal self again. we are gearing up for our trip to washington and oregon next month for paul's sister's wedding, our baby shower, and visit with my family...and then it will be back to work again (dreading that immensely).

on may 10th, we will be dedicating both the kids at church, we are ecstatic to not only have a church, but a church family. they too, have been a huge help over the past month and we love them all.

here are some pictures from the past month...

GAVEN KEITH HAS ARRIVED (3 weeks early)

after a blizzard, an induction, 7 hours of labor, and an emergency c-section, gaven keith arrived on march 28th at 5:12 p.m. weighing in at a "not-so-hefty" 5 lbs. 12 oz. he was 19 1/2 inches long and has beautiful and alert blue eyes. sorry we are just posting these, but enjoy:

ANNOUNCEMENT