The Krazy Krebs

Gabe turns TWO!!!

2010-07-31T03:51:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was Gabe's birthday and we had a wonderful day...long but wonderful. we started out the day with baking the cake and then heading off to Target to get pictures of all the kids. They turned out pretty cute. we came home and frosted the cake and cleaned the house for the party and had a lot of fun with all our friends. Gabe is such a great boy and pretty happy all the time with exceptions to his wonderful 2-year-old-tantrums that go along with his red hair if you know what I mean. the girls never threw tantrums the way this young man does. but he makes up for it by being the darndest, cutest little boy in the world!

Here's Gabe with pink Dora sunglasses of aiselyn's and he even found a pink purse...all on his own...doesn't he look cute?! the purse didn't last but a few seconds but the glasses he sported pretty much the whole day! Tommy says he looks at life through rose colored glasses...they're not pink--they're rose colored! I guess there is a difference in men's eyes. He is still stinkin' adorable and I love him. I'm so glad he joined our family two years ago!

Here's a little video or us singing happy birthday to Gabe. He didn't know what was going on I don't think. We had a great time last night. Thanks to all that came and for all you do for us!

Anniversary!

2010-05-05T10:15:00.000-07:00

So today is Tommy and my anniversary. We have been married for 9 years! I can't believe it has been that long. It's kind of a weird day because we both have scouts tonight and won't be together till probably around 9 or 9:30 tonight but I love him and I'm so glad that the Lord let us meet and make three beautiful kids together. So here's to another 9 and many, many more!!!!

I turn 30!

2010-04-29T11:00:00.000-07:00

Today is my birthday, and I am actually 30 now and starting to turn old. WHATEVER! Here is a picture of me when I was 6 months old! I am so dang cute!This morning I woke up and got to open my presents before Aiselyn went to school and Tommy to work. Tommy wrapped the presents last night. Isn't he clever?

So this one, people have gotten a kick out of. Some may say, "Who wants a dusting mop for their birthday?" Tommy thought I did. I don't complain about it. I like it. I absolutely hate all the hair and dust and stuff on my wood floors that you can see ALL the time! Tommy thought this would be good because the girls plus Gabe can do it for me! I thank him for being to thoughtful! This morning when Gabe woke up/when I woke him up, we went shopping to use some coupons and things (aren't I thoughtful...I went shopping for my kids on MY birthday! That's how much I love them! ha ha) When we got back, we went up to meet Aiselyn for lunch at her school and had a lot of fun. I got to talk a bit with Aiselyn's teacher Mrs. Moss who just got back recently from maternity leave and it was fun. When we got home, I put Gabe to bed and dinked around on the computer and then my dad called me on skype. It is turning out to be an awesome birthday! I forgot to add that I have received many cards from Aiselyn and Abby all week for they have been very excited for my birthday. We will be having ice cream cake tonight and are going out with some friends to a japanese restaurant tomorrow night that should be a lot of fun. Plus last weekend my friend Kris took me out for my very first pedicure and is was a lot of fun to get pampered and made pretty. I'm such a tomboy that I don't usually even know how to make myself pretty but whatever this is my day and I am awesome! I'll post a picture of my toes in a bit!

Tommy's birthday!

2010-03-15T18:29:00.001-07:00

First, here is a couple of cute pictures of Gabe and Abby. Gabe has been climbing into these school desks lately and hanging out. He gets such a kick out of sitting in these big kid desks. I had some other pictures with him laughing and things but they were a bit blurry. but the next one is with abby while aiselyn was at school one day and these two were having a lot of fun!

Here is Tommy with his birthday cake. I didn't decorate this one. I only iced with it with some delicious chocolate buttercream frosting--of course the cake is yellow--I prefer chocolate cake but tommy LOVES yellow cake with chocolate frosting so I gotta please my man right!

This may look like a 52 but I PROMISE it really is a 32! He isn't over the hill...yet!

Here Tommy is making faces with the kids while we are singing happy birthday to him.

tommy and the kids--he is getting ready to open his presents.

Here is Tommy with his France Rugby shirt. He is really excited about it and so is Gabe. Isn't he just so precious looking up at Daddy like that?

Here's Tommy holding up all his presents. tommy loves the new version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory so we got him that and I made him a belt and of course his jersey!

We had a fun day. I'm grateful for this special man that I get to spend the rest of eternity with. Happy birthday Tommy--I love you!

Christmas at the Krebs' home

2010-01-05T10:36:00.000-08:00

So we got to stay home for Christmas this year. It was the first time ever and it was a lot of fun. We kind of started some traditions or did a couple that we have grown up with or wanted to start. Hopefully next year if we stay home again, we will be able to do more or plan better at least. Here is our pathetic tree. The top broke completely last year I think. We have been using twist ties and pencils to hold up our star in the past. This year I tried a bow and it still didn't really work. We had a wonderful Christmas starting with a video from Aiselyn down at the bottom. Then we had a big breakfast and waited for Gabe to wake up to open presents. We didn't get around to opening presents till like 10 or 10:30 or maybe that is when we finished. I don't remember. I just remember the 10:30 part and thinking that was pretty good.

