THE STEPH
As I have touched on before, I am Stephannie. I am a little over 25 1/2 years old and have lived in Utah my entire life. I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (you know, the Mormons) and love it. There are seven kids in my family and I am number two of the brood. I have one brother who is older, three brothers who are younger as well as two younger sisters. I love playing softball and basketball, World of Warcraft, most games, sewing, creatinfg, crafting, playing with Baby L., spending time with family and friends, playing or listening to music, reading, and doing anything with Fantastic Mr. Fox. I attended three years of college at Snow College and Utah State University where I majored in Psychology and Home and Family Studies and in the middle of all of that was trained and worked as a dental assistant.
MR. FOX
Fantastic Mr. Fox is my dear love and best friend. He also has lived in Utah all his life and was born in a house only three blocks from where we live now in Provo, Utah. We walk past it every week when we go on our walks and he tells stories of his childhood during the brief years that his family lived there. Mr. Fox is also the second child in his family, but he's the only boy with one older sister and three younger. He loves anything to do with plants and gardening, the outdoors, basketball, World of Warcraft (it's how we got to know each other so well, but that story may be for another time), Fable, Diablo, Warcraft, Pocket Tanks, can do many things with computers, playing with and loving Baby L, and spending time with his lovely wife. =) He is currently attending Utah Valley University where he is majoring in Computer Science and doing very well (I believe he has maintained a 4.0). When he's not doing homework, he's at work where he does support for a web hosting company only 5 minutes away from our house and comes home every day for lunch so he can see his little family. <3
THE TODD AND HIS VIXEN
We met at the end of April 2008 through my boyfriend at the time. We were at a special screening for the movie Iron Man a few days before it was released in theaters because my boyfriend had family who owned the local movie theater and allowed family members to invite friends to the test-run of the film reel to make sure that it had been assembled properly to be viewed by customers in a few days. Mr. Fox and this boyfriend worked together and became good friends, so naturally we all spent a lot of time together. Over the coming year we spent many hours together every week goofing-off and doing what best friends do. Since I was already in a relationship and he was best friends with the guy I was in a relationship with, everything between us was strictly platonic. It was a perfect way to get to know each other because no one was trying to impress anyone and we got to see what the other really was like.
It was nearly a year (from when we first met) before we started dating after I had been broken up from my boyfriend for a while. Our first date was March 28 when he took me to see Monsters vs. Aliens. We would go to dinner and movies, spend time talking at his house, hang out with his dad, play games, and even went to a session of General Conference at the Conference Center in Salt Lake. The date we became "officially" boyfriend and girlfriend was April 8, 2009. We dated for a while before deciding that we were simply marvelous for each other and started planning for a future. Dating for four months, he "officially" proposed to me on August 1, 2009 at the place where we would be getting married: the Salt Lake Temple.
We became Mr. & Mrs. Fox on October 9, 2009 in the Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was the happiest day of our lives to finally be joined together as a new family. We have each had many painful and significant trials and struggles in our lives and had all but given up on ever being happy and whole. We found hope in each other when we were friends and had that hope realized when we became husband and wife. That enlivened us and gave us new life and purpose.We had found each other. In every way we had rescued and helped each other be better people and and grow closer to the Lord. We were first friends who cared, then we fell in love. For myself, who better to fall in love with than my hero and knight in shining armor? For him, who better to fall in love with than his damsel in distress? It was the first day of Eternity. =)
THE KIT
Baby L was born Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 7:36 AM in Orem, Utah. From when my water broke to when he emerged via forceps was roughly 4-5 hours. He decided to spare his mommy the 24+ hour labor that is typical with the delivery of the first child, but it was a catch-22 since everything progressed so quickly it was still very intense and painful. The original plan with his delivery was a natural labor and birth, but mitigating factors forced me to opt for an epidural after I was dilated to a nine. We were informed that Baby L was having alarming drops in his heart rate with the contractions and would need assistance being born ASAP with forceps.
We were able to experience discovering the gender of Baby L when he was born because we chose to not find out what we were having. It was a beautiful moment when I first saw our baby held up and I exclaimed to Mr. Fox "It's a boy! We have a boy!" I wish we had a picture of the look on Mr. Fox's face and mine when we saw our little BOY.
I love everything about Baby L. Everything. Despite the days that he doesn't allow me to sleep or screams in my face, I love him more and more. He's growing so fast that I can barely remember the days that he was so tiny and helpless. He now crawls at lightning speed and climbs stairs like he's been doing it for months and months. His vocabulary is always expanding and he will be standing on his on very soon, which will introduce a whole new level of mobility to him and a new level of babyproofing for us. =)
At this point that I am now typing this entry, Baby L is 10 months old today (coincidentally, it is also our 2 1/2 wedding anniversary). I am listening to him giggle and talk to himself in his bed as he is riding the good mood of just waking up from an afternoon nap.
