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Here's our collection of eggs!
And of course Gavin had to get his hands on them...
Messy hands, but loads of fun!

Passing of the Dipper

Luca passing the dipper to Caleb, and Atti in the background trying to get that egg! :)
Luca looks so serious fishing for that egg!
Caleb's aqua egg.

Coloring Easter Eggs

I had planned on the boys to enjoy coloring eggs outside, but to my late planning, the weather turned on us Saturday, so I quickly set up our table near the bay window to catch any natural light I could (before the dark cloud covered our house)! Whew, that was a long sentence...here is Atticus and his yellow egg.

This last picture is Luca holding his egg oh-so carefully!

4-3-07

Grandma walking Gavin
He's on the move!
Miss Ruby, just so sweet said, "I'll play with you." And off they ran inside to play (wish I had gotten that shot of them running inside together, darn, next time!)
Beautiful Madisson, jumping on our trampoline. Here, she resembles what I might see her looking at as a teenager.
She is my best friend's oldest child, who's 8 years old.

Happy 4th Birthday Atticus!

Atti requested a banana split sundae, so we made one big one and shared it between us all! You see Caleb and Luca's spoons diggin' in for a bite!
Make a wish, sweetie pie!
The sundae
The older three of the four brodders!

Playing with My New Toy

Gavin crawling A neighbor, Hailee.

Caleb and friend, Shelan in background, her sister Rylie in forground.

I took some pictures of our boys and some of their friends the other day. They were playing in a tree and jumping to the zip line.

I have yet to feel confident in the whole post processing part of photograpy. My goal is to figure it out (soon) in order to enhance the pictures.

New Camera!

Well, we got our new digital camera and lenses! Actually, the second lens is on back order and won't be here until Thursday, so I'm playing around with the (heavy) zoom lens! I love the soft evening spring light as the sun goes down, and it's behind the kids. It seems to give such a soft glow.

My sweet high school friend, Richelle (and her husband Tim), had their first baby, a little girl, Lili Katherine about four weeks ago. I will have the privilege of meeting her and taking some pictures of her this Friday. This is great practice for me and a gift all new mommy's love-can't get enough pictures of your first sweet bundle of joy!

Gavin's Growin' and Climbin'

Gavin is ten months now and is still crawling around, no interest in walking to me while holding my hands, but zooms around the house in his walker. He's climbing the stairs and has somewhat attempted to crawl down feet first on his belly. I'm looking forward to him walking though, if he keeps the track record of his brothers, they all crawled 4 months before walking. That would put him walking in April, around his birthday! :)

Jody and I

We were goofing off and dancing when our friend Amy snapped a couple pictures. I take so many of the boys, but hardly any with the two of us-you know how it is.

9 months old

Gavin was in the thick of a head cold on the day of his actual 9th month, you can tell by the look on his face below, next to Caleb. He's better now, and his ear ache is hopefully healed since it's drained.

It's February!

I am so happy to see the sun shining in western Washington state! For some reason the "add image" button will not work on my blog here, so I will just write a bit.

Let's see, Jody's in his 5th week of the fire academy. All things are fire fighting around here, since Jody's gone through the week, everything hinges on getting through the week until daddy comes home. We've gotten used to our schedule however, and the weeks seem to go quickly. I on the other hand try not to hinge everything on Friday evening, to make sure we enjoy each other and live each day to it's fullest as best as I can. We are so proud of Jody. He's stressed but enjoying himself-to wrap it all up in one sentence! :)

My mind is buzzzzzing all around and I find it hard to settle down and stay in the lovely world of my kiddos right now, as I am eager to get my hands on a prof. camera, hoping to hone in on some skills and encourage growth in that creative arena for me. The fun part of photography is that our kids are the best subjects! :)
So, I look forward to Jody's up coming schedule as an opportunity for me to jump out in faith and ignore fear, and go for something I've thought about for many years.

The boys are doing wonderfully. Healthy, love to play together and on their own. Caleb is loving swimming lessons, as he's taken them through last summer and had just a month off after Christmas. Luca chose not to attend lessons again, but will start up in the summer with Atticus, also trying it out. If I can still get Luca in baseball, he wants to try that, as we've not ventured beyond soccer or swim. I love to see them try new sports or school activities-I look forward to seeing their individual tastes develop.

Well, I hear a baby up from nap time.....blessings on your head. -Stacie

Eight Months Old

Bathing made easy, and more fun in the sink!

Gavin Shea Wilkins

Seven Months Old

Gavin, Nov. 21st, 2006. We were in TN for Thanks-
givning, and he was in the thick of his first head cold
on this day. He loved watching his second cousin,
JT play guitar and got to bang on the small guitar shown in the picture here...















Six Months Old
Oct. 21st, 2006

Gavin is sitting up so well now. About two weeks before his sixth month, he was sitting up, but falling over some, now he rarely falls over and is starting to reach far out in front of him for toys. He also got up on his hands and knees yesterday (Oct. 28th), and started rocking back and forth....crawling is soon to come!

Five Months Old

Gavin Shea in our bay window on Sept. 21st