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Coming home from the hospital is always a HUGE relief for me. I can't stand staying in there longer than a day and thankfully they got me out quick this time. I came home to so many helpers!</div>
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Drew giving us some insanely big smiles on day 2!</div>
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Even Kara got some quality Auntie time before she had to leave. I must say she helped me out a lot!!! She watched my 3 boys plus her own 7 month old the entire time I was in the hospital! From Tuesday to Saturday. She will definitely be able to handle a dozen kids of her own ;)</div>
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I went in Tuesday night,13 days after my due date to be induced...</div>
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Hopefully this doesn't gross anyone out but they put a wireless monitor on called the "Monica" to let me be able to walk around and not be confined to a bed. It was pretty cool!</div>
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I felt like I was about to pop out a baby Ironman or something! See the light shining through my gown?!</div>
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Do I look tired or what?!! 3 days in the hospital with not very much sleep. Yes this is as good of a picture as you're going to get! </div>
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He looks more like Blake as a newborn in this picture</div>
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Drew is definitely a mini Tyler!</div>
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The boys first time meeting Drew!</div>
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Tuesday, May 10:</div>
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I left the boys in Kara's hands and off we went to the hospital on Tuesday, May 10. I was at a 2 and maybe 20% effaced. I had a LONG way to go! I started with a balloon induction. So they put the balloon in and I "slept" all night...which was a joke cuz I really didn't sleep well. It's not the most comfortable thing. They also started me on antibiotics since I had Group B strep (first time). They thought I may have the baby quick since it was my 4th...Big mistake because once they start the antibiotics they have to do them every 4 hours til the baby is born. I still had DAYS before he would be here.</div>
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Wednesday, May11:<br />
Woke up in the morning and waited for the balloon to come out. It took FOREVER!!! We walked, we played games, we watched tv, we walked some more...We decided to get started on cytotec to see if that would put me into labor. They give a small pill to you every 4 hours and you can take up to 4 doses. Supposedly if you've had multiple children, which I have, cytotec is a really good option for you because it will put you into labor. No luck for me...The balloon did end up coming out around 2:00pm that day and I was at a 5! But still only 20% effaced. Every check they did was horribly painful and I would start shaking every time my midwife came into the room! Or even a nurse. I get HORRIBLE anxiety in the hospital. So we continued to wait, on the cytotec. Nothing happened when I took my last dose so they decided to stop everything and let me sleep through the night. Thank goodness!!! I'm pretty sure they kept up the antibiotics though although I don't remember at this point...<br />
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I started on Pitocin the next morning around 8am and the contractions began! I had contractions throughout the last two days but nothing regular. I was still able to get up and walk around so we made our rounds in the hall. They were upping the pitocin slowly since I was trying to go for the no epidural thing. One cool thing that happened was while we were walking in the hall-my old OBGYN, Dr. Hinkle, was there and he recognized me before I recognized him!! He was my doctor when I had Blake and he was an AMAZING doctor. He ended up changing hospitals and introduced me to the midwife group who I am with now, which is why he isn't my doctor anymore, and I was amazed he remembered my name. <br />
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So we continued playing games, watching tv...etc...My midwife came in and broke my water around 5:00pm and the contractions started becoming more powerful. By 10:30pm was really having to work through the contractions, however, I did not want to get checked because it still had been so painful. I think it was because I wasn't very effaced yet still. However around 11:00pm I started having my doubts and decided to get checked. I knew I still had a ways to go by how painful everything was, but I think I was at a point of exhaustion and started to not care about any of my goals :) When my midwife checked me I was 80-90% effaced and at a 7...I was incredibly let down knowing I had only gone from a 5 to a 7 that ENTIRE day. The effacement was very encouraging but not enough to make it through. So I called for the epidural. Her original poke did not work so she pulled out and poked again. Success! I started feeling the effects and remembered why I had loved my epidural with Austin! My upper body however continued to shake A LOT so I told Tyler to hold me down to see if I could relax. However after about 10 minutes I all of a sudden started getting a warm sensation like the epidural was rising above my waist and I started tasting a saline/metallic taste in my mouth and I started FREAKING OUT! (I had a BAD experience with an epidural with Cody that was only in for about one minute and it numbed me up to my chest and didn't wear off for 3 hours...I had trouble breathing and thought I was going to be paralyzed!! I had vowed never to get an epidural again....but as you can see my goals were overcome by pain) I asked my nurse what she put in my IV and she looked at me with terrified eyes! It may sound like I was being overdramatic at this point but I was seriously terrified! THANKFULLY the sensation wore off and I had no excessive numbing. The epidural worked just fine and I turned on my side and tried to go to sleep.<br />
