So close to laughing... but not quite there yet

Gavin has been getting bigger everyday! He is getting so much more fun because he is smiling more, and you can tell he is trying to laugh because he'll smile all huge and make a big grunt noise. We had a good rainy day yesterday with hail... G's first stormy day. We have him sitting in his little bumbo seat for a little bit each day and for the most part he loves it! He has been sleeping a lot better too. The past few nights I have got up around 3am to change his diaper and then I put him right back down and he sleeps until 7ish. Its so nice to get a good nights sleep! We all went to the temple the Friday after Thanksgiving, and Ren and Tad took the boy on a walk around the temple grounds... got some good pictures. Such photogenic boys! He is just so cute I love this baby!

Thanksgiving Day

I LOVE Thanksgiving! I love the excuse to eat all day until your insides feel like they are exploding... and its okay because... its Thanksgiving! I cooked this year at my house and there was 9 big people and 1 little Gavin. We had a lemon rosemary turkey that turned out delish... garlic mashed potatoes & gravy, green beans, sweet potatoes, stuffing, salad, corn, and all kinds of sparkling cider! I made a pumpkin pie for the first time too this year. It was a Paula Deen recipes so you know it was yummy! I got a huge turkey so everyone could take leftovers, and Ren and I made turkey pot pies with our leftovers. So this year its a no brainer, I am sooo grateful for little Gavin. I am grateful for my little family and for a really good husband who loves me no matter how crazy I am. Im grateful for our church and the principles it teaches us. And I am grateful for the testimony I have of the gospel of Jesus Christ and I am grateful for our beautiful country and our freedoms... we really do have so much to be thankful for!

New Moon Premier

Thanks to my sister-in-laws neighbor I was able to go to the midnight showing of New Moon...and let me tell you... it's GOOD! I think its better than the first (better budget) Its funny, I left for the movie when I normally get the most sleep in the night... and then got home when he wakes up at 3! So last night it was my sis-in-law Nellie, my 14 year old niece Maddie, Nellie's neighbor Teresa and myself. Maddie was squealing like a little chipmunk when Edward came out and when Jacob takes off his shirt! But can you tell what team she is on... It was way fun! I totally want to see it again!

Happy Birthday to Ren!

Today is Ren's 25th birthday!!! Last night we went out to Dave and Busters with some friends to celebrate! (for those who dont know, Dave & Busters is like an adult Chuck-e-cheese) We had a lot of fun with all the games! Ren carried little G around the whole night and they were like two pea's in a pod. Drew (a good friend from High School) and his wife Christina were in town so we gotto see them, and we haven't seen them since we went to Germany so that was fun! Now if you know Ren at all you know that Ren LOVES Chinese food. I got him a big big nice rice cooker for his birthday and he was making sticky rice at 9:30 this morning! He said to me "I know Im getting older when appliances excite me!"

So little Gavin is doing well. He is getting bigger and bigger! He's getting chubbier cheeks and rolls on his legs! So cute! He still is really inconsistent with his sleep. Like some nights he will sleep until 5 am wake up and I'll change him and then he will sleep till 7... and then there are other nights where he wakes up every hour or two. Oh, what would it be like top have a dream again? He does have really bad baby acne still, and it kinda is flakey in some spots like eczema. Any tips? I stopped using baby soap on his head when I bathe him, but it's still bad. He has started to smile a little bit. Most of the time its the half asleep smile, but he has started to smile back at me when he is awake. Have I ever mentioned how much he loves his changing table? He is the happiest when he lays on his table. This morning Ren put his crib thingy on there for him to look at... funny huh!

Family moments

So I decided that one of my favorite times of the day (even if I got NO sleep the night before) is in the morning and all 3 of us are snuggling in bed! Most of the time little G is happy and alert right after he eats when he wakes up and its just a real nice feeling to have him snuggle Ren and me in bed. Yesterday for church we all were wearing brown, and not purposfully either! I thought it was a perfect photo opt! The little family in brown. Notice my new boots too! Those were my "thank you for caring my baby for 9 months" present from Ren! I do LOVE shoes!

Happy Halloween!

We had a fun halloween this year! We had some friends over last Thursday and had a barbeque/pumpkin carving night out of our garage. One of our friends got a big enough pumpkin to put little Gavin in! I think he liked it! He wore his little first Halloween outfit for the last time, he has out grown pretty much all his newborn clothes now. On actual Halloween night, we went to some friends house for dinner and then came home to watch scary movies... Gavin was a little froggy. I just put a froggy jammie on him with his froggy hat that my brother gave him! He did look really cute!