Happy Halloween

Cali Trip

DUCKS

Duck Season Begins!!

Visiting Family

He's Got My Smile!

Here comes Gavin!

Gavin Getting Around...

Easter Pictures

Gavin's First Easter!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Pictures from Gavin's Blessing

Gavin Randal Henrikson was blessed on Sunday March, 5th 2006 by his daddy Ammon. Those who were apart of the blessing circle were: Grandpa Randal Whipple, Grandpa Gary Taylor, Great Grandpa Ellsworth Moon, Great Grandpa Buddy Miller, Mike Furgason, Rick Gamez, Trace Stanley, Scott Leatham and Ric Ferguson.

Family that came out for the blessing: Great Grandma & Grandpa Miller, Great Grandma & Grandpa Moon, Grandma & Grandpa Taylor and Aunt Heidi Balderee.

Gavin is very lucky to have so many people that love him!!

Rock & Roll

Our boy Gavin looking particularly handsome!

Gavin is learning to roll, Ammon is learning to catch wiggling babies and I am learning how to worry. If anyone has any ideas on how to super glue a helmet onto a child's head for life I'm all ears. Is it just boys in general who are missing that part of the brain that indicates the numerous ways that things could go wrong? Ammon was watching the baby when Gavin decided to start rolling-off the desk-into Ammon's awaiting lap. Fortunately for Gavin he seeems to have inherited his father's brilliant resilliance and appears to be mostly indestructible. Though, I don't intend to test his limitations anytime soon-is it possible to pad the floors of your entire home?

Gavin slept through the night!! Now if only I could stay asleep; I kept trying to feed the baby and he just kept ignoring me. I doubt that its a trend yet, but its nice to have a glimpse of things to come.

Do bomb squads respond to dirty diaper calls? I have no idea how to safely contain some of these explosions. Plastic bag pants are just so hard to find. I'm researching the option of installing a detoxification center off the patio-I'm thinking James Bond-Dr. No-Radiation Removal-A conveyer belt with varying degrees of fire hose intensity based on the level of contamination...That should do it.

New Beginnings

Ammon has spent the last month reluctantly closing the skatepark. The city shut us down just before Christmas and then the city went on vacation and demanded thousands of dollars for us to re-open, which we could have paid...had we been OPEN...with the loss of revenue from being closed we ended up too far behind on rent and other expenses. We see this as a tremendous opportunity to do things better the next time around. In the meantime we are now both pursuing real estate and putting our skatepark visions on the backburner for now.

Lucky us, with the closing of this chapter in our lives comes the exciting beginning of our adventures as parents! You hear it all the time and it is a tad cliche but nothing prepares you for the awesomeness (as in "to inspire awe"-not totally tubular) of being a mom! Gavin is growing SO fast. He's just over a month old and he's already in his 3-6 month clothes. He's started smiling when I blow raspberries on his tummy, I cannot wait until he laughs!