peaches...yummy!

I finally followed my sister's example and got my peaches canned. Although I only did a quarter of what she did, it will have to do cause I gave all my empty jars back to my mom. I canned some salsa and tomatoes earlier on in the season, but it's peaches that I love. I don't know why I kept putting it off. It was like that homework assignment you just really didn't want to do, and it felt so good to finally get it done. I also just had to add a couple of pictures of the kiddos as well. Daylen took Kate's bow off of her head and wanted to wear it himself. Brad wasn't so happy about that one.

randomness about me...

So I was tagged by my neighbor and friend, Ashley, to share 6 random things about myself...

1. I love strawberry flavoring, but I reall don't care for real strawberries. I picked the famous Klicker strawberries for 3 summers at home and only ate 1 strawberry. Mostly just to say that I ate one.

2. Brad has had to learn that my definition of "doing the dishes" means doing the dishes, putting all leftover food away, wiping down all countertops, stovetop, high chair, and dining table. Pretty much leaving the kitchen spotless.

3. My favorite TV show is Bones...with The Office coming in close 2nd.

4. I come from a family of car washing nuts, thanks to my dad. It wasn't uncommon for my dad to drag my sisters and I out in below freezing weather including Christmas and New Years Day to wash the cars. You know it's too cold to wash a car when you have to drive it into the garage to thaw before drying it. My car must be washed in a certain order, using specific sponges for each part of the car, followed by a precise drying procedure.

5. I REALLY don't like to iron.

6. My left ear became plugged after swimming while we were in Washington a few weeks ago. Since then Kate has been GREAT about sleeping through the night. :)

who needs a double jogging stroller?

I DO!

starving artists sale

My brother-in-law told us about a starving artists sale going on at the Provo Mariott yesterday so we thought we'd go check it out. We've been wanting to find some good art for our house, we've had a very blank wall above our bed just begging for some decor. We're really excited about our awesomelly cheap find!

Trip to Washington

I'm back! We were in Washington all last week for my mom's birthday, and then my grandpa's big 90th birthday celebration. We had so much fun relaxing with famiy. Jamie and her kids were there all week as well. Brad and I left Daylen with grandma and grandpa for a couple of the days and spent some time at the Cameo Heights Mansion where Rachel had her reception. It was so nice again of course! I have lots of pictures to share so I tried my hand a slide show. Enjoy!

stylin'!

This was Daylen today. He insisted on wearing these work gloves starting from the time we went on our walk in the morning, to running errands in the afternoon. Yup, we went to the library and Maceys like this. Notice he is sporting the socks with sandles look as well. This boy has a mind of his own!

Happy Birthday Daylen!

I can't believe it's aready been 2 years! 08/07/06 we brought our little Daylen Bradly Gasaway in to this world. It's amazing how much he has grown and learned over the past 2 years. His huge smile and big blue eyes have charmed family, friends, and strangers alike. He has a natural athletic talent and love for all types of sports (as you can see in the pics below, golf is one of those). He has a shirt that says, "So many sports, so little time" and I think that is going to be just the case for our little guy. Lately, we've had so much fun hearing his vocabulary blossom...colors, shapes, animals...he soaks it all up like a sponge. He repeats everything we say, including our expressions, "that's cool!" "Oh my goodness!" or "bummer!" We are also happy to see him take to his role as a big brother. We are super proud of our not-so-baby boy.

We love our little/big boy so much. He makes us laugh every day. The other night Brad was at mutual and Kate was in bed so it was just Daylen and I sitting at home together watching, "So You Think You Can Dance" and I looked over at him and he gave me the biggest, cheesiest smile ever. So I gave him a big, cheesy smile back. We then proceeded to make silly faces at each other until we were both laughing. Then he came and sat on my lap and we rocked as I thought about how much better my life has been since he came in to it. I hugged him and told him I loved him and he then said my favorite new phrase of his, "I love you!"

Before and After

I have just a couple of new pictures to post, unfortunetly Daylen got a hold of our camera and smudged the lens. I thought it was just the viewfinder at first so now I have a bunch of blurry pictures. Now we need to get a new camera this week because Daylen's 2nd birthday is on Thursday! The pictures of Kate are before the smudge, and the one of Daylen and his cousin, Ivan, is after. See why we need a new camera?

More Video

Now that I can put on video....here is a cute little clip we took in the hospital when Daylen came to meet Kate for the first time. He hasn't stopped giving her kisses yet!

Daylen Running

I finally am able to put video clips on my blog thanks to my sis-in-law, Mandy. This is a clip we took of Daylen running in the backyard the other day. He likes to run and say, "I run fast!" He's taking after his daddy. Anyways, we were laughing hard after this, watch and you'll see why!

smiles

Kate has been smiling a lot more lately, and we've tried to capture it on camera. Here are a few pictures we've been able to get so far. (These are for you, grandmas!) She is growing so fast, I wish I could slow down time!

funny boy

Daylen cracks me up, and I need to remember to write these things down that he does. This afternoon he was reading books before his nap like we do every day, and he was reading an Usborne Book (we love Usborne books!), First Picture Animals. It has all kinds of animals in it of course, and he was reading the page on spiders and bugs pointing to them and saying, "spider" "dragonfly" "butterfly" then all of the sudden he says, "bug" and hits the page followed by, "oh, I got it!" I started cracking up! I love it when he makes me laugh!