Its a........Baby!

Girl!!! Briel Ruth Sorensen is coming to this world April 29th (give or take a few days)! We had the ultrasound today and it was awesome to see her!!

A Buckin' Good Time!

Gaige & Papa on the tractor! Gaige and I visited my parents in Arizona while so that Toby could have more time to study for the HUGE 8 hour engineering test he has to pass to graduate! Thanks everyone for your prayers! Also my parents were helping me out since I have been so sick with this pregnancy! I don't know what I would do with out them!!!! We missed Toby a ton though and will never leave him for that long again! Thankgoodness for video chatting!

Gaige in the baggage compartment on the plane...(on the way to Oklahoma to visit my brother Zack, his wife Keri and their cute girls Adylin & Brinkley)! Gaige wanted to stay in there the whole time...the trip would have been more peaceful, but boring! While in Oklahoma we went to a petting farm..which was a blast! We fed the animals, went on a hay ride, slid down a huge slide & the kids rode mules/donkeys. Here are some pictures!

They all loved the BIG slide!! So fun!

Feeding the goats. Gaige wouldn't touch or feed them by hand for some reason (even though he touches everything else by hand..rocks, dirt, mud, rotten apples etc.)!

The three cuzzies and Papa & Nama!!

Peek-a-boo!

Ady & Gaige in the tub. Ady would say "oh crap, a larson" and Gaige would crack up. they spashed and laughed & had a blast!

Cousins by birth....Friends by choice!! So cute!

Family is getting bigger now!

Just to let you know that we are going to be parents (again). Savanna is about 13 weeks pregnant and we are excited! Other than she is sick all the time, hope that ends soon. Hope Gaige is ready for a little brother (At least I hope that's what it is)

Gaiger Update!

Gaige is 17 Months! Crazy! He loves to slide down anything! He likes to slide down the moss filled ditch with the irrigation water & any inclines! He is just a joy to be with! He signs 37 words and says about 8 words. He loves to cuddle babies and give his mom kisses. He is totally boy..loves hats, trucks, rocks, dirt, water....outside....everything! We love him tons!!!

So big!

Our "fruits" from the garden!

Gaige loves to play ""dumb box" already. Here is his dad & him bonding...all boy!

Gaige loves hats on and this day he had to have ALL his hats on! Good-day mate!

Hiking Cascade Falls!

We had a ward campout on July 10th-11th. On saturday some of us went hiking to this beautiful waterfall...the trail was "closed" due to a land slide....but we braved it and hiked anyway! The hike is really cool...it goes right along side the mountain..so fun! Gaige loved it! Anything outdoors and he is happy!!

Lake Powell

We went to Lake Powell with Papa & Nama Larson, my brother Seth, Jeannie, Clayton, Lucy, My brother Zack, Keri, Ady, Brinkley, my brother Shad, friend Mike, my Grandma & Grandpa Larson and cousin Tanner. Gaige had a blast!! He loved the sand!!!! Loved the water & tubing & boating! It was a blast....here are a ton of pics!

Uncle Seth put this pot on Gaige's head and he loved it, kept wanting him to put it back on!

My brother Zack with his two sweet girls Ady & Brinkley

Chucking a rock! He is a strong bugger!

Sitting in mine and Keri's grand canyon we made! Word of advice: don't try and make sand castles with kids...they just want to destroy!!!

Sweet Keri (my sis in law)

Gaige loved being on the chair in the water...and off...he even dived off it 2 or 3 times straight into the water! He has no fear!

Papa & Cute Ady!

Cute little Lulu

Gaige the stinker- look at that guilty face...he was caught red handed pushing his cousin during pictures!

All five cousins

Ady & Clayton put lotion ALL over themselves and Gaige (hair and all). Pretty cute!

Sweet cousin back rubs...Thanks Ady!

Double time!

Playing Ring-around-the-roseys....so cute!....

All fall down! Gaige didn't quite get it, so cuz Ady had to "help" him fall down!!

Playing in the sand...Gaige's favorite!

Two hotties!

Tubing with Dad!

Tubing with Papa

Poor Gaige- he couldn't clap with the thick life jacket on...he was so sad!

and this is how it ends.....exhausted!!!

Something Uplifting

I love this! Have a good day!

Gaige's First Air Show & Family PIcs!

This is Gaige and the Thunderbirds. He loved to point at all the airplanes and make airplane noises with his toy airplanes. Below are more pictures of the air show at Hill Air Force Base! Toby & Gaige got to meet Savy's roomate from Virginia and her family (Diana, Jeremy, Gracie & Ryan)! So fun!

The Thunderbirds formation! Amazing!

Future Astronaut!

Pointing at the airplanes! So cool!

