Our Baby Boy has come

As some of you know, we had a suprise arrive at 5:09 a.m. on 8/26/08

We do not have a name picked out, but hopefully by the end of today we will.

Here are some of the stats on our new arrival of our baby boy.

Brogan Lee McLaws

Born: 8/26/08

Arrival: 5:09 a.m.

Length: 19 inches

Weight: 6 lbs. 11 oz.

Description: Black curly hair, Blue eyes, and an angel

He slept most of the day and so we hardly heard him cry

He doesn't have the vocals that Katie had when she was born,

so I think it will be a little easier to deal with at 2:00 a.m.

Katie is extremly happy about having a baby brother now. When we

asked her on a name, which isn't chosen yet, she said either "Sister" or "Baby Brother".

I know she doesn't look to excited, but she was. She loves him a ton already.

I just wanted to post some pictures, some of them not to great, but this is all

we took that day as we were both tired and Kim didn't want her picture

taken. I will be adding on more Pictures later this week or next along with the

long anticipated update as to what has been going on. I just thought you would

all forgive me for not keeping my word since we had something a lot more

important to attend too. Hope you all enjoy these pictures and I'm off

to the hospital again.

Dad, Katie, and new baby brother

Katie loving her baby brother

Our new son napping

We think this was his first smile, but might be he was trying to pass gas.

Our new little Angel.

(No, not of the basball team Anehiem Angels)

Watch for update.........

I just wanted everyone to know that I'm not trying to ignore our blog, we have just had a ton of stuff happen to us recently and will be giving everyone an update. It will be a long blog post, so watch for it sometime between now and Sunday, August 24th, 2008. Well, have to run, but get ready for a fun and crazy blog coming your way.

San Diego May 2008

This was our weekend getaway to San Diego.

Here we are at the beach in North San Diego. Katie just didn't want her fee to get wet.

Don't we look like a cute couple?

We look tired because it was a long 6 hour drive to San Diego.



Next, we went to Seaport Village.
Katie wanted to be a princess with Mom.


We enjoyed a break next to the ocean at Seaport Village.

Katie and her cousin Kayleen

The next day we went to Sea World.
This was the whole family and crew by the Shamu exhibit.
Do Katie and I look like a couple of cute penguins or what?


Us getting ready to watch Shamu's "Believe".
Katie was with Grandma

Katie and one of the many whales.
Below, you will see a lot of pictures of our day in Sea World, Enjoy!

Now, most of the pictures above were supplied by my sister, Brandi.
This is a picture of her family. Are they cute or what?

We went to the temple the next day to see my cousin get married.

You may not see us, but we were sunburned bad from the day before.

I hope that you enjoyed our little getaway to San Diego.

Look forward to future post's of our next trips we have planned before our son arrives.

Mother's Weekend at Hogle Zoo

This is our first update in so long. Well, we have done several things the past month and so I wanted to get you caught up. This was a day trip we took to the Hogle Zoo on May 10th. Kim's family came up so we all went to the zoo and the kids loved it.

Here is a cougar we saw enjoying the warm sun.

Here we are riding the trunk of an elephant as a family

Katie and Dad in front of a waterfall (even though you can't see it)

Katie and the rare white alligator. Look out Katie!

From left to right: Lydia, Emily, and Katie

These are Katie's cousins. They are enjoying the Safari exhibit.


Katie and the Turkey's. Sometimes she can be a "Turkey" herself.

Katie and Mom loving the Giraffe exhibit

Kim's family on the Zoo Train. Katie was begging us to take her on this all day long.

You can see how happy she is.

Well, Katie was tired from all that walking and needed a break.

Boy, was she thirsty!
What a fun day at the zoo with Kim's family!

Front row: Katie, Kim, Lydia, Dori, Emily, Stacy

Back Row: Brian, Paul, Dale, Marc, Aryn, Adam, Domonique, Luke (in stroller)

Well, some of you are wondering why we are all wearing the same shirt's, well, this was the day before Mother's Day and so if we bought a shirt for $7, we got in free to the zoo. The normal tickets were $8. Plus, with the shirts, the mother's got a free 5 - 10 min. massage, everyone got free ice cream, there were crafts and kid's could get their face painted. It was a fun day. As you can tell, it was getting warm and we were ready to head back home to rest.

Thanks Mom's!!!!!!!!!

My little cowgirl!

I came home from work on Thursday and saw Katie looking like a little cowgirl, minus the cowboy hat. She kept saying, "Daddy, look, my pink boot's". It just warms my heart every time I come home from work and she screams saying, "Daddy, your home. I missed you today". When I saw her this day, I had to take a picture and post it on here. My daughter is getting so big and wanted to show you how much I'm so proud of her.