Aiselyn and Abby are holding up their little Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty dolls that they got in their stockings. They have loved these little dolls/figurine things.

Here I am passing out the presents. We each take turns opening one present at a time so that everyone can see what the others open. We really enjoy that!

Here is some of the terror. I have most of everything cleaned up and some put away but not much. The kitty found solace in Gabe's train box. He always likes curling up in boxes, stools, plastic grocery bags and other odd places.

The girls are playing with Gabe on his train. They all love this riding toy! Thank you Grandma Pinkard! The girls also got scooters and they thank you for those as well.

Later, or actually I think it is the next morning or something but anyway, Abby is looking at the computer with Daddy and Chloe, our dog, is very relaxed in an odd contorted way! I thought it was an interesting picture! This puppy enjoys laying around and snoozing!

And here is the kitty resting and snoozing. He as deemed under the tree "his" spot. The velvet tree skirt bore witness to it. It was covered in kitty fur...and it wasn't all that easy to get off, but he loved sleeping there so I let him. He also enjoys curving his body around and upside down and every which way he can. He is an odd cat, but very friendly so who can complain I guess!

Here the kids are in their Christmas outfits. Aren't they adorable?!

Here are some cute videos of Aiselyn on Christmas morning and of Gabe riding his train. This video of Aiselyn doesn't do justice. She came in soooo excited about all the presents so I had her say it again for the video but her reaction isn't nearly what it was. Oh well!

Finally...our Thanksgiving pictures!

2010-01-04T17:46:00.000-08:00

I have had the hardest time getting my pictures off my camera lately. I know...it's no excuse right! well, Tommy showed me a new way and it is waaaaaay easier than what I was doing so lo and behold...our vacations recently (our christmas pictures will be up this week as well--hopefully tomorrow---well, maybe). So we drove up to Maryland for Tommy's grandfather's 95th birthday party. It was a lot of fun especially for the kids. I got to make the cake and let me just brag a little bit...BUT IT WAS AWESOME! I'm not usually one for carrot (that's what he wanted) but this one was great! I had to make the Texas bluebell wildflowers by hand and it was a challenge let me tell you but it turned out pretty well!

Here is Grandpa Krebs (great-grandpa to the kids) giving a little speech!

Grandma Krebs doing the chicken dance with all the kids!

Cousins being silly (Katie in the hat, Devin, and Abby with Lucas and Garret in the background)

This is Thanksgiving day at Tommy's cousin, Roxanne's, house where Aiselyn is of course reading to Grandma. If some of you out there don't know much about Aiselyn, she loves to read! This is an understatement. She is only in Kindergarten but she probably reads at a 2nd grade level at least. She astonishes me quite frequently with what she reads. I hope my other kids will follow suite but I doubt it!

The after dinner snooze. This is classic of Tommy and Abby. Like father like daughter!

Here is Gabe and Lucas with a unique picture of two 1 year olds...barely one year olds...laying together still on the floor. Who does that? It was pretty fun. They actually camped out there for a while especially Gabe--he's such a laid back boy. He is truly awesome I must say!

So we were in the car going on a drive or something and Gabe insisted on holding both the girls hands. It was the sweetest thing ever! It may look like he's trying to get free, but it's only my poor picture taking skills at work. He and they were loving it. The girls would say things like, "awe, he's so cute!" or something to that effect. They're all silly!

So being in Maryland we had to catch up with our friends the Gish family. we met them to eat at a restaurant for dinner. we caught up on each other's lives and had fun hanging out for awhile. Here Gabe is sucking on lemon slices that come in your water! For some reason he thought they were pretty fine!

here we all are minus me of course..I'm taking the picture!

Here are the girls. They wanted their own picture taken and they are all so adorable. there's Lillian, Abby, Eleanor, and Aiselyn. The baby Camilla (well, she's like 2 or something but still she's their baby) isn't sitting with them.

thank you all so much for a wonderful time in Maryland. I know this is late and already January but it's better late than not at all...at least I like to think so! More to come soon on our latest exploits!

Trip to Dahlanega, Georgia

2009-11-08T12:27:00.000-08:00

We took a trip Friday night up to North Georgia in Dahlanega where Tommy is doing some restoration work on some streams and rivers and ponds and things on this huge piece of property. we stayed up there for the night and tromped around on saturday and had a lot of fun on the mule and traipsing around.

Here we are getting ready to go.

Gabe's ready to drive this big thing already!

the girls with our dog, Chloe around one of the ponds. Right after this, we let chloe off the leash and she had sooooooo much fun running around and playing in the river that is coming up!

