Gerving Family Fun

WOW it's the last week of May!

2009-05-27T06:41:00.000-07:00

Kindergarten bound...

2009-05-05T21:11:00.000-07:00

Today I signed my first born, sweet baby girl, princess of barbies, fun spirited, funny Melody up for kindergarten..Where did the time go?! 4 1/2 years of wonderful blessings...She makes us laugh and cry and pushes me to my mental limit..She truely is a gift. I am super excited for her to go to school. She mostly excited to ride the buss, not sure when I will let her?!

Does anyone remember this tiny baby???

Welcome Home Daddy !!

2009-04-11T07:24:00.000-07:00

The last day before spring break I picked up Melody from pre-school and this is how our conversation went...
she asked me, "Where are we going for vacation? South Padre Island or Disney Land?"
I said , "We aren't going anywhere."
Melody responded, " Well, can we have a party?"
I said, "OK what kind of party?"
Melody thought for a second and said.." A welcome home party for daddy."
I said, " Welcome home from where?"
Melody was very sure of herself and said, " A welcome home from work party!"

I thought, well why the heck not? Josh works very hard, gets up before the crack...why not have a surprise party. So Melody came up with the dinner plan...spaghetti and cupcakes. She had to keep the secret for a most a whole week. During that time she colored MANY pictures of princess to decorate the house with.

Thanks to our friends the Ihm's,Scarr's, Werley's, Ruby and half of the Demaree's :)

When Josh walked in the door, Melody was suppose to say, "Welcome Home" but as soon as her friends got here, she disappeared out side. So Josh walked through the door and was like...Uhh whats up?

He had a great time. He thought it was very sweet...The only problem was I forgot to take a picture of him..oops

We just love him and appreciate him for all he does for our family!

Let's Play

2009-04-10T06:48:00.000-07:00

Our church has a mom's playgroup. We went to Jump land for an outing.The kids loved it!

3/18/09

Human Hamster

2009-04-10T06:42:00.000-07:00

We went to "Taste of Collin County" a few weeks ago. They have a lot restaurants that show case their food plus a little entertainment. Tony Romo was supposed to be there, guess Jessica Simpson was in town, cuz he stood us up. Anyway, it was a fun way to eat lots of different things and see what restaurants we want to try. I ate waaaay to much..you know that uncomfortable feeling...Well they had this human hamster ball thing. Melody wanted to take it for a drive. It looked like alot of fun!

2/23/09

If Melody Had A Blog Spot

2009-04-08T21:17:00.000-07:00

Here is what u would see ...

No picture day

2009-04-07T20:56:00.000-07:00

Some days she just doesn't want to her picture taken!

Old Man Luke

2009-04-06T21:13:00.000-07:00

Not 100 % sure what Luke was doing here, but he looks like a old man. He is such a crack up!!

Silly Pictures

2009-04-03T20:49:00.000-07:00

Luke loves watching "Bob Pants"

Catan Night

2009-04-03T20:25:00.000-07:00

On Friday Nights The Scarr family comes over for a friendly game of Settlers of Catan. Its a fun game kind of like monopoly. Instead of building hotels you build settlements. And instead of money you trade with sheep,wheat, bricks and clay. Sounds fun, huh! We all have stickers on us because Melody went around and decorated us.

Found Them..and him!

2009-04-03T19:49:00.000-07:00

I finally found out were my pictures are being stored, not as easy as the old set-up! And this is what happens when I let Luke roam alone for a while. I was in the living room...house was quite..you know when it's Too Quite! I went in the pool room and there he was... He pulled up a bar stool and climbed on the table, then began to decorate Josh's praise team book. He was having a blast!

New Camera

2009-03-15T19:12:00.001-07:00

I finally got a new camera. The one I had frustrated me big time. If you very watched Jon N Kate plus 8, they had my old camera, it's so funny because she too would get frustrated on the show. I felt her pain every time. I have soooo many pictures to share but I can't figure out where the heck they are being saved on my computer...back to being frustrated!!!....save tuned...I am working on it!

Under Cover Brother

2009-02-25T20:02:00.000-08:00

When Luke sleeps he likes putting covers over his face...kind of makes me nervous. But if I take them off...he puts them back on. Anyway I put a child's music player that also makes light shapes in his crib. When I went to check on him, he fell asleep sitting up with his blanket over his face. So funny.

CD Pre-School

2009-02-25T19:47:00.000-08:00

Melody brought home a CD from school with different activities through out the school year.

Luke N the Box

2009-02-25T19:42:00.000-08:00

It's all fun until you can't get out...

Twin Fun!

2009-02-22T14:43:00.000-08:00

The day after valentines, my brother and wifee Monica loaded their van with their 4 boys. It was great to spend some time with them. The twins are getting huge!

This is Nate.

Nick and Nate having some Auntie time.

Nate with Uncle Josh.

Nick and Nate. They are almost 8 months!

Nick and Luke wanting to go for a walk.

Love day

2009-02-20T18:44:00.000-08:00

For Valentines day we headed to the zoo! It was a fun filled day.

I think the kids had more fun hanging with the statue animals!

Luke kept picking the gorilla's nose ...he is such a boy!

The zoo has a kids zone. The kids are sitting in an egg.
...good eggs...

Luke loves going around saying "duck". He has really started repeating EVERYthing!

My sweet Melody

Luke..oops I mean the monkeys.

