WAY BEHIND!!!

Wow, I'm way behind on posting. . . so sorry. Here are few more recent pics. . . .

Pics From our Gatlinburg trip in November. Petting Zoo and Gabe being such a Smiley boy!

Gabe's Halloween Outfit and both Boys at Pumpkin Patch in Oct

Gabe and Aunt Mattie at Thanksgiving

Its not Stampin' but it's Christmas!

I guess in my house we can't just make regular gingerbread men...we have to make gingerbread girls, and pirates, and boys....
Sarah

Gabe has learned to express his disapproval for mommy's camera.

Who knew that one little $7 dinosaur book would make him the happiest boy in the world?

Trying to catch up with pictures. . . this was too cute not to catch. Gabe really got upset that he couldn't have some of brother's icecream cone.

Gentry has started tumbling classes once a week. He absolutely loves his class!

Gabe is now sitting up alone pretty well. He's much happier now that he can see more and is almost crawling. It's hard to believe he's 6 months old.

Only a month late

Finally, here are some pictures from Gentry's birthday party. So sorry they are late!

This is him riding the train around the park where we had the party. He had such a wonderful time.

He had tons of fun swinging and playing with Papaw and all his friends.

He also enjoyed the carousel and roller coaster (more pictures from that later)

Batman came and brought him this batman suit (pajamas). . . he had to strip immediately and put on the new superhero costume.

This was the wonderful cake made by Sugarbakers. They are amazing at what they do! If you are in the Florence/St Florian area give them a try, you will not be sorry!

4 yr and 5 mo

Hard to believe but this weekend Gabe will be 5 months old. He's started on his table food and is a WONDERFUL eater. He doesn't push it back out and hasn't even made a face when trying new foods. He's mastered rolling from front to back to front, and if we put him down on a palette we can't walk away for any amount of time without coming back and him being half-way across the room. We're still not quite sitting on our own yet, but getting close! Enjoy the new pics!

Big brother finally got to go swimming in a "big" pool, and for the first time EVER actually let go of my hand and swam by him self (with life jacket and floaties, of course). I was so proud!

Gentry is still the best big brother I've ever seen. He asks on occasion to hold brother and is always super sweet and makes sure his baby brother (he calls "little buddy") is included in everything.

We are truly blessed!

Few new Pics

I haven't had time to get the birthday pictures uploaded yet, but here's another picture from July 4th week. My youngest sister came over and I couldn't help but get some shots of her and the baby.

July 4th weekend

Hope you all had as wonderful a 4th of July holiday as we did. We ended up staying home all weekend and it was great! I did a little crafting and sewing as well as put together some new information for a Crafter's Cooperative (DUCK SOUP) but other than that we just played around and enjoyed the weekend.

Have you ever tried to explain the 4th of July to a 4 year old? I had the pleasure of that challenge this weekend and it was harder than I imagined. He came away thinking it was the birthday of our house. . . we'll just go with that for now and work on the "country" idea later. . .

my favorite things. . .

I had to share this picture with you all (whom-ever "you all" might be). Gentry's eyes have always captured my soul. Not only because he's my son, but they've always amazed me scientifically also (but that's a long store, for another day). I just thought I'd share this picture with you all . . .

wouldn't you know it. . .

YEAH!! I ordered my camera today. . . after dear hubby (somewhat) repaired the old one last night. . . why, you ask didn't he fix it two months ago? Well he claims that I wouldn't let him, but my selective memory has kicked in and I don't remember telling him NOT to fix it. ANYWHO. . . the new camera is on its way (happy VERY early birthday to me) and we'll keep the old one for spare/extra/who-know's-what.

I did take the old one for a spin tonight. I've been missing having a camera in my hand. Here is on of the ones I took tonight I'll get more up this weekend.

Not many smiles out of the little one now days. He's been teething for almost a month and I realized last week that he's trying to "grow" two teeth at once. But this is his content face and it's one of my most favorite things in the world! enjoy!

Look for new pictures soon! Hubby came home and told me I could order my camera tomorrow! I'm one happy little girl!!!

I posted our family trip to the beach a couple of years ago on sarah's reallifeblog.net "Your Life Your Blog" she is looking for stories to share.

For the Record

So, does he really not look like me at all???

more 3 month pics

More from this weekend. . .

3 Month Pictures

Yep, Gabe is now 3 months old. It's so hard to beleive. But he's growing so fast. Trying to sit up, hold things and doing his best to talk to us. He loves watching big brother play and is never happier than when big brother is talking to him. Here are some new pictures. . . enjoy!

one more

Our sister-friend

This is my babysitter's little girl, whom we have all grown to love as part of our family. She went with us for pictures last week and I wanted to make sure I asked her mommy before posting these pictures, but isn't she a doll?

Update and Pics

Boy, am I behind or what??? Here are some new pics. . . the first is Gentry at Easter. I loved his suit and of course, he was ready for the camera. . . I've got better pics but this is one of my favorite angles of him. . .

This was Gabe the wedding weekend (first of April).

This pic of a happy Gabe was taken by his loving babysitter a couple of weeks ago. I've been so blessed to find such a wonderful caretaker for my children.

This is the newest picture of Gabe. Its hard to tell in this picture but his hair is really dark and getting long. His eyes are also changing, they will definately be dark like his daddy's eyes.

These are some pictures I took of Gentry last week also. My camera is currently on the fritz and I had to borrow a friend's camera. I hope to have my camera fixed or a new camera soon. . . it's killing me not to be able to take weekly pictures of my growing boys.