To My Love...

Gavin,
I'm so glad our life isn't about perfection. Instead, we find happiness in everyday moments and real satisfaction in our home, our love and our family. Sometimes life can get a little messy and a little crazy around the edges. But that's okay. It's still wonderful... and there no one I would rather be sharing it with than you... AMAZING YOU!
I love you more the words!
xoxoxo
Lindsay

Happy Anniversary Honey!

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I know of 2 other anniversary's and a few birthdays that are today!

What a great day!

And to stick to the day...
here are 13 reasons why I love this man:
1. his smile- not the one he fakes in pictures, but the one that is natural and happens daily when he looks at his life and likes what he sees!
2. his laugh... it is contagious, silly, sometimes sounds like a hyena (hahaha) but over all so great to hear!
3. his knowledge- talk about a jack of all trades! He can fix anything, grill like a master, plant anything and at least keep it a live for a few weeks (heehee)
4. he cooks.... No joke. The man is an amazing cook. He loves to look in recipe books and tweak them into his own masterpiece... good thing because I suck at cooking!
5. he plays- he can build the best lego towers, sculpt amazing play-doh art, make the best car, truck and airplane sounds and cracks Travis up with his ability to do anything with a bouncy ball!
6. he sings... not very well i might add, but he will belt it out anytime he knows the song playing. I love it! (Except Primus!!!!)
7. he watches tv- funny topic, but I have to add it becasue he will sit and watch all my silly girly reality shows and complain a little (and yes I get worn out with the complaining) but he will still suffer through the entire program with me!
8. he helps... I can tell you all that I just started asking for help and not expecting it to come naturally. He does a great job helping with whatever is next on my list and that is a wonderful trait!
9. he accepts- he has accepted all my crazy quirks and though they all probably drive him batty, he still loves me for me!
10. he is a dad... and an amazing one at that! Travis gets so excited when Daddy gets home! Gavin knows all the fun things to do and toys to play with, he also knows just how to distract him from a boo-boo and to calm him down when he doesnt want to put his clothes on. He is the best bed jumper referee and gets Trav just enough freedom with a wonderful watchful eye!
11. he smells- not bad HAHAHA, he has a certain smell. It is wonderful!
12. he sleeps... like a log, not even the house alarm will wake him up. But wathing him sleep is wonderful and so peaceful, it is like you see the inoccence of him when he was a child himself.
13. he lives- daily for this family! Without a complaint he works hard to provide for his family and allows Travis and I to live a wonderful life.

Love You Gavie!

Home Again... Giggity Gig!

We are back from an awesome weekend for all 3 of us!
We left at about noon on Friday and headed to Austin to drop Travis off with my in-laws!
We stayed for a bit and played until Travis got all involved with Nana and then we left!
While we were there we all made chalk outlines of each other....

Here is Daddy!

Here is Mommy!

Here is Travie!

Then Gavin and I left without one tear (THANKS GOODNESS) from Travis and headed to San Antonio. About an hour and a half drive from Gavin's parents house.

When we got to the hotel we were surprised to see a yummy plate of chocolate covered strawberries and a bottole of wine waiting for us with a note from the lady Gavin had spoken too about our trip.
How wonderfully nice!

The night we arrived we went to dinner at the restaurant in the hotel we were staying at. It was called Citrus and was UPPER FANCY!
It was a 3 or 4 course meal with items on the menu I could not even pronounce!
HAHAHAHA!

This is us at the restaurant... I look like a deer in headlights!

Saturday we got up, had an awesome breakfast and headed to Sea World!
BEST PANCAKES I HAVE EVER HAD!
We waited in line to get in for what seemed like an entire day. It was 100 degrees outside and super sunny... but we managed to survive and still have a wonderful time!
This was the water skiing and boat show...
They did so amazing stuff on that water!
Then we headed over to see Shamu!
I was in AHHHH of these whales. I can not believe you can train and animal that large! I was floored at the entire show, I do not think I blinked once!
I want to be a whale trainer now... LOL!

