Tuesday Nights!

Last night we watched this:

while we ate these:


So in 10 years when we are on The Biggest Loser I hope you will all watch and cheer us on!! :)

Gavin's Haircut

So technically this is Gavin's 2nd haircut, but I forgot to put the battery in my camera when he got his 1st one. I know...I am a blonde. He was so good for his Aunt Lori! Thanks!

Getting ready!

Not so sure about this

Awesome mohawk!

The clippers

All done

Enjoying the Journey

When I was in high school I couldn't wait to start dating. When I started dating I couldn't wait to get married. When I got married I couldn't wait to start a family. When I had Gavin I could hardly wait for him to start doing things. Now that Gavin is doing things I can hardly wait for him to continue to learn and maybe develop a little bit more of an attention span. Lately I have been realizing how I am always looking ahead. I feel like that is a good thing sometimes, but occasionally I feel like I need to start doing more things today, especially with Gavin.

I remember the day I brought Gavin home from the hospital. He was asleep so I told Brandon that I was going to go lay down and to wake me when Gavin woke up. Then I would feed him and change his diaper and he would go back to sleep. Then he would wake and I would feed him and change him and on and on. I remember completely coming unglued and feeling like my life was over. I was never going to be able to go anywhere or do anything fun again. How wrong I was! I quickly realized that Gavin was going to grow and change faster than I could ever imagine. Sometimes I feel like I need to do more with Gavin. Turn the TV off and play and explore and have adventures, but for some reason it is hard to do sometimes. This freezing cold weather doesn't help either!!

Last night Brandon had to work late and so I decided that we (Gavin and me) would journey to the mall. I took him to the little play area and the fountains and he loved it!


It was such a simple thing to do and it made such a difference in our day. Then we have days like today where I am considering putting Gavin on KSL Classifieds. He is in rare form today and I am tired. I am trying so hard to enjoy the journey and not miss out on today, but somedays it is really tough. So my question to you is what do you do on days when you are at the end of your rope? How do you enjoy the journey? What do you do to entertain your kid/s in the winter?

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!