The Terry Family

The Terry Family 2011

2011-03-11T23:44:00.000-07:00

Since our last try at getting professional pictures we were pretty excited, to say the least, to try someone else. Our first experience at a studio was pretty bad and left us with a sour taste in our mouths. Now that we are back in Utah we couldn't wait to have my cousin, who is a professional photographer, take pictures and especially Easton.

So I had this great idea for a family picture behind our house that was after a fresh snow storm with blue skies and the mountains in the background. We had an awesome storm a few weeks back that dumped about 13 inches overnight. So I called Kim and she was there the next day. Even though half of the snow had melted because it was about 45 degrees that day, I was excited to say the least. We started with a ton of Easton pictures and then headed out back for the family shots. Kim did an Incredible job. We couldn't be happier with how they turned out.
For those of you in Utah you need to get a hold of her and have her do your next photo session. Check out her work at http://www.catchamomentphotography.blogspot.com/

A hunter in the making

2010-12-06T23:11:00.000-07:00

I had to put these pictures up just because they are so dang cute, and because Im just one proud Daddy. On Sunday we put Easton into this cute camo shirt in dinosaur shapes. He looked so good. Something must have gotten into him because we leave him alone for 2 minutes and where do we find him? Chillin on the couch scoping out the new hunting magazine. Typical, just like his Dad. At least he's getting trained right.

Saying goodbye to ABQ and our dearest friends.

2010-12-05T18:19:00.002-07:00

Well, as many of you know and many of you who may not know, we have packed up and left our home and our adventure in Albuquerque New Mexico. We had planned on living there for a long time. We knew we had purpose in being there, we were really getting settled into our new home, and we had started putting down some roots with Easton being born. There just was no reason to leave. We had the most incredible ward filled with amazing people. We felt so blessed to be there. That ward and the people there were a MAJOR factor in us getting sealed in the Temple there.

One day in early September I realized that I had been thinking about living in Utah again, with Easton, meaning I was thinking into the future. "What? I dont want to move back to Utah." So I told Caitlin what I had been thinking about, and it blew me away when she said that she had been thinking about the same thing! So we really put these thoughts to prayer and after a lot of that and some trips to the Temple to find out if this meant something we both got an answer, and our answers were the same. "Your done here. You dont have purpose here anymore." At this point we just didnt know what to do. We didnt receive anything about moving back to Utah or staying in New Mexico. Only that we didnt have purpose here. What do we do? I guess we have reached the point that the Lord leaves up to us sometimes. What to do? Now it came down to us deciding where would be the best place for work opportunities. Obviously Utah wins that one. Now to Easton. I really thought it would be cool to raise him outside of Utah but there wouldnt be any family there. So family won that one too. "Well, Lets go back to Utah....???" Why you ask? I dont know why. We have been here for 2 weeks and I still dont know. Then again we didnt know why we REALLY moved to NM for about 6 months.

As the clock began ticking for our move we needed to get in as much time as possible with the people that we consider our Albuquerque Family. So we burned the candle at both ends man! 2 weeks craziness and we never did get to do everything we wanted with all the people we wanted. Unfortunately we only got pictures with some of our friends before we left.

The Terrys were so fun. We became so close to them and their kids. Their 8 year old daughter Bella loved to climb all over me like a jungle gym. We had so many fun little tricks we did. Here she would sit on my legs and I would launch her up into a handstand and back down again.

This is another family that we loved and became close to the kids. The Trapnells. Back in May we stayed with their kids while their parents went rafting. We had so many good times with them. And their newest boy Erik is only 2 weeks younger than Easton so Caitlin and Julie got to go through their pregnancy together.

Their 5 year old, Parker, who is holding the magazine, and 6 year old, Cole, sitting on my knee, loved to look at my "hunting mazagine." Check the spelling on magazine. They said mazagine. It was so dang cute. I gave them a couple old ones and they would come up to me at church and say "Brother Terry. Thanks for the hunting mazagine."

