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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Pig Roast '09

July 24th, 2009The last weekend in July is always the annual Ferrals pig roast for our family! My dad grew up down the street from their farm when he was younger and they throw a big bash for family and friends. Everyone brings a dish to pass and themselves. There is dancing, fellowship, LOTS AND LOTS of food, swimming, clowns, magic shows, caricature drawings, airbrush tattoos... and TRACTOR RIDES. SO since we have been going down there for as long as I can remember, I knew this and was preparing my self with a plan. Anyone that knows Brogan knows he is OBSESSED with any kind of tractor, and I knew that once he saw them, we'd not be able to get him off of them all day. So the plan was to get him to eat first and then we would go find the tractors.... we made it half way through lunch....

Brogan... mid- chew spotted the tractors.....





1st (of many) Tractor rides!

First the Red one....

Then we found the DEERES!! :)

Cousin Kate and Brogan trying to sit on the wheel together!



Althought probably the most important activity at the Pig Roast, we did actually get to do some other things while we spent the afternoon there this year!

Louisiana Crawfish!!! YUMMMMERS

Me and Mona! Unfortunatly DJ wasn't able to be here with them too! Kate and Brogan sure had a lot of fun together!

Brogan also loved the moon bounce!


Wahoo getting Brogan started in the tradition of the LIMBO!!!


Of course he saved a dance for me... :)


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::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