My boys by the kangaroo's.

My Otter's!

Another statue moment.

Luke looking at the snake in the reptile house.

Turtle statue...and of coarse the kids.

Anteater's are so strange looking.

Melody giving me her warthog face.

I love the elephants. So did Luke.

The giraffes are so beautifully made.

Genesis 1:24-25 24 And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind." And it was so.God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind, and the cattle of every kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground of every kind. And God saw that it was good.

2/14/09

OH Poop

2009-02-17T18:43:00.000-08:00

Josh yells downstairs, "Babe! Bring the camera up. " I thought I was going to see a cute bubble face picture or something...Ummmm NO!

Birthday Weekend

2009-02-15T18:35:00.000-08:00

My wonderful friends and I went to GrapeVine for a night of fun and a day of shopping. I haven't been "Shopping" without one of my babies! We had a wonderful dinner after wards did a small about of dancing then back to the hotel. We slept in! Wonderful sleepin EXCEPT for a little snoring from the other bed and Darth Vader in mine...Heehee. The next day we shopped and shopped and shopped. Good times, good times

Christina and I bustin a dance move..or something?

Kim and Stephanie thinking..?

Looking Japanese..hey I was born in Japan, can't help it :)

Out side the Glass Cactus

At dinner. The Basketball game on was the Sacramento Kings! Miss the old days...Bobby! Chris!

Brush ah brush ah brush ah

The cargo van. Took us to dinner and back.

Awww, Christina feel asleep on the couch...

Gettin ready to go to the mall.

Packing up.

Yeah, to the mall we go.

WoW, i think the camera put a good 10 pounds on me...Am I really that fat!

Guess I shouldn't went for dessert!

January 31,2009

Launder Luke

2009-02-14T17:14:00.001-08:00

I know that this is not safe But i was able to grab the camera, get some shots and then spank him...so he will never do it again :) OK I didn't spank him.

Parker Fun

2009-02-14T17:09:00.000-08:00

Our dear friends, the Parker's, came into town. I think we are starting a tradition ...to have a yummy dinner at the Demaree's house. It's great fun to catch up on the Parker's exciting adventure of Jon become a priest, the growing boys, and seeing Amelia's beautiful face. Sweet Isabella.

Luke and Graham chowing down.

Melody really likes Warren.

January 9,2009

Go Fish

2009-02-14T17:05:00.000-08:00

Melody is starting to play card games. She use to get frustrated very easy and give up when we play games. Now she actually is having fun, so is daddy!

Bringing in the New Year

2009-02-10T18:05:00.000-08:00

We brought in the New Years with some of our closest friends. We all made it to 2am...yes, even the children. See all the confetti on the floor! We are still finding stings all over the house!

Here is Josh and I after midnight.

Bonnie and Clyde...I mean Randy...heehee

Stephanie and Mathew

Melody and Me

The boys showing us how to dance.

Kim saying, WAIT, I'll show you how to dance.

We all wrote one new year resolution and put it in a jar, we didn't sign our names to it. The object to the game was to see if we could match the resolution up to the person. It was fun.

The boys

The women

The Chickies

The Luke

Umm...well Thanks Grandma for the make up!!

Warren, Isabella and Melody

Josh showing Luke how to use a blower..he did get it.

Josh trying to practice his new year kiss.

This WOULD have been a great picture of Josh and I...thanks Christina!

Odds N Ends

2009-02-10T17:53:00.000-08:00

The last week of 2008, Melody put on the crown in the picture..and hasn't take it off. Its super cute. Every day she wakes up and puts it on. She places it on a pillow by her bed so she can easily access it! And Luke...he has discovered books. He LOVES them. It has worked out good for morning wake up times for me :) I get about an extra 30 minutes of rest while he reads his books!

Dentist Visit

2009-02-10T17:41:00.000-08:00

I took the kids to the dentist for the first time, the last week of 2008. Luke did a pretty good job. The have pretty cool equipment now adays. Melody wasn't to happy to be there I tried to her picture but my stinking camera malfunction. Melody didn't like Mr Dentist too much. She wouldn't even let him look in her mouth. Hopefully she will out grow of that...

Not for the Weak...

2009-02-10T17:27:00.000-08:00

OK so I'm so far behind in my blogging!!Well I just wanted to let you know why! Here is mom's ankle about 4 weeks ago. She now has her cast off and is in a walking boot. But she still can't put any pressure on it. She broke 2 bones and only one is fully healed.
Mom helps me out so much and I miss her around the house. She watches Melody and Luke for me on Mondays. Then on Tuesdays she just has Luke, since Melody is in pre-school. Since she can't watch Luke...he is by the far the craziest thing ever...I have been working at night...thus use to be my blogging time. So good excuse huh?! I will be posting from January on..then once I get caught up I will put my thanksgiving and Christmas pictures up...they are super cute. So let me get to it...

Pretty Princesses...and Mickey

2008-12-21T14:15:00.000-08:00

This was what Melody wanted to see all day...was the princesses!!

Princes Aurora is the best! She happens to be to related to us. Yes royalty in the family!!!

Once again Luke was asleep but when he woke he was able to meet Cinderella, I think he was in Ahh!!

