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2012-01-21T13:15:00.000-08:00

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Haylee Ray

8lb 3oz

What a bundle of joy.

Cathan's 1st Birthday Part II

2010-03-03T16:56:00.001-08:00

We had a party later that night with a few family members.Ryan and the birthday boy blowing mommy kisses!

This is the aftermath of the gifts. Cathan got so many gifts, he is so spoiled!
Thank you everyone!

He had no idea what was going on with the lights turned out and people singing so I think he got scared here.

He was hesitant at first to eat the cake because he was just not used to feeding himself but it looks like he got the hang of it.

Yep, he sure eats like his daddy.

Cathan enjoyed playing with everyone who came. Thanks , Grandma Waite, Mike, Chris, Alex, Sharlee, Rachelle, Grandma and Grandpa Quilter, Chad, and Margie for coming out!

This is the aftermath of the cake, most of the cake is still intact but the frosting seemed to be his goal!
We had a great day. Maybe because it is my first baby but I was so emotional on his birthday thinking about how fast the time has gone since he was born. I am so blessed to have such a wonderful child who makes my life so special. I know he will grow up someday but I know that I will always remember him as the adorable little boy in these photos.

Cathan's 1st Birthday Part I

2010-03-03T15:58:00.000-08:00

For Cathan's Birthday we decided to do something fun before his party later in the day. We went to the Discovery Gateway in Salt Lake and loved it! Here is a play by play of our day there.

Ryan and Cathan just as we got to the Discovery Gateway. Cathan already looks annoyed with having to take pictures.
Cathan and mommy playing with the water feature.

They had costumes there so we dressed Cathan up like a turtle...he hated it.
Then Cathan picked and sorted vegetables (yes he is keeping that carrot in his jacket hood for later)Cathan fed his newly picked carrots to the horse

We must have spent a good half hour (an eternity when talking about Cathan and Ryan's attention span)playing with these blocks. Ryan even made a fort for Cathan to sit in.
This was Ryan's favorite part of the day. He stole all of these (mind is blanking on what they are called right now) from anyone who wanted to play with them.
Wouldn't you be more willing to watch the news if it was read by this little cutie?Cathan loved sitting in the back of this Life Flight Helicopter.

We didn't want to fight to get in the front seats so we resorted to placing Cathan on the windshield so he could see in.

Clearly it is lunchtime.

But the tears turned to smiles as soon as daddy put him up higher than everyone else.

We were walking out of Discovery Gateway and I saw some kids that looked very familiar. Turns out that Ryan's relatives had flown down from Idaho that morning to go to Discovery Gateway! This is the only picture I had of all of them. We played with them at Discovery Gateway for a little while and then headed over to Clark Planetarium.

A little bit of food and some bouncy balls makes for one happy birthday boy.

He even ventured to Mars for some exploring.

And then jotted over to the moon for an examination of some moon rocks and left behind popcorn.

We had such a fun day at Discovery Gateway. We will definitely go again this summer when Cathan's cousins come to visit because I know they will LOVE it almost as much as Cathan did!

2010-03-01T22:08:00.000-08:00

PLAY TIME!

This video is a little lengthy but adorable!

Car Show

2010-02-28T10:11:00.000-08:00

In January we decided to go to the car show in Salt Lake. We love looking at the old cars and dream about someday owning a shelby mustang. Cathan very much enjoyed the cars and climbing all over them.

The future Waite-mobile! I never thought I'd be a minivan mom but this van is perfect!

Looks like the boys agree with my choice of minivan.

Cathan looks like he is more of a truck driving guy!

Freebies 2 Deals

2010-01-09T12:32:00.000-08:00

I just wanted to put in a little plug for my new favorite website! I visit here at least three times a day just looking for great deals and tons of freebies! She is slowly teaching me how to MAKE money on my shopping trips and still coming out with armfulls of stuff. I don't know how she knows where the deals are but she is amazing. Check out her site at

http://www.freebies2deals.com

Family Tree

2009-12-30T12:45:00.000-08:00

I just had to share my first real craft project. While it may not look like it was too hard to do, it took me forever and it is finally completed! I made a family tree for Cathan!

I put all of our immediate families pictures on a magnet that attracts itself to the magnet board so Cathan can move people's faces around. I think it will be fun for Cathan and help him remember his cousins in Oklahoma that we don't get to see too often!

Hopefully, this tree will keep on growing!

Christmas

2009-12-28T17:40:00.000-08:00

No your eyes are not deceiving you, this is a new blog post from the Waite family. There is way too much to catch up on so I will just start with Christmas and maybe I can try to keep on top of our blog through the new year!