Ah the McEntires. What a fun family. We spent so many nights staying up late playing Settlers of Cattan with Scott and Amber. And their kids are a blast. One time we were eating diner at their house in the backyard. Out of nowhere Kade, who is 4, came out and said in this taunting voice,"Zaaaaach, come and get me." Then ran back inside. He loved to get chased.

We had so many friends that we just didnt get a chance to see in the limited amount of time we had. Thanks to all of you who were our friends and shared your families with us. You all know who you are. We love every one of you and cant wait to see you again.

Catching up...Hallowen 2010

2010-12-05T15:43:00.000-07:00

Man, life has been so hectic the last few months that we havent had a chance to post anything. We are wanting to make books out of our blog so here comes the catch up posts.

HALLOWEEN! Who doesnt love halloween? We love it and we love getting fun costumes. This year Grandma Wendy came down to visit and see Easton. While she was here she got Easton a Giraffe costume. That gave us the idea to be animals. Caitlin wanted to be a Zebra but I had no idea what I would be. Plus I didnt want to go out and spend a bunch of money. Then one night I was watching one of my hunting videos of Jim Shockey in Africa and suddenly a light bulb appeared above my head. I would be a safari hunter. So we went to Savers to find some Zebra stuff and I found the perfect hat for my costume. Then we found some Zebra pants for Caitlin. Our costumes were really coming together nicely. Caitlin got some great ideas for a Zebra head and began making it. What great is she made an awesome Zebra and I looked exactly like Jim Shockey in my video.

See I told you I looked just like him. A proud hunter and his trophies.

We then went to our trunk or treat Ward Halloween party where we had a blast. Being it was our first Halloween party at our ward we didnt realize they were going to give prizes out. There was a family category, and came 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. They announced 3 place first which was our good friends the Garietys. They were all different characters from The Toy Story. They looked awesome. 2nd place came next and to our surprise they announced "The Safari. Zach and Caitlin Terry." We were so excited because we didnt expect anything like this. Then of course 1st place went to the McEntires. They always have to be #1. (Amber Im referring to you miss competitive.) Im just kidding but they had awesome costumes. They definitely deserved it.We miss you guys.

MOM

2010-10-28T11:09:00.000-06:00

I Love You Mom! Thanks for all you do!

I loved having you here when Easton was born! You are a great MIMI!

Two Months

2010-10-25T10:53:00.000-06:00

Wow how time flies. I feel like it was just yesterday Zach and I were bringing Easton home. Easton is now Two months old and smiling like crazy! So I took Easton in to get his two month check up and I was in formed that he has a small "noggin" (just like his mom). We thought his features were going to be a little bit bigger like his dad!

He is now 22.5 inches and weighs 10 lbs and 6 oz. What is is crazy is that Easton is now the same size that Zach was when he was born. Can you believe it?

I love this little guy so much and I am so lucky to be his mom!

He's getting huge!!!

2010-10-14T19:07:00.000-06:00

Im amazed how fast this little turkey is growing. It seems like just yesterday that we brought him home in his car seat yet in the short amount of time he has been here we have loads of memories already loaded on the camera.

When we got home the other day I was going to get Easton out of his carseat and noticed how big he seemed in it. So I checked the picture that we took of him in his car seat the day we brought him home and said "HOLY CRAP!"

Notice how his head is an inch or two under the little pillow thing. About 2 weeks ago we had to move the straps and the pillow thing up to the next because he grew. Now before you look at the next photo notice where his head is at in comparison to the warning sign on the left side if the picture, and the size of the buckle to his body.

not even 8 weeks old and he seems like a toad already. We cant wait to see how much he weighs at the doctor.

He is definately a growing boy and we just love him to pieces. Here are a ton of pictures since we havent put up a post for a while.

Easton and Grandma Wendy hanging out at the Balloon Fiesta.

He had no idea what was about to happen.

We were both fast asleep.

Looks like he has pretty blue eyes.

Time To Smile.....

2010-10-10T23:14:00.000-06:00

While Zach was at work Easton and I were home practicing our smiles!

I was so happy to finally make Easton smile and catch it on camera....

