Newborn Pictures

A week after the girls were born we were able to have their pictures taken by the amazing Chelsy  Boucher whose business is called B. Couture Photography. She is based out of St. George but has family that lives up North. We were so lucky that she was in town the week after the girls were born. We could not have planned that any better.
 She was so patient with our little girlies. She spent over three hours working with them so that we could get just the right pose. I am so glad that we were able to get these pictures taken. I will cherish them forever. She totally captured their little personalities to the tee.






                                                                     Sophia Kate


                                                                      Paisley Anne

Hospital Pics

Remember our hospital pics from when we were born. They placed the babies on a blanket with a light over head and shot away. Well baby pics are no longer like that. Now they are totally diffrent. There are props and the babies actually look alive and cute!!
But there is a big kicker to the pictures the lady comes in and starts taking all these cute pictures and makes your babies look cuter than ever. Then she starts to show all the pictures she took. You are sold because they are the first pics of your babes. Then she tells you the price of these never to be duplicated pics. Can I tell you I just about died. But I was already sold. So what did we do? We bought then of course and I don't regret it at all. This is only the first of many times when I will hand over the money for my girls!
Take a look at how cute they really are!!!












Paisley Anne



Sophia Kate






I am totally in love!!!!!!

Introducing.....

Sophia Kate and Paisley Anne Berube

Born Thursday March 8th @ 6:31 and 6:32 pm

Born at 36 Weeks

Sophia Paisley

Our first family picture!

Don't mind my puffiness. You have got to love all the fluids they pump you up with.

Sophia Paisley

Here they are at the beginning of a nap.

And then at the end of their nap!

They love sleeping side by side and we would not have it any other way. I am a little nervous to split them up. They are just so used to each other.

Can you tell them apart? Good thing for mom they are fraternal twins and there are some differences.

Our Story

We have known for a couple months that I would deliver via c-section because little miss Sophia was bum down and not going to move, but we had no idea when these babies for sure would come. On Wednesday we had our regular weekly appointment and my blood pressure was a little too high and I had elevated protein levels. All this meant that I was developing pre-eclamsia. My doctor said that most likely he would deliver my girls the next day if my levels were still the same or of course higher. I do have to say we were prepared for this and so excited but scared to death at the same time. So we went back Thursday at 9:00 and sure enough my levels were higher. My doctor came into the room on the phone with Ogden Regional already setting up our time. So we were scheduled have them at 6:00 that night.

We had to arrive at the hospital at 4:00 so we had the whole day to spend just Justin and I for the last time. We went and got a little bit to eat since I would not be able to eat for the next couple hours. Then I decided that I wanted to get a pedicure so that at least my toes would look good (since they have been swollen for weeks now). Then we came home and just chilled. We cried and laughed and counted down the minutes until we were finally able to see our little girls. Thursday went so fast yet so slow at the same time.

Once 4:00 pm came we were at the hospital checked in and ready to go. They went over all that was to happen in the next couple hours and how everything would be ok. The time from 4:00 to 5:00 drug so slow, but once 5:45 came it was as if time was speed up. It took me by surprise and the emotions started flying.

Justin gave me a blessing and peace immediately came to me. I could not imagine my life without having the priesthood apart of it. The spirt in the room was so strong and I knew that I had many people in the room with me. Most importantly my dad. I know that he was taking good care of my babies. I had to have been hard for him to say goodbye to my girls. But I know he will always be apart of their lives!!!!

They wheeled me into the OR and started getting me ready. Justin was right by my side the whole time holding my hand and being my support. I cannot believe how fast the procedure went. As soon as they broke my first sack of water out the girls were basically here.

Sophia was born first bum down and was 5 lbs 10 oz then Paisley came head first and was 4 lbs 14 oz. They are sweet little girls and I still cannot believe that they fit inside me! Of course they took them away to get them cleaned up and the doctors finished sewing me up. The next thing I see is Justin carrying out BOTH girls in his arms! Wow in a matter of minutes he was a pro at this whole daddy thing. I was finally able to have the girls close to me. Words cannot express the love and emotion that I felt at that moment. I was finally a mommy!!! This is something that I have waited for my whole life and now it was finally here. I wanted that moment to last forever.

Our nurse was so sweet, she told everyone that the girls were not going to go into a basinet they were going to be carried out in my arms as we went back to our room. As soon as we came out of the doors their were are families waiting to see the girls. It was so wonderful to have them all there. The best part was seeing my mom. I know that she was really worried. Here was her little girl becoming a mommy and having to have major surgery in order for that to happen.

We got into the room and had about a half hour to ourselves. Just Justin, me, and our little girls. Then we had our moms come in as they finished making sure that I was ok.

