change...

Yesterday brought some major changes for not only our ward, but our family as well. Included in the 125 members of ward we lost to the new ward that was created, was our 2nd counselor in our Bishopric. He is now the Bishop of the new ward! But that means our ward needed a new 2nd counselor. We had an interview with the Stake President Sunday morning at 7:45 am where Brad was called to be the new 2nd counselor! Ahh! I am a little nervous about sitting by myself with the 2 kids, but I've already had a couple of invites from friends to sit with them. I know the Lord will take care of us, but it is all still very humbling and overwhelming at the same time.

I thought I'd throw in a couple of pictures of our recent activity. While I'm feeding Kate and can't do anything else, Daylen wants me to kick his baseball to him so he can hit it with the bat. It works out nicely and he's getting a pretty good swing!

TIM MCGRAW BABY!

Brad and I celebrated our 4 year anniversary this last Friday by going to the Tim McGraw concert at the Usana Ampitheater, and it was awesome!


We had so much fun, it was the best concert we have ever been to. I was a little nervous about leaving Kate so soon, but Rachel did great! She even let me borrow her cowboy hat for the special occasion, aren't sisters great?
Jason Aldean opened for Tim, and I'll admit I wasn't too excited for that part, the only song I knew he sang was one I didn't like. Boy was I pleasantly surprised! He actually has quite a few songs out on the radio and I like a lot of them, just not the one I kept hearing. He did an awesome job as well getting everyone hyped up for Tim.
Is it Tim McGraw or is it not Tim McGraw? A couple of times while Jason Aldean was singing we saw a huge crowd congragate to the left of the stage area and we could see a man in a black cowboy hat and shirt taking pictures with people and signing items. Everyone was saying, "It's Tim McGraw!" Well, the first time we saw this happen we were bummed we weren't down there, so the second time it happened we decided to hurry down to get a closer look and hopefully a picture. Well, getting a closer look told us, this was NOT Tim McGraw, it was a look alike! The funny thing was all these people thought it was Tim and were taking pictures with him, and by the look on his face he thinks it's a pretty funny joke. We were wondering if he travels with Tim to make a scene at all his concerts.
The REAL Tim McGraw is ripped, and he was wearing a WHITE shirt. He is such a great entertainer, it was so fun to dance and sing along with all his songs. He has so many good ones that it's impossible to sing them all, but he sang a lot of good ones. He also sang about 4 new songs that will be coming out on his next album they've been working on this past winter. **sigh** what a great night!

Here is my cute, little cowboy!

ward party

We had our last party as a ward last night at the Spanish Fork Aquatic Center. A third ward will be made between our ward and the Spanish Fields ward who we split from last year. The turnout was great, we had dinner then swimming. Although the water was pretty cold Daylen LOVED it! We haven't done a whole lot of swimming, but I think we need to do more. Brad and Daylen did the swimming while I kept Kate dry. :)

Brad took Daylen down the slide with him intending to hold him up as he landed at the bottom to keep his head above water as you can see him beginning to do in this picture. After I took the picture and put the camera down I see Daylen floating face down in the water! Brad was also under water without a hold on Daylen. Luckily there was a lifeguard standing at the bottom in the water so he grabbed Daylen and pulled him out. It was only for a couple of seconds, but that was the scariest sight I think I have ever seen. He was just fine, Brad had lost his footing as he landed at the bottom and just couldn't keep a hold of Daylen. Daylen didn't even think anything of it, he wanted to go down the slide again! He was so cold by this point though, shivering uncontrolably, we decided it was probably time to go home. In his shivering voice, Daylen kept saying, "water, water, again, again, slide, water, again!"

So Brad and I had our 4th anniversary last week, on the 19th. We had been so caught up with having Kate that we both kind of forgot about it. Well, Brad, being the wonderful husband he is, brought me Bajio for lunch and a card. In the card he asked me if I would be his date for the TIM McGRAW CONCERT next week! Which is tonight! Uh, YAH! So we are going to Tim McGraw tonight and I am so excited! Rachel is kind enough to babysit for us. I had to make sure Kate would take a bottle, which she did readily, so now I'm just trying to pump enough for her while we are gone, plus feed her and keep her satisfied. It's been a bit of a challenge today.

