Family Photos & First Steps!

A few weeks ago, we had our family photos taken, and they turned out great! We had a girl who is just starting her photography business do them, and she did a fabulous job. My only "complaint" is that we had them taken at the beach and the sun was in our eyes...so...darn? Gavin of course was too distracted to look at the camera, but regardless so got a couple good shots of him too!

The pictures were taken at the beach that we frequent here on base, Del Mar Resort.

Ryan went back to work on Monday, so it has been "a back to reality" week for us...boo hoo!!!! He took his Combat Leave, which is time set aside for them to take once they are home from a deployment. The main perk is that it is tax free vacation time, however, they have to use their own accrued vacation time for it. Ryan took ten days, and it has been ten days of bliss! We have just relaxed, lounged around, visited the beach...several times, and gone out and about. We were able to take Gavin to the zoo, which he loved (mostly for the tour buses and people...) and did a little shopping. It was perfect. Well, except for the fact that Gavin decided he doesn't want to sleep through the night anymore! ...We think it's separation anxiety and to his defense, it has been a very chaotic, change-filled couple months for him, so I will cut him a little slack for now I suppose.

We also got FIRST steps this past week!!!!!!!! Here is a link to a video I put together of the occassion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZeIuFq8tGI

We are so proud of our little guy!!