Happy Birthday, Gav!

Happy 3rd Birthday, Gavin Ryan Vander Velde!

I can't believe our little boy is 3 years old already! Three years ago today I was walking the mall with David trying to further along my contractions! Needless to say window shopping did the trick! I was admitted Sunday afternoon on November 10th and Gavin was born at 9:17pm! I remember that day so well, all of the little details and I wouldn't have wanted it any other way! Here are pictures from when he was a wee little one and his birthday's until now;

This is the second day that Gavin was home!His first bath at home!Sleeping on Daddy!He loves his two blankies!Gavin's 1st Birthday!Gavin's 2nd Birthday!Gavin's 3rd Birthday!We Love Your Buddy! Have a wonderful day!

Blizzard!

We have been snowed in for the past 24+ hours! Thats right, we are having a blizzard here in Wisconsin! Between 14-18 inches of snow! Everything shut down, literally! Businesses, the city metro, post offices, banks, etc...!
David is loving it! Mom and Dad VV gave us an early Christmas Present over Thanksgiving...A SNOW BLOWER! David is like a kid in a candy store! He was outside at 5am and didn't come inside until 10am! He has been up and down and all around our Street with his new toy! He even stopped at one point and went to the gas station to get more gas for the snow blower! Gavin is enjoying the snow too, but he is also enjoying watching the snow from the inside in his pj's! Here are pictures of our Blizzard;
Our beautiful backyard!
The Grill, and the chiminea is in there somewhere too!
Our House, with a lot of snow! and it's still snowing!Ready to go outside and help Daddy shovel!David and his new toy!My boy in the snow!

Christmas Picture Ornaments

Last week I was looking through my Archiver's magazine and came across handmade ornaments. I think it may have been these; I thought it was a really cute idea to use pictures for ornaments, so I decided to make some of my own, here is what I came up with;I think they turned out cute and our tree has a good 25+ different picture ornaments of our little family from our christmas pictures this year!

Gavin's 3rd Birthday Celebration

We had a great time celebrating Gavin's 3rd Birthday with friends and family! He was excited beyond beliefe for his party! Here are pictures of his special day!

Gavin looking out the window waiting for people to arrive!The dinosaur train candy wrappers we had made for Gavin's 3rd birthday!Gavin's Dinosaur cake that I made. I was pleased with how it came out!Presents!My wonderful, handsome husband! Such a big Help!My mom, sister, aunt, and Jessie!Me, Jen and Jessie! Love these girls!Kristin and Nolan! Getting ready to watch Gavin open his presents!He Loves this game!Gavin got his first musical card! He loves it!Love his soccer goal, ball and cones!His awesome baseball chair!!His gifts!Singing Happy Birthday! What a cutie!Love this picture!

Thank you to everyone who came to Gavin's 3rd Birthday Party and made his celebration special for him! He had a great day!

Celebrate!

It's Friday night and I am waiting for my Sister and Matt to arrive! I am very excited to see them! They are coming into town because tomorrow we are celebrating Gavin's 3rd Birthday Party! He will turn 3 on December 10th! I can't believe he is almost 3 years old! But to be honest it seems like he should be alot older for his age with the way he acts sometimes! Anyways, we are looking forward to celebrating his birthday with 20(or so) close Family and Friends tomorrow at our home! I will post pictures of his party on Sunday, hopefully :)

Here is his invite we sent out; minus the blurred spots :)