Update

We had Johnny's Dad's surprise birthday party in March. It was a lot of fun to see everyone and their families.

Johnny with his two brothers and sister. His dad lives in Tennessee and he brought his mom, Johnny's grandma out with him, I never met her before since she lives in Massachusetts so it was great to meet her, she is very nice!

A picture of my happy Gage, I just love this kid!

Grandma Kathie with my niece Elise on her first birthday! She always has the cutest clothes and shoes.. she will have to take Kenzie shopping when they are older since I know she will have a great fashion sense!

Happy Birthday to Kenzie and Gage!!

It has been SO long since I have blogged anything! But I am back to update finally. Mackenzie's birthday was on Feb. 9th. She turned 4! She had picked to go bowling for her birthday this year.

She loves Barbie's right now and especially the movie Diamond Castle with Barbie in it so she was surprised to see she got the actual castle from the movie.

Here is Kenz at the Bowling "Isle" (Alley) as what she kept calling it all day on her birthday.

Then on Feb. 17th, only 8 days later we went to the hospital to have our baby boy, Gage! Here I am right before the scheduled c-section, we had to be there at 5 am, waaay to early for me.

Gage Ellsworth Hastings was born at 6:54 am, he weighed 7lb 8oz and was 19" long. His middle name is a family name on Johny's side that has been passed down. I could not have asked for a better delivery, everything went smoothly and I felt like a million bucks compared to Mackenzie's delivery.

Here is all of us with our sweet new baby!

Mackenzie is so proud to be a big sister.

Here is Gage at about 3 weeks old, looking a little more alert. I have to keep telling Kenzie that she cries more than her baby brother does, he is very quiet and Kenz was never like that as a baby, and still isn't to this day! :)

What's New....

I think time speeds up as soon as Halloween hits. I can't believe how fast the end of 2008 went by. The Holidays were great with family and now that 2009 is here it was all over way to fast. I am looking forward to this new year, I start Intermountain Healthcare's Nursing program through SLCC on the 16th of January. Yikes! And then February 17th, Gage (Johnny has won the war on his name) will be joining our family. I suddenly feel a little unprepared.

My brother was up visiting for Christmas from Texas, here is my niece, Elise!

Some of these pictures ended up blurry because I couldn't get Kenz to hold still for one second on Christmas morning. This year was by the far the funnest, she is really starting to get excited about Christmas and Santa, so it is really hard for us to not be excited and happy when she is so enthusiastic.

And of coarse a tribute to my brother Steve that died Christmas Eve two years ago. We miss him so much.

To My Sweet Boy Otis

Well I know my last post was about my dog Sadie, I am doing another post about my other dog Otis because we had to put him to sleep early Sunday morning. He was ten years old and has been in my family for the last eight years. I found him in the Provo pound when he was only two and I think my mom was very hesitant at first, but like always she was a good sport with me and being a huge animal lover! Well Otis lived a great life, he spent his time with my mom at her house and lived the lap of luxury. His own yard to run in whenever he so pleased, his own king size bed to sleep in, organic dog food, ice water in his water bowl, a doggie door so he never had to "hold" it until my mom got home to let him out. But even with being so spoiled Otis was hands down the best dog for our family and loved us back unconditionally. He was always happy to see you, his little "nubber" (docked tail) would wag so hard his whole rear end would move back and forth. Although he could clear a room with one of his silent but deadlies I would take those anyday to have him back. He was old for a boxer and the night before we put him down his back had gotten so bad that he could not even move his back legs to get up or walk. I know it was what had to be done, but it was still one of the hardest things I have ever had to do. Otis we love you and will miss you a lot, but now you can stink it up for Steve until I see you again.

Our four-legged family member

I don't blog very often and I especially don't blog much about our furry family member. Sadie our dog is not the "smartest" dog I have seen but she sure is funny sometimes. I was watching the Dog Whisper on t.v. one night and discovered that Sadie was watching the t.v. and she did for the entire hour it was on! Whenever the "troubled" dog on each episode was on t.v. she would run up to the t.v. and try to smell the dog. So she now has her favorite t.v. show tivo'd and will sit and watch it whenever I turn it on for her. She often gets beat on by kenzie and she puts up with ear and tail pulling like a champ so she deserves some credit for being a really good dog.

Halloween

This Halloween was fun. Mackenzie dressed up as Ariel. We did the red hair spray to make her authentic, and of coarse we had to add sparkle spray too. Kenz loved the red hair until it was time to wash it out that night and it looked like "blood!" in the tub! She was pretty upset about that.

At work I am not normally the type to dress up and perform for fellow colleagues. Jason, the social worker at the hospital always plans a fun costume each year for the hospital costume contest and this year he decided to do Rock Band. So myself, Jason, Dave the supervisor and Sherrie dressed up as Rock Band. I personally feel that I look like a pregnant man in my costume, the others did a great job playing the part, I was to scared once we got up there to do anything else but pretend to play the drums(my dear brother Steve was probably shaking his head to my poor attempt, he was an awesome drummer).... I am not the performer kind. Thanks to all of those that came down from mom/baby to support us play and take pictures! Needless to say with my non-performing skills we took the grand prize, all and all it was fun to do it!

Anyone have any good names they are willing to give out??

The official ultrasound today revealed what we thought we saw when we peeked in L&D a month ago. I am no professional but when this little thing popped up on the screen I had no doubt in my mind.

So of coarse I have girl names all picked out, as far as boy names... not so much. Anyone that has some cute ones that they aren't using please let me know! I have come to find out boy names are very hard for me to pick. So far we are leaning towards Braxton, but I am still not set on it.

I found this little beanie at a very cute, but overpriced baby boutique in Gardner Village. I wouldn't normally pay 25$ for one little newborn hat but since Johnny always wears beanies when I saw this I had to get it for him.