A whole new world!

Its an amazing new world for us Hamiltons. We are smiling bright, we are waking up in good moods, and this amazing new world we live in all came about because GAVIN SLEEPS THROUGH THE NIGHT!!!! Its amazing, its wonderful, its fantastic, its glorious! He sleeps one big toddler nap during the day from like 11am-130pm and then sleeps all night, and it's AWESOME. It only took 9 months, but its awesome!

Sleeping through the night is not the only new thing. We've moved on to table foods. Gavin doesn't really shove food into his mouth, just kind of throws it around (check the spaghetti pictures). His favorite food to actually shove in his mouth are those Gerber puffs. Oh they are magical, well I call them the magical, puffs. He gets so excited when they come into his sight and just shoves them all in him mouth. He's also throughly enjoyed cherrios, french fries, green beans, and yogurt with graham crackers.

Oh I'm going to try and get on video Kim playing with Gavin, well Gavin's toys. We got Gavin this light up keyboard (with 5 keys) and Kim has taken it over. He tries to find songs he can play with only 5 keys. I'll get a video when he's not looking, maybe I'll be able to get him singing too! its classic. Have a great weekend everyone!

A Time for celebration

So for those who live in (and out) of the state of Arizona.......today, January 17, 2010 has been declared a day of prayer in the state of Arizona. A letter signed by the governor was sent out to all Arizona residence saying that;

".....in these hard economic times, there is only so much we as humans can do. Its come time to ask for forgiveness and to pray. Please recognize this day as a day to ask for forgiveness and ask for help to pull us out of these terrible economic times....."

Its absoluetly true! We as people have turned our back on God. Taking God out of the pledge of alligence, not recognizing the wonderful things God does in our lives, its no wonder God is putting all of the nation through these tough times. It is time to say "sorry" its time to say "in order to turn our lives around, in order to bring change......we need something bigger than just us. We need supernatural intervention".

So I invite you today to say a prayer (even if you don't live in Arizona) to just pray for our nation during these tough times and recognize the only way out of this is through God.

Also, Kim was baptized earlier this month! It was so exciting as Liz was able to dip him in the water and Kim accepted God as his personal Lord and Savior!

Have a great great great week everyone! We love and miss you all.

gavin's walking video

Happy 2010!!

Gavin's christmas time with Auntie Daydee

Gavin's Christmas with Kim's parents

Gavin had his first muisc lesson with Daddy. Here we let him play the guitar and listen to what he was playing on the headphones, softly of course. We're not that bad of parents.

First time Gavin had Cheerios without gagging and throwing them up all over the place.

Santa Claus came to town.....well mini santa.

Gavin's Christmas picture with Santa.

the whole Hamilton family, surviving the holidays!

So here we are another year is upon us. My new year's resolution is to be a better blogger. I'm off to a great start. It only took me 9 days into the new year to get on the computer. Hey its hard with a kid ok? Things that use to be so easy to do are now damn near impossible. Like blogging, scrapbooking, you know all the things that I use to enjoy.

Our holidays were tons of fun and busy busy busy. We only had a few days off before Liz had to be back to work so we drove to California for Friday, Sat, and Sun of the Christmas weekend. Gavin did so much better in the car this time than he did in september. Speaking of that little monkey, Gavin is a speed demon crawler now. Turn your back and that guy is gone! And I swear we got 100 toys for him to play with now, and he only wants to play with whatever I have at the time. His new favorite thing is the dishwasher. He likes to standup and roll the shelf things out and back. Just the other night, he actually grabbed onto the top shelf and tried to pull himself up. Now you know why I call him monkey. He finally got all his teeth in, so breastfeeding is DONE! I'm a strict pumper outter now.

Kim got a new job. Finally! He's so excited to be back at work. Its part time which works out better for us in the long run, so Gavin can stay home with him a little bit and doesn't have to go to Kindercare full time just yet. He got a job as a bank teller at Bank of America! He's so happy going to work in nice slacks and a tie. I wish you guys all could have seen his face when we went shopping for nice dress shirts. Liz is still working at KinderCare with those damn 2-year olds. The plus side of the job is that I have so much confidence in potty training now.

ANyways, hope you guys enjoy the pics and keep in touch with us.