The Baughman Family

2009-10-24T08:24:00.007-05:00

Our Trip to the Pumpkin Patch

October 17, 2009

2009-02-21T13:26:00.007-05:00

We had a great time at Disney World this past week. Unfortunately, Chris left this morning for his deployment. I already miss him. I don't enjoy the weekends too much - without him here. Here are some photos from our trip.

2009-01-11T21:18:00.009-05:00

CHRISTMAS DAY

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. Haley was old enough to open presents although she did get bored with it. We had a wonderful reflective Christmas morning to remind our girls of the true meaning of Christmas. Whitney was able to participate in our church's Singing Christmas Tree this year. She did a wonderful job at each performance. I didn't take many photos this year.

Below is Haley asleep still on the couch. Chris and I were excited to start opening presents with the girls but we just couldn't get Haley to wake up at all.

Here is Whitney all bright eyed. She is anxiously awaiting permission to begin opening her presents.

Haley opening up her twin dolls and is still very tired yet she is managing to give them the attention they need.

Here is Chris opening his present from Whitney.

After lunch Haley needed a bath. She was not happy at all.

2008-12-26T07:16:00.006-05:00

Here are some pictures of the girls taken after we put our Christmas tree up.

2008-11-26T08:04:00.006-05:00

Here are some photos of the new flooring that we put down. This was so needed considering the hideous carpet that was in the house when we moved in and Haley's allergies. Chris worked really hard putting this in. He used all of his vacation time just to do this (he didn't play video games at all). How awesome is he. He is such a hard worker. Not to mention he also made time for Haley by letting her stay home with him a couple of days.

Below is a photo of our hallway at our front door. This was after ripping up the carpet, priming the walls to cover up the old color, and stripping the popcorn off of the ceiling

The next photo is the new wall color. We are doing a two tone blue and we are going to install a chair rail where the two colors meet.

This photo is our almost finished product. Chris and I got a new light so that this hall and the hallway to the girls' rooms match. next we need to put down the new baseboards and chair rail. I can't wait to see how it is going to look.

I will add more photos later.

2008-10-25T14:43:00.000-05:00

Whitney is such a Turkey

So is Haley!!!!

This is as close as we got to a group photo of Haley and Whitney

2008-10-25T14:29:00.000-05:00

2007-10-29T17:31:00.000-05:00

New Video of Haley Taken at Bedtime
10/28/2007

undefined Haley Being Silly

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2007-09-16T20:12:00.000-05:00

Pictures Taken Today
September 16, 2007

2007-09-16T20:09:00.000-05:00

Pictures of Whitney in her Sailor Outfit

2007-09-16T19:53:00.000-05:00

Our Trip To Alabama

Haley thought that Ivee was great!!!

Ivee wasn't so sure about Haley though!

By the end of the weekend Ivee got use to her cousin
and showed off her super-flexibility skills really well.

Whitney also had some quality time with her cousins (though we didn't get any pictures of it)
and with Kayleigh and Meghan.

2007-08-21T19:24:00.001-05:00

2007-08-15T20:38:00.001-05:00

New pictures of the girls. Taken at Haley - 18 weeks old.

Haley Rolling Over

2007-07-17T20:47:00.001-05:00


Haley rolled over for the first time today, July 16th, 14 weeks old.

2007-07-16T17:21:00.001-05:00

I worked on Haley's room this weekend and put her shelves up.
Her room is now almost complete.

2007-07-16T17:16:00.001-05:00

Well - - Haley found her thumb this past weekend. Saturday to be exact. And well, she is so proud and every time she thinks about it she is sticking it in her mouth "GRINNING".

Mommy and Daddy are proud of her too.

Unfortunately, this is one of the many milestones that Chris will be missing
while on his deployment.

WE MISS YOU!!!

2007-07-10T19:59:00.000-05:00

Here are some updated pictures of Haley.
She is 3 months old now.

Haley is watching TV in this picture.
She will sit in front of the TV for long periods of time if you let her.

Haley with her daddy before him leaving on his deployment.

Smiling at someone

Looking at herself in the mirror after taking a bath.

Close Up

Thinking she is a big girl sitting on the bar with daddy's help.

She loves sitting in her swing outside on the patio.
It puts her right to sleep.

2007-05-17T15:47:00.000-05:00

Here are some beautiful pictures taken of Haley by our
friend Rebecca. She is a wonderful photographer here in Jacksonville.

