Saturday, September 1, 2012

Baby Call!

I have exciting news! Kory and I are FINALLY parents!!!! It feels like it has been the longest road and still feels a little surreal. There is a lot of writing ahead-you can skip it if you want and just look at pictures but I want to have it all written down.

For a quick background story in March we went to a conference with LDSFS and it was the most depressing night! They spoke about how fewer and fewer girls were even coming in to talk to them and more and more families were signing up with LDSFS. AAAHHH! We left that night sooo depressed! We had talked about adding another agency on when we hit our year mark with LDSFS and decided maybe we should start a little earlier. We started with Premier Adoption in May and it has been an awesome experience since day 1. We were told about this baby on July 18th and he was due September 2nd!

August 27th at 5:20 I got the call that she was in labor and we needed to head to Las Vegas where he was being born. I was still at work so I told the doctor I was leaving and he would have to handle it on his own and was out the door. He seemed a little bugged. :-) Especially since I turned my back on him and answered the call while he was giving me instructions for a patient. :-) I had to drive all the way back to Logan to get Kory and then we were off! We got to the hospital at 1:15 am and he had been born at 12:52. We technically weren't allowed to see him yet because we didn't have any rights but with a little cajoling to the nurse she let us come meet him for 10 minutes. It was instant love!!!

We were able to get visitation rights first thing the next morning. Due to Nevada state laws the birth mom could not sign over her rights for 72 hours so he had to stay in the hospital for 72 hours. We moved into the hospital room. The nurses were great! They totally let us take over his care, I think since he didn't really need to be there they were more than happy to not have to worry about him too much besides weighing all his diapers and getting his temp a few times a day.

Friday morning the birth mom signed over all of her rights and we signed to have all rights. It was an amazing feeling!!! The doctor didn't discharge us till 4:30 that afternoon, it was torture! We moved in to a Best Western across town and will be here until this next Thursday at the earliest. We have to wait for the State of Nevada and the State of Utah to communicate and allow us to cross state lines. It seems like a long time but I have heard of states that are 30 days so I guess we won't complain. :-)

In case you are still with me...enjoy the pictures of the most adorable little boy!!!! Boston Richard Call. Born at 7 lbs 4 oz, 18 inches long. In no particular order:

The first day we were there Kory started freaking out that Boston was getting really hot! He was so worried he was getting a fever! He wasn't getting a fever...Ha Ha Ha!
Not even 24 hours old yet!


The made me leave the hospital in a wheelchair! I assured them I didn't need that but they insisted. I will admit I felt pretty important. ;-)

Baby Boston in his temporary bed!
Our first family pic!
Um, just because that is adorable!!!



Daddy and Baby Boston. He looks soooo tiny when Kory holds him!
Our first temporary digs.


Cute hat!

Adorable sneeze! He always sneezes 3 times so I had time to grab the camera!


How cute!!!
I just adore this little boy!





I was lucky to catch this one! He smiles ALOT when he is asleep but he usually knows when I am trying to catch it.

He doesn't love the seat too much. :-)
Kory's fist hair styling. Adorable!!! No, I am not choking him! He rested his chin on my hand when I was about to burp him.


We are sooo in love with this little guy! He has changed our world for the better! He has the most adorable little personality and is sooo easygoing.






Tuesday, March 20, 2012

My Husband the MAN!

Kory has been busy! He is always looking for a project and with his shed he built he has been saving and buying tools so he can keep building/fixing things. His first big one this year was to redo our bed in our spare bedroom. This was the bed I have had since I was 13 and was a girly, frilly daybed with a trundle. He hated it. He has been wanting to build a new frame for it for quite awhile now and finally set about doing it. I love it! The side part lifts up and the trundle pulls out, pushed together it makes a king bed for our visitors. It has really made the room look much better. He also took an cheap mirror I had and made a chunky frame for it to go on the wall. Also love this! But wait, I'm not done yet. He finished my favorite project just last night. A couple of weeks ago we were wandering D.I. and found a headboard set for $20, we had been discussing getting a less bulky headboard and couldn't pass up the offer. The only problem with this was in getting rid of our old headboard we took away any semblance of a nightstand that we had. I set off to find us some nightstands. I searched every store I could possibly think of buying one. For a cheap one I could get them for $90 a peice, for one that I really liked it was around $200 a peice. Grrr. That wasn't going to work, so I asked Kory if he thought he could build us some. He totally came through! Before the paint!

