The beginning

Ozzy-

This is for you. I want you to know how special you are to me and how I never thought that I could love someone so much. I want you to be able to look back at this and know that your parents love you so much. I also hope that you will be able to look back and see how important family is in your life. Please remember that your father and I will never ever forget the day that you let us become parents.

Your father and I had been married for 4 years when we decided that it was time to start a family, I had just finished school and had just got a job as a 2nd grade teacher and your father was fulfilling his dream of doing photography and video and was finally making a name for himself. The summer before I started teaching we were working together as river guides on the grand canyon. It was amazing.. such a fun time in our lives to be able to do this sort of work together and get paid to be in the most beautiful place. That is when I got pregnant.

I remember that I thought I was pregnant when we were mountain biking in whistler but I wasn't sure, when we came home I found out that I was 10 along.

I continued to teach while being pregnant and yes I was very sick up until about 25 weeks. After that I felt fine, I had plenty of energy and I loved that I was busy being a first year teacher.