Kyson's Blessing

Casey gave Kyson a beautiful blessing today at church. After, we had both our families over for breakfast (Casey's family) and lunch (my family). We were really worried about the weather, because our place is so small, I didn't want everyone crammed into the house. But the weather was great, and it was nice to sit out and enjoy it.

My mom knit Kyson's blessing outfit. Kylie pushing Gavin

Kylie looked so adorable in her pretty dress and curly hair.

Great-grandma Spence holding Kyson.Grandma Deana holding Kyson.

Gavin is such a good eater. I fed him breakfast before church, then he had breakfast when Casey's family came over, and then he insisted on eating lunch a little while later.

Alicia holding Kyson...she is expecting her own little bean in October

Our yard

When we bought our house, we had to chose between the house with the big backyard, little front yard, or the house with the big front yard, and little backyard with 2 big trees. We took the one with the trees. But over the last couple of years, because of all the shade in the backyard, what little grass we had, was getting thinner and thinner. Last year we tried to plant shade grass, but that didn't go so well, so this year we took most of it out and landscaped it. We wanted it done by Kyson's baby blessing, so every nice day we had, we tried to work on the yard. Casey was amazing and did pretty much all of it, usually while he was tending our 2 boys while I was at work. We just need to replant some grass and make a sandbox!

My amazing husband finally relaxing.

Tulip Festival

We enoyed the beautiful weather and went to Thanksgiving Point to see the tulips. They were so pretty!


Camille with her nephews.

Gavin

Gavin just had his 2 year check-up. He is a little shorty at 29 inches (less then 5 percent) and is 24 lbs (8 percentile). Here are some things about Gavin:

-loves to play with his cars
-gets excited when he sees trucks (gucks)
-we live kind of close to a train, so we can faintly hear it when it comes by. Whenever he hears it, he always goes "choo choo"
-is finally enjoying books
-loves to play outside. He can spend hours in the backyard.
-LOVES his cousin Braxton. He asks me many times a day where Braxt is.
-loves to hold his little brother
-understands a lot of words, and says a lot of words, even though it isn't very clear
-takes a 3 hour nap every day, and sleeps 12 hours a night (if only Kyson can do the same!)
This age is so much fun. I do know why they call it the "terrible two's" though! We sure love this funny boy!

Gavin's New Scooter

Gavin got this scooter from Grandpa Bill and Grandma Deana for his birthday. I thought it would take him a little while to learn how to use it, but he caught on fast. He just needs to learn how to steer now. Thanks Grandpa and Grandma!

Kyson is chillin' as he watches his brother do the big boy stuff.

Kyson was only calm when he was holding my finger.

More Kyson smiles

It melts my heart every time this little boy smiles.

2 Parties for a 2 Year Old Boy!

Gavin turned 2 on Friday! He had fun celebrating it with two parties. On Friday we had Casey's parent's over for dinner, and Saterday we had my family over for dinner. It was a lot of fun with....

Lots of presents including: basketball hoop and tools from mom and dad, remote control car from Grandma Barbara and Grandpa Floyd, Radio Flyer Scooter from Grandma Deana and Grandpa Bill and lots of cars and trucks from his cousins Braxton, Damon and Kylie.

And, of course the cake! He knew just what to do!

He had to clap after he blew out the candles.

Happy Birthday Gav! We love you!

Here are a couple short videos of his big day. The second video he tells us how old he is. It is pretty cute.

Easter Weekend

I love Easter. We had a great Easter weekend, doing all the fun Easter stuff. It is great being with family, seeing my son's face light up when he opens an egg filled with candy, and remembering the true meaning as we think of Christ and his great sacrifice and wonderful resurrection.

We colored eggs with Autumn, Doug and Braxton. Gavin was a little too hands on, and wanted to do it himself, but the eggs turned out great, and we had no spills!

On Saturday morning we got wet in the rain as we went to the Easter egg hunt at a park near our house. It was crazy! They let parent's help, which is a joke, because all you saw was a sea of parent's out there trying to get as much candy as they can. Poor little Gavin and Braxton ended up with a few pieces of candy, so we went back to my house and did a little Easter egg hunt there. They got much more candy and had fun. That was all Braxton could talk about was the Easter egg hunt at Brynnie's house.

Later we went to Casey's Aunt's house for the annual Easter party. Gavin is a pro at finding candy and eggs. He knew just what to do! He got quite the bag full!

On Easter morning we had a little visitor visit our house. We were so sick of Gavin eating candy and making a mess, we were glad the Easter Bunny only filled his eggs with cars. He loves playing with his cars.

See Casey! He DOES smile!

Casey didn't believe me that Kyson smiles...so here is the proof!