The Magic Tree House

While we were in Kansas for Thanksgiving and Dylan’s blessing we were able to get more cute photos of the kids.

Clark and I have our arms full in this one.

Handsome Ethan:

Adorable Carly:

Serious Gavin:

Goofy Jonathan:

Cutie Pie Dylan:

Dylan was blessed last November in Kansas.  We felt very blessed to be able to go to Kansas and have another baby blessing done at Clark’s grandfathers home.  It was great to share this special time with family we haven’t seen in a long time.  So glad that most of the Jarvis clan could make it.

Last November we were able to go out on a beautiful day with my parents and get some updated family photos.  For those who live locally we went to Katherine Fleischer park in Wells Branch. 

Family with Grandma and Grandpa:

Family:

Clark and Crystal:

Ethan:

Carly:

Gavin:

Jonathan:

Dylan:

Well that is, he turned 2 last November.  Jonathan is a sweet boy who is living up to the name “terrible two’s”.  He loves his baby brother Dylan.  He thinks all babies are called Dylan.  He talks to Dylan in a sweet voice.  Jonathan does not like his older brother Gavin as much, they have true sibling rivalries, he does not talk to Gavin in the same sweet voice.  Other things Jonathan loves to do are play with trains, get into everything, play outside, get into everything, read books, and did I mention get into everything?

Well Jonathan had fun little birthday where we learned he was afraid of the candles.  Every time we lit candles to sing Happy Birthday he would start crying.  Kind of sad and funny at the same time. I ended up blowing out the candle for his birthday muffin, but as you can see he enjoyed eating the muffin very much.

And for his birthday cake he stuck to me and let Carly and Ethan blow out the candles.

He loved opening his present at snail speed. It was killing the other kids to watch him open it so slowly.

Ahhh, finally finished with a bit of help from Mommy.

My little baby is growing so fast.  I have failed in my attempts to keep up with blogging once again.  Here are some updated pictures of Dylan who is 4.5months now.  He is such a sweet baby, who loves to coo and talk to anyone.  His only dislike is letting mommy sleep at night,  but he is getting a little better.

This years Halloween was great.  We only attended one event, the church Halloween party, and we had a blast. I think every ones favorite part was the dance in the parking lot, the kids loved dancing!  Also the kids didn’t come home with too much candy, which pleased me tremendously. 

Ethan was Darth Vader.

Carly was Belle from Beauty and the Beast.

Gavin was Thomas again, but at least he wore the costume this year

Jonathan was a cowboy who didn’t want to wear his hat.

And Dylan was just cute!

My little girl is growing up fast too.  She was so excited to turn 6, she feels a lot older now. 

Here she is with her morning cinnamon roll and opening gifts.

One of the things she wanted most this year was a birthday party with friends on her actual birthday.  They had a blast making fairy wands and necklaces.  They all dressed up and danced to music from Tinkerbell.  It was so cute to watch them dance and pretend to be fairies. 

This year Carly wanted a butterfly birthday cake and she drew out the design on paper and Clark copied it exactly for her in icing on the cake.

One of the biggest changes this year in Carly is how long her hair has gotten and she has matured in a lot of ways. She loves helping taking care of Dylan and Jonathan and she is such a blessing to this family and adds some girliness to this clan of boys we have in this household.  Her favorite things to do is to try to capture butterflies and play dress up with her friends.  We love you so much Carly girl!!!  Please stay little forever

For those of you who know Gavin, you know how difficult it is for us to cut his hair. We even tried bribing several family members a hundred bucks if they would get his hair cut for us, they figured out quickly it wasn’t worth trying.  Gavin is extremely scared of getting his hair cut and it takes two or more people to get the job done.  Well one day I had enough with how long his hair was getting and so Clark and I tackled the beast

Oh and this took place in October, so hopefully we can get 6months out of this haircut before the next.

Here he is trying to run away in his car from us, can you see his concern?

Afterwards, much better!!!

This past July we were able to take a trip to Galveston for the day to go the beach.  The kids had so much fun and I think I was the only one who got sunburned.  I forgot to put sunscreen on my legs and boy did that hurt for a couple of days afterwards. 

This is me very pregnant with Dylan relaxing with Jonathan, the water was so warm.  And Gavin, he wouldn’t  go past ankle deep in the water, he was too scared.

Cutie Jonathan and no front teeth Ethan