Christmas was wonderful this year and we got spoiled again. A few weeks ago we agreed to help another family out this Christmas because we know how blessed we are to have so much "stuff" and we certainly didn't need anything more this year. We decided to use the money we would have spent on each other to buy a family some gifts for Christmas. We asked the bishop for a name from our ward. We were expected maybe a little family who was struggling but were stunned when we learned it was going to be a family of 8! We busily went out and shopped for each member of the family and we actually had so much fun!!! We wrapped all the gifts and on Christmas Eve decided to run them over and deliver them. We lugged all 4 boxes full of gifts to their front door and rang the doorbell and RAN! Turns out, they were not home so we lugged the boxes back to the car. We went to the Quilter's for their traditional Christmas Eve dinner and boy was it yummy! We even got to play some Christmas Bingo....with PRIZES! On our way home from Christmas Eve dinner we drove by our families house to see if they were home, no such luck. We were driving down the street when we noticed a van pulling into their driveway. We drove around for a little bit and then went back and dropped off the gifts! It was a great feeling knowing that they were probably stunned at receiving something they hadn't expected. Now, I wouldn't have mentioned this story unless there was a twist. We got home and unloaded our car and were walking in the back door when we ran into a HUGE pile of wrapped gifts on our doorstep! We were speechless. We carried the presents into the living room in silence because we were just too stunned to even ask who and why someone would do this for us. We sat in our living room just looking at about a dozen huge gifts. We of course accused each other of being behind it and then our families. No one was taking any credit and still today, I have no idea who would show us this kindness. We were content with having a very low-key Christmas and feeling the joy of giving but we were the ones who ended up being blessed! We ended up having so much to open on Christmas morning. Cathan was not too happy having had to wake up so early. We hit every stop on Christmas: Quilters, Waite's, Haacke's, Bryce and Denise's, and back to Waite's! And now for the pictures....that's the whole reason you look at a blog anyway!

2009-11-02T00:44:00.000-08:00

Since I have been so slow at updating our blog, I thought that I should have a few post. I wonder if you can guess what we were for Halloween. Hope you had a great Halloween. I also want to congratulate Chris and Sarah on the birth of their new baby boy, CONGRATULATIONS!!

This is Cathan's new toy. His Great Aunt Andrea gave this to us. He loves it. He plays with it all day.

Family Photo's

2009-10-31T23:00:00.000-07:00

We had some family photo's taken back in september. So I should change the date on this entry back to september but I don't know how to do that.

We had a lot of fun taking the photos and if you see any that you like and want some I can send them to you, just let me know.

2009-08-20T22:52:00.000-07:00

I guess it is time for some words. I know that some of you have already looked at the pictures. Sorry. It has taken me a while to get some time to sit down and write this. Anyway, it’s been a long time since we updated so there is a lot to talk about. Let’s start with the 4th of July. We had a great time with the Quilters and the Kaysville Parade.

Ryan got a Tie. The missionary mall was driving down the parade route throwing stuff out. That was cool. Then we had a good time at the huge family bar-b-que. Lots of the Haacke's were there. Later that night, we got ready for the fireworks. You can't believe how many tries it took to get that photo.

It was now Ryan's Birthday and we decided to spend his birthday at the sunset city days. It was lots of fun. They had a parade in the morning and activities at the park by our house. We went to play bingo and won the big grand prize. We got camp chairs camp stove, 20 gift card to Harmon’s, roasting sticks, and sleeping bags. We used that stuff a few days ago to go camping but that is another story for another post.

I guess the picture that I had got deleted. I’ll have to get it back.

We also had to take Cathan to the hospital to have his growth in his mouth removed. This picture was taken while Cathan was starving; he hadn’t eaten anything since the night before. He was such a trooper and did such a good job at the hospital. He didn’t really have any problems after the surgery. We are so proud of him.

As a family we have all decided that we were going to do things that are fun and free. One of the things that we saw on our bulletin board at our church was that there were free concerts at a park in Salt Lake. This concert was lots of fun. Cathan loved it. He was dancing and playing with us.
Also since the last time we were on, we went to the Farmington pool with the quilter’s ward. Cathan loves getting in the pool and I can say that his parents like it to. We had lots of fun at the pool. Cathan likes to splash and spin around in circle. Kami had lots of fun playing with him. That was his first experience in a shower. Ryan took him in to change him and get the chlorine off of him. He likes the shower. I didn’t think that he would.
Unfortunately for this last activity we did not take Cathan. We are just worried parents and don’t want to take him on the boat. We went out for a day of wakeboarding. The first time this year. We took Matt Hall and one of his friends with us.
If you had fun reading this blog, good for you. We will be better at writing more frequently. Have fun for now.

