Vacation - Day 4

We had a great day! We started the day off pretty early by taking the kids to a local and FREE farmstead. They really enjoyed themselves. Bella got to ride a horse, mine for Gold, and milk a cow. We finished the day off with a little ice cream and headed back for a nap. After nap, we took Bella and Gavin to paint some pottery. Bella is an artist. She's amazing. :) What a well rounded, sweet, beautiful daughter we have.
















Our first night at the hotel was great! Gavin LOVED it! Bella had been to a hotel before and remembered it, but it was Gavin's first time. Here is a video of him loving himself in a mirror.

Vacation - Day 3

Chris decided to get up early and head to work with Ryan to work on some of his computers while Felicia and I stayed with the kids. We decided to take it easy for the first part of the day (it was raining a little too). Chris came back just in time for lunch so we fed the kids and put them down for a nap. Chris agreed to sit with the kids so Felicia could take me to an outlet mall to go shopping. :)))) We took Bella with us for a little girl time, and it was wonderful. I bought the kids each a couple of items of clothing, went to a bookstore, and headed back. We got back and got all of our stuff ready to be loaded in the car. We decided to get a hotel for the last 2 nights so Bella and Gavin could swim...and staying at a hotel can be a fun experience for kids. Before getting to our hotel, we took the kids to Chuck E Cheese's. F-U-N....the kids LOVED it! Bella even made a new friend - it was the cutest thing I have ever seen.

Vacation - Day 2

On our second day of our vacation, Uncle Ryan was off work so we decided to go to a children's mall to play and eat at a restaurant where a train brings your food to your table. It was sooo neat! We stopped off at the crayola store first so the kids could color stuff. Then we went to a scholastic display where Clifford the big red dog was. There was so much interactive stuff for the kids. They LOVED it! We stayed for maybe an hour before going to eat. The food was wonderful. After we ate, we went outside to the fountains so the kids could run through the water. They were completely worn out when we were done. :) It was an awesome day.

Vacation - Day 1

So...I took WAY too many pictures on our vacation. :) I have decided the best way to blog about it is to separate each blog into days.

We got into Olathe, KS at about 10:15 Sunday night. We were so glad to be there. Six hours in a car with 2 small children....whew. lol But...we made it! We visited for a while before going to bed, and woke up early the next morning excited to start our day. First thing on the agenda was to take Bella to Build-a bear to spend her $20 from PawPaw. Aunt Felicia gave her a $10 build-a-bear card too! She was in Heaven. :) She bought a wedding dress, an outfit, a pair of sunglasses, and 2 pairs of shoes for her bear. Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures. She did enjoy herself thoroughly though. After build-a-bear, the kids played in the kid area at the mall and rode the carousel. They loved it! After all that fun, it was lunchtime. We ate in the cafe court and headed back to Aunt Felicia's for naptime. I had the hardest time keeping Gavin awake on the trip back to the house. He was sooo tired!

After nap, we took a walk to the nearby park to let the kids play. The weather was perfect! We stayed until it was time for dinner and headed back. Here are a few pictures of the park.

Bella had a blast!

Gavin picked everything up off the ground and tried handing it to us...

Graham loved the swing! He sat in there for at least 45 minutes of our park time.

Gavin climbed up the slide, of course. haha

This is what he enjoyed doing most.

I will post our "day 2" tomorrow!

The weekend

When my babies are sick, they pretty much get anything they ask for. He had a kitkat...:)

We had a very different weekend. It started off pretty bad, but ended up pretty good. First off, Gavin started running fever Friday morning (which I freaked out over). So...I took him to the Dr. and had him all checked out to make sure there wasn't anything to be concerned about. He checked out perfectly and weighs 24.2 pounds - WOW! The Dr. ended up telling us that he more than likely had the fever virus that was going around. ugh... My poor baby ended up running a 103.5 fever Friday evening so we gave him some medicine and a sponge bath to get it down. He was still pretty sick and ended up throwing up. :( I slept with him in Bella's bed (she was at Aunt Jessica's) until about 4 am and switched with Chris so I could get a couple of hours of sleep. He ended up sweating after that and woke up much much better. He had a couple of bad diapers yesterday (diarrhea), but is wonderful today. I sure hope he stays that way and none of us get anything because.....






WE ARE GOING ON VACATION!!!! :) YAY!


See you all when we get back!

The garage

The garage is slowly but surely becoming a sacred place for us. Daddy likes the garage, and we like daddy. :) Chris is building a plasma cutter machine thingy. I am not really sure what all that is, but maybe...just maybe I can talk him into writing a post one day. He will be glad to tell you all about it. All I know is that he LOVES it...he loves building things and creating things and welding things and wiring things. He is a project doer, and I love him. I think Gavin may love it too. We will see. :)

See the bruise on my sweet girl's forehead?

Gavin has to turn around to get down the steps

But he gets the job done pretty fast. haha

"oooooh"

Wanna know what happened to her head?

Seeing my baby boy with his daddy pulls at my heart strings. I completely melt...

Now...on to Bella's tragic forehead bump. See we have this changing table in Gavin's room which also serves as the playroom. Bella decided to climb on there today, and it pulled over on top of her. I COMPLETELY freaked out! I yelled, "OMG OMG OMG" like 10 times. I yanked her up and made sure she was okay....and...this is what I saw. :(


We removed the changing table from that room...and we let Bella have extra Oreos after supper tonight. She deserves it. :)