P.S. Thank you Miranda;)

News Break...or should I say ankle break

2008-12-20T21:42:00.000-08:00

I still have much more Disney pictures and Santa pictures BUT mom slipped on ice Tuesday and broke her ankle in 2 places. She had surgery and is now staying at a rehab hospital, no not because of the drugs..this time..heehee, she is going to get mad when she reads this...but she can't catch me :) OK OK seriously PLEASE pray for fast recovery and pain relief. She is so active that this has been very hard on her PLUS Christmas is right around the corner....THANK YOU FRIENDS AND FAMILY! Your regularly schedule Blogs will continue as soon as time permits...

Toon Town

2008-12-15T13:52:00.000-08:00

It was so cool to see Disneyland decorated for Christmas.

Luke didn't make it in too many pictures in toon town because he was napping. When he woke up they had a neat play are where he was able to run and climb...his favorite things to do.

Ride Time

2008-12-15T13:36:00.000-08:00

The Dumbo Ride!

Train Ride. We were in the monkey cage.

Tea Cups!!

Jungle ride

We're Here

2008-12-14T13:23:00.000-08:00

This was one of the best days in our lives! When we finally told Melody we were at Disneyland she screamed and gave Josh and me the BIGGEST hug and KISS ever!! It was wonderful. And then the magical day began. I have been to Disneyland dozens of times, but this was by far the best! The excitement in Melody's eye made me have a couple of "emotional mom moments"!Luke had a wonderful time too. He was so good. He would hang out next to us in the lines and had a great time on the rides. I guess he wasn't too excited about the Pirates of the Caribbean..he fell a sleep! Someone told me to bring a princess dress, because she will want to wear it. I did. I thought she may wear it for a little bit...she wore it the WHOLE day!

She is off...

Much More pictures coming soon, just had to post this before Deshawn had a cow:)

Surprise Time!

2008-12-14T12:39:00.000-08:00

After we left the Ford's we told Melody we had a surprise for her. We checked into our hotel. Melody LOVES hotels. I think she thought this was her surprise.
Monkey see

Monkey Do!

The next morning we work up early. We had to be at our destination at 8:15am. We were walking from our hotel and wasn't sure how long it was going to take. We loaded the kids in stroller...who needs a double stroller??

Here we are! Melody still didn't have a clue where she was...until...

11/24/08

Thanksgiving Adventure...

2008-12-09T19:31:00.000-08:00

After 20 hours of driving we came to our first destination...The Ford Retreat! The Fords have been a family friend since I was about 2. I haven't seen them for several years. It was so wonderful to see them.

Melody climb her first tree in the front yard of the Ford's house. We were all so proud. I remember climbing trees when I was little one, it was so much fun. Watching Melody having so much fun doing the same thing I did brings so much joy to my soul.

Jeannette took us to a lake on Sunday. The kids enjoyed it so much. Luke had a great time chasing the ducks and Melody loved feeding them.

Melody kind of likes her picture taken..can you tell?!

We left Texas on Friday after noon and arrived in Southern California Saturday morning. We stayed at Hotel Ford on Saturday night. It was by far the best hotel! Josh and Gary were able to go golf and Jeannette and I also got to go to the mall. On Sunday night we were off to our next destination...

no more curls

2008-11-15T20:56:00.001-08:00

Well it was time for "The hair Cut" . I told Josh that I was going to get Luke's haircut at this super cute place where they have these cars for the kids to sit in and watch TV. Josh said, "No son of mine is going to a "Beauty Parlor" he is going to the Barber shop." So as the submissive wife I am I said.." Oh OK..." I must say it was ALOT better than I was thinking. Cute pictures...

Before

After

Re-living the 80's

2008-11-15T20:50:00.001-08:00

The Demaree's had an 80's Halloween Party. Kim as an material girl.

Arthur as a punk rocker with his 40!

So I told Josh about this party about a month ago. He was totally saying, " We are too old to dress up...etc." Then on Halloween... he got up, googled 80's costumes, found out what he wanted to be, went shopping THEN....he became BEETLE JUICE BEETLE JUICE BEETLE JUICE. I really think by the end of the night he really thought he was.

MacGyver and his 80's Chickie

Patty O'Green and Cindi Lauper and 80's Chickie

halloween night

2008-11-15T20:43:00.001-08:00

What fun it was to go Trick or Treatin with Melody. She had such a great time...and brought home a ton of good candy for us all:) We went with some of our great neighbor friends.Princesses

Wonder Woman and Tinker Bell
(aka Jessica and Audrey)

Indiana Jones!

(Clint)

Melody and Kayla had a great time ringing the doors bells.

Melody was waiting for us to start the fun!

so cute

bubba in a bowl

2008-11-15T20:33:00.000-08:00

Luke loves playing with my pots and pans. Here he in the salad bowl...

carvin pumpkin

2008-11-15T20:25:00.000-08:00

Josh and Melody had a great time carving pumpkins.

Melody was scoopin and a piece flew on her face. Funny!

Luke had fun trying to eat the newspaper.

Melody wanted to draw the face on the pumpkin...

Preschool

2008-11-15T20:24:00.001-08:00

Melody got to wear her costume to school. Here she is with Mrs Misty and Mrs Linda. They got to pick out a pumpkin from the "Pumpkin Patch" and got to eat pizza and jump in a jump house that day.

FBC

2008-11-15T20:05:00.000-08:00

Our church did the best job ever during our Wednesday night festival! Melody had so much fun. We got there when it started and didn't even get to finish it all...well one reason was Melody was in the bathroom taking her Cinderella dress off, which she wore about 15 minutes .