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Friday, May 13:<br />
Sleep never came because an hour later I was ready to push! I felt the pressure, but no pain(thank you epidural) I woke Tyler up from his short slumber(poor guy) and told him the baby was coming and to call the nurse IMMEDIATELY! I was so ready to get this baby out! He was so groggy and didn't realize what I had said but he called the nurse and asked her to come check me while I was yelling at him to tell her the baby was coming out! Nurse came in and said I was ready to go! Hallelujah. Best Words Ever! Midwife came in and I asked if I could stay on my side to deliver and she said I could. Baby was already crowning and I had a few short pushes and Drew was here! It really was the best pushing and delivery I had ever had. Probably because it was so quick and painless. He was whopping...8 lbs. 9 oz. and 21 inches. Perfect size!!! 16 days late and he was perfect! They put him on my chest immediately and my midwife sat on the bed next to me for the next 20 minutes while we delayed the cord clamping. It was such an amazing whirlwind for me to just be excited and so relieved and to be able to talk to my midwife and Tyler after just helping me bring this beautiful baby into this world. Tyler cut the cord and then I held and nursed Drew for the next hour and a half! Then they took him to weigh him and clean him up. They did not give him a bath for 24 hours after birth. <br />
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I really loved this experience and am convinced now that I am not a good candidate for natural birthing...Once I got my epidural it relaxed me and helped me get this baby here. Who knows how much longer it would have taken me if I pushed through the pain. I don't even want to think about it! I am truly grateful everything went well since he was so overdue! I am one lucky mama to 4 crazy boys! </div>
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We flew Kara down to help watch the kids while I had Drew. We got to spend a few days with her before the big day. And to the ZOO we went!</div>
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Her little boy Landon is absolutely the cutest!!!</div>
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Love this pic of Blake!</div>
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Landon wasn't too sure about the cow</div>
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TOO CUTE!!!!</div>
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Every year I have high hopes of taking picture in Blue Bonnets and it NEVER WORKS OUT! But THIS YEAR we made it happen!!! Blake with his binoculars, Austin with his jar of bugs, and Cody ready to shoot your lights out! Love them!</div>
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Blake and Judah! Best Pre-School buds!</div>
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Fun with dad!</div>
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Anniversary dinner at a Greek Restaurant! I LOVED the Greek Salad and meat gyros. We tried some pretty crazy appetizers that I wasn't so sure about. Last night date night out before baby comes!</div>
Rachel Hairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13886797515189897171noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2253744887796592463.post-33382450422752718812016-07-28T14:48:00.001-07:002016-07-28T15:08:13.603-07:00Pumping Some Iron!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Why do I exercise while pregnant? To keep up with these 3 shenanigans! I LOVE this picture my friend Emily took of my boys a month before Drew arrived. We had to give Cody fruit snacks to be in the picture but his face is picture perfect!</div>
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I think I was about 38 weeks in this picture. Still squattin'! </div>
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Here I am at 40.5 weeks pregnant doing incline bench</div>
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This is me as well at 40.5 weeks doing alligator pushups across the gym floor</div>
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And here are some AMAZING ladies I workout with at the YMCA. The class is called "Fit Camp" led by our awesome trainer Jim! They encouraged and supported me the entire way. Love these ladies!!!<br />
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And one last photo of me working out while pregnant! This is me 12 DAYS AFTER MY DUE DATE! Yes you heard me...My friend put on an obstacle course at her ranch and I couldn't NOT do it! One part of it was jump roping 100 jumps. You should have seen the rest of it! </div>
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I was sooooo lucky that my best friend from Elementary School decided to spend her Spring Break here with me in Texas! She brought her two kids Cedric and Quinn with her and we had such a good time! One day we went to Flight Deck where the kids bounced and bounced.</div>
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Blake and Cedric had fun lining up all these foam cubes</div>
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Another day we went to the zoo. Quinn and Cody eating their cake pops!</div>
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They spent a lot of time in the backyard digging in the dirt</div>
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Quinn climbing the treehouse. She is sooooooooooooooo cute!!!!</div>
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They all passed out in the car! A mark of a great day.</div>
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We also rode the kid train which was the highlight for Cedric. He is crazy in love with trains! </div>
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We played volleyball one night with a group of friends.</div>
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I must say I was VERY impressed with Lyette's volleyball skills. We were on the same JV team in high school and even though she hasn't played much since then she was definitely one of the better girl players on the court. Here I was 38 weeks pregnant still jumping and spiking the ball!</div>
