There's A New Little Bird In The Nest!

Welcome to the Crow's Nest cute boy!

There's nothing better than a new baby!

One + One Makes Three

On Sunday, just before we sat down to eat,

Caroline came walking out with this cute little T-shirt on.

There's going to be a new Peep in the nest!

And I'm here to TWEET my enthusiasm!

This is Gavin and Caroline's first!

Needless to say, EVERYONE is REALLY excited. 

Congratulations! Chirps to the new mom and dad!

Can't wait!

Happy Birthday Gavin

Happy Birthday!

To my crazy kid! 

The one who always makes me laugh!

He loves Mt. Dew. When he's 90, it won't be Pepsi sustaining his life, like my mom. No, it will be Mt. Dew. He drinks enough to own half the company by now. 

He's going to be a dad this year and he's thinking his life will be over. His philosophy is, "Kids ruin your life." I'm sure this philosophy is going to change. 

He has zero patience. He gets that from me.

He likes to have fun and fun follows him everywhere. I think that's because even if it isn't fun, he will make it fun. Fun is an attitude with him. It's like his main core personality trait.

He's a nurse. And this fits him. He's always been a care taker of souls.

And for the reccord, I'm his number one fan. Though Caroline would argue with me over that.

I love you Gav. If I'm having a crappy shizzy day, and you call me up, which you always do, my day immediately gets so much better. Thanks for not only being my son, but for being my best friend. You are immediate sunshine to my soul.

Dad and I love you! As well as the entire Clan. Happy Birthday! 

Welcome To Midtown

This morning I got a phone call. The voice on the other end said, "Help."

I love it when my kids call for aide from their mother. Since they are always helping me out, I love returning the favor. 

Gav has a new job and he needed a short blurb to introduce himself for the news letter.  I guess he thinks I'm a good blurber! Actually Gavin is a good blurber, I just embellished it.

Congratulations Gav on your new Job! He's a Laketown man and a Midtown man now!

News Letter Blurb: Introducing, "Gavin R. Crowther ---Dweller of the fields.

Are you wondering, “Who is Gavin Crowther?” My name has many meanings. The original Welsh version means, “White Hawk Of Battle.” I am 1 of 8 kids. I have 4 brothers; “XBox” is where I battle. When I'm not working, I have many passions in life: In the spring you’ll find me on a distant trail on a motor bike; in the summer, on a board behind a boat; in the fall, you’ll find me on a mountain stream with a fly rod secured tightly in my hand because I’m reeling in a monster fish; and in the winter, you can find me practicing on a mountain in the powder, hoping in my next life I can be featured in a Warren Miller Ski film. Cleveland, Ohio is my birthplace, which explains my strange allegiance to teams such as the Browns (football), and the Indians (baseball).  I love a good nurse; literally my wife is a nurse at McKay Dee Cardiology.  I enjoy helping others and find great satisfaction in being a part of a winning team.  What I have learned so far is the Team here at Midtown is exactly that. I look forward to contributing to its success. 

Great job ---White Hawk! They are going to love you!

Congratulations Graduate

It's official!

All that hard work

has finally paid off!

And the long awaited moment

has come!

This calls for lots of smiling

Hand up in the air cheering,

And serious celebrating!

Yup, he's pointing at me clear across the crowd taking his picture.

I pulled out the big guns for this one. 

Telephoto to the max!

In case you haven't figured it out by now,

Gavin is officially a REGISTERED NURSE!

It's a done deal. Text everyone!

One flick of the tassle and time to collect that diploma. 

It's a proud moment when you sit in the audience and watch your child

suceed in life. 

You hope you had some positive influence for good in the venture.

Gavin soared his way back to his seat. 

I soared with him in my heart!

I couldn't be more proud.

Gavin is headed for his masters now.

I can't wait.

Gavin is going to be great in his profession.

He has such a giant heart and he LOVES PEOPLE!

More importantly . . .People LOVE HIM!

He did his  precepting at Primary Children's Hospital.

The kids loved him,

And Gavin relished every minute with them.

One little wife is pretty excited!