Here we are having a little walk around the pond.

this is the Chestetee River. The girls had a ton of fun getting all wet...while it lasted. Right when they were done, they were super cold. We were in the mountains after all!

they had a whole heap of fun running through the water. Chloe was super excited and kept running up and down and back again!

Here is Aiselyn finding some warmth in the warm sand after soaking herself in the river. she and abby were soooooo dirty and covered in sand. there was a little beach of sorts on the bank of the river. It was really neat. On the property, right next to this river there used to be an old Indian resevation or whatever and you can still find broken pottery and arrow heads in the ground. It was fun trying to spot some on our little walk to the river. Chloe had so much fun running around she didn't even want to get back into the mule to ride home, she insisted on running behind us all the way back. I was impressed with our little puppy for never even wanting to run away and for getting so much excercise! We had a fun trip and came home in time to get clean for Church today where the kids had their primary program. It was awesome. the kids yelled..I mean sang their little hearts out especially Aiselyn! All in all, it was a GREAT weekend!

Aiselyn's birthday and Halloween!!!!!

2009-11-03T11:11:00.001-08:00

These pictures are all out of order. My computer won't let me drag and change the order. That or I'm just retarded, take your pick!

Here are all of us in our halloween outfits. Abby is an alligator/dragon (it depended on the day you asked her which one she was, but I think she did say she was the alligator on halloween day!), Gabe is a little lion, and Aiselyn is Cinderella! Aren't they just so cute?!

Tommy and I are ceiling fans!

Here is Gabe eating a sucker and making a royal drooling mess but looking incredibly adorable!

Aiselyn turned six just before halloween and we had a huge turn out for her party. we invited almost the whole branch worth of kids and they all pretty much came. It was awesome, but very loud! Aiselyn chose these colors on her polar bear cake and I made an extra cake since there was going to be so many people. it was really cool. she had a blast. thank you all for coming and sharing this day with her!

We carved pumpkins for Family Home Evening one night. That was a lot of fun! The kids enjoyed themselves and chose the patterns with help of course!

we got a puppy!!!!

2009-11-03T11:01:00.000-08:00

Some friends of ours were trying to down size their animals---they had quite a few---so we offered to help them out. This is 5 month old Chloe. She is a mutt---beagle and boxer at least---and is a lot of fun and really good with the kids and of course house broken or she wouldn't have come home with us. These were taken on her first day with us. I'm glad she likes us and our kitty although Chloe likes to try and get the kitty to play with her and Tommy cat doesn't like that too much. He is still miffed at us most of the time for bringing in another animal especially that is so much bigger than he is. Welcome home Chloe!!!

My Cute Kids!!!

2009-09-19T10:34:00.000-07:00

We went to Tanger Outlet Mall the other day to look around and I found these hats in the clearance bin. How cute are they? The girls are just adorable in them. Here are some fun pictures of them! We took a bunch more of course but I don't want to wait for the uploading of course so here are a couple of good ones of both of them together!

Gabe likes to play the piano. He's starting early! If he keeps it up, when he gets a little older, he will be a real heart throb. Every girl likes a boy who can play the piano to them. Watch out!!!!

He especially loves to play while I am playing. I always need to keep the piano open so that he can crawl...yes, he is still crawling at 14 months...up to the piano and plunk around. It is so precious!

Here is Gabe and me!

Don't you look dapper?

2009-08-21T09:13:00.001-07:00

I got this little outfit from a friend of mine, and I scheduled for Gabe to get his picture taken at Target for turning 1. I tried it on Gabe to see how it fit and just knew that he needed his pictures taken in this outfit. I went cheap and just picked one pose at the store but couldn't get enough of how cute Gabe is so I took a bunch more of him at home. I love this little man. He is so fun to have around and he is now starting to give actual hugs and loves and it is so PRECIOUS! He came down with a cold today that he must have caught from his sisters so he has a fountain instead of a nose--poor guy! The girls love school, to say the least, and it is so fun to have one-on-one time homeschooling Abby. I need to take more pictures of them, but they are always so busy playing and whatnot that I just forget. oh well! enjoy these fun pictures of Gabe!

hair cuts!

2009-08-21T08:55:00.000-07:00

so we all finally got our hair cut. this isn't the best picture of the kids of course but it was at least right after it was done. Gabe-we actually cut last weekend. I have more fun pictures of him to come. Mom, this is especially for you to see what I did to my hair. I like it because it is a little different than I had it as an A-line, but of course I can't make it look quite like my hair dresser did. It is still fun though!

Bowling with the Trauts

2009-08-06T10:45:00.000-07:00

This past weekend we had the pleasure of having Tommy's cousin and his family (Tim, Lauren, Jordan, and Brandon) stay with us. We had a blast with them. They drove down from Pennsylvania on their way down to Disney World. It was so much fun. Here we are eating breakfast as Aiselyn goes off to school and the Trauts drive on down to Florida. I hope you guess are having fun and don't sweat to death!
we finally went bowling. I have been wanting to for a very long time. We all had a blast. Here are some pictures to show for it!

