Birthday and Valentines

Gavin is officially 3 years-old! I can't believe it, but it's ture. And we celebrated in style. Our really good family friend (Ken Bay) is the owner of a great pizza parlor here in Salem (Pietroes). He graciously set us up with a pirate Birthday Package to bring in Gavin's 3rd Birthday. It was amazing!

The entire table had pirate decorations, swords, hats, eye-patches and 100 tokens for every little one. Not to mention, their own pizza, free mini golf, lazer tag, ice cream, balloons, and drinks. It was better than anything I could have done, and the kids loved it!!!

As you can see, the kids weren't the only people who had a good time. My dad, Matt, and Gavin went on this motion, roller coaster ride. It was pretty fun, and I wouldn't be lying when I say my dad went on it 2 more times with other grand kids. He'll say he went with them to make sure they felt safe, but we all know the real reason. :)

We invited family to Gavin's birthday, so of course, Kirk, Melissa and Baby Kalli (Gavin's future wife) came as well. We love our besties. They even cancelled a trip to Seattle to come.

AMAZING FRIENDS.
Ok, this is the hat and eye patch I was telling you about. Gavin really, really wanted to wear it but it kept getting stuck over his other eye. It was pretty funny, but he insisted he wear it.

The happy little brother and Grandma. Im grateful for my parents. While I was getting Gavin all set with his games and toys, prizes, pizza, ice cream, ect.... my Mom and Dad took great care of Ronin. He is such a good baby.

Gavin LOVES superman, if you didn't already know. Superman, Batmn, Iron Man and Green Lantern. But his all time favorite is Superman. So he kept asking for a Superman Cake almost every day up until his birthday. And wouldn't you know it, my oven broke the week before. Thankfully a wonderful friend and neighbor let me use her oven the night before. Thanks Heidi. This cake all came together because of you.

Ronin sporting the pirate hat with Grandpa. Happy, cute dudes if you ask me.

This is so funny. I love this picture. Aaron and Emily drove all the way down from Portland just to come to Gavin's party. Emily fell asleep on the way, so when they arrived she was still tired. Although she has the hat on, has pizza, and is awaiting a fun time of games, she wasn't ready to wake up yet. So cute!

Cousin Ashley on the other hand was ready. Always ready to play and of course, get her picture taken. I think she looks like Jenilyn when she was younger.

Gavin and I. Three years ago I had him. Wow, I feel old and hate the fact that time is only going to go by faster from here on out.

Dada and Ronin. Matt helped out so much. There were times I was making sure everything was being taken care of, and then I'd turn and see Matt handeling the boys so I wouldn't have to worry. Such a studly man. And No, Ronin is not drinking Pepsi, just nibbeling a cup.

Gavin opening up some of his presents. Kirk and Melissa got him that Green lantern mask and he LOVED it. Wouldn't take it off. Even the next day (which was Sunday) I had to bribe him to take it off for church.

Sunday morning, (Feb 12th) Gavin's real birthday, we had pancakes to celebrate. He loved the 3 and kept saying over and over again, "I eat the 3? I eat it?! I will eat the 3!"

The hansome Rudolph boys eating lunch church. We have Sacrament at 12:30 so we eat before we go, which isn't too bad except for they're messing eaters. :)

And Gavin doesn't like to share, unless it's with Superman.

Oh my word, I had to put this on here. It was so cute. Ronin was nakey and so Gavin wanted to be nakey too. I promise we don't let our kids run around naked very often, but it was his birthday so we let him. The first thing he did? Lay down right next to his brother.

That night, we had just a small family celebration, with yes, another cake. Gavin just woke up from his nap in this picture, but was happy when he got his Batman soap and Batman fruit snacks.

Birthday boy and his sword. My sister won this for him at his party playing some game where she won 100 tickets....3x in a row! I told her she was an addict to arcade games, (which she now admits) but Gavin loved the outcome. It lights up and makes sounds which is perfect for him. Sorry the picture is fuzzy, he kept moving.

We had a nice quiet Valentines Day, and when I got hom that evening I had 3 heart-boxes of Chocolate, a big one, a medium one, and wee-small one. 1 from each of my "Valentines."

I love my boys. We just got back from spending the weekend at the coast, which was good...and bad. It had it's great moments, butttt, we've had better. I'll have to update later. Just for the record it's always nice to get away with 3 super cute men who I love the mosest!

I will never tire of that.

Life Is Good

Bring on February. We started the month off making hearts and putting them all over our house and windows. Gavin loved it. He was pretty excited for Valentines Day, until we started talking about his Birthday He's so excited. I can't believe he's going to be 3 already. It's going by too fast!

So Gavin has taken a new interest in playing with Ronin. I think it's because he's starting to get bigger and react more to Gavin. They were "wrestling" and laughing under a "tent" the other night. Having so much fun. They are such good buddies.

This went on for about 30 minutes. It was pretty fun to watch them and giggle to myself, feeling pretty blessed and grateful to be a mom.

Ok, so this next picture. Gavin has a little mind of his own. I have no idea what's going on. He found one of my head bands, put it on, and is studying one of his strawberries. He looks pretty crazy here, but that's him. My crazy lil man.

Ronin and his Dada. I honestly think Ronin may be the happiest baby I have ever met. He only fusses when he's tired. I'll rock him in his blanket for 5 minutes, lay him down in bed even though he's still awake, (but now cozy and cuddled) and he goes right to sleep.


