Lets start at the beginning... Nick and I met in high school. GoVanguards!!!

Love at first sight, not really we dated for a while and then decided to just be "friends". This lasted for a few years before we decided that things should be a little more permanent. Four years later we were expecting and planning a wedding.

On January 17, 2009, Nick and I tied the knot in Tustin, CA. The weather was beautiful as was everyone who attended. This was the first milestone of the Mayes Experience.

The second milestone was all ready in progress, she had been cooking for a little over three months when we said "I do". On the fourth of July, I was big as a house and our friend, Cody, thought that I would pop by the end of the night. He was wrong, but not by much.

Two days later I started going into labor. Nick and I were cleaning the house and I got this crazy pain in my stomach. Nick asked me if it was a contraction and I didn't know. It didn't take long to figure out. I had another one about an hour later and it was down hill from there. By ten o clock, they were coming every two to three minutes. After about an hour of walking around (the contractions were to bad to just sit), we headed down to St. Joe's hospital and there was no turning back. We were checked in to the hospital and in our room by 1:00 a.m. About an hour or so later, I got my epidural and took a little nap while we waited. After an hour of pushing and almost blacking out, Parker Sue Mayesarrived at 8:55 a.m. on Tuesday, July 7th. And, that is where our journey begins.