Aiselyn's first day of school!

2009-08-06T10:34:00.001-07:00

The big day has finally arrived! Aiselyn went off to school. She is so big and grown up now. The whole week before she kept saying how nervous she was, but Tommy had a little talk with her last weekend. she wanted to go with me to take dinner to the Godwins who just had a baby and on the way over she kept saying to me how she wasn't nervouse anymore. I asked her what changed basically and she said Dad talked to her. I tried to get out of her what he said but I never really got an answer. well, turns out that he told her how he would give her a father's blessing and that took all the worry away...just the knowledge that he would do that for her. I love Tommy and his desire to be a good priesthood holder and for Aiselyn and her budding faith in our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ.

She ended up having a great day at school that day and everyday since. Good job, Aiselyn!
Here they are eating breakfast before school.
Aiselyn as she left for school.

Aiselyn in front of the school. I love you, girl!

Gabe turned ONE!!!!!

2009-08-06T09:53:00.000-07:00

Gabe turned one last week! we are soooo excited! He is still a joy to have around. He recently started his mommy separation anxiety but he is usually quite happy. I am so glad the Lord saw fit to put him in our family. He is such a delight in our home.

Here is a little video to enjoy from his birthday-day since we actually had his party the day after.

Trip to Colorado

2009-08-06T08:08:00.000-07:00

Denver Ranch:
On our way out camping for our family reunion with my family, we first stopped in Dallas, TX to spend the weekend with the Foulgers. we had a lot of fun and are so thankful for them letting us stay and visit with them. Somehow we didn't take any pictures but we did have a lot of fun swimming while burning, and seeing UP in 3d that was awesome!

We then drove up to Denver where coincidently Sarah and her family were there for her friend's wedding and spent a day with her with the hospitality of the Braherds. It was so nice to meet them and see all their animals. Here are some pictures of some of them.

FISHING:

Eventually we made it to camp and had soooo much fun with everybody. The girls of course loved spending all day with their cousins, running around, and getting filthy everyday! Here are some pictures of when we went fishing.

S'MORE FUN:

Of course we had to make s'mores...camping just isn't camping without s'mores. Here are some captured moments.

We went camping at Jellystone Park in Estes Park so of course the girls needed a picture with Yogi! My parents got all the grandkids lunchboxes with Yogi, Boo-Boo, and Cindy Bear on the front.

HIKING:
we were camping right next to Rocky Mountain National Park so we did some hiking up there in the mountains and had so much fun. The kids did amazing and actually had very little complaining about the distance and such. It was awesome!

Here are Aiselyn and Abby with their cousins Lydia and Elyse.

Lydia, Connor, Ethan, Aiselyn, and Abby by the river.

Here's me diving off a huge boulder to the rapids below!

Not really, I was scared out of my pants being that high and close to the edge. I don't particularly care for heights, to say the least!

Here's my muscle man!

Here's some of us hiking.

This is us on a boulder by a waterfall we hiked to.

Here is us by the waterfall with my parents.

SCENERY:

Gabe at 10 months

2009-06-17T12:02:00.000-07:00

Once again I have slacked on keeping up with my blog. Well, I guess Gabe is still 10 and half months old so that isn't too bad. He is still quite happy and is great to be around. Here he is playing with a fireman hat and being so adorable.
Here I am with Gabe

Here is Gabe on his 10 month birthday

Gabe just started crawling yesterday so now he is officially mobile. He still pretty much refuses to use his legs so he doesn't pull himself up yet to cruise or even walk with us holding onto his arms. Check out this video, you can kind of see how he crawls. He does what I call a frog crawl. His legs are out to the side as if he were doing a breaststoke. He was dragging them but today he started to actually move his knees as well. He has come a long way in the last couple of weeks or so. Way to go champ!!! I will still try to get better angles of his crawl to better capture his awesome moves!! OH! we also got a kitten about a month ago. He is also in this video as well as the girls of course. Some friends of ours had kittens and the first one out was a red/orange ball of fur so they named it Tommy Krebs. It turns out that he eats a lot and is still red/orange and has a lot of hair so it is true to his namesake! He is a lot of fun and is really good with the kids which is a really good thing since Gabe can now chase after him and likes to pull his ears and tail. Poor kitty, good job, Gabe. Show him who is boss!!!!

pool fun

2009-06-17T11:41:00.001-07:00

I finally got the pool out for the kids and they have been having a blast to say the least! Here are some pictures of them.

Here is Aiselyn with Gabe

Here is Abby getting ready to do some sliding

Here is Gabe. I don't think he stopped splashing for a whole 10 seconds at a time. He LOVED it! The bummer part...he does this in the bath tub as well and is just a royal mess. But he sure enjoys himself!!!