Finished painting!
In place. Oh, we also got our lamps at D.I. I am probably going to write a poem about D.I. soon. So many treasures we find there.
Finished product!!! I LOVE them!!! They look so good and are better than the ones we were finding at stores. I can't get over my excitement about them!

I am soo happy I married such a talented man. I Love you Kory!!!

Sunday, March 18, 2012

The Big DL!

WARNING: Many Pictures Ahead. I couldn't edit!

Thats right people, Disneyland. We got the opportunity to go to Disneyland a couple weeks ago with Kory's parents and younger sister Karli. Aaahhhh, I love Disneyland. What a happy place. Kory's parents and sister had not been there so it was extra exciting to be able to share the excitement with them. We ended up leaving Sunday night and driving all night to get there. Our plans were to spend the first day in Hollywood and L.A. settle in and relax and then get right down to 4 fun packed days at Disneyland.

L.A. was CRAZY! I am pretty sure it is always crazy but whew! Let's just say we were lost more than found. We stopped in Hollywood first to see the hand and footprints and the Kodak theater. It just happened to be the day after one of the award shows so their was red carpets and security everywhere!
I happen to love Doris Day! Classic!

After a trip to the farmers market and the stress of the busy streets we decided to find the L.A. temple and take a walk around. It was magnificent! And the people there were nice!
We got to Anaheim earlier than expected and had some time to kill, Kory's dad insisted to all of our whining we take a trip to Newport beach and look around. It was totally worth it and fun. Not the best picture but I love the sky behind him, that really is Kory in the picture!
The rest of the week was DISNEYLAND!!!!! It was so much fun! We had a couple days of walk ons and two busier days. We mistakenly bought our tickets over Leap Day. It was insane that day, we were literally waddling everywhere we went. I think every local was there! We still made the best of it though we did not stay for the all night event. By the time World of Color got over in California Adventure and we exited to enter Disneyland for a few more rides the lines to get in were so backed up we gave up. We met Pooh Bear, and Tigger too. And...wait for it, you WILL be jealous...Thats the REAL Aladdin people! I know, crazy. Jasmine should be worried he totally had a thing for Karli.Kory with his favorite characters. Unfortunately we didn't have any little kids to disguise Kory's picture as theirs so alas, he waited in line with a bunch of little boys. Ha Ha Ha. It may have been forced by his wife.
The true terror of Hollywood Tower of Terror. I cannot say this is my favorite ride but it was definitely in the top of the lists for Kory and Karli, much to the chagrin of Kory's dad and myself. Toonland was a bit crazy, Kory was stuck by poisonous material, I just barely broke out of jail and Karli crashed into Goofy's mailbox! And for the finale.........We are kissing on a bridge with hearts! Can you get more romantic? Yes, that lady in the background kind of crushed the moment, oh well. We still got cheers from a bunch of teenage girls. :-) This picture was also slightly forced by the wife. We have been home a couple weeks now and I miss it! What a magical place! Until next time Disneyland!

Sunday, February 26, 2012

The "Cabin"

I didn't know if it was going to happen! I thought my resolution might be lost, but I managed to squeeze some time in to blog.

For Presidents day Kory's parents used their grand connections and let us know they got a cabin for us to stay in for the weekend. I have never stayed in a cabin but always thought it sounded fun. The cabin was in Victor Idaho and we were hoping for a little snow. All of our expectations were blown out of the water when we pulled up to this:


A Mansion! Okay, it might not technically be considered a mansion but it was bigger than any house I had ever stayed in and was similar to the humongous houses we see on our parade of home tours. The place was huge. And it had a theater. Oh. And a hot tub. None of my imaginings of a cabin stay included a theater and a hot tub!
Our room for the duration of the stay!

Count them people- 7 shower heads! 7! (sorry its sideways)
The kitchen.
We did manage to leave the cabin to play in the snow too. There was easily 4 feet of snow already and it snowed almost the whole time we were there. We found a good sledding hill and had some fun there.
Kory and his dad braving the hill together.

The results of their bravery....yeah.
This was one of the only pictures of me! I'm sure if you zoomed in there would be terror in my eyes!

Kory's sister Krystal and her husband Shane could be described as...athletic and adventurous? That is putting it lightly. We were so lucky they decided to bring their snow shoes. That's something else I've always wanted to try. Kory and Shane took off up the hill to try them for awhile while the rest of us explored and had a snowball fight. It was so cool to try the snowshoes! I was walking on top of snow where a little bit before Kory's parents had been trudging through up to their waists! It was so cool.

