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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

New Home

Our Zeke is 2 months old already!! I feel like he's going to be a teenager too soon and won't let me cuddle with him and kiss him anymore so I'm doing that every chance I get now.




We had our first official beach day a few weeks ago when our friends Mike and Natalie came out. These two babies are going to be great friends, just like their dads. Since our first day we have been able to enjoy the beach a few other times but Zeke tends to sleep every time. It will be fun when he gets a little bigger and can play in the ocean.



Quality daddy-son time. Zeke helps dad study. He's the perfect ipad holder.

For the next month we will be living on the Big Island with my grandma in her beautiful home. Greg is doing his family medicine rotation here in Kona so Zeke and I decided to tag along to keep him company. My grandmas house is in the mountains here on the Big Island and completely different than the warm tropical Hawaii weather we are used to. It's been such a nice and refreshing change. We even got to break out the sweaters :)

It's hard to show in pictures how beautiful this place is. It's so peaceful. There is so much forest to explore and you can hear the birds and see the stars at night (we haven't seen stars in so long!) Zeke seems to like it too. He enjoys when we walk around and loves to just take everything in. He hasn't seen very many trees in his life so I think he is in awe of all of the big ones here.


This gives a little taste of what it's like here.

Exploring our new home
There's fruit everywhere! We love it!

And at the end of the day we have a beautiful porch where we can enjoy this peaceful place.




We plan on enjoying every day we get to spend at our new home.

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Ezekiel Will Atkinson


It has been 3 short weeks since we welcomed Ezekiel to our family and we just love him so much. He is proving to be pretty perfect. He sleeps pretty well during the night and hardly cries. I think he knows that mommy and daddy are new to this whole parenting thing and a little nervous so he is being really easy on us :)

His birth day was amazing. I woke up at 2:30AM on Tuesday with contractions. I wanted to stay at home as long as possible so when we timed the contractions at 7:00AM and they were 4-5 minutes apart we decided that it was time to get ready to head to the hospital. We arrived at the hospital around 7:30 and he was out by 9:00AM. Again, I'm sure Zeke knew his mom couldn't handle a long labor so he made it real quick for me!
Our first family photo
Here he is...all 6 lbs. 8 oz. of him



He loves his dad so much

and this picture because it's one of my favorite!

We had some newborn pictures taken and I'm so glad we did because he is growing so fast. Stay little Zeke!

I love these eyes!

These two together are the best thing ever 




Thank you Ashlee DeCaires Photography for capturing our first week together as a family of three!