LOVE HIM!

Gavin loves Super hero's. One day he's Batman, the next day, Superman. That night, after his bath, he was Spiderman. It's pretty funny because he gave us all Superhero names. He calls Matt Green Lantern, me Wonder Woman, (finally someone sees me for who I really am) and Ronin, Robin.

My favorite thing to do. I got Gavin up from his nap and he was still really tired. We watched some of the super bowl together, and just cuddled on the couch until he woke up enough to want some cookie dough.

February has started off pretty well. I ran my second race of the year on Saturday. It was FREEZING!!! I've ran in freezing snow, ice, wind, rain, you name it. But this was way worse. Why you ask? Because I was standing around in the freezing cold for 30 mins before we even got started. My body was frozen stiff! All of the other times, I stayed warm inside right up until I had to go out and run. My body was warm to start with. That was not the case on Saturday. I finished better then I thought, (1st overall for all females, all age groups. Don't be impressed, there were only 120 people signed up! :)) but I will never forget not being able to feel my fingers and toes, AT ALL, for the first 2 miles.

2 Races down, 10 to go.

End of 2011

Happy New Year. Ok, I know I'm a little late but we've been busy, in a good way, but busy none the less.

So for the new year, we went to Eugene to have our Family Christmas with my parents and siblings. That night, at the stroke of midnight, my mama, sister and I began our first New Years Race. (Matt was driving to the Rose bowl with the tickets I got him for Christmas.) I ran the 10k, and they walked the 5k. I was really proud of them, seeing how we were all tired and feeling "blah" from all the holiday eating. But it was a lot of fun, and mom happily pronounced this was our new tradition. I'm excited. I loved running in the dark right by the river with all the mini flashlights, glow sticks, and noisemakers. The highlight, having an 8th grader think I was in high school and wanting to run with me! Ohhh yeah, this mama's still got it, even if it is creepy and disturbing.

Ok, this was actually before the race. See how happy we look?! I won't post the after picture when my sister looks like she would kill a baby dear just to get some sleep. She was such a trooper though. Never complained and finished smiling.
Hands down one of my favorite pictures. Gavin picked this out for Ronin at a second-hand store. Totally worth the $4. He looks so cute!


Family Christmas. Gavin gets his Bat Cave. He loves playing with it, and his Bat mobile.
Gavin watching his Superman movie with his Batman and Superman. I thought it was so funny because he was "talking" as superman, making sure everyone could see. Then when Superman would come on, he would say in a low voice, "Look it's me, there I am Batman!"

Christmas morning. Gavin was excited and loved unwrapping his presents. He did such a good job giving presents to Dada and Ronin. He may have loved watching them open thier gifts more then opening his own. Such a good boy.

Checking out their stockings....Oooo looks good.T'was the night before Christmas and all thru our space, my son had no clothing,

so he covered his face. Oh so embarrassing.

I realized I have about 200 pictures of Gavin sleeping as a baby, but only a few of Moto-moto(thats his nick-name from Madagascar 2. Check it out if you don't know who he his.) . I took this at the end of December. He is such a good sleeper.....as long as his brother isn't yelling.

Long story short. I was cleaning the floors, stopped to put Ronin down for his nap, came downstairs and found this. Long deep breath. I made a note to myself: Kristi, pay close attention to your 2-year-old.

This picture needs no introduction. He's prefect!

Dear Gentleman of the world, if you feel self conscious about your body do not look at the next picture. Such a male physique has never before been seen, and this masculine, perfect shape may send you into a deep depression. Personal discretion is advised.

We took the boys swimming yesterday and this was right before. He must have heard us talking about it because he looks pretty excited. OR, he could be this happy all the time. I'll let you decide.And finally, me new hair cut. Matt told me to give a pretty smile, but instead I gave a huge, stupid, over-the top grin, and it looked freaky. So you get my "pouty" face. You're welcome bloggers. It ended up being shorter then I anticipated, but I think I like it.

Family Pics

We went and got our family pictures taken about a week and a half ago. There's a girl in our ward who does it from her home and she was really great. Totally patient and understanding with our silly boys who decided they didn't want to smile, or look at the camera as soon as we got there. Here are a few. Hope you enjoy.

This is one of Matt's favorites!


Our chubby little man. He turns 6-months old this Friday. Its gone by way too fast.

I didn't post the one of Gavin picking his nose, I choose this one instead. :)

Ah yes the family from 1950!

He looks so Innocent here. What a ploy.

This makes my heart smile. I should look at it every time Gavin is going nuts.

Why is he always eating things? I think he's finally teething.

My favorite. This is what I get to wake up to in the morning.

So this was a silly action shot. We were all situated, then Matt told an off colored joke and pretty soon we all lost it. Erin, our photographer caught it all.

I love this picture of Matt. This is how I see him, how his personality is at home. Yes he's still laughing from his joke earlier. And no I will not repeat it.

Ok this was me acting really ridiculous while she was trying to get her camera all ready. She added it to all the pictures she gave us. I thought it was pretty funny that she actually took it.

And last, but certainly not least, the final picture. We had to leave early because Gavin pee'd his pants. We didn't get to do any "all 3 boys" or "mom and boys." I think it was all part of his plan to be done and go home. He did however LOVE the Batman and Superman cars they had, as you can see.