Those squeals of delight are my cue to finish this entry for the day. I hope that I will be able to continue to share more about our family and daily life, but this must do for now.
Thanks for reading. Lata!
MR. FOX
Fantastic Mr. Fox is my dear love and best friend. He also has lived in Utah all his life and was born in a house only three blocks from where we live now in Provo, Utah. We walk past it every week when we go on our walks and he tells stories of his childhood during the brief years that his family lived there. Mr. Fox is also the second child in his family, but he's the only boy with one older sister and three younger. He loves anything to do with plants and gardening, the outdoors, basketball, World of Warcraft (it's how we got to know each other so well, but that story may be for another time), Fable, Diablo, Warcraft, Pocket Tanks, can do many things with computers, playing with and loving Baby L, and spending time with his lovely wife. =) He is currently attending Utah Valley University where he is majoring in Computer Science and doing very well (I believe he has maintained a 4.0). When he's not doing homework, he's at work where he does support for a web hosting company only 5 minutes away from our house and comes home every day for lunch so he can see his little family. <3
THE TODD AND HIS VIXEN
We met at the end of April 2008 through my boyfriend at the time. We were at a special screening for the movie Iron Man a few days before it was released in theaters because my boyfriend had family who owned the local movie theater and allowed family members to invite friends to the test-run of the film reel to make sure that it had been assembled properly to be viewed by customers in a few days. Mr. Fox and this boyfriend worked together and became good friends, so naturally we all spent a lot of time together. Over the coming year we spent many hours together every week goofing-off and doing what best friends do. Since I was already in a relationship and he was best friends with the guy I was in a relationship with, everything between us was strictly platonic. It was a perfect way to get to know each other because no one was trying to impress anyone and we got to see what the other really was like.
It was nearly a year (from when we first met) before we started dating after I had been broken up from my boyfriend for a while. Our first date was March 28 when he took me to see Monsters vs. Aliens. We would go to dinner and movies, spend time talking at his house, hang out with his dad, play games, and even went to a session of General Conference at the Conference Center in Salt Lake. The date we became "officially" boyfriend and girlfriend was April 8, 2009. We dated for a while before deciding that we were simply marvelous for each other and started planning for a future. Dating for four months, he "officially" proposed to me on August 1, 2009 at the place where we would be getting married: the Salt Lake Temple.
We became Mr. & Mrs. Fox on October 9, 2009 in the Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was the happiest day of our lives to finally be joined together as a new family. We have each had many painful and significant trials and struggles in our lives and had all but given up on ever being happy and whole. We found hope in each other when we were friends and had that hope realized when we became husband and wife. That enlivened us and gave us new life and purpose.We had found each other. In every way we had rescued and helped each other be better people and and grow closer to the Lord. We were first friends who cared, then we fell in love. For myself, who better to fall in love with than my hero and knight in shining armor? For him, who better to fall in love with than his damsel in distress? It was the first day of Eternity. =)
THE KIT
Baby L was born Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 7:36 AM in Orem, Utah. From when my water broke to when he emerged via forceps was roughly 4-5 hours. He decided to spare his mommy the 24+ hour labor that is typical with the delivery of the first child, but it was a catch-22 since everything progressed so quickly it was still very intense and painful. The original plan with his delivery was a natural labor and birth, but mitigating factors forced me to opt for an epidural after I was dilated to a nine. We were informed that Baby L was having alarming drops in his heart rate with the contractions and would need assistance being born ASAP with forceps.
We were able to experience discovering the gender of Baby L when he was born because we chose to not find out what we were having. It was a beautiful moment when I first saw our baby held up and I exclaimed to Mr. Fox "It's a boy! We have a boy!" I wish we had a picture of the look on Mr. Fox's face and mine when we saw our little BOY.
I love everything about Baby L. Everything. Despite the days that he doesn't allow me to sleep or screams in my face, I love him more and more. He's growing so fast that I can barely remember the days that he was so tiny and helpless. He now crawls at lightning speed and climbs stairs like he's been doing it for months and months. His vocabulary is always expanding and he will be standing on his on very soon, which will introduce a whole new level of mobility to him and a new level of babyproofing for us. =)
At this point that I am now typing this entry, Baby L is 10 months old today (coincidentally, it is also our 2 1/2 wedding anniversary). I am listening to him giggle and talk to himself in his bed as he is riding the good mood of just waking up from an afternoon nap.
Those squeals of delight are my cue to finish this entry for the day. I hope that I will be able to continue to share more about our family and daily life, but this must do for now.
Thanks for reading. Lata!
