Family Pictures

We had some family pictures taken the other day. Here are a few of them (sorry L and L, I copied them from your page :) They turned out cute. Funny though, because I didn't listen to my mom very well. All I remembered was ice skating and where scarfs. I had no idea we were going to Heber to skate outside. It was like 20 degrees colder up there. Me, and my boys were all in short sleeves. We froze!! It was still fun.

I have raved about them before, but ELLE Photography is the best. To see more of their photos check out their web site. Also, if you are into American Idol, they took pictures of Megan Corkery's wedding.

First Born Tag

This is a perfect tag, since it is Beckham's FIRST birthday this week.

1. WAS YOUR FIRST PREGNANCY PLANNED? Yes

2. WERE YOU MARRIED AT THE TIME? Ya, we had been married for over 5 years

3. WHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS? Extremely happy, excited, and ready to throw up!

4. HOW OLD WERE YOU? 26

5. HOW DID YOU FIND OUT YOU WERE PREGNANT? I actually didn't think I was at first, we had been in Lake Powell and I broke my nose (thanks Wes), so I already didn't feel good. I also thought I had just had too much sun from being down there. The day after we got back I was so sick I couldn't get out of bed, and again thought it was just from the nose and vacation and sun. Finally after a few days of being sick I decided I better at least try a pregnancy test because if that wasn't it I was going to go to the doctor and find out what was wrong with me. Sure enough the pregnancy test went positive within about 2 seconds.

6. WHO DID YOU TELL FIRST? Russ, using a bib that said I LOVE MY DADDY. We were going to wait until the 4th of July to tell the rest of the family, but we can't wait for things like that. We went to the store that day and bought 4 bibs, two that said I LOVE MY GRANDMA and two that said I LOVE MY GRANDPA. Russ and I went to each of their work and gave them the little present. We also told our best friends Jenn and Brody that day as well.

7. DUE DATE? February 21, 2008

8. ACTUAL DATE BABY WAS BORN? February 13, 2008

9. DID YOU HAVE MORNING SICKNESS? Nausea everyday, all day for the first 6 MONTHS :( then about 3 or 4 times a week all day for the rest of the pregnancy. I was so sick seriously up until the day he was born. I actually started to think I was just sick and that it wasn't the pregnancy and after I had the baby I would still be sick. Thank goodness it really was just the pregnancy.

10. WHAT DID YOU CRAVE? Not much, but I started dipping everything in ranch

11. WHO/WHAT IRRITATED YOU THE MOST? I want to say one of my tough little students, but he didn't really irritate me, he just took all my energy and made me think I was not a good teacher cause I couldn't figure out how to help him. I cried a few times (during school) when I was so frustrated I didn't know what to do. Luckily, I did actually start to help the cute little guy and found that really all he needed was a little love.

12. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CHILD'S SEX? Male

13. DID YOU WISH YOU HAD THE OPPOSITE SEX OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING? No, I really wanted a boy first, but I actually thought it was going to be a girl. I had the name picked out, how I wanted her room, and even had dreams about a girl, so I was shocked when it was a boy.

14. HOW MANY POUNDS DID YOU GAIN THROUGHOUT THE PREGNANCY? Um, ya, I gained quite a few, it was something like 38 pounds. Luckily they all went away very fast!

15. DID YOU HAVE A BABY SHOWER? Yes, I had 5. Our little family is very loved!

16. WAS IT A SURPRISE OR DID YOU KNOW? I knew

17. DID YOU HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS DURING YOUR PREGNANCY? Yes! Too many! I had kidney stones. The first one was in October, I was about 22 weeks and I thought I was losing the baby. I was at Bunco at the time, and my friends rushed me to the hospital. We couldn't get Russ to answer his phone (he was asleep, since he worked at 3 am). Lyndsay had to get her husband to run over there and bang on the door to wake him. It was incredibly scary and horribly painful. It happened again about 5 weeks later. My doctor then found out I had low potassium and low blood platelets. Basically they thought my heart was going to stop or that I would hemorage and die when I delivered the baby, which is why he was born early.