Thanks Scarr's for horse riding!!

Fire Man with his mascot...get it...?

It took Melody forever to land on the stinking number to win cupcakes...but she did!

Cinderella and a Fairy

aka Melody and Hannah Lynn

Face painting. She got a lady bug.

Proof she did dress up :)

Halloween at the Dougherty's

2008-11-15T19:21:00.000-08:00

At David and Monica's neighborhood, they have a Halloween get together. Melody dressed up as Sleeping Beauty, Christopher was Darth Vader, Jack was the grim reaper, and Luke was a Dalmatian puppy. It was a fun afternoon.

10/26/08

PUMPKIN patch

2008-11-15T18:19:00.000-08:00

We went to the Pumpkin patch the week before Halloween. Josh works 4/10's so he has Fridays off..Yeah! It was such a wonderful sun shinny day. Mom went with us too. Melody on the "Welcome" hay..."Haaay"
I love it when I can get a picture of both of them together.

Melody is getting so big!

We had a hard time getting Luke off the tractor.

Can you see the love?

Family Picture!

Pumpkin Pickin.

I picked a good one.

This picture made me laugh...can you find the fly?

Baaaaad girl.

Good Family Times...

Puffy Hair Day

2008-11-10T14:41:00.000-08:00

I need to get his hair cut, but I just love the curls.

Rams Fans...

2008-11-10T14:13:00.001-08:00

So maybe today isn't the best day to post this picture because of the horrible lost yesterday BUT on this day...October 19, the Rams smoked the Cowboys ...so maybe Luke just needs to wear his jersey every game day!

36 hours in California

2008-10-30T20:38:00.000-07:00

What a fun weekend. It went super fast but it was great to see some of my dear friends and family's faces:) When I went to the car rental the dude saw me and knew I would be a easy upgrade. But come on for only an extra $10 a day I got this car instead of a KIA (no offence to KIA drivers). I left my camera home, Carmen emailed me these...THANKS and Thanks for the good times :)

Nick and Nate in September

2008-10-30T20:31:00.000-07:00

What sweet pictures huh!!!! They were taken in early September. Nick and Nate are doing wonderful. They have some reflux, but other than that, they sweet little boys.

First Day of Pre-School

2008-10-26T19:51:00.000-07:00

Here is Melody's pre-school teacher Mrs Misty. Melody started preschool the first Tuesday in September. It is amazing what she has learned already. She loves going to school, but can't wait til she rides a school bus next year. What! Next year, kindergarten?! Oh my where does time go? She is growing like a weed!
Daddy went to work late so we all could go to the first day fo school together. So sweet. And yes, she is posing with her hands. At her school that took pictures and fingerprints of us all. She has that same hand pose in her picture. What a nut!

Back pack is a little large?!

So big and sweet!

September 2, 2008

Little Bit of Back Tracking..

2008-10-26T19:47:00.000-07:00

So I cant believe how long it took me to post all of your vacation pictures. We have been on the go...WOW..Life is just go, go, go. So I have some cool things that I want to post ...So we going back in time, just a little bit...

7 AND 8...THESE ARE THE LAST DAYS...

2008-10-26T19:03:00.000-07:00

So here are the last 2 days of our wonderful vacation. This was the sunrise I saw on our last morning. We were suppose to leave on Thursday, BUT because it rained on Wednesday we asked to stay an extra day...they gave us a "rainy day discount" that was great! We were so glad to be able to have One More day. This was the last night.

This was a blast! We were able to drive on the public beaches. I wish we did this earlier in the week. The beaches had the BEST sea shells! But since we were only able to have the golf cart for 2 hours we did a fast grab.

Josh found this little guy running for dear life.

The "Kids" had a great time with Crusty the Crab.

OK, this is pretty funny... So if you can remember a while ago I posted a picture of our poor coffee table. Josh sat on the glass part and it broke, pretty funny And you think he would have learned..NOPE. He sat on the glass coffee table at the condo and sure enough, it broke. But this one got fixed! Our poor coffee table still isn't fix. We just wanted to make sure that we got our deposit back, who know how much they would have charges us. So please if you have a glass table at your house and we come to visit DON'T let Josh sit on it!!!

We left the new glass out until we left...just in case.

Melody and daddy cleaning the sea shells before we had to go home.

My sweet babies.

We didn't even the island ... enough said!

We just had an awesome family vacation. I love my family so much!!

DAY 5 AND 6

2008-10-16T21:23:00.001-07:00

TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY IT RAINED A LOT. WE TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE SUN AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. JOSH EVEN TRIED TO PLAY A AROUND OF GOLF...I THINK HE MADE IT TO THE 14 HOLE.
SINCE MELODY STARTED PRESCHOOL SHE HAS BEEN PRACTICING HER LETTERS. SHE WORKED ON THEM ALOT DURING OUR VACATION.
WE GOT A LITTLE BEACH TIME IN. JOSH BOUGHT MELODY A BOOGIE BOARD, SHE HAD A BLAST!
THE PICTURE OF THE FAMILY INSIDE A SHARKS MOUTH WAS OUTSIDE OF ONE OF THE STORES. MELODY WAS EXCITED TO BE IN THE MOUTH OF A SHARK.

