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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Okay so where to begin with the whirlwind that has been our
lives this past week!! As you all can see, our beautiful baby girl was born on
July 3<sup>rd</sup> and she is absolutely perfect. (but we all already knew
that she was going to beJ)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Since moving to Georgia, at my last couple of doctor
appointments my blood pressure had been on a rise. It went from the top number
being in the 120’s, then the next appointment in the low 130’s, and then the
next in the high 130’s. Just a steady rise. I also noticed that I was really
retaining water. I have had people tell me how lucky I am that I don’t just
retain water and swell in my hands and feet. Apparently when I swell it is
moderate all over. I felt like even my shoulders, forearms, and back showed
signs of being puffy. My feet had its moments of swelling but nothing too traumatic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Last Tuesday Chris and I went in for a normal doctor check.
She took my blood pressure and it was around 147/98. She then told Chris and I
some scary news. She said that my urine showed levels of protein that were off
the charts, and with the combined high blood pressure, I needed to be admitted
into the hospital as soon as my appointment was over. She was putting me on a
24 hour hospital watch where they monitored my protein levels, blood pressure,
and Elizabeth’s heartbeat. She also explained that I was showing signs of
preeclampsia and could possibly need to be rushed for a C-section.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">My eyes immediately started watering, and I know Chris’s did
too, it was scary news for us. I started thinking about how we weren’t ready.
We had just had our shower, her room wasn’t finished, I didn’t have her
hospital bag packed, shoot I didn’t have my hospital bag all the way packed! I
hadn’t stocked the fridge with freezer meals and the house was dirty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We were allowed to make a quick dash home to pack a bag and
then were ordered to return to the hospital as soon as possible. We both called
our mom’s and they went into over drive for us. I can not express how much they
helped us out those days in the hospital. They brought clean clothes, shampoo,
food, and even made a big target run with gift cards and a list of things we
felt like we still needed for her arrival that we hadn’t got yet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The 24 hour watch at the hospital was filled with a very
sleepless night. I have never been admitted to the hospital to stay the night,
with monitors all strapped to my stomach, and nurses coming in and out to take
my blood pressure. Finally the 24 hour watch results came in and a doctor came
in to tell us the results. He said that I had moderate to severe preeclampsia.
My urine showed signs that my kidneys weren’t working properly and could be on
their way to shutting down. He said even though I feel fine, that I was sick,
and the only way to heal me was to get her out. Lucky for us, he said I was
golden because I was only a few days from being 37 weeks, and Elizabeth
wouldn’t be too much premature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">They moved me to a labor and delivery room and started
medicine to induce labor. If the medicine didn’t work or if my vitals worsened I
was to be rushed in for a C-section. It took them 5 times to get my IV in one
of my arms. Let me just tell you, whoever said that getting an IV didn’t hurt has
never had 3 nurses all poking you with your blood vessels blowing each time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">At 9:30am the next morning they started Pitocin, which is
medicine used to induce labor. That morning I was 2 cm dilated, around noon I
was 4 cm, at 1:00 I got the epidural, around 4:00 I was 7 cm dilated and they
broke my water, and around 5:00 I was fully dilated and ready to push. I only
had to push from 5:30 to 6:07 and our sweet girl was born.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In all I was in labor for 8 ½ hours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">As far as labor goes, it was the scariest thing either one
of us have ever experienced. My epidural worked immediately and I just have to
praise whoever invited that medicine!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(this was me about 10 minutes after my epidural. so much happier!!)</div>
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about how she was more humming than crying. Poor thing finally settled down and
got all the gunk out of her lungs and she was fine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Finally we got to all clear to allow our families in to
visit and it was an incredible moment getting to show her off to everyone!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">On Saturday night we both got the all clear to be discharged.