We knew that we needed to stay until Monday due to the fact that they weren't keeping their weight as well as the docs wanted them to. But then Sunday night my blood pressure skyrocketed again and they made me stay until Tues. Those were the longest days of my life. Now that we are home I am feeling great! I still have high blood pressure but at least we are home.

Life has been wonderful ever since. It seems as if they have always been apart of our lives. We love these girls to pieces. Luckily Justin does not have to go back to work until March 19th. So we get plenty of family time together. The more time we spend together the harder it will be to have Justin go back to work. He loves his girls so much and is the best dad ever. The whole time in the hospital Justin changed all the diapers and burped the girls each time. If it was his choice he would sit in the rocking chair all day and hold the girls in his arms all day.

I am loving being home with the girls and I have for sure realized that this job of having twins is for sure a two person job. There is no way that I could do this alone. Good thing we have family so close and that they some what are in love with these girls.

Then comes BABIES

Well if you didn't notice I finally took down the count down to the end of Law School. The funny thing is it totally ended five months ago. Well let's just say a lot has happened in those last five months. The best and most important things is we are pregnant with TWINS!!! We could not be any happier.

We had been trying for a while and of course I thought that it would never happen. I just had to get to the spot that the idea of having a baby didn't consume all my thoughts. Well it was at that point that we finally got pregnant. Let me tell you the moment that I saw that positive sign I lost it. I could not believe it was true. Finally my dreams were coming true.

So of course we made that first appointment and could not wait till that day finally came. I was 6 1/2 weeks along when we went to see the doctor. We were so excited to see our little one. Well were we totally taken by surprise. When he started the ultrasound I couldn't focus. My mind was racing. Was this really true? Am I really going to have a baby? Well then the doctor brought me back with saying, "Do you see what I see?" Of course since it is our first we have never had an ultrasound. He stated that there were two babies inside me. All I could think about was how did that happen? Then my mind started racing. I was ready for one but now we are having two!!! I never thought that it would be me who would have twins. But now that we look at our families I have twins on both my mom side and my dad's side. So someone was destined to have twins and that someone is me. I am on cloud nine and don't know if I will ever come down.

I have wait for so long to be a mom and the Lord has blessed me with two wonderful healthy babies. I cannot express how grateful and thankful I am for these babies. They have already changed my life for the better. Prayers are answered and the Lord does know each of us and the desires of our hearts.

Through this experience of being pregnant I have become so much closer to my Heavenly Father. Most importantly our marriage has grown by leaps and bounds.

First comes Love, then comes Marriage....

I cannot believe that Justin and I are celebrating our five year anniversary! Wow, where did the time go? It has seriously been the best five years yet. I fall more and more in love with him everyday and cannot imagine life without him.

We have accomplished a lot in these past five years. We both graduated from Weber State with our Bachelor Degrees. Justin took and passed the LSAT. He then went on to complete three years in Law School. Most recently he studied his brains out for the BAR exam and successful passed that awful test. (Which means we will never have to do any more school ever again!!!) We have gone on countless trips, celebrated many holidays, relished in all of our family's traditions, and started many of our own.

The time that we have spent together has been the best time of our lives. We are truly best friends and love to spend as much time as possible together. I hate the time that we are apart and cannot wait for him to come home from work each night just so we can talk.

But the best is yet to come....

Happy Anniversary Justin!!

Not Again

Well I think that the pictures will explain it all....

Luckily it did not land on the fence or the house.

It split right down the middle!

Yes that is right we have lost yet another tree at our house. That would make two trees down in a mere 8 months! That would only happen to us. Here is the thing it is not like these trees are small or young. They have been growing now for 11 years. All I can say is why!!!!! Why, our trees and at that 2 of them. Mother nature we only have 3 trees left please spare us the thought of having to replace those ones too.

Graduation Day is Here

I am still waiting to get the pictures from this blessed event taken by our photographer aka my sis in law.

Then I will make my official picture and story post. Here is just a few from my little camera.

Today was the day that we have been looking forward to for the past 3 years. As of this morning Justin is officially a graduate of the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. I cannot express how elated I am to know that Justin is graduated. Therefore fulfilling his dream that he has had since he was 16. I am so, so proud of him. I could not stop myself today from shedding many tears. From the moment that I helped him put on his cap and gown to the moment he walked out the door as a graduate my eyes were pretty wet.

As you look at this picture you might think that I am a crazy wife to go right up to where he was sitting to take his picture. But guess what I was sitting right across the isle from him. If we wanted to we could have held hands from across the way. That was of course not planned at all (how would you be able to plan something like that). I am one of the only wives who can say that she sat right next to her husband during his Law School graduation.