My MIL came to stay with us for 1 week. It was fabulous. The kids loved the attention, my house loved the attention and even though I didn't love that she kept telling me to take it easy my body did. Thanks so much Grandma. We loved it! She even taught the kids yoga. This is their best yoga poses on the morning that she went home. I guess she better come back soon they still need some work on their poses. This is Lily and Matthew doing grandma's wall sitting trick. As if I didn't have enough going on my husband came home with 15 chicks. The kids can't decide which is more exciting to talk about-Matthew born in the car or the chicks. The chicks were a surprise for me. This is why I didn't want Matthew to come early..... The good news is we will have about 200 extra square ft when it is done and we will be able to fit our enormous family of 7 around the dining table. This week the project will seem much closer to completion. They are doing the tape and tex

"Jacob was born in Utah, Tom was born in Minnesota. I was born in L---. Lily was born in M---- and Matthew was born in the van." So much for my idea that Matthew would be born in the same place as Lily.

Tues April 6 started as any other day. We woke up and went to a doctors appointment for the girls. That afternoon when I got home I was starving. I ate way too much and then soon got a headache that I blamed on the chocolate dessert that I ate. After resting for a while the phone rang and it was a neighbor who started off the phone call saying "I was hoping that you wouldn't answer because you would be at the hospital. I laughed at her and said no way I have at least two more weeks left. After the phone call about 6:30 Dave told me our goat had had a baby but had died so we called all the kids out and told them about it and we buried it. Then we had a late dinner and put the kids to bed. About 5 minutes later I had a contraction. I thought weird and Dave told me it was just goat sympathy pains. So as I had a few more sporadic contractions I convinced myself that it was just braxton hicks because there was no way that they were "real." I sat down and watched AI