I bawled my eyes out in the car all the way home. My leaving the hospital
clothes were the same shirt and shorts I was wearing when I was admitted. It
had been a long 5 days and 4 nights spent at the hospital. I was so tired of
both Elizabeth and me being poked and checked, and so relieved to be getting
out of Dodge. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I know this had been long, and filled with probably too many
details, but I just started writing and it all flowed out. Being home with our
tiny girl is the biggest blessing either one of us will ever receive. All those
old sayings of how you don’t know what love is until you hold your child for
the first time are all true. She has all of us, especially her Daddy, wrapped
around her little finger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It may sound cliché but I have known my entire life that I was
meant to be a mother. Every decision has been on how I could best be one. I
worked at a daycare to be with the children and babies, I went to college to be
a teacher because I think it is the best job to have and be a mother with, even
one of the main reasons I married Chris was because I saw qualities in him that
I wanted my own children to have. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Now that I am a mother, I am determine to live out my calling
to the best that I possibly can, smothered her in love, and raise her to the
best of my ability to be Christ following adult.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Thank you for all of your prayers as we have endured our
greatest blessing! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">At 33 weeks, Liz Bit is the size of a honeydew melon. She now keeps her eyes open when she is awake and closes them when she sleeps. Apparently she is now starting to run out of room since she is getting bigger and I am supposed to feel her less, but actually I think I feel her more! She seems to constantly be moving and taping her feet on my ribs. The past couple of days when I lay down in bed at night my ribs are sore from the pressure of her pressing on them all day.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">In my last blog post I was bragging on how I haven't swelled, well that changed this week! Even on the night we drove for NOLA to GA I noticed my toes were a little bit sausage looking. Since being here I have had to take my wedding rings off and I feel like my face has gotten plumper. I feel great, but just think I have started to retain water. I am blaming it on the different altitude adjustment and all the salty, good foods everyone has been spoiling us with this week. I'm hoping that as we get into a routine and start eating more normal, it will get better. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Although is has been just a week since we moved to our new place, it seems like we have jammed a month's worth of activity! We are pretty much all unpacked and making the house feel like our home. My most favorite part has been loving getting doted on by our family this week!! I have realized just how much I have missed them all over the past three years. Little things like my mother in law making us an extra meat loaf to take and cook at our place, my daddy just deciding to pop on over after work to help cut a hole out for our dishwasher, Nana making us dinner and fried pies, calling Papa to come over to deal with the weirdos that were sitting by the street, and riding on over to our cousin's house for no real reason but 'just because.' Gosh we have missed out, and are sooo enjoying getting back used to having help and not having to rely on just ourselves. Blessed, doesn't even begin to describe it!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am ready for this next week and am hoping to settle down a little bit into a routine. Our first week back has been so busy, that we just need life to slow down a little bit. Working non-stop and going non-stop begins to take its toll both mentally and physically. I love the bussle but am ready to get to enjoy laying on a float in the lake, getting Little Bit's nursery ready by putting together her crib and </span>furniture<span style="font-family: inherit;">, and enjoying some time spent getting back used to living in the area!</span></span></div>
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<i>(fyi this post is not updated. I am currently 27 Weeks, but my hubby is in GA this weekend and I don't have anyone to take my 27 week picture. boo hoo :)</i></div>
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<b>Growth</b>: 26 weeks means she is about the size of a whole head of lettuce! Elizabeth is also about 14 inches long and this week I feel like I actually look pregnant. Infact most friends are now commenting to me that they can see my bump now. I wear such baggy clothing most of the time that it had just looked like I had eaten a too many cupcakes:) <br />
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<b>How I'm Feeling:</b> I'm doing great! Little Bit likes to kick and punch at the same time which is a pretty weird sensation. I tease and say she has a great left hook punch. She will get on a roll and one time I started counting after a couple of kicks and chops in and I got up to past 20! Such an active little thing, and I swear she already has personality. She will be showing off her moves for me, and I'll call Chris over and the second he puts his hand on my stomach she will stop. Then he will leave and she'll go right back at it. She knows how to put on a good front:)<br />
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<b>Favorite Moments:</b> My sweet coworkers threw me a baby shower after school! It was actually a joined shower because my 4th grade teammate, Maria, is getting married in June, so they just threw one for the both of us.<br />
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Maria is going to kill me for this picture, but it's the only one I got! We both teach 4th grade and I have had the wonderful privilege of working with her. She is a wonderful teacher and is going to be a gorgeous bride! I was so glad that we got to have a joined shower because I get super embarrassed and tend to act-a-fool in front of not only adults, but especially in front of my peers!</div>
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<b>Most Looking Forward to:</b> EASTER BREAK!!! Ahhh... it has been hard the past couple of weeks to see my GA peeps enjoying their Spring Break and posting all over facebook about it, but finally ours has arrived! We got Good Friday off and then the whole week after. I love how in New Orleans it is referred to as Easter (<i>or Easta as my cajun kiddoes say</i>) Break. It is always the week after Easter which probably has something to do with lent and all the Catholics. They even put Easter Break on school calendars, to me it's all about the little religious things here and there that they still allow us to do in schools that makes me appreciate it even more:)<br />