It was such a fun weekend! I still don't feel like I really know what it would be like to stay in a cabin but we definitely had a blast. Thanks Mom and Dad Call!!!

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Goodbye 2011!

WHOA! We have been bad, bad people!!! I did not realize it had been 4 1/2 months since I last updated!! That is awful! I was flipping through the pictures on our camera and thought I should at least give you a quick run down of things I managed to get pictures of in the last 4 1/2 months!! I am including some pictures that some of you may think "Why would someone put that picture on their blog?!?" It is for history people!!! I have decided to publish my blog into a memory book type thing and I need the history!!!!
AUGUST
I know our last update was the end of August but I found this picture on our camera that I never got around to blogging about and thought I should throw it on.
The reason I look so bedraggled is because I did end up flipping my kayak at one point on our second time down the river. Note to everyone, you cannot kayak perpendicular to the current!!

SEPTEMBER
We had the fun opportunity to have Kory's sister Kami and her family come visit us for a weekend. It is always a blast when we get to see them. Unfortunately I only came out with 1 picture from the experience but it was too good to pass up.
Ha. Ha. I am pretty sure Stephen did not need help changing Maycee's diaper but Kory cannot pass up any opportunity to be involved in anything kid or baby related.Kory also decided he had had it with our back lawn, sigh. He tore up the whole back yard and replanted it, the quality of the grass just wasn't where he wanted to see it at. sigh.It was also the parade of homes in Logan, we LOVE the parade of homes. This is just one of many pictures I grabbed at the parade. A must in the house we one day build? A cozy fireplace to snuggle up by and read a good book.
OCTOBER
For being my favorite month of the year I didn't get many pictures. We went to corn mazes, carved pumpkins, helped at Harvest for a week, semi dressed up for Halloween and nada! No pictures of any of it!One highlight of the month involved BYU beating the Aggies in football. Ha! I made sure Kory didn't hear the end of it. :-) This was hanging up when Kory got home from work. :-)We also got to babysit our niece and nephew for a day and I dragged them to the pumpkin walk.

NOVEMBER
Kory got us tickets to an Aggie basketball game through work. It was a lot a fun.I have had secret desires my whole life of being a gymnast or a cheerleader so I went a bit wild with the camera at half time.

It was also our 4 year anniversary!! Kory kept trying to take a backseat the the planning so I gladly took control. That means our 4 year mark was celebrated with a hilarious play in Salt Lake, Legally Brunette. A day FULL of shopping!!! And dinner at The Garden at temple square.We even got to sit right next to the window with a gorgeous view!!! It was a great day but for the big 5 I am expecting great plans from Kory!!! (hint, hint)I love you sweetie! It has been a great 4 years!

DECEMBER
Ahhhhh what a happy month! I decorated our house to the nines and didn't get one picture of it! We tried to keep the Christmas spirit high this whole month, visited Temple square twice, got rear ended twice and again, nada!!! If you want excuses it is because we lost our camera charger for the month of December. We were able to find it and get it charged just in time for my battle wounds.6 stitches baby! I love having battle wounds and feeling like a warrior. (I do not enjoy getting them, however.)(Also, don't go asking what this is from, cuz I'm not sharing. It totally takes away from the warrior part of the story!)

And my one picture from Christmas. We decided to play a trick on Kory's mom this year. We bought her some sexy lingerie and snuck it into her stocking. Kory's dad is solely responsible for the stocking. It was hilarious to watch her pull it out, realize what it was and try to hide it while shooting her husband dirty, dirty looks. He responded by putting his hands up in the air while backing up to the wall, shaking his head over and over and saying, "It wasn't me! It wasn't me!" Both of them were so bright red! Ha Ha Ha! We would have gotten away with it too! Everyone was blaming Kory's sister Krystal but I just couldn't stop laughing. Ha Ha Ha! Priceless!

That about sums up our year of 2011. I can't say I am sorry to see it go! It was definitely a year of highs and lows. Kory and I sat down and made some awesome new years resolutions for 2012, it is going to be a GREAT year! You will be happy to know I plan on blogging at least once a month in 2012. (I know what you are all thinking! But look at my track record! That is a good goal for me.) Here's to an awesome year!