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Oh to have a GIRL!!!! Thanks so much for visiting us!! Cody still will talk about Cedric every now and then.</div>
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Good thing we got our van right before our trip! We got to squeeze Janelle and Hazel in with us on our drive from Hattiesburg to NOLA. Chris was going to meet us down there.</div>
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First stop was the Aquarium</div>
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We looked like a polygamous family walking around before Chris showed up. Janelle and I were both pregnant and Hazel looked like she belonged to Tyler.</div>
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A very rare Albino Crocodile at the aquarium. It looked like it was glowing!</div>
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We were told we HAD to get the beignets from Cafe du Monde! And they did not disappoint!</div>
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My first time seeing the Mississippi River! It was HUGE! and dirty</div>
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Eat our beignets along the Mississippi River</div>
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Next stop was the Insectarium. This was a really cool place! And of course the Slug Bug was a huge hit</div>
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The boys ate some cookies with a beetle baked into it! Austin was a little hesitant but ended up eating it. Blake was pretty upset there was a bug in it and would not eat his.</div>
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I love the colors in this picture! My chacos I've had for EVER (9-10 years) and my fresh pedicure!</div>
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Butterfly landed on Chris's head! We all stayed in a little house (AirBnB) and it was so cute and New Orleansish! </div>
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We walked through the French Quarters and ate at a place called "Daisy Duke's"! We had a lot of fun hanging out with Chris and Janelle! And although New Orleans was great...overall it was not a kid friendly place. But we're glad we made the trip out and experienced the things we did! Love making memories!</div>
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On our drive home we stopped in Houston to drop Tyler off at a work training that he would be at for an entire week. We stopped and ate dinner with one of my friend's from back home and then she was nice enough to let us come back and hang out the next day before we drove home. </div>
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We made it to Chris and Janelle's on St. Patrick's Day!!! Janelle made us a "Green Eggs and Ham" dinner and we loved it!!!</div>
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Then we found coins inside Leprechaun balls!!</div>
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Hazel loved having all the boys there! It was so fun to see her interact with them.</div>
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And of course some green rice krispy treats for dessert!</div>
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We decided to take at trip down to Mississippi to visit Tyler's brother Chris and wife Janelle and cute little girl Hazel. On our drive down one of our pit stops was at a Disc Golf Course...of course...The video is of me doing 2 pull-ups and I think I was 34/35 weeks pregnant at this point...</div>
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I am more of a lets just drive and get there...Tyler likes to make stops and drive 10 minutes off the beaten path to get to a stop...Drives me a little crazy but it's always fun in the end...They all loved throwing the frisbee around. What's being in the car an extra hour when your 35 weeks pregnant right?</div>
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We stopped and stayed in a cabin on our way up...Can't remember where it was now...We went on a fun hike and saw lots of awesome bugs and trees and flowers. (pssst...Tyler says it was at Hodges Gardens State Park, LA...hehe)</div>
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Tyler cookin' up some dutch oven dinner! Chili Mac and it was a HIT!</div>
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Austin catching lizards on the back porch</div>
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On the hike practicing being frogs before entering the BOG</div>
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Waterfall Pose!</div>
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Teaching the boys some absolutely necessary Geology info...There was something really cool about this rock and now I don't remember what it was...Guess I wasn't listening. HA! (pssst...Tyler says it's a giant piece of petrified wood, actually more like an entire section of petrified trunk...hehe)</div>
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And here's my belly...I felt so much smaller with Drew this time around then with Cody but I feel like I look pretty big for being 34/35 weeks...</div>
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Austin played on a basketball team for the first time. They had a great team and won every game! So fun to watch. Here's a video of Austin's first LONG shot...He was pretty proud! Can't wait to see him play next year!</div>
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Blake learned how to ride a bike March 2016...Unfortunately he got a little over confident and his first crash resulted into a split open chin</div>
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A was very brave at the hospital...However, he refuses to get back on his bike...Baby Steps!</div>
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Cody is a regular eating machine and weighs almost as much as Blake now!</div>
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Love this picture of the boys!</div>
