Chasing Coles

So excited to finally get to share my birth story! I will give as much detail as I can remember! Friday, October 5th was homecoming for the Perryton Rangers football team and Justin and I took our last date (unknowingly) as a married couple without kids to the game that night. We came home and watched tv until about 1:00 am. Terrible decision. 4:30am of October 6th gets here and my water breaks. I was 40 weeks and 3 days pregnant. I wanted to be sure it was really my water so I laid back down for a while and timed my contractions. They were about 30-45 seconds long about about 2 minutes apart but definitely feeling different than the Braxton Hicks contractions that I had gotten so used to. After I decided I was probably in real labor, I got up and spent some time on my birth ball and called the midwife. She is 2 hours away so she said she would head over soon. I let Justin sleep until about 6:00am because I wanted to make sure he had SOME rest for the journey we had ahead. I went int...

Scarlett Cherie is six months old. Half of the hardest year yet has passed. To be totally honest, the transition from one to two has been astoundingly difficult. Our daughter is beautiful and wonderful and at the same time, she is definitely high needs. As a relatively still new homemaker, I'm not at all in a routine yet like I would like to be and sometime's it is so frustrating. We are all growing and learning and changing as we go. I just have to remember to be patient and give myself more grace. Little Miss got rolling over down at three months, learned to sit up on her own at 5 months and around 5 1/2 months, started crawling and pulling up. No teeth yet. These milestones come one right after another and it blows me away how much babies grow and change and learn in that first year. Big brother Silas is adjusting well- but still adjusting nonetheless. He loves to come in our room every morning and with a big smile, say "Good morning, Sister!!" (very loudly...

Our little love was born on a Monday and Justin got to stay home with us the first week. We spent our first days resting and taking herbal baths together, just getting to know one another and learning to breastfeed.  Scarlett got to celebrate her first Christmas at only two days old! We went to our family's houses on Christmas Eve and again on Christmas Day. Silas had a blast and the rest of us....well, we made it! Ha! I was so exhausted that I hardly remember the holiday. I told Justin... Summer babies from here on out!  Since our surprise gender baby ended up being a girl, we needed lots of girl things! We made a trip to Amarillo the Saturday after she was born to pick up pajamas, blankets, bows & other girly necessities. It was an exhausting trip for Mama! Once the following week started, we began making calls to start the process of getting her birth certificate and ssn. The local courthouse told us we would need to go to Amarillo to ...