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This week I've been busy crossing things off our to do list! I've got our maternity/newborn pictures scheduled, insurance information completed, sorted and threw out a bunch of junk we had collected the past 3 years, packed up some boxes, and taken a couple of naps:)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09334788672411189329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771658504242802316.post-57036659364407166002014-03-31T18:38:00.000-07:002014-03-31T18:38:34.064-07:00Bumpdate- 23 Weeks<div style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Elizabeth was so cute at our ultrasound last week. She had her hands all over her face, and wouldn't move them until the very last of the appointment. She kept putting both of them up over her eyes or clutched near her mouth/ears. She also had her sweet legs stuck straight out and her ankles were crossed. It will be neat seeing her after she is born sleep with her legs crossed and her hands near her face. We are going to have to get some of those little baby gloves that protect her from scratching herself!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Weeks 20 and 21 it felt like she was jumping on my bladder at times. She really was positioned where her feet were kicking right on it. I would get a ping and immediately feel like I was going to wet my pants. Luckily her kicks weren't that powerful yet and there weren't any accidents! </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">I wish I could have recorded their remarks and replies. Kids really do say the darnest things. Some of them hoped that she would look like them. Some of them wanted to say that she was their cousin. Some of them said that she is going to be smart because I was going to teacher her everything. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b style="line-height: 13.5pt;">Cravings:</b><span style="line-height: 13.5pt;"> Ice. Anything cold. Love cold water and ice from the ice machine at work. I also really want a coke icee, like the kind you would get at the movie </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">theater</span><span style="line-height: 13.5pt;">, but we haven't been to the movies and I'm sure they aren't the best choice for a preggo. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b style="line-height: 13.5pt;">How I'm Feeling: </b><span style="line-height: 13.5pt;">Really not wanting to be whiny, I do not want to be a complainer. I'm sure Chris and my mother have gotten tired of hearing the details of every time I get sick. I try to save it all for them:) Mornings are rough</span><span style="line-height: 18px;">, and evenings are also hard. For some reason every time the clock strikes 8:30 at night my stomach decides to do a flip flop. Lunch is the only real meal I can gulp down at one sitting, but what do you expect when you're pregnant? I really don't have it as bad as I've heard stories about. Usually I knock half a zofran back once a day and I'm good to go.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 13.5pt;">My students don't know yet, although some of them have seen rumors on facebook. Apparently when someone shares my pregnancy posts and their profile is not set with privacy controls, it makes it go public, and when they searched my name on facebook over Christmas break they saw it. I just shrugged it off, but my blog is </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">accessible </span><span style="line-height: 13.5pt;">to anyone on the internet. <u>So if you are one of my sweet, most precious, and caring 4th graders, and if you are reading this, please respect my privacy as I respect yours:)</u></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b style="line-height: 13.5pt;">Thankful For: </b><span style="line-height: 13.5pt;">A loving husband. Chris always is great, but he's been perfect these last couple of weeks while I've been back at school. He has </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">handled</span><span style="line-height: 13.5pt;"> the kitchen like a pro, cause every time I go in there I get </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">queasy. He takes care of me by bringing me crackers and water. He even has cleaned out my throw up trash can a couple of times!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">For the past year and a half Chris and I have been trying to have a baby. For the past year, we have been <i>really </i>trying by tracking everything.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Like I was in la-la land, I thought getting pregnant was going to be easy. It happens everyday to people, even people who aren't trying to get pregnant, why wouldn't it just happen quickly for us? Yeah, give it 3 months and we gonna have a bun in the oven, well it's not always that easy! For me I would have really long cycles, then really short cycles, and even months were I didn't ovulate. Tracking all this and using ovulation strips, makes it a lot easier to look back and see how regular, or irregular, you are. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">After several months of trying, in June we were so excited to finally get a positive on a home pregnancy test. The timing seemed perfect, we were going to be going home soon to spend a week with our families in Georgia and we could tell them all our exciting news in person. It all just lined up. I got a positive on my last test in a pack of three after using them over a couple of days. I was late and even had a little bit of nausea. I got my positive on a Friday, and had a doctors appointment on the following Tuesday. They had an opening and we were excited. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Chris came with me to the appointment and I remember we were both sitting there wide eyed and nervous, not knowing what to expect. They called just me back first and had me go to the bathroom and the nurse did all her usual stuff by asking questions and taking blood pressure. I was sitting in the little office chair and she did a pregnancy test on the counter in front of me. She held the stick up and just went, "huh.. well let's try again." She did another test, and I just sat... in silence. She turned and looked at me and said, "Honey, both my tests came back negative, it looks like you might have gotten a false positive."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Who get's a false positive on a preggo stick? I remember thinking how that is just a joke. I understand false negatives but had a little trouble with the whole false positive thing. I went and got Chris and we talked to my doctor. She told us it was something called a "Chemical Pregnancy" and that can mean a lot of different things. In my case, she said it could have been my hormones playing tricks because I just wanted to get pregnant so badly or maybe the egg just didn't attach to the uterine wall. Even though chemical pregnancies fall under the "miscarriage" umbrella, the exact cause of them can be very hard to detect. With mine being so uncertain, there is no definite reason as to why I received that positive. I imagine it was probably just a faulty test. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Through that whole process I only cried once. That may make me sound like I didn't care about it, but I prayed and and believed that we would get pregnant, it just must have not been in God's timing yet.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">He knew what he was doing when he led me to this verse and I have repeated it nearly 10 times a day through this year. From that moment on, before every pregnancy test I took, I said a prayer asking God to help me with patience as I <i><u>wait </u></i>for his will and not my own. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">On November 16th I got a positive on a home pregnancy test, and I kept getting positives, </span></span><span style="line-height: 22px;">unfortunately</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"> I was unable to get a doctors </span></span><span style="line-height: 22px;">appointment</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"> before Thanksgiving, so the whole time we were home with our family celebrating Chris and I kept our secret. I wanted to be sure before we told anybody. Not being able to tell my Mama, my best friend, was so hard, but after our experience I just felt like I couldn't chance it!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Now as everyone knows, we confirmed out little bit at an ultrasound and got to give our families the best Christmas present ever! We are so excited for July, and our blog is now totally going to be overrun with pregnancy posts from now on. We live 3 states away from the nearest family, and I plan on using the blog to keep everyone informed with pictures and humorous stories of our mishaps! </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large; line-height: 22px;">2014 is going to be our best year yet! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Now just to decide how we are going to carve him! I really want to do something with the drill, maybe little drill holes in a design? or drill hole polka dots? Chris wants to make a jack o'latern and since he does most the carving we'll prob make that. I just love this time of year, there's just something about that pumpkin sitting on our table that is making it seem more festive.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">When I walk into work and say my usual good mornings to all the same faces I see every day there is always this look that I get back. You know the look... everyone has seen it. It's a look of pure dread, tiredness in the eyes, and is typically accompanied with a groan or mumble. I hear others talk proudly of how they can do the bare minimum and get by; just enough so no one will notice their slack. Just enough to make it <i>look </i>like they are trying. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Honestly, <i>The Walking Dead</i> really is a stupid show. The majority of the population of Earth turns into Zombies, and the people that are left have to survive? And the way to kill the Zombies is to hit them in the head? Did I mention that the Zombies are incredibly slow walkers and really easy to kill? Give me a break, I think I could write a more intense show in my free time using only my left hand to type... But Chris and I watched the last 3 seasons, so I guess what does that say about us? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">August 30th was national "Wear Your College Colors Day." And we celebrated by all faculty being allowed to wear their college shirts. Since I live in the land of LSU Tigers, I was proud to wear my North Georgia colors! I even posted some printouts on my classroom door! Several of my students enjoyed the picture of campus showing those glorious Smokies in the background! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">(yes... yes I know it is no longer NGCSU, and now is just NGU, the saint bernard is no longer the school mascott, and the logo has changed. But people 'round here don't care of the difference)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I found this at target a week ago and thought it was pretty fitting for being a teacher at the moment:) Sometimes it can feel like I'm constantly behind, but I know that the end result it always well worth it!</span></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09334788672411189329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771658504242802316.post-4577273010365835282013-09-07T16:52:00.004-07:002013-09-07T16:52:46.070-07:00Labor Day ReCap<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">So I'm a week late on updating the blog world on what we did last weekend. I'm just sure you have all been sitting there in sheer anticipation, waiting for me to inform you on what Chris and I did for Labor Day.... cue extreme exaggeration:)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We decided that it would be great to end Summer with a day at the beach, just the two of us. Gulf Port, Mississippi is about an hour away, and they have a Dairy Queen, which is bonus points because NOLA doesn't have any. It was a hot day at the beach, VERY LITTLE breeze, notice the lack of any waves. Have you ever seen the gulf so lackluster?? We've been to Gulf Port before, so we knew what to expect. The water is yucky and we hardly got in it. With the Mississippi River Delta not too far away, it causes the salt/fresh water ratio to make the water murky. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">To celebrate actual Labor Day, on Monday night we invited some seminary friends over to BBQ some chicken. The heat actually had us all huddled inside our living room to eat, and we enjoyed swapping some silly stories. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I enjoyed having Monday off of school, but it really didn't make the week go by any quicker. This week at school was pretty long, trying to stuff enough learnin' for 5 days into 4 can be quite a struggle!</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09334788672411189329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771658504242802316.post-14268917136556685952013-08-29T18:00:00.000-07:002013-08-29T18:00:04.536-07:00Just a Taste<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Here's just a simple 10 second taste of NOLA in a nutshell. Notice the narrow streets, bright colored buildings, dirty pavement, random guys playing loud music, and oh yeah... some guy in a wheel chair...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">There really are some beautiful sites and interesting parts to this city... guess yall just have to come and check it our yourselves! </span></div>
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