This is a video of the kids playing around in the pool! I don't know why it took me so long to set up the pool. It has been warm for quite a while and it gives me a nice break while they are having fun. Tommy is out of town for the next couple of days sooooo guess what kids? Lots of swimming for you!!!!!!

Trip to Naperville, Illinois--my hometown!

2009-05-11T07:22:00.000-07:00

So we drove up for the weekend to Naperville where I grew up and Jon and his wife Wendy and still living to bless their twin boys, Evan and David. We had a lot of fun and packed as much visiting as we could in about a day and a half. It seemed like it flew too quickly but it was a lot of fun seeing my parents and grandparents and Jon and his family and old friends. Here is a picture on the blessing day.

Gabe with Great-Grandpa Smith. Aren't they so cute together!

Gabe playing with Granny, my mother!

Here we are at Olive Garden. My parents took us out for my birthday dinner and I have been craving Olive Garden's salad and breadsticks so that is where we went. This is the best picture that our waiter took. It is sad, underexposed, dark, and heads chopped off. The other pictures had people completely cut out so this one is the best we got. Sorry, Dad and Gabe, you're only half way there.

Gabe is having his first taste of garlic bread and loving it! I think he ate a whole breadstick himself and made a beautiful mess of buttery slobber all over his shirt, but he had fun doing it!

Abby is wearing Papa's shoes and posing. Papa is actually sleeping on the floor right behind her. It was a long morning! Isn't Abby precious? I love you, girly-girl!

Here we met up with the Harrises at Gartner Park by my old home. The girls all had fun playing at the playground and in the sand/mud. This is my Abby and Aiselyn and Abby Harris.

Abby on the playground!

Here is me with Cindy Harris. I miss this woman. She was a great young women advisor, teacher and example and I loved babysitting for her kids when I was younger. Kids grow up too fast in my opinion! But it was great visiting for an hour while Ben had his soccer game.

Here is all of us after the soccer game. Hilary was there but somehow snuck out of the picture. It's too bad that Theo and Rachel couldn't have been there too, it would have been nice to see them too. Thanks so much Harrises for being so great. I miss you guys and we'll visit again next time we come up!

It was nice to go back home and visit and remember the good old times. We got to stay with the Rosa family but somehow I don't have any pictures of them. Thanks so much for putting us up and letting us eat your food and ice cream and for letting the girls play with all your dolls and toys. We had so much fun!

Gabe 9 months

2009-05-11T07:02:00.000-07:00

So Gabe turned 9 months old two weeks ago and now I am putting up some pictures to savor his beautiful face. He is such a delightful baby even though is has been miserable the last month or more teething. He is quick to smile and wave hello and loves to explore as any boy should. he loves to splash and make big messes in the bath tub and loves anyone who will give him attention. I am so grateful to my Father in Heaven for sending this wonderful son into my life! I love you Gabe!

Gabe the buffer man

2009-04-29T10:12:00.000-07:00

So Gabe has acquired a new skill. This is a fun video to enjoy.

catch up...again!

2009-04-27T07:41:00.000-07:00

I have been a huge slacker lately with updating my blog and everything else for that matter. So let me just catch up a little bit. I turn 29 in just two days and then Gabe turns 9 months on Thursday so hopefully it won't take too long till I get another post up. We have all been pretty sick lately. Abby has had a cold and cough for like a month and I went to take the girls in last Friday to the doctor and turns out that they both have strep, so at least they will be good and healthy for our trip this weekend to Chicago to see my brother Jon and Wendy to bless their new twin boys. Well, to top things off, I got sick on Saturday, sharing...and gracing...my guts with the toilet bowl all day. I'm still not 100 percent but I'm not throwing up at least. Gabe's had a cold and teething for a few weeks and hasn't eaten very well, and has lost a bit of weight but I think he is starting to eat a bit more now. Tommy is doing well at work and took great care of the kids on Saturday while I tried to stay in bed and away from the bathroom. I sure love that guy! Well, enough of the woes, and here are bigger and better things that have happened of late!

This is a video of Gabe when he turned 8 months old so it is about a month old but it is cute.

Here are some pictures of the kids taking baths and having fun together. I just love it when they all get along...I guess that really only goes for the older two, but I'm sure you all know what I mean when there is peace and harmony.

Here is a video of the kids when we were in Maryland at Grandma and Grandpa Krebs's house. We met up to spend the weekend sight seeing D.C. again with our good friends MaryIrene and Jeffrey Allen with their wonderful boys Elliot and Sam.

These are some pictures down at the family farm in Virginia taken just a couple of weeks ago. Gabe is sporting the semi truck and Aiselyn is going to the rodeo! Somehow I don't have anything of Abby--poor girl!

This is the capitol building in D.C. with the beautiful tulips in front of the botanical gardens. It was so pretty!

Here is me with MaryIrene and Gabe inside the botanical gardens...I don't recall what kind of pretty flowers we are by...maybe irises. Ya got me! I don't know! But they look good and we aren't bad either!

