First Piano Recital

This is Olivia and her Piano teacher, Meggie.

Olivia had her first piano recital on Saturday! She played "Morning" frome Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite. She was pretty nervous, but played beautifully without any mistakes!

Here's Olivia playing her piece!!

A Fabulous Friday!

Friday was an exciting day in our home. Todd, Olivia and I went the Barbara Davis Center for a four HOUR pump training class. We have Olivia a hooked up, but are doing a trial run with her pump full of saline right now. We can't wait to get rid of shots and load her pump full of insulin!

And our new dining room set was delivered!!! It's so beautiful! It's so nice to have a real table and CHAIRS! Folding chairs are functional, but not very cute.

Marcella Anne Turns Three!

asked Marcella what kind of cake she wanted for her birthday a few weeks ago and she insisted on a chocolate bunny cake! Go figure, the little girl who won't go to sleep without her Bun-Bun, wanted a rabbit cake! So here it is-or was, I guess. The Jelly beans were actually Jello Beans!

This is at Grandma and Grandpa's house on Sunday when all the Aunts, Uncles and cousins around came to celebrate. Isn't she cute!?! I can't believe how much she's grown in the past few months.


Marcella was so excited to blow out the candles! As soon as the lights were turned off, she blew out all the candles with out any one singing Happy Birthday.

On our second time around, she was a little embarrassed to blow out the candles again, so needed a little bit of help from Dad.

Yum! My girls favorite part of birthdays, licking the candles!

On Marcella's real birthday, we had swimming lessons all evening long and I had my Relief Society Enrichment Activity that night. To celebrate we ate at McDonalds in between lessons! What else could a newly turned 3 year old want....she got to eat chicken nuggets and open presents from Mom and Dad and Grandma and Grandpa Riley!

Barbie Thumbelina!!!

A new dress from Grandma!

Opening another present from the grandparents...

Oooohhhh, a puzzle! Everyone wants to see!

Marcella's favorite, Polly Pockets!

It was a great Third birthday!

Happy St. Patricks Day!

Happy Birthday Marcella!! She's 3 today and is soooo excited that it's finally March. She keeps telling everyone she's going to be 3 in March!

I'm back Blogging....for today anyway. Life has been crazy for the Gagon family. I was in PA for my birthday in December and then again in February for my Mom's birthday. Then the end of February my grandmother passed away after battling cancer for a year and a half. So I was back in PA for that. All I feel like I've done for 2 months solid is laundry!!!
Here's Rylee Jo! She's 8 months now!! Not crawling, but tryin to scoot on her bum everywhere. Check out that scratch on her face! I put her to bed a couple of nights ago and she started fussing, then started screaming because she had clawed her face.

Audrey, Marcella and Rylee in there Irish Green!

Look how cute Audrey and Marcella are and how unhappy Rylee is. We gave her a button pin to play with and then she was fine.

Olivia, Emily and Audrey in their Irish green just before they go to school.

Pumpkin Pickin' and Corn Maze

This weekend our family went to a local Pumpkin Patch to pick our pumpkins. Everyone had lots of fun choosing a pumpkin. Audrey though, just about drove us crazy! She had the hardest time choosing a pumpkin! It seriously took her an extra 15 minutes longer than the rest of our girls! (with us hurrying her)

After paying for our pumkins, our family decided to brave the corn maze. Am I ever so glad Todd was there with us. They would've had to send someone in to rescue me! I would've been in there HOURS!!

Poor Marcella! Her little 2 year old legs just couldn't keep up the whole time. And my poor shoulders! They were so sore the next day, it was hard to brush my teeth!


Isn't that curly-top so sweet?!


Following the leader!


We finally finished!

Rylee's 3 Months

Rylee was 3 months on the 10th of October! That's when these pictures were taken. She is getting soooo chubby! I just love to kiss those sweet cheeks! And what a happy baby! She just lays there just waiting to give us a smile. Of course, not to some strange camera.
And her newest milestone is..... rolling from her tummy to her back! She did it last Thursday while I was dressing Marcella in her pajamas. I actually missed the first one! Audrey was sitting next to her, talking Rylee's ear off, when one minute she was on her tummy and the next on her back! I asked Audrey if she rolled her over and she said Rylee did it all by herself. Well, Audrey is a well known story teller in our family, so I put Rylee back on her tummy and watced her. Sure enough, she rolled right onto her back again! I honestly think she's figured it out so that she doesn't have to lay on her tummy. Tummy time is not normally happy time for Rylee. I can't believe how big she's gotten so quickly! Time goes too fast.

September 30th!

September 30th turned out to be a pretty big day for our family. First thing that morning, Emily went to the dentist to have her bottom baby teeth pulled out. Unfortunately, Emily inherited my tiny teeth and big gums. Along with the tiny teeth comes the strange way our bottom permenant teeth come in.....
They actually grow in BEHIND the baby teeth, as you can see from this picture. We noticed this happening clear back in May, but the dentist wanted to see if the baby teeth would get wiggly and fall out on their own. They didn't, so out they came with a little, okay alot of help.

This same day we got news that Todd's sister was going to hospital to be induced with her first baby. Her due date was October 7, but she developed Toxemia. So baby Michael Scott arrived weighing in at 6 lbs 5 ozs. I can't believe how tiny he is and what a monster Rylee looks laying next to him! This picture was just taken last night.

And last but not least, that same September 30th, I chopped off my hair. I was sick of it, plus I am loosing TONS of hair since Rylee was born. NO JOKE, I'm getting very thin areas of hair that are on the verge of baldness. It's horrible. So what do you think?
I'm not so sure about it. I went to this way expensive place that specializes in cutting naturally curly hair-it's called a Deva cut. I don't see too much of a difference, but maybe it'll grow out better or something. I may call today and have the gal fix it...it's longer on the right than the left. Can yo tell or is it just me being extra picky? Plus she cut these bang things that I'm not thrilled about. They don't blend at all, and I really didn't want bangs. As you can see, I just push them back. I think I may be the pickiest hair snob. But hey, if I'm paying $65.00 for a hair cut, I want to be happy!!