We have so much fun together. I love being his mom

Never far from my Utes

2010-09-20T23:11:00.000-06:00

650 miles away and still rootin for the Utes.

Its actually pretty fun being a Utes fan here. The reason is, is that there are only 3 of us in the whole ward that like the Utes. Everyone else likes BYU. The reason I say I like it here is because in Utah the rivalry is a little too out of hand. Both sides basically look down at the fans and school of the other. Here its just good ol' "We are gonna woop you" sports type of competition.

So here we are, small in number but large in pride.

Now 2 of these guys have become 2 of my best friends here in ABQ. Matt Schmutz on the left isn't in our ward, but he grew up in it and his parents are still there. He is native to ABQ yet knows what side of the line is best to be, and that side has lots of red and more W's on their record than that other side with lots of blue. Christian Terry with the Utes hat on actually went to the U so he is a natural fan. Yup, his last name is Terry. We are long lost cousins that finally met. He has a great family that Caitlin and I love to hang out with. The Terrys are in our ward so, Christian, Dennis (in the red shirt), and I are the lone Utes here.

We had a great time at the game. Nobody would sit within about 10-12 feet of us since we were the only ones around cheering for Utah, which we had a good laugh about. And by the 3rd quarter we watched as the stands slowly emptied as Utah continued to score, with a final score of 56-14.

Boy I sure do miss going to watch Utah football.

TOUCHDOOOOOOOWN!!!!!!!

Eastons first shower.

2010-09-10T14:36:00.000-06:00

So we tried to bath Easton in the sink last week and it didnt go too well. He screamed bloody murder the whole time. So we though we would try taking him into the shower. We were nervous to see if he would react the same way but once he got over the fact that something was different about the water hitting him he loved it. In fact, he fell asleep while we were in there.

He loved the water on him.

This is one of the cutest pictures of Easton that I have seen. And even better is Mom washing his hair while Dad holds him. Just an overall cute picture.

I loved how his little legs and feet looked balled up in my hand.

Fast asleep.

Loads of Easton.

2010-09-10T11:46:00.000-06:00

Well this week was full of great things from Easton. Now that he is getting a little older he is beginning to be more animated and we love it. I cant wait until he is smiling and laughing. We just love this little boy and we can not get enough of him. So here he is in his 3rd week of life.

First are 2 videos of him. Nothing special, just a chance for our friends and family far away to see him.

This next video is hilarious. I cant believe I got it on camera. Listen closely. Easton is just making his normal sounds when a little toot action starts up.

We always find him sleeping in the funniest positions. Whats great is we never pose him either, this is just how he is.

He sleeps like a rock next to Caitlin like this.

This happens all the time and we finally got a picture of it. He always ends up with a finger in his mouth when he gets a bottle. Who knows???

The 2 loves of my life.

Putting your hand on his chest or his cheek always calms him down. And he will grab on tight.

One proud Daddy.

Is this how its going to be EVERY night??????

2010-09-02T18:21:00.000-06:00

I dont know how you could ever really prepare for this. It hasn't been too bad, I guess, but getting up every 2-3 hours can get tiring. So Caitlin and I kind of have a way to help with it. Easton usually feeds 3 times a night, so every other night or two I will get up with him and feed him pumped milk so that Caitlin can get some rest. Other nights I will change him and Caitlin will feed him so its a shared duty. Then every 2 or 3 nights Caitlin will do all the work so I can get some rest. I must say though, as much as we try to share the work load, Caitlin gets the grunt of it. And I havent heard a complaint yet. She is awesome.

Sometimes the nights can be fun though. I got up to feed him one night and usually he just goes right back to sleep. But this night he finished eating and was wiiiiiiiiiiide awake. So I turned on a movie and Easton and I just chilled out together while he eventually fell asleep an hour and a half later, then it was off to bed again. Its funny how it can be fun to sit with a baby that really doesnt do anything at all, he just sits there.

So here are a bunch more pictures for everyone to see.

Can you believe she had a baby about 10 days ago? She looks good!

