Gavin Cole Stealey

Our beautiful baby boy, Gavin Cole Stealey, was born on Monday, April 20th, 2009 at 1:51am. He weighed a whopping 9lbs. 2oz. and was 21.75" long.   Brooke is a very proud big sister!!

more pics of our new house

check out the link below to the "video flyer" of the house we're buying in seattle.  

http://vicaso.net/iflyer/13365

thank you, easter bunny

brooke had a great weekend celebrating easter.  she seems to love any holiday involving lots of candy :)  my girl has quite the sweet tooth!  her two favorite easter gifts - her very own Hello Kitty cell phone and Peeps.  yum :)

Our New House

we're 60 days away from owning this great home in snoqualmie, washington!  we put an offer on a house on thursday and reached an agreement with the seller by the end of the day.  now, if only selling our house is this easy, we'll be in great shape!  our new house is a great home on a corner lot with awesome views of the mountains outside our front door and a kids' park/plaground right across the street.  it's a huge house with lots of room for guests, so we hope to have a lot of visitors : )  we think we'll be very happy here for a couple of years.

seattle bound

we took our first trip to seattle as a family a couple of weeks ago to get acquainted with the great city we'll be living in for a couple of years.  this is a picture of us at pikes place market - one of the most famous landmarks in seattle.  we had a great trip.  brooke did fantastic on the long flights and really enjoyed getting to know seattle.  we had a great realtor, nancy, who became brooke's fast friend when she gave her a new baby doll upon meeting her.  we saw some great neighborhoods and great houses.  now we just have to play the waiting game... not much we can do right now but let the anticipation and excitement build since we're not moving until summer.

look, it's uncle carl!

so, brooke loves her uncle carl!  they are buddies.  we've noticed that occasionally when we're riding in the car, brooke will yell out "uncle carl!"  i finally put it all together and figured out that she thinks the guy in the verizon ads is uncle carl.  kevin and i find this hilarious!  think of it from brooke's point-of-view... she's riding in the back of a car, looks out the window and sees a picture of uncle carl on a billboard.  from a distance, you totally get it... dark hark, dark glasses, fitted jacket... it is uncle carl!  

naked dance party

last month my book club had our annual holiday party.  we always invite spouses and this year we included all the kids.  it's amazing how we've multiplied in the past couple of years!  there were kids everywhere.  three of the oldest kids - owen, reese and brooke - turned the festivities into a naked dance party.  i started changing brooke into her PJs when suddenly she looked into the other room and exclaimed, "they're getting naked!"  off she ran to join owen and reese, and they all danced the night away to kevin and samir's jam session...