Thursday, December 27, 2007

Gavin Joseph

Our sweet baby boy is growing up.


Here is Gavin 3 years ago today.

December 28, 2004 at 12:14PM Gavin Joseph Urvina came into our family.


Here is our smily, happy, mischevious, and VERY loveable 3 year old boy. We are so glad that he is a part of our little family. Life is just so much better with him in it.

Happy Birthday Little G!

We love you, Mom, Dad, and Madi

Urvina Christmas 2007

A fun Christmas for Madi and Gavin. Christmas Eve we went to a party at the VanderHoeven's home. We ate good food, visited, sang Silent night, and participated in a wacky white elephant exchange. We did end up with 3 sets of "flashy" Christmas ornaments. We came home and the kids were able to open up one present from mom and dad. Christmas pajamas are a fun tradition at our home. Gav was so excited he was being Spider man. And of course Madilynn our little princess.
I think the best part of Christmas is seeing your children's reactions when they open their presents. Madi and Gavin came downstairs on Christmas morning and were so excited to see the gifts that Santa had brought them. Madi received a 3 foot tall Barbie. She thinks it is so fun to carry her around and dance with her.


Gavin has been asking for a gun for over a month. Every time we went to the store he would ask for a gun. It got a little monotonous. Anyway, we kept reassuring him that Santa did know what he wanted for Christmas. The best part is that when he saw his big gun first thing that morning he became so focused on it that he didn't want to open anything else. After about 30 minutes we finally convinced him that he had other gifts to open. He had a great time then as well.




We sold all of Joe's video games and systems, all except for his Nintendo Wii of course. He was sad to see some of his favorite games go. Santa is very clever and got him a Wii game. He was pleasantly surprised.

We did enjoy a wonderful Christmas. I am glad to have my family to share this with. We are very blessed. We hope that you too enjoyed your holiday.

I am very relieved to have it over. Now all I have for the next 4 weeks agenda is: New Years, Gavin and Madilynn's birthdays, and a baby coming. Wish me luck!

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Merry Christmas!!!

Madilynn and Gavin wishing you a wonderful Christmas Season!


Merry Christmas friends and family. We did not send out Christmas cards this year. We still wanted to share our love and appreciation for all of you in our life this holiday season. We wanted to share a little bit about how are family is doing. We are very blessed to have a happy and healthy family. Joe is with Kitsap Bank as a commercial lender. He is enjoying his job and the people he works with. He is still active in the community. He is the president of the Lakewood Area Shelter Association, a member of the local Rotary, and he is the gospel doctrine teacher at church. With all this going on he is still a fierce Fantasy Football competitor. Madilynn is 5 now and will soon be turning 6 years old. She is loving Kindergarten. She is learning things each day and is eager to come home and show her work to mom and dad. She is taking ballet/tap classes this year. Her favorite part of course are the tap shoes and all the noise she can make with them on. Her favorite thing to play is wrestle with Daddy. She is bright and energetic young girl. Gavin will be 3 in the next week. I can't believe that my baby is going to be in primary at church soon. Gavin is a smart and mischievous little boy. We really have to watch this kid, he is just like his daddy. He is this sweet cuddly and loving little man and then he will be climbing up the counter tops to reach the cookies we have put above the refrigerator. We are still amazed at all of the mischief and clever ways he comes up with. As for me, Adrienne, I am keeping very busy. Next week I will be in my ninth month of pregnancy. Baby girl will come the end of January. Although her due date is Feb. 3rd. I am hoping that I will actually get some sleep once she gets here!! HaHaHa. It is a nice dream that I have when I lie awake at 3AM. Madi and Gavin keep me very busy during the day. I do enjoy some adult time at book club once a month. I am also serving as the advisor for the young women of my ward(church). I am over the 14-15 year old girls.

We won't see many of you this Christmas but you are still in our hearts and prayers. Each of you has enriched our lives in different ways and we wouldn't be the same without you. I hope that this holiday that you will be able to feel the wonderful spirit that Christmas brings.

Love to you all,

Joe, Adrienne, Madilynn, and Gavin

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

My Beautiful Pregnant Wife


I have received some requests for a picture of Adrienne. So here is the most beautiful pregnant woman in the world, my wife.

In the beginning...

In the beginning...
April 23, 1999

Joe and Adrienne

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