I love this one. Its so sweet.

Now this is a kid who knows how to kick back and relax.

GO UTES!!!!!!!!!!

How strong could the love for your child be?

2010-08-27T22:37:00.002-06:00

The life of a newborn: eat, sleep, cry, poop, repeat cycle. I was thinking, how could something so simple be so stressful? Wednesday was a rough one. Easton has had Jaundice which is making him tired, so tired that it was making it hard for him to nurse. So here is this poor kid, helpless as could be, so tired he can't seem to stay awake long enough to fill his belly that is making him so hungry, later screaming out of what I can imagine as pure frustration. I have never felt the need so strongly to want to do anything in my power to take all his pain and make his little hurt go away. I never could have imagined how the love for your child could be so strong. I would give up anything for my little champ to have everything he wants to be happy. Man, I love that kid.

Here are some great pictures that we have been able to get of Easton for all you that are far away.

GOT MILK?

Because he lost a little too much weight we have to give him formula on top of the breast milk for more calories. I love how he puts his hands up to the bottle.

He is so funny. If he can get his mouth on something he will suck on it, including his own hand or arm.

When he sleeps he loves to have his hands by his head and face.

Looks like he found his thumb. He definitely loves the comfort of suckling.

Thankfully he rides well in the car. Hasn't fussed yet while we were driving.

My little buddy. Its incredible how small he is next to me.

Uh oh...Mommy's got a new man.

2010-08-23T19:11:00.000-06:00

EASTON HAS ARRIVED HOME, SAFE AND SOUND.

The most proud daddy...

2010-08-23T15:42:00.000-06:00

My little champ. Today has been so great. Even though we have been at the hospital all day long and it has been quite boring, I have been totally taken by this little boy. By the way, he weighed 7 lbs. 6 oz and was 20 3/4 inches long.

I had the most amazing experience, I got to deliver Easton. The midwife helped his head crown to about his nose at which point she said "ok Dad, catch his head. Now pull." And out came my baby boy into my hands. It was incredible. Like Evil Kinevel jumping the Grand Canyon (haha) I was in awe. I just couldnt believe it. My son, this thing that I helped create, was now here, breathing and crying. Im still wrapping my head around this whole thing but Im loving it. I took Easton over to see the Hospital Dr. and we had to wait for the Dr. for a bit. So in the meantime me and my buddy just hung out. He was wide awake and looking at me while I talked to him. I even think I saw a smile. I cant wait to take him home and begin our lives together. Here are some more cute little pictures of him.

Sleeping in Daddy's arms

These was Easton's first night so we thought we would put him in some jammies. I think that judging by how content he was in this position, he is going to be a kid who loves to just kick back and hang out. I love it.

Mommy and her cute little son

Our new little family. Im such a proud Dad!

Easton Lewis Terry has made his debut!!!!!!!!

2010-08-22T18:02:00.000-06:00

Real quick post...after 20 hours of waiting Easton finally decided he would make his grand entrance into the world, and what an entrance it was. He came Aug. 22, 2010 at 5:05 pm. The labor was great, everything went wonderful. Caitlin was built to make babies. Mom and baby are wonderful. As of this second we dont have a weight or measurement, though they will come shortly.

Here he is, our little champ.

Not Much Longer.....Easton Is Ready To Break Out

2010-08-18T20:46:00.000-06:00

So here I am at 39 weeks! I can't believe how close we are now. It's a good thing Easton will be here soon I just don't know if my belly can stretch anymore. :)

Zach and I went to what could be our last doctors appointment last Saturday. I can't believe that his due date is almost here. Friday the 20th can't come soon enough. To make things a little easier for my mom to travel here, we are set to be induced on sunday the 22nd. So, literally 1 week from now we will have a baby boy in our new family. We are so excited to be parents and we are looking forward to this weekend. Being pregnant has been so awesome and I am going to miss it but, I am also so excited to finally meet Easton! I can't believe he is almost here and a new chapter in our lives is about to begin.

