Blessing Day Pictures!!

Sandy's Blessing was on June 2, 2013. It was a fun day, and the blessing her daddy gave her was absolutely beautiful!! Thank you so much to all of those who were there with us and for those who couldn't make it here are some pictures!!! Here is Sandy with her Grandpa!!!

Here I am holding her! For some reason she really likes sitting really weird and bent over it doesn't look very comfy but she likes it...

 Here is our little family after everyone left!

 Here is our beautiful little Sandy being good while mommy has some fun with the camera!!

Blessing Day!

We will be blessing Sandy on June 2, 2013.  For anyone interested in coming it will be at the Paul Stake Center and Sacrament meeting starts at 10:45.  Then, right after church gets out at noon, we will be having a Potluck BBQ at our house, which is almost right next to the church.  So bring your favorite salad, jello or dessert.

Miss Sandy Dawn Gillette

Here is Sandy Dawn Gillette she joined us on April 29, 2013 at 8:55 a.m. She weighed in at 7 pounds and 4 ounces and was 20 inches long. A full head of long and dark brown hair, big blue eyes lined with long eye lashes and ten perfect fingers and toes. Everything went really well with the labor and delivery. We went in Sunday night and they told me I was ready to have a baby. I wasn't even feeling all of the contractions. By 1:30 though they were getting more painful so I got the epidural! What a wonderful thing that was!!! My doctor came around 3 a.m. and broke my water. It was a bit of a long night and I didn't sleep much but the couch was good for Damon and he slept pretty good. Around 7 they came and checked me again and said they were going to let me rest and descend and then I would push. At 8:20 they came and said that the baby was really close and it was time. After 35 minutes Sandy was here!!

 She has been a pretty calm baby from the beginning. This picture is right after they brought her back from bathing her. It was weird when they took her since I had been with her for the last 8 and a half months!

 This is us passing time in the recovery room.

 She was just wide awake.

 She was so tiny!!

 She is about a week old in these next pictures. I just love watching her facial expressions and listening to those cute little sounds she makes. And she really likes having her hands around or on her face and sometimes she just looks so dramatic when she gets those hands going.

 I love her beautiful smiles even though they aren't actually on purpose yet. I caught the end of a big smile in this one.

 This is a five generation picture. With my first baby, my moms first granddaughter, my grandma's first great-granddaughter, and my great-grandma's great-great-granddaughter. On the Lindsay side she is the 53rd great-grandchild. On the Gillette side she is the 13th grandchild. We are so blessed with so many wonderful family members.

 She likes tummy time for about five minutes and then she gets a bit frustrated.

 More hands up next to her face again. Sleeping peaceful.

 Here she is hanging out with her daddy. When she is upset, and her dad picks her up or plays with her she calms down.

 This picture was taken earlier today. She lost her umbilical cord this morning and then a little while later I was holding her and she peed and it leaked out of her diaper and all over the both of us. So I decided it was time to use the baby bath. She didn't know what to think about it she kept trying to lift her bum out of the water. But she didn't cry at all so that was good. But the bath must have wore her out because shortly after she fell asleep!

After her bath her hair really fluffed out. She is a very healthy baby, in the first week she gained a pound and grew 2 inches and at her 2 week weight check on Monday she weighed 8 pounds and 13 ounces. Also so everyone knows we will be blessing her the first Sunday in June which is the 2nd. And for anyone that might be interested in coming our Sacrament meeting starts at 10:45. Have a wonderful day everyone!!

Our new house

Damon here.  Just wanted to update the blog and show a few pictures of our house for those of you that haven't been able to see it yet.  Pictures aren't in a very good order but I can't figure out how to rearrange them.  No picture of the other two bedrooms or the bathroom because they are a mess and pretty boring anyways.  It's a 3 bedroom 1 and 1/2 bath about 1360 square feet.  We really like the house a lot.  If we were to ever build a house we might like to base it off of this one and just add a few rooms and change a few things.

Here is one of the spare bedrooms which is just across from our bedroom.  Has the built-in changing table which should be nice.  As you can see we already have a bunch of baby stuff but feel free to send us more!

We really like the kitchen lots of space and a good layout.  Only thing missing is a dishwasher which we will probably install eventually.  We got a sweet deal on the table and the previous owners left us with a nice fridge that happens to be exactly the same as our fridge in Rexburg.  They kept everything pretty nice overall.  There is nice paint and nice newer carpets.

 There is a little half bathroom and a mudroom/laundry room next to the garage which is quite nice.

 Big backyard and a nice little shed.  We will be taking out a lot of the grass, one of the bushes, and probably a couple trees this spring to have a place for a garden.  The church is in the direction of the shed in this picture.

