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Encouraged!

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My Carpinteria Blockbuster (which we parked in front of today) had a huge window poster up for the video game called ‘Kick A**’.  I was very disturbed at this, and walked calmly into the store and talked to the 2 twenty-something guys working.  I said (I tried to be nice and non-abrasive), "I have young kids, and this poster here really offends me, you guys.  We’re trying to teach them to have clean speech, and this really makes my job harder.  Would you please consider taking it down?"  And they said yes, and removed it right in front of me. 
So yea! one small victory for decency.  And here’s hoping they didn’t put it back up when I drove away…

Final Photo Shoot as a Four-some

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So, because we had our nice church clothes on, and Mommy didn’t look like a train wreck, we used the timer on our camera and took lots of pictures.  Yes we had to take 800 to get a few decent ones, as there are goofy children who like to make goofy faces.  Here’s some of the best:

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ER visit update

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Well, never a dull moment in this pregnancy, huh?!  It turns out that the pain I was experiencing was not actual pre-labor contractions, but possibly kidney related.  I had blood in my urine, and so my doc says the pain could have been a small kidney stone that may or may not have passed.  So, I have meds for further pain, and drank more water today than should be humanly possible, to ‘flush me out.’ 

Baby is fine and hopefully will stay cooking inside me for several more weeks.  I feel blessed to have such a helpful hubby, and our good friends the Allens who watched our kids from 2:30 am on, and the sweet nurse Sherry, and that we were in and out of the ER in about 2 hours.