Christmas morning we normally have all the family over for brunch and rush to open our own gifts before everyone gets here. This year, with me and AJ having bronchitis and some other family issues, we postponed brunch until the day after Christmas. So AJ had plenty of time to tear into all his gifts. This was the first year he has gotten into opening gifts. He went right for the biggest one first.





































Trey got him this viewmaster. It brought back so many memories. I wish I could find my old one. AJ got pictures of dinosaurs and his favorite - SpongeBob.















He really didn't know what the stocking was so I had to show him that were actually gifts inside it and then he was digging to the bottom to make sure he got everything.






















One of his favorite stocking items, candy topped with a toy!!















We gave AJ this bike. Its stationery and plugs into the TV. Not only is it good for exercise, but its educational as well. As he peddles, it drives down the road making him find things like colors and shapes. Right now though, he'll only peddle backwards. We're working on the forward thing.






















Probably his favorite toy of the year - a wheel barrel. If you know AJ, you know how he loves to push anything on wheels. He loads and unloads toys ALL day long. His Mammy (his great-granmother) gave him this for Christmas. We have plans to put him to work with it this spring. :)

A few pictures of AJ just before Christmas. He doesn't like Mommy taking photos, so luckily Abigail was around with some bubbles to get his attention.

Thanksgiving

The Mother's Day Out School at Southeast always has a Thanksgiving potluck meal for the kids and parents. We got there and also found out that some of the kids would be singing a song. How cute is this!! AJ was very good and walked out and stood where he was told, but he didn't sing. He just sort of looked around at the other kids singing and waiting for his promised candy from the teacher for being good.















They made their own little turkey hats and AJ also made a placemat for Thanksgiving.

Trunk or Treat

The past three years, Florence has put on a Trunk or Treat on Halloween night for the surrounding neighborhood kids to come, play games, eat hot dogs and take home tons of candy. AJ enjoyed it more this year. He liked playing games once he realized he would get candy whether he won or lost.

Trey sporting his Indiana Jones outfit.






















Angie, Kim, Dawn and Tonia















Our two dads manning the hot dog grill.















AJ and his buddy Spiderman (or Jayden)!















AJ with his Aunt Nina before.















AJ and his Uncle Keith















AJ with his Uncle Ben






















Indy and Maverick

Happy Halloween 2008

from our little flyboy...

Happy Easter 2008

AJ was a bit sick this weekend, so he wasn't really in to having his photo taken. He did enjoy his easter basket from Grandma and Grandpa. Here's a few photos from Easter sunday.

Christmas morning 2007

AJ definitely got into the gifts this year. I think next year he'll be more excited about Christmas, but he enjoyed the year nevertheless. Of course, I had to by him some little Christmas pjs (much to his daddy's dismay). It was such a fun morning with just the three of us and AJ opening gifts before the rest of the family got there. A special time I will never forget. The most important question - what did Santa bring? Well, AJ is the proud owner of a wooden train set (among lots of other toys) which he has been playing with since.

Christmas 2007

I can't believe Christmas is already over. Family activities for us include going to my grandmothers on Christmas eve for dinner, then having a Christmas eve service at church, then the family comes to our house for brunch on Christmas day. This was the first year for us to do all that with a two year old and let me just say - whewww.

The Gambills at Mammy's Christmas 07.






















Cousins Hillary and Keith. Hillary is the oldest great grandchild and Keith is the youngest grandchild. They will both be graduating from high school in may. We have a photo of them sitting together (maybe in the same chair) when they were babies.















These two were born a few weeks apart. AJ is a little bully and kept pulling him close not wanting him to get out of the chair.

Gingerbread House 2007

The week before Christmas we decorated our annual gingerbread house. Of course it was just the kit but we do buy extra candy to make it extra special. This was AJ's first gingerbread house, but I don't really think he cared about anything but eating the candy. We got a few gumdrops on the house, but we are sure that AJ ate most of them. Just as we were finishing the house, the electricity went out, so we spent some very special family time together to candlelight and I photographed the finished house the next morning.

Happy Father's Day!

For father's day, Trey's family came over for dinner. My dad couldn't be there so I will post pictures of him when we get together.

Here are three generations of Gambills...















Ben was off playing softball, so Nina was sure to leave a place for him in the picture.















Trey and AJ on their second Father's Day.















Sorry this photo is a bit blurry, but I was laughing so hard it was hard to keep the camera still. AJ discovered the squirt bottle Trey was using with the grill and he squirted in right in his face. The funny part was that he just kept doing it and then grinning about it.