Trip to Disney land

2009-05-27T22:20:00.001-07:00

So it’s about time we update our blog and Kami has given the responsibility to me this time. Sorry it has been a while and I know that some of you check often. I’ll try to keep up on it. We recently went to Disneyland and had a great time with my family. We drove the there stopping in Vegas for the night. We then continued the drive for Disneyland. The first day there we went back into Toon Town to get some pictures. We managed to find some of the character while we were there.

I was so excited to meet goofy. He looks and acts just like me :-)

We spent our days at Disney land and our nights at my mom’s condo. They had a nice swimming pool and hot tubs on the roof. We saw fire works on Friday night before we came home. We wanted to watch them from the roof but as soon as Cathan’s foot touched the water he decided to taint it with his special "medicine". We had to take him down to the room and clean him up. We didn’t tell anyone what he did in the hot tub 'the chlorine will take care of it'. We had so much fun riding all the rides and taking Cathan on the rides. I was surprised at how many rides he could go on.

We took him on a Bugs Life. I had forgotten how scary that show is. Well in the show there is a part where it shoots you with water. You could probably imagine Cathan reaction. He screamed and screamed and screamed until he ran out of air in his lungs and then kept screaming. I was laughing, Kami was kind to him and took him out of his seat and comforted him. I guess that really does make me a dad. We just laugh at our kids when stuff like that happens. We have so many stories of things that happened that I will keep updating the blog with other stories. For now, enjoy the pictures we have.

My whole family except the one on the mission (Brandon)

We ate at RainForest Cafe. It was really good. I liked it a lot. Kami did to I guess.

We thought that Cathan looked a lot like pluto so we put him in his bed.

Kami is such an escape artist.

We had a fun time on Finding Nemo. It wasn't as cool as it looked but was still really fun.

This concluded our days at Disney Land. It was so sad.

We then went to Wendover and gamled like crazy kids in a candy shop.

Really though we don't like gambling. We just had to try it once.

Update

2009-04-02T13:34:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago we were invited to my brothers house for dinner. Chad actually made dinner (ok Margie made it too but according to Margie it wouldn't have been the same without Chad's input)! They also introduced us to Rook which we love playing! Ryan knows that Cathan's eyesight isn't far so he walked around their home putting him close to objects, even Uncle Chad!

We also went to the midnight DVD release of Twilight. We waited a half hour and they ran out of dvd's so we booked it out of there (hence the "i'm outta here" look on my face). Sweet Ryan then went to Smiths Grocery and asked if they were selling it but they told him that they wouldn't be putting it on sale for a few hours so Ryan put his charm on and talked the lady into giving him one early! YAY! I watched it everyday for a few days!

This is how Cathan and I sleep every morning!

Lucky 5!

2009-03-11T10:53:00.000-07:00

So this is circulating in the blog world..... My adorable Sister-in-law Sarah was nice enough to share this info with me and it sounds like fun!! Sign up, you won't be sorry! The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me, Kami! My choice. For you. This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
1-I make no guarantees that you will like what I make(but you better pretend you do!)
2- What I create will be just for you.
3-It'll be done by May 1st (give me some time, I'm not a super creative person)
4-You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a story. It may be poetry or an article on properly cleaning your face before a masque. I may scrapbook something. I may cut you something with my cricut. Maybe Cathan and I will "make" a trip to come see you (does not apply to Sarah, ha ha)! Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did it will then win a fabulous homemade gift made by me! Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it! Have fun playing!

Cathan's first few weeks

2009-03-10T12:29:00.000-07:00

We've been home from the hosptial now for 3 weeks and are loving being parents and getting used to a baby in the house. Cathan is such a good baby, he sleeps 4 hours at a time at night and cries only when he wants food or wants to be held. He is a huge cuddler, he will fall asleep in your arms but as soon as your try to move him somewhere else he is wide awake! He loves sleeping in our bed, probably because it is so comfy and warm in between his mom and dad. He has such a little personality. He has so much blonde hair and is looking more and more like Ryan!

He loves taking baths.....

And playing with daddy.......

And being adorable.......(or scared)
Mom loves him......
And he loves mom....

We also built a fort last night and had fun eating dinner in it. Cathan even loved looking up at all the pretty colors! You can see him chilling in there in the bottom photo!