Then we headed over to the Beluga Whale show. It was super cool because the trainers and other performers did some amazing stunts with and without the animals!

After we sweat about 10 lbs off at that show we walked around got some yummy iced drinks and headed to the Seal and Sea lion area!

Their show was super cool, it was a story about fish getting stolen and trying to find who did it...

The seals are pretty awesome at performing! I was so impressed! And look at the big guy in the middle, doesnt he look like a sweet potato? LOL!

About the time that show was over a nasty storm had started blowing in... It was nice cause the weather dropped about 10-15 degrees! We headed over to the Shark Tank area and watched the diver feed the tropical fish and listened to a few minutes of info about the fishies... it was not as cool as Shamu for sure!


We headed back to our hotel trying to beat the storm and got showered and ready for the evening! We then headed out to the river walk and fought the heard of cattle (IT WAS PACKED) to get to the resturant we were eating at. Rio Rio it was called and it was huge. There were patios and rooms everywhere connected to this place. We wanted to eat outside becasue we were told there would be nice music... HA, all the heard was the booty shaking stuff from the club next door. Not to back, but singing "baby Got Back" when we were suppose to be toasting our ritas to a mariachi band was a little abnormal! Oh, well it was a great rita and good food!

We headed back to the hotel (the street route) and decided to take the night and vege out since we were going to have a long Sunday.
We sat and talked on our super cool patio and watched tv and crashed.

Over all it was a WONDERFUL trip!
Gavin and I had a great time even though we didnt stay out to all hours of the night parting, we did just what we wanted and that was to relax together!
Travis was spoiled rotten at Nana and Papas house.. pictures will come soon!

I can not wait to take Travis back to Sea World when he gets a bit older....
Hope you all had a great weekend!

Where have you been?

Who me?

Yes, you!

Oh right, well let me tell yah!

Hi there!
Its been a while since I have really been into blogging... I have been so busy with a ton of wonderful new customers and then training for Strollerfit... I have just not had time to write for real!
I went through a funk after the holidays when I really did not want to have anything to do with blogging anymore, but i quickly changed my mind because I started really missing some of my blogging buds! I am the worst at leaving comments but trust me girls, I read about ya every day or at least check in and see if there is anything new to read :)
Gavin and I have been renovating our house... not destructively but moving rooms around, furniture ect... Sheesh we are busy!
So, in the beginning the dining room was going to be made into Gavin's office , we were going to build a wall and everything. Then we decided to move the playroom upstairs on the game room, and Travis' room up also and then make Gavin's office in the playroom, Travis' room into the guest... WOW, confusing? So, our house looks like a cluster of junk... ARGH!
We have most of it finished, but are waiting to move Trav's room because we want to paint and are getting new carpet (THANK THE LORD!) That will be FUN!
The best part is I get to decorate Travis' new room! We are doing the vintage airplanes from Pottery Barn. It is all on clearance (PERFECT TIMING!) I am going to paint a mural on the wall and just make it all fun and boyish! I am still unsure about moving him into a big bed, I think he will prob. be all over the house if we do that! NOT GOOD!
I am going to have to post on Mamavice about a good age to switch the kiddos to a big bed!
Stay tuned for that one!
Other then that, my new header illustration is almost finished then I will be making myself a new blog design! SO FUN! It is weird having someone else make an illustration for you, but she is excellent so I am pumped! YAY! I have to get rid of this Christmas stuff!
Ok, off to real life!
Many hugs!

Transformers the Movie!

I am not really a movie person, I have always wanted to be but I just do not have the time or the attention span to watch a full movie! I usually consider a movie a cat nap! Last night some friends came over and we watched Transformers! When I was little I had a few transformers and they would contently live and play with my barbies, co-habitat I should say!! I had heard many good things about this movie so Gavin picked it up and we watched... I was at the edge of my seat! Of course we had 2 snoozers but I am NOT one of them! I loved it! I could not get over the graphics from when the robots were going through the city, you could barley tell that it was a graphic and not a real creature! There were a ton of story lines but I got it, Gavin didn't at all... he gave up on the movie half way through! I feel like such an 80's toy geek now after living the transformers so much! I would suggest it to anyone! It is worth paying the Blockbuster fee!