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Sunday lunch up in the treefort! We love the weather in Texas in Feb/Mar!</div>
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I have a lot to catch up on so these next few posts will be some quick highlights since Austin's birthday last February! Austin was in the Spanish Immersion Kindergarten program at his school. He had the BEST teacher, Senora Koppes. She is full of energy and fun, yet has a very disciplined, well behaved class. Austin loved her! He won the award of being a Gold Standard Student. They choose one student in all the pre-K and Kindergarten classes at the school every 6 weeks. He was so excited and got to wear his shirt every Friday for the rest of the school year...which he always made sure he wore. Austin excelled in Kindergarten and went from not reading hardly at all to reading in English and Spanish and writing full sentences with punctuation in Spanish and English! We are excited for Blake to go to Kindergarten this next year and have his same teacher. Way to go Austin!</div>
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Austin turned 6 this year and asked for a Star Wars Party. Tyler and I got a little carried away one night with planning and ended up with 15 kids and a pinterest success of a party!!! It was really was so much fun to put together, and the kids did great. I definitely was exhausted by the end of it. Our good friends provided dinner for us that night and I counted my blessings of all the amazing families we know here in Texas and their amazing kids that made this birthday party epic!</div>
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The food! My only original idea was the Chewbacca Chips! haha. In case you can't read the sign there was Yoda Soda and Vadar Veggies</div>
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Ewok Treats-Teddy Grahams, R2D2 Nuts and Bolts(Trail Mix), Tie Fighters(Oreo Wafers with a mini marshmallow in he middle), and Fruit Sabers.</div>
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Storm Trooper Cupcakes!</div>
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We put the kids through a Jedi Training course. I made "no sew" little Jedi robes for all the kids when they came. I love our R2D2 trash can!!</div>
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First game was "Don't Eat Yoda" - also known as Don't Eat Pete. We played this while all the kids showed up.</div>
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Here's almost the entire bunch. We started the obstacle training course on top of the tree house where Tyler gave them instructions. Then we let them down the slide one by one to begin. The kids were so patient since they could watch everything going on below while waiting their turn.</div>
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Our lone Princess Leia crossing the tree stumps!</div>
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Walking across the balance wall to the Lava Pit</div>
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They had to jump in the lava and avoid popping the Lava Bombs</div>
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We used our cornhole game and turned it into the Death Star. They had to throw a bean bag through the hole before they moved on.</div>
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Next was crawling through the tunnel</div>
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Then they had to throw the Flying Discs into the basket</div>
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Then they hopped on their speeders and made their way through the asteroid belt all the way across the driveway and down our brick path where they retrieved their lights saber (Pool Noodle)</div>
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Lots of Speeders!</div>
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Once they got their Light Saber they had to make their way through this balloon pit. They had to hit all the white and black balloons(Storm Troopers and Vadar) and not hit the green ones (Yoda)</div>
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Once everyone completed the course Tyler taught them some blocking and attacking moves with their light saber. Here they all are practicing what they learned.</div>
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They also meditated and gained some words of wisdom from the Yoda Master about controlling your emotions. </div>
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Then we just let them loose in the backyard and let them mess around for a while. We had some ping pong balls on golf tees stuck into a pool noodle cut in half to practice their Nerf shooting. There was a lot of Light Saber practicing going on...</div>
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Then we came inside for cupcakes and food which we promptly kicked them back outside to eat.</div>
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The crazy crew!</div>
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That's a big smile on his face covered with chocolate frosting</div>
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After the presents were opened we had a surprise visitor! Darth Vadar!!! The kids grabbed their sabers and they each got to fight Vadar one on one to pass their final Jedi Training Test.</div>
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We had my oldest sister Jamie and her family for Christmas this year along with my parents. My sister has 6 kids! We took them all to the stockyards one day. Here are mine and hers and we all managed to fit into our house for a week!</div>
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Family Picture on a nice hot sunny day!</div>
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Finally got my picture on a Longhorn! Austin was brave enough to do it with me.</div>
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Cattle Drive time!</div>
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Doing whatever it takes to keep the kids busy and happy!</div>
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Trying out the new hot wheels tracks. Everyone put in some great effort!</div>
