Our Day Trips - Michigan vacation

While we were on vacation in Michigan - we headed up and down the Lake Michigan coast to lots of different little towns - from South Haven, to Holland, to Grand Haven. Each town had their own little "flare" and lots of fun shopping, restarants, sitting/walking outside... and we had wonderful fall weather - highs in the low 70's.

Here was one of our day trips to Grand Haven. We had lunch at this great little restaurant and ate outside and then headed for a walk on the pier and around the bay area.

Grand Haven Pier & Lighthouse

Grand Haven bay

Daddy and Gavin pose for a pic

Gavin was so great on this trip - totally went with the flow - slept in the car, ate when we did, he was quite the little trooper and loved being outside for sure!

September 11, 2008

Daddy and Gavin

Love these pics during the sunsets...

And we can't wait to take more vacations like this in Michigan!

September 10, 2008

Our Family Trip - Western Michigan

In early September, the three of us headed to western Michigan for a week for a nice and relaxing family vacation. We rented a cottage in Saugatuck, MI (it was awesome - and 6 blocks from Lake Michigan). Scott grew up going on family camping trips on the western side of Michigan and had fond memories of watching the sunsets over Lake Michigan - so we had to check it our for ourselves.

It was just beautiful - and by far one of the best trips we have taken together....

September 8, 2008

The Gillards ARE BACK

OK - so no we haven't moved to a foreign country or left the whole blogging world - BUT we have been crazy busy these last 2 months.

From 2 vacations to family/friend gatherings to lots of weekend trips - we have been slacking on posting what has been going on with Gavin. Here is a sneak pic of Gavin too - yes, he is covering his ears (are we talking too loud?!?!?!):

Check back soon for MANY new updates, videos and photos this week.

* And we got a new camera, so we are excited to take lots more photos of Gavin!

Go Wildcats!

Don't they just both look great in purple... and what a great way to kick-off the first weekend of college football. Well, Gavin and Daddy watched the NU (Northwestern) football game - (nice first win for the Wildcats) while mommy went shopping... now that was a great Saturday!

** Check out those NU shoes (thanks Beth and Karl) & NU t-shirt (thanks G&G Gillard). Just the perfect attire for the big game today!

Family weekend

We had our 3rd annual family weekend in Cincinnati last weekend. It was great. Grandma and Grandpa Cross, Uncle Ryan, Grandma and Grandpa Gillard, Uncle Tom, Aunt Heather and cousin Ty were all here to hang out and have some fun. We went to the zoo, grilled out and have a great time. Family is really the most important thing in life, so we were glad to share some quality time with everyone.

Speaking of quality time, here is Gavin and Ty in the bath tub. Ty is splashing more than Gavin can on his own and that really cracks Gavin up

For more photos of the weekend, here are selections from Heather and Tom, G&G Gillard and G&G Cross, the first web site is a shared family photo sharing site, so others photos on there too

http://gillard.shutterfly.com/

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Baby Yoga

So, Gavin is now much more mobile and nimble than he was before. A steady progression of being able to do more and more from sitting up on his own to crawling. Once he could crawl he could also go from crawling to sitting up with a little practice. But you can totally see him trying to figure different things out along the way, like pulling himself up on things, standing up with help and many other movements and positions. Probably his favorite, that also looks cool, is what you will see in the video below. When others observed they asked if we taught him yoga and specifically downward dog or down facing dog position. Of course the answer to that is yes and here is the fruit of our labor...

August 19.