HIS SMILE!!!!

WE FINALLY GOT HIS SMILE ON CAMERA! 

He gets this cute smile every time he is done eating!  I LOVE IT!

WHO DO I LOOK LIKE?

WHO DO I LOOK LIKE?

TRY TO SEE WHO LOOKS THE MOST LIKE BABY GABE AND LET US KNOW!

NATE     DAYNA

*The only good pictures that nate and I have are 3 month old pictures, so even though Gabe is a week old in this picture still try to see who he looks like*

Gabe EXACTLY one week old

Gabe is exactly one week old!!!

At 9:55 friday morning we took this picture of baby gabe because he is a week old!  Wow that went fast!  Do you guys think he is bigger then the other pictures?

A NIGHT IN THE TOWN

After being cooped up in the house for over a week, I wanted to have the family go out on the town and just walk around the mall for a while..

Here is cute baby gabe all bundled up and ready to go!

Everyone was looking at us funny because we were taking pictures in the mall, but we wanted to document his first outing!

It was great to spend time just the 3 of us....too bad we didn't get a picture of nate pushing the stroller!  

baby gabe

Here are some fun pictures of baby gabe that we have taken over the past few days!  HE IS SO CUTE!  

BABY IS HERE!!!

GABRIEL NATHANIEL CHECKETTS

born jan. 2nd 2009

7 lbs 12 oz

20 inches

Christmas at the Cabin!

CHRISTMAS EVE WITH THE CHECKETTS

This was the first year since 2000 that all of the checketts were together!  It was such a great dinner to have everyone there and sharing fun stories about the year and about their childhood.

Here is the GORGEOUS christmas tree up here at the cabin!  It brings such a great mood up here.

Here nate and I are in our christmas PJ's that we get every christmas eve.  We are holding up the christmas PJ's that they bought for baby gabe when he comes.  HOW CUTE!

It is a tradition with Nate's family that we all get assigned our parts in the nativity scene and we take a couple of minutes to go and get our "costumes" with whatever we can find up here at the cabin. Then we come out to the barn singing "oh little town of bethlehem".  It is so much fun to see the costumes and also to say the script and sing some christmas songs.  It is a great christmas eve tradition!  (try to guess by their costumes who played what part.....animals are included in the script!)

After the nativity scene we really liven it up and push the ping pong tables aside and dance to some fun christmas music!  They got in this kick where they all tried to do an "eagle" and to see who does it the best.....I am going to be a little biased and say that the next picture is the best!

Here is nate!  I never even knew he had it in him!  AMAZING!

Here is abby tackling connor during the dancing!

Even though I was sitting on the sidelines trying to avoid having a christmas baby, he was still joining in the fun dancing inside my belly.

Here are the boys in their christmas PJ's.  This year they had a theme so they picked out their favorite soccer "kit" or jersey and some matching pants.  Look at their GQ!

Here are the girls lookin' all stylish.