kate's church debut

At 2 weeks old Kate went to church today for the first time. She did great, just slept. I had so much fun getting her ready. I think her hair has a little bit of a natural curl and so I put a little gel on top to bring it out more and of course she had to have a bow, and her dress is so dang cute! I brought her downstairs and said to Brad, "look how beautiful your daughter is!" He agreed with me. She is so precious, we just love her so much.
Daylen loves his little sister, he has to give her about 500 kisses a day at least. He'll come up to her and say, "Hi Kate!" over and over and over. He seems to get older and more independent every day. He has to buckle his own seat belt in the car and in his stroller, and his vocabulary is growing like crazy. I've heard people say before that they were worried about having a second child because they didn't know how they could love another child as much or have enough love for 2. Well, I've been amazed at how much more love I have felt since having Kate. Not only do I love her, but I have felt my love for Daylen grow even more than what it was before. Children have this amazing ability to make our hearts grow bigger and feel more love than we ever thought was imaginable.
Grandma Goodwin bought Daylen a basketball hoop while she was here and he has absolutely LOVED playing with it. He has been working on his shot and trying it from farther distances. Thanks Grandma!

week one...

We have successfully survived week one of being the parents to not 1 but 2 beautiful children. (Thanks mom!) It's been a pretty busy week actually, here are a few of our happenings...So far Daylen loves being a big brother, he loves to hold Kate, or lay on the floor with her.

Kate loves her binky, here she hanging on for dear life as she sucks away.

Daylen has decided he is a big boy and will refuse to sit in his high chair. He also refused to let us scoot his chair in close to the table so he is reaching pretty far to eat his lunch.

A little daddy daughter time.
Brad played in a fundraiser celebrity softball game put on by the American Red Cross. There were 6 retired Major League Baseball players in attendence. Here, he is pictured with Vern Law, who won the Cy Young Award (award for the best pitcher in baseball) with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1960. Vern was the pitcher for Brad's team.
Daylen has been helping grandma get lots of exercise while she's here. I'm afraid he's beginning to forget who his mommy is, he's always wanting grandma now.

Being cool in Uncle Tyler's sunglasses.

Taking a nice Sunday ride on Tyler and Rachel's scooter, Daylen loved it, he didn't want to get off.

Check back next week to see how well we survive after my mom goes home...

Announcing Kate Lanette Gasaway!

Well, I accomplished everything on my list of 5 things to do from my tag on Friday. I was as comfortably settled in bed as I could be being so pregnant that night and at about 11:20 PM my water broke! I called Rachel and asked if she and Tyler could come spend the night here to take care of Daylen, so as soon as they got here we took off for the hospital. We did have time while we were waiting to leave to take one more picture, so here I am as pregnant as I was going to get this time around. We got to the hospital just after midnight and Kate was born at 3:13 AM! It was a pretty fast labor and delivery overall, which I am grateful for. She was 7 lbs even and 19 inches long. She has a massive amount of hair, I think she has more than Daylen has right now. She is an absolute cutie, but I may be biased. She has her Grandma Gasaway's nose, we still are waiting for our red head. We are all doing great, baby is healthy and I am feeling so much better now than I did after having Daylen. I feel so much more energized and I can actually walk at a mornal speed without getting winded. I was ready to come home last night, but it hadn't even been 24 hours yet, so we got to come home about 12:30 this afternoon. It's so nice to be home and not cooped up in a small hospital room. Here are some pictures of our new little bundle of joy!

adventures at the hogal zoo!

We got to take a family trip to the Hogal Zoo this morning. We were originally planning on going the morning of Memorial Day, but the rain spoiled that idea real fast. I was so bummed, I'd been looking forward to a fun outing, and we wanted to take Daylen on a fun little trip before the baby comes. This morning was beautiful, we got there right when they opened so it wasn't crowded at all until we were ready to leave. It was nice to feel like we had the zoo almost all to ourselves. Daylen had a great time watching the animals and naming them. There have been a few last minute things I've wanted to get done before the baby comes, getting my hair cut and going to the zoo were 2 of them. So now I'm feeling more ready to just get Kate here with us. Brad predicts June 5th, so we'll see if she comes this coming Thursday! Brad and I also went on probably our last date until after the baby comes, we went and saw the new "Indiana Jones" movie, so good by the way. (Thanks again Janell for watching Daylen!) The countdown has begun...

Daylen was tuckered out by the time we left, we barely had left the zoo when I turned around and saw this...

Hallelujia!

We had a major milestone at church today. Daylen finally stayed in nursery the whole time all by himself! I was able to attend Brad's gospel doctrine class for longer than 10 minutes and he gave a fabulous lesson. He is such a great teacher, I've been excited to go ever since he was called and I was released from primary, but then Daylen would freak out every time I left him. Then I got to go to all of Relief Society which was fabulous as well. Church was just altogether such a great and uplifting experience today for me, I loved it! I just hope this is only the beginning of what I have to look forward to. Hopefully Daylen will continue to stay and today wasn't just a fluke thing. All I have to say is Heavenly Father hears and answers our prayers!

every day fun...or work...

