In Memory of...

We received a shock last Thursday, March 27, that I hope none of you ever has to experience. My very sweet amazing sister-in-law, Venecsa Cook Gasaway, was killed in a tragic car accident leaving behind her husband and 4 boys. Another sister-in-law, Mandy, has written a beautiful tribute to Venecsa on her blog so I am posting a link to her site for you to read. Venesca truly was one of the most amazing women I know so to get to know her a little better please read this tribute by clicking on Mandy's name.

It is at times like this when I am so grateful to have a testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ and a knowledge of His Plan of Salvation. Although we will miss Venecsa dearly we know that through the sealing power of Temple ordinances we will see her again, and she will be with her family again. As Venesca's sister, Amelia, said at the funeral service we are not saying goodbye, just see ya later.

Happy Easter!

Easter Sunday was a beautiful day in Utah. A beautiful day to celebrate our Savior and all He has done for us. I love this time of year where everything is coming to life again, a true symbol of our Savior that He lives! After church we went over to my Aunt LuAnn's house in Springville for dinner with family and an Easter egg hunt for the "kids." Daylen grasped the concept of finding eggs and putting them in his basket very quickly and had a lot of fun.

This last week I finally got all the equipment I needed to put our home videos onto the computer so I've been working on getting the footage somewhat edited and burned onto DVDs. I made up a couple of clips to post of Daylen's egg hunting, but it takes FOREVER to upload and so far I haven't been successful. I will keep trying so hopefully I will have video footage on my blog soon!


Daylen is obsessed with balls and he loved being able to dunk the basketball with the help of daddy.
He wasn't too happy when the big kids took over the hoop with bump, but luckily....
....there was a Daylen size hoop in the garage where he could dunk the ball all by himself!

Beautiful Days + a Cute Boy = HAPPINESS

We've been able to play outside the last couple of days and it has been wonderful! We went for a walk this morning with our friends, Janell and Rylan, and it felt so good to get out and walk in the morning again! We got this hat for Daylen a couple of weeks ago and I think he looks so cute in it, so grown up. So of course I had to take some pictures of him in it.

The other day during lunch Daylen started hiding his grapes from himself and saying. "where go?"

He would cross his hand with the grape behind the other, then he would show it and say "there it is!" and eat it. I watched this for a minute before thinking I should grab the camera and get some pictures of this.
Here he is showing me his grape while he eats it if you can't tell. He is such a silly boy, he makes me laugh. It's been fun to watch him this last month especially, he is learning so much!

6 Months

It's that time of the month again. Here I am at 6 months, but again I say, pictures do me good. I really do look bigger than this in real life, just ask Brad. I still feel pretty good for the most part, I feel like I have good energy most of the time. Rachel came over again today and helped me do more spring cleaning. We got the rest of my kitchen cupboards cleaned, the drawers, my freezer, and dusted everything in the entire house. My last big project will be to shampoo my carpets, oh and the garage, but that will wait until warmer weather and Brad's help. I wanted to get all the cleaning out of the way so I can start on my projects for baby Kate. I think I will enjoy working on them more if I don't have thoughts of cleaning lingering over my head. I'm getting excited to start putting her room together!

Spring Cleaning

So with the BEAUTIFUL weather we've been having these last few days I decided it was time to start my SPRING cleaning! So far, with the help of my sister Rachel on Monday, I have cleaned all the blinds, windows, window tracks, window seals, doors, floor boards, and cleaned out the bottom cupboards of my kitchen, including under the sink. (Ew gross!) It is so refreshing! Luckily my sister is coming back tomorrow to help me again cause I need a little motivating boost to keep crossing off my LIST!

UV50

This past Wednesday night was the first annual UV50, which consists of the top 25 fastest growing companies in Utah Valley, 15 top revenue, and 10 up and coming companies to watch for. Namifiers was honored as the 18th fastest growing company in Utah, go Namifiers! I went with Brad along with 2 account executives and their wives to represent. It was a really fun evening, dinner was catered by Tucanos, yum! For those of you who have seen Jason Hewlett in action you know the entertainment was awesome! He does musical impressions, I have not laughed that hard for a long time. Then, the awards part was quick and to the point, which is what I like. We left Daylen with his first real babysitter besides family or an adult. She is a young woman in our ward, I think she's 13, and he did great! She did too, of course! We'll have to try and get her more often, although in this ward you have to book a babysitter way in advance. The supply vs. demand is way out of balance.

There's no place like home...

We had a great trip to Las Vegas this last week, but as nice as it is to get away, it's always so much nicer to come home! We left Tuesday morning at 6:30 AM, ugh! We got to Vegas in time to start setting up for the trade show. As soon as we got all the stuff in the booth, the boss's wife, Jenny, who is also pregnant, asked me if I wanted to go get a massage with her. Uh...let me think about this one...yah! It was my first massage and it was so relaxing! We had a lovely relaxful afternoon while everyone else got to set up the booth. I guess there are perks to being pregnant. That night, as is tradition with trade shows, we went to a 5 star Steakhouse for dinner to get a jump start of motivation to work hard. Yummy! Wednsesday morning 10:00 am was the beginning of the 3 day ARA Trade Show. Here we are getting last minute things ready in our booth before everyone comes.