We have had such an awesome journey these last 9 months that has been made so much better by our amazing family and friends, especially those in our ward here in New Mexico. Just know how grateful we are for everyone of you. We love you all.

Also, as the title hinted to, I think Easton is as anxiouse to get out as we are. Here is some awesome video that Caitlin took while she was laying down. What an amazing little miracle it is to know there is a baby growing inside.

Caitlin hopes that this doesnt gross anyone out. And she also wants to make it clear that its my idea to put up the videos, not her's. Whatever...I think they are cool.

Written by Zach and Caitlin (for those of you who may have been confused) Haha

1 of a kind ABQ sky

2010-08-04T22:08:00.000-06:00

After living here for 1 full year I must say that I have never seen such beautiful skies with such cool clouds, especially during the monsoon season. Along with the awesome skies come some amazing sunsets. Over the past year I have got some cool pictures of them. Here are a few...

These were taken from the top of the mountain looking over ABQ

I just took these today from our porch. The picture of the mountain is at the same time. The sunsets turn the cliffs pink.

I was able to catch a lightning bolt just a few miles away during another afternoon storm.

And here is Caitlin while we were out BBQ-ing some burgers. Another amazing sunset.

Easton's Bedroom

2010-08-04T19:09:00.000-06:00

Boy, Im excited about this. We have had a lot of projects that we have worked on for Easton's room and we are finally done. It has all come together pretty good and our vision of his room is complete.

Caitlin chose 4 colors that we would use in his room, orange, blue, lime green, and brown. The first things we did were to paint the shelf, the stool, and the magnet board which look great.Then we picked up the dresser and changing table and painted them too. It may be hard to see but the knobs on the dresser are baseball, football, basketball, and soccer balls. Its looks so cool. A perfect little boys room.

If you have read our previouse posts than you know about these 2 projects. The blue and orange shelf that we painted is the shelf that is responsible for the big blue spot on our carpet. What a night that was.

So there it is for all of you that are far away. Our first baby and his room. Now we just have to wait for him to come. 2 weeks left!!!

Finally FINISHED.....

2010-08-03T18:04:00.000-06:00

After a couple weeks of working on this quilt I am finally finished. YAY! It was a lot of fun but, I am happy to be done. Now onto a new project. Not quite sure what it is but, I will think of something! In the mean time I will be enjoying my days awaiting for Easton's big day!

The final countdown. 37 weeks and counting.

2010-08-02T17:38:00.000-06:00

We are now at 37 weeks! Who knows when he will come, it is all up in the air. Easton is moving like crazy I am sure he is as anixous to meet us as we are to meet him! So I decided to take time off work before Easton gets here and let me tell you it has ben nice. I have been hanging out by the pool, reading, and of course sewing! It has been so fun, the project I am working on now is a quilt for the little bug and I am happy to say I am almost done. Once it's done ill post a picture.

Easton is getting BIG and so am I....

2010-07-08T21:06:00.001-06:00

So here we are at 31 weeks! Wow, how time flies. It feels like yesterday that we found out I was even pregnant! It has been so fun and we are looking forward to the journey ahead!

This is us at 33 weeks! We are both getting bigger! Easton has really started moving around, in fact he likes to put his little foot up into my ribs and sometimes it feels like he is trying to punch a hole in my side, silly Easton! Things have been going great however I have recently had to stop wearing my ring because my finger has grown too much...sad day :( I have also wondered how my belly could possibly stretch anymore. I feel as though it is stretched to it's max!! We will see...

A bold and fun decorating project.

2010-06-30T00:01:00.001-06:00

Well now, we have been buuuuuusyy! When we moved into our new place we realized how great this apartment is and that we could settle down into it for a while. We actually have more sq. ft. than we did at our condo in Saratoga Springs, and its pretty worry free, its in a great area, and there is no way we could leave our ward. So we decided that we would buckle down and make the inside of it feel like HOME. So we were trying to figre out how to add some color to what we had. We had a lot of brown and black stuff but hardly any color. So we added a few accents here and there, but then we got inspired by a cool blog and decided to get bold. We started with finding an end table that we badly needed. We found an awesome one at savers for $10. Yup, $10. Gotta love that.

