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Sunday, August 24, 2008

: Hudsonville Fair ::


Buddy's Grandpa Kooiker is on the fair board in Hudsonville! So when fair time comes around we get to hang out there all week! Its really neat! Buddy's cousins raise pigs and auction them off in the pig auction, and there is good food, carnival rides, off road and demolition derby's and Dirtbike racing!

Here's some pictures of us throughout the week!


::Brogan and Elizabeth::
Showing off his new standing trick!

Favorite quote of the fair: Elizabeth after trying to hold Brogan on the chair "Wheww he's just too strong for me" (Elizabeth 2 1/2 Born January 14th almost exactly 2 years apart!)


Mom' even got daring and let Dad take Brogan on the Carosel- He wasn't too sure of everything and neither was I haha. Here's some pictures and a video!








They also had a lot of other animals at the fair, pigs, horses- all kinds, cows, lambs, and these cute little goats! Just Brogan's size!
Our favorite part of the week was the motocross races! Brogan was just consumed with them!( as you can see in all of the pictures he didn't want to look at anything else) He loved them! He liked to watch them go around and around and over the jumps, those guys got pretty high!



Just Look at those Baby BLUES!!



What a great week to have before Buddy headed back to school on Sunday!

"You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at their parents every time around-- and why her parents will ALWAYS wave back "

-William D Tammeus
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Our Family said...

AWE he is getting SOO big.. I love the hudsonville Fair.. It looks like you guys had LOTS of Fun..

August 29, 2008 at 1:39 PM

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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