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Our September Wedding

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I'm a little bias but I think we had the perfect early fall wedding. 😍 When I thought about my wedding I always knew I would be outside under a gorgeous flower arch and I would have the most lovely green bouquet and nothing else would matter. My wedding was all I ever dreamed of. Me & Nate spent weeks writing our own service, taking pieces from google, Pinterest, and anywhere we could think of. We had a unity ceremony (of chemistry 😉😂) that was a hit, we had a magician to perform between the ceremony & reception, and the whole thing was a fairytale. We got married at his parents house, which was a dream and all of his family was involved which was so wonderful. One of Nate's cousins married us, while his wife made our cake, another one of his cousins was our photographer (& all of our photos turned out perfect), his sister and her husband were our mistress and master of ceremony (they ran the show and without them I'm not sure the day would have been quite...

Kennedy's Birth Story

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Oh my sweet Kennedy, how is it that she is almost 10 months old and I am just now writing the story of how she entered this world. I remember Kennedy's birth as being so empowering. So many things went wrong with my labor & delivery the first time around, so it was relieving to have this amazing birth I had been dreaming of.  For weeks I told everyone she was going to come on March 30th, it was the perfect day because Nate had the weekend off work and he had a few days off of school. I w as breastfeeding through my pregnancy so I was having Braxton hicks pretty early and was at risk for an early delivery. At 38 weeks I was dilated to a 2 and had my membranes swept for the first time at my check up. After my 2 pm appointment I took Emmalynn shopping and was having some serious contractions. I knew I wanted to labor at home this time and I was not going to the hospital until after I put my daughter to bed at 8 pm since she had never spent a night away from me and was still...