Nick and Lynn - remember them?

Since our blog "The Taylors" has been consumed with the littlest member of our family [ ] for the past few months, I figured I would catch everyone up on what Nick and Lynn have been up to lately. Nick recently got certified as a basketball referee or "official" as he calls it. He is going to start doing some children's and middle school games and then eventually move up to high schoolers. I already told him that Gabi and I would come watch him referee his first game! Unfortunately, the football league that he was playing in was mismanaged and they ended up just cancelling the whole thing and gave everyone their money back. He is still playing basketball every week, but he has yet to decide whether or not he will do his golf league this summer again.

As I posted before, I have started working very part-time. I am working as a contract health screener and travel to different companies to do health screenings on their employees. I work only when I want to, but the downside is that work is not always plentiful. Availability goes up and down throughout the year, and now that we have Gabrielle I only do local jobs within Michigan. So far my mom has been able to babysit when I work, so that has been nice. I really don't think daycare is for us and our situation right now so I'm happy she has a family member that can take care of her when I'm gone. I am also continuing to work out at the gym. There was a small hiccup in my attendance due to a cold, then work, etc....but I'm keeping at it the best I can. They just started offering group fitness classes so I've been hitting those about once a week. My weight loss journey slowly continues....I am just about back to myself again. Twenty three pounds fell off by two weeks after I gave birth, I have worked off four pounds since then (pathetic, I know), and I have about five more pounds to lose. Really, I am pretty happy with how my body has snapped back (ok, "snapped back" may be a bit a stretch but it's darn close!) Other than that, I have just been spending lots of time with our Gabi girl soaking up all of the baby moments I can.

Speaking of Gabi, I can't not post a few pics of our little one :)

Modeling the new hat Grandma made for her

Good times with Dad....
Another new hat from my mom's friend, Marilyn

Dad buys her clothes out the boy's section. She's not thrilled about this :)
Traditional crabby, tired baby TV time from 8-9pm
Trying awful hard to shove both her hands in her mouth

Jealous much??