And I'm sure for Gavin, being married to

"Nurse of the year?"

helped when it came to all those study sessions.

Both Nurses! Both Excellent Nurses!

What a team!

Everyone in the Crow's Nest celebrates your victory!

I'm happy you endured the photo session

So I could record your great day!

Congratulations!

Now pack it up and lets go eat.

THE GRADUATE

You're AWESOME! 

Just want you to know how much we love you!

And how proud of you we all are.

Keep it up, the part where you do great things in your life.

You've always been so good at it.

We know you always will! 

Happy "Muth"ers Day

Well Mom we are doing a digital Muthers day card and so here it is! Imagine a beautiful scenery photo not hard since you've taken many...picture the perfect light the crisp colors and the spontaneous moment. Now you open the card and it says Mom thanks for giving us an example of what it means to be AMAZING! So I didn't steal that from
Halmark that's all me baby...Me and Caroline love you so much and wish you the happiest mothers day in the world we are so grateful to be a part of the amazing family made by an amazing woman! I won't talk about your gift in case you read this before we give it to you but let's just say we think you'll love it, it will look sharp no matter where you take it. Happy Mom Day Muth
Love, Gavin & Caroline

Happy Anniversary Kids!

Last night I pulled a 3 A.M.-er. Had a wedding to punch out. This morning I woke up to a little beeping noise on my computer. Someone's having an anniversary today!

Being the Blog crazed woman I am, I immediately began looking through photos on my hard drive. Wow, what a walk down memory lane that was. Love it! I love my hard drive! Does that sound bad? Well, ya gotta love a good hard drive! LOL! Ok, so I'm a little on the groggy side. It's early and I got no sleep. Wow, I'm getting bold in my blogging days!

Ran across this picture. I wish I had taken up photography when Emilyn got married. Then I could post random pictures of all my kids on their wedding day. 

I don't know, do you think we have grown a bit?  I was reminiscing as I flipped through one photo after another. Gage was on his mission when all this was taking place. And ...I'm looking at my grandkids in this picture, and I'm amazed at how fast time flies. Ali, who is a baby in this photo, is almost five, Corbin and Spencer are just cute little buckaroos! And Kate ... well, I'm taking her out today for her 9th birthday. I'm crying now! These people ...they are everything to me. They are my life, my joy, my entire reason for wanting to survive! They are my one and all! The soul source of all my deepest happiness! 

I don't want to be sarcastic here ...but it's a good thing I found this picture and I know how to use a hard drive! Ok, I'm going back to bed. This is not good!

Happy Anniversary you two kids! That was such a happy day back then, and one I will be forever thankful for.  I'm so glad Gavin made the choice he made. Caroline is a keeper! And I love you both! Now, go on out and celebrate! Put that hard drive to use and store some pictures on it! Hahahha 

Love YOU! Happy Day!!!

Meet The Newest Nurse

As you can see, he's a pretty happy guy!

And for a good reason...

He just became a nurse!

I had to laugh when the Vice President of the D.A.T.C, Jay Greaves

called Gavin and Caroline up to the pulpit.

Caroline also graduated from the D.A.T.C and just two days ago

she was awarded "Nurse of The Year."

This is no slouchy award.

Out of about 30 thousand nurses, 600 of them were nominated.

Caroline, who manages a large staff of nurses for Intermountain Medical at McKay Dee.

was presented with this award. 

Jay asked her and Gavin to come up. Paid tribute to them both and 

asked Caroline to share a few words.

It was awesome!

The night got even better when Gavin got up to speak.

All of his peers chose him to represent them all.

His speech was the best one of the night.

His wit and charm was all over the place!

No, I'm not prejudice.

Ask anyone who was there.

He had everyone laughing and crying.

It was a a speech that had it all!

Finally it was time to hand out the diplomas.

Caroline got to do the pinning.

If you are nurse you get to pin another nurse!

Pretty happy moment for husband and wife!

So now, when you need a good nurse,

I know a super fantastic pair!

Awesome night Gavin!

You make a spectacular looking graduate!

Congratulations ---squeeze!

WE LOVE YOU!!!