First Doctor's visit

Matthew went to the doctor for the first time since he was born. We went mainly to have a circumcision. I have to say that he did great! what a trooper through the whole thing. Ok I didn't watch as they did it because I didn't want to watch them do that to my baby. But Dave said that he only cried for the numbing shot then was great after that. He's such a strong little fella. Reagan on the other hand didn't like it when the nurse poked his heel to get blood for a screening test. She kept asking if baby Matthew was going to be ok. She is such a tender heart. She is so much like me when I was younger...ok and maybe I'm still like that now. But at least she is taking after me in some way.

Bella Baby Photos of Matthew

Just like when Reagan was born Bella Baby Photography came around taking pictures of all the newborn babies. I really love that they do this especially this time because we could include Reagan and my parents in the pictures. And now we have our first pictures together as a family of 4.

Matthew David Nichols

Matthew David arrived on March 22 at 7:14 pm. 6 days before his actual due date. He was 8lbs 2oz, 20 in long. It all began on Wednesday. I had a sharp pain on the right side of my back. It was pretty bad but after a while it went away, just in time for my doctor's appointment. The doctor's appointment went well and I was feeling good for the rest of the evening. Then thursday as I was doing some grocery shopping the pain came back in full force!
I finished the shopping and hurried home, got Reagan some lunch and tried to lay down hoping that the pain would go away just like it did before. But the pain was not going away, in fact it was getting a lot worse and nothing I did made it feel any better. I got a hold of Dave at work and said that he needed to come home because something was wrong. Dave came home and we rushed to the hospital.
After checking me out the verdict was I had a kidney stone. So they decided to take care of that and to induce me as well...which I was totally fine with. So they gave me pain meds for the kidney stone, the doctor broke my water and got me an epidural.
The epidural worked everywhere except in one spot. So I could still feel the contractions pretty good. So the anesthesiologist gave me a couple more doses of medicine and waited to see if it would work. After a while he decided that he needed to replace the epidural. He gave me a combo an epidural and a spinal and that seemed to do the trick. As soon as he got that taken care of I was complete and ready to go. The whole process took only 5 hours. Matthew came pretty fast. So far he has been such a calm little guy. Reagan is enjoying him but still doesn't know what to think about him sometimes. All in all we are all pretty happy to have Matthew join our family.

2nd Pregnancy

Ok so some people have asked me to post photos of this pregnancy and I have not been good at it. Mainly because I think I look huge and don't really want to be in pictures. But oh well here ya go.
I'm 37 weeks and due to be induced on the 28th of March. My original due date was April 4th but I got moved up to March because the baby was measuring big. At my last doctor's appointment last week I was dialated to a 2.
Almost there folks :-)

Reagan's first Snowmen

It was such a nice day today that after church we bundled up and helped Reagan make her first snowman...or I guess I should say snowmen. I say snowmen because Reagan built her first one right after she got out of the car from coming home from church.

This is the first little snowman she just couldn't wait to build. She was very proud of it.


After we had some lunch and Reagan had a much needed nap we headed out to make a bigger snowman. The snow was really wet and the ground was pretty muddy. But we still had a lot of fun doing it and Reagan had a ball. She kept saying ta da after every piece was built and put together.






The finished product.

Our First Home

We recently moved to West Jordan at the end of January. Dave was tired of driving an hour to work and an hour back home every single day since he works in West Valley City. We were also spending a ton of money in Gas, so we began looking for homes starting in October. We struggled to find a home that we were satisfied with and that was within our budget, but we finally found this one for a great price and it was in decent shape. It needs some TLC but we are slowly piecing it together and it has been fun so far putting our own touches on the place. We are just happy to be close to Dave's work now, and finally have a place we can call our own, without sharing a wall with someone. Sorry that all we have right now are pictures of the house from the outside. I will post pictures of the inside when it is more put together.

Reagan's new haircut

Reagan got her hair cut yesterday. She did not inherit my thick hair so I wanted something to give her hair a little more volume. The end result is so cute. She did ok while she was getting her hair cut. But when the hairdresser turned on the hair dryer she freaked out. She runs away when I'm blow drying my hair. She hates the blow dryer. Oh well She looks adorable.