WE ATE AT MEXICAN FAST FOOD PLACE, I THINK IT WAS CALLED PINOKEE...WELL SOMETHING LIKE THAT. ONE OF THE GUYS JOSH WORKS WITH TOLD HIM OF THE PLACE. WE DROVE TO BROWNSVILLE, WHICH IS ON THE TEXAS-MEXICO BOARDER. THERE WE SAW THE SIGN, JOSH WAS SUPER EXCITED.THEY HAD A PLAY AREA FOR THE KIDS. LUKE CLIMB UP TO THE TOP, HE IS SUCH A MONKEY...I HAD TO GO IN AFTER HIM..GOOD TIMES

SPI MONDAY

2008-10-16T20:49:00.000-07:00

DAY 4 WAS BACK AT THE BEACH. HERE MELODY AND JOSH HITTIN THE WAVES! LUKE TRYING TO GET SOME GOLF IN.
JOSH HELPED BUILD A SAND CASTLE...WELL A SAND MOUND. LUKE HAD A BLAST TRYING TO TEAR IT DOWN. HE NEEDED A SHORT REST HERE.

YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO TAKE A "THELMA AND LOUIS" ON VACATIONS

JOSH WORKIN ON HIS SWINGTHE KIDS HAD A BLAST BURYING JOSH. FOR SOME STRANGE REASON, LUKE GOT ALL CRAZY ...HE STARTED SITTING ON JOSH'S FACE, KICKING HIM AND PULLING HIS HAIR. LUKE WAS LAUGHING, WE WERE TOO. I HAD TO PUT THE CAMERA DOWN TO HELP JOSH OUT...MAYBE HE GOT TOO MUCH SUN THAT DAY?

Sunday in the South

2008-09-27T21:21:00.000-07:00

Sunday was day 3 of our vacation. Josh was able to get a little football in . We drove to the town right before you get to South Padre, Port Isabel. We had lunch at a very authentic Mexican restaurant.(Very excited about that!) After lunch we explored the "downtown" area. They had this beautiful light house. When I saw it, I said, "Oh I need a picture of that."Melody just ran up to the light house, super fast. It was very funny. She looks so small in this picture.
Next we went to a Sea Life Center. Here the kiddo's enjoyed watching and touching some of sea life. Luke liked the eel. It was pretty strange looking. I wonder if this is the same breed of eel that is in Princess Bride?!
It took Melody a little while before she wanted to hold some of the little crabs and starfish. Once she did, she was loving it.

Out side of the Sea Center they had some fun cut outs and some guy with birds.

Here is Josh with a bird. Melody didn't want to hold the bird.
The pictures are a little out of order, but here's Melody with a starfish.
A crab.
Luke went around pointing and talking his caveman talk to all the fish.
We brought a family size frozen dinner and watched a little football.

Melody is our little fish. She just LOVES the water. She enjoyed the pool so much.

This was back at the Sea Life Center. There was a Pirate restaurant. We took a peek inside.
Oh aren't we cute! Melody actually took this picture, pretty good!
At the end of a small rain we got to see this full rainbow from our patio. So beautiful.

South Padre Day Two = Luke turns 1!

2008-09-27T20:43:00.000-07:00

On Saturday it was Luke's first birthday. Josh took the kids down to the beach while I baked a cake for his "superman party". The day was a little over cast . We told Melody that we were going to see sea turtles on Tuesday. But before she went to bed on Friday night she asked if we could see the turtles in the morning, because she was so excite.So we said,"Sure". Her sweet little face lit up and went to sleep with a huge smile. Here is Melody at the Sea Turtle Rescue.

Luke held on to daddy pretty tight when he saw the turtles.
This little guy looks like he is smiling.

Luke got to lick the stirring batter stick of his cake.

"The Cake"
"The Birthday Boy"
"The bite"
"The Mess"

"The Gifts"

Well day 2 was another wonderful time.

10 years + 2 kids = Vacation Day one

2008-09-27T19:53:00.000-07:00

It's been 10 years since Josh and I said "I Do". We have so much in our lives to be thankful for. We have been planning and saving for almost a year to take a good long vacation. We left last Thursday and headed to South Padre Island. I picked Melody up from Pre-school and headed off to Dallas to get Josh. Melody was so excited to see the tall building daddy was working at. Then we drove for about about 3-4 hours and had dinner at Wendy's outside of Austin. Luke was so happy to be out of his car seat. He walked around and around tables there. Then we were off for another 5 hours. A lovely cop in San Fresno stopped me in a speeding trap about 15 minutes from our condo! I was so bummed. We decided to just let it go and get to our room, now it was bout 1:30 in the am. When we got to the condo, it was everything we were hoping for. It was such an awesome view of the beach. When the kids settled down Josh and I sat on the balcony and enjoyed!

The next morning Melody came into the room and gave me a jewelry box and said," This is because daddy loves you." In the box was a beautiful pair of diamond earrings! What a awesome anniversary surprise! Then we were off to the beach.

This is how we toted everything from our room to the beach on these handy dandy carts. Josh dug holes and placed the kids in them. Luke thought it was great.
Josh brought his sand wedge and practiced his swing.
Luke practiced his drag.
This was Melody's favorite thing to do. Josh would take her out in the waves.
The first day, Luke was a little scared of the water and preferred the sand.
Melody couldn't get enough of the ocean.