If I were an Autobot I would totally go after Optimus Prime.... woohoo he is a HOT transformer!
HAHAHAAAAA

Surpirse...

You are on Candid Camera!

Hahaha, that is what I was waiting to happen to me today!

It all started when My hubs walked out of the closet with a brown striped shirt on and dark Navy pants that almost looked black... I giggled a little and helped him make a better choice. Then he was so kind to help me get Trav ready this morning, it is so funny the different styles we have. Gav picked out a pair of khakis that were to small and tapered legs that were a hand-me-down from a friend and a shirt that I swear looks like something Gavin would wear.. also a hand-me- down.
No Biggy, right? HA! Well the pants made him look bow legged and then Gav put his shoes on but not all the way on his heels, so when he walked in to see me he looked a little funny.
Can you imagine a bow legged little boy with shoes both tilted out to either side.. HA!
Needless to say the kiddo was changed immediately!
LOVE YOU BABE!
Then we went to Strollerfit and that was fun as usual but we had an instructors meeting afterwards. Of course Travis was antsy, I half way expected him to be. But on top of the wiggles he pooped and it smelled AWFUL! So bad that my friend sitting next to me kept smelling her daughter to make sure it wasnt her. EWWW!
I had a babysitter coming this morning to watch Trav so i could go pay a speeding ticket, YES a ticket. GO me... Lead food Lindsay!
I didn't not realize that I would be so much later then she was getting to my house, I felt awful and I couldn't get my phone to work in the mall so I could not call and tell her. When we left the meeting T and I high tailed it out of there... and headed home. You know when you are in a hurry you always attract the slow people. Like there is a magnet in the front of your car that attracts all the Grandfather Christmas' that drive when they shouldn't!
Yep, that happened to me. I swear my 10 minute drive home took 2 hours! HA, not really but damn I was on the edge of my seat.
We finally get there and my poor babysitter had been watching a movie in her car and I am sure was super annoyed with me... but she was a doll and never showed it at all!
I got ready and left to go pay my "I swear officer I wasn't going that fast" speeding ticket and all was fine until I got in the court house, first in line of 5-6 people all looking the way I did, with the "I do not deserve this crap" face on! I had to ditch my awesome spot in line and go get my damn insurance card out of my car. When I got back there were 2 more people and I had to wait again... Doesn't that suck! Argh! After the blah blah court experience I went across the street and treated myself to an eyebrow wax.. YAY! Then I wanted a Diet Dr. Pepper... being on South Beach I get 2 caffiene drinks a day, and I wanted one ASAP! I drove through the Pizza Hut/Taco Bell line and ordered my drink and was so excited to get it... I had a sip as I was making a U turn to head home and realized it was Root Beer... I HATE ROOT BEER! I think it tastes like Pepto Bismol. YUK!
Plus I was not going to ruin my calories on that junk! ARGH!
At this time I decided that I just needed to make it known to the people behind the scenes that they needed to go ahead and come out and surprise me...
I was laughing at myself as I drove home when I had the thought that I was on candid camera!

SURPRISE!

Ha, never happened!

I am not at home, blogging about my crazy morning and still laughing at myself!
Sheesh!

1 Pumpkin Patch + 1 Neighborhood Party=

A ton of fun stories and GREAT pictures!

My cousin and her 2 boys (4 & 2 1/2) came in yesterday for the weekend... We had a weekend planned of fun things to do, so this morning when Travis woke up with a cold we still went on about our business... so please ignore the snot in all the pics, LOL!
This morning we loaded everyone up and went to this awesome pumpkin patch about 20 minutes from where we live. Then after lunch, naps and snacks we all went to my parents house and went to their neighborhood festival that was at a local farm in their neighborhood...

