A day in the life...

Woke up this morning at 3:30 am
Laid in bed with Gavin across my face, not joking, until 4:30 am
Woke up for good at 7:30
Made the bed...Gavin destroyed the rest of the bedroom in the process
Cleaned up the rest of the bedroom
Went downstairs for breakfast
Swept up about half of breakfast
Turned on a kickboxing DVD
Burned twice as many calories because Gavin insisted I hold him the entire time
Hopped in the car and took some DVD's back to the library
Got home and got ready while Gavin destroyed the bedroom once again
Walked over to play group
Gavin enjoyed hitting the other children and crying when he didn't get the toy he wanted
Left play group early
Had lunch
Swept up half of lunch
Put Gavin down for a nap
Hopped on the computer

It is only 1:16 and I am exhausted!! My "to do" list consists of cleaning 2 bathrooms, folding laundry, cleaning the kitchen, cleaning the destroyed bedroom again and cleaning out my car that looks like I have been living in it. Oh ya and making dinner and entertaining my child when he wakes up. And I thought the job I had before being a mom was hard! This adorable face...



makes it all worth it though!! Wouldn't trade my days for anything!

Gavin's room

When Brandon and I lived in our apartment I always wanted to paint the walls fun colors. We have now lived in our home for 8 1/2 months and we have yet to paint. So on Friday night as we were driving home from a friends place we (and by we I mean me) decided to paint Gavin's room...the next day. What can I say when I get an idea in my head I have to act on it right then. So here are some before and after pics. We thought about painting the whole room the lighter color, but thought it would be too overwhelming in such a small room.
Before

After


I am also thinking about making something similiar to this to hang on one of the walls with pictures of family. Thoughts?

Obviously it would be in colors that would match his room and maybe be smaller.

Funny?

I just hit my funny bone so hard my entire arm feels like it might explode and there is now a small dent in our bathroom wall. Tell me again why it is called the funny bone. I am about to cry instead...not funny at all if you ask me!

Breakfast with Santa

Our ward had a breakfast with Santa yesterday and it was so fun! Everything was decorated so cute and the food was amazing! We stood in line for a long time to see Santa...in fact we were the last in line. Gavin didn't cry, but seemed a little shell shocked. He did try to pull off his beard too!
To the naughty little boy that kept kicking Gavin...I am pretty sure that Santa is not coming to your house this year! Seriously I was so ticked at this little kid. I don't even know who he belonged to, but I was about ready to kick him back. I guess it was me just being a momma bear protecting my cub! Have you ever done something to a child that is picking on yours? How are you supposed to react to that when the parent of the other child is not around? Probably not kick him back, I guess I will have to work on my reactions! Merry Christmas to everyone!!! Hope you have a fabulous holiday!

5 reasons

My house is a mess:

1. I am too busy blog stalking people to clean.
2. There is another Law and Order:SVU marathon on.
3. I just have to finish one more chapter of my book.
4. Facebook...need I say more?
5. Gavin is making messes as fast as I can clean them up!

My growing boy!

Gavin turned 1 on Thanksgiving!! Holy cow...where did the time go? We had a fun family party that night with presents and cake. He wasn't quite sure what to think of all the attention being on him, but he enjoyed watching all his cousins play and run around. He just wants to be one of the big boys. I lost the usb cord for my camera but here are a couple of pics from the party! Thanks Ang...I love them!

Digging in to his birthday cake!

The cousins in their Christmas jammies...a little early! In April this family will finally get a little girl and who knows what we will do with her!! She will be so spoiled!

Dating

Yep that's right...I titled this post dating. Do you ever feel like you are back in the dating world when you are trying to make new couple friends? This last Friday our little family walked up to a park that is by our home. There was another little family there with a 14 month old boy that Gavin thought was really cool. (He kept trying to poke his eye out so I figure that is a good sign.)
Anyway, Brandon and the other dad hit it off and were having some great sports conversations while the other mom and I were talking about kids, church callings, etc. Then it was time to leave...so we just left! I didn't want to be all awkward and say, "Sooo we should do this again sometime. I had a fun time. Can I call you?" Ya know what I mean!! How often is it that you find a couple that your hubby and you both get along with?!? And when you do what are you supposed to do? Ask for their number? Tell them to meet back here same time next week? Awkward!! So, how do you make new couple friends? And because my almost one year old is so darling I thought I better post a more recent pic of him too! Isn't he so handsome!!!