Go Hogs!!!

Woooooooo. Pig. Sooie!

Woooooooo. Pig. Sooie!

Woooooooo. Pig. Sooie!

Razorbacks!

I'm Going to be an Aunt!!!

Congratulations to my sister and brother-in-law! They are expecting their first baby! I haven't been more excited about something since I found out that I was expecting! I am going to be an aunt and Caden is going to have a cousin! We love you Courtney and Paul and we can't wait to meet you Baby Bennett!

Caden's Birth Story - Part 1

Caden will be three months old on Thursday so I decided I'd better write down everything that I remember about his birth before I forgot. I thought that he might like to know someday and since I am terrible at scrapbooking I thought that this blog would be a good way to preserve our memories. So here it goes:

Every summer our church's youth group does an event called Local Mission Project. The students and adult volunteers go out into our community to help others in need. Blake and I helped out in the evenings this year. Tuesday night we had dinner with the students and then we went to the movie theater to watch Toy Story 3 which was the Special Event for the night. I started having pretty consistent and painful contractions while we were waiting for the movie to start. I started timing the contractions and timed them throughout the movie. I didn't really believe that I was in labor because I had been having consistent contractions a couple of nights a week for a few weeks, but these contractions didn't stop. I continued to time them through worship and free time. Blake and I were at the church until about 12:30am.

When we got home the contractions increased in intensity. I decided to take a bath to see if they would go away. They didn't. Blake and I decided to try to get some sleep just in case we had to go to the hospital later. As soon as the first contraction hit after we went to bed I knew that I would not be able to sleep. I was still hesitant to go to the hospital. My biggest fear was that we would get to the hospital and they would tell us to go back home because I wasn't actually in labor. Blake and I debated for about three minutes when the next contraction hit. We knew then that it was time to go.

We had to call Cole so that he could come take care of Mayzie and Toby while we were gone. He didn't hesitate even though it was about 1:30am. I was amazed at how fast he got to our house. Thank you Cole! We made him promise not to tell anyone because we wanted to get settled at the hospital before we told anyone else.

Blake was so excited and nervous. It was so sweet! He had to get everything together and loaded into the car because I could barely move during the contractions. We got loaded up and headed to the hospital at about 2am.

Stay tuned for Part 2!