Happy Birthday Gabe!

 Happy 3rd Birthday to my lil' buddy! You are such a big boy now!

 You are: enthusiastic and loud!

 you are happy and willing to try new things

 You are creative: you love to play pretend.

 You are affectionate: you love to sit on laps and give hugs and kisses

 You are: a stinker at mealtimes! You do not like to stop playing to sit and eat!

 You are a total goofball! You are also very smart, clever and a bit sassy (a lot sassy) at times!

 You are: the most handsomest, adorable little boy i know!

You are a wonderful big brother! You help me out my talking to Evie when she's fussing. She lights up when you pay attention to her!

 You are curious about everything. You love to try/touch everything everyone is doing.

 You are a ham! You love an audience.

 See that smile on his face? Pure joy! We were singing happy birthday and he was just ecstatic!

We love you Gabe! You are the best son, brother, grandson, nephew and cousin! Everyday is a new adventure for you and we can't wait to watch the next year as you continue to grow and learn! Thanks to all our family and friends that love on our little boy! He is one blessed guy :) 

 Christmas break was awesome. We spent 2 weeks in NY and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Sorry it's taken me so long to update the blog....i know all 13 of my readers are anxiously awaiting news on the Nulks. I feel so hip right now blogging on our (michael's) macbook. I might as well be sipping some over-priced french coffee to really fit the cliche. Anyhow NY was great. The fam all got to meet Evie who is pretty much the cutest, sweetest chunkiest baby of all time. I just want to eat her.

 example of me wanting to eat her. Could she get any cuter? The answer is yes. She does everyday! Proof is below.

 We took a family hike a few days into our visit. That's where most of these pics are from. We have about 800 pics from Christmas so you'll be getting little snippets of our visit. I think that builds the suspense.

 Gabe had a blast. The uncles LOVED riling Gabe up when it was close to bed time. I can't wait till they have kids and we can dish up a nice plate of payback!!!

 See what i mean? Cutest!

 Look at me blowing bubbles!

 Ah, the happy grandparentals. We used to do this hike when Gabe was Evie's age and was front-packed.

 Check out those winter boots! Those were a x-mas present from the hubby. He wants to make sure my skinny feet stay warm in the cold colorado weather. Wait yesterday it was 65 here. Newsflash colorado it's winter. Must be that global warming business al gore discovered. Along with those boots Nulkie got me Jillian Michaels' 30 day shred and some weights. Nothing says i love you like a weight loss dvd. He would argue he got it for me because i had mentioned my friend doing it and liking it. Whatevs. So far i've done 3 days and have a 6-pack so i guess it works. Actually that's not true. I'm just super sore and want to punch Jillian Michael's in the face. Incidentally, our friend Matt said: "I love my six-pack abs so much i'm protecting them with a  layer of fat". Yes, please to that.

 Look at my stud. And in a Mater hat...could life be any better?

 hiking is exhausting.

 Gabe walked all the way to the waterfall but hitched a ride with daddy on the way out. Michael is singing camp songs to Gabe to keep him happy.  As you can see from the pics, the weather was pretty mild in NY. No snow and temps in the 40s and 50s. Did this warmer weather stop me from having a fire in the family room every night? No it did not. Much to everyone's chagrin, i turned that puppy on as frequently as possible. There's nothing i love more than a good book, some hot cocoa and a cozy fire. Total bliss. My grandma says it's a weird habit Pilons have- we like to warm our backsides by the fire. Well that's the latest. Hope all is well with you. Will post more pics from vacay in a bit!

Soldier's Silent Night.wmv

Get out your tissue box. This is a good one! I'm thankful we get to spend this Christmas with Michael, but thinking of all my friends whose husbands are away serving. May God bless them this Christmas season! Also pray for this guy. I believe he was a classmate of Matthew's.

Check out G-unit. Yesterday i think i left my brain in bed. I thought a christmas party started an hour later than it did and i served spaghetti and stuffing balls thinking they were meat balls. Not my best dinner. The pillsbury bread sticks couldn't even redeem it.

 

Evie had her 4 mth shots this morning. She was a trooper...barely even cried. Those chunky thighs are good for something! Block leave officially starts tomorrow when Michael gets home. Amen! No army business till jan 4th. And we head to NY on Tuesday. I.cant. wait!! I have this dinner cooking right now. Do yourself a favor and make it sometime. It's delish. Pretty much anything with corn bread involved is awesome.

4 Months!

Happy FOUR mths to my lil' chunkerface! We love you SOOOOO much Evinator!

