past week in review

Well I went to the doctor on Thursday and the doctor caught me off guard a little by telling me that I had already dilated 3 - 4 cm and needed to be on partial bedrest, and take medicine to stop the contractions I was having. I totally was not expecting that so it kinda got me in gear to get ready for the baby. I was only a little over 35 weeks so it made sense for me to wait until the baby was a little more developed before I had him. I went again today and as most of you know, we have no baby yet. I just turned 36 weeks today and we were praying that the baby would stay in at least until today, and it looks like he will stay in a little longer than that...hopefully at least until what is considered "full - term"...37 weeks. The medicine that the doctor gave me (brethine) must be helping a lot with the contractions because I haven't had as many lately and I haven't really changed much from being dilated 4 cm. My next appointment is next Monday so we'll see what happens. I'm still a little miserable but I think I can make it :) I've been trying to take it easy...it's a little hard with 2 almost "babies" themselves. But Shaun has really been a wonderful husband and helping me out with the housework and taking care of the boys when he is home. I really don't know what I would do without him.

We had a busy week last week. The missionary couple in our ward, the Crawford's, are leaving this week to go home to Canada after 2 years of service here, so our ward had them a dinner at the church on Monday to wish them well and give thanks to them for all of their service here. They are like part of our family so they are truly going to be missed.

My grandparent's 50th wedding anniversary was on Tuesday so we went out to celebrate at Sumo's Japanese Steak House. It was great with just immediate family there...just the way they would have wanted it. We wanted to give them a "reception" since they had never had one, but time slipped up on us and I'm kinda glad it did...because it was nice to spend the time just with them.

On Wednesday, Shaun and I celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary. 4 years and almost 3 kids later, I have really come to love him in a way that I couldn't have even imagined when we first started out on this journey. We did nothing extravagant this year...just enjoyed each other's company after the kids went to bed. It's wonderful to reminisce about all the good times spent together.

Then, this weekend, we also went to the MADD event that Tonya was in charge of and we all had a great time! Everything was well organized and from what I hear, the event raised a lot of money for the MADD organization...so GO TONYA!!

Anyways...most of you have already heard all this news...but I thought I would keep the rest of you who hasn't in the know about my life. We're just waiting for this little one to arrive these days. Hope everyone has a great week!

Here's a couple of the pictures from the hayride that we went on at my Uncle Byron's house on the day before Halloween...in which we got stuck on one of the uphills on the trail...fun...fun...and a little scary :) All the 'adults' had to get out so the trailer would be a little lighter, and all the kids and myself stayed in the trailer. Grandaddy got on the front of the tractor to put some weight on it to try and pull it out, and it must have helped because we finally got unstuck. Some of the kids freaked out a little...wait...I did too :)








The boys also had a really good time testing out the tractor when the hayride was over...that might have been their favorite part...



or was it riding the 4 wheeler...










or maybe even digging in the candy bucket...who knows :)