Gaige loved to climb up and down the loading gate of this C-17 Plane!

Savy & Diana

Here are some family pictures from Gaige's 1 year pics. Thanks to Ashley for taking them even though Gaige was a stinker again! I also forgot to thank Jaelyn for taking his 6 month pics! Check out their photo blogs!

Gaige was so distracted and excited to be outside it was really hard to get him to "pose" for the picture, let alone look and smile at all of us making fools of ourselves. The only way we got the smile above was having Toby ride his bike very very fast straight at Gaige sitting here!

Gaige loves to climb on everything, especially rocks!!

That's all folks!

Gaige 1st Year!!

Here is a slideshow that Savanna made for Gaige's 1 Year B-day on April 21st!

Dont forget to check out the post below on Brazil!

Amazing Brasil!

We're Back! Brazil was awesome! We loved it! This will be a really long post. Feel free to just look at the pictures if you don't want to know all the details! Toby and I go back and forth about explaining everything so I hope it will make sense!

Ginatto, Isabel, & Toby

The first night we got to Brazil, Alessandro & Isabel Ginatto took us to the Corinthians futebol (soccer) game! It was awesome, aside from getting squished by all the fans that were trying to push their way into the stadium. :-) The fans there are crazy! They have all these special chants and songs and the whole stadium erupts with them! It is really neat. There were tons of police there, and most of them were surrounding the opposing team's 20 fans! The stadium we went to was called the Estádio do Pacaembu where Pre. Hinckley went to for re-dedication party of the Sao Paulo temple the day before the temple was re-dedicated. Toby and my brother Zack were at the re-dedication ceremony and the party before when they were on their missions!

We also went to the center of the city of Sao Paulo. We saw a beautiful cathedral there. We also went up on top of the Bane Spa ,the tallest building in Sao Paulo, patterned after the Empire State Buliding. The view is incredible, just rows and rows of buildings as far as the eye can see.

We also walked around the 25 de Marco Street looking at all the street vendors and bought soccer jerseys. The "stores" go on forever down many streets. There are people selling all sorts of things. It was really fun. We had some fresh squeezed manga and maraquaja juice that brought back lots of memories of Toby’s mission to be here with all the smell, sights, and tastes of juices and food. Toby love Mango juice!

While in the center we saw this guy who painted himself as a statue and when you put money into his can, he comes alive. It was really neat!

We also walked to parque do Ibirapuera (just a few miles from our hotel) and walked around the beautiful park.

Ginatto took us to the museum of Ipiranga an old house of Dom Pedro I, he was the first president of Brasil. It is a pretty old mansion. I joked around and call it their "yellow house" (like our white house), because for a while the presidents of the country lived there.

Ginatto also took us to Toby's last area, Climax and Maria Estela. We ate lunch at Luzia’s house. She is the sweetest little old lady ever. It was good to be with her again and to know that she is still strong in the church. Here is everyone from the left to right: Lucia, Ginatto, Evely, Savy, Toby outside of Lucia's house.
Luzia with Ginatto's bellyAfter eating there and talking for a while we went to visit Sandro, Cida, Evely. Evely is still going to church but for some reason the parents are not going anymore. It is sad when you work so hard to teach the gospel and they grasp it then for some reason they drop it. We then went to Bishop Danta’s house (we forgot to get pictures of them :-(.) it still has the same good feeling in his house as it did on the mission when we visited. He then took us to a ward activity at the church and got to meet a lot of people from the ward again. Then he was nice enough to take us back to the hotel.
On Sunday we went to Diadema for church. The ward split so only half the ward was familiar to me. It was good that the ward is growing enough to make a new ward but sad I didn’t get to meet everyone again. We ate lunch at Rose house (she is the lady on the left of Toby in the picture above that was taken outside the church). She is such a sweet lady. She is really sad though because her family doesn’t want anything to do with the church.
After lunch at Rose's house we went to Bishop Nelson's house, His wife's name is Lilian and their daughter's name is Rachel. It was so fun to be with them! They were so nice.

The next week we went to the center of Sao Paulo again and on Tuesday we went to the ZOO (there is a white Tiger above our heads in the picture above) and then to Judy & her Family's house for Dinner.

From left to right: Erica (Judy's sister), Ivonete (Judy's Mom), Maneol Judy & Cezar (Judy's brother), Toby and Savy.
Manoel, Judy's dad, plays the accordian! It was awesome! I will post a video of it too. He let Toby and I play it too. It was really fun. They are such nice people!
On wednesday we went to a town about 30 miles outside of the city called Embu Das Artes. Embu was beautiful and we found some amazing souvenirs that Toby never got when he was on his mission. On Thursday we checked out of our hotel and went to the temple to do sealings with Isabel & Alessandro (aka Ginatto) and later to get yummy pizza. Friday The Ginattos took us to Santos. Alessandro's Family lives there.

