the story of sophie

ok. so lots of info, then pictures :)

after our nice little experience with mason almost being to big for me to deliver, we talked to the doctor and decided to induce at 39 weeks and 3 days. tuesday night, mason slept over at his grandma's house and at 4 am, curtis and i headed to the hospital hoping for the best. i was still only dilated to a 1 so around 4:30 i got my first dose of cytotec. 3 hours later i was supposed to receive my 2nd dose but since i had dilated to a 3 they decided to start the pitocin instead. after that the contractions started coming, nothing too painful, just enough to let me know something was happening. the nurses were saying that i could get my epidural soon and they would have to break my water. soon after they left the room, my water broke! it was just a little trickle and when the nurses looked they didnt really see anything so they decided to run a test to make sure it really was my water that broke. the test came back iffy. awesome. i was making myself look like i didnt know what i was talking about. one of the nurses decided to check me and the flood gates opened! my water had definitely broke and i was to a 4 which meant i could get an epidural. unfortunately the anesthesiologist was with a patient, and still had one more to do before me. 15 minute wait? i can do it. or so i thought :) my contractions started coming really hard and i regretted not getting pain killers through the iv. just when i thought i couldnt do it anymore, in he walked. what a relief! after i got my epidural, the nurse came back in to put in my catheter. she decided to check me while she was down there and i had dilated to a 7. yay! things were moving! we called my mom to let her know where we were to and told her it might be a good idea to start thinking about taking mason over to our friends house so she could come down to the hospital. not even a half hour later i told the nurse i was starting to feel pressure. she checked, and sure enough it was time! the doctor arrived and 5 pushes later, sophie was here!! my mom didnt even make it in time :) 8 hours in the delivery room was much better than the 16 it took with mason and 6 pounds was much easier than almost 8 pounds! she is beautiful! she looks more like me, mason looks more like his dad. she has blonde hair and super long toes and fingers. she is so perfect :)

now for pictures.

i had to post this picture. the look on my face is pretty funny :) it looks almost like terror...like "oh my gosh. what did i get myself into?!"

ok so this shows a little skin but its one of my favorites6 pounds 8 ounces 19 inches long

already a daddy's girl. she recognized his voice right away!

mason absolutely loves his sister! he calls her sweetie and cutie and cant stay away from her! sometimes he is a little too much help :)

sophie and her grandma colleen

aunt camille

welcome to our family sophie girl!

the real world

curtis just graduated from southern utah university with his bachelors degree in business management...WAHOO!!! the past 3 years have been so hard and its nice to know it is finally over! no more curtis working 13 hour shifts at night, getting 2 hours of sleep, off to school, then right back to work again. the days of only seeing each other for 10 minutes have definitely paid off! for all of you going through this right now, hang in there!! i promise its worth it :)

the school of business ceremony was short and sweet...exactly what every graduation should be! it made me so proud of curtis! he worked so hard and i just couldnt help but get teary eyed every time i looked at him :) after the ceremony we relieved my sister of babysitting duty and had a bbq with family and friends at our house. curtis and i both have our degrees now it was a great way to end this chapter of our lives!

curtis and his grandpa and grandma barnumwith curtis' parentsand curtis' grandma and grandpa sullivanmason and his new cousin jaxtonwith a degree like this, we knew we would eventually end up moving away from cedar but the idea of leaving hasnt gotten any easier over the years. at first we thought after he got his bachelors, we would stay and he could get his masters degree. that was before life handed us a job offer.

the company curtis currently works for is closing the plant here in cedar on june 3oth, and opening a bigger one in texas. curtis was told he had a job, they just didnt know if he would be put in at one of the other exsisting plants, or become an employee at the new plant in dallas. at first we thought it would be virginia or texas, but plans soon changed (again) and our options were either california or texas. the first week of may curtis went to the plant in california. he really loves the people who work down there and had a good experience job shadowing and learning as much as he could in 2 days. the next week he was off to texas. we were told that after texas we would have a week to make a decision but curtis called me from dallas and said he had to make a choice asap. WHAT! not fair at all! over the past few weeks of going over it, we both felt like texas was where we need to be. we would have loved to move to california but now that we have a family to add to the mix, texas was the better choice. with that in mind curtis went ahead and signed the offer. he will be getting great pay, a huge signing bonus, and a great opportunity to continue to move up in the company and thanks to texas' economy, we will actually be able to afford to live there! (sorry cali...your just too expensive!!). we feel really great about moving there, the only downside is its a 20 hour drive from cedar :(

it looks as though we will be moving in july which seems like no time at all. i havent even been down there to see the area yet! dang baby ;) hopefully she will get here soon and i can get down there to start looking for somewhere to live. we have been doing a ton of research, talked to some real estate agents, talked to the bishop in that area and curtis has spent about 6 hours driving around looking at neighborhoods...deciding where to live in a huge metropolitan area is hard! never in my wildest dreams did i think about living in a big area so far away from family! its going to be tough, so, so tough, but i know this is the right thing and as long as i have my curtis i can do it...i hope so anyway :) and dont be surprised if over the next year you see an amazingly crazy and distressed side of me! :)

anyway, that is the latest update. as usual i will keep you posted...the next thing i probably blog about will be baby girl so keep your eyes open for the new addition!