2007-05-11T12:34:00.001-05:00

Disney World

2007-05-11T12:32:00.001-05:00

Haley Danielle Baughman

2007-04-12T15:33:00.000-05:00

This profile shot of Sonia carrying the baby was taken at the hospital around 7:30 Monday morning, just before Sonia changed into her gown for her induction. Very beautiful might I add.

Here's Sonia, changed and waiting on the Doctor to advise the Nurse on how he would like to start her induction. He ended up wanting to begin her inducement with a little tiny pill of which I cannot remember the name of. Anyhow, the nurse gave us the impression that she didn't really like it because this pill couldn't be regulated like the Pitocin can be. Something else that she advised us of is that the pill may have no affect to her at all or it may have possibly have a negative affect due to the fact that it couldn't be regulated. So, of course it ended up have the latter of the two. The baby's heart rate dropped dramatically below Sonia's very own heart rate, setting off all kinds of alarms. The nurse ran in the room and immediately gave Sonia a shot to the arm to countermeasure the pill. She told Sonia that the shot was going to feel like fire in her veins and afterwards Sonia agreed. The baby's heart rate stabilized and Sonia was experiencing some small shaking as if she had taken a Stacker III before working out. During this event, I was out of the room after Sonia told me to go eat. Luckily for my sanity, I forgot my wallet so I was only gone for a few minutes and caught the tail end of everything. It was scary when I was getting closer to the room and saw that the door was wide-open with alarms sounding, I was panicking until the nurse told me what had happened, Sonia was kind of out of it trying to take in some oxygen at that time.

Now after the incident with the pill earlier, Sonia was told that the Pitocin couldn't be started for at least four hours. So here she is, waiting it out, watching the screen that is monitoring her contractions. By the way, the pill was given to Sonia at 8:30 am, so we're looking at starting the Pitocin around 12:30. What a waste of 4 hours, right? The nurse was much more excited about the Pitocin, seeing how it can be regulated through the ivy inserted into Sonia's right wrist. It was a long and boring wait, but thank God Kim brought up some movies to watch, "Madia Goes to Jail", stupid funny. But we all had a good time filling the delay. During this time Sonia was dilated between 2 to 3cm. The Pitocin ended up starting at 12:45pm, after the Pitocin had started, Sonia's contractions grew stronger and occurred more frequently, but her nurse failed to regularly check her to see if she was dilated more. At 2:25pm, Sonia's water broke on it's own, and her nurse finally checked her again and found that she was dilated to 3cm. After that, Sonia wasn't checked again until, around 4:15pm when I had to go and find the nurse to figure out if Sonia could get her epidural because the pain started to become unbearable. After checking Sonia, the nurse told us Sonia was dilated between 7 to 8cm. As soon as she said that Sonia looked at me and said "I'm not getting my epidural". She paged for the Anaesthesiologist, and returned to the room to tell Sonia. It was roughly 5 minutes later that the nurse checked and told Sonia that she was dilated from 8 to 9cm and the Anaesthesiologist was still enroute. A few minutes past, and for the first time, Sonia began screaming, which got all the nurses (6) down the hall to run in, and I don't believe Sonia's nurse had to physically check her, she seemed to just look and say "You're at 10! Don't push, your Doctor is on his way." Earlier, around 4:25ish, the Doctor was notified of Sonia's increasing condition, he was only 10 minutes away. The Anaesthesiologist showed up just a couple minutes before her Doctor. He kind of gave a chuckle in the background after the nurse told him that she was dilated to 10cm. He said, "I guess that means she won't be getting her epidural after all," and took off. Well, like I said, it was only a couple of minutes until Sonia's awesome Doctor showed up. Seriously, he's a great guy. When he entered the room, her nurse finally decided to get her butt in gear. At 4:34pm, Sonia began to push and it was 2 minutes later that "Haley Danielle Baughman" arrived.

At 4:36pm, April 9th, the Baughman family welcomed their newest addition, Haley Danielle Baughman. She weighed 7lbs, 12oz and was 20inches in length at time of birth. An absolutely beautiful baby girl.

Here she is, after getting cleaned up a little bit, just laying there begging for the lights to be turned off.

That's my Strong, Beautiful, and very Loving Wife Sonia, holding our baby girl just minutes after giving birth to her. Come on everyone, Sonia is awesome, just look how great she looks just minutes after giving birth. They're beautiful. I won't even begin to try to related to the pain that she endured, because I can't and never will be able to, but I will say this, I've found a whole new respect for all women whom give birth. I guess you'd have to experience first-hand to understand that they do go through the greatest amount of pain in the world. Of course as men, we'll never experience that pain, and thank God, but like I said, watching it makes it all more the real to a person. And because of that experience, I am much more thankful to my wife, and know even more how strong she truly is.

