Fall 2009

Fun Things...

Dressed up for Evan & Taryn's wedding (Andrew's cousin)

Notice the worn out jeans and no socks!!! ;-)

Something to do on a cold rainy day...

Fat lip!

An evening walk down by the canal in Pittsford

He could throw rocks into water alllll day long!

Waiting in line for ice cream!

Niagra Falls

Gavin & I went with my mom, dad, Elaine and Brian to Niagra falls the end of August. It was a beautiful day. It's only about an hour drive from where we live so it was a great day trip!

Andrew & I stayed in one of the hotels you see in the top right (Canada side) for our honeymoon. It was a great room that was right over the falls!

Pictures from the Maid of the Mist ride- it was amazing!

Dad & Brian on the stairway- you'll notice their the only ones not wearing the blue rain coats!!! (in the middle of the stairs)

Whoaa......

Me with my mom & Elaine!

Sportin his new shades!

Really happy about his new ducky from Grandma & Grandpa!

Lunch

Nap time!

Mom & Brian after walking the Cave of Winds. Elaine & I did it too...you can literally go on a walkway right under the falls...we were soaked!!!

4th of July & Camping

We went camping for the night on Andrew's birthday this year. It was the first time we've been with Gavin and he loved it!! He couldn't stop talking about the fire and hiking! What a fun family memory!

Think the tent is big enough? We borrowed one from our friends, we put our queen air mattress and Gavin's pack & play in therer and still had TONS of room!!

4th of July Parade!

Abby (Andrew's sister) came with us! Gavin learned the deal with the candy pretty quick!

So patriotic!

Daddy's driving the truck!!

Summer Fun

Trampoline fun at cousin Alayna & Nina's house...

Fun day at Seabreeze (a local amusment park)...

Cruisin' with Alayna!

Giving his "girlfriend" Jordan a ride!

Fun Days...

He picked the suit coat & socks himself!!

Jumping with Aunt Kate

More summer fun to come!!...

Update!

Man, it's been a while since I've updated, I've got to work on that! Here are some random pictures from the last month or so.  We are doing great here in the Tomlinson household. Here's the "low-down" on the fam:

Andrew is done with school (finish with a 4.0 I might add!) and enjoying having all of his evening free again. Working hard as usual in his construction business and the vonlunteer fire department. Keep his career situation in your prayers if you think of it because it looks like the city is hiring and he received a letter inquiring if he's still interested. 

Marie has been traveling the last couple of months. Las Vegas for an Arbonne conference in April and Florida for a girls weekend in May. Other than that I've been enjoying my boys, working my business, and doing some photography. Also enjoying meeting new friends and having playdates with some mom's groups!

Gavin of course is changing and growing a ton. What a fun summer this has been so far! He's really talking up a storm (sometimes it's in his own language but he's always jabbering!) He's learning "A, B, C, D" I showed him the first three letters on a puzzle a couple of times and that was it, he knew them! I'm shocked at how quickly he recognizes and learns! It's so fun to see him come up with his own words or gestures for things. 

We have started working on the potty a little. For several months now he's expressed when he has a dirty diaper and knows what the "pobba" (potty) is so we got a potty seat that sits on the big one and he gets up there and sits for a little bit. Nothings happened yet but he likes sitting! I know he could probably be trained by now but I just haven't taken the plunge to really get serious about it, I think the time is about here though! 

We went to the zoo for the first time a couple weeks ago an Gavin still can't stop talking about it! And by "talking about it" I mean saying "zoooooo" and then going through all of the animal sounds of what we saw and talking about his friends CJ (which he has his own way of saying) and Syndey- "Me". We'll have to go back soon, he loved it. It made us miss the Jacksonvile zoo though, the one here doesn't even come close! But he liked it so I guess that counts!

We are in the process of putting our townhouse in Jacksonville on the market (good deal if anyone is looking!) so we are praying that will be taken off our hands quickly and smoothly so we can start settling better here. That's about it for now I guess, more to come soon!!

Mother's Day 

Trying on daddy's boots (he LOVES putting on our shoes!!)

"beep beep" lookout!! 

Discovering his nose!

Double fisting it- now that's the way to eat icecream!

Out to icecream with "bampa" & "mamaw"

-everytime he talks about grandpa he says "tractor" and he says "mamaw" with a really rough, deep voice!!! He's so funny!

At the zoo

Gav is getting nervous because he just realized he got to close to the polar bears!

At the zoo with his new friend CJ

Animal Sounds!

Gavin doing his animal sounds! This is a month or so old so he's learned some new ones so we'll update soon!