A Different Life

Life has officially changed! I have learned how to function on less sleep than ever before. As tired as we both feel, it is amazing that this little guy means so much to us both, and we would not take it back.

This is a video from the hospital of Kyler snoring. You might have to turn up the volume, but you should be able to hear a little snore. He doesn't do it so much anymore. It was really cute!

Yes, we are a family of 3!! Crazy. For our first official family photo (where I look at least half alive, compared to the last one) he is almost looking at the camera.

All clean from his bath. The bath may have been traumatic, but you could never tell by this picture. I saved him from the horrible event so he is looking at me like his hero. That won't last for long! I'd like to think he knows who I am.

This is how he felt after he got circumcised. Well, actually this picture was taken a few days after he came home. He really isn't mad; he's just yawning.

This video clip is of Kyler waking up. He always growls and grunts when he is forced to do something he doesn't like i.e. getting dressed or undressed, having his diaper changed, not being able to eat quickly enough, being forced to wake up, etc. He does shriek like a girl sometimes too. It is pretty funny.

Kyler Dude Keys

Baby Keys is here!! Kyler arrived at 12:04am, Friday March 12, 2010 weighing 7lbs. 6oz and 20.5 inches long. He was much smaller than anyone expected. Kenney said about 4 weeks ago that he was going to come on March 12th. He was right!

I went to the hospital on Thursday morning and started the induction process. At 8:30pm the doctor broke my water expecting the baby to come between 5am-8am the next morning. Kyler decided to come a little sooner than that. Around 11:30pm I asked for something to help with the pain (aka epidural). No such luck. I did get some meds to help me relax and found out I was dilated to a 4. At 11:45pm I had a really horrible, no good, very bad contraction and wanted to push. The nurse came back and said she would check me again. Well, the nurse was surprised and called for the doctor because I was already a 10!! The doctor got there in 5 mins, thank goodness! He tried really hard to come before 12am, but I held off pushing because the doctor said it was only going to take one push to get him out. Well it took 2 pushes, so he came right after midnight on the 12th.

Everyone was impressed with his hair. It is long and thick. It actually looks like he has highlights too. All the nurses said that he has both of our hair mixed. Kenney's dark with light brown highlights. The lighter spots you see is actually hair!

We are both impressed that he is able to snore already. He snorts and sneezes all the time. Like his Aunt Shayla he will sneeze multiple times in a row. I think 5 is the highest so far!

I don't know why this video is so blurry, but this is our little guy! Yes he is adorable, we know!! Hopefully he will just keep getting more adorable. We decided that we both have better pictures on our phones. We'll have to work on that and getting them posted.

Belly Pictures

If you did not know we are going to have a baby!! Yea!! My due date is March 15th, two weeks from today! Everyone has been bugging me about belly pictures and these are the first ones we have taken with our camera. I guess I am a little camera shy, especially when every time I go to the doctor I find out I gain more weight! I have been measuring small according to the measurements of my stomach, but the ultrasound 2 weeks ago said the baby was a week ahead for size. Hopefully the next post will be pictures of the baby and not me! The top picture was taken yesterday and the middle picture was taken today.

This picture was taken by one of my co-workers about 4 weeks ago. She is an up and coming photographer and does an amazing job. She is going to take pictures of the baby after he is born. I am really excited for that! Her website is on the bottom of the picture. (I was pushing my belly out on this picture because everyone kept saying I was not big enough. Trust me I feel big!!)

Yellowstone

Kenney and I were able to go to Yellowstone National Park at the end of August. We were amazed at all of the unique landscapes and other cool features of the park. We went with the Davis's and some of their friends. Unfortunately, there was so much to see that we were not able to see everything, but had a great time anyways. Sharon Davis loves to see all of the old hotels and buildings in the park and wanted us to see them too, so we saw a lot of the architecture.

I was set on seeing a bear, a wolf, a buffalo and a moose while we were there. We saw all of them except for the moose; we saw an eagle instead so I was satisfied! We did not see the wolf up close, but it was definitely a wolf.

This video is of a traffic jam caused by a group of buffalo crossing the road. They had a bunch of cute babies with them!

This video is of the grizzly bear with her cub. Apparently it is not normal to see grizzly bears so we were all very excited. We filmed it through the car so it is not the best footage, but you can see the bears!

This is the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. It is a huge canyon with a gorgeous waterfall. We were actually able to go to a viewing area right on top of the falls.

Summer Living Conditions

I think we took saving money to a little bit of an extreme during this summer. We started off with a 5 bedroom house and 3 bathrooms. In May we were down to 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, and a kitchen/living room/dining room. We are really not messy people, but we had no space for anything. These pictures make us look like slobs; I promise we are not! We lived without a kitchen from May until September. I am still not quite sure what we ate or how we survived. Our 'kitchen' included a microwave, toaster oven, and George Foreman Grill. We had a bathroom sink, but it did not have cold water so the water softener made the water salty. Lets just say it was a LONG summer.

One morning I woke up and had to use the bathroom really bad (I was about 8 weeks pregnant). I went into the bathroom to find some guy standing on a latter outside the bathroom window scraping paint off the window seal. I ran back into bed before he saw me, but they continued around the room. When they were above our heads, they began singing. The video is of them after they were behind the curtains.