daddys little man

All dads have a special bond with their boy. mikes and blakes is no different, they both love superman, they both love to drive mommy crazy and they both love black socks. there is nothing sexier than a man in this underwear and black church socks! NOT!

baby lexi

lexi came to us on Jan. 17th 2008. the little booger was too stubborn to come 17 days before that so i could get a tax break! it was acually a great expirience ! birth is easy for me, pregnancy, not so much. i was a dummy with blake and waited to 7 cm to get an epidural so it didnt even work, so with lexi i was prepared, i told them to start those drugs before they started the pitocin...i didnt want to feel anything this time.and i didnt. it was great, i pushed her out in a mere 4 minutes! blake took a little longer...10 minutes. mike thought i couldnt improve that time! i showed him! he acually told me after blake was born that i just had to beat that time with the next kid. hes lucky he didnt get smacked! i looked at him and just said "i dont think you know what i just did," in a very drugged up voice, probably slurring my words. but that stuck with me, and i was determined to push this one out faster! and sure enough the first words out of mikes mouth were "great jobs only 4 minutes" not "oh we have a beautiful baby" or anything like that! just, you beat the record!

baby blake

blake was born on december 13th 2006. he was 6 and a half weeks early and weighed in at 5 pounds almost one ounce. he stayed in the NICU (neo natal intensive care unit) for 11 days and came home on christmas eve! he couldnt breath on his own he had jaundice and had to wear sweet sunglasses, and he couldnt eat on his own they had to tube feed him, so he dropped down to 4 lbs 8 oz which is still huge for a baby that sick and early. There arent words to describe the empty feeling you have when you have to go home without your baby. Ive never cried more or prayed more in my life. I spend everyday by his side in the NICU begging heavenly father to help our little boy. We brought him home a mere 11 days later (which is un heard of for a baby so early) on christmas eve.

pregnancies

First off let me say I HATE BEING PREGNANT!!!! but i love me some babies! As everyone knows i got really sick with both pregnancies! with blake, i gained alot of weight (about 80 pounds) because of pre eclampsia basically you gain a ton of water swell up, your blood pressure goes really high your organs shut down and you die if they dont deliver the baby. i never knew how sick i was until after i delivered Blake because the doctors and nurses are really good at staying calm! I also had hyperemisis, I vomited literally about every 3-4 minutes even if i just drank water, i lost a ton of weight until i got the ZOFRAN pump its a medicine pump that gets stuck in your leg and pumps ya full of medicine so ya dont barf! it is bless-ED! but very expensive unfortunatley.i also had a home therapy nurse doreen, with both pregnancies same nurse both times thankfully, she used to come once a week to change my IV site. my poor mommy had to stick the needle in my leg everyother day to chance the pump site! thanks Ma! and after a few and by a few i mean like 10 trips to the maternity ward ER with each pregnancy our babies were born!

Hawaii

we spent about 2 weeks in Hawaii on a few islands i dont know how many or what islands, it was a blur and kinda sucked because i was pregnant with blake and if your pregnant they dont let you sneeze out there. so we didnt get to do anything really fun ,but we did go to a luau and the food was great! we went to the temple and out to dinner alot and went snorkeling ! that was beautiful! probably my favorite part of the trip! but overall the plane ride was way too long, it was way too expensive, they dont have any dang mac n cheese on any of those stupid islands, and it looks just like florida so,... we can say weve gone but i dont think well go back for a very long time.

Wedding

We were Married march 3rd 2006 in the florida orlando temple. It was like the hottest day ever our pictures were grosse because i was all sweaty! it was beautiful though and my dress was amazing thank you mom. we found it on e bay for 100 bucks but it was a size 12 and ineeded a size 2 so my mom cut the skirt off and made a new top and stuck em together! it sounds alot easier than it was! but it was beautiful. my ring is georgeous! mike did a great job! he had great instructions though, i tld him i wanted the diamond that was shaped like a football so he could rember and not mess it up! the day was wonderful, the reception was great! our honey moon consisted of the fabulous penthouse suite at the ponte vedra inn and club for a few nights and a trip to savannah GA. mike hated savannah ! so we went to hawaii a month later.

How We Met

I went to institute (a church class) on tuesday night and Mike was greeting everyone at the door. we shook hands and i took my seat. I remember looking at him and thinking oh, hes cute, but i was there with someone else and had about 400 other boyfriends at the time(that may be a slight exaggeration but there were plenty in the works) and thought nothing of him. Then I showed up the next day to be a receptionist at a car dealership and he sold cars there. We became friends and were friends for 6 or 7 months before i texted him and said when are you gunna stop flirting with me and just ask meout? i got a text back saying work was not the place to discuss. and a few minutes later got another text that said dinner after work? Obviously i agreed to go, so there we sat at ruby tuesday and the first words we both said to eachother were " I dont want anything serious" ...well here we are married and 2 kids...but its not serious! haha!
The funny thing is before we started dating or even thinking of dating I used to tell him "were gunna get married and have cute little mormon babies" needless to say he thought i was crazy... and I am but I was right.