18. WHERE DID YOU GIVE BIRTH? St. Marks Hospital

19. HOW MANY HOURS WERE YOU IN LABOR? Since they started me, I went into the hospital at 8 pm on the 12th, I started contractions on my own just before I got to the hospital. He was born after 5 the next day. What part they consider actual labor I don't know.

20. WHO DROVE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL? Russ

21. WHO WATCHED YOU GIVE BIRTH? Russ, my mom, and his mom. At first I just wanted it to be Russ and I, but then when they wanted my mom to leave I didn't want her too. There were some interns who were going to watch so I decided if they were my mother-in-law could to.

22. WAS IT NATURAL OR C-SECTION? Natural

23. DID YOU TAKE MEDICINE TO EASE THE PAIN? Definately! Bring on the drugs!

24. HOW MUCH DID YOUR CHILD WEIGH AND HOW TALL WERE THEY? 7 lbs 19 inches

25. WHEN WAS YOUR CHILD ACTUALLY BORN? 5:37 PM

26. WHAT DID YOU NAME HIM/HER? Beckham Brody Bayles

27. HOW OLD IS YOUR FIRST BORN TODAY? One year on the 13th! Crazy!

I tag all Mommies...

Beckham & Addy J.

Funny Story for you all!

Monday night a bunch of us girlies get together and have a scrapbook night, this week we had some of the little ones with us. We put Addy on the floor in the living room at my mom's house. She isn't crawling yet so she just hangs out with toys. B of coarse is all over the place. He went over to Addy and tried to play ball with her. (If you haven't seen him play ball you so have to! It is so cute, he throws really well for his age, and just loves to play catch with everybody). Well, he tried this with Addy, and she wouldn't take the ball. So he crawled around the couch, into the hall, pushed open the closet door, found a toy, crawled back to Addy and tried to give it to her. She still too young to grab something out of his hand, but he kept trying to give it to her, which ended up looking like he was hitting her. Each time he got closer and closer, and soon he was hitting her in the head with the toy (luckily it was a soft toy). His face was the best, he just had this big huge smile, like look Addy I got you a toy. And at the same time Addy was crying because she was getting hit in the head. We were laughing so hard! It was just so cute, I wish we would have had a video camera. Jenn and I just looked at each other and said this was only the beginning of, "Mom, Beckham pushed me," "Mom, Addy won't give me my ball back." Too funny!!

PERFECTION 13 - 0

On Friday Russ, Beckham and I went to support and cheer our UTES!! We went down to the Perfection Parade. It was so fun. There were tons and tons of people. Then on Saturday we went up before the basketball game to get a little red football signed by the players for B's room. We got there 2 hours early thinking that would be fine, um no. We should have got there a little earlier. We got a few signatures, not as many as we wanted cause it was so crowded, but the football looks good so that is all that matters. Then we watched our RUNNIN' UTES win their game against Colorado!

GO UTES!!


Beckham in his new BIG BOY car seat



Me and B



Daddy and Beckham playing ball before the parade



My cute Bug getting Sleepy



Of coarse Beckham falls asleep,
but it was just a quick nap


THE CROWD



THE PARADE
GO UTES!!

CRAZY TIME OF YEAR!

So I am pretty sure I am the last one to post about Christmas. I have been so busy lately. I am just going to do one big long post about the last month so I hope you all have a second to take a peak at it. It has been full of family, friends, traditions, fun, and UTES!

Beckham's first Basketball Game! We love our Runnin' Utes!Hanging with Brady waiting for the game to start



Grandma, don't kiss me at the game
How embarassing, my mom does it too



Beckham LOVED the game!



Di, Gordo, Grandma, Beckham, and Grandma



Such a long game for a little boy

Christmas Eve for us is just as busy as Christmas day. We start out going bowling. We have done this for as long as I can remember. This year our family has gotten even bigger, and I am pretty sure we will soon take up the entire bowling alley. We have 1 grandma, 10 aunts and uncles, 26 cousins (including spouses and others), and finally 13 great-grand children with 2 on the way. It is quite the party. After, my family goes to East Coast Subs for lunch. Then we run our last minute shopping, Russ getting mad at me the whole time cause I didn't get if finished. Then we spend the rest of the evening at Russ' extended family party. This year it was at Wes and Tami's house where we ate soup, played a gift exchange game and rock band. It was a great day.