As soon as Kim got the word from us that we were going to be able to keep the baby in our private room, she rushed over in excitement with Whitney. Before Whitney could say a word, I sat her down and showed her how to hold Haley. I wanted to do that right away so Whitney know that it was HER sister and she was REALLY here for her to love and take care of. It was obvious that Whitney was excited about the entire situation and that made Sonia and I both very happy. She even called her "Haley Baley", to what she thought was a cute nickname. Haha.

Auntie Kim's first time holding little Haley. Sonia and I are both very thankful for all that Kim has done for us. She kept Whitney from Monday morning to Wednesday night and took care of getting her to and from school each day so I would be able to stay at the hospital with Sonia. The moment we thought Kim couldn't do anymore, because she had done so much for us, She surprised us with dinner Wednesday night when Sonia, Haley, and myself all arrived home. Thanks Kim.

Our first, unofficial family photo. Haha. I believe Kim took this an hour and a half after Haley was born. Notice how great Sonia looks! Gosh, she's amazing. Whitney will always pose for the camera, so I can't say whether or not she's really happy, no I'm just kidding, she's still excited and a little unsure of how much her life will be affected by all this. But rest assure, Sonia and I will definitley work with Whitney and still ensure she feels important, because she still is. No new child will change that. Sonia is spending 'alone time' with Whitney so she still feels special. Which isn't hard for her, because Whitney loves to spend every waking moment that she isn't with her friends with her Mother. So it works out for everyone.

Lydia was down in Daytona Beach visiting family, so as soon as she was able to get away, she took the hour and a half drive to visit the girls in the hospital. Lydia came in the room and went directly to Haley, and here you see her trying to figure out who she favors. Which is still a mystery to Sonia and myself. Oh and I almost forgot, Lydia also copyrighted the phrase, "Hey Sunshine." Sonia really appreciated her visiting, which satisfies myself, because I enjoy seeing Sonia happy. Hopefully on Lydia's way back to Pensacola, where she lives, she'll stop here again and stay a night or two. I know we'll enjoy her company.

The next few are pictures we took of Haley while she was having her first photos taken of her in her beautiful outfit.

She loves that pacifier! I mean binki.
Gosh she's beautiful!
She's balling up her fists to take a swing! Watch out!

Here is Whitney, holding Haley for the second time. It wasn't very long before Whitney was telling us that Haley was getting to heavy for her, which we're happy that she is responsible enough to let us know so we can get her from her. She's going to be a great 'Big Sister'!

Alright, that's all the update I have right now. I'll update this within the next couple of days with more photos of everyone. Thank you all, God bless and take care.

2007-04-09T10:10:00.000-05:00

Hi Everyone. Well today we are in the hospital getting induced. It is 11:10 and so far I'm having mild contractions brought on by this little pill they gave me. I or Chris will fill in the details within a few days. -Sonia

2007-03-20T19:54:00.000-05:00

Well the time has almost arrived for our new addition to get here.
We are getting really excited here and anxiously await our little

angel's arrival. No - we haven't picked out a name yet.

Chris and I continue to think about names and we like several

but after we meet her we will settle on a name.

Two weekends ago the baby's room finally got painted.
Unfortunately, it was my first paint job so I didn't whip

through the process like Chris does. It took me the entire

weekend Friday-Sunday to get it finished.

Now the crib is put together with the baby bedding and this

weekend we will hopefully go pick up a dresser.

I'm feeling the need to have everything completed ASAP.

Only 3 weeks left to go.

2006-10-27T10:32:00.000-05:00

BABY UPDATE

Well we will be having our next ultrasound on November 16th.

We have decided to find the baby's gender.

Chris wants a little boy of course. It would definitely equal out all

of the female drama that Whitney and I produce.

Whitney of course wants a baby sister but often refers to it as a boy.!?!.

Me? I'm just anxious to find out so that I can start planning the baby's room.

2006-10-19T11:18:00.000-05:00

Below are pictures of our new home.

We will be moving into our home on Thanksgiving Week.

We want to thank our family for all of your support this year.

We are truly blessed to have the family that God has given us.

On a even happier note - we will be living only two houses away from my sister Kim.

