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Tuesday, August 5, 2008

::Coast Gaurd Festival '08 ::

Jamie and I decided to take Brogan to his first coast guard festival! We went on Friday night this year so we didn't get to see the fireworks becuase we had such a busy weekend planned! This is one of my favorite parts of the summer! Grand Haven is buzzing with a ton of people, great food, and activities like a small carnival and BIG ships that you can go onto! The guys (dad and uncle Caleb and Brandon) had been there all day and were taking a guys night! So we got some sweet corn, and took Brogan for a stroll down the pier and then got ICECREAM! It was a perfect evening. Brogan loved waving to all the people on the end of the Pier (he started doing that this week) and everyone thought it was SO cute! There was a crowd off people around him while we were trying to take a picture of the sunset.



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This was also Brogan's first time playing with SAND! He LOVEEEED it! Although it made for quite the messy ride home :) I guess we have to clean out his sand box Nana bought for him!
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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