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Blake and Sadie playing "Go Fish". These two got along surprisingly well.</div>
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Grandma playing games with some grandkids</div>
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Me and Ella! She always wanted to say goodnight to me or talk to me but then when it came time to actually do it she was too shy. So I finally got a picture with her while she is attached to her mommy's hip.</div>
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23 weeks! My belly grew a lot in this one week while family was here!</div>
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My mom made soap while I finished reading my book!</div>
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She also shampooed my carpets while I went to the gym!</div>
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She really wanted to try out the leaf blower! My mom does not sit still...</div>
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Annual New Year's Eve party at the Plummer's house! Yes that is a blow up slide INSIDE the house!</div>
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My bosom friend Allison came to visit me right after New Years! I was so excited to see her since she has moved away last summer. We are connected like Anne of Green Gables and Diana!</div>
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Another experiment my mom and I tried was homemade chapstick! It was so hard to see them go. So many fun memories over Christmas!</div>
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Still amazing weather! So we took advantage and did some horseback riding. Blake did great on Beau!</div>
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Cody surprised me and was super excited to ride the horse and did so great! I held on just in case he let go of the horn. </div>
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We acquired our first pet fish from a White Elephant party we went to. The boys named him Neon. I keep him right in front of my kitchen sink and he keeps me company while I do dishes...all day...everyday...not really, but sometimes I feel like I do dishes that much! I really do like having a fish though!</div>
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Blake had his preschool program where they performed some cute songs they'd been practicing. Here is his good friend Judah. These two have become quite the pair!</div>
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Right after Thanksgiving we took advantage of the awesome weather we've had this winter and too the boys to the Fort Worth Nature Refuge for a little hiking and exploring. Here we are at the beginning of the trail. </div>
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Cody was a champ on the piggyback rider. It worked out very well for him to hop on and off</div>
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We got to study lots of footprints</div>
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On the lookout with binoculars</div>
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My one picture with Cody. Shadow pics!</div>
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We surprised Tyler's family with the news of our next baby when they came for Thanksgiving!!! How we kept it a secret for 18 weeks, I don't know...The week after Thanksgiving we found out the gender and I texted this picture to my family to tell them the news about Baby #4 as well since we hadn't told them. It was so fun telling them the gender and the news all at once. The boys are so excited to have another brother. "Hair we go again!" Having another boy seems so much less stressful than the thought of having a girl. As ecstatic as I would be to have a girl I think I would also be terrified! So we are happy with another boy. Bring on the D names!!</div>
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We hosted Tyler's family for Thanksgiving this year and I somehow convinced all 4 of my sisters in law to run the Turkey Trot with me! I love this run and it's a good excuse to eat extra on Thanksgiving since you just ran off a few 100 extra calories. Here I am coming in towards the end.</div>
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Race is DONE! My time was better than I was expecting so I was excited. Especially bring 18 weeks pregnant!</div>
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My friend Karen used to live in Fort Worth but has since moved to Houston. She still has family in the area that she was visiting for Thanksgiving, and decided to join our team and run the Turkey Trot with us! It was so fun to see her again even if it was for a short time.</div>
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All the Hair girls post-race! and lucky Boston got to ride in the stroller. It was a perfect day for a race! Not too cold and not too hot. Thanks ladies for running this with me!</div>
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Cody has really enjoyed playing baseball outside with his brothers! It is so fun to see them all play the same thing.</div>
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You can see the ball in the air if you look close. Cody can already smack the ball right off the T! I can tell he's already very driven when playing sports.</div>
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The boys were invited to a friend's cowboy birthday party. It was such a fun and cute party! Lots of fun cowboy games where they earned a hat, handkerchief and a sheriff badge. Austin was SOOOOO excited to dress up in his cowboy gear.</div>
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Blake on the other hand wanted nothing to do with "cowboy" but I finally convinced him to ride the pony and he really did enjoy that.</div>
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Cody much preferred his seat up on the tractor. This big tractor was pulling a wagon full of hay bales and we got to go on a hay ride around their ranch and get a good look at everything. Such a fun birthday party and the weather was perfect!</div>
