Gavin is TWO!

I can't believe my little baby is already two. He is the sweetest little boy in the whole world! He is talking all the time now and it is so fun to hear what he has to say. My favorite phrases are: "Oh Fine!" "Awesome Fire Truck" (more like Fi-dy Truck) and whenever I ask him to stop doing something he just looks at me and smiles and says "oh Allll Right." For his birthday we took him on a real Choo-Choo train ride. At first he was scared, then he had a blast. Waiting to get on the train he stood there laughing and saying "All-Abooaarrd" over and over again. We love him.

Pinnacles

Lowell and I are trying to see all the places that we still want to see before we move . . . one of those places was Pinnacles National Monument. It was beautiful in the winter greens and the talus caves were fun and challenging at the same time. We brought Brie a friend to keep her busy so Lowell and I were climbing and weaving our way through the knee-high water and pitch black slot-canyon-like caves with a kids each on our backs and one 4 year old each . . . SOOOO much fun!

The Kids

All our kids are growing up way too fast!! Jude can sit up all on his own, Gavin is talking up and storm and Brie has hit the wonderful phase of being five! Jude is settling into our family nicely. Gavin loves all things that have motors . . . cars, planes, trains, trucks, boats . . . you get the idea. And Brie while still being every bit the princess she is also our angel who loves to help her brothers and read books to us.

Redwoods National Park

For Christmas we also took a trip with everyone to see the Redwoods ... Soooo amazing! We are so glad we have been able to see so many things with our kids while we have lived here in California.

New Computer = New Posts : )

Now that we have a computer that doesn't sputter and die every time I get on the internet or try and bring up our photos, I'm going to try and post a lot more often. I've missed a lot of things over the past few months, so here is my effort to try and catch back up!

For Christmas we had Jude blessed and had my entire family out to visit plus my Aunt Sandy and Grandma Great. It was SOOO much fun and we are so thankful that they all made the trip out here!