Baby class and first anniversary

All day Saturday Colton and I had our "Prepared Child Birth Class" in College Station.  We walk in the classroom and thankfully Brook and Timmy were there!  For those of you who don't know they used to be our neighbors and she is due only two weeks after I am so it was SO nice to see familiar faces and to have someone to talk to and discuss the class with.  I was super excited to take the class just because as a first timer I still had so many unanswered questions and had that feeling that I still don't even know all the right questions to ask.  But this class and the instructor were amazing.  We really did learn so much and Colton keeps joking that we don't even need to go to the hospital for delivery that he's now an expert and can deliver her at home by himself, I don't think so.  There were 11 couples including us, so it was a fairly large class.  My favorite part of the entire class was when we all had to get in a circle on the ground and practice breathing and relaxation techniques, just because I LOVE being massaged and this time Colton had to do it and couldn't weasle himself out of it!  She then told us that we're going to practice breathing and pushing (without actually pushing).  That was hard and we didn't even push!  The dads were behind us for support and we had to hold our knees and curl over our bellies and practice holding our breath for 10 seconds then exhaling for like 2 seconds and then doing it all over again three times, I honestly can't imagine having to do it for real.  Apparently I wasn't holding my legs wide enough and the instructor's helper came over and pushed my legs down and apart more and she said "I like to remember that the same way they got in there is the same way they're gonna come out!"  Alrighty...thanks for the tip stranger, Colton and I just laughed!  We then all went over to the hospital and they gave us a tour of the entire labor and delivery floor, it was awesome.  St. Joseph's recently redid that entire floor and is still opening up a brand new section of rooms on the weekend of the 24th so we may possibly get a brand new room which is really exciting!  We of course got to walk by the nursery and there was one set of twins and another little baby being rolled in right when we were walking out...SO ADORABLE!  After the class I was thinking about how much we were actually able to take away from it and so glad that we took it, and then I was thinking about some of the other couples who obviously needed this class!  One couple actually asked while we were on the tour of the hospital if they needed to bring a carseat after the baby was born!!!  Colton of course thought these people were out of their mind but I had to remind him that some people really have NEVER been around any babies their entire lives, it's all completely new to them.  We are by no means baby experts but thank goodness we have been around babies enough where we still feel comfortable bringing another life into this scary world!

Sunday was our first anniversary, yay!  This year has flown by, granted I've been pregnant for the majority of it but it has been a great year.

Colton surprised me by sending flowers to work on Friday, they are so beautiful!  They remind me a lot of the flowers we used in our wedding.  Doug and Loranne thankfully were able to watch Rocky and Pixie for us Saturday, they probably would have been fine but I feel so much better when they're around people during the day and not always left by themselves, and we were gone for over 12 hours and I didn't want them to be miserable.  And even better, they kept them the rest of the evening for us.  It was really nice to just come home and relax together without dogs in both of our faces, although we both missed them terribly it was great.  I told Colton that I feel like we dropped the kids off at the babysitters and have a quiet night at home to ourselves!  So the next day we went to church and then had lunch at Doug and Loranne's and picked up our babies.  That evening we went out to Fedor.  Wednesday was my dad's birthday so my mom invited us all out (Mike, Lois their kids, Cody, Katie their kids and us) to just hang out and spend the afternoon together.  We fished, talked and roasted hot dogs and made smores and just had a great time all around.  We brought Rocky and Pixie with us (hey, they're our babies) and my dad keeps cattle out there and as soon as they saw Rocky they all ran up to us and were just watching every move he made, the little calves were even following him around!  I guess they thought he was one of them!  Overall it was a very busy, very tiring, but very nice weekend :)