So today, Travis got to feed and pet cows, horses, longhorns, goats and sheep... He loved it!
He also got head butted by a 6 month old cow, but turned right around and gave him a great big forehead kiss...

Trav and his cousins all had a blast climbing on pumpkins, tractors, and hay... plus going for a hay ride was a great time also! It was the LONNNNNGEST hay ride of my dang life. IKKY!

All the boys followed Gavin around the pumpkin patch on the look out for the best pumpkin ever...
I am unsure if they ever found it but at one point Gavin had a huge stack on multi-sized pumpkins all in his lap.Of course there was some special Gigi & Paps time! All the boys are in love with Gigi and Paps and since Grandparents know the most fun things to do, all the boys got to fish for rocks in the swimming pool! :)

Then baby Picasso painted his daddy a beautiful pumpkin! Look how serious he is about this project! He did a great job too! I was shocked!

The favorite part of my day was seeing Travis' eyes light up when he got to be face to face with these enormous animals! He adores his cousins and had the best time playing with them!
I never thought that it would be so fun to experience things like this when you had a child... the wonder and amazement in their eyes is wonderful!

If you want to check out the other pics from today please check out my drop shots:
My DropShots
They uploaded to Friday October 19th & Saturday October 20th...

Love!

This is love!

Sometimes you just have to post a picture to make you smile!

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This weekend the 3 of us went to Austin to visit Gavin's parents... Nana & Papa!

Papa got transfered to Austin earlier this year and they have both been down there since the end of last school year. At the end of July they bought a house... with an amazing yard in a wonderful area and neighborhood! It is kinda like the country, but not really... there are HUGE trees, deer that wander around, not to many stores or restaurants. It is quiet, simple and gorgeous!
Their house is perfect... but the best part is their land! The back yard has TONS and I am not kidding at all... TONS of trees! Papa already hung a swing for Travis and it racked up a few miles this weekend!

We had a fun and simple weekend! Travis, Nana and I got lost walking through the neighborhood... I would guess about 2 1/2-3 miles worth of lost! There is a small plane airport (for personal planes) in their neighborhood.. Travis was in HEAVEN looking at all the planes and he even got lucky and saw one take off from about 100 yards away! He was pointing and screaming airplane (sounds more like air-pane... no L) The houses near by were super cool.. they had hangars as garages... I have never seen this before...
of course I took a picture of one of the houses!
I couldnt get over how silly it looked with this extra large garage but the house looked perfectly normal.
Being outside was rough.. Austin has more things I am allergic to. Especially in their area.
I think I sneezed well over 1000 times this weekend.
Travis LOVED everything about this weekend! He got to play with some of his Dada's old toys, and cars.. and even hung out with a little superman figurine for a while.

He also found the alarm clock in Papa & Nana's room... clicked it on and decided to dance a jig with Papas watch on! What a character. If you look close in this picture you can see a weeding picture of Gavin and I on the bedside table. Travis picked it up said " Mommy, Daddy" and kissed it... I OF COURSE, did not get a picture of that :(

Saturday afternoon we all went to the Picture People and got some family pictures taken... I thought they were going to email the thumbnails to me, but I have not gotten them yet??? If I do I will share with you all! They were spur of the moment and we all were not to coordinated with outfits but we got some cute ones of Travis with Nana & Papa! Travis LOVES to walk around the house an point out people in pictures... he knows almost every person in all of our pictures and can say most of their names... of course he is obsessed with seeing his Dada in pictures... and when he sees himself he either calls himself Dada or baby. Too cute!