After 8 days in Sao Paulo, we went to Santos & Sao Vicente, which are right on the beach. We stayed in a hotel that was right on the beach, but there is a Avenida that is a very busy street that is right in front of the hotel so it was really loud. we got a room that overlooked the beach, for the same price as the cheapest room since the room we were supposed to have stunk like smoke. However, the hotel was still "Crap." I won't go into though :-).
On Saturday the Ginattos took us to Guaruja since the beaches there are better. We had to take a car ferry, which was cool (look below). We also went canoeing too up a really cool river! It was beautiful! Then we went to the beach which was a blast!
Toby & Ginatto on the ferry.
Isabel, Beatriz & Alessandro
Sexy Brazil Riverman
The Lammanites!! The guide told us that this clay stuff from under the water is used medicinally to make beautiful skin, so our hottie husbands wanted to give it a go! I think the guide just told them that to make them look silly! :-) J/K.
Here is Alessandro & Isabel's beautiful daughter Beatriz. She is a doll!
Saturday night we went and saw Liv and her two boys, Lucca & Oliver. They are such wonderful people. On Monday we went to the beach in front of our hotel with them. It was a blast.
Sunday we went to the ward in Santos that Toby was in as a missionary. It was really neat because the Elders Quorum president, Morgado, was a man who Toby had started teaching just before he left (the picture is above). He got to plant a seed, so that was special for him to see. After Church we went to Ginatto's (Toby calls Alessandro "Ginatto" and Ginatto calls Toby "Sorensen" since they knew eachother by their last names as missionaries) parent's house for lunch. It was great! They are really nice people. His dad is in the Stake Presidency and was able to find Robson e Kelly, since they moved. Robson e Kelly are a couple Toby worked with who later got sealed in the Temple (Toby was able to attend the sealing on his mission too). We spent the rest of Monday with them and then the drove us back to Sao Paulo. It was really fun.
Robson and Toby
Kelly, Savanna, Toby & Robson. Aren't they beautiful?!

Ginatto and his family let us stay at their house Monday night which was so nice. Tuesday morning we went to the temple with Isabel & Alessandro for a session. It was beautiful. The temple is gorgeous! Then we went to the mall and other places trying to get a few more sounveniers (like their cheap & cool soccer jerseys). Then we flew home all night and got to Vegas at 10:00 the next day! It was an amazing trip!

If you made it through this post good job, I am impressed and you deserve a cookie! Thanks so much to my parents for watching our sweet little Gaige and thanks to the Ginattos for being our taxi, we wouldn't have gotten to do what we did without them! They are great friends, even if I can't communicate with them. :-)

Manoel & The Accordion!

Here is a Video of Manoel playing the accordion!

Make sure to check out our other post of Brazil!

Happy 1 Year & 1st Easter!

Gaige turned 1 on Tuesday! We had his birthday on Monday so Papa & Nama Larson could come. The theme was airplanes. For invitations we made airplane tickets "Gaiger ZE Airlines." For decorations we hung airplane, clouds & red, white & blue streamers from the ceiling with balloons! We also had red, blue and airplane plates cups & napkins. Toby made a F-22 plane out of a cake for everyone. Savanna made a plane (from a cake mold) for Gaige to play in. He really wasn't interested in eating it though. Anytime we put the cake ion his mouth he would just spit it out. We can't believe that he is one already! It has been the best year ever! Gaige is our greatest joy and has brought such fulfillment into our lives!! We love our Gaige!! Thanks to everyone who came. Here are some pictures.

F22 Cake

The presents!

Some decorations.

Uncle Clint & Gaige in new outfit from G&G Sorensen

James, Elisa & Gabriel

Darren, Shaundra & Kashus
Gaige's Cake Before

Gaige's Cake after!

Playing in Bus Nama & papa gave Gaige
Gaige in his new pool!

Gaige in his cool ride From Papa & Nama!

Here are pictures of Gaige's first Easter!!

Brazil Here We Come!!

Well we are officially going to Brazil to see Toby's mission. We bought our tickets & our visas are being processed! We are way excited! We will be gone for two weeks....the only sad thing is that we will be leaving our Gaiger! He will be in good hands though. Nama & Papa Larson offered to watch him. Boy is he going to get spoiled! We will have to de-papafy him when we get home! That is if he will have us after being with Papa & Nama! We were going to go to Brazil for Toby's Graduation present next year, but I will probably be way prego at that time and would prefer to have my kid in the states! :-) SO needless to day we are going now (plus our tax refund pays for it!). So look out Brasil, here we come!