2006-05-02T08:56:00.000-05:00

Chris and I want to thank all of our friends and family for all of your support during the wedding. I got to meet my wonderful new family. New parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers, and nephews and neice. It was awesome to once again be in the same room with Kim, David, and Hope. Now that I have moved away it will make it evenmore difficult for us to all get together at the same time. Chris and I are really enjoying the apartment - here in Jacksonville. We really miss Whitney but are at the same time - we are enjoying the peace and quietness of just the two of us here.

I want to thank all of my friends who really helped me out with the wedding. Without you guys the wedding simply would not have happened. Thank you Carissa for helping Lydia out with such hard work. You must of had much caffeine that morning...lol Chrissy, thank you for helping and I'm just glad you made it to the reception.....hehe Leigh, you worked your little pregnant tail off with such energy and enthusiasm. My flowers were beautiful. Thank you so much. Hope, I thought for sure that the wedding would bring the baby into the world but apparently the torture of the wedding wasn't enough for this baby...hehe Thank you for your hard work and not fainting during dad's speech. (I know that I wanted to crawl under the table).
Lydia - what can I say? It's been an interesting journey since we met Chris last April...hehe God has really answered so many of my prayers and I hope that he continues to do so. If Chris stays in and Michael does I hope that one day we all live in the same town again. You are such a strong independant woman who is beautiful and you still posess that youthful laugh and smile that you had when we were "wild things" lol. I love you girl and miss you.

Well enough sappy still for now. We can't wait to get the pictures back. All of you please email us any pictures you took during the wedding so that I can put them in our scrapbook. We love you all.

2006-04-11T20:52:00.000-05:00

Hello Everyone.

Well Chris and I are very excited about our new apartment.

His ship came in last Tuesday and as soon as he got off

we were off to the apartment to begin moving in.

Thank God for Kim.

If it wasn't for her we would have never gotten in the place

in such a short period of time.

Here is our new address:

7820 Baymeadows Rd. East, Apt 732

Jacksonville, FL 32256

If you do not have our new cell numbers

just send me an email (redsonia526@yahoo.com) and I'll give it to you.

We hope you enjoy the pics.

Love you - Sonia and Chris

Our New Dining Table

Our Couch (You see our naked walls behind it) hehe

Dining Room View of our Living Room

(Behind the Blinds is our Patio)

Our Kitchen

(Thank you to everyone who helped me collect things for my coffee house theme)

Our Bedroom

(I Don't Have A Picture Of Our Bathroom Yet)

The Guest Bathroom

Whitney's Bedroom

2006-03-06T22:23:00.000-05:00

Here are the pictures from the Demo Apartment. Whitney wanting to know if her closet will be this big.

The Living Room

The Spare Bathroom

The Master Bath

2006-03-06T22:14:00.000-05:00

Sorry that I have not posted anything lately but I have been pretty busy. This past weekend Whitney and I traveled to Jacksonville, to babysit the animals for my sister Kim but unfortunately dear old Medea's cancer got the best of her and she and Terri had to come back early to have Medea put to sleep.

While we were there we tirously enjoyed Kim's hottub. Whitney is now trying to convince her paw paw to get one. We also took pictures of the demo apartment to the one we will be living in. It's going to be so hard living in such a small area - but I guess the less space the less mess, right??? I hope so.lol Well here are some pics from the demo apartment - for the family to check out. We get to move in on April 15th so I will probably spend Easter weekend over in Jacksonville helping Chris move our stuff to the 3rd floor - ouch - so he can decorate the week before the wedding. Hopefully I can con dad into going so that I won't have to lift anything...hehe

2006-01-29T00:21:00.000-05:00

Hello Again. Well today was great. I really feel like we got alot accomplished. First of all, my friend Erin, who is making my invitations, brought the proofs over and I picked out the one that I liked best - and I forwarded them to Chris. I hope he likes it..

Today we went shopping for reception stuff. I got my plates and cups and we found several flowers to work with until we come up with the perfect design for the reception tables.

Also my swatch came in for the sashes on my chair covers. Its gonna be CLASSIC.

So yes I am very tired but feel like this weekend was fulfilling.

2006-01-26T23:59:00.000-05:00

Well I have been pretty busy and Chris hinted earlier that I haven't posted anything in a while....lol...he is right so here it is:

I have ordered Whitney's flower girl dress. It matches up pretty well with my dress. Chris and I have picked the hotel that we will stay at for our wedding night. It is in Gulf Shores - not far from shopping - - yippee - - - and it has a golf course at the hotel....I can't wait to view the room..It is a spa room!!!!! oooohhh lalala..