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We decided to go with Avengers this year since Blake already had the Ironman costume and I really wanted to be Black Widow. Tyler naturally fits Captain America so I gave him no choice. And I loved the idea of Cody being Hulk! Austin was a stinker and chose Green Lantern, but he was happy and it was an easy costume to come up with! </div>
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My friend threw an adult Halloween Party like she does every year and it gets everyone excited for dressing up! I love it! I borrowed this black leather jacket and this leg holster and fake gun from a fellow neighbor who works for the local Police Department. It was a LEGIT holster! Also very fun to wear. </div>
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Tyler followed a youtube video and made his shield out of cardboard and ducktape. It ROCKED! It actually flies and took him 5 hours to make. :) That was dedication...but the rest of his outfit was a stretch so he had to make the shield look awesome.</div>
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We had great weather in October and took advantage of it one day after church and ate our dinner up in the tree fort.</div>
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It was a fun adventure</div>
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Tyler turned 31 end of October. He had a lot of fun surprises...including a surprise birthday party with all his buddies and a friend and I decorated his room at church where he teaches seminary from 6:00am-7:00am every morning to high school aged kids at our church. I left some cupcake for him and his class in the fridge. </div>
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It was nice to just have one cupcake for everyone rather than a huge cake! </div>
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We got daddy a bucket toilet for his birthday so Blake decided to try it out</div>
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Lincoln log building buddies!</div>
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Austin's first day of Kindergarten picture. He is in a Spanish Immersion program and it has been going so well! We love it! And he loves it. He has an amazing teacher Senora Koppes. He has already learned a good amount of Spanish. Tyler is very excited and happy with him, especially since his pronunciation of the words is perfect! </div>
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Blake was COMPLETELY against a first day of preschool picture so this is just a random picture of him. He goes to preschool twice a week and loves his class. He's made a really great friend in his class too and those two are inseparable! </div>
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Not long after school started Austin came down with a HORRIBLE toothache one night. Thank goodness our dentist is a good friend so I texted him for some help and he got us in early the next morning. Austin handled his new "robot tooth" like a champ! They couldn't pull it since his permanent tooth wasn't surfacing yet so he has a silver tooth now. He is quite proud of it.</div>
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I started a weight loss journey when Cody was about 9 months old. This picture was taken October 2015. I was not happy with my weight but nursing is always a struggle for me and I feel like I have to eat a lot to keep my milk supply. So I started a Health Challenge through Meltdown Challenge when my cousin encouraged me to join. She was my Health Coach and I loved being a part of a group that supported me and encouraged me every day! I was surprised to lose 7 pounds in my first challenge of 6 weeks when I was still nursing and my goal wasn't even to lose weight! It was mainly to eat healthier. My exercise has always been consistent so I knew my diet needed to change.</div>
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This is me before my last Health Challenge I did starting June 2015. I was down 13 lbs from the picture up above</div>
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This picture was taken July 2015. I was so excited to meet my weight goal!!! I am 20 lbs lighter than the very top picture! </div>
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Once I got down to the desired weight I continued my exercise pursuits. I go to Fitcamp at our local YMCA 3 times a week and very recently our trainer had us do a 6 week bench press routine along with our other workout. I increased my bench max from 155lbs to 170lbs! I never thought I would ever be able to lift that much. EVER! It was such a rush. I had to get a guns picture as proof of what I have accomplished! My workout buddy Whitney pushes me hard every workout! </div>
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Blake loves Hot Wheels cars so we had a Hot Wheels Birthday for him which was perfect for a hot day in July! I completely messed up his bday cake which was going to be 3 layers, but only managed to salvage one layer so I made the rest into cake balls. We also had fruit on a stick representing a stoplight. Loved hose!</div>
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I loved all these checker flags and colored balloons!</div>
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LOVED the entrance! We used garbage bags and yellow duct tape.</div>
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Tyler set up an obstacle course/racetrack in the backyard and the kids all brought their bikes to ride. Perfect entertainment for a bunch of kids. Also off in the grass we set up our PVC pipe car wash for everyone to get wet since it was so hot!</div>
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The Start Line!</div>
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As much as Blake shies away from crowds he loves being the center of attention on his birthday which I am so glad cuz his birthday parties always seem to turn out the best! Happy Birthday to my sweet, soft spoken, adorable Blake!</div>
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