1st Gymnastics Showcase

Hayden started gymnastics sometime in February and by March she had already moved up to the next level!  She has really LOVED it and looks forward to going each week.  Sometimes Hayden has a tendency to give up if something is hard for her, but gymnastics she has been quite the opposite.  She has worked hard on different moves until she's got them down.  It's been fun as a parent to see her determined personality put to good use! She's always practicing at home and asking me to take pictures and film her moves.

In May Hayden had her first showcase at metro stars and while she was excited she got a little nervous before the event.  She was waiting for the event to start and she turned to me and said, "I'm not going to be nervous anymore, I'm just going to have fun," and like that her whole demeanor changed and she was beaming ear to ear. See what I mean!  So glad she is like this, I was a nervous wreck before my swim meets more entire life.  Glad she's like her daddy and knows how to have fun while performing!

She got to perform a beam, floor, and bar routine.  Everyone got a metal at the end and she thought it was the coolest thing she had ever earned in her life!

We are proud of you Hayden!  Good work!

Wacky Wednesday and Star of the Week

Hayden had a really fun last week of school, not only did they get to do silly things each day like Wacky Wednesday but she was also the star of the week!  This girl loves the spot light.

Here is her last day of school pictures, despite moving mid school year she had a great time in both preschools and adapts to change and making new friends so well.

Mother's Day

Paul did a great job of making Mother's Day special for me.  His famous line for each of my pregnancies has been, "maybe this ones going to be different" and as I prove each one to be the same, he has been a great support and help while I've been out of it!  Paul made me a special breakfast with amazing blueberry pancakes and eggs and a smoothie I believe!  Paul and Hayden also made me a candy bar poster which included Ruffles chips which I have been OBSESSED with.  It's the only thing that settles my stomach and takes away the nausea for a bit!  They also got me Hunter Rain Boots and a new water bottle.  All in all it was a great day! So grateful that I get to be a mom despite all the nausea and hard days. Again I'm lame and we took no pictures!

Easter

Sorry all these happy memories are distorted in my mind because all I remember is feeling nauseous and vomiting!  But we got some good pictures! Here we are dying Easter Eggs.

Reid was obsessed with dying the eggs, but wanted to be holding them and dropping them in the dye.  It was a little out of control this year!

This was our towel after cleaning off Reid's hands and cleaning up all his spills, we had to drag him away to clean up!

Here we are Easter morning.  Reid caught on pretty quickly this year and had fun right along side Hayden collecting Easter eggs and playing with his new toy.

Hayden in her new leotard, she loves to pose!

My mom fail on Easter was not getting a picture of the kids dressed up in their Easter clothes!!!  I don't know how this never happened, but it makes me sad, they were really cute!

Paul's B-Day

Paul turned 33 about a week after we found out we were expecting.  It was hard because I was feeling so sick already but we still made a fun day of it.  We took the family to our new favorite breakfast place, "Leo's Diner" (it's amazing!) opened presents and had cake in the afternoon and then we got a babysitter and Paul and I went out for dinner.  Happy birthday Paul!

Unexpected Blessing!

One of the reasons moving to Omaha was really hard was leaving our infertility clinic in Atlanta and all our embryos.  I spoke with my doctor and nurses and they said that most couples who move just fly back for the transfer when they are ready for another baby.  So that's what we planned on. We were thinking that around September I'd fly out and transfer an embryo for our last baby.  I stopped nursing Reid in December and in January I decided that I should stop taking the birth control that helps prevent my endometreosis from spreading because hey, you never know, there was a slim chance it just might work...But we never thought it would!  We were prepared to go through another round of IVF early fall.

Well in March I realized that I was pretty late and then had a few other pregnancy symptoms start occurring.  This happened so many times when we were trying for our 2nd child...and I was never really pregnant.  So I thought that this was more of the same and kept putting off taking a test.  Then one day (March 24th) I felt slightly nauseous and I thought, "I'd better take a test to prove to myself that I'm not!"  I was so nervous as I awaited the results and within seconds two dark lines appeared...

I was in complete and utter shock!  This was earlier than we wanted, but what in the world????  All that time trying for Reid and all the infertility treatment all the way to IVF.  I was happy, scared, shocked, excited, all of the above.  Paul was working from home and I ran to his office and showed him the test.  He kept saying, "What is this, what does this mean?" As I laughed, cried and shook!!!

Anyway a few days later full blown nausea had begun, thus the reason I am so far behind on my blog.  Life went into survival mode.  I am now almost 21 weeks and just barely feeling the energy to live a normal life again and not throwing up throughout the day anymore.  I HATE the beginning of pregnancy, it's been rough with all 3.  But we have been grateful and still bewildered that this worked out and we can't wait to find out the gender in 3 days!  We feel grateful that we don't have to go through IVF again and even though these two babies will be closer than I am comfortable with, I know it will all work out in the end!

Cinderella

One great part about having a daughter is fun nights like tonight.  Hayden loves to dress in character so we thought it would be fun for her to dress up in her favorite princess dress and go see the movie together.  She was in character all night and it was a touching mom moment to watch it.  Afterwards we got ice cream at Cold Stone.  Despite that fact that this happened months ago, Hayden still talks about it like it was yesterday!