It's been a while...WARNING this is long!

Well, it's been way too long since I posted anything and I'm becoming overwhelmed with pictures! Here's an update in pictures since May...Brooklyn in her dance recital costume with her cousin Emily. She loves dance and does pretty good.
I had to document the girl who refuses to take a nap actually getting caught falling asleep! We were looking all over for her and finally found her here. Jaxon had his last field trip of Kindergarten and they went to the zoo. Jaxon up to bat at his t-ball game. The beginning of summer... Gabe loves to play in the water! He even took time to pose for the camera. Speaking of posing...I LOVE this swim suit on her...
Again, speaking of posing..Gabe was potty trained this summer. YAY!
He did NOT want this picture..but I had to get a shot of his chubby little legs in his "underwears" as he calls them. We went on our annual trip to Heise Hot Springs. Our friends went with us for the first few days and then our family joined us for the last two. It was a lot of fun! Here we are fishing... One of the days we drove over to Bear World. I've always wanted to go there and it was pretty fun. We definitely saw a lot of bears! My three little bears... They had a fun petting zoo there and the kids loved it... Gabe really liked it until this happened...

What it didn't show was how he turned and fell in the big mud puddle behind him. It was so sad yet so funny at the same time!

The train was Brooklyn and Gabe's favorite ride. Jaxon loved the roller coaster.

We had a lot of fun!

Gabe is 2!!

Our little "Gabers" is two already! I can't believe how fast time flies. Gabe turned 2 on April 10th. We had a family birthday party on his birthday and the next day had an extended family party for some of his cousins. Gabe loves trucks and tractors so we had a construction birthday party.
He was so excited that the kids were going to sing "Happy Birthday" to him...but it had to be the "Cha, Cha, Cha" version.

For his construction/tractor party we played some truck relay games,

Opened presents...

And had some cake and ice cream...

He had a fun time.

Gabe is such a sweet boy and we're so glad that he's a part of our family!

He loves:
* To laugh and be silly

* To play ANYTHING with his older siblings

* His blanket

* His Mommy and Daddy

* Being outside

* Trucks, tractors, and cars,

* Animals

* Snacks

Our little Gabers is getting pretty independent and now says, 'Do it myself' to EVERYTHING! Although he's getting more independent he still loves to be cuddly and will let you hold him. He's been our ONLY child that will fall asleep while you're holding them and now that we have 1:00 church, that works out pretty good!

I took him to the doctor today (a little late) and here are his stats:

Height: 35.5 inches........75 percentile

Weight: 33 pounds........95 percentile :)

Head: 19.5 inches.......70 percentile

I just barely put together some scrapbook pages of his birth on Smilebox....doesn't seem that long ago.

We love you Gabe!!

This free digital scrapbooking design personalized with Smilebox

February, March, and a little April...

Wow! Time has really been flying by without me documenting anything! My birthday was at the end of January and Jameson did a great job of making it special as usual. He surprised me with a new kitchen table with chairs that match our bar stools! Here I am posing with my cake..Jaxon and Brooklyn completed 2 weeks worth of swimming lessons. Brooklyn pretty much ended up getting a private lesson since her class started with 3 girls counting her and ended with just her. They both really liked it and they both passed! Jaxon loved the goggles..For school Jaxon got to dress up as one of his favorite characters from a book. He loves all of the "Froggy" books, so this is what we came up with...I decided to surprise the kids with Disney on Ice tickets-the Disney Princess one that Brooklyn and I went to last year was so great that I wanted Jaxon to be able to see it. This one was Disney Pixar's Cars along with Tinkerbell and some others. Dad stayed home with Gabe and I took Jaxon and Brooklyn. We had fun and afterwards went for ice cream. Here we are getting ready to go...And here they are watching...The hats came "free" with the cotton candy...Since Santa gave us snowboarding lessons, we've been going up to Park City a lot and it has been fun! I fell really hard on my BEHIND/LEG after only going a few times and I think that it ruined me. I was getting good too!! I now am MUCH MORE CAUTIOUS and Jameson is better than me...dANG!! Just kidding..I'm sure he would be anyway but that fall definitely held me back. It has been a great activity for us to do together but mostly great for Jameson and Jaxon to do together. Every year around this time we start searching KSL classifieds for good deals on trailers. We have thought about upgrading from our little tent trailer since when we bought it we had 1 kid and now we have 3. We found a trailer on KSL that had been listed for a while and didn't seem to have any "bites" so we called and went and looked at it and LOVED it. We told them that we'd think about it and called them back that night and they said they'd already sold it!! I was devastated!! We had looked at other trailers but I just wanted this trailer to be "THE ONE" and was sad that we'd let it slip away. About 10 minutes after Jameson got off the phone with the owner they called us back to tell us that they were going to honor our offer before the other one since his wife had spoke to us first and told us she'd hold it for us until the end of the day. YAY!! We were sad to say goodbye to our little tent trailer and all of the fun memories but we're glad that we'll still see it because Jameson's brother Pace and his wife Jan bought it. We're excited for them to have a trailer and already have some camping trips in the works. Goodbye little trailer you've been so fun... Hello new trailer!!!
Yes, this is my FAVORITE feature!! Mid-March we hosted the main meal of a progressive dinner at our house with our friends. It was fun!! Jameson's Birthday was April 2nd and the kids were very excited to give him his presents. He went snowboarding that morning with Jaxon because that was what he said would be the most fun to do on his birthday. Can you tell these kids love their dad? The kids were very excited for Easter (as so was I-my favorite holiday!) . We made treats... And decorated eggs.
Happy Easter!

The kids had fun Easter morning playing with their Zhu-zhu pets and other little treats they got from the Easter Bunny. After conference we went over to Grandma and Grandpa Frew's house for dinner. The kids got to have 2 Easter egg hunts: one with Grandma and Grandpa and one with Great Grandma and Great Grandpa. We all had a fun time!!