Life with the Gates the last several days......

Hamilton's first bath in the big bathtub!

And his first bath with Hudson! They had a blast! Hudson got a "shaving" kit from Santa, and so of course he had to let Hamilton shave too!

Saturday we drove over to see FROZEN Lake Michigan, and I must say it was a pretty cool sight to see! Those black specs are people walking out on the frozen waves!

More people walking out onto the waves.

If you look closely you can see the ridge of the waves! Crazy, but so cool!

Me standing in front of a frozen wave!

Hamilton ate his first baby food today! Green beans! And he seemed to like it!

Sweet Hamilton!

We are heading to LR this Sunday! Juston is flying to Miami for a business trip, so I am driving to LR to stay a few days, then I am leaving the kiddos there and flying to Miami to meet Juston and stay for a long weekend! Yea for some "Rebekah/Juston" time! 

HUDSON'S 3 YRS. OLD!!!

Hudson got a drum set for his birthday! He was so excited to say the least!

Juston showing him how to use the pedal for the bass drum.

This picture is one of the first ones I snapped after he saw them and sat down to play! I love the smile- that says it all!

Opening presents

Blowing out the candles of his drum cake made by me! He has been so excited about that drum cake for weeks! And on Sunday I went to the grocery store to get all the ingredients and he knew I was going for that purpose. As soon as I pull into the garage and got out of the car, he opens the door and says "thanks mom for making my drum cake!" It is moments like that that melt my heart as a mom!

The cool drum cake- thanks to my mom who found the design from an old 1993 Betty Crocker coupon clipping that she had stuck in one of her recipe books. How cool is that!?

Thank you Lord for Hudson!

Here is a few pics to tide you over......

Hudson's 3 year old Birthday!

I promise I will work on a post today to add more pictures! :)

Christmas 2008

Pictures we took of the boys.

Jennifer, Chandler, Hamilton, me, and Hudson

When we went back to LR over Christmas, we were able to spend one evening with our dear friends Jeff and Jennifer and their son Chandler! 

Hamilton, Chandler, and Hudson

Hamilton and Chandler- buds already!

Christmas with the Gates- Uncle Jesse and Aunt Ali gave Hudson this huge remote control spider and he put it on Hamiltons back!

Juston and his new grill set!

Uncle Jason and the boys.

Christmas morning family picture.

Me shoveling the deck off. There were 19 inches of snow that had accumulated over a 2 week period. It wore me out let me tell you!

19 inches-we measured!

The snow on the deck was up to my knees! 

Hope everyone had a great holiday season!