Gaiger News

Things have been great with us! Just crazy busy! Gaige is now 10 months and 3 weeks. He has taken 14 steps a number of times and loves to crawl like a stink bug or like "Mogley" from the jungle book. He loves to clap for himself, give five, give kisses, wave "bye," throw & chase balls and laugh! We love him tons and he brings the greatest joy we have ever felt! Savy is busy with teaching. She will also start coaching a U8 soccer team and is so excited. Toby is so busy with his engineering major. We are on Spring Break, but unfortunately for Toby, he will be studying for the FE exam (the HUGE 8 hour test that is required to graduate and become an engineer). Good luck Toby! Well here are some pictures if you are interested!....

Here is Gaige, he was so fussy, but wouldn't let me put him to sleep, so we put on his favorite movie "Learning about Letters" (Sesame Street and the only video he will watch). He actually fell asleep in his chair! Funny kid!

Here is Gaige in the Dryer. He loved it!

Gaige is officially into everything! He loves to pull everything out of the cupboards and pound on the cooking utensils as drums! Here is is...doesn't he look so Innocent? Yea right!

Gaige's new favorite toy- his box from the forward facing car seat we bought him! He would play peak a boo and throw everything into his box, crawl into it, and throw everything back out!

Two of the most handsome boys ever!!!!!!

Christmas!

So yeah, we are pathetic. Here is our post about Christmas that was 3 months ago!!! We spent a week in Orderville with Toby's Parents & Family. The next week, we were surprised to be visited by Seth (my brother) & Jeannie, Clayton & Lucy (his wife and kids). They were going to go to Oregon, but couldn't get there because of bad weather, so my parents picked them up and we all spent the rest of the break at the house here! Although they were sad, we were glad to have them here! Zack (my other brother) & Keri, Adylin & Brinkly (his wife and kids) were also in town visiting her parents (this was the in-laws turn for this holiday). It was so fun to be all together! I know I am biased, but I think I have the cutest nephews & nieces ever! I love them! We had a blast! We also all went bowling, skiing & sledding! It was so fun! Gaige loved opening his presents and loved playing with all of them! Here are some pictures...

After a Basketball game...in the snow outside our house!

Gaige with Santa!

Ready to go to Ordervillle!

Gaige in Orderville ready to open presents (Christmas EVE).

Gaige on Cousin Logan's tractor. He loved it!

Gaige & uncle Josh (last time seeing him). Josh went to the MTC the next day!

Happy Naked Gaige! He LOVED the train that went around the tree & presents!

Cute Keri with cute, sweet & poor sick Brinkley!

Gaige looking at his Christmas stocking (mostly got baby food in it)!

Gaige all bundled up in his sled!

Gaige in Orderville with his Santa gift!!

Gaige with his cute Cousin Ricky (Toby's Nephew) on Christmas Morning!

Gaige getting sat on by his cute cousin Lucy- who is just full of smiles!

My Niece Ady & Nephew Clayton! Aren't they cute? I was pulling them on a blanket and they loved it!

Papa Larson exhausted from playing with all the grandkiddos. Fell asleep with his feet in the car seat! Hope he didn't give the baby fungus! :-)

The spoiling begins....Papa feeding Gaige Chocolate Ice cream and he loved it! (Can't you tell?)

Funny Gaige

Here is a short video of Gaige laughing, he was laughing harder but by the time we got the camera he was about laugh out.

Gaiger Man

This is the best baby ever! (This was around Christmas time we haven’t done a post in a while) Things are going good. Savanna is busy with teaching her class at the university, Toby is busy doing homework and Gaige is busy crawling around and making a mess.

Me? A Professor?

Just a quick update. I have been offered a job to teach the Culinary Arts class and three 3 hour labs next semester at Southern Utah University (this is where I graduated from in May). It has worked out great because we needed the money and Toby is able to watch Gaige for 5 of the hours, my brother, Shad who lives in our basement, is watching for 3 hours and my friend Hanna offered to watch Gaige for 3 hours too! The only way that I agreed to teaching the class is because only family and an awesome friend can watch Gaige. I am so nervous, excited and sad. I am sad to leave my little Gaige for 11 hours a week! However, it is only for 4 months and truly is a blessing! There are 58 people in the class right now....yeah a little intimidating for my first time...even though I did substitute teach for Artis Grady at the school for a week this semester. Should be interesting huh?! Hum...Professor Sorensen......ok so there is no way I will have the students call me that...weird and it makes me feel really old!!

Birthdays and Family Time!

Toby turned 25 today! He is quarter of a century old but still as hot as ever! We threw a suprise party for him on Friday, since he has to finish a take home test today that is due in the morning! Yuck!

