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| The Cafe |
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| Our Ice Impound |
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| The drinks |
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| Our Cup Art Station |
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| Nice to cover up our Nick-Nacks |
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| Sally's Cozy Cakes |
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| The Birthday Boy's Cake |
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| The Birthday Boy's Shirt that he helped make |
Brett (the husband)- Brett is 23 and is an amazing Husband, Father and provider. Brett and I met in college, it was my 1st and his 2nd year. I was going for Elm/spacial needs teaching and he was going for criminal justice. We feel in love at first (well 2nd sight). The first night we meet was at a party and needless to say I don't really recall that night(so lets not count that one). The first time we "met/talked" we were eating lunch with some friends and everyone was talking about their new laptops. Well I hadn't gotten the chance to go out and buy a new one so this nice guy that I hadn't really ever talked to before said that he would take me to Best Buy to help me pick out one...Needless to say I say ok and off we went. We bought my laptop and then he took me out to dinner and paid (score right lol) Well then we went to a party(yea college was well lived up, I was what you might call a partier, don't remember alot about my college life) well any who after that party Brett slept over at my house and yes we slept. From that night on we have not been apart for more than a few hours on Feb 14th 2009 he finally made me his girlfriend! A few months later the semester was over and we got an apartment together, later that month we found out we were expecting our first child...Yes a bit of a freak out it was at first but we both knew we wanted to be together and that we loved each other uncontrollably. So we were going to have a BABY! 
Riley(son, 2 years old)- After 2 mths with no period, I had Brett buy a test. I kicked him out of the bathroom and took it, sat it on the counter top of our new apartment and waited....5mins later i opened the door and showed Brett a very dark + sign...We were going to be parents. I cried(tears of joy and tears of freaking out), I laughed(what i do in stressful situations). So here we are new apartment barely getting by and now we would be bringing a life into this world. It was a LONG and HARD 9mths. From us trying to get on our feet and a very hard pregnancy. One great thing that happen was Brett Proposed on September 18th 2009. I was in and out of the hospital every week from 6mths up. At 6mths pregnant we found out that my kidneys were not draining, after having many test and a few scopes ran, Riley has my tubes to my bladder smashed. I had to have a tube placed in my back (left side) so that at least one kidney could drain. This tube was NASTY, it drained out of my back and into a bag that i would have to pack around for the rest of the pregnancy. The first tube got clogged up when i was 35 weeks pregnant and wouldn't drain. So they had to RIP it out (and i mean rip, it was stuck in my back and I was wake and 2 tugs away from being sent to surgery). SO i get this new tube and feel soo much better then at 36 weeks it happen! I was the 15th of January 2010, It was a Friday morning about 3am I started getting contractions(even though I had them alot and was in and out of the hospital getting them stopped every week) these felt different, I woke up Brett and at 7am we went to the hospital. After getting monitored for a few hours of trying to get the contractions to stop and my heartbeat racing they said ok we are going to break your water Baby is coming tonight(so they thought). So at 4:30pm they broke my water and we called the family. After a very LONG LONG LONG labor and hour of pushing with a nurse and 3 pushes with the doctor Riley Matthew Howes came into the world blue, at 6lbs 11oz and 19in long with dark brown hair and I party girl Brittany became a MOTHER. Riley spent 5 days in the NICU and then we brought our baby home. And Life with a Newborn started.
Zelan(son, 3mths old)- On January 24th 2011 Brett and I went off and got married, we did not tell a sole with was just us. We went down to Nashville went to dinner, long walks around Nashville spent the night. Who knew that not only did we get married that day but something else happened that would soon change our lives even more. On February the 8th I wasn't feeling quite right so I had Brett buy a test, we nervously took this test and a very very faint + was in the window. We were Pregnant again (after last time we waited to tell anyone). I went to the doctor and the "it" was a sea monkey with a strong heartbeat, who was due on October 17th (it was meant to be) We were so nervous to go to that 20wk doctors appointment with both of us fingers crossed for a "taco" aka girl (name ready and waiting, we had the name picked out at 12 weeks for a girl but could not for the life of us come up with a boy name)......THEN we see a "hot dog" aka boy. I was going to be the mother of two stinky boys! With a smile on my face I told Brett now we better get serious to finding a boy name we agree on because Ariella might cause some name calling in school for this little man. Not only was this a boy it was a BIG boy the changed my due date to the 10th of October. This pregnancy wasn't as hard, i managed to deal with the kidney issues/pain so i wouldn't have to get the tube again. At 35 weeks I started to contract....I went up to our little hospital and they said i was dilating so the sent me by Ambulance to a bigger hospital where I spent a week with contractions the whole time trying to keep this boy in...finally i hit 36 weeks and said that I could go home and if i went into labor my hospital could handle it...so I go home still contracting....go to my doctor once a week still contracting all the time and still at 1cm....37 weeks 1cm.....38wks 1cm....39 appointment still 1cm still contracting and baby is measuring big still around 9lbs (im only 5.2' and was 135 pregnant) we set up my induction date. I was to go in the October 2nd at 7pm to start induction...Well the morning of October 1st I was up at 2am with contractions...thinking they arnt going to change anything I lay there and put up with them and "tried" to sleep....well Brett wakes up at 8am and I tell him that my contractions are strong and every 2-3mins...and that I want to take a bath to calm them. I go take a bath and there it was a sign that something was different this time (not gonna put detail but it wasn't my water breaking). We rush up to the hospital car FULL my two little sisters were staying all night with us and we had Riley. After me freaking out on the check in people for them taking 3 people(doing Workman's comp stuff) in front of me i finally get up to the room. I get this nurse that is well to put it nicely comparable to a box of rocks....she put me on the monitor can couldn't find a heartbeat....the other nurse came in and told her to leave...the monitors where on upside down..there he was my stubborn little boys strong heart beat! Time to check....expecting to hear 1cm again we heard....."6cm and 75% thinned your having this baby today" ....I think I could have done a cartwheel if i wouldn't have been in pain, instead I said "when can i get my damn epi" lol so they sent the guy in to give me the epi..instead he tried a spinal tap...yeah that did NOTHING so with the epi in and working FINALLY and family arriving I went to sleep. Until i got the shakes so bad i couldn't sleep...it was about 6:15pm and they said i was ready to push..so I pushed and hear the doc say "turn off the epi she is to numb she is only moving her face"...epi off and waiting for it to wear down...6:45 doc is back..I push and we have progress...At 7:00pm on the dot Zelan Ray Howes was born(with the help of the vac) at 8lbs.3oz and 19in long screaming his lungs and looking just like his brother! I was Now the Mommy to two boys and a Wife! 
