Feelin Jazzy in June

For the past several years, one of my Dad and I's favorite things to do while we lived in Norman is to go to "Jazz in June." JIJ is a music festival in Norman, where everyone brings chairs, blankets, ice chests, food, etc...and hangs out while some awesome bands sing the blues!

Ever since Eric and I have been together, we have been going as well, and are so excited that we get to bring Gavin along too!

We started out the evening eating dinner at Louie's with my Dad and the Blackburns.

Hailey & Reagan

After dinner, we headed outside where it was still 100 degrees, and Hailey talked Grandpa into going in the bounce house

While the guys loaded up all our cargo

Love our little family

"Gimme that sucker!"

Using Gav's new stroller for his cupholders

Grandpa with his grandkids

Cracking up at his Mommy

We had a really great night and can't wait to go back next year!

GREAT Grandparents

It's rare that someone gets so lucky to have such a great relationship with their GREAT Grandparents! Gavin is lucky enough to have 2 of his 4 sets of great-grandparents still living, and they all love him very much.

This past week we made special visits to see both sets of greats, and I think it made Gavin's day just as much as Im sure he made theirs.

GG and GG-Pa

Great Grandma making Gavin laugh

Gavin with Great Grandma and Great Grandpa

We love them all very much!

Daddy's Day

We had such a great week! Busy...but really great! Friday night we got to spend Jared's birthday with him and Tina. He had one of the most awesome cakes made, which just happens to be Eric and Jared's favorite movie; TRANSFORMERS! This cake is Bumblebee and not only does it look awesome, it lights up and tasted awesome.

Happy Birthday Jarry

Saturday I spent the day at the spa, using my Mother's Day gift from Eric. Then we swam and cooked out with the Nards and Willis's on Saturday night.

Sunday morning, Eric woke up for his first Father's Day with Gavin and I waiting to give him big hugs and make him breakfast! Gavin helped Eric open his gifts, then we made him his favorite breakfast. Several times he offered to make it for us, because it's actually his specialty...but I did a pretty good job!

After french toast and bacon, we went to my Dad's house to swim before the REALLY HOT weather set in. It's been over 100 degrees here every day for over a week, so we knew better than to plan our time outside in the afternoon. We swam for a few hours and played with the kids, then headed home to let Gavin take another nap. We spent the rest of today relaxing and playing and telling Daddy how much we love him!

French Toast with lots of vanilla, cinammon, and powdered sugar

My favorite boys!

Monkey and Me

Gav, Hailey and Grandpa

G loves popsicles!

Amy and Hailey

Sweetest face ever

His first time to try watermelon

We missed Ryan and Reagan, but Reagan wasn't feeling well. Hopefully we get to let all the kids swim together soon! Happy Father's Day to my Hubby, my Dad, and Eric's Dad too! Love you all very much!

7 Months

"Ohhhhhh Darlin don't you ever grow up, just stay little..."


This is how I feel every single day when I see the new things Gavin learns, and how much he grows right before my eyes. He makes me laugh and he makes me crazy, but I love every minute of it! 7 months and no crawling, but he's ready to go somewhere. We love watching him scoot, and army crawl and roll to get where he wants to go!


A few noteworthy antics:


- You are constantly moving your hands, it's like they don't know how to be still.
- You still sleep great, but your wake-up time is 6:15, NO IFS-ANDS-OR-BUTS!
- Still eating baby food 3x a day. Im working towards table food, but honestly it just hasn't made sense yet bc the things he can eat, we never eat! ( mashed potatoes, mashed up carrots, etc)
- You reach your arms out to be picked up and you especially do this when you see Mommy or Daddy.
- You SCREAM for fun, all the time! (video to follow)

Over this past month or so, Ive had quite the ordeal working out a babysitter situation for Gavin. It's been hard on all of us to adjust, but in the mean time, Gavin has spent some quality time with some of his favorite people! His Great Great Aunt "Gingy", his Great Grandma "GG", Grandma, Aunt Amy, "Sissy"....all LIFE SAVERS! By the end of this week, we should have our normal schedule in tact with full time Aunt Sissy and Grandma!

Gavin loves his GG

Gavin had a blast this past weekend riding the mower with his Daddy! He had the biggest funniest smile on the whole time and was so interested!



I took some pics this weekend so I could document his 7 months! Now, Im no "Amy Blackburn Photography" but I gave it my best shot!

Lexi really likes making a cameo in the pics each month

Killer smile

Snuggling his monkey blanket

He is obsessed with this "lovie" and has to sleep with it every nap and nighttimeWorking on choosing his career at such a young age...Firefighter or Garbage Man
"Firefighters are heroes, but a garbage man gets to CRUSH things!...hmmmm"
"I think I might go with the firefighter, Im not afraid of anything"
"On second thought, Daddy said when he was young, he wanted to be a garbage man, so it looks like I'll follow in Daddy's footsteps!!"
"Or maybe I"ll just drive my tractor like Daddy. But mine won't GOOOO"
"Already broken down, better look under the hood"

Love this sweet boy. :)