Summer Girls

Courtney is easily Devyn's favorite family member. Chloe wants to be America's Next Top Model.

Back yard

We get baby deer in the back yard every summer. Chloe wants to feed and pet them, but they usually stay about 30 yards away. The blue cones are protecting the trees that have been planted.

Chloe Faces

Some pictures just need to be shared.

Chloe's Spring Choir performance. She is not a shy girl.

Devyn is dressed to cheer her on.

Devyn is kissable

Photo shoot

A day at the Tulips

I simply love my girls, and enjoy every moment with them.

I got lost on the way down, and acted like I wasn't. We then walked around a lot of flowers, and tried to keep Chloe from picking them. Then we drove into LaConner and got Kettle Corn. Very relaxing, very fun.

Sometimes, when Daddy is watching the girls, Chloe will sneak off for a few minutes of fun. In this case, she found mom's eye liner and painted her face like a lion. She love the Lion King movie. Let me ask you this- who do you think was in more trouble with Mommy, Chloe or Daddy? You guessed it.

I got to have a great craft day and make a lion mask we could take off on on a little easier than the first one.

Gpa and Gpa in Orlando

One of the great things about competing with the cheerleaders in Orlando, is getting to see Christina's parents. They love to drive down and spoil the girls. Courtney was with the other cheerleaders the whole time, but we got to go to Epcot with Devyn and Chloe. Christina and I tried to find some sushi (of course) and then Grandpa got to go back and rest with the girls. And at Epcot, there were more princesses....

Chloe the Princess

Our trip to Orlando was to compete with the cheerleaders- but Chloe was there for one reason: to meet the princesses. She did not want to ride rides, but waited hours to see Belle, Cinderella, Ariel, Snow White, Jasmine along with Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofey and Mary Poppins. As a dad, it was worth the wait seeing her eyes light up. Grandma and Grandpa Rice took her out as well, and again waited in lines. Interested to see what she wants to do for next year.

Prepping for Surgery

We arrrived at the hospital at 6:30AM. We were atmitted to our room, Room 6, right away. In the first picture, Christina is pointing to the empty cradle we will be filling in a few hours.

We had a series of tests, and because Christina was having sugery, she was not allowed to eat or drink anything. By 9:30, she was both pretty hungry and thirsty. It was then we got the results, and she got to drink this splendid beverage (she is grimacing all the way down) that is shown in the second picture. She had an IV put in as well, which you can see the connector in her left arm.

You can tell in picture three that I am extactic to model the hospital blues, and the last picture the nurse took as we were walking to the surgery room. Not long now!

Birth of a baby

After we walked down the hallway, they took Christina into a sterilized room to prepare for anethesia. Here she is walking into the surgery hallway. Chloe was born in the room on the left, and she is entering the room on the right, at 9:40AM. (Once we got the test resuts, things happened very quickly!)

I sat in the surgery waiting area, and made a quick phone call to my mom to let her know we were going in. They came and got me at 9:57AM.

When I walked in, Christina was hooked up to oxygen, and had a curtain over her belly. I was trying to comfort her, and get up the courage to look around the curtain.

Things happened very quickly. We were speaking with the anesthesiologist, and making a few jokes. Before we knew it, our doctor was saying she saw a head, and that she had dark hair.

This is the first picture of the new baby- from where I was seated. I looked around the curtain for a shot of the clock- she was born at 10:04AM.