Travis also played the piano with Dada... and LOVES it! He would head bop along as he played.. like he understood he was making "pretty" music!
Gavin is a great piano player.. though he does not admit it or practice! I would love to have a piano so I could listen to him play all the time!
Travis really was an amazing child this weekend... he did scream "UH OH Mommy" during church service this morning when the music stopped so he and I went and joined the preschoolers for Sunday school class since the nursery was full... He was even perfect in the car.. he has an hour and half sleeping limit and always seems to wake up or fall asleep at the same place every time! He passed out holding onto a fish that goes in the swimming pool that Nana gave him to take to Paps & Gigi's house for their pool... Gavin and I were cracking up and had to get a picture of it for a good laugh! He was perfect even when we got stuck in traffic coming home.. FOR AN HOUR over nothing. When we got to the cause of the traffic it was 3 cop cars and a perfect random car that did not look like it was hurt and they were all standing there on the phone and not moving. FOR AN HOUR, sheesh! I have to say that I do hope that is all it was even though I was frustrated, I hope no one did get hurt! Thank God for DVD players! Elmo's World saved our lives or I should say EARS this afternoon!
Overall it was a great little trip... we had a blast with Nana & Papa and will be going back for Thanksgiving... that is sooner that I realized too!
WOW, this year is flying by!

Oktoberfest 2007

Gavin, I and a ton of our friends went to Oktoberfest last night to celebrate.... ummm, German BEER!
It was so much fun! Gav and I got there early and walked around to see all the awesome vendors that sell their art, clothes, jewelry and just stuff... We both got a t-shirt, funny thing, we have gone for the past 6 years and have never bought anything. There were venders set up selling Lederhosen, corsets, nuttcrackers.. anything German you can think of!

Talk about BEER... okay, I have been going to this festival for many years and last night I have to think was the largest night EVER... the beer was flowing faster then Niagara Falls and the crazy people were out in FULL force. The beer steins were super heavy, my arms are so sore from carrying one around all night. The food was awesome, even though I did not eat much because the smell of sour kraut turns me off of having anything in my mouth. YUKKKKY!
The music was loud, the the chicken dance and hokey pokey were the dances of the night and it was rare to see a person that did not have a pair of beer goggle on! LOL
We got a hotel room with a few friends for the night so we did not have to worry about driving home. (the little guy was with his grandparents!)
We walked there after the festival closed at midnight and hung out and chatted with buddies all night long! Sheesh, Mommas cant do that too often, I am exhausted!!

The St.Paulie's girls were out in full force... Nice boobs chica's!
I saw more Lederhosen then I have ever seen... all the little kids looked so super cute all dressed up! There were dance competitions, keg rolling contests, dog races, and some awesome roller coasters and rides!
I would recommend this to anyone! We had a BLAST!

Gavin took this picture from his phone at about 530 in the evening before the major crowd showed up... This was at one of the small tents in the beer garden area... can you imagine what the large tents looked like?!? WOW!

Pita for two or three?

After Travis ate his alphabet chicken noodle soup tonight he was still hungry and got his little self in the pantry and was pointing to the shelf with the bread and pitas... ummm, oK!

So, I ripped off a chunk of a pita and handed it to him and saw him take a few bites as he walked away from me. He went into the living room to finish watching Blues Clues before we went into the playroom for our nightly play and clean-up fest... (clean-up... it happens sometimes!) I was watching him out of the corner of my eye as I was attempting to find something for myself to eat for dinner that did not require cooking... Fridays are lazy dinner days in this household! After a few minutes and no luck with food, I went into the living room to join Travis in the floor for the goodbye song on Blues Clues and to get him to go into the playroom and play with me...

Then, I see this...

He was sharing his pita with his dada even though dada was asleep on the couch...

So sweet and caring!

To make this story even better, as Travis and I were off to the other side of the house I see Sasha slowing make her way over to Gavin's face...
She tried so hard to get that piece of pita off of his arm without waking him up.
She tilted her head one way, then tilted the other way and then she walked around the coffee table to try and get it at a different angle.
Then Gavin flipped over, so I don't know if she ever got that piece???
I was hoping he would get a big wet dog tongue in the face...
MAN, I am mean!
You have to admit it would have been FUNNY!

Can you imagine waking up to a HUGE wet slap from a dog tongue... LOL!