♥ My Cutie Pie ♥

This is my oldest handsome son Gavin's 1st grade photo from school! Doesn't he look like a little college preppy boy? He really needed a haircut but we weren't able to squeeze one in, in time. He likes to get his hair buzzed really short and lately has been asking to get it "bald" like daddy's!! Brian offers to do it for him in his "garage barber shop" but Gavin always yells "NOOOO" and runs away! LOL He is such a character; I cannot believe that he will be 8 in July:( Time has flown by WAY too fast with him! I look at him now and listen to the things he says and can't help but believe that he will be "something" VERY SPECIAL one day! He told me today that when he grows up he wants to be a VOLCANOLOGIST!!! Whoa baby:) And I have not doubt that if he sets his mind to it, he will be!!

What do your children say they want to be when they "grow up"? Or if your children are grown, did they "become" what they always wanted to be?? Ever since kindergarten I have wanted to be a teacher and a mom; I have accomplished one of those! Just wish I was paid for being a mom!! LOL

Have a great night girls!
♥'s Noelle

The WAIT is over...

OMG!! My boy is a STUD MUFFIN and he knows it!!

Here is my hunka, hunka burning love again posing for the camera!
WHAT A HAM!

Here is Gavin the Ring Bearer and Jill the Flower Girl!

I would have never thought to do a collage like this!

Gavin was so excited to ride in the limo!

I wasn't too thrilled about the Miller Lite bottles...

THE HAPPY COUPLE: AMIE AND DAN!

So, my future sister and brother in law got married on June 7th and I have been dying to see some of the collages that their photographer put together. This woman is AMAZING! She (Robin) is so creative when she shoots! My oldest son Gavin was the ring bearer in their wedding and I watched when Robin was shooting him alone and I knew she was going to come up with something GOOD! So here are some long-awaited shots that Robin combined into her famous "collage" style 8x10's that she creates.

The exciting part... Brian and I booked her as our photographer for our 11/14/09 wedding! Can I just say that I CANNOT WAIT!!

Graduation time...

PROUD Parents with their Precious Son

(yep, thats me and daddy)

~Gavin with his Kindergarten Teachers~

Gavin the Graduate-- 2008

My sweetie Gavin graduated from Kindergarten this past Wednesday!! I cannot believe how fast his first year of elementary school has gone by; not to mention that he will be turning 7 in July! I remember being single w/o kids thinking how the year couldn't go by fast enough- I was bored with life and didn't know what to do with myself! When Gavin was born, it seemed like I blinked one day and then he was 1 year old! Time FLIES by when you have children; you are so busy tending to their every need and juggling work, home life and all of that other not so fun stuff.

I am so proud of Gavin! He is such a kind-hearted, intelligent and funny little boy. He loves his momma so much and is the BESt big brother is the world! When Gavin comes home from school, he and Gage are inseperable. That little guy sure misses his big bro when he is at school. I look forward to our trips to the zoo, pool, fair and much more this summer!

Happy 1st Birthday to my Sweet Cheeks!

Mmmmm... 1st birthday Smash Me cake!

I think these Shades were his favorite gift!! What a ham!

Happy 1st Birthday, Sweet Cheeks!

Big Brother Gavin holding Gage! Only a couple weeks old!

Its hard to believe that it has been one year since my baby boy Gage was born! Time goes by too fast when you have children. Our Gage is a true blessing and miracle in our lives! I suffered 2 miscarriages prior to getting pregnant with him. They both happened over a span of 7 months. After the 2nd miscarriage, we had a bunch of blood work done on me and found out that I had developed a genetic blood clotting disorder, Factor V Leiden syndrome, along with 4 other disorders. So this disorder puts one at increased risk for internal blood clots, but it only affected me while I was pregnant. At about 8 weeks pregnant, clots would begin to form in the blood vessels of the placenta, which would restrict the baby from proper nutrients, etc. essential to his/her growth. So the baby would start to "die" at 8 weeks and stop growing. At almost 12 weeks was when I began to spot and miscarry.

I had to have a D&C with the first miscarriage which was AWFUL! I knew that the baby was no longer alive, but I couldn't part with him/her. I didn't want that baby taken from me! My oldest son is 6 1/2 now and I had a completley healthy and normal pregnancy with him. So he is a MIRACLE too.

When I finally got pregnant after the 2nd miscarriage, I had to inject myself twice a day in the belly with Heparin, a blood thinner. SCARY! OUCH! I did this till 39 weeks when my labor was induced, to prevent me from going into labor on my own and risking hemorraging because my blood was water thin. Baby Gage came out PERFECT and gorgeous on April 16, 2007.

So this post is dedicated to my sweet and loving miracle baby Gage. Happy 1st Birthday sweetie! You are the GREATEST gift!

I did a little shopping today...

Well, as a mother of two, I don't get much time to got out and shop by myself. So I finished work a little early today and decided to go spend one of the gift cards I got for Christmas from a local HUGE scrapbook store here called Pages In Time. I had our wedding on the brain when I went there so I found a couple packs of pretty wedding related stickers.

My oldest boy will be graduating Kdg. in May so I found so adorable kdg. graduation stickers for his book and he also will be taking a swim class at our local YMCA next week during his spring break, so I found so fun swimming/water themed stickers that I thought would make a cute page! I find that the older he gets the less pictures I have of him; I think its that when they get older, you aren't in there face as much with a camera like you would when they were a baby. They don't change as often, you know? I feel bad when I look at his current album:( So with our soon-to-be 1 year old- I have TONS of pics of him this year because he is changing so often! I love having the 2 of them because I can take lots of Big Bro, Little Bro pics to add into both of their albums! But, I don't get to work on my albums too often anymore! That is terrible considering that I am a Creative Memories consultant and have people over to MY house to scrapbook!! And yet I can't keep up on mine.... ugh!

And for Baby Gage, I FINALLY found Blue's Clues' stickers.. talk about an exciting moment! Gage loves Blues Clues; when he hears the theme song, he will stop dead in his tracks and will watch the tv. My older son Gavin loved Blue at this age too, coincidence maybe??

So I will add in pics of the cute finds from my shopping trip today for you to see!

Happy Scrapping:)