Grandma and her babies



Aunt Jill and Beckham



The Boys (being very serious about their game)



Beckham bowling for the first time



And Beckham chasing his ball down



Lindsay and Brooklyn



This picture doesn't really even show how many of us there are now, but I tried



Grandma and her babies



The winner of the Gift Exchange goes to Jodi for making these wonderful, home-made,
one-of-a-kind Maxi Pad Slippers!
(with hidden $ inside)



Kylee modeling her new slippers

Grandpa and Beckham watching all the fun



Wes on the guitar



Russ on drums



Shannon and Kylee on vocals

The Night Before Christmas:
I already want to start traditions with Beckham, so after our very busy day we still came home and made cookies for Santa and used our Christmas plate. Then we read a Christmas story and then it was off to bed. This year my parents and Brady decided to come out and do Christmas with us. It was fun to have them there to see Beckham on his first Christmas.

Santa's Cookies



The cute plate my mom made for our family to use each year.




Beckham LOVES his nighttime stories!
He loves to point at all the pictures.

Beckham hugging Brady good night

CHRISTMAS MORNING!!
This was so fun with little B! I brought him downstairs and set him on the floor, it took him a second and he finally realized the little pile of toys on the floor. He loved them! It was so fun to see him playing with everything. What a fun morning. It was also really fun to have my mom, dad, and Brady there too.Finding his new toys from Santa



Practicing Baseball



Digging out presents from his stocking



Inside Beckham's Stocking

Utah Sports!
Basketball, Football, Soccer

Santa brought us all Sugar Bowl Shirts!
Here is Daddy's

Here is B's

Mine, it says GIVE ME SOME SUGAR

After our morning at home we have a busy day! It starts out by going to Russ's parents to see everyone. We have a pre-breakfast and open presents. Then we run to my Grandma's and have breakfast again and open presents with the extended family. Then off to my mom's to open presents and snack on food. Then we go to a movie every year. This year was a tough choice because there were so many options and it was hard for us to all agree. We ended up seeing Yes Man. It was pretty good, and not like Liar Liar (like I thought it would be). Then after the movie we finally head home to relax. Busy day, but I love it. I thought when I had kids I wouldn't want to do all the run around, I was wrong! It was fun to have Beckham do all the things we have always done, and to see everyone.

Mommy and Beckham

Beckham and Wes



Beckham and Brady

Beckham tuckered out after a busy (but fun) day.

Then we had a new addition to our family! Shannon gave birth to her daughter on December 28. She is absolutely beautiful and I love her to death already! It took them a few days to decide a name, but I love their decision.

Baby Hayden

For New Years Eve we decided to go the the UTE Basket-Ball Game. We played Gonzaga, it was a great game, we won at the buzzer. We should have beat them by a lot more, but decided to almost give them the game at the end, but we pulled through (which is good since we have lost a few games at the buzzer this year already). After we went to Wes and Shannon's to play Rock Band and hang out (ya know, since Shannon just had a baby like 3 days ago, they didn't want to go out so we went to them). It was a fun night.

Russ and B enjoying the game.



Beckham LOVES straws!
(Good thing there is nothing left in the drink)



Bestest Friends!

What else do I say but GO UTES!! What an awesome game. We had my family over to watch it. Russ is a huge Utah fan, but he also had a bet going with D. Williams from the Utah Jazz, and if Utes won, him and Brody would get signed jerseys. The boys got them yesterday. It was a great game!

Pre-Game Nap. Gotta be ready for the game!



Russ and I during half-time of the game.



B cheering on our UTES!

And finally, I received my diploma last night!! Masters of Education from the University of Utah! I also have to add, I received this with a 4.0! Not even one A- and I am very proud of that. It was a lot of work, and I am so glad it is behind me!