The show was a big success for us and probably the funnest one I've been to yet. The time went by really fast for me because I was just entering in the new orders that came in. They were sure to take care of me since I'm pregnant. I got to sit at the labtop and remote in to the system at work to take care of the orders we took so it wasn't such an overwhelming job when we got back. Good thing I used to work there and new how to use the system.

We started a new tradition last year of going to a show while we are there. This year we saw a magic show, Steve Wyrick. It was amazing, it was fun to try and figure out how he might be doing some of his tricks, but others still have us baffled. Like his big finale, he made a jet appear on stage in seconds! There is no trap door for that and it was literally seconds and there it was! No idea. I kept thinking about the movie, "The Prestige" while I was watching the show. Seen the movie? We all got our pictures taken with him after the show, so here is Brad, Steve, and I.


The Monday morning before we left for Vegas Daylen was pretty whiny and it just didn't seem like he was feeling all that great. I was trying to get all of my last minute things done before picking my mom up at the airport, so I put on Daylen's Nursery Rhyme DVD that he has recently come to love, thanks again mom! Then I went up to shower and get ready real quick and when I came back downstairs this is what I found. Luckily he hasn't gotten the nasty flu that's going around, he just needed a little more sleep still. He had a great time with grandma and aunt Rachel while we were gone. I was very anxious to see him again by the end of our trip and just glad to be HOME!

Las Vegas here we come!

The time has come again for trade show season with Brad's work. Every year we go down to Las Vegas for the ARA Trade Show for some work, food, and fun. My favorite part is the fun we have after the work. It's tradition to go out for a nice steak dinner one of the nights, and this year we are going to go see a magic show. I'm super excited for it! Last year we got to see the Blue Man Group, and it was so fun! There is good, clean fun in Las Vegas, you just have to look a little harder to find it. I definitely don't care to see the strip and the casinos with all the smokey atmospheres, it is pretty ridiculous to see how many people fill up those slot machines at all hours of the day or night. There is one place at the strip that I love to see every year and I never get tired of it, the Fountains of Belagio. It is the most beautiful, elegant, graceful water you will ever see dancing to the music. The waters really take on the character of the song they are dancing to, super creative, I just love them! It's always fun to get away for a few days. My mom is coming from Washington to stay with Daylen, thanks mom! I love it when she babysits cause then I don't worry about Daylen while I'm gone, I just miss him. It's a fun trip for her too cause she doesn't get to see Daylen as often as she would like.

A bunch of Random

I made our favorite dinner, lasagna, for Valentine's Day which we ate by candle light, mmm.....how romantic huh? Well, it probably would have been a little more so without Daylen in the background, but oh well.

We have been having a hard time getting Daylen to drink milk, he always makes faces and spits it out. I'm lucky if I can get him to drink some of the milk in his cereal bowl once the cereal is all gone. For some reason he was willing to give it another shot. He wanted the lid to his sippy cup gone so he could drink it like mom and dad and he didn't spit it out! We were so excited we started cheering and he loved that of course so he would drink a little more then start cheering for himself while we joined in.

Now he has the milk mustache to prove he actually drank more than a sip! The next night we were babysitting for his friend, Rylan, who likes milk, so when he saw Rylan drinking milk he actually wanted me to get him some as well! 2 days in a row so far, lets see if we can keep this up. His cousin, Ivan, is coming to visit this weekend and he loves milk so hopefully all this exposure will keep Daylen going in the right direction.

Daylen and Rylan had so much fun playing together, they were cute to watch. They got up in the rocking chair together and just laughed and laughed! So here they are having fun. We started trading off babysitting on Friday nights with our friends Janell and Kevin (Rylan's mom and dad) and so far it has been awesome!

5 months

First of all Happy Valentine's Day! Brad surprised me by bringing Bajio home for lunch to share, yum yum! Unfortunately since I've been pregnant I tend to eat lunch earlier than normal, so I was just finishing it when he walked through the door. I still ate some and now I have a delicious lunch waiting for me tomorrow! I love my thoughtful hubby!

Alright, so yesterday marked 5 months, and here I am for all to see how big I am getting! The weeks are going by so fast, I just hope this keeps up as I get closer to the end and the very uncomfortable stage. As I look at a picture of myself it actually doesn't look as big as I feel when I look in the mirror, maybe it's just the shirt, but hopefully I really don't look as big as I think I am.

Jumpin' Jack

Yesterday we ventured to Jumpin' Jack in Springville for the first time. We went with my cousins Nikki and Lindsey and their kids. Before we left I asked Daylen if he wanted to go jump and he was all excited about it. However, when we got there this first picture shows exactly how much jumping he actually did...

He much preffered pretending to drive a car, watch the dads who were there shooting hoops, and roll around on the ground. And I enjoyed getting out of the house!

Large Shoes to Fill...

Daylen loves shoes. He gets that from his daddy. In getting ready to go anywhere I just have to tell Daylen to go get his shoes and he will go get them and sit down so I can put them on for him. Sometimes he will just go get his shoes so I can put them on even if we're just staying home. The other night he got Brad's huge basketball shoes and was trying to put them on, so Brad helped him step inside. They were about as long as he is tall! Daylen definitely has some large shoes to fill in more ways than one!