August 16, 2008 was a very busy day for me and my family. Richard went to work about 5:00 am. That left me to handle the baseball practices.
Qualan had baseball practice at 9:30 at
Shawnie and Nathan had baseball practice at 12:00 at Bacchus. So
Qualan and Nathan and I left the house with all the baseball gear at 9. Daniel wanted to stay home to play
wii. Between practices we went and got donuts and ate them at
bacchus. Richard called while we were eating the donuts and said we just
received an email stating that Daniel had practice and he was on his way to
bacchus. When Richard arrived
Qualan and I went home and ate a quick lunch and then headed back to
bacchus with Daniel for practice. I stayed and watched Daniel practice for 30 minutes while
Qualan and Nathan played at the park. I decided to go to
Khol's to look for pj's to wear at the hospital when I delivered. So Nathan and
Qualan and I headed to
Khol's. They didn't have anything that I liked. So we headed home and on the way I decided to fill up with gas just in case I went into labor. Richard and Daniel beat
Qualan and Nathan and I home. It was now about 4:00 and Richard is just beat from being up at 4 in the morning. We decided to feed the boys dinner and then Richard and I would go grocery shopping. While grocery shopping I was feeling a little nauseated. But I just thought that it was such a long day with baseball practice. We came home and put the food away. I wanted to watch a movie I had rented a few days before. We started the movie about 9:30 and it ended about 11:45. I then went and got ready for bed. Richard got on the computer to do some scouts. While getting ready for bed a felt a strong contraction and wasn't feeling good. I called Richard and said let's go to bed. He said good idea. We talked while we got ready for bed about the movie. Just as we laid down (it's about 12:30) I had a contraction. Two minutes later I had another very strong
painfull contraction. Richard said let's get you to the hospital. I quickly showered while he called Sister
Monnier. We raced to the ER which was about 20 minutes away. I had contractions all the way there. I was hurting pretty good. I walked into the ER and they rushed me up to the 4
th floor. I quickly changed into the hospital gown and
layed down. About two contractions later the baby arrived. I didn't have a doctor there was no time. It was really really fast. Richard was sent to turn in a paper to admit me and missed the whole thing. I think that he felt bad about that. What a beautiful baby boy! Welcome
Chiron to our family! We love you!
On December 10 Richard heard the Glenn Beck conversion story. He was really impressed by the story and came home and told be the story. I was intrigued and went to his home page the next day. I found that he would be in Irving that night signing books. On a whim we decided to go and buy a book to get signed. How fun! We stood in line for an hour waiting for him to show up. He was about 45 min. late. Once he was there the line moved fast. We had two book signed--one for us and one for Aunt Zelma. We met some interseting people. We had a great time! Here are some pictures of us in line and then in front of his tour bus. You can just make out Chiron and me. These are not the best quality pictures. I used the camera on my cell phone.
