Fall Family Pictures!

Family Wedding

My cousin Adrienne got married a couple of weeks ago. It was a lot of fun to have the whole family together all dressed up! The place the reception was held was the same place my parents had their reception so it was cool to get the family pictures in the red room because my parents have pictures in there from their wedding day! It was a beautiful day!

My mom and dad

Andrew, Brian, and my dad. Look out...they don't mess around!

The beautiful bride!

Annie sang and Nathan played "Here" by Rascal Flatts. It was awesome!

The whole Graham gang (minus Gavin) Let's see, from left to right...
Elaine, Amber (Nathan's girlfriend), Nathan, Annie, Brian, Angela (James' fiance), James, Jackie (Dan's girlfriend), Dan, Me, Andrew, and in the front my mom and dad!

The girls!

The guys!

Mom & Dad

Me & my sisters!


Andrew & I with Amber & Nathan, we all happened to coordinate outfits!


Father daughter dance

A Fall Afternoon

Man oh man, this boy loves his tractor! We usually play with it inside but on this beautiful fall afternoon mommy couldn't resist spending some time in the yard. So, we took the tractor outside. I wasn't sure if he would be able to ride it in the grass but he had no problem! He's seeming so much more like a toddler now. I guess that's cause he is!

Look at this fall country boy in his flannel shirt and overalls riding his john deere!!

Gavin was very enthralled with this leaf!
Oh what a good boy to share!

Gav goes around with his tongue like this all the time! Especially when he's concentrating!!

It's hard work to get to the top! Gavin could climb up the slide all day! He loves it! He has finally starting sliding back down on his belly!...and riding the tractor in our jammies before bed (with our tongue out of course)!

Just Playin'!

Gav rides his john deere tractor all over the place! He seems to have crashed into the couch here!

Gavin loves this play table! He "dances" (bounces up and down and puts his hand in the air) when the music plays!

Sharing his blocks with mommy!

Fall is Begining!

Yay...it's that time of year again! Our favorite! The air has been getting cool and crisp, the sky a clear deep blue, the trees are starting to change, and the smells of fall are in the air!! We made our first trip to a pumpkin farm a couple miles down the road last week just to begin enjoying the seasonal activities! We looked at pumpkins, a chicken, had some ice cream, and Gavin loved watching the model train they had go around the tracks!

Pictures from Labor Day

I just realized I never posted pictures from Labor Day! There are some cute ones so I wanted to add them! We went to Brie's parents cottage (my sister in law) for a relaxing day of swimming, boating, sunning, eating, fishing, and water skiing (or trying anyway!).

Gav loved kicking and splashing in the lake

Daddy and Gavin in the kayak!

Uncle Andrew giving Alayna a ride too!

Gavin kept putting the rocks in his mouth to which of course I said "no". So he got the idea that if he showed it to me first like this which made me say "wow, look what you've got, cool rock!" then I would be happy it then he could put it in his mouth!!

Playing with Cousin Nina!

Gavin Update!

Well Gavin is continuing to grow up and learn new things so fast! I can't believe that as soon as he learns one thing he starts another new one right away! And I know this sounds like a cliche' but I really can't believe we are approaching his first birthday!!

Gav is such a kid now...he's eating lots of food, can stand on his own but never really wants to, waves bye-bye using just his fingers instead of his whole arm, puts his hands up on his ears when you say "where's Gavin?", says "Daddy", and "doggie" (which sound a lot alike but he definitely knows and loves "doggies", especially tink!), he says please in sign language, he is pointing now and always points around to things on the wall when you're carrying him and wants to go touch them and check them out, and he loves giving hugs and kisses (a.k.a. wide open mouth slobbers on the cheek!)! It is so awesome to see him be able to communicate better and be able to teach him new tricks! He gets around so good too, I really think he will just decide to walk all of a sudden one day! We've had a couple of crying incidences when mommy tried to leave him at the ymca to work out and he doesn't like it when I run downstairs or outside- I'm just trying to teach him that "I'll be back"! Well, that's the run down on what he's doing now, there will be lots more to come as his learning continues!