All Because Two People Fell In Love

All Because Two People Fell In Love

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Kingston has been a picky eater since we introduced solids; however, we just found the trick. He's decided that if he's at the counter like a big boy then he'll eat whatever Daddy eats.
As you can see, he also thinks it's funny to feed Daddy. Daddy got so sick of peach yogurt after this meal.

Saturday, December 22, 2012

This year Kingston and Maycie were a little hesitant when it came to sitting on Santa's lap. Kingston's arms were outstretched for Mom the entire time.
However, not long after Santa gave Kingston a cool book, he decided Santa wasn't all that bad.

Friday, December 21, 2012

As you can imagine, it's hard for us to find a babysitter who can handle our two little ones at the same time. Because of that, we decided to invite our friends over to our house for a Christmas party. We had taco soup and broccoli cheese soup in bread bowls along with the typical salad bar for dinner. After dinner, we played white elephant with the whole group; as you can see from the picture, it got a little silly. Some of the favorite gifts were: a toilet bowl mug with an unwrapped Snickers bar inside, TV trays with cat pictures on them, a Sponge-Bob Chia Pet, a 4-pack of Ninja Turtle movies, and pajama bottoms that have a funny message. We're so grateful for the friends that we have in our lives and for the funny moments we're able to share with them.

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Jess and I have always loved going to see the lights at temple square. We thought that it would be fun to go as a family with our two kids this year; we were wrong. They liked the lights for about 5 minutes and then were ready for a warm bath. To take a break we decided to go inside and see the statue of Christ while we got warm.
It was so much fun to see Kingston give his full attention to the presentation of the Christ statue; he literally just stared at it the entire time. After the presentation, we decided to go watch the family presentation. In the third section of the theater, Kingston started crying and put his head down on Jess' lap. As he lifted his head back up, the wonderful french fries and oranges he had for dinner also came back up. The poor sister missionaries, that tried so hard to get us to come watch the video, had no idea what to do. I quickly picked up Kingston, grabbed a trash can, and ran with his face in the trash can to the nearest bathroom.... 2 floors and about 200 feet away. You can imagine the awkward looks we were getting as we walked out and back to our car with a little boy wrapped in a pink blanket with no shoes or socks on, along with a giant clear trashbag with all of our messy coats in it. Needless to say, we'll make sure to never have french fries again before going to see the lights.

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Our little Maycie Lou is 4 months old! She's starting to get so chunky! We love each and every new roll that pops up every day. She has recently received the nickname from Mom and Dad of "Angel Baby". She literally is such a good little girl; she is independent when we need her to be, plays games with us when we want her to, and sleeps like an angel. We couldn't have asked for a better baby and are so grateful that we get to be her parents and watch her grow.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Our little Lou Lou is turning out to be a little chunky monkey. She's now 3 months and we love looking at her little squishy belly. I thought she would be able to wear this sweatshirt one more time before it didn't fit... after this picture, I decided it needed to be retired immediately.

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Today our sweet little girl is 8 days old...over a week! Its incredible how quick time flies with two little ones around the house. I finally found enough time to get Kingston down for a nap long enough to do Maycie's newborn pictures.
She was so great to work with. She was asleep for most of the time but still would not mold or be cuddly; I guess we're already seeing a little glimpse into the future of how she's going to be for us.
She's a little orange in these photos because of her jondis but I wanted to keep it that way because thats who she is.
After an hour of shooting, I decided I was done and got the pictures I wanted; not in time to get a diaper back on though. I was lucky enough to have to catch the excess liquid that fell through the blanket she was in... Poor girl tried so hard to hold it in.

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Kingston sure missed Mommy and Daddy when they weren't there when he woke up in the morning. He was so excited to see Mommy that he didn't even care that I was in a hospital bed. He was also excited to see his new sister... for about 10 seconds.
We love Davis hopistal. Especially because they give us a candlelight dinner the night that I deliver. This will probably be our last dinner alone for about.... forever.
As tired as I was, it was really nice to take our first family picture together as a family of four. Plus, the odds are even now. :) Two boys and two girls; no more out-voting Mommy. ;)
Getting ready to leave the hospital I actually felt great. However, they don't let you leave unless someone takes you out in a wheelchair, and I definitely wasn't opposed to this.
Loading into the car seeing the two carseats together for the first time was sure a shock. It'll be so nice to get home and start our lives together with our two kids.

Monday, August 6, 2012

She's here! Maycie Marie Curtis was born at 12:16pm on August 6, 2012. She weighs 7 pounds 2 ouces and is 20 inches long. She is the same length and only 1 ounce less than her brother when he was born. We're so excited to have her in our family.
I was so excited that she was actually sucking and understood the concept of the binkie and nursing. It is going to be so great to have a baby that takes a binkie to be soothed. As you can see on my face, its a whole new experience for me.
Daddy sure loves his new little angel. He didn't leave her side the entire time we were in the hospital. Even when they had to take her to do certain tests, he would be the one to wheel her down to the nursery. I can see a very good friendship in the future between these two.
How precious. She is such a little sweetheart. All of the ladies in the nursery say they love when its her turn to be held because she just sits and stares at you and has been so happy to work with. Lets hope this sticks. ;)
This is the first time Daddy held both of our two little babies at the same time. You can see Kingston is a little unsure. I can see strong arms in our future.
Today's the day!!! I'm offically 39 weeks and 5 days pregnant. Wow, when you put it in weeks, it seems like a lifetime. Last night I was very nervous about going in to be induced; its hard to know that in x amount of hours, I would be in the most pain I probably will be in my life. With that said, I couldn't be more excited for the arrival of my daughter!
As you can see, we were both a little nervous and tired. We had to be to the hospital at 7:00am so being tired, and anxious, Jess was so out of it that he put his sweatshirt on backwards. I loved it because it was the last laugh I would have before a few hours of labor.
Because I was suppose to be induced, they put me on patosin to get me started. However, on the way to the hospital I had told Jess that my stomach hurt; little did I know it was because my body had already gone into labor. Within about 15 minutes they took me off the patosin to let my body continue laboring on its own. Jess and I laughed together and but the pain was starting to get unbearable. So when a contraction came along, I closed everyone out and just held my breath through it. As the pain progressed, the anesthesiologist gave me the epidural, but one side of my body wouldn't take to it. After 30 minutes he gave me a second epidural. The second one still didn't work so all of the pain from the contractions were focused on my left side. The third and final try for an epidural finally took and I was able to stop the tears and laugh a little. Dr. Farley had a completely full day of appointments and asked me to wait until his lunch time at 1:00. That didn't happen. 11:45 came around and my body wanted to push. He rushed over and barely made it in time. During push number 2 Grandma Karen ran in the room and I was so relieved to have my Mom there. Maycie Lou came right out on push number 3, healthy and happy.

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Kingston's First Egg Dye

As a tradition, every year we dye eggs and take them to Logan and roll them down the hill. This was Kingston's first time doing this and he absolutely loved dying the eggs. He didn't quite understand why we couldn't eat them, so there were a few tears shed when Mommy and Daddy kept taking the eggs away before he could eat them.