How we got here.

photo by Adam Campbell


Billy and I met skateboarding in 2003 not long after I moved to California from Colorado. We became great friends and then began dating around Christmas of 2005. Well, we made things official on October 21, 2007 in Laguna Beach on a sunny, magical, Sunday afternoon.

We spent the next few months being newlyweds and getting use to our new life as a "married" couple. We had always spoken about having children, and we both had grown up in family's of 4, and had thought in a "perfect" world, we would like to eventually have a boy and a girl.

By the time May of 2008 rolled around we were in full swing of being married and mapping out the rest of our lives. We were so happy to have found a "partner in crime" as we like many of the same things. So one Sunday evening after skating our favorite skate spot "Channel Street" in San Pedro, we stopped at the local Chili's to have a little dinner and a cocktail and milk the last few hours of a perfect weekend before getting back to the grind on Monday. Well for some reason everything I tasted was making my stomach turn, which was unusual considering I hadn't really eaten all day. I told Billy that due to my "unusual" feelings we would be taking the E.P.T. test when we got home. We pretty much laughed it off and carried on. Well, we got home and broke out the test and sure enough... A plus sign revealed that we were indeed expecting!

We scheduled a visit with my doctor for the following Tuesday to confirm the test and get a little direction on what we were to do next. After doing a test she mentioned that were "very" pregnant, meaning that her test took no time at all to confirm. We didn't really know what that meant, so we thought maybe it meant we were further along than we had thought. She suggested we get an ultra-sound asap to give us an idea of how far along we were. So we scheduled it for two days later.

Billy and I met up after work to go to our first ultra-sound, both very anxious to have confirmation that everything was A O.K.. We were excited to see what this little bean inside of my belly looked like on the monitor. As the technician moved the wand around my stomach we both remained quiet waiting for the tech to tell us everything looked good. Well, neither of us had ever seen an ultrasound, so we didn't know what we were seeing, and just waited patiently to be reassured things were on track. Well, finally the tech looks at us and says, "congratulations, you're having twins!" We both just about fainted.

We walked out of the imaging center in a complete fog, not knowing what to think. I mean, we were very excited, just completely overwhelmed by the news that our dream of a family of 4 was much closer than we thought. When we had learned that we were pregnant we had said that while we originally wanted 2 kids, that the point we were both at in our life may only make room for 1, as we weren't getting any younger...:) Well, it turn out the universe had us covered, and blessed us with a 2 for 1 deal!

After an unusually easy pregnancy for twins, Kai and Daila arrived into the world on November 14th 2008. I was 35 weeks and 1 day pregnant, and Kai decided that was long enough to wait and kicked Daila's water sack in the middle of the night causing Billy and I to rush off to the hospital at 4:00 a.m. By 10:22 and 10:24 a.m. Kai and Daila were welcomed into the world...:)