... I had a baby!
After several pregnancy related health problems and a week on bed rest I ended up having to be induced at 37 weeks.
Grayson Briggs was born on August 26th....
...and it's been a whirlwind of craziness ever since.
It's been 4 1/2 years since we've had a little newborn in our home so all of the kids were super excited to get to the hospital and check him out.
And of course, Dan is one proud papa.
Here are a few of my favorite pics from Gray's first week home.
Of course having a new baby does not mean life will stand still for you while you get adjusted. Nope, not even a little bit. While I was in the hospital I remembered thinking I feel great, I'm doing pretty good. I found myself walking the halls doing laps, with the baby, out of boredom, ready to get outside and back to the real world. But one quick trip to Target on my way home, after being discharged, proved that I wasn't as ready for the "real world" as I thought I was. I stood in Target while everyone zipped and raced by me. The outside world felt so fast paced. I felt slow, sick, tired and out of place. Definitely not back to my 100% like I thought I was.
When I arrived home my kids were on the same fast track as the people in Target. They were very excited for school to start and couldn't wait to go school shopping and have our special back to school dinner, they tried to bring several neighbors into my bedroom while I was nursing and much much more. After a few tears from yours truly Dan announced to the kids, "Mom is getting some time off and everything would have to be postponed for a few weeks." It all just felt a little sad to me for a few days :( We'll just call this my "Adjustment Period".
August 31st Back to School...
and since no back to school outfits were purchased and no back to school pictures were actually taken of the kids this year we'll just use these beautiful pics Jenne took instead :)
Alaina- 7th Grader (even though she looks like a junior)
Playing Volleyball and trying out for choir this year.
Ky -6th Grader
Playing basketball and LOVES to read.
Hailey -4th Grader
Playing soccer and a HUGE help with the baby.
Kase -2nd Grader
Playing soccer and a big time people person. He has a TON of friends.
Hudson our little preschooler.
He loves school and is always making our family laugh.
Jenne also took newborn pics of the baby at 11 days old.
A couple weeks after school started I felt like I was back in the swing of things...
We had our fancy "Back to School Dinner" and introduced our family's theme for the year.
"Our home is a Heaven on Earth".
I returned back to being a "soccer mom" I guess you could say.
2 kids in soccer, 1 kid in Volleyball and 4 kids taking piano lessons. Oh boy!?!
And my daily life always includes these guys.
Which is always entertaining!
September 22nd- We had a quick b-day party for "Dan the Man" and bought him cool presents like underwear and socks :)
October and November were pretty much a blur. Dan was going to school, working 15hrs a day, servicing all of his lawncare customers, getting 800 sprinkler blowouts done and running his other businesses. Then homework on top of that. So pretty much I was a single mom of 6 for a while but here are the highlights.
Sunday, October 9th- Grayson's baby blessing.
October 14th- Preschool pumpkin patch trip with Hudson.
October 30th- Family over for dinner and pumpkin carving.
October 31st- Halloween/Trick or Treating
November 3rd-Alaina's first choir performance. (Top center)
November 17th- Breaking Dawn Event
November 24th- Thanksgiving was a lot of fun. We hung out with family, ate turkey, took the family to a movie and Dan spent an hour or so watching football with his eye's closed ;)
(A well deserved nap I'd say, with how busy he's been lately)
November 25th- Grayson is 3 months now and super smiley :)
November 26th- A trip to the Kelly's for a Thanksgiving get together in Ritzville.
That super fun trip wraps up November.
And since this is the longest blog post known to man I think I'll stop here for tonight. I'm feeling pretty good about getting caught up on 3 months worth of blogging. I'll save the month of December for tomorrow night and then in January I think my New Years resolution may need to be something about staying on top of my blog.
4 comments:
That's so neat. Beautiful baby Grayson. Gorgeous family. You guys have your priorities straight. I love your family and Brandon and I appreciate your example and we want to be like you guys. My mom had 7 children and one time she told me, "All those years I was raising kids, I was building my life and now I have such a happy life." I was glad to hear her say that. To contrast, I just listened to a podcast from NPR about a very self-absorbed man (author of Where the Wild Things Are). He is old now and has lived his life so selfishly that he is so very, very sad. It's so different how people choose to live. Great post!
I love your blog! You have such a beautiful family. You are truly a supermom!
Great job! I love it.
You are my hero Stacey. I love your family, and your blog. Hudson is so cute and funny I just want to squish him! I get to sub in his Primary class on jan 8th, yay :)
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