Memorial Day Weekend

We went fishing up at a kids pond and then headed to Sand Hollow to camp for a night. We had a blast playing in the water, Nick caught a duck and also a lizard that was accidentally killed in the process but Xander fell in love with it and carried it around all day!

Vegas in May

We went to Las Vegas back in May for our neices dance competition and to vedge at the pool. We stayed at the Excalibur and Kogan did great for his first trip and loved takin naps sprawled out on a lawn chair!

Our new Arrival!

Kogan Jestin Garcia!

It was the luck of the irish on St Patties day... ok well it was just the kindness of Dr. Newman to induce me at 39 weeks and it just happend to be this green wearing holiday! Our reservation was at 4 am so after an hour of sleep tuesday night we headed into the hospital. I got all ready and set up and started out with a medication to help thin and ripen the cervix and 4 hrs later they started me on pitosin. I spent the majority of the morning and afternoon walking, rolling around on a medicine ball, and walking the halls, I had consistent contractions that gradually got more intense. I dilated to a 3 when the Dr decided to break my water, and that's when the ball really got rolling... Contractions got really painful and so I decided to get my epidural about a hour later, and when I was checked right after I was all hooked up I was a 5, I was still having pains so the anesthesiologist had to give me another dose. Not only 50 mins later I was complete and ready to start pushing. I was so so so numb which was kinda inconvenient, I hated not being able to control my legs, but they weren't expecting me to progress that quickly. I only pushed for maybe 15 mins and our handsome baby Kogan was brought into the world. I couldn't believe my eyes... Xander has a twin! :) Nothing can describe the feeling of having a child, only the tears of joy rolling down my cheeks could explain. He was a tiny 6 lbs 10 oz, 19 1/4 inches long born at 4:48pm.

Temple Square

I love the fact that my mom's birthday is in December just for the fact that it's always during Christmas break and that I never have to miss it! This year my dad arranged for us all the meet in Salt Lake to walk through the temple square lights, my mom had no clue and thought that's all we were doing until, we said our goodbye's and she and my dad went to the roof for dinner.
We took the front runner and tracks, which Xander was way excited about although he doesn't really look like it in the pictures, but he calls it a choo choo train! He especially loved the ride back since he got to sit with his cousin Gunnar, those two are definitely partners in crime! We went back our parents house and they destroyed the place... I was still picking up the loot they had chucked down the stairs the next day! And that was after the laundry detergent all over the laundry room/bathroom floor, and mass of toys in the living room. They always get into trouble together but it's so much fun to see what mischievous adventures they come up with. They were lot's of help with opening grandma's presents and Xander couldn't believe the sweater we got my mom, he helped open it and said, "WOW!" and started hugging it, it was hilarious!

09 SUU Football Season wrap up!

SUU had a very good season and the program is improving every year with the new coaching staff. We had a 5 and 6 season, defeating Dixie state, North Dakota, UC Davis, San Diego University and Texas State. The losses were all pretty close calls! Nick had an amazing year and has made great strides at improving his obviously heaven sent talent every season, anyone who knows him, (or at least has seen him) knows that he was born to play the game of football! I was so proud to see my beaten up husband return from games with numerous bumps and bruises and other more outstanding injuries like a hyper extended elbow, sprained arm muscle, sprained ankle, bruised knee bursa, and horrible looking field turf burn (I'm sure I'm forgetting some too)! But he never skipped a beat and never let it stop him, he gives it his all and leaves it all on the field with no regrets! Xander loves to watch and imitate his daddy on the field, he gets down in his stance and you have to say, "down, set, hike!" and he'll take off to tackle someone or
something, or to retrieve a ball. He can already catch and throw a football like a pro, and surprises many people by his drop kick! We love to support Nick, and can't wait for one more year to be there in the stands cheering him on! GARCIA #79!!!

Cal Poly Trip

Every year I planned to go to the Cal Poly game in San Luis Obispo, and every year plans fell through until this year... Cyd and I flew to see our men play and I was in for an even bigger surprise. My big brother Ben and sister in law Yuki decided to drive up and join us for the weekend, I was ecstatic to see them. We had a blast. We went to this Castle and although we walked around forever and our tour guide was totally lame, we managed to have some fun of our own, we thought we were hilarious copying the statues! You can't go to Cali and

not visit a beach, so of course we went! We were amazed with the star fish we found, I don't think it appreciated us detaching it from it's rock and poking at it, but we returned it to a safe nook.







The game was totally nerve racking but we ended up losing by ONE stinkin point! By the end of the trip I was ready to be home with my hubby and little Xander man, but was so happy for the experience and memories!