Getting ready for winter

  We have been making trips in the hills to cut firewood for this winter and have been having a blast doing it!  Our last trip we went up Reecer and got a a huge load and after all the hard work made our way to lions rock, all three of the boys first trip there! Its breath taking!

         

Family of Five!!

    So, its only been almost a year since i have updated this, lol!  We have since become a family of five!  Riggin Matthew Pettigrew joined our family on March 25, 2011! Ayden and Gavin are the proudest older brothers i have ever seen and seth and i couldnt be happier!  Riggin is the best baby and is now five months old, he loves to play with his brothers and smiles every time you look at him!  Hes trying to crawl already and im sure it wont be long before his big brothers have a monkey attatched to their legs:) I absolutely love being a mother of three boys!  

       We have had a wonderful summer with a trip to the zoo, fun with grandparents and friends, lots of hiking, fishing, bike riding, and horseback riding! Seth and the older boys have been riding their bikes constantly, seth even rides his to and from work everyday!  Both Ayden and Gavin have decided they would like to be bmx bike riders and they both surprise and delight me and have no fear of going over jumps and down stairs on those bikes!   

    
         We are now getting ready for the new school year start, Ayden in the first grade and Gavin in his second year of preschool.  We also just started soccer and Seth is coaching their team:)  Thank goodness i have such a trooper of a little guy, Riggin just smiles and goes to everything in his front pack! Last years school went fabulously for both boys and tball was fun but very cold this year!  We also played basketball and that and soccer are both boys favorites so far!  I learn something new from my boys everyday and am so blessed to have such a wonderful husband and kids to share my life with!! 

Christmas Time

Merry Christmas!  I cant believe its already here, especially since the last time i updated our blog was during the summer! This year has been crazy!  Since summer the kids have started school, Ayden in kindergarten and Gavin in preschool. 
    Ayden is attending Valley View elementary and is absolutly loving it.  He is in Ms. Slezler's class and we could'nt feel more blessed, she is an amazing teacher and person and has taught Ayden so much already.  He is reading and learning math and writing skills and i even get to volunteer on tuesdays in his classroom.  All of the little kinders in there are so prescious!
   Gavin is going to I Know I Can Preschool with Karen and is also really enjoying school and all of his own little friends.  He comes home every tuesday and thursday with something new he has learned and made. He is becoming quite the little man and is so proud that he gets to go school too. 
  We have also been keeping Ayden busy with sports.  He has played tball, soccer and now basketball.  He loves them all and Gavin's all ready to go next year when he will be old enough for soccer.  Ayden's favorite so far has been soccer, next year he wants to play the year round team so we'll see if hes still that into it when the time comes.( i hope so:)) 

                                       

                                                            
   Besides sports and school we have been able to spend alot time of with my parents this year since they are totally moved now and have thier own place!  We have really enjoyed being able to visit and go horse back riding!  Grandpa also has plans to get both the boys on little claves next spring to practice for junior rodeo and is having thier own bull ropes made for them! too cute!  Its so great to have all of our family close again, now we just have to wait a year for when my brother gets back from afghanistan and can move closer with his family. 
  We also have some very big news that we are all very excited to share!  In April we will be welcoming a new little bundle into our family!  I am six and a half months pregnant with another little monkey, Riggin Matthew Pettigrew!   We are so excited and truely blessed! The boys cant wait to meet their new little brother:) 
   Christmas is in two days and i cant wait! Merry christmas to everyone and hopefully this kind of catches me up on our blog!:) 
                                                      Happy Holidays everyone!!

                                    

Summer

I cant believe how fst this summer has flown by.  We are already getting ready for school, ayden has a little confrence with his kindergarten teacher tomarrow so that he can meet her and get to know her before school!  I have a kindergartner, oh my goodness!  gavin already went and toured his class room and is ready to start preschool! 
             This summer has been full of fun and lots of time outdoors.  Ayden has been riding our new horse granger alot with me and is very excited about horses now, wich makes me so happy:)  Both of the boys have been in thier pool every chance that they get!  we also just got home from our little vacation with some friends and their kids.  we went to deer lake in deer park for four days and stayed in the jenkin's family cabin.  it was such a blast and relaxing.  We got to swim everyday and play on the bech, go for hikes and have camp fires and smores!! The kids had soooo much fun and all got to camp out together for their first sleepovers:)  so we have definatley had a great summer with family and many friends!!!! 