For thanksgiving we went down to my family in Arizona. It was a blast! There was a ton of peope there to wish Josh off. He is going on a mission to Billings Montana! Josh gave an excellent talk on tithing on Sunday! We are so excited for him! He enters the MTC on the 17th!

Here are some pictures of my family and us...

The whole gang!

Our little family! Gaige smiled at his crazy Aunt Jeannie! Yeah!

All the hansome boys!!

The crazy Great Grandpa Larson and his "elephant belly"

My oldest brother Seth's sweet family...Jeannie, Clayton and Lucy!

My second oldest brother, Zack and his awesome family, Keri, Adylin and Brinkley!

Gaige with his cousins Ady & Clayton and Papa playing the piano.

Gaige and his Nama and Papa Larson.

All the grandkiddos!

My great mom and I! I just love her! She is the best!

Here are some pictures from Gaige's 6 month pics. He was a pill and wouldn't smile very much...guess he didn't care that we were paying money for this!

Gaige's First Halloween!!!

Gaige was Tigger for Halloween! (Thanks to Uncle Lane who gave him this outfit for Christmas last year before he was born!) He kept trying to eat his whiskers and as you can see the make-up is smeared on his left cheek! Tigger totally fits this jumpy, wiggly active kid! He is starting to crawl already and he is only 6 1/2 months old! Ahh! We are going to have our hands full!

Here Gaige is in his crawling position, ready to move!

Here is Gaige in his side position that he takes quite often as he takes a break in between trying to crawl...usually his top hand is placed on his leg- it is really funny!

Toby put Gaige in the laundry basket! Goofy dad! Gaige loves playing with his awesome dad!

My awesome friend Hanna gets me (Savy) to go running in the mornings. So here are our little bundles of joy. Ella is only 2 days older than Gaige (she was born on Gaige's due date). Gaige is wearing a beanie that Toby bought in Brasil on his mission 3 years ago. Isn't it so cute! It has been so cold here!

Toby was eating Sloppy Joes while holding Gaige and dropped some on Gaige's nose while he was sleeping.

Gaigey in his cute overall set from Danielle (a friend from school) playing with his daddio!

Gaige loves to eat his toes...and anything else in his path.

Fall, Pumpkins, Leaves & Happy 6 Months!

Thanks to My friend, Hanna and Ella (Her baby & Gaigey's friend) we got these really cute pictures of Gaige! He loved to play with the leaves and eat the pumpkin! Gaige was 6 months last Tuesday and we are enjoying every minute with him! He is awesome!

Here are pictures with our little family- we were raking up the neighbor's leaves and thought Gaige would enjoy them...and he did as you can tell- he wouldn't look up at the camera much!

An Update from the Slackers!

Well things have been crazy for us. So here is a update since we have slacked off. In the past two months here is what has been going on. Toby has started school and is constantly doing homework. He is majoring in Engineering, which is very rigorous and probably the hardest major at SUU. Savanna tutors for 7 hours a week for a Lady named Linda who is taking Food Science and Elementary Organic/Biochemistry. This is with Gaige of course in our house, which can be a little challenging at times! :-) Savanna substitute taught at the college for a week which was pretty fun.

Gaige and Savy just returned on Friday from a nine day trip with her family! We all missed each other tons! It made us remember how blessed we are to have each other! We were glad that we got to video chat while we were gone though! Gotta love technology!

Josh (Savy's brother) got his mission call and will serve as a representative for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the Billings Montana mission, which basically takes in all of Montana and has a big chunk of Wyoming. He will be a great missionary! He leaves on December 17th. We will miss him tons, especially Gaige, who really likes his Uncle Josh.

Savanna will also be a Aunt again soon...Keri is going to pop any day now! This will give Savy's parents 5 grandkiddos now! We watched General Conference this weekend with Namma (Grandma Larson) and Grandpa Larson, and Josh (and of course our friendly basement neighbors, Shad and Micah). It was wonderful! Those speakers are always so inspired!

Gaige is now 5 months and 3 weeks old! It is crazy how time flies (as if it were a dream :-))! He is really growing- 17 pounds and 26.5 inches long! He loves to roll around the whole room and can even scoot himself. Look out world he is about to crawl! Gaige is also a lot more interactive- laughing and talking to us! He is such a good baby- rarely cries and never screams (although now with that said I am sure he will prove us wrong! :-)) We just can't imagine life without our sweet little Gaiger-man!

Other than that there isn't much going on...we are just lovin' life!

Our Adventure!

So Since the last post was long and boring with no pictures here are some pictures from the trip!

A beautiful sunset we saw on the road!

Here is Gaige with his Great Great Aunt Florence (Namma's Mom's sister) at Namma's Cousin, Pat's house in Salt Lake.

