Kelly & Alex

Alex in his pool

Alex in the Chatooga River

Boys weekend

I (Kelly) went to Dallas this past weekend to attend the women's conference. It was a lot of fun as I got to see family and friends. Alex spent Friday night with Uncle Matt, Uncle Scott, and Simon. Thank you Matt and Scott for watching the boys for Amy and I to get away. Thank you Corey for working so hard on our floors back home.

Alex and Uncle Scott were able to spend a lot of time together this past weekend. Thank you, Scott, for being such a great uncle. Alex and Simon are lucky little guys :)

Alex and twin

I bet you didn't know that Alex has an identical twin :)

Alex and friend

This is a picture from February. Alex was a year old and Levi

was 8 months. Alex is now 14 months and Levi is 10 months old. I watch Levi on T and TR and his brother Bryce is here on MWF. This is a picture from the house that we were renting when we first moved to Toccoa.

Catching Up

We apologize that it has taken us so long to put anything new on here. Everything else has been taking priority over playing :)

I (Kelly) and babysitting two boys, Bryce and Levi, from 8:30 to 12:30 everyday. Bryce is 2 1/2 and Levi is 10 months. These two boys, together with Alex, make me think that Alex may be an only child! All of the boys are good, but it is still hard to get things done with three people pulling on me.

I am getting to know our backyard neighbor well. Vania has a little girl named Keyana that is 4 months older than Alex. They have been coming over lately in the mornings too and I am grateful for the adult company :) Vania and I have also started exercising together this week. HOpefully we will both stick with it.

Corey is busy with classes and he had a really stressful week last week with presentations in chapel 3 days and being part of a panel one night for the campus women's ministry. He and my dad finished rewiring the house over spring break and my mom and I were able to get Alex's room painted and really ready for him to live in it. Maybe I can get Corey to show me how to post some pictures . . .

We are going to try to build a kennel for Bailey this weekend so that he can be an outdoor dog again. I know Alex will miss not having Bailey around whenever he wants him. His face just lights up when I let Bailey in off the porch. Definitely my genes there, not Corey's.

After that, our next project is going to have to be working on the exterior of the house for a variety of reasons. It is a nice time of year though to be outside :)

Our Backyard

Alex's first snow

Snow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alex's First Snow!!!

Alex in back yard

Move aside... I'm working on my license to drive!!!
so who was taking Alex for a ride? Bailey?

Alex and Matthew in Chattanooga

Kelly spent time with a college friend, Marina, while Corey was presenting at a conference (Society for Christian Psychology - a Division of AACC) this past weekend, and Alex spent time playing with Matthew, who is a month younger than him.

Deer in our backyard one cool brisk morning

Alex's First Halloween

Alex wearing his Santa suit for halloween at our Fall Festival 2006, Toccoa, GA.

Santa has gone out to the stables to check on the reindeer....

Alex walking holding on to basket

Adventures of the Gilberts

Today Corey (mua) went kayaking down Broad river -
6 miles of mild rapids and drops. It was so awesome. What an adventure.

This morning, Kelly saw 3 deer right out our front door.

She even got a picture, but it is kind of blury.

This evening we went to Tallulah Falls north of us and saw 2 bears!

They were in the Wal-Mart parking lot in the back of two guys' trucks feshly killed. They were both around 170 pounds. Kelly got to see them up close and personal. There was even a young boy about 9 or 10 years old actually sitting on top of the bear and petting it. How funny. That's us! :)

Alex Fake Coughing and standing

Alex in Tunnel

Alex Playing with ball