Gavin's 5th Birthday

This year we decided Gavin was old enough to invite friends and his preschool class along with his family to his birthday party.  He helped us decide on a swim party which turned out to be a great decision.  He had a wonderful time, ate lots of cake and had a balloon artist even make him a Minion.  Happy Birthday Gavin, we are so proud of you!  Enjoy the pictures....

Playing with Costumes

We have a storage space under our stairs in the basement that wasn't very useful.  We decided to turn that area into a dress-up place for the boys.  They love to wear costumes so it was a perfect fit.  The only thing I didn't expect was that they would take all the costumes down in a matter of minutes and leave them all over the floor.  We have some things to work on in the clean-up department.

Sesame Street Live

We took the boys to see Sesame Street Live in Cincinnati.  We made it an overnight trip complete with a hotel with a pool and some sightseeing around the city.  They had a great time minus no sleep for anyone with all of us in the same hotel room with 2 beds.  It was worth it to see how excited they were for the show.

We went to the Newport Aquarium and within the first couple of minutes, Gavin fell and cut up his knee.  We didn't have anything to stop the bleeding but a diaper so he wore that on his leg the entire time.  You have to love family memories!

The boys tried to trick us into believing that they would actually sleep beside each other.

Grant was exhausted after the show and fell asleep as soon as we got in the car.

Gavin turns 4!

We decided to celebrate both Gavin and (our niece) Olivia's birthdays together this year.  Gavin turned 4 on December 2 and Olivia turned 6 on January 4.  We decided to go with an Outer Space theme.  Hannah, Lauren, Grant and Evelyn all wore matching astronaut pj's and Gavin and Olivia wore bright orange space suits.  We turned the basement into a space adventure with the bounce house turned into a spaceship.  We ended the party with a pinata.  The kids had a blast.  Happy birthday Olivia and Gavin!