Johnny & Ivy's va-cay!!

I am absolutely DYING over these pics. Johnny and Ivy had a BLAST together on their cruise. I so wish I could have gone, but more than that, I wish that I could have been a fly on the wall!! They are too cute together, and have the cutest relationship. I definitely realize that there aren't too many guys who would take a toddler on a vacation without their wife... so for that I am grateful to my husband for being so kind to take her so that I could have a much needed break!! The pictures actually tell the story quite well! Thanks uncle for obeying my orders (which were to take at least 50 pictures.) well done. I was running late off to az, and packed ivy's bag but sort of forgot to tell johnny what peices of clothing went together, but kind of figured he would be able to tell. You can read my thoughts below each picture:)

All ready to go!!

Pretty sure this is the first thing they got when they walked onto the ship. Johnny said they had at least 5 a day! I am sure Ivy was in HEAVEN!


um must have thought the name was pretty funny?? besides that, they look pretty dang cute!

precious!

Apparently Johnny thought that Ivy was not only suppose to wear this green knit dress everyday, but also to formal night! hahaha i guess he missed her cute formal dress and her cute turquoise flats that I had packed.

attempting to keep her straggly hair out of her face. All ready for formal night! hahaha

Chillin with uncle!

These 2 peices were really not suppose to go together, but hey...he worked it out, he worked it out. At least the hat and pants were the right idea.

love this pic. Can we say Tom and Suri cruise! hahaha totally kiding.

I am guessing that Ivy didnt want her make-up to smear, and johnny did not want to get burnt??

At the Atlantis resort! I have wanted to go there for YEARS. Ever since the newlywed episode where Nick and Jess went there...Seriously still grieving over that divorce.

Oh HEY formal dress, there you are... paired with the creepy face painting! Seriously what are they doing in that kids club!? For heavens sake, she looks like marilyn manson or something. Apparently she was suppose to be a bunny!?? (thanks for clearing that up Kelley!) Oh and gotta love that pony tail! I love that he tried to do her hair!

Dont forget those sunglasses! For real!

Oh and here is beck and I on our lavish arizonian vacation. We had a lot of fun too... wish I had pictures to prove it:) We saw lots and lots of freinds, ate lots and lots of food, and took lots and lots of pictures:) the end.

COME SUPPORT THE FAUST FAMILY!!!

There is the neatest couple in our ward named AJ and Alissa Faust. AJ happens to be our home teacher, and is such an amazing person! On September 20, 2009, His parents, Damon and Barbara Faust of Mapleton, Utah, were hit by a man driving under the influence of illegal drugs. Damon died at the scene, and his wife was critically injured. Barbara was in intensive care for three weeks fighting for her life. Although she has returned home, she will need continued medical help and time to fully recover. The family has no health insurance and Damon's life insurance had expired just before the accident. This has left the family with mounting bills. Damon and Barbara have ten children; eight of them are still at home. The family is in great financial need as a result of the accident and loss of Damon and the sole income he provided. As a result, the community has coming together to help raise $ for the family. There is a fund raiser this Thursday for the Faust family. Dinner can be purchased, activities to keep the kids busy, entertainment, great auction items, connecting with friends and family and a tribute to Damon. February 18 UVU McKay Events Center. Dinner and silent auction 6-7PM, auction and entertainment 7PM on. To learn more about the event you can go here. Please spread the word to your family and friends that live in the area. Also, it would be great if you could post about it on your own blog or facebook!

AZ Photo shoots!

So really I was suppose to be going on a cruise to the Bahamas with the hubs this month, but the cruise line will not allow babies under 6 months. bummer. There is absolutely NO way I could ever leave my little becky beck home this young, so guess who is going in my place!? Ivy! Yup that's right, Ivy will get to see the Bahamas- somewhere I have always wanted to go, before me. Johnny is actually REALLY excited to take her. I think he might be a little bit crazy, but none the less I think they will have a GREAT time together. Anyway, while half of my little fam is cruisin away, I will be in AZ in a couple weeks hangin with the fam and doing some photo shoots! I already have a few lined up, but am willing to do a few more. If you have emailed me about sessions recently, and I have not gotten back to you, I will soon. promise. I have gotten SO behind on everything since having Beckham, but I think I have almost got this 2 kid thing under control! YAY! Anyway, email me if you have any questions or are interested in booking a session. I will be there the week of feb 22nd. And because every post needs something besides text, here is a video of a commercial my father-in-law and little sister-in-law did for a friend's company . I am not going to lie, i had tears in my eyes as I watched it, might have been due to the fact that I watched it right after I had the babe! haha! SO cheesy, but I thought they were perfect!!

honeybear...