 You are the most beautiful baby girl! My own little pink baby :)

 We like to be matchy-matchy

Currently Evie is:
-sucking on her hands, burp cloths, and daddy's fingers. Will absolutley NOT take a pacifier.
-grabbing at toys either above or next to her
-cooing, smiling and laughing
-staying awake longer between feedings...1-2 hrs now.
-kicks up her legs and rolls from side to side ocassionally. Hasn't completely rolled yet...she will if you give her a finger for help.
-Started on solids. We've tried rice cereal mixed with pumped milk the last few mornings. She did better today than yesterday. She smiles through the whole feeding and spits out most of what you shove in with a spoon. We think she actually swallowed some today because she didn't fuss afterwards.
-not crazy about hats or headbands...no matter how hard i try to arrange them on her head properly, she'll have that sucker down over her eyes in a matter of mins. Hoods too.
-wonderful sleeper. Sleeps a solid 9-10 hrs a night and usually takes 3 or 4 naps a day. Go babywise! Seriously if you're having trouble getting your baby to sleep...read that book. It's SUPER helpful and encouraging.
-has the most delightful disposition! She's just a pleasure to be around. We fight over who gets to hold her!

the latest

 Yesterday was interesting. Tuesday is story time at the on-post library so i got off the phone with my mom to get myself dressed and feed Evie. Was about 20 mins till story time began so naturally i was running behind and hustling to get Gabe ready and Evie strapped in her car seat. Then (as is usually the case when i'm  late) Evie did a massive blowout! Were talking a level-ten wiper people. So i get her all changed and cleaned, rush to get Gabe in his booster seat when i realize the booster seat is in the truck. Which Michael took to work. I debate for a good five mins about just buckling him in and going over but NO, i did not. Too many MPs around this post. With my luck i'd get a big old ticket. Bummer. No story time for us. So i decide well the kids are all bundled up lets go for a walk. I go to put the shock collars on the dogs and their not charged. Dangit! Fail again. So we had to un-bundle ourselves and wait 20 mins for the collars to charge. Finally everyone was ready  and in the car (yes i drove gabe across the busy street with no booster, call the mom-police) and we took a walk at Ironhorse park  in the 20 degree weather. I was the only hardcore dog-walker out there. Gabe was rockin' his snowsuit and Evie was cocooned in many layers of blankets in her car seat. She promptly fell asleep.

 Here's a convo from our walk:
Gabe: "Mommy don't walk in snow. It's swippery. Mommy no walk in snow, it's swippery. Mommy no walk in snow, it's swippery. I get down now mommy. I go in snow".
Me "Okay gabe, i'm trying not to walk in the snow. You need to ride in the stroller right now".
Gabe: "Mommy go fast. You going slow Mommy."
Me: "Well Gabe you and Evie are heavy. I'm trying to walk as fast as i can".
"Mommy look over dere. Dere's bunny rabbit right dere! Right dere in garden!"
"Wow Gabe good eye! I don't think that's a bunny rabbit though. Maybe it's a praire dog or a ground hog. What do you think it is?"
 "Umm, probably dats a cow."
"I don't think that's a cow. It's too little to be a cow".
 "Oh. Probably dats a horse den."
 "No, it's too little to be a horse."
 "Oh. probably dats a praire dog. or maybe a groundhog. wet's go in park mommy. wet's go in park. You did a whole walk mommy. good job mommy! good job walking in park! "

He's a good motivator. And he talks the ENTIRE walk :)

pic from our hike a few weeks ago. Evie's first hike! I think everyone should hike in footie pajamas

 Gabe playing in the park today. He loves to pick up sticks and "clean" the snow.

 Gang's all here.

 Cutieface. She's into sucking on cloth things. She loves to grab burp clothes and suck on them. And she chews on her hands constantly.

Hi Mommy! This is my second outfit after another stage-10 blowout this morning! She's keeping me in the laundry business..yesterday she had 2 massive ones.

Cha-cha-changessss

 Some big happenings in the Nulk house. And no, I'm not preggo again. But there will be NO MORE BLONDE JOKES this year. I decided to go back to my natural color. Ahnika already beat me to the punch, but i had been planning on ending highlighting for awhile. Just needed the opportunity (aka Nulkie home to watch the kiddos) to spend 3 hrs in the salon. Anyways here's the result.

 Michael calls this my mirror face.

 My fav accessory

I also got side-swept bangs again. I've been blonde for so long sometimes it freaks me out when i look in the mirror, like wow I'm really greasy today. Oh wait, i dyed my hair back to my "natural" color...whatever that means after 10 years of highlighting and sun-in. But i'm pretty happy with it. No more ugly roots.

 just finished lunch. mmmm

 In other news, Nulkie made a change...to the MAC family. He picked up a Macbook pro this weekend. I have to say, it's pretty BA Baracas. Our other HP crapped out and Nulkie needed a newbie for deployments and whatnot.We feel so posh now.

 The gabe-be-good face by Daddy.