Time for sand fun!
Lots of sand.
Lots and lots of sand.
Melody's turn for the hole experience.
After nap and lunch we all enjoyed the balcony. Luke loved sitting in his own chair.

This was the view from our room.
Josh and Luke singing.
Melody and daddy time.
We had a wonderful dinner at Blackbairds. It was so yummy. We ate calamari, onion rings, crab cakes, ahi ahi, mashed potatoes, and corn dogs. We had so much food, we were able to have it for dinner the next night.
Our first day was perfect. I took so many pictures. I will try and post my favorites in the few days. Good times, Awesome times!

11 months of Luke

2008-09-11T20:52:00.000-07:00

Well I better get this posted before Luke's Birthday. Life is just flying by! Luke is such a cutie. He is VERY active. He eats more than Melody! Josh says...There goes my left overs...

Amazing Facts about Luke...

he is about 23 pounds, loves to climb , loves playing chase, loves his big sister. He is using words like DOG, THAT, MOMMM,DADDD, and ball. He cries when we take crayons away from him. He IS the worst diaper changer in the whole world. He loves his momma. He also LOVES shoes, the vacuum cleaner and brooms SOOOO he will either be a Cobbler or Janitor...What ever makes him happy! I am very happy to say that he sleeps from 8pm to 7:30am AMAZING!!! He is not big on shopping, bummer.

And...he has crazy hair.

I feel so blessed in my life. Thank you guys for tuning in and sharing my babies life.

Nastia Liukin

2008-08-30T16:46:00.000-07:00

Nastia Liukin was at the mall today in Plano so off we went. Josh and I loved watching the Olympics this year especially the girls gymnastics. We were very proud of the girls that represented the United States. Here is the kiddo's in line. We waited 3hours! The kids were wonderful, I took them to the play area about half way into the wait.Right before we got to meet her Melody said I have to go potty! We told her if she could hold it we would give her candy, that worked.
We heard that Nastia was going to leave right at 4o'clock and there might be a chance that we may not be able to see her, yeah after 2 1/2 hours of waiting I was like "WHAT". So Josh took this paparazzi shot here. Here is our 3 seconds with Nastia. Only the very top of Melody's head made it, Josh was star struck.
On the way out we ran into Nastia's dad. His line was like a 2 minute line.
It was a fun 3 hour wait, 3 seconds"Great Job Nastia" Day! I know Melody didn't quite understand the whole excitement...one day...

Melody's Birthday 8/6

2008-08-23T18:13:00.000-07:00

Birthdays are so much fun. Melody's day started off with opening a gift from mom and dad. She got an Ariel purse to carry to her favorite place, the candy store at the mall. She went to the mall then came home and cooked what she wanted for dinner....steak, potatoes and green beans. After dinner we opened the family gifts. Grandma and Grandpa got her these cool puppets, and 4 dollars. She was excited to get money. Aunt Janna got her a Dora art set and phone. Melody has been learning to trace shapes, she loves it. Nana got her a new princess Barbie and an V-tec. It was a full filled day!

Melody's 4 year old pictures

2008-08-13T12:21:00.001-07:00

Luke's 10 month pictures...

2008-08-13T12:15:00.000-07:00

The Gnome

2008-08-03T21:53:00.000-07:00

For Father's Day, I took Melody to the store to buy her daddy something. She picked out this Gnome. It was too funny. Josh thought it was the funniest thing. Josh has the Gnome in his closet,as a door stopper!

Little Drummer Boy

2008-08-01T15:49:00.000-07:00

Luke is loving the drums. When daddy starts playing he comes a crawling. Melody dances around the pool table and Luke tries to help daddy with the foot peddle. Luke enjoys setting on Josh's lap, but he bounces so much...Josh had the idea of putting his highchair up to the drums. Luke had a blast. It was super cute to watch him.

Shear Genius

2008-08-01T10:36:00.000-07:00

Well the day came when Melody used the scissors to cut her hair. About 3 months ago I got Melody her own pair of scissors. She has been cutting letters and shapes and gluing it to pieces of paper. I thought it was a good idea until...

She made about 3 good cuts. She at least didn't go to short. Her Cousin Christopher told Nana ,"Melody is cutting her hair." This all happened while I was at the post office. When I got home mom and Melody were both crying...I knew this day was coming. I love her long hair so I was a little upset. I was going to cut it up to her shoulders to fix it, but daddy and I decided long layers would work.

10 Months

2008-07-29T05:51:00.001-07:00

On the 20th of July Luke turned 10 months. I can't believe how fast life goes by. Luke is ALL OVER the place. He is a climber. Its so out of control. Its so fun watching him play. He plays very well by himself and with his big sister. He started taking 2 steps right before the 10th month. Now he is up to about 10. He is so proud of himself. Everyday it seems he adds another step.

wt: 20.9lb length 28 1/4

We've been "Mingoed"

2008-07-22T21:33:00.000-07:00

We woke up one morning to these flamingo's!! Our church has this cute fund raiser for VBS this year. There was an envelope around one of the flamingos that had a note in it. It said for $10 some one would remove the flamingos from our yard or we could pay $20 for "Flamingo Insurance",the flamingo's would not reappear in the yard again. We also were able to tell them who's yard we wanted to be "Mingoed" next. I guess we should have gotten the insurance, we got mingoed twice! Thank you Scarr's and I think it was the Spies?!