Meet my niece Lyndi...aka "honeybear." Is she adorable or what!!? She is so expressive, and has the most smiley eyes ever. She is very good at expressing her feelings with her eyebrows too.. They are always moving:) she and beck are 5 months apart, and I am sure that they will be best buds.

It's true!

I am 2 months old,and getting SO big! I am 13 lbs which means I am in the 63rd percentile for my weight and I am 24.5 inches long which puts me in the 93rd percentile for my height. I am one big boy! I seriously wont stop growing. I am getting so chubby too. My mom loves that I am chubby bc apparently my sister was so scrawny. I started sleeping through the night at 7 weeks..my mom was so excited. But then, I must have hit a growth spurt because I no longer do that for her, I am back to every 3 hours! HAHA MOM, tricked ya! I am THE BEST baby though, I hardly cry, unless I have a legitimate reason to. Almost every single diaper my mom changes is poopy. I LOVE to poop. In fact, I poop up my whole back AT LEAST twice a day, no joke. My mom calls me "becky beck" and it bugs my dad. He does not like the "becky" part. He likes to call me Beck or the Beckster. As for Ivy, she is still callin me becky beck tootie. grrr! Anyway, that's a little bit about me at 2 months old:)

Beckham's blessing day

Sunday January 17th was our sweet little Beckham's blessing day. His daddy blessed him, and it was beautiful.He got to wear the same outfit that Johnny wore for his baby blessing...pretty special:) Thank you to all of our family and friends who participated in his special day. We are so grateful for this little guy and the joy that he brings our family everyday.

Duffin family pics!

the whole gang!
Still cannot believe we got this shot! And still looking for the culprit that put ivy's bow on the wrong side!!
So glad I caught these faces!!She was pretty proud that I let her hold her brother:)
Day after christmas we attemped some family pictures. Duffin family photoshoots= recipe for disaster! I am really suprised that we got a few keepers! Thanks Tiffany for coming last second and for dealing with our crazy fam:)You are awesome!!

december 09 in review..

my besties!
brighton and beckham..2 weeks apart:)

having a little too much fun taunting the ducks!


watching bowl games with daddy

um yes I was as tired as I LOOKED!

This holiday season FLEW by for us. The kids and I flew down to az a week before christmas so that johnny could focus on his finals, and so that I could have a little more help as I was making the transition with 2 kids. I was very anxious to get there so that I could start sleeping in..I was one TIRED mamma! Johnny came down after his finals...we were so happy to finally spend time together, and especially enjoy our little Beckham. We also enjoyed all of the christmas parties and all of the amazing food and company! Besides the fact that I got sick christmas eve, and christmas, we had a lovely time with all of our family in friends:) After christmas we drove over to california to spend time with the clark fam. We watched A Lot of football, played a lot of wii, ate a lot of food, and enjoyed the amazing weather! We loved all of our presents from both sides of our family...we got SPOILED for sure!!! I think I got THE WORST christmas pics EVER! Pretty sure I couldn't think straight at this point. We were definitely sad to leave all of our friends and family and head back to reality.

"becky-beck tootie"

"Becky-beck tootie is what sister Ivy calls her baby brother. I about died when she first started calling him that..but now it just makes me laugh! Now I am trying not to stress out about how much I have to catch up on. I have a gazillion pics that I want to post, but having a really hard time finding one spare second! I think it is safe to say that having 2 kids is a little bit harder than I thought it would be. I am LOVING it but definitely not getting the hang of things quite yet. So "little by little" is my life motto right now:) Beckham is 6 weeks old now and is HUGE! I m not kidding the kid gains a pound a week and changes every day. At his 2 weeks apt he weighed 8lbs 15 oz..gained almost 2 pounds from when we left the hospital, and was 22 inches long! Then 2 weeks later he weighed 11 lbs! He is definitely making his daddy proud:) He is just starting to flash his smiles at us, and let me tell you... he MELTS my HEART!!! He got his daddy's cutest dimples..they are to DIE for! I am completely obsessed with him to say the least. Johnny keeps asking me if I was obsessed with Ivy like I am with Beckham. HAHA! Of course I was:) These are just some random pics from Beckham's first couple weeks when he was still so sleepy.