Here are Aiselyn and Elliot playing underneath an airplane or something at the Air and Space Museum. They had a lot of fun together during this trip!And here is our cute little family in front of a spaceship. Doesn't that just catch the moment?

Finally here is a fun video of the girls doing their ballerina tricks.

I love my family so much, I am so glad that Heavenly Father has sent them into my life. I just hope and pray that I can do what He intends me to do with them especially these wonderful children. Sure they make me want to pull my hair out at times but they really are some of the best little kids one could ever ask for. Aiselyn loves to learn and get bigger and is reading really well now, Abby is just a bunch of fun and loves to follow Aiselyn around and does voice her opinion quite well...she is a red head after all. Gabe is just a bunch of fun as well. He is very laid back and still doesn't have any desire to roll over or cruise or anything which is really fine with me...he sits up and plays with his toys and is happy. One of these days he will get up and start walking I am sure...but I can wait. Tommy and I celebrate our 8th wedding anniversary next week. I can't believe it has been that much time already. We are very much still in love and he makes the outside of our house look good while I usually tackle the inside. It works out pretty well! Until next time--peace out!

Snow fun in Georgia

2009-03-03T07:07:00.000-08:00

Here is Aiselyn the morning after our snowfall. This apparently is what she deems warm. She has no socks on and her crocs. Granted she did listen to change into her tennis shoes later. She kept going out to walk around in the snow making footprints throughout the day and that is saying a lot for my children. For some reason they don't care to spend that much time outside. She spent a lot of the day out there...so less stress for me!

This is our first snowman....a whole whopping six inches tall. This was at the beginning of the snowfall right after church so there wasn't that much snow yet, but we had no idea we were going to get as much snow as we did.

This is the second snowman that Tommy threw together for some reason with the shovel on our back porch/deck. It is special. Both of these snowmen only took about three minutes or less to build. but we got maybe four inches on snow at our house and that is amazing for Georgia, right. I can't say I love it, but it does bring back some memories of living elsewhere. It is cold though!

Here is a picture of our house on Monday morning after the snowfall on Sunday. It does look very pretty I do have to give snow that much credit.

This is a video of "our" snowball fight. The girls were having fun with their daddy!

Here is a video of us making our first and quick dinky, little snowman!

I am glad for the girls' sake that we got some snow since Aiselyn has been asking for some all winter long, but I am also glad it is just about all melted. It was fun while it lasted, but I am more looking forward to the 70's by the end of the week!

Gabe is 6 months old!

2009-02-18T15:22:00.000-08:00

Okay, so I know that Gabe is 61/2 months old now and practically seven months but I guess pictures are better now than never. But for some credit these have been taken over the last couple of weeks!

This one is what I call the "Wuz up?" face. For those tv watchers: remember the super bowl commercials from a few years ago with everyone saying, "wuz up?" with their tongues hanging out? well, that is what I think of whenever Gabe does this!

Gabe almost rolling over but refusing to finish the process! Just hangin' out on his side. I know all kids do this it seems, but it never ceases to amaze me why not just roll over already?

Gabe likes to try to grab his bottle as soon as he spots it. These are of him trying to drink it himself. Maybe someday, he will actually get some!!!

"Hey, Mom! You lookin' at me?"

This one is at the Fancy Nancy party at the library! He is dressed up in what I deem his best outfit!

Playing in his jumperoo! I try to catch his smiles, but the flash always stuns him!

This video is of Gabe playing, he wasn't doing a whole lot this time, but at least you can see him jumping which is cute!

This video is also of him playing but he really isn't doing much at all. But you can hear the girls playing in the background which is pretty cute!

I love my cute, little squirts. They drive me crazy a LOT, but I sure do love them!

Hair cuts!!!

2009-02-18T12:02:00.001-08:00

So we three girls wanted to be triplets, so here we are! It is a lot of fun and so much easier to deal with hair so short...and less tangles! Yipee!

The girls' Fancy Nancy Party

2009-02-18T11:45:00.000-08:00

here is Gabe during the party being such a good boy. He is about 61/2 months old now--maybe I will put up some little videos of him soon.

Abby and Aiselyn are dressed up and ready to go to their party at the library featuring the Fancy Nancy books.

Here is a group picture with all the kids that came. Aiselyn and Abby are on the right side by Mrs. Debora who's in charge of these story time things every Thursday morning.

The girls listening to the story being read.

Here they are waiting so that they can eat and partake of the wonderfull goodies set before them. They had so much fun at this little party and they had been talking about going for a whole month. Everyday they would ask me, "is it the fancy nancy party today?" I'm glad it turned out well.

Eating the goodies!