WHERE SHOULD I BEGIN!

END OF THE YEAR TEAM TROPIES!

Where do i begin, i last updated when we returned from disneyland, shame on me!  Ever since we got home its been school functions and baseball!!  I love it:)  Ayden started his first season of t-ball and we ended it today!  It was so much fun, and the whole family got to partipate and loved it.  Seth got to help coach and gavin and i were cheer squad.  I am so proud of ayden for playing and learning so much and gavin loved watching big brother and playing with all the girls during the games.  I cant wait until next year and until then we have already signed up for soccer.  We are also awaiting our letter to see where ayden will be attending kindergarten.  Gavin is signed up for preschool and will be going to karen macraes in the fall,we have orientation in june, too cute!  Both boys in school, oh my!  Seth and I have been busy shuttling kids around and working and trying to get all of our flowers planted.  He is building me a garden this year and we just got done building a bunny house, in wich we have four bunnies.  We have such a funny farm lol:)  In addition to bunnies we also have baby chicks about ready to hatch and a new three legged dog!!!!  This is what happens when you work at a veterinary hospital, my children can never say they didnt get to have any pets, thats for sure, but with all the craziness, i wouldnt change it for the world.  I have been having a blast with my uppercseliving!  I was so hesitant to do it and now i am so glad that i did!  While im doing that, seth has been getting the jeep ready for another summer of fun.  Now we just have to get the wind to calm down so we can enjoy it.  We also recently had a house guest, surprise, grandma ann came and stayed with us for a week, she left last thursday and we miss her so much already!!  Wish she lived closer, but at least while she was here she got to see boys and all their activites that they are doing.  She also spoiled me and bought me a pair of jeans that i couldnt bring myself to get, thank you momma in law!  We had a great visit!! LOve you grandma Ann. :)  Thats some for now and so much that i know i still need to update!   

   AYDEN UP TO BAT

CADEN, AYDEN, AND JOSH WAITING TO BAT LOL!:)

AYDEN AND CADEN WALKING TO THE CAR, HOLDING HANDS AFTER A HARD PRACTICE!

TEAM HUDDLE

AYDEN TAKES BASE:)

GAVIN ALL SMILES AFTER A GAME AND CHASING GIRLS

MY BOYS AFTER THE GAME

ALL MY MEN WORKING ON THE JEEP TOGETHER

OUR JEEPSTER

AYDEN AT THIS YEARS FARM DAY FOR PRESCHOOL

GAVIN LOVING ON SOME BABY KITTIES AT FARM DAY

AYDEN RIDING AT FARM DAY 2010

2010 AYDEN SCHOOL PHOTO

GAVIN STRIKING A POSE :)

Vacation

We finally took a family vacation!  We drove to Disneyland!!!!  We had the most amazing trip! we were gone for seven days and drove straight through to disneyland on saturday, twenty hours.:)  The boys were so very good, thankfully:)  This mine and the boys first trip to disneyland and we already want to go back.  we took the first two days in the park riding everything, our favorite was the pirates of the carribean and splash mountain.  Ayden of course loved everyting and was able to ride everything except the indiana jones.  gGavin's favorite was pirates and i think we went on those two probably ten times a day!  ayden even went on the tower of terror twice which i loved.  My favorite part though was the characters and all the shops to look at.  We got all of our autographs and pictures and i think rode all the rides except the really big rollercoaster at california adventures.  we took one day outside the park and took the kids shopping at build a bear and the disney store and then spent the rest of the day swimming and room service.  They had the most amazing fireworks show and parade, ice cream shops, and so many activities and all of the people we met were so nice!   After that on our drive home we went through San Fransisco and across the golden gate bridge and spent night just outside the city.  We made our way home after that and the drive was so beautiful, i never new that most of california is farms and ranches! BEAUTIFUL! We had the most fun and perfect family vacation, can't wait to go back, maybe this summer lol!!!!!!