Gaige in is 6 dollar outfit we found!

Here is Gaige's first Airplane ride- so fun! He did so good and loved to look out the window!

Gaige with his Namma after a bath!

Gaige in his car seat, which he did so good in for hours on end. This is him holding his bottle of water, which he basically just chews on.

Oh to be Grandparents!

I love the quote "If I knew that Grandchildren were so fun, I would have had them first!"

Namma and Grandpa spoil Gaige sneaking bites of real food (or "human food" as we call it) to him. Oh the spoiling has begun- well it actually begun a while ago (while Gaige was in the womb)! So fun to be a grandparent! Here is him sucking the juice from a pear- boy does he love that human food...and so many more wonderful foods to taste! :-)

Sleeping & Playing With The Dad!

So sweet!

I love these two handsome fellas!

Messy Gaige!!

So here is Gaigariah eating, or rather trying to suck rice cereal off the spoon, hands, tray...etc. He didn't quite get the concept. He was a disaster!

All Stickered Up!

So Toby was obviously bored one day. He opened the mail and found these stickers in a Disney Club offer and decided to put them all over Gaige. This is what Savy found after only a few minutes of being in the other room- Savy can't leave Toby alone for one second!

Guess Who Owns The Bed?!

Here is Gaige sleeping after our Sunday nap and a feeding- he must be on a milk high! :-)

The Tongue Kid!

It is always going...that tongue of his! Look at the side profile- it is HUGE! Takes after his daddio for sure! The picture to the right is of him when he was laughing- which is the cutest thing ever and just brings such a joyful feeling to his parents! We love it when he laughs!

Keep Walkin'

The First Outfit!

This is the first outfit that we bought on the day we found out that we were having a boy! Can you tell what sport his dad is into? :-)

A Fun Weekend

Here Gaige is in his Special Delivery overall outfit that Aunt Keri got for him. Last weekend Grandpa Larson, Shad, Josh, Abram, Nick, Mikaela, and Great Grandma Larson visited! It was so fun! Everyone but Great Grandma went up to Idaho to run the Salmon River (Savy was way bummed to not be able to go again since the river is so awesome, but she wouldn't trade having Gaige for nothing!). They will be stopping here again on their way home on Monday. Gaige thrived on all the attention! He loves to entertain people with his smiles, giggles and sticking his tongue out- which he does all the time! He sure does love his tongue, if you couldn't tell! He is just getting cuter and cuter and bigger every day!

Great Grandma Larson (aka Rainbow Grandma) and Gaiger rocked themselves to sleep, while the mom and dad set up the nursey! Aww- how cute!

Here's Gaige with his Uncle Shad (aka the Baby Uncle), who he will get to know very well since Shad is going to live in the basement and go to school here!

Basketball Gaige

Gaige is getting all ready to be a basketball star like his dad is! Look at that grip!

Gaige loves to sit on dad's sholders and...spit up on his hair- he smiles everytime he does it! :-) Aren't these boys the cutest ever!?

Gaiger News

Hi everyone it's Gaige, I'm going to post something since mom and dad do it all the time. Well not too much has been happening around here. I've just been happy as can be, but sometimes when I get really tired and I don't want to go to sleep, I scream and and throw a fit but I get over it.
As for my parents, they're crazy, they make just about any silly face or noise just to make me smile or laugh, most of the time I just smile to humor them. I did giggle for the first time at them the other day cause they were making some pretty funny noises and faces. Mom is is the best! She stays home with me all day and plays with me, feeds me and everything. As for dad, he is at work all day, he works at Lamoreaux Group an engineering firm, it is pretty slow right now because of the economy he says, but he loves to come home and play with me.
Well that is about it, hope you all are doing fine. Hope that you all can come see me soon to see how big and cute I'm getting.

Happy Gaige!

Gaige has been so smiley! We have also heard him crack up laughing in his sleep! It is so fun! We can't wait to hear him laugh for real! Here he is eating his burp rag again! :-)

Babies & Overalls!

Here is a picture with Gaige in the cute overall outfit that Grandma Larson bought for him...just gotta love babes in plaid shirts and overalls! :-)

Remodeling Pictures...

Here are some more pictures of the house. We are still not completely moved in yet because we still have closets, a ceiling to paint and a lot of stuff to move up! There is just lots of work that goes really slow since we have cute little Gaige that is just too fun and keeps us so occupied!

The family room and front entry way...

Our bedroom...

This is the bathroom...

Here is Gaige's room. It is still not set up yet since we are trying to sell our crib because it is the wrong color....if anyone is interested just let us know. Can you tell what his dad is interested in...airplanes?!

