Dad - We are getting one of these, aren't we?

This Is cool

Mmmmmmmm

Grandpa Hooked me up with some cheeriOs

Lasagna! good idea dad ;-)

I can sit forward now

1 Year and 1 day Old

Ok - Nate is officially 1 years old today! His birthday was yesterday and he had a BIG Party. Lots of his friends and aunts and uncles were there to share in the fun. As you can see - he enjoyed his cake too - that picture was taken near the beginning of the "mash" process. Yummy! Nate even fed CRaig and I some cake too - what a sweet little guy he is.

Its been a great year and time of fond memories with more to come. We'll be posting the pictures linked on this blog in the coming days. HOpe you enjoy. Tomorrow Nate goes for his 1 year pictures and then shots. Wish me luck as I take him in.

Today we are hoping to go to the Fowlerville fair with Grandma LIz - she's been here for the birthday festivities. Its been lots of fun.
Enjoy the summer gang
Love,
Gail, Craig, Nate and even little Fudd.

I Really liked my cake!

I cant fit anymore in my mouth

1 Year OLD

Ok - I'm 2 days early - but they will be very busy days coming up! Yes - Nate turns 1 on Saturday! He's such a big, active, adorable boy. as you can see by the new pictures Craig's been able to take on his new phone and post to the site. He's having fun. We'll defiantely make sure we post some birthday bash pictures soon too.

We are all very excited about the party - lots of people are coming - it should be fun. We clearly have the new whale pool and a slip in slide for the older kids. And a NICE BIG Catepillar cake! can't wait for Nate to dig into that - he's not a shy eater. He likes his food - and sweets. So far he loves his fruit best though. We hope to keep it that way for a long time.

Grandma Liz is coming into town for the big party too. She's actually already here - probably at the house babysitting Nate right now. Hopefully he's behaving for her. This is her first big time really alone with him - I'm sure they both need the bonding time!

other than that - I'm just looking forward to a long 4 day weekend following the 3 day weekend! We are all finally feeling better - I finally have the right medicine for the sinus infection - so that helps.

hope you all have a good weekend - again - we'll post pictures as soon as possible. AND we'll have another set of Penny's pictures coming in about a month - the big 1 year pictures. Should be interesting.
Love,
Gail-

I Like melon!

This pool is fine but i dont go anywhere without my pacifier.

Almost 1 year!

Well life has been crazy - Nate will be in about 1 week! Its amazing - its been a year - and what a year at that. Its been a long one - but we survived a lot without mom - but I know she's watching and proud of us all!

Nate's getting bigger by the day - probably over 25 pounds now~! Smiles all the time. Crawls and starting to walk to get where he wants. He loves it - he's getting pretty good at it too. and loves to eat like a big boy - all on his own - Mr. Independance!

Work for Craig and I is going well. He's taken on some additional responsibilites temporarily until a new manager can be hired in his office. And we just passed the ISO audit at my company - so taht was a big step for me. They were slated to fail - and I got in and turned it around - yes I'll brag a little bit.

Other than that - life is pretty darn good.
have a great 4th of July all!
Gail

New pictures

Ok - we have TONS of pictures posted on the blog page - over to the left should be the family photos. Go there and then each album has the first picture in a group of many showing. Click on each one and then there are MANY more inside. For example - May 2005 - Nate 200505 have probably 20-30 picutres inside that one group. But you only see one picture - so have fun. nate's getting big.

He's trying to walk around the furniture. Tried to say Fudd - that's our cat now too. He is movign all over and loving it. He loves being outside and playing - its his thing right now at daycare. He's going to e 11 months old on Thursday too! Can't belive it! one more month and our baby is a toddler - 1 year old! Can't wait.

He's still doing the breathing treatments once a day for asthma - we'll deal with that. He doesn't mind the treatments as long as he can watch his one baby einstien video - he loves the under water world and fish - fine by us. Now we just hope to go to Chicago this fall to the nice aquarium - and maybe even see cousin Kyle while she's out there at school too! That shold be fun.

better go - I'm at work - enjoy the pictures.
Love,
Gail

CRawling

Well dad was babysitting today and helped us out with daycare duties this week while Craig had his big user conference at work. Anyhow - I called and Nate crawled today. More than just scooting. He looks so cute trying to crawl and not totally coordinated yet - its adorable.

We are all well - we celebrated mom's 59th birthday yesterday with a new tradition. I bought a dozen balloons and we each let one go and then I let the rest of the bunch go. Figured Nate and his future siblings and cousins will enjoy this! IT was actually a very peaceful and pretty site.

Work is crazy for me - but I've jumped right into it and trying to help them pass these audits. WE'll see if we make it - I unfortunately work with people that don't want to change - in my own department. I'm the "ogre" becuase I'm trying to do the work they need to be doing. Oh well.

Anyhow - we've started the first of a lot of imporant sad times the last week - so far we are all doing well.

Marcus is good - he made an offer on a house that has 20 acres of land in Howell - they are trying to get to a decent price. So we'll see what happens.

Gotta go relax.
Love,
GAil