Sean started Sitting up!!!

Sean is finally sitting up! He must have been channeling his inner Laker strength, a commonly used Gillan technique. (By the way Lakers have won 5 straight Playoff games...its looking good!)

Happy Birthday Ryan!!!

Yesterday Ryan turned 28!!! It was so great to spend time with him over the weekend!! We were able to spend a lot of time with our family and friends, and just Ryan and I were able to go out last night.(thanks Crystal!) Ryan especially enjoyed his birthday because it was the first day of the NBA playoffs, and there are few things Ryan enjoys more then a good basketball game, especially when the Lakers are doing so well!!! Happy birthday Ry, we love you!!

Lets go fly a Kite!!

We had such great weather this weekend and decided we needed to be outside. We decided to go get a kite and have a picnic. I don't know who had more fun flying the kite, Ryan or Alyssa! :)

What we've been up to...

Cherry Blossoms!!

Spring is finally here!! We had a great time last weekend!! Ryan's parents were in town so they got to come downtown to see the cherry blossoms with us.

Just Enjoying the scenery..

Grandma and Grandpa Gillan!!

** Ryan and I also had to go to court to testify against the guy that stole our car back in December.  There is nothing like being up on the stand while the guy is sitting in front of you staring you down as you are talking to the Judge.  As far as we know he was convicted and deported from the country after his time was up in jail.  Glad that is all behind us now!

Sean's Latest

I am rolling all over the place now!!



I finally started on the solid food. The milk just didn't sustain all 19 lbs of me!!




Just loving all of my new toys that I am big enough to play in!!

This is Sean's new favorite toy to be in. He doesn't quite get the jumping part yet, but he loves to play with the toy bar on it.

New Years Eve!

For New Year's we went down to Nate and Catharine's house and hung out with them, Grandma and Grandpa Conover, and the whole Smith family.
We spent the evening eating way too much food, playing games and just enjoying each other's company.

The kids spent most of their time down stairs playing with all of the toys.

Alyssa decided she couldn't really celebrate with what she had on so she had to get herself dressed up.

The kids all loved watching Uncle Nate make popcorn in his new popcorn maker.

We all slept over their that night and Alyssa and Claire were so excited about the matching pajamas they got to wear for their sleep over.

Happy New year!

Gillan family Visit

It just doesn't feel right to go through the holiday's with out family. We were so happy that all of Ryan's family were able to fly out Christmas night to stay with us.
Brett and Megan got in right around dinner time, so we all went out to eat at Uno Pizza. We came back home and hung out for a while. Later that evening Mom and Dad G and Shannon arrived.

The next morning we got up and had a big breakfast. Then we opened gifts that we got for each other. Alyssa loved that she got to have Christmas morning 2 days in a row.

Hanging out while we did presents.

Brett and Megan got Alyssa a giant hippo. She LOVED it! She decided to name it Magenta.
The rest of the day we hung out and played with our new toys.
We filled the week up with no problem. Ryan and Alyssa took them into D.C. to show them around, while I stayed home with Sean who was starting to come down with a cold.

Here are some of the pictures they took.

When we were back at the house they spent their time snuggling and playing with the kids. Alyssa loved coloring pictures for everyone.
Sean fell asleep on Shannon, holding his nose. We all thought it was so funny.


We also went to the movies. Alyssa sat with Shannon through the movie. She loves her Aunt Shanny. Sean did really good through the movie too. We were nervous that he was going to start screaming but he just slept on Ryan the whole time.

We also got to take a day trip up to Philly. We went around to see all the sights, had a cheese steak and then came home! It was a quick trip, but Philly is such a great place to visit and it isn't that far, so we are glad we got to go do that with them.

The family in front of the Liberty bell.

All of us in front of Independence Hall.

We went into the visitor's center and got some more photo's where it was a little bit warmer.

You can't go there with out stopping by the Rocky statue!

After the Statue we stopped at Geno's for a Philly Cheese Steak and then headed home.

The Next day was Shannon's Birthday! Alyssa was more than happy to help her open her presents.
We all went to church and then we headed down to Mark and Connie's house for dinner and to celebrate some more.
After dinner Shanny, opened some more presents and then we all had some fun shooting each other with some new dart gun toys they just got.

Alyssa didn't want to miss out on all the fun so she was quick to volunteer herself as the next target.

Happy Birthday Shanny. Hope you had a great day!