Prayers, please

Please pray for Steve and his family. His dad, Dave, passed away this afternoon. The kids and I will be flying out on Monday to be there with them for the funeral. Dave was a wonderful man, and he will be deeply missed. Thanks for your prayers of comfort.

April 2012

                -We kicked April off by going to a Rapids soccer game on April 1^st. We took the whole family and I had received some tickets thru work to sit in the President’s Suite. It was pretty cool!

                -On the 5^th, Steve and I went to an Avalanche hockey game.

                -On Good Friday, we left for Kearney to celebrate Easter and Gavin’s first birthday! What a fun weekend. His Mickey Mouse party turned out soooo cute. I had a cake shop in Kearney make him a big polka-dot Mickey cake, and a personal giant cupcake just for him. I also had a Mickey pinata, and we did an Easter Egg hunt for all the kids as well. My friend Kristin made a banner. The invites were precious. The whole family had personalized Mickey ears, and then I had Mickey ears for all the guests as well. We served Mickey-shaped macaroni and cheese, hot dog hot dog hot diggity dogs, and Mickey-shaped nuggets for the kids, and hamburgers for the adults. I found all kinds of little Mickey treats and toys for the goody bags, and made the bags myself. Gavin had a personalized Mickey shirt and bib also that he wore. Gavin got TONS of toys and clothes! He loved his cupcake. I only have a few pictures though, as our camera that had all the pictures is now gone. We got Gavin a swingset, some clothes, a ball Octopus game, and some books.

               -We went to church and had an Easter egg hunt with my parents, siblings and niece and nephews. The Easter bunny brought the kids some movies, stuffed animals and of course some candy!

                -The next weekend, Steve’s high school friend Brad came out to stay with us and to be a part of their other friend, Adam’s surprise birthday party. We got a sitter and a hotel room that night, and had fun with the group and stayed out way too late!

                -The following weekend my friend Kristin and her husband were in town, so I got to go have lunch with her and we got our nails done.

                -We attended a Nugget’s game.

March 2012

Happy Labor Day! 

I'm home enjoying this day off with the kids. Steve is at work and I am sick! Let's just say the hands 

-on plans I had for crafts, slip-n-slide, and park, will be postponed til this afternoon....or maybe another day. Paige is having lunch and Gavin is taking a much-needed nap, so I thought I'd tell you about March.

In March we had a few exciting things happen.

                -Gavin started walking!

                -We headed to Kearney for Prom/March Madness/St. Patrick’s Day. Four of Steve’s friends and a couple significant others made the drive from Iowa to Kearney to get together. We had already planned on going since it was my little brother’s last prom, and my little sister’s first prom. So we made a nice weekend out of it. Good times!

                -My friend Megan, her husband Dave and their little girl Ainsly came out to visit some family, and we got to have dinner with them one night. Ainsly and Gavin were so cute!

                -My little brother Nick and his girlfriend Kylee came out to visit one weekend. They had a concert to go to, but we got to see them and Gavin fell in love with Kylee!