Happy Birthday, Chip!

Chip turned 30 yesterday!

Chip's newborn picture in the hospital

Birth stats

Look how old school the color of this pic is! He He :)

Doesn't Hayden favor him?

Baby Gates #2 has a name!

It's official... Riley Kathryn Gates will be baby #2's name!




When you ask Hayden where the baby is she lifts up my shirt and pokes at my belly button! It's so cute... I hope we aren't confusing her for when Riley is born :)

Baby #2 is a GIRL

We found out on Wednesday that #2 is a another girl. She is growing right on track and everything looks good. I can't believe that we are half way to meeting her! Now that we know she's a girl we can start doing all the fun stuff... naming, decorating, shopping!

You can see her face in all of these pictures!

The ultrasound was really neat. We saw her wave and at one point she had her little arm up by her face, just like her big sister did in one of her ultrasounds. For a minute there we didn't think we were going to get to find out if she was a boy or a girl because she had her legs crossed at the ankles and wasn't moving them... What a lady :) It's so crazy how much you can see on an ultrasound... She looked so squished in there, but Dr. Putterman told us that her forearm is only 2 cm long... She is still so tiny. Why am I so big then?

20 weeks

Party Pics

Party pics sure aren't what they were in college, huh?

Hayden's birthday party was so much fun! We had a great turnout and it was so great to see everyone.

Lollipop themed table

Hayden's cake all to herself

Cake to share

Party favors

Opening one of her many presents! She loves them all!

Hayden was such a little lady with her cake... She would just poke her finger in it and then just taste it.

We had to make her getting a little more into it... She was really tired by the time we did cake.

Dancing Queen

Hayden loves to dance... anytime she hears a song that she likes, she busts a move. Here is one of many videos of her dancing... this time to her piano toy (thanks Rubin fam)

Happy Birthday Hayden!

Here is Hayden the morning of her actual birthday, January 6. We can't believe it has been a whole year!

Here is she is when we got to the babysitter... just a few minutes before 7:22 (the minute she turned 1)

Merry Christmas!

Hayden was such a good girl at church! She listened to Father John tell the Christmas story.

First family Christmas!

Hayden was happy to get her dress off, so she could get into those presents!

Look what Santa brought!

"Mommy, Daddy, get me out so I can see what Santa brought!"

Delicious play food out of her shopping cart.

Neat book!

"I really love to read!"

Relaxing on my new couch in my cool jean jacket!