DO NOT TRY AT HOME....

This is the biggest warning I can give anybody that wants to buy their child a swing set, "PAY SOMEONE TO PUT IT TOGETHER FOR YOU!!!"  It is well worth it!

Luckily I have a "FABULOUS" Father in Law and Brother in Law that came over and helped us put this bad boy together.  My mom kept Gavin and occupied him so we could get it done, otherwise he would have rearranged everything.

It took 2 full days to complete the task at hand.  There was 4 large boxes, all the pieces had to be separated and accounted for.  At least 400 pieces of wood and over 1,000 nuts and bolts.

Baby Jack helping pick out the pieces!

This part only took us 6 tries to get it right!

1,000 nuts and bolts, don't try to count, just take my word on it!

Me, Commander in Chief trying to read off instructions!

Rock wall time!

He made it, I was a little nervous!

Almost done! 

Finally Complete!

End Result!

One Happy Little Boy!

And that is all that matters!

Skating in the Streets

So not really skating in the streets, I just thought it sounded good!  More like skating in the driveway.

Jeremy use to speed skate with his sister when they were kids.  If I can find that picture of them two I will certainly post it, that will be a great laugh!

We want Gavin to experience all of the same activities we loved when we were kids!

Here are some pictures of Jeremy trying to help Gavin skate!

Snow Snow and More Snow

I thought when we moved back home that we would never see snow again.  I was so wrong, it has snowed more here in Beulaville than it ever did living in Asheboro.
I am so excited, I love the snow!  But several of our friends and neighbors told us we brought this snowy weather with us when we moved.  I hope so is all I can say!

Cookies for Santa

For those who know me, you know I don't cook, at all!

But I want to have traditons with Gavin and one of them is making cookies for Santa.

Friday afternoon I got the batter out, added an egg and some melted butter and made the dough.

Gavin picked out his cookie cutter shape and away he went. 

After they baked and cooled, we tested our decorating skills.  I was very pleased with the end result and Gavin had fun, mainly because we made a mess with the flour and he got the eat the icing as he put it on the cookies!

Christmas Decorations

I am so excited to show off my Christmas decorations in our new home. 

We got started a little early this year because we were having all of Jeremy's family over to our home for Thanksgiving.  It was a huge success and everyone had a wonderful time, everyone was laughing and telling stories!

To my blogger friends please post some of your decorations!  I know several of you guys are very creative and have fabulous decorating skills.

Halloween 2010

SO LIFE IS CRAZY, EXCUSE THE LATENESS OF THIS POST!

Gavin wanted to be everything but what I wanted him to be for Halloween.  I hope that I can get away with picking out his costume one more year but I doubt it. 

Gavin was a "Scarecrow", a very cute Scarecrow, might I add!  He of course wanted to be Bumblebee from Transformers or Spiderman, with those little plastic mask that cover your face, YUCK! 

We ended up going over to Gi Gi's house and trick or treating with Gavin's cousins Logan (Batgirl) and Jack (Spider)!  Everyone was super cute and we all had a fun time!

Carving Time...

Since Jeremy will not be back home until Halloween we decided to go ahead and carve our pumpkin. Maybe it won't be completed rotted by Halloween night!

But anyway, about 1 mile from our home is this pumpkin patch that has really big pumpkins. So of course Gavin picked the biggest and frumpiest pumpkin ever (we didn't get it) but we did get one that was perfect, it sat up straight and most important Jeremy could pick it up!

When we got home we got set up to carve our pumpkin. We got our little scoop out and started scooping, there was a lot of "pumpkin yuck" as Gavin called it. He was get a hand full and say this is disgusting, who would have thought my little boy would have said that, I thought we was going to love it. That gooey mess between his fingers!

We had no plan or stencil for carving our pumpkin, I just drew him a face and off Jeremy and Gavin went to carving. YES, I let my child use that little carving knife, NO, I will not be getting mother of the year AGAIN this year!

But we made a really cute pumpkin!