King Gavin

Gavin has been officially crowned the king by his cousins! They made him his own special crown and he loves it so much he still wears it! He has such a great time back home for the week.

Santa Was Here!

As suspected...Santa did arrive! He was very happy that Gavin had been a really good boy this year so he brought extra presents. Gavin had a very fun and present-filled holiday. He was a very lucky boy. His favorite gift so far has been his kitchen. He loves that. He loves his power tool workshop as well so they sit side-by-side and he bounces back and forth between them. He also received a trampoline which i'm very excited to get put up. We are going to try to make room for it in the basement walk-out side for the winter. That will be a lot of fun (so long as no adults get on and attempt to jump into the ceiling). The family received a wii and a wii fit pad but we've yet to use it. Hopefully soon we'll get to. We also spent a week back in PA so Gavin was able to get a second visit from Santa at his 'Gungal's' house on top of all his other 'family' gifts. Yesterday when he woke up I asked him what he dreamt about and he said "Santa coming again." ahahahaha...

Christmas Visits!

This weekend we had lots of visitors - my Mom, Dad, niece Sarah, and nephew Jake. We made sure to get outside and play in our knee deep snow. Hard to believe how much snow we had. We could barely get a sled to move in it. The snowdrifts in some places were at least 3 feet deep. But mostly we just pushed our way through a about 14" of snow after our fresh 10" we received. My family liked it since they still have grass showing at their house!

Gavin misses everyone already and they just left!

Busy Days...

Ok... where to start.... Thursday Luca had knee surgery. She is doing well. She has a shaved butt like a lion and has to wear a cone as she eats at her staples (and has successfully chewed 2 of them out already).

Then Friday.. Ryan's work Christmas party was Friday night. We got all dolled up. Had a good time and won the Grand Prize - a wii and wii Fit Pad!! Awesome.

Saturday we got our real tree and decorated that. It turned out to be an all day activity. I haven't a clue how it happened but I ended up with 1300 lights on my tree. It's pretty though -but the fire department might drop in if they happen to drive by. Looks like a small fire in our house. :-)

Gavin also cooked some popcorn on the stove (don't worry... I was right there). He was so proud of it that he took pictures of it.

Lastly... most of you know my fear of spiders. There was one in the house and Gavin and I were home alone. I put my finest parenting skills in gear and I persuaded my son, against his own fear, that he should kill it with a shoe. And he did. Parenting at it's finest. :-)

Slideshow of events at the bottom....

Christmas Cookies

Gavin and I made some Christmas sugar cookies tonight. He had full access to the icing and sprinkles. Some of his cookies give me a toothache just looking at them. But my goodness... aren't they beautiful? :-)

Gumdrop House

We just spent 2 full weeks back home at my parents' house. We did a LOT of different things - train rides, visiting Santa, playland, movies, dinner at the ski resort, etc. etc. etc. I have lots and lots of pictures but this was a nice one. The kids put together a gumdrop house (a/k/a gingerbread house to some). They had a great time and Gavin ate enough icing to give himself a tummy ache.