The Good Life

This is the story of Lakelyn's birth. This is a day that I will always remember! I woke up at 5:00 am on Thursday, July 19, 2010 with contractions...4 days past my due date. By 5:30 am I decided that I should start timing them. They were about 5 minutes apart so I went ahead and jumped in the shower. I wanted to make sure I was ready in case we needed to go ahead to the hospital. I also wanted to see if I got up and moved around if they would go away or get stronger. Needless to say they never really got any stronger, but they never went away either. They were also pretty irregular...they would go from 5 minutes apart to 3 minutes apart to 8 minutes apart. At this point Jason is awake and wondering what to do about work. I had a doctors appointment at 10:20 that morning so we decided that he should just stay home and go to the doctor's appointment with me. We would see what Dr. Nethers had to say and if it was nothing he could go on to work after that. We made arrang...

Lakelyn Nicole July 19 at 5:55pm 8lbs 6oz 20in Mommy and baby are both doing great and I promise I will be back soon with more details!!

It's all a waiting game now! Here I am at 39.5 weeks pregnant...wow, where did the last 9 months go?!?! It is a little bittersweet. Although I cannot wait to meet "little bit," I am also a little sad that this pregnancy is coming to an end. Then again, I am pretty ready to have this baby and I have my moments when it feels like I am going to be pregnant FOREVER!! I had my weekly doctor's appointment today and I am also a little sad to report that there has been no change since my last visit. I am still at 2cm and only 50% effaced. Then again, this is a good thing since Dr. Nether's informed me that he is flying to Atlanta tonight and won't be back until tomorrow, but then he is off on Wednesday. So he gave me very strict orders to not go into labor until Thursday! And like I have said before, I have never had a baby early yet, so I am keeping my fingers crossed that I don't start a new trend this time! My goal is to go into labor on my own, but D...

Our 4th of July weekend was so busy, but we sure had a lot of fun! Saturday morning, the kids and I headed over to White Mills Days to ride in the parade. Jason's Uncle Dwight is running for Magistrate and asked if we would ride on his float and throw out candy. Avery loved every minute of it, but Oaks was being awful shy that morning and wouldn't talk to a soul. He just sat in Aunt Jen's lap and never moved! Then of course after the parade we had to go play games, socialize, and get our chicken dinner. Jason and a huge group of people decided to do a 6 hour float down the river that afternoon and being that I am 9 months pregnant I didn't go. Instead, the kids and I went to Jason's sisters house for a cookout/swim party. The kids had a blast playing with their cousins and the new friends they made. That evening once everyone got off the river we had a pot luck and shot off fireworks at our house. The next day we spent the evening at Jason's mom and dad...

As most of you know, Avery was born Christmas Day. To keep things easy and to give Avery her own day we have a half birthday party instead of trying to have a birthday party at Christmas. This year was so much fun!! We kept it a little smaller by only inviting her friends that were her age. We decorated down by the river and had all the little girls tutu's, fairy wings, and flower clips for their hair. The girls also made their own fairy dust and painted fairy houses to take home. It was a perfect day until all of the sudden it began to pour down rain! All the little girls hid under the table until we could get them to run to the house. Once at the house we decided to open the presents on the front porch since everyone was drenched! This seemed like a good idea until it started lighting and thundering...with every clap of thunder I had 8 little girls screaming at the top of their lungs! Needless to say the party turned out to be quite an adventure, but I still say it was ...

A few weeks ago Avery attended Vacation Bible School at our church. They always do such a great job with the kids!! Avery learned a lot about God and Jesus and had a ton of fun this year. I think her favorite is all the songs she learns! She is quite the little singer! She told me that she wished she got to go to Bible School everyday. Next year Oakley will be able to go and I know he is looking forward to it. He didn't like it too much that he still had to go to "school" everyday and Avery got to stay home for a week and go to Bible school. Here a few pictures from the last day and their performance Friday evening.