We finally got our garden all prepared a couple of weeks ago and I got most of it planted last Saturday morning. Daylen loved digging in the dirt and "helping."
We all know how much Daylen loves to play with balls. We were playing catch last week and he has great form already! I wanted to try and capture it in a picture, but it was difficult once Daylen saw the camera. This is the best I could do.
After he throws he likes to pose if he's in a silly mood. He has some great ones, but once again he got a little distracted by the camera.
We have had some beautiful days lately, except for today, rain rain rain, so we've taken lots of walks to the park to play. Daylen really does enjoy the swing more than he is letting on in this picture.
Just a quick update on me. I went to the doctor on Monday and they checked to see if anything was starting to happen yet, and it is! I am 60 % efaced (sp?) and dialated to a "1 and a wiggle" as my doctor put it. So we'll see if there is progress from here when I go back next week, but we are getting very excited for Kate to come!

i'm a big boy now!

By the title of this post it sounds likd Daylen is potty trained, I wish that were the case, but no. Actually we made the switch to the "Big Boy Bed". This last Tuesday night was Daylen's first night sleeping in his new bed. It's just a set of twin mattress and box springs we've had, but we talked up his "Big Boy Bed" all day so he would be excited to sleep on it. He was a little nervous at first, but we just kept our same night time routine and he went down really easy and stayed there. (Of course we always close his door and he doesn't know how to open doors yet, but he did stay in bed.) The only difference was that he woke up way too early, 6:00 AM! Too early for me anymore. He's been sleeping well in it ever since. I just hope this keeps up and the routine of it will stick even when he learns he can actually get out of bed and open the door himself. If I don't open his door fast enough for him he knocks and calls for me. I would post a picture of the bed, but it's not really that exciting, he doesn't have any cool little boy blankets, just ones we already had, I figure he really doesn't care or know the difference. Plus I couldn't get Daylen to pose on his bed.

So now we have the crib set up in Kate's new room, I need to get cracking on finishing her baby quilt, anyone have a quilting circle? I just bought a curtain rod today so I can hang her curtains I finally finished, as in cut some length off and hemmed up. Next I need to decide what to paint, I'm hoping to bring a dresser back from home when we go next week for my sister, Rachel's wedding. Things are coming together, only 7 weeks left!

together again...catching up

Brad was in China with the camera when I passed my 7 month mark, so I couldn't take a picture. Here I am a little over a week later, still growing! I've developed a pregnancy pain in my right hip area this time which isn't so fun. The nurse gave me some stretches to do which seem to be helping so far. It just hurts to walk.



Daylen was playing outside yesterday with a couple of his balls and when I went to check on him I found him like this trying to reach one of this balls.

I just thought he looked so cute and peaceful here.

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So Brad was in China all last week, with our camera, so not only was I lonely without him, but I couldn't blog without new pictures! Nor did I really want to say Brad was gone on my blog while he was gone. He left Friday the 11th and got back Friday the 18th, which was a day earlier than planned. He went with his boss to scope out the world trade show, find suppliers, get cheaper pricing for different items, stuff like that. They had a productive trip, but were ready to come home, thankfully a day early even! I got to talk to him a couple of times a day usually via web cam. Funny how when I was waking up he was getting ready for bed, then in my late afternoon he was just getting up. I talked my sister, Rachel, into spending a couple of nights with me, and then my other sister, Jamie, came last Wednesday with her 3 kids to keep Daylen and I company, thanks again Jame! So we were able to bare the solitude a little better. Here are a couple of pictures from Brad's adventure. This first one is of Brad at the airport.

Brad with his boss, Bryan, at some park.
This is the view outside their hotel room, Brad said the air was always smoggy, they only saw the sun a couple of times. With 20 million people in the city was do you expect?

These are the lines at a McDonalds near their Hotel. Holy cow!
This is just one of the locations where this massive Trade Show was taking place. Brad did a LOT of walking. He and Bryan treated themselves to foot massages at the end of the day.
It was definitely an adventure, Brad tried foods he would be happy never having to try again, one of them being jellyfish. He had a good time overall, but is glad to be home and I think his body is finally adjusted from the jet lag. Daylen and I are especially glad to have him home again with us, we love you Brad!