Here's Gabey baby on his birthday and his first "real" time in the grass!! Do you think he likes it? Ha Ha.....obviously it's a 100% NO!! He hated it and went stiff as a board!! He wouldn't move a muscle! It was pretty funny!! I always wondered what he would do....now I know!!

Here's Gabe on his birthday at my parents house!! He likes to do this when we say " so big"!! Oh he's so cute!! Anyway, my mom was so nice to watch him that morning while I was at work!! I only worked a half day so I could be with my little man on his 1st birthday!! Of course he had no idea what was going on....it was a normal day to him!! I think it was more for me!! I had a pretty hard time with his birthday.....i'm a big baby!! I just can't believe how fast this past year went!! I have loved every single minute of it!! And I know i'll love every single minute of the rest of his life!! He has definitley been the BEST thing that has ever happened to me and Aaron!! We LOVE, LOVE, LOVE our Gabey baby!! Happy Birthday!!

We hope everyone had a Happy Easter!! Ours was great!! It was Aaron's birthday and Gabey's first Easter!! He loved wearing the bunny ears that his babysitters Shanette and Shanelle made him!! It was amazing that he would keep them on!! He loved them!! Doesn't he make the cutest Easter bunny?!! Ok...I am biast!! Anyway, we had a great day and Gabe loved eating all the plastic eggs that his cousins gave him! Notice in the first picture all of Gabe's cousins from Aaron's side!! It's awesome and amazing to me how many he has! There are 22 in all!! I am so glad he has cousins since I grew up with none!! It's something I have always wanted for my kids since I didn't have any cousins....and I think that has definitely come true!! He has A LOT of cousins!! We are grateful for all of them on my side and Aaron's side!! We are lucky to have two amazing families!!

Here Gabey is eating his sock!! This may look weird, but is actually completely normal for him!! He loves to pull his socks off his feet and play with them!! He makes me laugh so hard every single day!! He just loves to roll around and on this day eat his socks!! He thought it was pretty fun!! And yes I know his jammies are tight!! He didn't wear these for very long!! I was just trying to see how they would fit him....and I was obviously wrong!! Oh I just love my chubby boy!!

Hey everyone!! The other day I came home from work to find my garage turned into a work shop.....which is normal around my house!! Anyway, to my surprise Aaron was actually working on something for me!! I have asked him to build me a shelf for like 5 years and suddenly here it is!!! He decided to do it for me for mother's day!! I was so flippin excited and still am!! Here are some pics of the eventful day when he put it up on my wall!! I thought for sure he would have some help for this, but no not Aaron!!! He of course had to do it himself....and might I add I thought he was going to for sure kill himself this time!! He didn't die...he survived and here are a few pictures of the event!! Notice Gabey sitting on the shelf before Aaron put it on the wall and then the picture of him sitting in his sit-n-saucer watching Aaron put it up!! Now the problem is finding cute stuff to put on the shelf!!! Thanks to Aaron, Gabe, and my animals for such a great mother's day gift!! I love it!!

It's official......Gabe is finally in his new car seat!!! Oh it makes me so sad that he'll be a year in a few weeks!! Where has this year gone?! I can't believe how time flys!! He loves his new car seat and it is so much fun seeing his face as we drive!! He's so funny and makes me laugh so hard....pretty much the whole car ride!! Yes...I am a nerd, but he makes me laugh!! Notice that his sock is off....again!! I really have no idea why I put his socks on him!! But I guess that's what is fun to him right now!! It's also funny to see him throw his toys in the car!! I knew that he did it before....I just never saw him do it!! He can't hide anything from me now!!! Oh and sorry that he didn't smile for the pictures! This is the only expression he would give me in every single picture I took!! I swear he was happy!!!

Hey everyone!! Here is another picture of Gabe!! Yes I realize that this whole entire blog is pretty much about him, but me and Aaron don't do anything exciting!! At least we don't do anything exciting that would make us take pictures of ourselves....and then blog about it!! It's all about Gabe right now and all the fun things he is doing every single day!! One of these days I will put a picture of me and Aaron on.....oh I know everyone is excited for that!! Anyway, here is Gabey pulling his sock off (I don't know why I even put socks on him) and with his blanket on his head! I just thought it was a funny picture!!

This is Gabe's new favorite thing to do.....stand in the tubby and cheese it at the camera!! Oh you can't get him to sit anymore!! He thinks it is so funny and so much fun!! He has to stand at all times in the tubby! I'm surprised we can get him washed up.....actually I don't know how we even get him washed up....he won't stop standing!!! At least he's smiling while he's doing it!! Gotta love a happy baby!!

This is what I came home to the other day......Aaron painting Gabe's lips with blue robin eggs! I guess I just can't leave him anymore.....well, at least while they are selling robin eggs! I have to admit it was funny! I guess at least the blue lips matches his blue shirt and eyes!!

Well Gabey is finally over RSV! Here he is getting a breathing treatment (ignore the complete mess on my night stand)!! That was one of the longest 2 weeks of our lives! I felt so bad for Gabe!! I never realized how sick babies got with RSV!! He didn't eat or drink anything for 7 days....AHHHH! It was scary and now he is no longer my chubby boy!! He lost a lot of weight! All his clothes are all baggy on him...it makes me sad! But he is now finally trying to eat again....and is eating more and more everyday! So, hopefully soon he will be my chubby boy again!! It was so great that McKay-Dee has a 24 hour a day RSV clinic that we could go to anytime we needed to get Gabe his treatments!! For a few days we were there like 5 times a day!! If it wasn't for the clinic they would've hospitalized him! Oh I am so glad that he is finally on the mend and getting back to himself!!! We hate RSV!!

