Bryce's Birthday!

Bryce Edward Campbell.
Born 6/8/2011
Height: 21"
Weight: 8 lbs 1 oz

Welcome to the world!

Time to weigh in

That's one happy mama!

My happy girls. (Kimmie has no idea that Bryce is actually going home with us..)

So cute!

The Campbells

Daddy and Bryce

Us with G'ma & G'pa Tucker.

Us with G'ma & G'pa Smart.

Bryce's first bath.

Bath time is so much fun!

Peaceful little baby. We love you little Bryce!

April and May Super Post

We've been intending to post something new since April, but life has been a bit crazy. Here's a quick recap of what's happened:

-Ted & Steph's company is making preparations to close down sometime in the next couple of months. In anticipation of shutting our doors, Ted has taken a position with Won-Door doing something between IT and AV stuff.

-In April we took a huge leap and decided to rip out our back yard and have it completely redone. Unfortunately the weather hasn't been kind to the landscaper and six weeks later we are *STILL* six weeks out.. It's been nothing but rain here in American Fork. For Ted that means no biking, for Kimmie that means no play grounds and for Steph... well, it's COOLER :)

-Steph has been in her third trimester and we're getting pretty close to having our second baby, Bryce Edward Campbell. (Here's a novel concept Jim, name the baby BEFORE you go to the hospital..) We're really looking forward to sleepless nights and exhausting days.

Now on to the fun stuff, the pictures!

We bought Kimmie a new slide, but due to the rain, it's been in our living room for over a month! She loves it!

OOOOOOO!

Talking about bad weather, the wind took a few shingles off the front of our house! Steph and I were listening inside, groaning ever time we heard another shingle blow across the roof. To add insult to injury, I got a number of calls from the neighbors.. "Did you know that you shingles are blowing away?" *sigh*

A special thanks to Bro Tubbs for helping fix everything, good as new!

This must be the season of new toys. Here's Kimmie enjoying her bubble-maker. She loves chasing the bubbles so she can pop them.

HAPPY EASTER!

I'm CUTE!

Kimmie playing on cousin Jasper's playset. It took her a while to warm up to the slide, but once she did, she wouldn't leave it alone!

New hobby, stealing Daddy's iPad. I don't know whether to be proud or scared that she can turn it on, go to her folder of games and start them up all by herself. I think Kimmie plays with the iPad more than Mommy or Daddy combined..

Kimmie, can Daddy have his iPad back? NO! Tee hee hee...

Tonight we tried out a new indoor trampoline gym called Airborne in Draper. Her favorite part was twirling around on the tramps. She looks like a little dancer.

Falling has never been so fun.

We are finally ready for Bryce's arrival. Bryce, you don't know how good you have it. :)

Another shot of the nursery.

Kimmie twirling on the trampolines. We're definitely going back.

From crib to toddler bed...

Last week we decided that it was time to change Kimmie's bed over from a crib to a toddler bed. The change-over happened around 9 in the evening. We took the front of the crib off and put on the new side rail. We then sat back, crossed our fingers and hoped for the best. Here are the pictures we took of her reaction.

Needless to say, she loved her new bed! Other than it taking a little bit longer to put her down the first night, she's taken to it quite well without any problems. I love our little Kimmie! :)

Here's another one just for fun. Princess Kimmie?

Hawaii 2011

This year marks our third trip to Hawaii as a family. It's funny how the first trip we came home with over 1,000 photos, this time I think we had less than a tenth of that original trip. However, we did get a chance to do some fun things and we have a couple of pictures to show for it. Hope that you enjoy and please leave a comment! :)

This was the view from our room at the Grand Wailea hotel on Maui.

The other direction :)

Dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe (You can't miss that, right?)

Exploring the tourist trap town of Lahaina. Cool restaurants and stores right off the beach. Kimmie loved walking with her daddy!

Dinner at Momma's Fish House. We heard about this place from "The best thing I ever ate" show on Food Network and had to try it out. Crazy good! I wish the auto-focus had captured Kimmie instead of the table cloth, but this is still our favorite pic of her.

Family pic right outside the restaurant. We LOVE the beach!

The next day we decided to explore half of the infamous Hana Highway. Just before our turnaround spot we found The Garden of Eden. Literally. The next few pics are in the Garden of Eden Botanical Gardens & Arboretum. (Whatever that means...) Kimmie loved seeing the live birds. What a pretty peacock!

DUCK!

Hiking with Daddy

She loved this place so much, she was upset when we finally left. Very beautiful scenery.

Look at me, I'm CUTE! And I'm going to be a big sister!

Family Time! Apparently the rock way off in the background was featured in the beginning of the Jurassic Park movie back in the day. How's that for a cool little piece of worthless info?

Our last day we found a cool little play place in the mall that Kimmie absolutely LOVED! Right here she's riding a SHARK!

We had to finish with this little video. We wore Kimmie out a lot on this trip. This was so funny! Post a comment and let us know what you think! Enjoy!

Discovery Gateway

Yesterday Stephanie, Kimmie and I wanted to get out of the house and have a "fun day!" So we called up our friends Cameron and Serene and both our little families went to Discovery Gateway downtown. I always thought that it would be cool, but I had no idea that the kids would love it as much as they did! Here are our favorite pictures from the trip.

Kimmie hesitantly entering the unknown...

Kimmie LOVED the ball area. This isn't how this machine is supposed to be used, but she got a kick out of it anyway.

This machine is kinda like the drive up bank tubes. You stick the ball in and it flies up. She LOVED putting the balls in and watching where they'd go!

Another one right after she put the ball in the tube, you can see it heading up. I LOVE that smile!

Cameron and I after performing "Mary had a little lamb" for the crowd standing behind the camera.

This brings me back to those summer days watching the price is right... She couldn't reach the board standing if front of it, so she figured out that she could climb up beside and put the balls in herself. Smart little girl.

Would this be classified as "cheating?"

Focus.

I'm thinking we need a slide for home. She kept going back and doing this over and over. WEE!!!

Let go mommy, I want to ride it myself!

Daddy setting a bad example for all the kids watching. Kimmie loved going down the conveyor though!

This is the REAL reason we went to Discovery Gateway. I wanted to live my dream of being a helicopter pilot. Someday...

The best co-pilot in the world!

Aren't you a bit young to fly that by yourself? Why yes, yes I am.

This just illustrates why I never became a pilot. I feel like I'm in munchkin land. It's perfect for little Kimmie though!

BIG BLOCKS.

This is actually later that night, but it was too cute not to include. Happy Birthday and thanks for the ice cream Cuz! YUMMY!

Ultrasound!

Today we went in for our 20 week ultrasound for baby #2. Everything is good, baby is growing and has an excellent heart beat. Here is the picture of the baby's profile.
Cute huh? Now for the important information. We are having a...drum roll please...BOY! Kimmie will have a little brother in June. For those of you who care, here is a picture showing that he's a boy. If you can tell from an ultrasound. ;)
I think his profile looks a lot like his sister. Her ultrasound pictures can be found here.

Now we just have to start coming up with names...please feel free to send us suggestions.