 Concrete slab in the back might be nice for bbq.  There is a lot of new or newer concrete (driveway and front sidewalks).  My only problem with the backyard is you have to go through the garage or around the house to get there and there isn't much privacy.  There is a nice white birch and another really cool tree that looks like a red birch.

 We already have a few ducks.  When it warms up we'll be putting in a little pond for them in the back yard.

 The garage is plenty big and has a good workbench and really good lighting.

 When we first moved in there was a water leak in the front yard.  Luckily it was an easy fix.  Most of the concrete looks like it is new.  We really like the front flower garden area and the sidewalks are all new and really well done.  We just wish the driveway was a bit wider so that we didn't have to park behind each other or on the street when we have two vehicles.

 I must say it is one of the nicest looking houses on our street and is just behind (north) and to the east of the stake center (you can see the parking lot from our back window).  I don't think we could find a house in Paul where we would rather live.  Our neighbors are pretty nice.  We live next door to Garth Baker and just a few houses down from Megan's grandparents Randy and Sandy Jones.

 We really like the front room nice and open with a sweet rug and even has a good place to hang my buck.  We really like the front window too.  All of the windows in the house are new which is really nice.

Here is a picture of Megan so you can see she is actually pregnant. 31 weeks. And she hasn't thrown up in months!!

I can't believe it's already December

Well we only have a few more days in Rexburg! Then we are going home for good!! The end of November Damon's brother who is a doctor up here, did and ultrasound and we got to see how the baby was doing.  We also found out that we are going to have a little baby girl!!  She was kicking and moving all over the place.  She looks healthy and is growing at the rate she needs to so everything looks good there!  I was able to feel her for the first time on December 4th and then just every once in a while nothing consistent yet.  Next week I will be 20 weeks and officially done with half of this pregnancy.  Thank goodness I have been feeling quite a bit better.  In other news we are buying a house in Paul!! We close in the beginning of January so we will just be staying at Damon's parents house with all of our stuff until we can move in. Well I hope everyone is staying warm and getting ready to have a wonderful holiday season!!!

Think Cinnamon Bear

Hey everyone! Hope everything is going well!!  We just wanted to share our big news that we are going to have a BABY!!! Right now our baby is about the size of a cinnamon bear.  Tomorrow I will be 12 weeks.  I went to see the doctor last Monday and we were able to listen to our little one's heart beat.  It was so exciting!!!  I do get sick lots of the time but Damon is so awesome and he does anything to make me comfortable and tries to make me feel better!  He takes such good care of me!  We will be able to find out if it is a boy or girl sometime in early December so that is really exciting and we are really looking forward to that.  Our baby is due on May 8, 2013.  Another little fun fact, our friends Tory and Justin, they got married 3 days before us are also having a baby, their little one is due May 31, so it is fun to go through the same things as our closest friends!  For an update on other things Damon will be done with school in December and then we will be moving back to Paul and looking to buy a house.  We are selling our trailer here in Rexburg and have already had one offer and some more interest.  And we have been helping to take care of the Pumpkin Patch in Paul which has been quite an experience this summer and fall.  We also have been bringing pumpkins and squash to sell here in Rexburg!  So everything is busy and exciting!! Love you all!!
~Damon & Megan Gillette

Our New House and Pickup Tour

This is the day we moved our house!!. This is them hooking everthing up and tying everything down.
Our sink!
Shower counter and closet.
This is the double door entrance to the master bathroom!!
This is our walk-in closet with a built-in dresser.
This is our bedroom.
The other counter space of our kitchen! and fridge
This is our large and spacious kitchen with tons of storage compared to our Paul Apartment.
This is the spare bedroom with all our junk in it at the moment and this is the bedroom we will begin painting tonight!!!
This is the spare bathroom.
This is our front room and looking into the kitchen.

This is looking into the front room. We don't have the skirting up yet but this is the outside and our pickup from the road!

Our new pickup with the new tires. This is the pickup with the old tiny tires, I don't know if you can tell but we certainly can. In fact these little tires have quite the story with them the day we bought this pickup! We got it in Utah and on the way home it decided to start snowing. Damon was driving the pickup and I was in the Cadillac behind him. There were some really scary parts on the road where we were passing semis and couldn't see the road because of all the snow blowing around. Anyway finally we made it through Sweetzer and right where it straightens out was where it all happened. I thought Damon was changing lanes really fast for some reason but I quickly realized that he had lost control and we were on black ice. He slid one way and I was worried he was going to hit the guardrail then he over corrected and the pickup flipped all the way around and he was facing me! I was soo worried that I was going to hit him so I was slowing down slowly so I wouldn't slide. He kept sliding backwards right off the road and into the wide median. And the little pickup was stuck on a huge sagebrush. Thankfully no one else was around! We went and pulled it out the next day and took it home!!!!

Now that we have internet this is only the beginning of our updating I hope (if I keep on top of things)!