Since it was the Thursday just before Valentine's Day, some of us passed out valentines for the little kids. It was the first time I have done valentines since I was a kid in elementary school, so I probably had more fun than they did even though they were the only ones that got the candy to eat. :(

catching up on a whole lot!!!--Gabe 5 months then Christmas in Arizona

2009-01-21T06:51:00.000-08:00

So I have a ton to catch up on. I have been super busy it seems since we got back from Christmas vacation--what with cub scouts and preparing lessons to teach in relief society and talks for sacrament meeting and cleaning the house and Abby's birthday and putting away Christmas decorations. It has been a mad house around here!

Here is Gabe at 5 months attempting food for the first time!

It didn't go too well at first! These are just gabe and the rest of the family during the past month since he is almost 6 months now.

These pictures are from Abby's 4th birthday party we had this past weekend! She wanted a pink princess castle cake.

Blowing out the candles which she still hasn't got the hang of at 4 years old!

We went to Bass Pro Shop one day in Arizona and they had a Santa there. The girls thought that was pretty cool. He handed out those little peppermint candy canes and they wouldn't eat them because they are minty! Silly girls!

The girls in a tent there at Bass Pro Shop

Tommy in jail at a cool park in Arizona

Aiselyn and Abby opening presents on Christmas in Mesa, AZ

They love to lift little weights for exercise so we got them some for Christmas. Here, Abby had been posing for pictures for quite awhile and her face shows it. Awesome!

We all went to this cool park with a carousel and riding train and slides and things. This one is of us three mothers carrying our babes (me and gabe, my sister Kristi and Charlie, and my sister-in-law with Amaya--I hope I am spelling her name right) I love you guys!

Me, Gabe, my mother, and my sister Kristi

Aiselyn playing in the sand looking way cute!

Aiselyn and Abby playing on the playground.

Here we are on the carousel. Tommy was taking the pictures!

This is the cool train we got to ride. This was actually on Christmas Eve so the place was closing up, but at night there would have been really cool lights to go through and see during the train ride...too bad we couldn't have done that too, but still it was way cool!

This was pretty cute. Aiselyn is in the red train with her cousin Lydia, Ethan is in the snowman, Abby is in the penguin, Tommy is in the elf, and my brother Bryan is in the background with Connor.

Abby and Daddy

Abby put on her uncle Rob's old football helmet one morning. Isn't she cute?

Gabe was enjoying her show!

The cousins were all playing dress up together. Lydia, Aiselyn, Abby, and Ethan. The dresses were huge on them and they kept slipping all over the floors. It was really funny but they kept getting back up and trying to lift the dresses to walk. Silly kids!

The kids all glued to the tube one morning. Can you guess what show they were watching?

Answer: The Backyardigans. I thought it interesting that the show came out so well. I guess it really is a super awesome new tv, dad!

Gabe is 4 months!!!

2008-12-06T08:00:00.000-08:00

Gabe is getting to be sooooo much fun, I tell you what! He loves to laugh and giggle especially when you tickle him. He is incredibly ticklish especially on his feet. He smiles whenever I look at him so of course I want to take his picture, but it tends to be difficult because he gets startled by my flash. I've tried to turn it off, but then the picture isn't very good. Here is the best I could do to keep his smiles there!

The girls love to hold Gabriel and in these pictures, Aiselyn insisted that it was her special baby's birthday as well, so these two pictures are of Aiselyn, Abby, and the birthday kids--special baby and Gabe!

Here is another attempt to keep Gabe's smile long enough to catch. I lubba lubba lubb this baby boy (FYI: lubba lubba lubb means basically love love love). Happy Birthday Gabe even though it was a week ago!

More Halloween Fun

2008-12-05T13:32:00.001-08:00

So in an earlier post, I mentioned that I had more Halloween pictures that needed to get from my friend. Well, I got them! They are so cute. Here is Aiselyn still as Dorothy from Wizard of Oz and Abby as a frog with some silly smirk on her face. I love these silly girls!

Here is Tommy and Gabe as Mini-Me. I finally found something for Tommy to "dress-up" as for Halloween. He is really a Scrouge for holidays but I'm trying to work on him.

Here is a better close-up to see Gabe's beard. They really do look alike don't they? I love these two men in my life!

Gabe's three month birthday

2008-11-20T08:07:00.000-08:00

Gabe saying, "hey, did you just take my picture. You sly thing, you!" these are taken on this three month birthday which was a few weeks ago. He turns 4 months in a week and a half, so I will put new pictures up soon from that. Isn't he cute?
Aiselyn holding Gabe and enjoying each other. Aiselyn is now 5 and thinks she is practically a grown up kid. She always wants to move gabe around and wants to walk around with him but at least I have kept that part at bay. I am not ready for her to do that yet, plus he is only getting bigger and heavier, but of course, cuter too! Talk about a miniature Tommy. In fact, for halloween we drew a red beard on Gabe and matched his clothes to Tommy's and made him Mini-Me. I really hope we can get those pictures from our friend soon.

This is a little snippet video of Gabe's cousin Katie singing a song to him. Gabe loooooves attention!!!

