Just what he always wanted...

From the day we told Matthew I was pregnant all he ever wanted was a little brother to play with. Well today it finally happened. Matthew was playing with a toy car set with ramps and elevators and Gabriel crawled right over and joined in the fun. It was brief but beautiful! Watch this. Photos are below the video.

Gabe's new thing...

Is to scare the living daylights out of his poor mommy. He loves to climb and crawl all over things. We caught him doing this...

Lori's gift card

Lori got a gift card from Nana for Christmas and went shopping today. She bought two shirts. One came with a sing-a-long microphone. She also bought sunglasses, HSM snow boots and a gymnastics costume. Here is a video of her with her mic and some photos of her clothes. And in case you're wondering, no she's not a ham at all...hehe

Merry Christmas!

It has been a while since I posted. I didn't take very many photos on Christmas because with 5 kids opening presents it is pretty much a mad house around here. I did however just get a great video of Gabriel climbing out of a new toy he got. He is UNSTOPPABLE!!! Watch this...

Gabriel's First Snow

Yay Gabe!!

It seems every day Gabriel learns something new. Today was no exception. Watch this:

My 200th Post!!!

This is so exciting. It is my 200th blog post. How cool. Anyway, it snowed today. Check this out. It was all melted within an hour of falling but we had fun out in it for a while this morning. Matthew was able to make one tiny snow ball but he dropped it before I could get a photo. Weather.com is calling for a 50% chance of rain/snow tomorrow. As cold as it is today maybe some will stick!

Finally got the tree up

Gabriel helps with Christmas Tree

This is the video of Gabriel helping us with the tree. The significance of the video is that Gabriel put himself into a sitting position. He did this right at the end of the video so we didn't even notice until we watched it back later. Ejnoy!

We met Billy Ray Cyrus today

Some of you may know that the girls have been cast as extras in the upcoming Jackie Chan film called "The Spy Next Door". Well it is also starring Billy Ray Cyrus and he was on set today and more than willing to have photo time with the extras which are mostly kids. We were no exception. My kids were beside themselves! And we're getting paid to do this!!!





This is my friend Tina with him.

Look what I can do...

Well Gabriel is mobile. Not just scotting here or there, completely and utterly mobile. Yesterday he went to the kitchen, to the stairs and even into my office all on his own. Its exciting and scary all at the same time!

Up, up and away

Gabriel LOVED these stools at Nana's house. He got from the floor to this all on his own.

Scarfing up the yarn

Here is the scarf I finished on the way to AZ. I have gotten good enough (still not great) but good enough to knit in the car.







I'm doing a shawl/poncho next.

Catching up

We've been out of town for a week so my blog has gone untouched. I'll spend a little time now adding some stuff for your viewing pleasure. This is a bouncy toy that my sister in law had at her house. We have decided to ask Santa to bring Gabriel one for Christmas. He loved it so much. Watch him go.