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Saturday, September 20, 2008

::Hager Park::








On Saturday, a girlfriend of mine from work and her kids, came to Hagar Park in Jenison with Brogan my sister Chelsea and Me. It was SO much fun, and the kids just had a blast! We used to go there when I was younger and ABSOLUTLY loved the big wooden castle! Which is why we fondly remember it as “the castle park”

Brogan just LOVES swinging on the swings! He gets to do it a lot at the babysitters house during the week with Andrew! Lily wanted to be pushed by Isaiah, they were being so cute! We even got all three kids to look at the camera at the same time while swinging, CHEESE!









Lily and Isaiah were running around and having a GREAT TIME going down the slides, and on the tire swings! Even us “ Old Moms” were monkeying around!






Brogan liked the sand, and there was a wooden boat with a steering wheel that he LOVED because he could “drive” it, just like his car at home!






Needless to say we had a bunch of tired kiddos on the way home :) In fact they almost fell asleep on the way home!

1 comment:

Our Family said...

That is such a cute picture of you and him on the swing! I hope all is well.. I miss u guys.. Tell anut anita and uncle dan i said hi and i miss them too!

::Introduction::

Although his life was unplanned Brogan has brought so much joy to ours. We found out we were pregnant May 21st, 2007, and what a shock that was. Looking back on that time now, as i look into his big blue eyes, I don't think we ever could have known what happiness he would bring with his arrival. I worked right up until my water broke at 4:40pm on January 15th. My heart was beating so fast as Buddy met me at my house (after i had to call and pull him out of an interview to let him know it was "TIME", he got the phone call he had wanted! Since I was scheduled to have an induction on the Thursday following and we both really wanted it to happen naturally. We got to the hospital between 6 and 6:30 and i was dilated to 5. After I got the epidural around 8:30 -9 I dilated to 10 within the hour, but was so numb that I could not feel my contractions to push. Poor Brogan was stuck there for another 3 hours with his head just trying to come out! We turned down the epidural, and when I could feel enough to push, it only took 1 hour and our baby boy was delivered into this world by his Daddy and Grandma Wood at 1:51 am on January 16th 2008. Grandma R and Aunt Chelsea and Aunt Brooke were also there to share that special moment and capture it with photographs and video. The rest of the family came in shortly after. What an amazing experience this has been...

-Brogan Lee Rivera-
7 lbs 6 oz, 19 3/4th in. 1:51 am 1/16/08