Is this house shifting?

2008-11-20T07:53:00.000-08:00

This is a sculpture in D.C. It was so cool. check it out and try and figure out what is happening.

I know it is really shaky from the walking, but isn't it cool how it looks like the house moves, yet is doesn't all because of the way it was designed. Is it deception or plain cleverness?

to be or not to be! hmmmmm, that IS the question!

Washington D.C.

2008-11-19T13:41:00.001-08:00

Here is the only Halloween picture I have so far. We all dressed up for our fall festival halloween party for our branch only I forgot our camera and have still yet to get them from our friends. But, here is Aiselyn at least in her Dorothy outfit. Abby was too tired from trekking D.C. all day and didn't feel like going to the halloween party at the nature center in MD.

Here is a picture Tommy took of the Korean War Memorial. This means a lot to Tommy especially because his grandfather (Grandpa Pinkard) fought in this war. Isn't a really pretty picture?

the Krebs family with my best friends the allen family who came down from NY to sight see D.C. with us. There is Jeffrey, Elliot, MaryIrene, Sam, Tommy, Abby, Gabe (in the carseat), me, and Aiselyn. Those kids did such a great job with all that walking. I know that my girls have never done anything like this before so I am extremely proud of them.

Here we all are during our sight seeing hours. Gabe did amazingly well being bundled all day in his little wrap strapped to his dear old mom for two days!

Oh, the life of city squirels. I guess I can't deny the craving for Dorito chips!

Aiselyn and Abby in front of the Lincoln Memorial. They sure look small compared to that big man.

and we're not too much bigger!

Tommy took this picture early one morning. He and Jeffrey woke up early and caught the sunrise on the buildings. This one is of the Washington Memorial for those who might not know what this is. I think he did a bang up job...don't you?

The thinking bunny? Pretty interesting sculpture. I think it looks pretty cool with the sun hidden behind it and the bright blue sky.

we had so much fun that weekend spending time with the Allens and of course Tommy's family too. It was the best vacation we've had in a really long time. I love seeing old friends especially when it has been like 4 years since we have last seen each other yet there was absolutely no awkwardness at all. What I mean is that it didn't seem like even a day had passed since we were last together. I love you guys!

Amicolola Falls and Apple Pickin' Fun

2008-11-19T13:05:00.001-08:00

We took a two hour trip up to Ellijay last month to pick apples and also swung into see these falls that were close by. It was beautiful. It also had a scenic trail that wrapped all around and stuff but we only walked a little bit of it for there were A LOT of stairs. I didn't think the girls would have made it especially without a stroller.

Here the girls are standing by a little bridge crossing over a little stream.

Here Aiselyn and Abby are leaning over the lookout at top falls. I don't think I could have done that. Heights don't agree with me that much. I get really dizzy or leg wobbley or something. Needless to say, I didn't look over that far especially carrying Gabe!

The lookout from top falls. It was just beautiful. The only thing that could have made it better would be if we waited a few more weeks till the trees had ALL turned. That would be a sight.

Here's the family at the apple orchard in Ellijay, GA. We brought home 2 bushelful of apples to make a whole bunch of applesauce. My oh, my is that some good stuff we made up!

Tommy picking apples. Isn't he cute!

Aiselyn picking her share of apples and having a grand ole time.

Abby having too much fun picking apples. She got so excited, she often wouldn't wait for us to tell her which ones were the right ones to pick. The birds got a few apples for dinner--a nonintentional gift from Abby.

We had so much fun on that long drive and at the orchard. Inside we bought cider slushies, pear slushies, hot apple fried pies, and cider doughnuts. It was soooooo good. Their cider wasn't the best I had because it really only tasted like apple juice instead of tangy cider, but all-in-all it was a lot of fun!

more aiselyn party pictures

2008-11-19T12:27:00.001-08:00

Aiselyn with her book called Pinkalicious from Granny. It is quite a cute book.

Here Aiselyn got a Barbie Mariposa doll or something or other. She and Abby love playing with it and the wings are already kind of broken or at least won't stay on for very long.

There are several more pictures I have with Aiselyn holding up more presents mainly clothes which I will spare you all that. I love my kids, they can be quite silly!

catch up

2008-11-19T10:22:00.000-08:00

So my sister, Kristi, has helped me set this here blog business up. I am excited! First off I want to probably put up some pictures of Aiselyn's 5th birthday that was October 20th. She had a lot of fun posing for each and every gift but I won't post all of them for they were a quite a few.

Here is the cake I made for Aiselyn. She wanted a puppy cake so this is what she got. I tried to make the dog two toned, but I messed up on the frosting. One of these days I will post a bunch of the cakes I have decorated. My friend MaryIrene has suggested that so I suppose I can appease her! I love you MI! Here are some more pictures of Aiselyn and the party.

so my set up is being weird so I am going to post another blog with more of her pictures!