Week of 7-7-19

GRANDPA'S HOUSE
My dad invited us up for dinner Sunday night.  That was a fun time.  We brought Nate's pulled pork and dad had everything else.  We sat out in the backyard and talked and laughed.   Steve was there, and we called Brent and facetimed with his family for a little bit too.  It was a nice time!  7-7-19

BRAD PHYSICAL
We had a little impromptu Physical Exam for Brad on Monday.  Luckily they were able to squeeze him in.  He is a very healthy kid.  It's fun to see all his numbers and know that he's perfectly fine.  I'm so grateful for his activity level and all that he is involved in that help him to stay in shape and healthy.  He's such a good kid.  We got him a frosty after :).  (the lady in front of us paid for $5 of our order because she felt bad for butting in line.  funny I didn't even feel like she had)  7-8-19

DESMOND'S FOR DINNER
We had the Desmonds over for dinner and FHE this week!  That ended up being a lot of fun!  I was surprised at how well it all went!  And glad that we were able to do that before we have the baby.  7-8-19

DENTIST
We had a bunch of dumb dentist appointments this week which was such a bummer.  Noah and Jack needed work done on Tuesday. 7-9-19

LUNCH WITH DIANE
I got to go to Costa Vida with Diane on Tuesday.  She was so funny when she realized and asked if I was pregnant!  YEP!  And I'm having my baby in two days!  Nobody in Shadowbrook ward knew I guess.  Kinda weird.  I wasn't very good at getting the word out.  It was a nice lunch though.  Lots of chatting.  Felt good.  7-9-19

DGL BOARD MEETING
We had a board meeting that went on way too long.  We were able to discuss how we want to get the word out and build up our program district wide.  We'll see if that can happen.  I'm happy I will have a good excuse to not be around for a while.  7-9-19

PLAYGROUP SPLASHPAD
This was a fun playgroup.  It was fun to talk to Emily and Natalie and Lisa about having our baby tomorrow!  It's super exciting!  The kids played a little and then walked to Fiiz for drinks.  We're on our last bit of our last lap!  It's almost here!!!  7-10-19

JULY 11TH!!!
The day had finally come!!  I cannot tell you how excited I was to have this day here!  It NEVER felt close!  Even the day of, looking forward to 5:00 pm felt like forever!!  So we made lots of plans.  I knew I had to be done eating by 9:00am, so I was hoping to go to Kneaders and have some yummy chunky french toast with everyone as one last hurrah, but of course, we had forgotten about the dumb dentist appointments for Erika and Luke.  This put the kabosh on my plans.  But to improvise I ended up taking Erika and Luke to the Kneaders drive thru and eating our breakfast together on the way back home to where Dad was going to take them to the dentist :).  It was a delicious breakfast.  I was satisfied :).  I let Nate take the kids while I tried to straighten up the house a little.  It was really hard to move around at that point, so I didn't get a whole lot done and part of me just didn't care at all.  Which is really unusual for me, but somehow knowing that the kids were going to be governing themselves in our house for the next four days, I just didn't feel the push to get it spotless like I usually do.  Kinda weird, but then again, I was NOT myself at the end there.  I was really struggling to survive.  So when Nate, Erika and Luke got home, we took off for Rush Funplex! This was our "Last Big Hurrah"!  It's tradition to do something the night before, but with this being an evening c-section, we did it the day of.  I kept calling it Sparkle's Birthday Party. 

We got two hour wrist bands (mainly because we needed to be back in two hours to get get ready for the hospital) and played hard!  It was an interesting time for me, did a little reflecting on the pregnancy, and our time with 8 kids.  It hit me that this was probably my last day ever being pregnant.  Which I was okay with, just a realization.  Everyone was happy and enjoying each others' company.  I think my favorite part was watching everyone bowl.  We had a great time!  On our way home we stopped for some Arby's for lunch (not that I was able to eat anything), and provided the kids with some more last minute instructions.  We were leaving the big kids in charge for the next couple days and wanted to make sure everyone was on the same page.  I was glad that we had this fun time together, I assumed they'd all be too tired to get into any trouble til the next time I saw them :).  Time to shower and get ready to go meet our new little girl! 7-11-19