Project #1, here we go yellow.

Then we added some accent and antique to it with some glaze. It turned out pretty good.

Next on the agenda was our coffee table. We found it a few years ago and thought about re-doing it because it was beat up but never did. Now here is where we got bold. We saw this cool color called ocean breeze so we though we would give it a try.

Again we used the glaze on this table to give it some charecter. We really like this table now.

I also tried this little technique on this little thing that had some flowers in. I like how the glaze makes stuff really pop out.

Here it is all done on top of the book shelf. Im loving it.

Our family room is just about complete. I will put pictures of it totally done later.

2010-06-13T00:20:00.003-06:00

We are starting on Eastons room now. Caitlin and I put together a few of our ideas together and created this. We are so excited about how it turned out. There is more to come. More projects we are working on.

Private blogs? I need your help.

2010-06-06T21:36:00.000-06:00

Im wondering how I can get someone to invite me to view their blog that is private. They are people I knew from school, but dont have any contact info for. Anybody have an answer? Is there a "friend request" like on Facebook?

New carpet, eh?

2010-06-02T23:13:00.000-06:00

Probably one of the dumbest and funniest things we have ever done. I don't know how we were so stupid. So, Caitlin has this old shelf from when she was growing up. We have had it for some time and knew that we were going to put it in the baby's room one day, but it badly needed a paint job. So we decided to paint it. So we started, and didn't use our brain one bit. We painted it inside, which is no big deal. We put an old towel under it. Yup, just a towel. Not much bigger than the shelf itself. Stupid thing #1. The shelf doesn't stand up on its own so I got a stool for it to lean on. The stool wasn't even half as tall as the shelf. Stupid idea #2. When we started painting the paint was on the floor. First good idea we had. That good idea was quickly followed by stupid idea #3, which was to put the paint on the stool so it could be reached easier by a pregnant woman who doesn't like to bend over. HA! So the painting began. Not more than a few minutes later did my cat like reflexes (ha ha) instinctively grab a falling shelf. Just as I caught it did I realize the paint was on the supporting stool that fell over. OH, BLANK! Just then I saw the pint of deep sky blue paint in a pool on the new carpet. The strangest thing, however it does make sense, is that my first thought was to salvage as much paint as possible before it spread too wide into the carpet. So immediately I started scrambling for a way too pick up much of the paint that was on the carpet. I did succeed in getting more than half of the paint back, but the dinner plate sized spot of blue left on the carpet had me a little concerned.

"Hmmmmmm, how do you get paint out of carpet, Caitlin?" I asked. "I don't know!!!" said Caitlin in a voice full of panic. "Me either." I said. "Ill Google it." Wow, I love how you can find anything on the Internet at the touch of a button. So the cleaning began. Caitlin began to put water and soap on it and blot it up with a towel while I ran to Smith's to get a carpet cleaner. Well at 10:00 PM they don't rent you cleaners. So we spent the next 2 hours soaking and blotting.

What a night. It was supposed to be spent painting a shelf for our new baby. Instead it was full of urgent panic trying to clean paint out of carpet. We did a pretty good job though. There is still a tint of blue there but oh well. We did the best we could. And with a few cuss words and no blaming each other for the spill, I would say we got through it pretty dang good.

2010-06-02T18:51:00.001-06:00

With our little Easton on his way, and coming quick, we were in desperate need of more room. Our 800 sq ft 1 bedroom apt wasn't going to cut it anymore. We already had enough crap jammed into every which corner it could go, adding baby stuff just made it worse. So we made a switch over to a MUCH bigger 3 bedroom. Ahhhh, finally got some more room. Finally feels like we were back at our place in Utah. So here we go, ready or not. It was a major weekend of moving. Since we didn't get a moving truck I would fill my truck, drive over, unload it, and go back. Thursday and Friday nights were loads of trips back and forth with nothing but boxes. Mostly done by myself. Then we moved the major things like furniture on Saturday with the help of a few friends. Luckily Caitlin didn't have to do anything, moving or cleaning because she was working. But we got all moved in and feeling good. Now I had pretty much moved our entire place and cleaned it pretty much by myself, and here is Caitlin after a few hours of unpacking on Sunday.

