Christmas In The Park - Genevieve's first ballet recital

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MCA Fun Run!

MCA held a FUN RUN at the school to raise money. Genevieve and all the other students participated and had a great time running and walking laps to earn money for the school!!!

She ran/walked a total of 16 1/16 mile laps = 1 mile total!!! What a big girl Whooohooo!

We're off to Trick or Treat!!

We're off to friends to go trick or treating!!! Genevieve is going as a witch this year and Garrett is a little pumpkin!

We're going to make a couple of stops at neighbors houses and then we're off to their neighborhood....

HAPPY HALLOWEEN everyone!!!

Annual trip to Berts Pumpkin Patch

Last Saturday we took or annual trip to the pumpkin patch and this was Garrett's first time of course. He must have been super snugly warm in his pumpkin suit, he never cracked an eye lid the whole time we were there.

Todd brought his girls Allyn and Hollis along while Maci was having a good time visiting her college roommate in New York City.

The girls had a great time. We'll be visiting again this Saturday so Maci can join us......

Happy Halloween!!!

My First School Pictures

Genevieve Did such a good job!! These are her very first school pictures ever and the photographer did a great job getting her to smile and pose like such a big girl. I don't know which one is my favorite. I really like the one where she is standing next to the bench, but I also love the way she's smiling in the close up with the pink background Hmmmmmm......Oh well, I'll buy them all!!

Here he is!

Garrett vs Genevieve

I know these pictures probably aren't the best to be using to make a comparison with. I just wanted to show everyone how much they look alike. They could have passed for twins is all I'm saying!

Baby Pics

I can't believe he's finally here! He already shows signs of having blond hair... He looks a lot like Genevieve when she was born. I need to take some more pictures of him so you can see a comparison.

This picture was take in the hospital Friday 9/25 when my mom arrived from Texas! She stayed until Sunday but will be coming back in a few weeks.

Here Genevieve is making a silly face. I guess she really can't smile any harder! Genevieve loves her baby brother and she loves to help. She really likes to hold him and to give him a bottle. She's turning into a great "Big Sis"!

Here he is!

Hi there, well as most of you already know Garrett decided to make his appearance on my due date 9/24/09 and not one minute sooner. Wednesday started out weird to begin with. I can't explain it, I was just extra miserable that day and I didn't think I could take much more. Emotionally I was at the end of my rope. Mary watched Genevieve most of the morning while I worked on aschool project then the three of us went to Olive Garden than evening so I could ge some eggplant Parmesan (just smelling it put me into labor the first time). Later that evening I took a bath in hopes of relaxing a little. My water broke at 9:45pm as I was getting out of the bath tub. We arrived at the hospital around 10:30pm and got settled in for the night. I labored with moderate contractions throughout the night. At 6am I received an epidural and was started on Pitocin. With in 2 hours I was ready to push! The epidural was a little too strong so I had to come off of it a little before I could start pushing. Once I started feeling a little bit of pressure we began. I had to push a little bit longer than with Genevieve however it went relatively quick. He was born at 8:53am and weighed in at 8lbs 13 ounces, and was 22 inches long (1 pound heavier than Genevieve and and inch longer!).

Update #1

Welp, nothing as of yet. The doctor stripped my membranes this morning since I was 80% effaced but hadn't dilated any further. I'm still only 1cm. That doesn't surprise me to be honest. My water broke with Genevieve however I never actually dilated on my own. We checked into the hospital at 8pm Sunday night and they didn't start giving me pitocin until that next morning around 6:00 I think. I don't think I would have ever done it on my own.
I have a feeling that this birth will be similar. Stay tuned!!!

In the mean time I'll keep busy with class work and playing with my embroidery machine. This burp cloth turned out cute (It's for a friend). This is more applique than embroidery but the machine still made it ;)