My Montage 12/25/09 at OneTrueMedia.com

Here is Gavin first getting up and seeing what Santa brought him. There will be a lot more pictures to follow!

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Cookies for Santa, In action!

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Cookies for Santa

It's Christmas Eve and we are getting ready for Santa. We baked some cookies and made some icing. We got Gavin at the table and the let fun begin! This will definitely be a tradition that we will do every year, we had so much fun.

Real Santa

We took Gavin to see a "Real Santa" and what I mean by real is that he has a real beard. Gavin walked right up to him but as soon as Santa spoke Gavin took off running. And my child is a very fast runner, I had to literally sprint to catch up with him. But we walked back to him and he sat with Santa just long enough to get a picture.

Disney on Ice

Gavin's Gi-Gi and I took him Saturday to see Disney on Ice. He loved it, well certain parts of it. The first half was the big animated characters with exciting and loud music, this is what a little boy that is 2 years old likes. Then there was intermission, he started to get a little wormy, but the cotton candy guy came around and that got him still. But I pulled out $5, thinking surely that will cover it, nope try $10. But I must tell you that it did come with a crown that had Mickey Mouse ears on it. The show started back up and and then it was the all princess stories, my little boy, the one that is all boy proceed to tell me that he had "poop". He was not a fan of the princesses but that is to be expected from a little boy. But over all he did really good, I think next time we plan a show it will have to be one theme, like "Nemo on Ice", that was one on his favorite parts of the show besides Mickey, of course.

Santa's Elf

If you have a small child you have got to get one, "Christopher Pop-In-Kins". This is the cutest thing I have ever seem and it is something that is fun for the whole family. So the store goes:
Christopher is one of Santa's elfs that helps watch over the children. You bring him out after Thanksgiving and read the book to the children.
Santa sprinkles magic dust on Christopher and he moves around the house so he can keep an eye on your children. But of course this really doesn't happen so you have to move the elf up high because if the children touch him he looses his magical powers. So I told Gavin that I went and saw Santa and he gave me Christopher the elf and sprinkled the magic dust on him. He was so excited and I am too!
Hopefully this will help keep our children doing good things at least for one month.
But I got Gavin's at Ana Banana's in Goldsboro, NC. But there is also a website "Christopher Pop-In-Kins"!

Christmas Tree Decorating

Tonight we got home, put the Christmas tree up and started the decorating. But the history of the ornaments goes back to when we first got married. We have made it a point to get a personalized ornament every year from wherever we go on vacation that year. Normally we go to the mountains but this year we went to Myrtle Beach, so our ornament this year is Santa on the beach. Gavin got to help with some of the ornaments, I will have to make sure that our ornaments are shatter proof from now on. Luckily we only broke one and that was my fault.

Riding in the Fire Truck

Gavin got to take his first ride in fire truck and not just any fire truck and not with just anyone. He got a very special ride from the fire chief himself, Lynn Everett and on North Lenoir Tanker 1. He was so excited and couldn't stop saying fire truck the rest of the day. Lynn put him in the drivers seat so he could blow the air horn and make all the loud noises that fire trucks make.


This was one happy little boy, thank you so much Lynn!

Fun Time Finally

Ever since Jeremy got his boat, he has been dying to take it out. But we have either been too busy or just bad weather. Well Sunday was beautiful, 77 degrees and not a cloud in the sky, so after church we packed up and headed to the lake. Gavin was so excited, Jeremy couldn't stop smiling, and I was just praying that we could unload and load the boat safely. Anyone that has a boat or has been on a boat knows what I am talking about. We did really good, we did it safely and no yelling at each other. Once we got on the water, we had an amazing time. Gavin loved to walk around the boat and just watch the water go by. I can't wait until summer comes back around so we can enjoy it more.

Trick or Treating

Gavin is the cutest fisherman I have ever laid my eyes on. I know, it's kind of a random costume but I wanted him to be completely different from everyone. I had to change some things around when the costume came in, because it was very cheaply made. But as you can see the changes turned out great.

He had the best time that entire day. Before we went trick or treating we had some friends invite us over for a hay ride and Gavin loved it, so much that he rode twice. And these were not short rides they lasted about 15 minutes, but he enjoyed every minute and that's all that mattered.

Then it started to get a little dusky which meant it was time. Time to go TRICK OR TREATING or "TREAT" as Gavin said. We were in Kinston this weekend so we went "treating" with Logan, Gavin's cousin. We started off walking to a few houses but with Gavin's pace we would have been out there until midnight. So Aunt Christie and GiGi got the truck and off we went. We were then able to cover a lot of ground, in fact I think we went to about 30 houses. WOW, right!

But Gavin found out real quick that he had to say trick or treat, which he shorted to "treat" and that he needed his bucket. So every time we got to the next house he would ask for his bucket, we would walk up to the house and he would knock on the door, regardless of whether or not they were outside already. And it took him a couple of houses to realize that we didn't go into their house when they opened the door. Too funny! By the end of the night we were all exhausted and it was only 8 o'clock.

My Handy-Man

Gavin has turned into such a little handy man. The knob came off GiGi's end table and Gavin got the screw driver and did his best to put it back on. He's a little independent so he wanted to do it his self but after 30 minutes of trying he finally gave up and asked for help.

Sweet Potato Festival

GiGi and I took Gavin to the Sweet Potato Festival in Snow Hill Saturday morning. It was a little rainy but we made a morning out of it. Gavin loves the blow up slides and jumpee things and it took everything we had to get him away from these things. But we found a booth that had freshly cooked sweet potato fries, man they were so good and Gavin thought so too! We also found some sweet potatoes that had faces painted on them and could not pass up a picture opt.

I finally caved in!

For the 9 years that I have known my husband, he has wanted to get a boat. Well, I finally caved in and we got a boat. I think Gavin pushed me over the edge because everytime we passed a boat on the road or one came across the TV, all I heard was "momma boat, boat momma"! I think Jeremy had a little bit to do with that, he kows that I can not tell Gavin no.