Feild trip

We thought we would give Gordon an educational outing to the Bingham Canyon Copper Mine. I think he learned a lot!

Me trying to avoid the camera!

The girlfrends

At one month old Gordon got to take a road trip up to Logan to meet two of his girlfriends! Avilyn Macey who is Cami and Porter's baby girl who was born 9-3-08, and Bridget Hallows, who is Brooke and Jeremy's baby girl who was born just 10 days after Gordon on 8-18-08. They are both so dang cute! Gordon doesn't know it yet but he is one lucky little dude to have such cute friends!Avilyn Macey and Gordon
This picture did not do the size diffrence justice! Avilyn at 4 days old was much smaller than Gordon at one month old!
Brooke holding Bridget and me with Gordon who has his scowling face on!
Look at that cute big yawn!

Picnic Time

Tory came home from work today and picked Gordon and me up and we drove up Mill Creek canyon and we had a picnic, it was so nice up there.

Yes Gordon that is your daddy holding you, he hasn't cut his hair for a while and I didn't want you to get him confused with your mommy!

Our little Phelps!

Tory really wanted to take Gordon swimming I said he was too little he was only 3 weeks old! You can see who won that battle. He didn't hate it, but I don't know that he loved it!

The Zoo

We bought a zoo pass a few weeks ago since we are always right across from the zoo we decided to take Gordon there for his fiest time. I think he really enjoyed himself!

Two week Check up

Gordon had his 2 week check up, and he is doing really well. I feel like all I do is feed this kid and it showed on the scales, he weighed 8 lbs 3 oz! They also did his PKU and he didn't even cry! He has been such an easy baby, but he does like to be up during the night he doesn't cry, he just grunts and that means he is hungry. It's about every 2 hours he is wanting to eat in the night, It's a good thing I'm crazy about this kid!

Brighton cabin

When Gordon was only 10 days old it was my mom's week to stay at the cabin in Brighton, and we decided to take him up! My whole immediate family was there at one point! It was a lot of fun however, it was really hard for me at first to have my precious newborn at an old cabin. I was worried about bugs, germs. and the temperature most of the time, but I relaxed more by the end of the week. My little old man

Gordon with cousins Charly, and Maggie

Gordon Hugh Gatrell

So our little guy is here, and he arrived on his due date! Tory and I went in on 08-08-08 for a non-stress test, and they saw that my fluid was too low and they told me I would need to be induced today. They said I could go home to get my bag, and then come right back to labor and delivery. I cried the whole way home, I was so emotional about the whole thing.

When we arrived back at the hospital, they were so busy and there was no room for me for a few hours. Once I got into the room they started my IV and then gave me the pitocin. I was only dilated to a one once I got there and it took several hours just to get to a 4!

My mom, grandma Annie, Lizzy, Adair, and Katie were all there and a after I got my epidural, it was so nice I was out of pain and we all just watched the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics! Come 10 pm we had all given up on our 08-08-08 baby, but around 10:30 the nurse checked me and I was at a 10 and ready to push, Jan, Scott, Emmy, and Jenny arrived right at this point!

All the sudden the baby's heart rate dropped and the nurse had me pushing to get this baby out before the doctor was even in there, I pushed about four times and he was out! I didn't feel a thing it was wonderful! I am a huge fan of epidurals!

They put him on my chest for only a moment, they then had to tame him to the NICU for a little while because he wasn't breathing very well. It was amazing how much I loved this little guy already! He was born at 10:54 and weighed 7 lbs 4 oz and was 20inches long. The whole experience was so neat and I love this kid more and more every day!

We had the chance to go on a cruise with Lizzy and Russ, this was the first cruise for all of us and it turned out to be a lot of fun! It was a 4 day cruise to San Diego, Catalina Island, and Ensenada Mexico. It was pretty cold most of the time, and wishful thinking lead me to pack only for warm weather, but I survived. Catalina Island was my favorite place we went it was very pretty and it even got warm enough for Lizzy and me to get into out swim suits and lay out while the boys played golf! We did a lot of eating, I was ready to come home to 10 extra lbs. on the scale, but to my surprise I had only gained 2 lbs!

OLY ALUMNI GAME

So Tory played hockey in high school and every year they have an alumni game, and the graduated players play against the current team. It's so fun because both of his brothers play hockey too and this year it was Tory and our brother in law Tryg, against Mikey and Carl. Carl is on the current team and Mikey played with him, because he helped coach this year. Tory didn't feel well that night and he is a bit out of shape, but he managed to pull off 2 goals and 3 assists! The alumni team won 7to 12!
I had my camera on the wrong setting the whole time, so the pictures are terrible.


As you can see Tory was dead at the end of the game!

Tory, Carl, and Mikey


Tory and Mikey

Tryg, Carl, Mikey, and Tory

Appoitment # 4

I had my fourth appointment on Wed. march 26th and everything looked perfect! My doctor, Dr. Froerer, said that I am an "ideal patient"! I still love hearing my cute little baby boy's heart beat it is so comforting to me. I have not been worrying as much these days, because I can feel him kicking around so much, and I love it!

My little guy must have had a growth spurt in the last week, because I went from just looking chubby to looking like I was pregnant in a matter of about 4 days!