Riding a Horse with Dad

Just wanted to mention one more thing...It was really special for Toby to take his son on his first horse ride because he had always wanted to be able to do that some day with his own kiddos and that day has finally come. It was really special to have that happen and we were glad Grandma Sorensen reminded us to do it and to get pictures!

Gaige ZE Sorensen's First Campout

Gaige is already to ride the horse- It looks like he is saying "getty-up Pepsi, lets go!"

This is a picture of Gaige's first horse ride with his Dad! He loved it. He gave it a thumbs up! We all went camping over the 4th of July weekend at the Sorensen's ranch in Sink Valley. Here are some more pictures of the campout...

Beautiful Sunset at Sink Valley.

Our little family!

Gaige with uncle Lane...who is so great at taking care of Gaige!

Gaige with Grandpa Sorensen!

Gaige with Grandma Sorensen who would tend him when Mommy and Daddy were with Grandpa on an excursion!

Here is Gaige with his first cuz once removed- Jeanette!

Eating & Cuddling a Burp Rag

Gaige sure enjoys his burp rags...which is a good thing since they are with him all the time to catch the many spit-ups!

No More Pictures Please!

Here is a funny picture of Gaige with his hand over his face. We think he is sick of all the pictures we are taking of him. "Here we go again" is what he is thinking!

Dragon Slayer of Death

Toby Found this sticker while we were fixing the upstairs to move into and put it on Gaige's head! (The title of the post was his idea too)! Silly Daddy!

The Exhauseted Remodelers!

Here Savy and Grandma Larson are on Sunday after the long week- so tired!

The Grandpa With His Two Grandkiddos!

Moving & Remodeling

Well since Zack, Keri & Ady left for dental school, we have been painting the upstairs trying to get it ready to move in. Although we miss them we are excited for the extra room and for them to get into dental school so early. Grandma Larson was up last week to help Zack & Keri move and to help us paint and remodel. She did an amazing job and is such a hard worker! She wallpapered the living room and redecorated it with a lighthouse theme which is Savanna's favorite! We all stayed up till 1 or 2 in the morning for 4 nights trying to get it done by the time Grandma left on Monday with Keri & Ady. (Although we got a lot done, there is still a lot to do)! Savy is extremely exhaused because in addition to working hard and staying up late, Gaige still isn't sleeping very well through the night and wakes up choking at times. Here are some pictures of the remodel....we will post more later.

Here is the nasty wallpaper that was under the mirror in the entry way...who would have ever liked it? Savanna spent forever painting the front entry way... she painted it and then all the wallpaper underneath it peeled off and so all the paint came off too....it was a mess! She spent 3+ hours just on this. She didn't finish till 1:00 am!

Here are some pictures with Cousin Ady...Gaige will sure miss her tweaking on him!

Here is Gaige and his uncle Zack.....How sweet!

Iron Man

Doesn't Gaige look so stong flexing for us?! :-)

Grandpa Larson & Gaige

Grandpa Larson was here to help Zack & Keri move to Oklahoma. He was a great help and took Gaige for a night and a couple of mornings so we could sleep. Here is a picture with him and his Father's Day present....we got him a book and some reading glasses so that he can actually read. :-) When he put on the glasses he said "Wow, I can see, that isn't fair." It was funny. We sure do love that Grandpa! As you can tell from the picture above he is already a Grandpa's boy...look at him smile at the grandpa!

Our Happy Boy!

We just love to catch all of Gaige's Smiles....we will do almost anything to elicit them...He loves when we act like complete goofs! Here he is 9 weeks old!

Blessing of Gaige Zackariah Earl Sorensen

Gaige was blessed today! He was so good and slept through the whole thing! Toby gave a really sweet blessing. His middle name, Zackariah is after his uncle Zack, who his parents met through and it means "Jehovah has heard." His other middle, Earl is after his dad and it is a family name and it means "nobleman or leader". The baby blanket under him was made by his great grandmother, Enid, who died two week before Savy was born. All of Gaige's uncles (Seth, Zack, Josh, Shad) and his mom where blessed with it. After the blessing, we had lots of people over to celebrate: Grandpa & Grandma Sorensen, Clint & Lane (Toby's younger brothers), Kori (Toby's sister) & Ray and their family (Colby, Austin, Garrett & Whitnee), DeDe (Toby's sister) & Joey and their family (JJ & Beth), Darren (Toby's cousin) & Cindy and their family (Katelyn, Justin & Carson), Dale & Suzanne (Toby's aunt & uncle), Grandpa & Grandma Larson, Zack (Savy's brother) & Keri and their family (Adylin & a baby girl in utero), Great Grandma & Grandpa Larson, Phil & Marlene Haslam, Beverly Stewart (Grandma's Best Friend), Darren & Shaundra and James & Elisa (Toby & Savy's friends). It was really fun! We want to thank all the people that came out and supported us. We love you all!