Now this is in no way to poke fun at Caitlin. I point this out because I feel terrible that she gets completely hammered being 6 months prego. Poor girl. She is a champ though. She hardly complains at all. What a weekend. We are so happy to have our new home though.

Webelos hike

2010-05-04T20:57:00.003-06:00

I went on a hike today into the foothills of the Sandia Mountains with my Webelos scout troop. What a fun hike. 2.7 miles round trip. Not too far but it was great non-the-less. We also had 2 of the kids Dad's come and one of the kids brother came as well. We did it to help them get their outdoorsman pin. Webelos has been so fun. We have been able to do some pretty fun activities but the best part is a boy named Tyson. His Mom was born a member of the church, which is how we knew about them, but they are long time inactive. So we decided to go visit Tyson and his Mom to see if Tyson would want to be part of our scout troop. After talking with Janeal and Tyson for a bit they both seemed excited. Now this is cool because there were a few attempts before to get Tyson to come and he never did. I guess timing is everything. The neatest thing has been getting to know the family, Tyson is actually the one who brought his brother on the hike, he is 23 years old. Tyson is standing in front of me with a black shirt on and his brother is in the back with the white shirt. Now who knows where all of this will lead with the Lindeman family, I like knowing that Im simply doing what I believe Christ would have me do, and that is be a friend and loveing to everyone I meet, and be an example and strong representative of the Church and the Priesthood. Ill let the Lord take care of the rest.

Letting go

2010-05-02T22:18:00.003-06:00

Have you ever felt like you gave up part of you were? A piece of you that will never come back? This part of you has been with you for many years now? You have been through thick and thin, good and bad, ups and downs, ins and outs, vallys and peaks, clouds and sunshine, and all the other phrases that portray life. Its the part of you that allowed you to interact with friends, family, and loved ones, and now its gone, only to be replaced by some strange and foreign intruder. Now the part that has replaced it wont become part of you for some time. So during this transition period you feel like you are going around borrowing a piece of somebody else. Its like getting that new girlfriend or boyfriend, learning about who they are and what they like, figuring it out all over again. I just want there to be comfort and familiarity. But no...its gone. I had to break up with my old phone number...and get a new one.

Baby registering

2010-05-02T22:06:00.003-06:00

So we went to register for baby showers at Babies R Us on Saturday. You know, I cant believe how much crap there is out there for babies. What a store. After we got done Caitlin and I both wanted to lay down on the glider chairs and take a nap. Oh, and those glider chairs...soooo comfy. Ill find any reason to go hold the baby just to be able to sit on it. Bad news is that the most comfortable chair there was $500. Ouch. Guess we might have to wait til next baby for that one. This is all so fun though. Im am incredibly excited. Plus we are moving into a 3 bedroom unit and out of our 1 bedroom. Halleluja!!!!! We have been crammed into this one here for too long. Cant wait to get some more space. Cant wait for Easton to get here. Cant wait to be a dad.

2010-04-26T18:48:00.008-06:00

Hmmmmmm......I have a feeling that I may be the main author of this blog. Not so typical, right. But then again, we dont have a real typical marriage either. Its better than most!

So for those of you that were not able to come join us for our spectacular weekend in ABQ to go through the temple with Caitlin and me, here are some pictures. Obviously me and my friends have to screw around when we take pictures. But we always do have a good time. Love you all!

2010-04-25T22:53:00.007-06:00

We got our ultrasound on April 12 and ITS A BOY! We are so excited, me especially. All I can think about is how fun its going to be to take him into the outdoors hiking, camping, hunting, and fishing, and teaching him how to play sports. All the good old father and son things to do. Im so excited to be a dad I cant stand it. I keep telling Caitlin to turn up the heat and bake him a little faster so he can get here already. Man, Im excited. Zach