In LOVE with this one!
I worked I worked hard for this shot!

fist time meeting brother

Merry Christmas!!

beckham's birth story...

My oh my...I cannot believe it has been 4 weeks. I have finally arrived to AZ and can finally take a breather! It has been so nice to be here and have help again... Ivy is also happy that she finally gets some attention back:) I am laying in bed sick today and just realized that I hadn't written anything down from the birth, and it scared me because I am already forgetting how everything went. So here it is as I remember.

11-22-09 I got a call around 8:00 p.m from the hospital to set up my induction. They told me that I needed to come in at 6:30 a.m to which I responded really!? You dont have anything a little later do ya!? The lady definetely put me in my place... and told me that was my time, and I wouldn't be able to be induced if I didnt come in then. Really I just did not want to get up that early considering that fact that in my mind it was going to be my LAST good night of sleep FOREVER! Johnny also had a couple classes in the morning that he didnt want to miss. I of course agreed to come in then, and johnny's dad agreed to attend his classes for him. I have never seen anyone SO excited to go attend college classes at BYU again..he was hilarious!

11-23-09 I got up at 5:00 due to miss Ivy wetting her bed! I gave her a bath, put her back to sleep in my bed, and took a shower. Then as I was sitting there in the bath, I get a call from the hospital telling me that they needed to bump me bc they had people come in over the night and didn't have a single room left. They told me to call back around noon to see if they had a room yet. So I tried to go back to sleep but of course ended up laying there for countless hours!

10:00 a.m. I got all my stuff packed and me my mom and my mother-in-law headed to walk the mall, in hopes that I could give my body a jump start on things.

12:00 called the hospital to see if they had room for me and they said that they were ready for me:)

12:30 p.m Headed for Timpinogis hospital for the big day!
1:30 p.m Was dilated to a 1.5 upon check- in and 70% effaced. got all hooked up with pitocin.
2:00 p.m. doctor broke my water (half way)
4:00 p.m dilated to a 3 and 80%

5:30 p.m doctor attempted to break my water again... def worked this time, I was Instantly in a LOT of pain, and decided I was ready for the "happydural."
5:45 anesthesiologist came in and gave me the epidural

6:00 my legs were numb but I could still feel all of the contractions in my stomach. NOT GOOD! I asked my nurse how long it was suppose to take and she told me that it works within 5 minutes for 98% of women. Great! It had been 15 for me, so my nurse called the anesthesiologist back in and he decided to dump more medicine in.

6:15 my legs were as dead as a door nail, but I could still feel everything in my stomach. Anesthesiologist came in again and dumped another dose of medicine.

6:45 finally moved to a 5

6:55 I started freaking out... I could still feel everything and the contractions were very intense. The medicine that he was adding was not helping at all. He came back in and told me that he was stummped. ( I did not like hearing those words coming out of him mouth!) Finally he decided to insert another one in, but before he did this he wanted to try and adjust it. He ended up pulling it out a little bit, and BAM! We were in business! He figured out that it was in a little too far. Needless to say I was finally a happy camper!

7:05 My nurse checked me, and I was a 7!

7:30 Got checked again and was a 10! I seriously could NOT believe how fast I moved once that epidural finally worked right. It was nuts! Dr Lamoureux came in a couple minutes later, and It was time to push!

7:37 p.m. After 5 easy pushes, our sweet little baby boy was born! He was flawless, I was instantly IN LOVE! He was the cutest thing I had ever seen:)

All in all, (besides the techical difficulties) I felt like my labor and delivery was a piece of cake! My doctor and nurse were amazing! I especially LOVED my nurse( not anymore than you kip:). She stayed in my room almost the whole time and had some pretty amazing techniques that helped me so much when that epidural wasn't working. I actually love being in labor and would do it everyday if I could! I love the rush, but more importantly seeing your beautiful creation for the first time is quite an amazing experience.


40 weeks on the dot!

here we go!

everyone who was present at the birth

johnny thinks its funny to take pictures of me when I am in pain

happy again!

Baby Beckham: 7 lbs 11 oz 21.5 inches long



johnny and the doc which they call "the midwife in a man's body" he was awesome!

my nurse