Laundry Love

2008-07-21T21:30:00.000-07:00

Luke kept trying to eat the laudry!

Curley M

2008-07-19T21:28:00.001-07:00

Melody slept in curlers for the first time, came out pretty cute!

4th of July

2008-07-19T21:09:00.001-07:00

So I'm a little behind in some of my pictures. For the 4th of July we went to the Demaree's for BBQ. We were going to all go to Anna's first 4th of July street fair BUT we had a thunder and lightening storm roll into town right as it was starting. Luke had his first hot dog...but It didn't go so well, he puked several times. I took Luke home while the rest of the gang went to see fireworks, I was able to see them through Luke's bedroom window. The gang came back to our house so I could take part in our own fireworks show. Our neighbors across the street kept scaring me, they were shooting up the huge fireworks that go in the sky, but other than the slight heart palpitations it was a great night. Gotta love sparklers.
Isabella is such a cutie.
He is Josh's firework stand.
Not too sure what this is about but can you see the neighbor's fireworks up in the sky?!
Melody and her future husband, Warren. She always talks about how she is going to married Warren. Warren will work at McDonald's and she will become a doctor...

Community Pool

2008-07-19T20:55:00.000-07:00

Here is the place we really love to be...We have several friends that live in the community behind us that has access to this awesome pool. Our church has "Proverbs by the Pool" on Sunday nights. We do a 15 minute study in proverbs then do a little singing then we hit the pool. Twice during the week several chickies do laps in the pool after we put the kiddos to bed. It works out wonderful. Then on Fridays we have our moms play group there. Its so fun.

Kit-Tee

2008-07-19T19:37:00.000-07:00

Monica raises Persians kittens. Here are some cute ones. This is the first time Luke got to pet them. Melody LOVES the kittens.

Happy Birthday Josh

2008-07-16T20:28:00.000-07:00

Today is Josh's 34th Birthday. He woke up to Krispy Kreme donuts...the off to work. Melody wanted daddy to have a Army birthday party. I bought some army dudes and trucks a couple of weeks ago. Come to find out, when Josh was tucking Melody in she said, " Daddy I have a secret, but don't tell mommy...we bought you an army birthday party." Melody got Josh some new drums sticks, she did pretty good until right before Josh started opening his cards. Melody said,"these are drum sticks"! Our friends the Scarr's and Demaree's came to help eat the huge cake.

Happy Birthday Christopher

2008-07-16T20:02:00.000-07:00

Christopher turned 6 on Friday the 11th. Christopher had such a crazy first year of life, how awesome it is to see what a miracle he is. God does know what He is doing although we have no clue what the reason are!

Christopher party was at Chuckie Cheese, one of Melody's favorite place. They had such a great time.
Melody had a fun time showing Luke how to play on the games.
Luke riding some truck ride.

David with half of his boys! Nick and Nate are doing well. Please keep them in your prayers, they still have a long road ahead of them...kind of like the road that Christopher went down...look at him now!!

Happy Birthday Mom!

2008-07-15T20:51:00.000-07:00

Mom turned 50 ;) on the 15th. We did a little shopping in the afternoon then stopped by McDonald's for ice cream. For dinner we meet David, Monica and Christopher at Red Lobster, Mom's favorite place. (Jack went to summer camp for a week) Mom does SOOO much for us all, We LOVE you mom...aka Nana!

Incredible

2008-07-08T19:25:00.001-07:00

I love dress up days...

Spaghetti

2008-07-06T19:26:00.000-07:00

Spaghetti any one?! You do see where Luke puts his toes on the table, bad eating habits already.

He Stands Alone

2008-07-05T08:58:00.001-07:00

Luke is standing. On Monday he would let go of whatever he was holding on to, then fall. By the end of the week, the little guy can stand! He actually took a step and didn't fall on the 3rd. He is growing WAY to fast.

Pool Time

2008-07-02T21:19:00.001-07:00

Melody has been practicing swimming under water. I never thought she would put her face underwater, but since Kayla does it...now she does. We have been going to the community pool behind us a lot lately. She has become a little fish. (FYI:This is NOT the community pool)

Baby A and Baby B

2008-06-28T17:27:00.000-07:00

Today I had a baby shower for Monica.15 minutes before the party she was taken by ambulance to the hospital. One of the placenta's broke...I now have 2 more nephews...Baby A 4lbs 10 oz and Baby B 4lbs 1 oz. Baby A swallowed a lot of blood, but is doing good. Monica is sedated with drugs and doing good.Please pray for these little guys,they are 8 weeks early... but are going great...Oh no names yet!

Fun In the Sun

2008-06-20T21:03:00.000-07:00

Before it got so stinkin hot the kiddo's loved playing outside all day. I had fun shotting some sun shots,here are my favorites..

First French Braid

2008-06-20T21:00:00.000-07:00

Melody isn't very excited to get her done...meaning brushed or comb. This is the first time I got french braid her hair. I had to tell her Princess Leia has a french braid, she thought that was cool. I'm not really sure Princess Leia's hair is "french" braided per say, but it worked.

More bath time fun

2008-06-20T20:53:00.000-07:00

I just love bath pictures. 6/6/08

Rogaine works

2008-06-11T06:34:00.000-07:00

Before rogaine, bummed that all his other friends have good hair...then... Wow! Its a miracle!

