Benjamin Buttons

For those of you who do not know me two of my most favorite things in this world are babies and old people, and now I'm the luckiest girl in the world because my baby looks like a little old man--LOVE IT!!. It so ardorable he was really tiny when he was born so none of his pants fit him so we had them up to his boobs like an old gramps, and he hasn't learned to sit up yet so he's always hunched over, and he has the cutest little bald spot on the back of his head, and now that he has learned to smile he just melts my heart with his toothless grin--again like an adorable old man. I love you my BENJAMIN BUTTONS

Happy New YEAR!!!!

Happy New Year!!!! (ten days late). It's kinda funny looking back when my hubby and I were first married we partied all night long celebrating with millions at Block Parties, with bands, fireworks, the works, and now ten years down the road, and four kids later our party animal has been tamed, and our new years celebrating is well pretty much lame. I did convince my darling husband to stay up all night with me to ring in the new year--poor guy forgot it was new years eve and was busting his butt all day working on heavy mechanical equipment. Of course Ben my little night owl was wide awake and ready to party. So as a new year begins I find myself thinking what the heck happen to the time where did it all go? SO here is a brief recap of 2010 from my ever fading memory

COUNT DOWN TO 2011

January 2010--new years day partying at Stillman McCormick Railroad

January 27th, My Birthday--only the best day of the year, can't remember what I did, but still the best day ever.

February 14--the day of love- flowers, candies, chocolates, and love.

March 10--My hubby and I celebrated 9 years of blissful marriage together and instead of Disneyland with our girls we opted for a week long get away with no kids and we brought back a different kind of souvenir.

April 2- My Darling Kylee turns 7

EASTER YUMM

SUMMER TIME--zoo trips, shopping, movies, camping, fishing, swimming, sunsplash, aquariums, trips, and FUN FUN FUN!

JUNE 23--Kiora turned 9 YIKES I'M GETTING OLD.

We Found out we are having a BOY.....YEAH.... best day of the year for Tim

August MOVING FOR THE 13+ TIME--, my little girl turn 3.

New school, new town, new lives..

October--girls concert and Halloween, carnivals, candy and creepy things. I was barefoot and pregnant.

November 11--My second favorite day of the year, the day the most amazing, sexy, wonderful man in the world was born and grew up to spoil me rotten for the rest of my days. Happy Birthday Sparky.

THANKSGIVING--wow too much to be thankful for to list all here.

November 27--the day we've all been waiting for my little Benjamin was born to bless our lives.

CHRISTMAS, and here we are 2011.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!!

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Baby Ben's first Christmas

I know Ben is only a month old but I thought it would be fun to wrap and buy presents for him anyways and from the pictures you can clearly see how excited he was.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

Christmas Party at the Jewels.

We all got together at my sister-in-laws to open gifts and visit with aunt Kim from California and my Neice Ashley came home from BYU. I love family especially the inlaws and it was good to see my little neice all grown up and having a blast in college. I remember when my husband and I were just dating umm like 13 years ago I always like to take his adorable neice with us, now she's all grown and such a beautiful young woman--Love you Ashley oh and she's quite the photographer. These memories are brought to you by her enjoy:

Ben's Trip To The ZOO.

--The Ladies

--our every expanding family* photo by Alina my neice

--what a handsome little monkey

There's Music in the Air

My little Mozarts had their Christmas performance and play. The play "Christmas at the OK Corral" was super adorable and Kiora was one of the narrators and both girls did great. Then after the play they changed clothes and had there very first violin concert. Kiora's teacher spotlighted her in the middle of the performance telling the audience how amazing she was and that she had just started two months ago and was already in the advanced class--all that hard work and practice has paid off and I'm so proud of my girls!

How did Ben like the performance? He slept through the whole thing, I guess that is to be expected of a 10 day old baby.

Something In The Turkey

Our Thanksgiving was delicious, so good in fact it put me into labor--yep we had our own little turkey Saturday afternoon at 1:29 pm. I went to the doctor on Wednesday and told her I was chickening out of the whole c-section idea and that if I went into labor before Dec 2, I wanted to try to have the baby without surgery. I was feeling some contractions on and off for several weeks, but Saturday around midnight they became very intense and were coming every two minutes.

I didn't want to wake up my husband so I took a bath and tried to deal with the pain as long as possible, and by 4 I was more than ready to go to the hospital. We arrived at the hospital around 5 a.m., and I was checked and an IV was put in and the nurse called my Doctor. After the Nurse left Tim looked at me said kinda puzzled "umm so I guess we are staying" awe I love this guy. The first thing I asked for of course was if they had wi-fi, then for an epidural lol.

We hadn't really picked out a name yet so we spent a few hours going over names. I actually knew my nurse so I was excited and of course got spoiled. I worked with her in the hospital on Med-surg before I moved to Phoenix. Dr. R came in a few times and we went over my previous labors of 36 hours, and all my complications, and we talked about having a low threshold for a C-section, and then she had to go check on a few other patients--there must have been something in the turkey because the hospital was over flowing with women in labor, and they didn't have enough rooms for everyone, but I luckily got the last recovery room.

My parents came in to talk to me and to get my poor starving husband some food. I felt a lot of pressure and had the nurse call my doctor, and she came in just in time for me to push. Three contractions and our handsome little man was here 6 lbs 11 oz --13 hours of labor, record time for me, and absolutely no complications.

My recovery was not so great. . . The next day I was able to take my little man home. Tim told me he felt like he was busting me out of prison because usually I'm in the hospital for at least 4 or 5 days--I think part of the reason I was able to go home so soon was because they needed the room.

We had named him Darius Vaughn--I was on drugs when I chose that name and after getting to know our little man I knew he was a Benjamin, and he's just perfect!!!!!