This Saturday Hope, Lydia, and I will go shopping for reception stuff and this is my favorite part:

Chris and I have managed to email one another "alot" and we have come up with our wedding CD. It has 11 fastastic songs that mean alot to us and some just make us think about each other and our relationship... and of course we had to put some "I Love You" to our Holy Father songs on there.

Well I think that is about it.... well except... I can't wait to meet Chris's family. I am really excited to meet them all.

Take Care and Be Blessed.

2006-01-07T09:20:00.000-05:00

Another large milestone for the wedding was completed yesterday. Lydia, Chrissy, Carissa, and Laura came along and we had a really fun time going through dresses and them helping me find the right one. (Thanks guys for making this a memorable experience).

I found a wedding dress and it was such a relief finding it. I have gotten out the planner and picked my colors so now we can get on the ball about finding all the other things we want for the wedding.

2006-01-04T19:39:00.000-05:00

2006-01-04T19:27:00.000-05:00

I Really Thought This
Is A Cute Picture

Man am I Going To
Miss Chris Over The
Next Few Months

BUT.........

I Have Much Planning
To Do - To Keep Me
Busy.

2006-01-03T15:17:00.000-05:00

Well, Sonia and Whitney had to leave me before my ship pulled out. Sonia had to be back to work Tuesday. I can't really complain. I didn't have to use any leave days and was able to spend a great amount of time with them. We appreciated every gift that was sent to us, and every phone call that was made to us these past holidays. Now that the first half of my deployment is over, we have the second half to look forward to. With the end of the second half (April 5th), the Wedding will be shortly around the corner. Hope to see you all there. With much love, Chris.

2005-12-27T10:27:00.000-05:00

Hi Everyone. Whitney and I made it Jacksonville to watch Chris's ship, the USS Gettysburg come in. That was an awesome experience. It was amazing being able to see him and hold him after 3 long months of emails and only a few phone calls. I am so blessed to have him in my life.

Over the next week Whitney and I are staying here in Jacksonville so we can have some quality time together. This was our first Christmas together and it was great sharing that time together. Whitney got just what she wanted, an Auburn Cheerleader outfit.

I hope that we get a little more familiar with Jacksonville by the end of the trip because I really need to figure this town out before we move here. lol We love you all and hope that your Christmas was an awesome family day for all of you and that this next year is full of wonderful Blessings to Come.

2005-12-18T23:32:00.000-05:00

Well I have an appointment on January 06 to go with my girlfriends to look at wedding dresses. I know that I want something very simple. I'm not a poof.. poof... dress kind of girl. I'm too old to need that fairy tale wedding. I think that I'm grasping the reality too much for that at my age.

My reality is that God is faithful. Eventhough I have made mistakes and have been engaged ?? before - I always knew that I would be settling until now. I waited for that one guy that I knew was out there that God had waiting for me. God gives you your fairy tale but its up to you to make it come true and to keep the fairy tale (romance) alive.

My fairy tale???? - - just ask my sister Hope - - It's finding the GUY who can put up with me. lol

I Love You Chris.

~~Sonia

2005-12-18T23:15:00.000-05:00

This Picture Was Taken Last Thursday
Night After Whitney's School Christmas
Program.

2005-11-29T21:40:00.000-05:00

These Pictures Are From The Engagement Pictures That We Took Before Chris Left Jacksonville For His 6 Month Deployment.

2005-11-26T13:59:00.000-05:00

2005-11-25T22:02:00.000-05:00

Well Chris and I have picked the location for the wedding and reception. The wedding will be at the gazebo of the Bay Front Park in Daphne and then we will have the reception inside of it. All of this is in Daphne, Alabama - on Mobile Bay.

We wanted to get married at the beach in Gulf Shores but its about a 45 minute drive from there to Bay Front Park.

But no matter what else - we are just very happy to have a place picked out so we can move forward from here.

I will add more pictures once I can figure this blog thing out.

2005-10-26T19:22:00.000-05:00

Welcome to the Blogspot for Chris, Sonia, and Whitney. We are using this site for our upcoming wedding, on April 22, 2006. We are very excited and we are trying to keep the wedding as small as possible,which I am finding very difficult to do.

If all goes as planned it will be an evening shared with our family and closest friends that will be held as a precious memory for the rest of our lives.

I will try to keep this updated so all of our family and friends know what is going on and how our wedding and lives are progressing.