Gavin's Egg Hunt

He's Alive!

Gavin has been saying, "He's Alive!" all weekend in reference too, of course, the fact that Christ is risen! In church this morning, Gavin's class made some megaphones so that they can proclaim this even louder! Our service was great this morning. Everyone was so excited about Easter and it's true meaning. I loved that. It gets so commercialized these days, it was nice to be in God's house praising and thanking Him for all He has done for us. At my parents church they call today Resurrection Sunday, instead of Easter Sunday.

Gavin had a great Easter and week leading up to it. In addition to learning all about the Easter story (which I am pretty confident he can now repeat back to you), he also received MANY Easter treats. It all started on Monday or Tuesday when we got a package from Grandma Sue. Then on Thursday we got a package from Grandma Addy with LOTS of candy and the Little Einsteins Rocket Ship. Then this morning we had our Egg hunt at home. Gavin lives for this. It is more exciting to him than even Christmas. We watch his egg hunt from last year on the computer all the time and he just couldn't wait for it this year. When he woke up this morning and I went into his room (because he STILL will not get out of bed unless I come in his room and tell him he can get up!) he had a HUGE grin on his face. He was ready! So we got him up and he found his basket and opened up some Easter presents and then he did his egg hunt. Then it was off to church, which I already mentioned. After church we went over to Ryan's aunt's house. Gavin calls her Nonnie. At Nonnie's house Gavin got ANOTHER Easter basket and got to do another egg hunt with his cousins. He is still in all his glory right now. I put all of his candy into a large zip lock bag and it is FULL. It is going to take up forever to get through all of this candy. And I am pretty sure that I will be the one eating most of it, unfortunately.


So, that is our Easter in a nut shell. Now, for the part you really want to see . . .

The Loot from Grandma Addy

The Loot from Mom and Dad

A self Family portrait before Church

My handsome boys in their Easter duds

Cutest kid EVER!

Sugar Crash

All Crouped Up

Gavin came down with croup on Friday and is still battling a horrible cold. His nose is running constantly and he is coughing so badly. It is so pathetic sounding. On Friday night he woke up in the night and was coughing so hard he was throwing up. He couldn't breathe and was so scared. He was freaking out a bit, and so were we! I was able to call our 24 hr. nurse help line and she gave me several suggestions for croup. It really was an aweful experience. I couldn't imagine a little baby getting it. I am glad that Gavin is at least able to tell me what is bothering him. He is a little dramatic with the whole thing. I was trying to call his Doctor on Saturday morning and Gavin was laying on the floor in the living room crying and saying, "I'm sick, mamma and you're not helping me!"

He is still having a rough time at night time. He has been waking up a lot in his sleep and coughing and crying. It's all a little sad, but I am just dying for a good nights sleep. I have not slept through the night since Friday. It's bringing me back to those newborn days. I don't know how I ever got through it.

Gavin was feeling quite a bit better yesterday so we decided to treat him to a movie. It was his first movie experience. It was so fun. I felt so excited, just like I was through all of his other milestones (not that this is considered a milestone). I kept asking him what he thought and if he liked it. He did pretty well. I thoguht he would want to get up a lot more than he did. It probably helped that he wasn't feeling all that well. Here are some pictures from our outing. I looked like a lunatic taking pictures of my kid at the movies, but I didnt care. I even saved our ticket stubs for his scrapbook!

We bought this kite the other day and Ryan couldn't wait to try it out. It was pretty cold outside, but the wind was FANTASTIC! We do live in the windy city! Gavin had fun, but I think that Ryan had the most fun of all!

Apartment Tour

For those of you who did not get to see this - Here is a video tour of our Apartment.

Trip to Michigan

Our trip to Michigan was fast but fun! We got to spend a day at my parents house and celebrated my nephew's first Birthday. My family is so fun and we had a great time. Gavin got to play with his cousin Jonas. He misses him so much! Leaving family was the hardest part about moving to Chicago. After we left my parents house we headed out to Ryan's family's neighborhood. We got to hand out with his brothers and their wives. They are our best friends and we really miss them dearly! We love getting together with them. Ryan's mom organized an Easter egg hunt for all of the grandkids. They had a super fun time with that and got an overload of candy, of course! On Sunday we went to our old Church - Harvest Bible Chapel - and got to see so many of our friends. We went out to lunch with a few of them. We really miss all of the friendships we had at our church. After that we went back to Ryan's parents house and had a scrapbooking evening with the girls. Every Dobbertin girl LOVES to scrapbook. I think that it may have been a prerequisite to joining the family! We started at about 3:00 and Laura and I went the longest and packed up our stuff at about 1 a.m. Then we stayed up and talked for two more hours! I didnt get to bed until 3:00! It was crazy, but I had a great time with Laura. I was really glad we got to spend that time together. And I was really glad that I have an AWESOME husband who let me sleep in on Monday morning, sleep most of the way home, take a nap when we got home and did all the laundry! Seriously, he deserves a medal for all of that! Well, here are some pictures from our trip! I hope you all had a great weekend as well!

Three of my favorite boys

Gavin and Jonas being silly

Herb putting up the balloons

Jonas being the cutest boy ever!

As we were pulling out

This is Gavin giving his version of a thumbs up

The traffic as we are leaving the city

The boys

Herb being emotional while watching Mason's video!

My brothers family

Addy Bauma and Gavin

Me and Mason - the birthday boy

Getting ready for the egg hunt

Aunt Kimmie -Hero of the day (she brought all the boys presents)

Sisters

This is what Pappa does most of the time

All the grandkids

Different, but good

Check out this video. It was shown at a church service that I attended recently. It is a little unusual, but very moving. It takes you a few minutes to get into it, but by the end I was in tears. It is a beautiful picture.