Fun & Learning the Gavin Way!

Tanner has been having a great time at school and is meeting so many new friends. With him being gone all day, Gavin is a tad bit lonely. He looks for Tanner all day. Today I took Gavin to the new childrens museum that we have here in Greenville. I was thinking that it was a little over priced, $12 a person, but I was wrong. That place is awesome! There is so much to do and everybody is entertained. Here are a few pictures from our outing today :)

There is a section where you can play in the water. Of course our little water man loved this..

There was a room where everything was upside down. This is a picture of the ceiling..

They had these tables where little kids could sit and play in the water without being bothered. Kinda like highchair seats in the table.

Next came the sound proof music room. I think Gavin could have stayed in there all day :)

After the music room we went upstairs to the farm. There was a farm house which Gavin spent the majority of his time in, a treehouse slide, a garden, rocking chairs, chicken coops, and much more! Gavin liked piling the apples in the wheelbarrow

After an afternoon of great fun with even greater friends, he called it quits. What a fabulous day!

My first Day of School!!

Today was my first day of school! I was afraid that it would be boring but I was wrong! It was great!! Last night daddy gave me a blessing and it made me very happy. I went to bed and got up early in the morning. I have to be there at 7:50 am. I was tired and I didn't want to get up.

Mommy took a few pictures of me before I left and daddy came home early so that he could wish me luck and see me go to school.

When I got to school I started to get nervous. I cried a little because my mom told me she could not go to school with me. My teacher gave me hug and sat by me for a little bit and then I was happy again.

I got to color, we learned a new poem, we read Brown Bear, Brown Bear and we had circle time. Recess was my favorite. I played outside on the toys but it was very hot. Mom says that I can wear shorts tomorrow so that I feel colder.

I get to eat lunch at school and when I opened my Spiderman lunch box there was a note with Spiderman on it. It was from my mom.

Mommy picked me up and I was so excited to see my Gavin. I missed him so much! I ran in the house and gave Gavin a hug.

Tomorrow is another school day. Mom says that I will have lots of them. I can't wait!

Odds & Ends

As we have been getting Tanner (and mommy) ready for school we have been doing lots of other things also.

There has been lots of playing:





A very cool science birthday party (Tanner got a science apron, a bag of goodies, and a jar of gummy eyeballs):



And Tanner had his first sleepover last night. We watched our friends kids so that they could go away for their anniversary. I took all the kids to the park and out for Rootbeer floats, they watched 3 movies, ate cookies, and I made pancakes in the morning. We cannot wait for them to come back!!!

This is the dog pile on Tanner:



The dog pile on Ashley:



We have had a great summer! There are all new adventures starting as we work our way into Fall and Winter. Bring it on! :)

5 Months Old!

I feel that I have been running around like a chicken with her head cut off yet I have had nothing to blog about :)

Today our sweet little boy is 5 months old. I cannot believe that the time has flown so fast! This is his newest picture. He had to have a picture that matched his brothers even though the overalls are not the same ones his brothers had on.

When Tanner was 5 months old I took him to get his pictures taken. He spit up all over his shirt so I took it off him. I decided to just get his pictures taken in his overalls and not replace the shirt. I loved them. Then Gavin came along and I found those same overalls in a box of clothes. I thought it would be so cute to have him get his picture taken the same way.

Tanner is on the right, Gavin on the left:

Upholstry Anyone?

I know that I am all into character and distressed stuff, but my piano bench was a little to much distress for my taste:

So I took it upon myself to apholster it today. Now, I have never apholstered anything so this thing has a few/many flaws, but I think it looks much better than before. It is very tiny navy blue, red & tan stripes.

There Is Music In The Air!

I love that my children are growing up and are interested in new adventures. Sending Tanner to school in a few weeks is going to be tough for me. He has been moms little buddy for the last 4 years. Following me everywhere, having conversations that make me laugh so hard I feel that I might do something not so "grownupish". Nice word eh?
Tanner's newest adventure is that of becoming a piano man. He started piano lessons on Thursday and has carried his new piano book around with him everywhere. I have a hard time believing that I have a child old enough to learn an instrument but I am so thrilled that he is interested in doing it.
Here is a picture of his first piano lesson with his sweet teacher Lori. She is in our ward and is so good with him.

After his first lesson he told us that we really needed to get a piano right away. We have been looking for one for quite some time but we were never lucky enough to find one we could afford. Well, I happen to be looking for a twin mattress for Gavin's bed today and thought that I would just check and see if there were any pianos for sale in the paper. Lucky us, we found one!
We bought this piano today for $100..they were just looking to get it out of their way!

It is a Lester piano so it is fairly old. As you can see in the picture it is short and stocky. I love it! It has so much caracter. The piano bench is really scratched up so I think I am going to apholster the top. We are looking forward to many wonderful years with this beauty :)

I WON!

On Sunday I posted about a giveaway at the FHE blog I have a link to on here. Well, I won the picture of the temple!! You can check it out on the side of my blog. YEAH!