Welcome to the world!

2009-02-15T11:22:00.000-08:00

Cathan DelRay Waite

February 12 th 2008

8 lbs. 8 oz.
21 inches

We are so happy to have him in our lives! We were induced on Wednesday February 11th at 10pm and labored for 17 hours until they decided that they needed to get him out with a c section. It was a scary thing and not something we really wanted but we wanted what was best for our baby. The surgery went fine and we're both recovering just wonderfully! Ryan absolutely loves holding his little boy!

Kami also had a family shower a week ago and here are some pictures! (I will have to post more when I get home with my camera)

Ward Shower

2009-02-05T15:54:00.001-08:00

I was lucky enough to have a baby shower thrown for me by one of my bestest friends Christee and Rachel!! It was all the women and girls from my mom's ward (my old ward) and I got some pretty darn cute stuff!
One of my favorite gifts was a mini finger puppet Herman!!! Which I'm sure no one will understand unless you're my sibling. Mini Herman is pictured here with the original HERMAN!

I went to the doctor yesterday and she said everything looks great with the baby. I had to be hooked up to all these monitors and left alone in this tiny room for a half hour to measure contractions and the baby's heartbeat but it all turned out good. I'm starting to have little contractions so we're hoping in the next week or so we'll have our baby here!!!!

Baby Watch

2009-01-24T23:49:00.000-08:00

I thought we should give a little update because it is getting closer to baby time! We have been meeting with the doctor and at our last appointment they told me I may have preeclampsia which is not something fun to have. They have me monitoring my blood pressure daily and doing all sorts of tests but on Wednesday we go back in and get the final word. Hopefully it's good news but I don't know what the good news'll be. Part of me hopes they say 'let's take this baby' but the other part knows everyday my baby stays in there it is getting stronger and healthier so we'll see!

We are getting prepared for whenever this baby decides to get here so lately we've been out buying essentials to pack in our hospital bag. Ryan is getting really excited and has even made a list of all the new and greatest things for babies that we need to try.

Ryan told me I needed to update my blog for reasons i'm not quite sure of but what is a blog without some pictures!

You would not believe how hard it is to get a good picture of being pregnant at 8 months! We had to try some very tricky angles to hide my double chin, yes i've put on weight but hopefully i'll be able to lose it soon after.

This year we had an extra tree at our house so Ryan set it up in the babies room and decorated it with stuffed animals we had lying around so I had to get a picture of it before it got taken down!

November and December

2009-01-04T18:05:00.000-08:00

Yes we are way overdue for an update so now we are finally up to date starting at the bottom is the oldest stuff and to currently (christmas). We're doing just great. As you can tell this baby is getting bigger and getting Kami bigger in the process! We're excited to have our baby here soon!

This is our Christmas haul. I got a cricut expression from Ryan and a glider from my parents. We are so happy with all of our gifts so thank you to everyone!

Ryan got spoiled and got Guitar Hero World Tour from his mommy, he was so excited. Now our only problem is we don't have enough family members to play all the parts.

Here we are Christmas morning up at Linda's!

Here is my dad enjoying his new chair, apparently we did good, he's asleep already!

Here is my dad opening his chair from all his kids

Ryan loved all the tools his in-laws gave him for Christmas, he's a kid in a candy store when it comes to using them.

We were able to go to Chuck E Cheese with my brothers family but Ryan couldn't help but ride the rides!

Ryan, Chris and Alex.

My brother and his wonderful wife Margie were married in early Decemeber. This is my oldest brother Chris and his wife Sarah being sultry in their dance moves.

These are my siblings (minus Margie, she was busy doing pictures elsewhere)

My cute husband keepign my dad company in line

This is my adorable niece Addie Rose being just adorable!

And i would be in trouble and depriving the world if I didn't put up this video of my cute nephew Logan showing us his dance moves, I can't figure out if he learned his moves from his mom or dad......

One of Ryans best friends Aaron Halls left on his mission and we couldn't be more proud and happy for him!

These are our friends/relatives Matt and Kenna and their adorable baby William!

Ryan and William being silly.

BYU vs. UTAH game. Ryan's work had a big party and we watched the game on like 4 huge projector screens and ate and had a great time. Ryan had a bet that if BYU (which they did) he would shave his head. One of his best friends Aaron Halls did the honors.

And he even got put up on the big screens!

Halloween 2008

2008-11-15T12:28:00.000-08:00

I know we're a little behind the times but here are our pictures from Halloween. We went as Shrek and Fiona and man were we green! I think Ryan is still getting green out of his ears! Ryan looked great and everyone at work loved his costume even his extra "stuffing".