Here is Gabe in some of his many sleeping positions!! Oh I just love when he sleeps....he's so cute and so sweet!!! There's nothing like a sleeping baby!! I know that if I need to get him to sleep that the one person who can is my mom!! The first picture of him sleeping with his arms in the air makes me laugh because that is exactly how Aaron sleeps....he's a lot like his daddy!! And of course he loves to sleep in our bed!! Oh we're in trouble!!

Here is Gabey baby with his Grandpa Harold!! He loves him so much and loves to go to the Weber State games with him....as you can tell!! This is his new Weber State hat!! I went to go get it while we were at the game and bought an infant size thinking that it was plenty big! Well I should know better since Gabe has a bigger head that the infant size wouldn't come close to fitting him!! And of course it didn't fit at all!! So, after trying to get the infant size hat on him....I went back and had to buy the toddler size which fit great!! Oh poor Gabey!! At least the hat fits....right?!!

Here he is at his 9 month doctors appt!! He has grown of course in every way possible!! He was just over 23 pounds and is 29 1/2 inches long!! I can't believe how he has grown!! He was only 6 lbs 11 oz and 19 1/2 inches long when he was born!! He was little!! After seeing how much he weighed, now I know why my back hurts all the time!! I have to carry that load around all the time!! Oh I love how chubby he is though!! I just can't get enough of him!!

Gabey is getting ready to go to church basketball!! Well, Aaron's game at least!!

Here I am with my friends Chauny and Chris meeting Josh Turner!! Oh he is sooo cute!! I love his deep voice!! It was a blast!! I haven't been out in a really long time and I am so happy Aaron was nice enough to stay home and watch Gabe so I could go to this concert!! What a great husband I have!! This is definitley one of my favorite things to do is to go to concerts!!

I love this picture! He makes me laugh! I got him out of the car the other day and this is how I found him!! He was playing with that rabbit toy which is normally hanging and he grabs at it! Obviously he got a little tired while he was playing with it and this is how he fell asleep!! I eventually put his hand down on his lap because I was worried his hand was going to loose all circulation!! It's tough being a tired boy!!

This is Gabe's favorite toy...his beloved pirate ship! He loves to roll around on the floor and dismantle it all over! This is actually clean! He usually has all his other toys all over the floor as well! Gotta love it!!

Gabe wants to wish everyone a Happy New Year!! He was watching the Sugar Bowl when we took this picture!! Go Utes!!

Merry Christmas!!

Gabe's 1st Christmas was a success! I don't know who had more fun....Gabe, me & Aaron, or our cats!! Gabe liked his toys and clothes, but the hit of the day were the bows, tissue, & wrapping paper!! He likes to put everything in his mouth....so, pretty much he ate his Christmas!! He was eating all the paper and his toys! I even think he was eating his clothes too! The cats were running around like crazy diving into the paper....Gabe loved watching that!! He loves our cats!! Notice in the first pic that we have a huge hole in our Christmas tree...thanks to our cats!! We simply just had a great day playing with Gabe and just relaxing! My grandma came over and so did my brother Jeff!! It was a lot of fun! We definitley can be thankful for many things this year.....our families, our animals, our health, and for Gabe!! We hope everyone had a Merry Christmas too! Happy New Year!!!

Gabe's 1st Christmas Eve!

We had such a great time @ the Westbroek's this year!

We still can't thank Aaron's parents enough for letting us come

last minute! It was so much fun to be with family and to watch Gabe

open up his first presents! Of course he got his Christmas eve jammies

from grandma and grandpa Westbroek! Oh and does he look cute in them!! Blue is his color!! Then they gave him this pirate ship that he cannot get enough of! The only problem he has with it is that he can't figure out how to get the pirate ship in his mouth!! He's tried it a million times by now and just can't figure that one out! We had such a great time and are so grateful for family and especially for our little man I like to call Gabey baby!!

Sweetheart Tag

I noticed like a month ago I was tagged for this but am now just getting to it! This should be interesting!!!

1. What is your husbands name? Aaron.....I try to call him Westy at times, but he gets mad!
2. How long have you been married? 9 years...time flys!
3. How old is he? 30....and 3months older than me which I always remind him of that!
4. Who is taller? Aaron is....if i'm flat foot I only go to around his shoulders, so I wear tall shoes!
5. Who sings better? Neither of us! I sing all the time to him at home though....oh he loves that!
6. Who is smarter? It depends on the subject...we both pretend or try to be!!
7. Who does the laundry? I do! I don't know how he survived on his mission! He's never done it for me!
8. Who pays the bills? We both do! I wish there wasn't such thing as bills!
9. Who mows the lawn? We both do! I love yard work so I will do it anytime I have a chance!
10. Who cooks dinner? I do! I don't know how Aaron never picked it up from his dad since his dad is the one who cooks! Aaron has no idea how to...it would be nice if he did!!

11. Who admits when they are wrong? I definitley do more than he does! He is soooo stubborn!
12. Who kissed who first? Aaron did! He did it at Wolf Creek golf course...he thinks he so smooth! 13. Who wears the pants? Actually Gabe and our animals do! Well, I guess me a little bit, but Aaron gets his way a lot too! So, who knows?!!!!

I tag.......Shalyce, Jaime, Lisa, Jill, and Ashley.