Big Night

2008-06-11T06:19:00.001-07:00

Well Melody has been wanting to wear panties for nap and bed time. I just didn't think she was ready. Every time she wakes up from a nap or night time her pull-up is soaking wet. Well last week I decided that I was hindering her, she asked at nap time and did it! A week later no pee pee at nap time. Well last night she asked if she could sleep in her panties... she did it! I did wake her up in the middle of the night, when I fed Luke, and she went pee in the toilet.

She is sooo proud, as am I!! She called her daddy this morning, which she is not a phone talker, and was so excited to tell her daddy that she didn't pee. My baby is getting bigger.

Funny Faces

2008-06-10T20:49:00.000-07:00

Luke likes his Cheerios!

Luke you've been eattin corn?!

2008-06-06T21:10:00.000-07:00

Up Up and Away, well not really

2008-06-06T20:47:00.000-07:00

A hot air balloon was sailing over our house the other day. It was so pretty, It actually landed in a field behind our house. It went down pretty fast. Melody thought it was super cool.

$5 will make you jump

2008-06-06T20:43:00.000-07:00

Here is my $5 garage sale find. Melody and Josh are having some good times with it.

Ice Cream Truck

2008-06-06T20:33:00.000-07:00

I am about 2 weeks behind in my pictures...But 2 Saturdays ago I heard the ice cream truck music while I was in the house. The child inside of me got way excited. I gabbed my money, yelled at Melody and we ran out the door. We went the wrong way...at first...then we saw it turning on our street. Melody was soooo excited to pick out an ice cream. Here is what she choose...

Do-ta-do-do Dora

Discover Time

2008-05-30T13:28:00.000-07:00

I took these pictures kind of far away. Luke has been such a good explorer. He plays very while by himself. Here he has found the "ABC's" and animals on the refrigerator...or as Melody says 'Fridg-ee-Ate-or"

New Chair

2008-05-29T13:26:00.001-07:00

SO the story behind this coffee table is...
Josh told Melody DO NOT SIT on the glass of the coffee table, the SAME day Josh sat on the glass and broke it. It was VERY funny. The not so funny part is has almost been a year since that moment and we still haven't replace the glass. We like to get a new table but...not sure why, we don't do to much shopping...ANYWAY

Josh turned this hole into a new setting area for Melody. It works pretty good. She puts her food in the middle and Luke cant get it, plus she feels special because she eating in the living room. As you can see our kitchen table is soo far away.

Ice Scream You Scream Luke Scream For..

2008-05-29T13:17:00.000-07:00

Luke beggin for ice cream!

Memorial Weekend

2008-05-29T13:00:00.000-07:00

We had an awesome weekend. We went to Jefferson Texas. People are so hospitable there. We stayed in Cliff and Susan's huge motor home. It was super nice. Melody thought it was super cool.
Melody and Mathew had a great time playing together. The baby in the pool with Susan is Mason, he is a month older than Luke. He's a cutie!

Melody found a lady bug, which she wanted to keep.

Cliff made some grubin ribs for everyone

Luke LOOOOVVVED the ribs!!

Music Time

2008-05-20T20:57:00.000-07:00

It gets pretty loud at the Gervings house. Here is why!

Sleeping Buddies

2008-05-19T20:53:00.000-07:00

This how I found Josh and Luke.

Swing to Sleep

2008-05-17T20:49:00.000-07:00

This is how tired Luke was, he fell asleep in the swing like this.

Flower Power

2008-05-17T20:43:00.001-07:00

Melody is not very big on taking pictures So when she started Posing, I knew I better start taking them. She found some flowers she loved. Here are some of my favorites.

Going On a Bunny Hunt

2008-05-17T20:36:00.000-07:00

When Melody was taking her nap last week I saw a bunny in the back yard. When I told Melody she was so excited but we could not find it. Then daddy said we should go on a bunny hunt. There are field behind our house so we went-a-hunting...

This was the only bunny we found.

Mothers Day with the Fam

2008-05-17T15:56:00.001-07:00

Here are 2 reasons that we didn't go out to dinner for Mothers Day! Get it! HaaHaa! Jack is getting so big. Josh and David and Jack played several games.
Monica and Me. She is due Aug 15th, but will have a C-section in July sometime. Nana and her grandkids.
Luke and David-
We had all the kids put their handprint on this stone we made for mom as a gift. I'm going to paint it, then mom can put it in her garden.
We had a wonderful day!

They make me a mama AKA Mothers Day

2008-05-17T15:40:00.001-07:00

Here are the two that makes me a mother! I wanted a picture with both kids in it. Melody was done with pictures by this time and turned into...well I guess a 3 year old who was done being told what to do!
Luke was happy to take a picture with me. Good Son.
Family picture.
We had a nice mothers day. We got up, went to church, came home BBQ'd and went to bed. Melody got me these beautiful cup cake earrings and ice cream cone earrings. Josh took her to the store and she picked them out. I can only wear them for a short time because they are so expensive they turn everything they touch green;) She was so excited to give them to me, it made my day!

Luke's Dedication

2008-05-13T06:23:00.000-07:00

On Mothers day we dedictated Luke at church. It was a short and sweet. We feel so blessed to be able to have such wonderful children.

Nite Nite

2008-05-09T21:38:00.003-07:00

Here is Melody sleeping with "Her girls" They are all tucked in!