Go, Go, Goers!

Remember my whole spiel about planning and how we can try our best, but unexpected things generally come up and can prevent us from completing "the plans"?  I had really high hopes for this past week...really high.  And then those came crashing down when Ava got sick over the past weekend.  She was sick from Saturday-Tuesday...throwing up, not able to eat, etc.  When I took her to the doctor, it was determined she had a stomach bug, and the only thing they could do for her was to give her anti-nausea medicine. Out of the two of us, I'm generally the one who is like "Eh, it's a cold....or a virus.  She'll get over it.  No need to panic."  Scott's the one that will generally get worked up first and worried.  And it's good how we balance each other out.  But, Ava lost several pounds over those few days, and the sight of how skinny she was really scared me. That's probably the most worried I have been for her in the last five years.  BUT, ...

Soooo...we were going to move our household this past Tuesday, but Scott decided to bite the bullet and move the majority of our items (with help from family and friends) over the previous weekend instead.  I was not prepared for a move that was taking place 3 days early, so didn't get to pack everything up as well as I had wanted to...but that's ok!  It is DONE!  I finished cleaning up our rental on Thursday, and Scott got the last of the items out of the garage on Friday afternoon.  Scott met with the owners this weekend to give back the keys, and we'll even be getting money back from our half-month rental.  That means that the last of our 2013 big changes are complete!  We had a new baby AND moved into a new house, all within a few weeks of each other.  We survived and didn't get too irritated with each other in the process - woooohoooooo! So, how about an update on things? Garrett: What a sweet, sweet baby!  He's lett...

Well, what did I say earlier about plans...and how God likes to laugh at them?  Yep, that's right - the timeline that I had laid out previously was disrupted (in a very good way) just 48 hours later. On Monday night, around 11pm, I woke up and realized things were a bit...wet.  I didn't realize it at that time, but my water had broken.  I went back to sleep - or tried to...but then I noticed that I was having semi-regular contractions.  So, for an hour I monitored them, and around 2am, called the hospital.  They advised I called my doctor...which I did, who then told me to go to the hospital for evaluation.  We packed up the car, dropped off Ava at Grandma Deb and Grandpa Whitey's house, and headed to the other side of town.  It's amazing how much faster the drive is when there is no other traffic on the road! Once at the hospital (3am), they evaluated me, and much to my dismay, I was still only 1cm dilated. They were going to send me hom...