And I found this funny video of Ryan showing off his parenting skills. He'll be a great dad! Now if only he could breastfeed for me! Only 3 months until my baby is here!

Our Past Few Weeks

2008-10-09T11:33:00.000-07:00

Three weeks ago we tried to go to the BodyWorlds exhibit in Salt Lake and we thought we'd be great citizens and use public transportation to get us down there. So we started our journey to Salt Lake at 2pm....and arrived at the library downtown at 4pm...2 hours!!!!!!! Anyway, because we were 4 minutes late for the exhibit they wouldn't let us in! I even ran to the library, which is hard for me now. Here are some pictures of our day. I was pissed, Ryan was happy, and the scenery that day was of the train station.

But don't you worry, last week we finally made it to the exhibit! We drove of course and Ryan's mother Linda came with us! The exhibit was cool, especially the fetus', it was awesome to be able to see how big our baby is, I highly recommend going to see BodyWorlds!!! We couldn't take pictures there so here are some pictures of afterwards when Linda took us to the Old Spaghetti Factory and Ryan's little sister's play that night, can you guess who she is???? She's Ursula from the Little Mermaid, it was a cute play!

Ryan's friend Joshua Dean got married a few weeks ago and we attended their reception at the 23rd floor in Salt Lake.

Top left clockwise: The happy couple, Aaron who just got his mission call to Ecuador, JD and Holly cutting the cake, and Ryan and JD being super happy!

Well that's about got us caught up. We had out last ultrasound yesterday and the baby is healthy and strong and kicking! We can't wait for it to get here!

And a special treat for my family in Minnesota...we spent conference weekend at the Quilters and I thought you'd get a kick out of how Grandpa Quilter can read the paper, listen to conference, and sleep all at the same time.

I'm sorry the camera is shaking a little but I couldn't stop laughing because every time that newspaper would start to droop that him falling asleep and then he'll wake himself up and pretend like he was reading the whole time. I hope you get a good laugh!

Baby Accessories

2008-09-19T15:24:00.001-07:00

Because we've decided to hold off on finding out the sex of the baby until it's here we found these cute baby accessories that I think will go for both boy and girl. They have such a cute design that I think would fit a girl and they're blue if it's a boy.

We went and registered at Target the other day and Ryan could not stop scanning everything in sight! I don't think i'm going to take him with me anymore, he could care less about what we get the baby but more about how many items we can register for the baby.

And i'm sorry about the pictures, I haven't figured out how to make them into a collage so that they don't take up so much room on my blog!

Our New House

2008-09-19T15:24:00.000-07:00

Here are a few pictures of Ryan and I's new house out in Sunset.

It's not too clean but I don't mind you seeing my house in it's natural state!

This is what my adorable husband looks like after his long days! Gotta love this man!

Our baby's first picture

2008-09-09T10:49:00.000-07:00

I feel like as a mom I am the only one who can see anything in this picture so I've highlighted the basics of the baby. We are so excited for our baby to come!

The Great! The Sad! And The Accomplishment!

2008-07-20T22:20:00.000-07:00

Well we're due for another post! It's been a few weeks and our lives have been oh so busy!

We found out that we were pregnant about a month ago and have been having a blast letting everyone know! I haven't been sick at all yet and i'm so very grateful for that but I still have had to deal with being super tired all of the time and a picky baby who won't eat anything I eat so hopefully it'll grow out of that!

We love you DelRay!
Ryan's dad passed away about 3 weeks ago so we've been busy trying to get the funeral ready and being with his family. As sad as the occasion was we were all in pretty good moods, I guess because we knew that Del was so much happier on the other side and because we knew he was there with us every day. We miss Del like crazy but we know that he is still here and we're excited that he's able to help bring out baby down in a little while. We'll never forget all the memories we have of him and especially family prayers at the Waite house! They will definitely be a tradition in our house!

We finnally were able to unpack all of our things in our new house in Sunset. The house still needs a lot of work, especially in the yard but we're slowly but surely moving along and finishing little tasks. We'll have to get some pictures up to dress up our blog a little bit.

Thank you Sarah aka Our Real First Post

2008-06-30T21:20:00.000-07:00

Publically we'd like to thank Sarah for setting us up with a blog! We're excited to be able to share our news! We love you Sarah!

Our New Blog!

2008-06-29T22:41:00.001-07:00

We are so excited to join the blogging world!!!