All smiles

We have the happiest kid ever! He has been smiling so much lately and here is one of them. It's so fun to see Gaige smile. We will do almost any stupid noise or funny face to get him to smile at us! :-)

Tummy Time

Here is Gaiger during "tummy time." He doesn't last too long anymore on his tummy without getting mad. Last week he was 5 weeks old and rolled over 7 times from his tummy to his back! Mom caught it on camera even! As you can probably see from the pictures, he loves to suck- on his hand, burp rag and mom...but not a binky unfortunately...much to his parents dismay! But he still is so sweet & cute!

King of the Chair

Here is Mr. Gaige practicing sitting up. The purple chair is cousin Ady's that she shared with him. Doesn't he look so relaxed?! This was the exact position he did when mom put him in the chair. :-)

Late Nights & Early Mornings

Here is a picture Toby took of Savy & Gaige at a 4:30am feeding...being a parent is exhausting, but so worth it! The new parents barely ever get sleep between waking up to change/feed Gaige and Gaige's swirms and loud grunts that he makes all night. Don't Savy & Gaige look just a little too happy to be up that early?! :-)

Our Little Family!

This was our first Sunday taking Gaige to church. Isn't he so cute in the outfit Grandma Larson bought for him?! He was so good too...he slept through most of church...(he will make a good bishop someday- sleeping on the stand)! Church was harder for mom since she usually takes naps when Gaiger does and she wasn't able to while they were at church. (Plus she went 6 hours without eating and got a little weak and a headache from it...Breastfeeding sure makes you hungry)! We sure just love this kid that we have been blessed with!

So Smiley! :-)

We love catching Gaige's smiles...He does it so frequently. Gaige is such a sweet tempered baby....we hope that he stays that way! :-)

Baby Gaige's First Real Bath!

Gaige's Umbilical Cord fell off 15 days after he was born and so he got his first real bath May 8th! So fun!

Gaige's Puppy Noises He Makes When He is Falling Asleep...

Two Small Sneezes... They Always Come in Pairs!

Graduation!!

Savanna graduated on May 3rd, 2008! She got her degree in Human Nutrition with a minor in Chemistry and was a Southern Utah Univeresity Valedictorian. Dad/Grandpa Larson drove all the way from Arizona to see it. Mom/Grandma was already here helping with little Gaige. Toby's parents also came over from Orderville to support us, which was so nice. Keri Larson also graduated and got her degree in Criminal Justice! Graduation itself was extremely boring! The Main speaker gave a "dooms-day" lecture on global warming. After Graduation, Keri's parents hosted a BBQ, which was really fun and delicious. Then we went to Grandee's icecream (with my second cousin Mariah & her family, Aunt JoAnn, Cindy Wright & her Niece, Zack, Keri & Adylin, and Mom & Dad Larson) to conquer "The Zion" that has 48 scoops of icecream and they put your name on plaque if your group finishes it! It was a fun but tiring day- especailly since Savanna only got 3 hours of sleep that night/early morning because she was up with the little guy. We went to bed at 6:00pm that night as soon as little Gaiger went to sleep!

My Wonderful Husband

Here is my wonderful birthing coach, after we just had our little Gaige. I couldn't have done it without him...He helped me through so that I could do it natural, without medication. Toby is the best, kindest and gentlest husband, person and dad ever!

Here is our little Bundle of Joy!

Toby was determined to catch Gaige smiling. He waited and waited by him with the camera and as you see actually caught him smiling! He must be dreaming of Heaven! :-)

Our Baby Boy!

We had our baby Gaige today at 12:40pm. He weighed 8 pounds & 4 ounces and was 21 inches long. Savanna's water broke at 1:00am and we have not slept since then. She had the baby totally natural, so the labor went painfully well. Toby was the perfect coach and stayed by her side the whole time. Gaige is such a good baby. He actually didn't even cry when he first came out, the nurses really had to rub him and suction him to get him to cry as pictured above. In fact, that was probably the most he has cried so far. We are really blessed with a wonderful son! We would like to thank everyone that helped out and prayed for us, we felt the extra strength. We are excited and scared to be parents. We love you all!

The Due Date

Well, our little Gaige is just too comfortable and is staying put! Here is a picture of Savanna. We went to the temple today in hopes that the Lord would bless us and put us into labor....nothing happening yet though!:-) So here is what we look like on our due date!

Baby Ultrasound

Here is our little Gaige

(or whatever his name will be).

He is due April 19th!

Our Wedding Day May 12, 2006

This is our wedding day so long ago.

Here is a picture on Savanna's Birthday with her niece Adylin....She was 7 months pregnant.